Forward is a USA newspaper covering Jewish Religion. The Forward was launched in 1897 as a Yiddish-language daily newspaper in New York City. It served as a defender of trade unionism and moderate, democratic socialism. The founding editor of the Jewish Daily Forward was Abraham Cahan, who made the paper the voice of the Jewish immigrant and the conscience of the ghetto. Today the newspaper covers the varieties of Jewish experience. It seeks to serve as the voice of the American Jew and the conscience of the community. This newspaper is owned by Forward Association, Inc. The web site is presented in the English language.
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Mondo Times editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:33pm on Monday, June 15th, 2009 | High praise for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz from Daniel Estrin, writing in the June 19, 2009 issue of Forward:
"It was on an average Wednesday that a very serious Israeli newspaper conducted a very wild experiment. For one day, Haaretz editor-in-chief Dov Alfon sent most of his staff reporters home and sent 31 of Israel’s finest authors and poets to cover the day’s news.
The idea behind the paper’s June 10 special edition was to honor Israel’s annual Hebrew Book Week, which opened the same day, by inviting Israeli authors to get away from their forthcoming novels and letting them bear witness to the events of the day.
This wasn’t a Sabbath supplement, a chance to balance the news with extra color. This was a near complete replacement of the newspaper itself. Save for the sports section and a few other articles, all the reporters’ notebooks were handed over to poets and novelists, both bestselling and up-and-coming. Their articles filled the pages, from the leading headline to the weather report.
“We really tried to give a real newspaper,” Alon said.
For the liberal, Hebrew language Israeli daily — the country’s oldest — it was a bold but signature move. From its founding in 1918, Haaretz has distinguished its brand by highlighting Israeli cultural, literary and artistic life with a vigor unmatched by its competitors. That, along with its dense in-depth political and business reporting (achieved with smaller type and far fewer photos than Israel’s other dailies) has won it an elite audience, albeit one far smaller than its competitors. Its weekday circulation of some 50,000 compares with 400,000 for Yediot Aharonot, Israel’s largest daily, and 160,000 for Ma’ariv, the second largest."
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http://www.forward.com/articles/107571/
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Mondo Times editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 1:00pm on Friday, June 12th, 2009 | Alana Newhouse, the former culture editor of The Forward, is the editor of a new daily online magazine of Jewish news, ideas, and culture called Tablet magazine.
Tablet began publishing June 9, 2009, and is a project of the nonprofit Nextbook Inc. Nextbook also runs Nextbook Press, which publishes a line of Jewish-themed books.
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