ANEICAS 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 q he editorial mission of the Forward is to T 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 [WISH \[,\SI'Al'El 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- ::="1711ktE CtrI77-10M CC-77•1/44D EID-W771tiD D FORWA FORWARD 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. 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