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| Type | News and opinion website |
|---|---|
| Format | All-Digital |
| Owner(s) | 70 Faces Media |
| Editor | Andrew Silow-Carroll |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Circulation | 155,000 [1] |
| Website | jta.org/newyork |
The Jewish Week is a weekly independent community newspaper targeted towards the Jewish community of the metropolitan New York City area.
In March 2016, The Jewish Week announced its partnership with the online newspaper The Times of Israel . [2] Later in 2016, The Jewish Week acquired the New Jersey Jewish News , which had been published by the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ and had a circulation of 32,000. [3] In July 2020, The Jewish Week suspended publication of its weekly print publication, [4] [5] and in January 2021 was acquired by 70 Faces Media, publisher of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and other Jewish brands. [6] [7]
Each year The Jewish Week published "36 Under 36," honoring younger New Yorkers making a difference in Jewish philanthropy, education, the arts, religion and social action. [8] Beginning in 2022, the list was published as “36 to Watch,” without an age limit for awardees. [9]
Phillip Ritzenberg was publisher and editor until 1993. [10] Gary Rosenblatt was the editor and publisher from 1993 to 2019. Andrew Silow-Carroll took over in September 2019. [11] Rosenblatt served as editor at large and continued to write for the paper and be involved in several of its educational projects. [12] [13]
The Jewish Week won two first-place awards from the American Jewish Press Association in 2021. [14]
In 2016, The Jewish Week became a finalist for awards in two categories by the Deadline Club, the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, for its series on the battle to improve secular education in chasidic schools. The series was done in partnership with WNYC. [15] [16]
In 2000, Rosenblatt and the newspaper won the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism from the Journalism Center on Children & Families for the story "Stolen Innocence", an investigative report that uncovered allegations of decades of child abuse by a youth movement leader and high school principal, Baruch Lanner. The story was criticized by some in the Orthodox community for being "malicious gossip". [17] Lanner and other officials of the Orthodox Group were forced to resign. Lanner was convicted of child sexual abuse in 2002. [18]
The Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), founded in 1889 by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, is the principal organization of Reform rabbis in the United States and Canada. The CCAR is the largest and oldest rabbinical organization in the world. Its current president is Rabbi Erica Asch.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) is an international news agency and wire service that primarily covers Judaism- and Jewish-related topics and news. Described as the "Associated Press of the Jewish media," JTA serves Jewish and non-Jewish newspapers and press around the world as a syndication partner. Founded in 1917, it is world Jewry's oldest and most widely-read wire service.
Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy, better known by the acronym, SAR Academy, is a coeducational, private Modern Orthodox Jewish day school. The school is located in the Riverdale section of the New York City borough of the Bronx.
Washington Jewish Week (WJW) is an independent community weekly newspaper whose logo reads, "Serving the nation's capital and the greater Washington Jewish community since 1930." Its main office is located in Rockville, Maryland, a Maryland suburb of the District of Columbia.
The Baltimore Jewish Times is a subscription-based weekly community publication aimed at the Jewish community of Baltimore.
Baruch S. Lanner is an American former Orthodox rabbi who was convicted of child sexual abuse.
Lucette Matalon Lagnado was an Egyptian-born American journalist and memoirist of Syrian origin. She was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal.
The Riverdale Jewish Center, abbreviated as RJC, is an Modern Orthodox synagogue located at 3700 Independence Avenue, in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City, New York, in the United States.
Abigail Pogrebin is an American writer, journalist, podcast host for Tablet magazine, and former Director of Jewish Outreach for the Michael Bloomberg 2020 presidential campaign.
Gary Rosenblatt was the editor and publisher of The Jewish Week of New York, a position he held from 1993 through 2019. Previously he was the editor of the Baltimore Jewish Times for 19 years. Rosenblatt is the father of musician Dov.
UJA-Federation of New York is the largest local philanthropy in the world. Headquartered in New York City, the organization raises and allocates funds annually to fulfill a mission to “care for Jews everywhere and New Yorkers of all backgrounds, respond to crises close to home and far away, and shape our Jewish future.”
Danya Ruttenberg is an American rabbi, editor, and author.
The Times of Israel is an Israeli multi-language online newspaper that was launched in 2012. It was co-founded by Israeli journalist David Horovitz, who is also the founding editor, and American billionaire investor Seth Klarman. Based in Jerusalem, it "documents developments in Israel, the Middle East and around the Jewish world." Along with its original English site, The Times of Israel publishes in Hebrew, Arabic, French, and Persian. In addition to publishing news reports and analysis, the website hosts a multi-author blog platform.
Sheldon David Engelmayer is a full-time pulpit rabbi at the Temple Israel Community Center, an egalitarian Conservative synagogue in Cliffside Park, New Jersey. He is the author of eight nonfiction books on topics ranging from corporate irresponsibility in the A.H. Robins Company's Dalkon Shield intrauterine device case, to biographies of public figures, including Hubert Humphrey and Martha Mitchell.
Avram Mlotek is an American rabbi, social activist, cantor, writer, actor and slam poet. Mlotek is the co-founder of Base, a pluralistic home-centered outreach program, established in nine cities worldwide, predominantly for Jewish young adults.
Andrew Silow-Carroll is an American journalist. In 2019, he resigned as editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) to become editor of The Jewish Week.
Yehuda Kurtzer is President of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He has written and lectured widely on Jewish history, Jewish memory, leadership in American Jewish life, and the relationship between American Jews, Israel and Zionism. In 2012, he was named one of the "36 under 36 young educators, thinkers, social justice activists, philanthropists and artists reinventing Jewish life" by The Jewish Week.
Shais Rishon, also known by the pen name MaNishtana, is an African-American Orthodox rabbi, activist, and writer. He has written for Tablet, Kveller, The Forward, Jewcy, and Hevria, as well as writing a semi-autobiographical novel under his pen name. In 2014, he was included in The Jewish Week's "36 Under 36", an annual list of influential Jews under age 36.
Phillip Ritzenberg was an American journalist. He was known for his work on the newspaper New York Daily News and The Jewish Week.
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