B’nai B’rith Magazine Editor’s Note on 11/8/23:
Jewish media outlets around the world are publishing simultaneously an open letter – initiated by the Jewish News in London and The Jerusalem Post – amid an unprecedented level of anti-Semitism globally.
B’nai B’rith Magazine is pleased to take part.
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B’nai B’rith Magazine Winter 2023: Features
The office of Israeli President Isaac Herzog sent us a letter commending our 2023 issue of B’nai B’rith Magazine and activities as an organization. Read the letter below in Hebrew and English.
20 May 2024
Shalom u’bracha,
Thank you sincerely for sending the President of the State a copy of B’nai B’rith Magazine from Winter 2023. This impressive and extensive edition reflects in a fine manner the expanse of your organization’s activities, whose name precedes it almost two hundred years as one of the most veteran and important Jewish organizations in the world.
Your professional and significant activity embraces the ends of the earth, from Poland to Cyprus and from Jerusalem to New York, and places repeatedly at the center the all-Jewish world-wide relationship and the indispensable affiliation between the People living in Zion and Diaspora Jewry. The Jewish Rescuers Citation and Award for Journalism Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportage are just examples of your influential and welcome activities, in various fields that are of interest to the Jewish public wherever they are.
Since the massacre of October 7 and the ensuing war, in the face of the dramatic spike in incitement and extreme antisemitism around the world, it is clear that your activity on behalf of the Jewish people everywhere takes on ever greater significance and urgency, and your clear voice takes on even greater importance, and for this you should be commended.
I wish to strengthen your resolve to take action, also in the name of the President of the State.
Together, we will hope and pray for the return of our kidnapped sisters and brothers and for good tidings.
The Simon Rockower Jewish Journalism Awards, presented annually by the American Jewish Press Association, recognize the best in Jewish journalism. Read some of our award-winning stories below.
2024
B’nai B’rith Magazine Winter 2023 issue wins major journalism prize
Congratulations to our own B’nai B’rith Magazine Winter 2023 issue for a top prize in the American Jewish Press Association Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism.
First Place: Award for Excellence in Writing About Young Families/People
“When Anti-Semitism Hits Home: How Hate Hurts Kids”
by Beryl Lieff Benderly
2021
Tooting Our Own Horn: Rockower Wins for 2021 issue of B’nai B’rith Magazine
You are reading the Award-Winning B’nai B’rith Magazine! We won THREE American Jewish Press Association Rockower Awards for journalistic excellence for stories published in 2021. These wins are just the latest in a long line of professional recognition for the unique, well-reported stories you expect from us.
We earned a First Place Award for Excellence in Writing About Food and Wine for our story “In Search of Kreplach: more than Just Jewish Ravioli” by Kenneth D. Ackerman and Alice Chezar. The Judges noted: “This wonderfully written piece has it all: Jewish history and tradition, a broader sense of the place of comfort foods in all cuisines, and a personal adventure: the arduous task of fine tuning the recipe and mastering the techniques of making kreplach. All told with humor and tremendous warmth.”
Our story “Israel’s Golden Age of TV” by Dina Kraft was doubly recognized, winning a 2nd place Award for Excellence in Feature Writing AND a 2nd place Award for Excellence in News and Features — Reporting.
On June 24, 2021, our fascinating B’nai B’rith Magazine cover story won two prestigious Rockower Awards for journalism! Beryl Lieff Benderly’s feature, “Secret Shabbes: How the ‘Sabbath Delight’ Hid an Astonishing Archive,” tells how a brave and dedicated group of Jews chronicled the atrocities in the Warsaw Ghetto.
The judges noted: “This is a sad, moving, and graceful story that pays homage to true visionaries and their heroic acts.”
Thank you to the American Jewish Press Association for recognizing “Secret Shabbes” in TWO categories: an Honorable Mention Award for Excellence in Feature Writing AND a Second Place Award for Excellence in Writing About Jewish Heritage and Jewish Peoplehood in Europe.
We also interviewed Benderly on our Conversations series with our CEO Dan Mariaschin. Check it out!
2019
Congratulations to…us!
B’nai B’rith Magazine has again won a prestigious Rockower Award for Journalism Excellence from the American Jewish Press Association.
We earned a 2nd prize in the category:
Foundation of Ethnic Understanding Award for Excellence in Interfaith Relations Reporting.
Our story:
“The Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom: Finding Common Ground” by Miranda Spivack
2018
First Place Award for Journalistic Excellence in Writing about Heath Care:
Rita Rubin, “Jewish Genetics: To Test or Not to Test? That is the Question — And the Answer”
Second Place Award for Journalistic Excellence in Covering Zionism, Aliyah and Israel:
Michele Chabin, “People Are Dying to Get In, but Israeli Cemeteries Are Running Out of Space”
2017
First Place Award for Journalistic Excellence in American Jewish History:
Kenneth Ackerman, “Trotsky in New York, 1917: A Reluctant Jew in a Jewish City”
Second Place Award for Excellence in Writing about Jewish Heritage and Jewish Peoplehood in Europe:
Rita Rubin, “House of Memories: From Generation to Generation”