The Jewish Week

The Jewish Week is a weekly independent community newspaper targeted towards the Jewish community of the metropolitan New York City area.[2] The Jewish Week covers news relating to the Jewish community in NYC. In March 2016, The Jewish Week announced its partnership with the online newspaper The Times of Israel.[3] Later in 2016, The Jewish Week acquired the New Jersey Jewish News.[4] In July 2020, The Jewish Week suspended publication of its weekly print publication,[5] and in January 2021 announced its acquisition by 70 Faces Media,[6] the publisher of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and other Jewish brands, under whose umbrella it continues as an all-digital brand.

Not to be confused with Washington Jewish Week.
The Jewish Week
Front page
TypeNews and opinion website
FormatAll-Digital
Owner(s)70 Faces Media
EditorAndrew Silow-Carroll
HeadquartersNew York City, New York, U.S.
Circulation155,000[1]
Websitejta.org/newyork

Editorial staff

Gary Rosenblatt was the editor and publisher from 1993 to 2019.[7] Andrew Silow-Carroll took over in September 2019. Rosenblatt served as editor at large and continued to write for the paper and be involved in several of its educational projects.[8] Phillip Ritzenberg was publisher and editor until 1993.[9]

Programs

The Jewish Week runs a number of signature programs: Write On For Israel, a seminar program on Israel- and Jewish-related issues for high school students; The Conversation, an annual retreat for top and emerging thought-leaders in Jewish life; Fresh Ink For Teens, a publication and website by and for young Jewish journalists, and an annual series of Public Forums. Each year The Jewish Week publishes "36 Under 36,"[10] honoring younger New Yorkers making a difference in Jewish philanthropy, education, the arts, religion and social action.

Awards

The Jewish Week won two first-place awards from the American Jewish Press Association in 2021.[11]

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.

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".[2]

References
  1. "Advertiser Information- The Jewish Week Media Group". The Jewish Week. Archived from the original on 2016-04-05.
  2. "Paper Seen as Villain in Abuse Accusations Against Rabbi". New York Times. July 10, 2000. Archived from the original on May 14, 2020. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  3. "Jewish Week To Partner With Times Of Israel". The Jewish Week. March 22, 2016. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
  4. Staff Report. "Jewish Week Media Group To Publish N.J. Jewish News". Archived from the original on 2019-02-19. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
  5. Oster, Marcy. "New York Jewish Week putting print edition on hiatus after 150-year run". www.timesofisrael.com. Archived from the original on 2021-02-13. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  6. Andrew Silow-Carroll. "'Two of Jewish Journalism's Most Storied Brands Under One Sturdy Roof'". jewishweek.timesofisrael.com. Archived from the original on 2021-01-29. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  7. "Jewish Week: New Editor-Publisher". The New York Times. August 1, 2019. Archived from the original on August 5, 2019. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
  8. "Jewish Week Editor To Step Down After 26 Years". June 25, 2019. Archived from the original on May 23, 2021. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
  9. "Ritzenberg, of N.Y. Jewish Week, Resigns As Publisher and Editor". Daily News Bulletin. September 24, 1992. Retrieved May 28, 2022 – via Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
  10. "Jewish Week". jewishweek.timesofisrael.com. Archived from the original on 2021-07-05. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  11. "AJPA - 2021 Competition Winners". www.ajpa.org. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-12.


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