New York Jewish Week

{{Short description|Weekly Jewish community newspaper in New York City}} {{distinguish|Washington Jewish Week}} {{Use American English|date=May 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = New York Jewish Week | image = Jewishweek.jpg | caption = Front page | type = News and opinion website | format = All-Digital | founded = | ceased_publication = | price = | owners = 70 Faces Media | political_position = | publisher = | editor = Andrew Silow-Carroll | circulation = 155,000<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/advertise/advertiser_information|title=Advertiser Information- The Jewish Week Media Group|website=The Jewish Week|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405222326/http://www.thejewishweek.com/advertise/advertiser_information|archive-date=2016-04-05}}</ref> | staff_writers = | politics = | headquarters = New York City, New York, U.S. | ISSN = | website = [https://www.jta.org/newyork/ jta.org/newyork] }}

'''''New York Jewish Week''''' (formerly '''''The Jewish Week''''') is a weekly independent community newspaper targeted towards the Jewish community of the metropolitan New York City area.

==History== In March 2016, ''The Jewish Week'' announced its partnership with the online newspaper ''The Times of Israel''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jewish Week To Partner With Times Of Israel|url=http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/jewish-week-to-partner-with-times-of-israel/|publisher=The Jewish Week|access-date=24 January 2017|date=March 22, 2016|archive-date=10 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010173021/http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/jewish-week-to-partner-with-times-of-israel/|url-status=live}}</ref> Later in 2016, ''The Jewish Week'' acquired the ''New Jersey Jewish News'', which had been published by the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest New Jersey and had a circulation of 32,000.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Jewish Week Media Group To Publish N.J. Jewish News| access-date = 2019-02-18| url = http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/jewish-week-media-group-to-publish-n-j-jewish-news/| archive-date = 2019-02-19| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190219020038/http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/jewish-week-media-group-to-publish-n-j-jewish-news/| url-status = live}}</ref> In July 2020, ''The Jewish Week'' suspended publication of its weekly print publication,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Oster|first=Marcy|title=New York Jewish Week putting print edition on hiatus after 150-year run|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-york-jewish-week-putting-print-edition-on-hiatus-after-150-year-run/|access-date=2021-07-12|website=The Times of Israel|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-02-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213182218/https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-york-jewish-week-putting-print-edition-on-hiatus-after-150-year-run/|url-status=live |issn=0040-7909}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Pink |first=Aiden |date=August 7, 2020 |title='What am I going to read on Shabbos now?' New Yorkers mourn loss of Jewish Week's print edition |url=https://forward.com/news/450352/new-york-jewish-week-print-edition/ |access-date=January 9, 2024 |website=The Forward |language=en}}</ref> and in January 2021 was acquired by 70 Faces Media, publisher of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and other Jewish brands.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Andrew Silow-Carroll|title=Two of Jewish Journalism's Most Storied Brands Under One Sturdy Roof|url=https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/jewish-week-is-acquired-by-70-faces-media/|access-date=2021-07-12 |website=Jewish Week |via=Times of Israel |language=en-US|archive-date=2021-01-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129195538/https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/jewish-week-is-acquired-by-70-faces-media/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tracy |first=Marc |date=January 11, 2021 |title=After hard times, The Jewish Week has a new owner |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/business/media/jewish-week-70-faces.html |access-date=January 5, 2024 |website=New York Times}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jewish Week|url=https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/|access-date=2021-07-12|website=Jewish Week |via=Times of Israel|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-07-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210705142014/https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> Beginning in 2022, the list was published as "36 to Watch", without an age limit for awardees.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NY Jewish Week's 36 to Watch 2022 |url=https://www.jta.org/nyjw-36-to-watch-2022 |access-date=January 5, 2024 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Editorial staff== Phillip Ritzenberg was publisher and editor until 1993.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 24, 1992 |title=Ritzenberg, of N.Y. Jewish Week, Resigns As Publisher and Editor |url=https://www.jta.org/archive/ritzenberg-of-n-y-jewish-week-resigns-as-publisher-and-editor |access-date=May 28, 2022 |work=Daily News Bulletin |via=Jewish Telegraphic Agency}}</ref> Gary Rosenblatt was the editor and publisher from 1993 to 2019. Andrew Silow-Carroll took over in September 2019.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/business/media/jewish-week-new-editor-publisher.html |title=Jewish Week: New Editor-Publisher |date=August 1, 2019 |access-date=September 18, 2019 |archive-date=August 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190805182959/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/business/media/jewish-week-new-editor-publisher.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Rosenblatt served as editor at large and continued to write for the paper and be involved in several of its educational projects.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/jewish-week-editor-to-step-down-after-26-years |title=Jewish Week Editor To Step Down After 26 Years |date=June 25, 2019 |access-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-date=May 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210523173440/https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/jewish-week-editor-to-step-down-after-26-years/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=July 31, 2019 |title=New Editor Named For Jewish Week |url=https://www.jta.org/2019/07/31/ny/new-editor-named-for-jewish-week |access-date=January 9, 2024 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Awards== The Jewish Week won two first-place awards from the American Jewish Press Association in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=AJPA - 2021 Competition Winners|url=https://www.ajpa.org/2021-Competition-Winners/|access-date=2021-07-12|website=www.ajpa.org|archive-date=2021-07-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709211848/https://ajpa.org/2021-Competition-Winners|url-status=live}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 6, 2016 |title=Deadline Club Announces Awards Finalists – Deadline Club |url=https://www.deadlineclub.org/deadline-club-announces-awards-finalists/ |access-date=January 9, 2024 |website=Deadline Club |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Goren |first=Biranit |date=April 6, 2016 |title=Jewish Week Investigation Named Finalist For Major Journalism Award |url=https://www.jta.org/2016/04/06/ny/jewish-week-investigation-named-finalist-for-major-journalism-award |access-date=January 9, 2024 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}}</ref>

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".<ref name=":0">{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E6D81538F933A25754C0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2 |title=Paper Seen as Villain in Abuse Accusations Against Rabbi |work=New York Times |date=July 10, 2000 |access-date=June 29, 2011 |archive-date=May 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200514122703/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/10/business/media-paper-seen-as-villain-in-abuse-accusations-against-rabbi.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Lanner and other officials of the Orthodox Group were forced to resign. Lanner was convicted of child sexual abuse in 2002.<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 10, 2008 |title=Rabbi Convicted of Sexual Abuse Is Freed on Bail Pending Appeal |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00EFD9123AF931A25753C1A9649C8B63 |access-date=January 5, 2024 |website=New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080210061749/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00EFD9123AF931A25753C1A9649C8B63 |archive-date=2008-02-10}}</ref>

==See also==

* Institute for Nonprofit News (member)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{Official website|http://www.thejewishweek.com/}} *[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/jewishweekny Searchable historical archive of the newspaper]

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