jewish journalism

The agony of the COVID-19 obituarist

Writing obituaries for the victims of COVID-19 served as a kind of therapy for the bereaved, but it also tore open old wounds.

By Sam Sokol July 10, 2020 11:21 am

Former journalist and political advisor Robbie Gibb arriving to the residence of the British prime minister in London, UK on May 24, 2019. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

London’s Jewish Chronicle saved from extinction

A groups of buyers has reached an agreement to to take over the world’s longest running Jewish publication two weeks after its previous owners said it would be liquidated.

April 24, 2020 11:17 am

Editor's Column Opinion

The Forward’s woes deal the Jewish world a blow to the kishkes

Love it or hate it, the Forward represents the kind of serious discourse that Jews need to be having in turbulent times.

January 17, 2019 12:09 pm

Editor's Column Opinion

Here’s why we report on the Jewish victims of larger tragedies

By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 19, 2018 12:06 pm

Editor's Column Opinion

Harvey Weinstein and Al Franken are Jewish, but are they Jewish news?

By Andrew Silow-Carroll November 21, 2017 3:13 pm

Editor's Column Opinion

Why we waited before publishing that story about Elie Wiesel

By Andrew Silow-Carroll October 24, 2017 3:10 pm

Al Erlick, longtime editor of the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent, is dead at 88

June 16, 2017 8:46 am

Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, newspaper publisher and civil right stalwart, dies at 96

April 21, 2017 4:56 am

Jesse Lurie, longtime Hadassah Magazine editor, dies at 103

April 14, 2017 11:32 am

Haredi newspaper finds ‘modest’ way to show photo of Hillary Clinton

August 11, 2016 5:51 pm

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jewish journalism

The agony of the COVID-19 obituarist

London’s Jewish Chronicle saved from extinction

The Forward’s woes deal the Jewish world a blow to the kishkes

Here’s why we report on the Jewish victims of larger tragedies

Harvey Weinstein and Al Franken are Jewish, but are they Jewish news?

Why we waited before publishing that story about Elie Wiesel

Al Erlick, longtime editor of the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent, is dead at 88

Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, newspaper publisher and civil right stalwart, dies at 96

Jesse Lurie, longtime Hadassah Magazine editor, dies at 103

Haredi newspaper finds ‘modest’ way to show photo of Hillary Clinton

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