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“Stolen Innocence,” The Jewish Week, June 23, 2000

This investigative piece on a rabbi's abuse of teens received national acclaim. It won the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism (2000), the Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism (2001), and led to the arrest and conviction of the rabbi.

“The Simon Wiesenthal Center: State-of-the-art Activism or Hollywood Hype?” Baltimore Jewish Times, Sept. 14, 1984

This examination of the Simon Wiesenthal Center of Los Angeles was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category of Special Reporting in 1985. The honor marked the first time an article in a Jewish publication was cited in the Pulitzer competition, which dates back to 1917.

“The Life and Death of a Dream,” Baltimore Jewish Times, Nov. 7, 1980

The Institute for Jewish Life was created in the early 1970s. Its mission: to alter the course of American Jewry. It lasted less than five years and today is barely remembered. This report, in the author’s words, is “one of the most important pieces I’ve done and (unfortunately) still highly relevant today.”

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Rosenblatt’s columns are quite varied in both topic and style. They range from investigative to humorous, grounded in a love of and concern for, as he puts it, “the Jewish People and Jewish people.” Following are pdfs of several of his favorite pieces, all published in The Jewish Week.

“Taking Responsibility, From Moses to Obama,” Jan. 21, 2009

“In Defense of Followers,” Dec. 10, 2008

“Drifting Apart, a Dangerous Divide,” April 10, 2008

“In Defense of ‘Offensive’ Journalism,” Jan. 7, 2005

“We Should All Be Feminists,” Feb. 13, 2004

“What’s in a Name? Plenty” Feb. 6, 2004

“Déjà vu: Energizing Jewish Life,” Jan. 9, 2004

“How to Quell the Verbal Civil War,” Oct. 10, 1997

Rosenblatt’s columns in The Jewish Week, from 2007 to the most recent

blog

Rosenblatt’s blog in The Jewish Week, “Between the Lines”

feature articles

Selected feature articles by Rosenblatt published prior to 2008

The Jewish Week

Rosenblatt is the editor and publisher of The Jewish Week, where he has worked since 1993. The Jewish Week is the largest Jewish newspaper in the United States with five regional editions and circulation of more than ninety thousand.

Write On For Israel

Write On For Israel is an intensive two-year program that trains a select group of high school students to become advocates for Israel through journalism. Rosenblatt founded the organization in 2003 and is its chairman.

The Conversation: Jewish in America

Rosenblatt is the founder of The Conversation: Jewish In America. A unique project founded in 2005, it is based on annually bringing together about fifty-five American Jews who are leaders or potential leaders in their respective fields to talk about the future of Jewish life in this country and what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century.

Several YouTube short segments in which Rosenblatt speaks about significant Jewish topics.

Full text of an interview with Rosenblatt conducted by Manfred Gerstenfeld and published in American Jewry’s Challenge: Conversations Confronting the Twenty-first Century, ed. by Manfred Gerstenfeld (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004),124-134.