THE 2014 ROCKOWER AWARDS

THE 2014 ROCKOWER AWARDSAWARDED NOVEMBER 9, 2014

THE 2014 ROCKOWER AWARDS

THE 33RD ANNUAL SIMON ROCKOWER

AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN JEWISH JOURNALISM

AWARDED NOVEMBER 9, 2014

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The 2014 Simon Rockower Awards for

Excellence in Jewish Journalism

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Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of ReligionCincinnati • New York • Los Angeles • Jerusalem

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LETTER FROM PAUL ROCKOWER

TONIGHT we celebrate 33 years of honoring excellence

in Jewish journalism. We also celebrate the man in whose memory these very awards were created:

Simon Rockower. Thirty-three years ago, as a cen-tury tribute to him by his sons, the Rockower family

created these awards to honor Simon Rockower and his deep love for the craft of Jewish journalism.

Like the story of so many, Simon Rockower left his native Austria in search of the dreams and promises of a new land. In this country, he found it. His progeny have become physicists and physicians, lawyers and businessmen, and yes, even journalists. He was a man who taught his children to always ask good questions, something they taught, l’dor v’dor, to their children. Simon Rockower was a man who deeply cherished his people, and always supported their betterment. One of his deepest pursuits was bringing not only relatives to America, but also bringing the friends of relatives and the rela-tives of friends to this land. Simon Rockower believed

that self-respect was gained by being proud of your religion and your people.

Simon Rockower believed in the importance of leaving the legacy of a good name. Excellence of your Jewish media organizations brings honor to his name. Your excellence brings honor to our people. In the age of compromised journalistic integrity, the field of Jewish journalism remains committed to the truth. You faith-fully tell the story of our people and of our homeland Israel. You tell Israel’s story in a clear voice, even when it is being maligned by the mainstream media. Your commitment to the truth remains paramount and unwavering. Thank you for enlightening us all, with the power of your voice.

PAUL ROCKOWER, GREAT-GRANDSON OF SIMON ROCKOWER


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2014 ROCKOWER AWARDS COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Lisa Hostein, Committee Co-Chair, Executive Editor, Jewish ExponentRoberta Elliott, Committee Co-Chair, Retired Vice President of Media & Communica-tions, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)Sue Fishkoff, Editor, j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern CaliforniaMarshall Weiss, AJPA President, Editor & Publisher, The Dayton Jewish ObserverPauline Yearwood, Managing Editor, Chicago Jewish News

OFFICIAL ROCKOWER AWARDS SPONSORAJPA thanks the Birthright Israel Foundation for sponsoring the 33rd annual Rockower Awards Banquet.

AJPA’S 70TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION SPONSOR

AJPA thanks El Al Israel Airlines for sponsoring our 70th Anniversary Celebration.

INDIVIDUAL ROCKOWER AWARD SPONSORS

AJPA thanks American Jewish Archives for sponsoring the Jacob Rader Marcus Award for Journalistic Excellence in American Jewish History Rockower Award and American Friends of Rambam Health Care Campus for sponsoring The Rambam Award for Excellence in Writing About Health Care.



ROCKOWER AWARD JUDGESMATTHEW E. BERGERMatthew is senior director of communications at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Middle East policy think tank in Washington. He joined FDD in 2014 after five years at Dezenhall Resources, a crisis communications firm where he advised companies handling intense media scrutiny and trained corporate executives for media interviews. Matt served as JTA’s Washington correspondent from 2000 to 2006; he later covered homeland security for Congressional Quarterly and traveled with presidential candidates in 2008 as an embedded reporter for NBC News and National Journal. He has contributed to the Forward, Jerusalem Post, Jerusalem Report, B’nai B’rith Magazine and others.

LISA BRENNANLisa is a writer in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. For more than 20 years, she worked as a reporter at American Lawyer Media, Bloomberg News and as a freelance writer for magazines and other print and online news outlets, both Jewish and secular. Lisa also ran a journalism internship program and formed an editorial board for a daily newspaper. Lisa has received awards and taught news gathering-writing classes to undergraduates. She is active in a Reconstructionist synagogue in Montclair, New Jersey, and lives with two Jews who make her a better Jew: her son Judah, a June 2012 bar mitzvah, and husband Scott, a wonderful Jewish writer.

ROBERT BRILLRobert is on the city desk at the Albany Times Union and edits the newspaper’s Faith and Values page. He gave the keynote address at the Capital Area Council of Churches’ ecumenical/interfaith community celebration of the 50th anniversary of the start of the Second Vatican Council. Rob began his

journalism career as a reporter for a small-town weekly in Wisconsin. He returned to his hometown, New York City, where he was an assistant editor at the Village Voice and the editor of ASCAP in Action magazine. He has also edited several books by local authors. He and his wife, Lisa, live in Catskill, New York.

SHIRA DICKERShira has written for newspapers, magazines and websites both local and national, including The New York Times, The Forward, The Jerusalem Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post and The Times Herald Record. As a publicist specializing in promoting books, documentary films, musicians, art exhibitions and religious leaders, Shira has served as a spokesperson, strategist and ghostwriter. She also teaches about ethical communications, both in professional leadership seminars and at the Academy for Jewish Religion where she created a course called Ethical Communications for Clergy. Shira holds a master’s degree in arts and culture writing from Columbia University.

MARTIN GOLANMartin has been an editor at Reuters for more than 25 years, handling political, general and financial news; he previously was a reporter and feature writer at several daily newspapers. He has also published a novel, My Wife’s Last Lover, and a collection of short stories, Where Things Are When You Lose Them, and recently completed a novel in which Jewish mysticism is a major theme.

ROY S. GUTTERMANRoy is an associate professor and director of the Tully Center for Free Speech at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.



CRAIG S. KARPELCraig is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in such publications as Esquire, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Village Voice and The Wall Street Journal. He has been a contributing editor of Esquire and Harper’s, and a consultant to Playboy. In 1989 He won a Smolar Award for his article in B’nai B’rith Magazine titled, “The Unseen Side of Arab-Jewish Relations.”

MELODY KIMMELA full-time media trainer in FleishmanHillard North America, Melody coaches executives, doctors, celebrities and other spokespeople on how to be more effective in interviews on any imaginable topic. She is a partner in the firm, which she joined in 1990. Earlier, she was a journalist for nine years, writing freelance in London for Time Out London, Honey and other publications and in New York, writing for such outlets as the Baltimore Sun, Miami News, Newsday, Women’s Health and Cosmopolitan. She worked on staff at Conde Nast magazines for Self and GQ, and later lived in Virginia/West Virginia, where she was reporter/ anchor/producer at WVVA-TV (NBC) and the feature editor at the Bluefield Daily Telegraph. In 1988, she won the Best Journalism Series of the Year award from the WV Trial Lawyers Association for her five-piece series on the medical malpractice crisis in that state.

MARC KLEINMarc is the retired editor and publisher of j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California. Klein led the weekly newspaper for close to 28 years. Under his direction, j. — earlier known as the Jewish Bulletin — became the first Jewish newspaper in America to publish its entire contents online beginning in 1995. Klein also operated the only Jewish area on America Online at keyword Jewish and at www.jewish.com. Klein served as

president of AJPA for a total of seven years. During the 32 years he belonged to AJPA, he won several Rockower Awards. Prior to coming to the Bulletin, Klein was editor of the Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia for two and a half years. Before that Klein worked for daily newspapers and at age 30 became the youngest assistant managing editor of the former Philadelphia Bulletin. Klein and his wife live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

DANIEL KOHAN Daniel has worked for 25 years as a graphic designer, art director and editor. For the past 11 years, he has operated Sensical Design & Communication, and he also runs a small trade-publishing house, Ruka Press. Before founding Sensical Design in 2003, he was associate art director for Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. Prior to that, Dan worked at several magazines in New York, including Travel & Leisure, Esquire, Gentleman, American Photo and Executive Female. Dan is a graduate of Yale University and studied graphic design at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

RAFI KOHANRafi Kohan was a reporter at — and then the editor of — The Jewish Advocate in Boston from 2007 to 2008. After that, he spent several years at GQ, where he was first a copywriter, and then a contributor and researcher. As a freelance journalist, he has written for such outlets as Men’s Journal, Details, The Wall Street Journal, ESPN.com and Slate, among others. His February 2012 article for GQ, “From Beads to the Big House,” about the New Orleans police department on Mardi Gras, was named Notable in The Best American Travel Writing 2013. He is an editor at large for the New York Observer.



HILARY KRIEGERHilary is the deputy White House editor for Politico, where she helps manage the publication’s White House team, edits and assigns articles, and contributes pieces of her own. Previously, Hilary worked as an editor in The Washington Post’s editorial department. Before that she spent a decade at The Jerusalem Post, reporting on diplomacy, immigration and social issues in Jerusalem and then on the White House, State Department, Pentagon and Congress as the newspaper’s Washington bureau chief. In addition, she covered the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns and the 2010 Winter Olympics. While in Israel, she also produced radio pieces for Marketplace. Hilary began her career in journalism as the editor-in-chief of The Cornell Daily Sun. She has interviewed world leaders and cultural icons, reported from bomb shelters and the Siberian hinterlands, traveled to more than 40 countries and 40 states and lived in five capital cities. She grew up in Boston and is a lifelong member of Red Sox Nation.

ESTHER D. KUSTANOWITZEsther (@estherk) is a writer, editor and consultant based in Los Angeles. She works part time as director of digital content and story editor for Pictures From the Fringe. From 2010 to 2014, she coordinated the NextGen Engagement Initiative at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, and served as a consultant for the ROI Community since 2006. Esther has also consulted for dozens of organizations and institutions, including IKAR, American Jewish University, Yeshiva University, Slingshot, Limmud and the Jewish Federations of North America. She has written for Haaretz, JTA, The Jewish Week, the Forward, the Jewish Journal and eJewishPhilanthropy, blogs at MyUrbanKvetch.com, and advises individuals and nonprofit organizations on the culture and effective use of social media.

DAVID L. MARCUSDave has been a newspaper and news magazine reporter, a teacher and a public relations executive. He won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. In between, he wrote two highly praised nonfiction books, and he gives presentations about education reform.

DEBORAH DASH MOOREDeborah is the Frederick C. L. Huetwell Professor of History at the University of Michigan, where she also directs the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. She is the author of To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L.A. (1994); a coauthor of Cityscapes: A History of New York in Images (2001); and a coeditor of the award-winning Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (1997). Her most recent books include GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation (2004) and the edited works American Jewish Identity Politics (2008) and Gender and Jewish History (2010).

ZION OZERIBorn in Israel to Immigrants from Yemen and currently living in New York City, Zion explores the Jewish experience in photography. He graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology and Pratt Institute, both in New York City. His photographs have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, The Jerusalem Report, Moment, Middle East Insight, The Economist and many other publications. His work has been exhibited in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Bet Hatfutsot in Tel Aviv, The Spertus museum in Chicago, The museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, the 92nd Street Y in New York, the Skirball Museum in Los Angeles and many other museums and galleries. Zion’s books include The Jewish World Family Haggadah, (Simon & Schuster, 2005), and a coffee table book, The Jews of Yemen, The Last



Generation, (Keter, Jerusalem, 2005). He won a Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism in 2004 and is the recipient of the Covenant award for 2013. His curriculum and project, The Jewish Lens, is currently in schools across the United States and Israel. Zion recently launched the Diversity Lens curriculum and program for public schools, with New York City Department of Education.

DICK POLMANCited by the Columbia Journalism Review website as one of the nation’s top political journalists, Dick is the national political columnist at Newsworks, the website sponsored by Philadelphia NPR-PBS outlet, WHYY. He has covered or chronicled every presidential campaign since 1988. A Philadelphia resident, Dick roamed the country for most of his 22 years as a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer. His daily Newsworks column aside, he is writer-in-residence teaching journalism on the full-time faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a frequent guest on C-SPAN, CNN, MSNBC, the BBC and various NPR shows — most notably, Philadelphia’s Radio Times on WHYY-FM.

PHILLIP RITZENBERGPhillip is an editor and publication designer with almost 60 years in journalism. Over the past 20 years he has designed and redesigned more than 50 newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and Canada. He was assistant managing editor of the New York Daily News, publisher and editor of The Jewish Week, a veteran of many publishing disciplines, and a founder and president of the international Society for News Design. He was a Fulbright scholar at the Free University of Berlin, and then served in the Navy as an intelligence officer on the aircraft carrier Midway in the Far East and on the staff of the commander-in-chief of the Atlantic Fleet, retiring as a commander in the Navy Air Reserve.

GARY ROSENGary has been the editor of The Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Review section since its launch in September 2010. The former managing editor of Commentary, he has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The National Interest.

LAUREN RESSLER RUBLINLauren is deputy managing editor of Barron’s, the business and financial weekly published by Dow Jones. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, Joel, and is active in her local Jewish community. The Rublins have three children, all in their 20s. Lauren is also a preliminary judge for the Gerald Loeb Awards, which honor excellence in business journalism.

BILL SCHECHNERBill has worked in radio and print journalism, but has spent most of his 40-year career as a TV reporter and anchor. He has worked on KQED (PBS San Francisco), KPIX (CBS San Francisco) and NBC Network News. Bill worked in NBC’s Atlanta Bureau and then moved to New York where he was a national correspondent reporting mainly for NBC Nightly News. He was also the co-anchor (with Linda Ellerbee) of NBC News Overnite. He teaches broadcast journalism at Ohlone Community College in Fremont, California.

DIANA JEAN SCHEMODiana is an author and executive editor of 100Reporters, a worldwide nonprofit investigative news center whose reports focus on corruption and government accountability. She is a former national and foreign correspondent with more than 25 years at The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun.



KAREN SCHWARTZKaren is an award-winning freelance journalist who specializes in travel and human-interest stories. In 2013, she won a Lowell Thomas Award from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation, as well as a Society of Professional Journalists Top of the Rockies Award. She previously worked for The Associated Press, where she assigned and edited stories in the national news and financial departments, and she also reported on transportation, organized crime, courts and more. She has also written extensively on consumer issues, science matters, skiing and scuba diving. She resides in Fort Collins, Colorado.

FRAN SIMONFran is managing editor in the Tulane University Office of Publications in New Orleans, a position she has held since the university reopened after Hurricane Katrina in 2006. Fran has more than 30 years’ experience in writing, editing, publication management, marketing communications, media relations and other PR skills. Fran is a longtime member of Touro Synagogue in New Orleans where she and her husband, Bob, served as volunteer youth group advisers for four years. Fran is vice president of marketing/communication for the New Orleans chapter of Hadassah, which honored her with its Woman of the Year award, and serves on the New Orleans Jewish Community Relations Council.

YONAT SHIMRONYonat is the managing editor at Religion News Service. She was the religion reporter for The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, from 1996 to 2011. She is a past president of the Religion Newswriters Association. Yonat graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo and received a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.

JOLIE SOLOMONJolie is a media consultant, teacher and writing coach; current and recent clients include F500 and nonprofit executives, The New York Times, HIAS, The OpEd Project and the American Sociological Association and, as adjunct, New York University. As an editor, reporter or blogger, she worked at The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek (as deputy chief of correspondents), The Boston Globe, CBSNews.com, CNBC.com and More magazine, and has won or been nominated for several national awards.

JONATHAN S. TOBINJonathan is the senior online editor and chief political blogger of Commentary magazine. He has served as editor of the Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and The Connecticut Jewish Ledger and as a columnist for The Jerusalem Post and other newspapers. Over the course of his career he has won 50 journalism awards for commentary, editorial writing and arts criticism, including 15 AJPA Simon Rockower awards.



CATEGORY 1: THE LOUIS RAPOPORT AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN COMMENTARYDivision A. Newspapers 15,000 circulation and over; Magazines; Web-Based Outlets

FIRST PLACE

New Jersey Jewish News, Whippany, NJ Commemorative Dissonance; Funny, You Don’t Look Pewish; The Banality of Walker by Andrew Silow-Carroll

SECOND PLACE

Marla Cohen, New York, NYHow We Define Community, Turkey and Latkes Meet for a Once-in-a-Lifetime Mashup, Tel Aviv Is Not Sun City by Marla Cohen

Division B. Newspapers 14,999 circulation and under

FIRST PLACE

Cleveland Jewish News, Cleveland, OHWords Are More Than Just Letters, What’s in a New Year? One Word, Thanksgiving - a Holiday That Hits Home by Regina Brett

SECOND PLACE

St. Louis Jewish Light, St. Louis, MONews & Schmooze; Life as a Salesman, a Tribute to Dad; Of Weiss and Mane by Ellen Futterman

CATEGORY 2: AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN SINGLE COMMENTARYDivision A. Newspapers 15,000 circulation and over; Magazines; Web-Based Outlets

FIRST PLACE

Jewish Action (Orthodox Union), New York, NYThe Decline of the Rabbinic Sermon by Zev Eleff

SECOND PLACE

Marla Cohen, New York, NYWhat Shuls Can Learn From Shoes by Marla Cohen


FIRST PLACE

Jewish Voice, Wilmington, DEThe Fear of Pew by Shoshana Martyniak

SECOND PLACE

St. Louis Jewish Light, St. Louis, MOHagel the Unready? by Robert Cohn

CATEGORY 3: AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN PERSONAL ESSAYDivision A. Newspapers 15,000 circulation and over; Magazines; Web-Based Outlets

FIRST PLACE

Jewish Action (Orthodox Union), New York, NYThe Courage to Serve: A Chareidi Girl in the IDF by Fayga Marks

SECOND PLACE

Hadassah Magazine, New York, NYBlood Libel on Main Street by Shirley Reva Vernick


FIRST PLACE

The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, Milwaukee, WISuicide Leaves More Questions Than Answers by Amy Waldman

SECOND PLACE

Judy Bolton-FasmanReciting Kaddish as a Daughter by Judy Bolton-Fasman

CATEGORY 4: AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDITORIAL WRITINGDivision A. Newspapers 15,000 circulation and over; Magazines; Web-Based Outlets

FIRST PLACE

The Canadian Jewish News, Ontario, Canada Renewing Our Vows, Strengthen Our Unity, Summit on Education by Mordechai Ben-Dat

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FIRST PLACE

Intermountain Jewish News, Denver, COIf a Pillow and a Pear Come From a Synagogue, They’re Not Treif; JEWISHcolorado’s Gamble; Israel’s Education Minister Has Lost It by Rabbi Hillel Goldberg

SECOND PLACE

Jewish Herald-Voice, Houston, TXLest We Be Reminded; There’s No Accounting for Genius; Boycotters Harm Themselves and Peace by Michael Duke

CATEGORY 5: THE BORIS SMOLAR AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENTERPRISE OR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTINGDivision A. Newspapers 15,000 circulation and over; Magazines; Web-Based Outlets

FIRST PLACE

The Jewish Channel, New York, NYThe Rabbi Behind the Screen by Steven I. Weiss

SECOND PLACE

Jewish Standard, Teaneck, NJBusted: Arrest of Rabbis Who Helped Women Get Jewish Divorces Tears At Wounds by Larry Yudelson


FIRST PLACE

Baltimore Jewish Times, Owings Mill, MDThe 21st-Century Iranian Jew: Precarious Lives of Pride and Fear by Maayan Jaffe

SECOND PLACE

The Boiling Point, Los Angeles, CAControversy Over Whether Girls Should Be Allowed to Wear Tefillin During Prayer at Our School by Noah Rothman

CATEGORY 6: AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN NEWS REPORTINGDivision A. Newspapers 15,000 circulation and over; Magazines; Web-Based Outlets

FIRST PLACE

Jewish Standard, Teaneck, NJOutcry Over Hosting a Sex Offender by Larry Yudelson

SECOND PLACE

j. the Jewish news of Northern California, San Francisco, CATragedy at Camp Tawonga by Dan Pine


FIRST PLACE

Jewish Herald-Voice, Houston, TXBar Mitzvah on Death Row by Michael Duke

SECOND PLACE

The Jewish Chronicle, Pittsburgh, PAStandoff - TOL*OLS Balks at USCJ Dues Structure by Toby Tabachnick

CATEGORY 7: AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN SOCIAL JUSTICE REPORTINGDivision A. Newspapers 15,000 circulation and over; Magazines; Web-Based Outlets

FIRST PLACE

j. the Jewish news of Northern California, San Francisco, CAPower to the People: Berkeley Couple Brings Light to Clinics in Developing Nations by Dan Pine

SECOND PLACE

New Jersey Jewish News, Whippany, NJ Immigration Returns to Communal Agenda, NJ Native Leads HIAS into ‘Leviticus’ Era by Johanna Ginsberg


FIRST PLACE

Baltimore Jewish Times, Owings Mill, MDBetween Victim & Perpetrator by Maayan Jaffe

SECOND PLACE

Intermountain Jewish News, Denver, COThe Sad, Sad Story of Sally Levin by Chris Leppek

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CATEGORY 8: AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FEATURE WRITINGDivision A. Newspapers 15,000 circulation and over

FIRST PLACE

j. the Jewish news of Northern California, San Francisco, CAGrowing Up Frum: Observant Teens Navigate Their Way Through Famously Liberal Bay Area by Emma Silvers

SECOND PLACE

Jewish Exponent, Philadelphia, PAChabad Influence by Bryan Schwartzman

Division B. Newspapers from 7,500-14,999 circulation

FIRST PLACE

Intermountain Jewish News, Denver, COThe Sad, Sad Story of Sally Levin by Chris Leppek

SECOND PLACE

Cleveland Jewish News, Cleveland, OHSherman Feature by Michael C. Butz

Division C. Newspapers from 1-7,499 circulation

FIRST PLACE

Arizona Jewish Post, Tucson, AZWarmth, Eye-Opening Perspective for Local Firefighters in Israel by Nancy Ben-Asher Ozeri

SECOND PLACE

The Dayton Jewish Observer, Centerville, OHConvention Center Goes Kosher for Chabad Wedding by Marshall Weiss

Division D. Magazines; Special Sections and Supplements; Web-Based Outlets

FIRST PLACE

Hadassah Magazine, New York, NYAwe & Memory: the Yom Kippur War by Rochelle Furstenberg, Barbara Goldstein, Esther Hecht, Yehoshua Sivan and David W. Weiss

SECOND PLACE

Hadassah Magazine, New York, NYLittle Big Land by David W. Weiss

CATEGORY 9: AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ARTS AND CRITICISM NEWS AND FEATURESDivision A. Critical analysis/review, usually of a single artistic endeavor, whether in literature, theater, film or fine arts and crafts.

FIRST PLACE

Hadassah Magazine, New York, NYHerod Revisited by Esther Hecht

SECOND PLACE

JTNews, Seattle, WAThis Book Is Not as Awful as You Want It to Be by Erin Pike

Division B. Reporting on an artistic endeavor, trend, movement or personality, whether in literature, theater, film or fine arts and crafts.

FIRST PLACE

Hadassah Magazine, New York, NYContractual Beauty by Jenna Weissman Joselit

SECOND PLACE

Simi HorwitzIt’s Not Easy Being a Jewish Artist in a Muslim Land, Theater Professionals Face Challenges in Arab Countries by Simi Horwitz

CATEGORY 10: THE DAVID FRANK AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN PERSONALITY PROFILESDivision A: Newspapers 15,000 circulation and over

FIRST PLACE

Jewish Standard, Teaneck, NJThe Goldin Way by Joanne Palmer

SECOND PLACE

Hamodia, Brooklyn, NYArt to Heart: The Colors of Caring by Suri Cohen





FIRST PLACE

Chicago Jewish News, Skokie, ILChicago Teachers Union President by Pauline Yearwood

SECOND PLACE

The Boiling Point, Los Angeles, CAThe Journey of Yosef Nemanpour by Adam Rokah

Division C. Magazines; Special Sections and Supplements; Web-Based Outlets

FIRST PLACE

CJ Voices of Conservative/Masorti Judaism, New York, NYThe Urban Rabbi by Michael Schulson

SECOND PLACE

Hadassah, New York, NYLetty Cottin Pogrebin by Rahel Musleah

CATEGORY 11: AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN SPECIAL SECTIONS OR SUPPLEMENTSDivision A. Newspapers 15,000 circulation and over

FIRST PLACE

The Jewish Week, New York, NYKosher Wine Guide


FIRST PLACE

Intermountain Jewish News, Denver, CO100 Years by Intermountain Jewish News

CATEGORY 12: THE RAMBAM AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN WRITING ABOUT HEALTH CARE

Division A. Newspapers 15,000 circulation and over; Magazines; Special Sections and Supplements; Web-Based Outlets

FIRST PLACE

Hadassah Magazine, New York, NYIsrael’s AIDS Model by Wendy Elliman

SECOND PLACE

Southern Jewish Life Magazine, Birmingham, ALIsraelis Help New Orleans Prepare for the Unthinkable by Larry Brook


FIRST PLACE

JTNews, Seattle, WAConfused by I-522? Look to Israel for Guidance; Man’s Best Friend, Cancer’s Worst Enemy?;

Our Bodies: Time to Tone and Atone by Janis Siegel

CATEGORY 13: AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ORGANIZATIONAL NEWSLETTERSDivision A. Organizational Hard Copy

FIRST PLACE

Jewish National Fund, New York, NYB’yachad Magazine by Jodi Bodner, Sherene Strausberg and Ariel Vered

Division B. eNewsletter

FIRST PLACE

InterfaithFamily, Newton Upper Falls, MAInterfaithFamily’s bi-weekly eNewsletter by Lindsey Silken

CATEGORY 14: AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN WRITING ABOUT WOMENFIRST PLACE

Hadassah Magazine, New York, NYPascale Bercovitch by Leora Eren Frucht

SECOND PLACE

Jewish Action (Orthodox Union), New York, NYThe Courage to Serve: A Chareidi Girl in the IDF by Fayga Marks




CATEGORY 15: THE JACOB RADER MARCUS AWARD FOR JOURNALISTIC EXCELLENCE IN AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY

Division A. Newspapers 15,000 circulation and over; Magazines; Special Sections and Supplements; Web-Based Outlets

FIRST PLACE

Jewish Action (Orthodox Union), New York, NYThe Guru of Kashrut: Rabbi Alexander S. Rosenberg and the Transformation of Kashrut in America by Timothy D. Lytton

SECOND PLACE

Hamodia, Brooklyn, NYRescue Against Great Odds: The Heroism of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus of Philadelphia by Evelyne Singer


FIRST PLACE

Dina Weinstein, Coral Gables, FL50 Years of Integration Began With Jewish Student’s Editorial - Melvin Meyer Risked All With 1962 Alabama Plea for Justice by Dina Weinstein

SECOND PLACE

Intermountain Jewish News, Denver, COLouis D. Brandei by Rabbi Hillel Goldberg

CATEGORY 16: AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN OVERALL GRAPHIC DESIGNDivision A. Newspapers 15,000 circulation and over

FIRST PLACE

Jewish Exponent, Philadelphia, PAAugust 22, October 10 and October 17 Issues by Julia Elkin


FIRST PLACE

Cleveland Jewish News, Cleveland, OHMay 17, June 21 and August 16 Issues by the Cleveland Jewish News Staff

SECOND PLACE

Intermountain Jewish News, Denver, COMarch 22, August 30 and November 22 Issues by Intermountain Jewish News

Division C. Magazines; Special Sections and Supplements; Web-Based Outlets

FIRST PLACE

Hadassah Magazine, New York, NYApril/May 2013, August/September 2013 and December 2013 Issues by Jodie Berzin Rossi

CATEGORY 17: AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN GRAPHIC DESIGN: COVERDivision A. Magazines

FIRST PLACE

Hadassah Magazine, New York, NYApril/May 2013 Issue by Michael Chelbin

Division B. Newspapers

FIRST PLACE

j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern CaliforniaFebruary 22, August 2 and December 12 Issues by Cathleen Maclearie

SECOND PLACE

Jewish Standard, Teaneck, NJMarch 1, April 12 and November 22 Issues by Jerry Szubin




CATEGORY 18: THE NOAH BEE AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ILLUSTRATING AND/OR EDITORIAL CARTOONINGFIRST PLACE

Hadassah Magazine, New York, NYApril/May, August/September and December 2013 Issues by Grauert, Morri, Nayberg, Shadmi, Streeter, Thompson and Wertz

CATEGORY 19: AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN PHOTOGRAPHYDivision A. Newspapers

FIRST PLACE

j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California, San Francisco, CASea of Reeds by Cathleen Maclearie

SECOND PLACE

Jewish Journal of WNY, Buffalo, NYWhat Do We Do Now? by Linda Gellman

Division B. Magazines; Special Sections and Supplements; Web-Based Outlets

FIRST PLACE

Hadassah Magazine, New York, NYJune/July 2013 Issue by Elin Schoen Brockman

CATEGORY 20: AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING DIGITAL OUTREACHDivision A. Newspapers 15,000 circulation and over; Magazines

FIRST PLACE

Chicago JUF News, Chicago, ILDouble Chai in the Chi: 36 Under 36 by Stefanie Bregman


FIRST PLACE

Jewish Voice, Wilmington, DESHALOM Delaware e-strategy by Andrea Bock, Julie James, Seth Katzen and Kathryn Weissenberger

Division C. Web-Based Outlets; Jewish Organizations

FIRST PLACE TIE

My Jewish Learning, New York, NYKveller.com - Deborah Kolben and Molly Tolsky

InterfaithFamily, Newton Upper Falls, MAInterfaithFamily’s Digital Platform by Ed Case, Heather Martin and Lindsey Silken

CATEGORY 21: AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN A MULTI-MEDIA STORYDivision A. Jewish Media Outlets

FIRST PLACE

The Jewish Channel, New York, NYChained Wives at Crossroads by Claude Apollon, Rebecca Honig Friedman and Christian Niedan

Division B. Jewish Organizations

FIRST PLACE

Herschel Finman, Oak Park, MIEphraim Zuroff - The Last Nazi Hunter by Herschel Finman, Bnai Teshuva Congregation, The Jewish Hour

CATEGORY 22: AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN BLOGGINGFIRST PLACE

Edmon J. Rodman, Los Angeles, CAGuide for the Jewplexed by Edmon J. Rodman

SECOND PLACE

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THE 2014 ROCKOWER AWARDS

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Transcript of THE 2014 ROCKOWER AWARDS