In a third consecutive year, JNS took home a number of annual Simon Rockower Awards earned by editors, staff members and freelance writers in the American Jewish Press Association's 40th annual competition for excellence in Jewish journalism for work done in the year 2020 – the most to date, in fact.
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JNS won its first two Rockower Awards for work published in 2018. Last year, it doubled that, winning four in 2019. And this year, it earned eight.
Editor and columnist Ruthie Blum won the Louis Rapoport Award for Excellence in Commentary. Her first-place pieces included "Let us remember what the survivors are unable to forget" about aging Jews and Yom Hashoah; "Owing the ultra-Orthodox an apology" about overriding blame directed at religious Jews in Israel during the coronavirus pandemic; and "Gang rape at the Red Sea Hotel" about societal ills and how Israel reacted to a horrible crime.
The award, named for the late author and editor of The Jerusalem Post, honors the top regular opinion columnist in Jewish journalism.
Reprinted with permission from JNS.org
