 While she was working on this article, she was looking for employment and in November 1941 was hired by the New York German-language Jewish newspaper "" and from 1941 to 1945, she wrote a political column for it, covering anti-semitism, refugees and the need for a Jewish army.She also contributed to the "Menorah Journal", a Jewish-American magazine, and other German "émigré " publications.Arendt's first full-time salaried job came in 1944, when she became the director of research and Executive Director for the newly emerging Commission on European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, a project of the Conference on Jewish Relations.