''New York Jewish Week'' (formerly ''The Jewish Week'') is a weekly independent community
newspaper
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targeted towards the
Jew
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ish community of the metropolitan
New York City
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area.
History
In March 2016, ''The Jewish Week'' announced its partnership with the online newspaper ''
The Times of Israel
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''. 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. In July 2020, ''The Jewish Week'' suspended publication of its weekly print publication, and in January 2021 was acquired by
70 Faces Media, publisher of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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and other Jewish brands.
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. Beginning in 2022, the list was published as “36 to Watch,” without an age limit for awardees.
Editorial staff
Phillip Ritzenberg was publisher and editor until 1993.
Gary Rosenblatt was the
editor
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and publisher from 1993 to 2019.
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.
Awards
The Jewish Week won two first-place awards from the
American Jewish Press Association in 2021.
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
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, 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".
Lanner and other officials of the Orthodox Group were forced to resign. Lanner was convicted of child sexual abuse in 2002.
See also
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Institute for Nonprofit News (member)
References
External links
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Searchable historical archive of the newspaper
Jewish newspapers published in the United States
Jews and Judaism in New York City
Newspapers published in New York City
Weekly newspapers published in the United States
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