{"id":13424,"date":"2015-06-26T00:14:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T07:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=13424"},"modified":"2015-06-25T18:56:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T01:56:30","slug":"the-ji-wins-two-rockowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2015\/06\/26\/the-ji-wins-two-rockowers\/","title":{"rendered":"The JI wins two Rockowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month, the American Jewish Press Association announced the winners of this year\u2019s Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism, which honor achievements in Jewish media published in 2014. In its division (newspapers with 14,999 circulation and under), the Jewish Independent<\/em> garnered two first places.<\/p>\n

\"image<\/a>Publisher and editor Cynthia Ramsay won the first place award for excellence in writing about Jewish heritage and Jewish peoplehood in Europe for her article \u201cWorld Musician at Rothstein\u201d<\/a> (Nov. 21, 2014), about the work of Lenka Lichtenberg. The group Art Without Borders was bringing Lichtenberg to Vancouver from her home base of Toronto for a solo performance at the Norman and Annette Rothstein Theatre. The article includes reviews of Lichtenberg\u2019s three most recent CDs and how, in all of her music, \u201cthe memory and traditions of those who have lived before can be heard \u2013 they are celebrated, and merge with the memories, traditions and passions of Lichtenberg and the artists with whom she collaborates.\u201d<\/p>\n

The JI<\/em> editorial board \u2013 Pat Johnson, Basya Laye and Ramsay \u2013 won the paper\u2019s other award: first place for excellence in editorial writing. The three editorials that comprised the winning entry were \u201cThe message is universal\u201d<\/a> (March 7, 2014), about plans for the Canadian National Holocaust Monument to be constructed in Ottawa; \u201cThe spirit of Limmud\u201d<\/a> (Feb. 14, 2014), about how the vision and passion of one woman, Ruth Hess-Dolgin z\u201dl, significantly enriched our community by initiating the movement to bring Limmud here; and \u201cUniquely set apart for exclusion\u201d<\/a> (May 9, 2014), about the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations decision to exclude J Street from the group.<\/p>\n

The Rockower awards will be presented at AJPA\u2019s annual conference, which, for the second year in a row, is scheduled around the Jewish Federation General Assembly being held in Washington D.C. Nov. 8-10. AJPA sessions will be held Nov. 9-11. The entire list of Rockower winners can be found at ajpa.org\/?page=2015Rockower<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month, the American Jewish Press Association announced the winners of this year\u2019s Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism, which honor achievements in Jewish media published in 2014. In its division (newspapers with 14,999 circulation and under), the Jewish Independent garnered two first places. Publisher and editor Cynthia Ramsay won the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4021,4020,4335,1005,4334,53,1006,2544,278,3359,4022,522],"class_list":["post-13424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-ji","tag-ajpa","tag-american-jewish-press-association","tag-basya-laye","tag-conference-of-presidents-of-major-american-jewish-organizations","tag-cynthia-ramsay","tag-holocaust","tag-j-street","tag-lenka-lichtenberg","tag-limmud","tag-pat-johnson","tag-rockower","tag-ruth-hess-dolgin"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}