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This post is a news release from the Forward’s communications department. Read past announcements here. The Forward won 43 Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism at the 41st American Jewish Press Association’s annual ceremony for work published in 2021. This is a new record for the Forward, following last year’s 34 wins. The awards…
Editor’s Note: Alfred Döblin, the Weimar-era author of ‘Berlin Alexanderplatz,’ was born on this day in 1878. To honor this occasion, we revisit this award-winning story about the writer’s connection to another Alfred Doblin. I was dozing in front of the TV when I lifted one eyelid to see Rachel Maddow interviewing a man with…
The Forward was honored to receive 12 Simon Rockower Awards from the American Jewish Press Association this week. The awards, which recognize achievements in Jewish journalism, included eight first-place wins for the Forward. At the awards ceremony, held during the AJPA’s annual conference in Cleveland, Ohio, the group recognized the Forward and the Yiddish Forward…
In the middle of a night in March 1965, when I was 9, I woke to the sound of typing. I stepped into a short hallway leading to a long one that cut through my grandparents’ one-level, modern house in northern Westchester, where I was spending the weekend. My grandfather heard me and opened the…
I was dozing in front of the TV when I lifted one eyelid to see Rachel Maddow interviewing a man with a trim beard and a startling name: Alfred Doblin. They were discussing Chris Christie and the Bridgegate scandal. Maddow described her guest as the editorial page editor of the Bergen Record, a New Jersey…
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. As many an American rabbi will tell you, even Jews who rarely go to Sabbath or holiday services will often contact a local synagogue after losing a loved one, requesting help to arrange the shiva, the week-long mourning period, so that he or she can say kaddish,…
The Forward took home a record 11 honors at the annual conference of the American Jewish Press Association, held this year in Scottsdale, Ariz. The Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism, the Jewish media’s top honor, were presented June 16 at a banquet dinner, attended by writers, editors and publishers from dozens of…
The Forward scooped up 10 Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism, it will be announced today at the annual conference of the American Jewish Press Association. A release on the honors is below: The Forward, America’s most influential Jewish weekly newspaper, garnered ten 2009 Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism, the…
