Jenny Yettem, Author at The Armenian Weekly

Jenny Yettem

Jenny Yettem is a Los Angeles-based journalist, editor and translator. She has served as editor-in-chief of The California Courier and the Armenian Weekly, as well as a contributing editor of Yerevan Magazine and Asbarez. She is the founder of Mamayin Hokin, a dynamic discussion forum of nearly 23,000 members who offer their support and experiences centered around female wellness, motherhood, childrearing, education and the preservation of Armenian culture and language.

Local Spotlight

A student’s high-speed vision for solving LA’s housing crisis

October 22, 2025

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Alexander Grigoryan, a 17-year-old rising senior in La Cañada Flintridge, looks at Los Angeles’ housing and mobility crises through the…

Literary Corner

‘We Armenians Survived’: COVID-19 Connection Draws Past to Present

May 27, 2020

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ALAMEDA, Calif.—Author Ellen Sarkisian Chesnut’s second non-fiction book—We Armenians Survived! Battle of Marash 1920—consists of eye-witness accounts of civilians caught…

News

Garen Boyajian: A Man of Many Roles

February 2, 2011

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A Canadian actor of Armenian descent, commonly recognized for his portrayal of young Arshile Gorky in Atom Egoyan’s “Ararat,” Garen…

Culture

Burn After Reading: Kardash Onnig Finds Liberation from Freedom (and Everything)

June 8, 2010

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Liberation from Freedom is a book of seemingly opposing words, ideas, world views and belief systems—apparent contradictions about the meanings…