Jonathan S. Tobin

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Jonathan S. Tobin is executive editor of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and a frequent media commentator on Jewish affairs. He was formerly the editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. [1]


In 2003 Tobin told an interviewsr that Jewish Journalism has improved in quality over the past twenty years, but that there are constraints because many American Jewish newspapers are owned by Jewish federations, rather than being independent corporation. This problem, he said, is not different from the problems faced by other newspapers, “Nobody at the Philadelphia Inquirer reports aggressively on Knight-Ridder Corp.” [2] He told an interviewer for the New York Times that “"My job as editor is to talk about things people are not willing to talk about." [3]


Luke Ford has called Tobin, “the most right-wing editor of a Jewish weekly in the US,” [4] but according to Tobin, “I lost my credentials as a real right-winger any number of times because I've taken stands on issues they disagree with. I've taken shots at the right consistently when I think they're wrong. More consistently then when my colleagues on the left take shots at the left." [5]


[edit] Awards

  • First Place in the Louis Rapoport Award for Excellence in Commentary and Editorial Writing given by the American Jewish Press Association [6] 1997 [7], 2000 [8], 2006[9]
  • First Place for Excellence in Arts and Criticism in the Louis Rapoport Award for Excellence in Commentary and Editorial Writing given by the American Jewish Press Association [10] 2000[11]

[edit] References

  1. ^ An Editorial Provokes A Debate on Intermarriage; Jewish Weekly Touches a Nerve in Connecticut, By Jo0nathan Rabinowitz, July 13, 1995, New York Times, [1]
  2. ^ [ http://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/jonathan_tobin.htm]
  3. ^ An Editorial Provokes A Debate on Intermarriage; Jewish Weekly Touches a Nerve in Connecticut, By Jo0nathan Rabinowitz, July 13, 1995, New York Times, [2]
  4. ^ [ http://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/jonathan_tobin.htm]
  5. ^ [ http://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/jonathan_tobin.htm]
  6. ^ [3]
  7. ^ [www.newsandopinion.com/cols/tobin091500.asp]
  8. ^ [ www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/tobin1.html]
  9. ^ [ http://www.ajpa.org/rockowerawards2006.php]
  10. ^ [4]
  11. ^ [www.newsandopinion.com/cols/tobin091500.asp]