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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Editor | Gary Rosenblatt |
| Headquarters | New York, New York |
| Official website | http://www.thejewishweek.com/ |
The Jewish Week is an independent weekly newspaper serving the Jewish community of the metropolitan New York City area. The Jewish Week covers news relating to the Jewish community in NYC and has world-wide distribution.
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Gary Rosenblatt has been the editor and publisher since 1993.
The Jewish Week covers the latest Jewish news from New York, the United States and Israel.
Major sections include:
The Jewish Week publishes five regional editions serving Manhattan, Long Island, Queens, Westchester County/The Bronx and Brooklyn/Staten Island and has a circulation of more than 70,000 households weekly. each week, giving it the largest circulation of any North American Jewish newspaper.
In 2000, Rosenblatt and the newspaper won the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism from the Journalism Center on Children & Families for the story "Stolen Innocence", an investigative report that uncovered allegations of decades of child abuse by a youth movement leader and high school principal, Baruch Lanner. The story was initially criticized for being "malicious gossip".[1] The revelations were seen as a "watershed in the way the Orthodox community addresses sexual abuse"[2] and led to Lanner's resignation and conviction.[3]