New York – The Forward, one of the most renowned and longest-running Jewish publications in the United States, will be ceasing its print edition and laying off its editor in chief and 40 percent of its staff.
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The New York Post reported Wednesday night that the Forward would be ending its print run more than 120 years after it began publication in 1897. It will continue to exist online in English and Yiddish. A laid-off staff member posted the Post article on Facebook without comment.
The Forward’s editor in chief, Jane Eisner, will be laid off after more than a decade in the position along with Executive Editor Dan Friedman. Also laid off are Kurt Hoffman, the art director; Dave Goldiner, director of digital media; and Kathleen Chambard, vice president of marketing, according to the Post.
“The Forward is taking the next step in making our brand more relevant to our readers and more connected to their lives,” Publisher and CEO Rachel Fishman Feddersen said, according to the Post. “We are announcing that this spring the Forward will complete its evolution from what was once a print-focused publisher to become a digitally focused publication.”
The New York City-based publication began as a Yiddish-language newspaper and launched a weekly English-language print edition in 1990. In 2017, it shifted to publishing a monthly magazine. The Forward has been known historically for investigative journalism, coverage of Jewish culture and a left-wing editorial stance. It is a client of JTA’s syndication service.
It will not be missed.
I remember it as a decent piece of journalism, albeit with leaning left. However, it morphed into an anti-orthodox schmatte, and I am rejoicing in its decreasing reach. It will be less able to poison minds with ideas that are flagrantly anti-Torah value. When it will end completely, it will be time for a celebration.
Sorry, no nostalgia here. A happy (semi) good-bye to a leftist screed.
The Forward has been so biased toward frum yidden, its no wonder they’re going out of business. Who do they think speaks yiddish these days, Frum Yidden or secular?
Imagine that. A last issue might be worth having.
Good riddance
כן יאבדו כל אויביך השם
Unfortunately the Forward devolved into an anti-Israel pro-PLO type paper. I dropped my subscription a few years back. FEH.
The original ‘Left”.
Good riddance.
Thanks to the Forward millions of Jewish migrants hundreds and thousands among them who were pure Ehrlicha Yidden when they arrived here in America their kids became full fledged Goyim.
thank you A F l
WOW Great news, now where would all the drop outs go to dump on us?
Now what is hashomer going to read?
What will I use to line the bottom of my bird cage?
IYH by the failing NYT bkrov! Kain Yirbu
GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH.
a very anti religious paper that did its best to show frum yidden in the worst light. May their web site fall apart too!