The Forward

The Forward (, and formerly known as "The Jewish Daily Forward") is an American news media organization for a Jewish American audience. 

History

Founded in 1897 as a Yiddish-language weekly socialist newspaper, The New York Times reported that Seth Lipsky "started an English-language offshoot of the Yiddish-language newspaper" as a weekly newspaper in 1990.

The Forward in English

The Forward began publishing in English in the 1980s. In 2019, both Yiddish and English were being used for their online edition. Funding for the English edition became available when The Forward sold their FM radio station.

While the idea was said to have germinated in 1983, when the Yiddish-only paper "announced that it was going to retreat to weekly publication"  and the actualization of an English edition as an ongoing paper in 1990, by 2010 Seth Lipsky was described as "formerly editor of the English-language edition".

Notable interviews

 Barack Obama
 Alan Dershowitz
 Evan Rachel Wood
 Josh Shapiro
 Ruth Bader Ginsburg
 Gal Gadot
 Joe Biden
 Mandy Patinkin
 Natan Sharansky
 Dani Shapiro
 Nathan Englander
 Yossi Klein Halevi

 Awards 
In 2020, The Forward was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award and won nine Rockower Awards. The Forward won two Religion News Association Awards and 34 Rockower Awards in 2021. In 2022, the Forward won two Religion News Association Awards and a record of 43 Rockower Awards. In 2023, the American Jewish Press Association awarded The Forward 33 Rockower Awards.

 Pictures 

 Jewish Daily Forward Building 

 Related pages 
 Algemeiner Journal

 Further reading 



 Other websites 


 The transition from the Russian Forward to Forum
 Online, searchable The Forward editions  from the Historical Jewish Press

 References 

Category:1890s establishments in New York (state)
Category:1897 establishments in the United States
Category:English-language newspapers
Category:Newspapers in New York City
Category:Socialism
Category:Yiddish language