Yet for the past six years, it has had no local Jewish newspaper to inform the region’s estimated 75,000 Jewish residents. Early next year, these organizers plan to launch The Jewish Sound, a digital-first publication that will operate as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Her daughter, who is 31, has been begging her to have a matchmaker column in the new publication, Blankinship said. When searching for talent to write for the publication, Blankinship is “more interested in talent than I am in pedigree,” she said. Kalish said she unabashedly evangelizes about the publication everywhere — in the pews of local synagogues and in line at the local Jewish film festival.