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Tradition
hen our parents and grandparents
arrived in America, they discovered
a unique newspaper, the Jewish
Daily Forward. Founded in 1897 and
published in Yiddish, the Forward served as their
guide to America and fought for their rights as work-
ing immigrants. By the 1920's the Forward's circula-
tion was nearly 250,000 copies daily, and it was
called the greatest Jewish newspaper of all time. Ten
years later Isaac Bashevis Singer began in the Forward
the writing career that would eventually win him a
Nobel Prize.
Today the Forward is a weekly, reaching out to the
next generation of Jewish Americans — in the English
language. Publication of the Yiddish-language
Forverts continues. But for the first time ever in Amer-
ica, there is a national English-language Jewish news-
paper. Continuing a 95-year tradition of excellence,
the new English-language Forward has caused a sen-
sation during its first year of publication, winning plau-
dits from a broad cross-section of Jewish Americans
eager for a newspaper that can put them in touch with
the future — without losing touch with our tradition.
News
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cover our community, our nation and our
world according to the highest standards of
journalism. The Forward has received great
accolades during its first year, a fact that was recog-
nized when the Forward was one of three finalists for
the Pulitzer Prize in Distinguished Editorial Writing.
The Forward is the only Jewish newspaper in Amer-
ica with a full-time news bureau in Washington. Our
bureau chief, David Twersky, covers the capital like no
other journalist. Our Moscow bureau is another
example of why the Forward is different from all other
Jewish newspapers. Our man in Moscow, Walter
Ruby, the only newspaperman posted to the Soviet
capital by a Jewish newspaper, has brought unparal-
leled coverage of one of the most exciting events of
the century — Soviet Jewry's exodus to Israel. The
Forward has two seasoned correspondents in Israel,
Roy Isacowitz and Menachem Shalev, who provide
the most objective wrap-up of news available from
the Jewish state in any American paper. When anti-
Semitic riots broke out in Brooklyn over the summer,
our New York bureau chief, Philip Gourevitch, was on
the scene, and it wasn't surprising that when
Newsweek carried a major article on anti-Semitism,
the only newspaper it quoted was the Forward.
Indeed, the Forward is the most widely quoted Jew-
ish newspaper in America. Over the course of a few
recent weeks, the Forward was cited in a Wall Street
Journal article on Soviet Jews, a New York Post edito-
rial on Syria, and a New York Newsday article on the
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Brooklyn riots. The Forward was also quoted in a pub-
lication that few Americans see, the private morning
news summary prepared for President Bush.
The impact of the Forward's coverage was evident
recently in New York, when William Clinton, the gov-
emor of Arkansas and one of the front-running candi-
dates for the Democratic nomination for the presi-
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dency, addressed the Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish Organizations. The first thing
he talked about to 150 of the most prominent Jewish
leaders was the Forward's editorial of the previous
week. Under the headline "Waiting for Clinton," the
Forward challenged the Democrats to confront the
Bush administration on its entente with Syria. When
the candidate stepped to the rostrum, he delivered
his response. It's an example of why people are say-
ing the Forward is becoming the first word in Ameri-
can Jewish Life.
Arts & Culture
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he Forward, however, is more than pol-
itics and policy. Fully 40% of the Forward
is devoted to cultural and artistic
expression. Our Arts pages present an
unusually rich and varied selection of the best
writing .on Jewish art, literature and culture being
published anywhere in the world today. Under the
leadership of our cultural editor and columnist,
Jonathan Rosen, the Forward was the first news-
paper anywhere with excerpts from the Harold
Bloom's controversial best-selling commentary on
the Bible, "The Book of J." The Forward carried the
first excerpts. from Tom Teicholz's long-awaited
book, "The Trial of Ivan the Terrible," and New
York Times reporterAri Goldman's "The Search for
God at Harvard." Plus, every week, Forward read-
ers can follow one of the most moving stories of
the Holocaust penned by the next generation, Art
Spiegelman's celebrated comic strip about his
father's experiences at Auschwitz, MAUS. The
Forward is now publishing Joshua Caleb's stun-
ning histocial thriller, "Teddy and Jesus," inspired
by the friendship between Israel's much-storied
operative, Teddy Kollek, and America's legendary
spymaster, James Jesus Angleton. It's a serial
novel that will rivet readers from the Kremlin to
the Knesset to the White House. The new novel is
just the latest way in which the English-language
Forward is carrying on the great tradition.
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alleled converage of the news but does something
no other newspaper can — it'll 'make your grand-
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