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Dear Friend,
2014 was a pivotal year for the Forward, a year of strategic thinking, research, design and planning that reaffirmed our unwavering commitment to both serve and reflect a diverse American Jewish community – with unflagging journalistic excellence, provocative cultural exploration and lively Yiddishkeit. At the same time, it resulted in bold changes that will help us deliver on that commitment for generations to come.
In some ways, the year began for us the previous October with the Pew Research Center’s groundbreaking “Portrait of Jewish Americans.” Our insightful coverage of the report and its implications showed exactly what readers expect from the Forward. Beyond that, it prompted us to carefully consider how the Forward itself should respond to Pew’s findings, how our journalism could remain relevant and essential to generations of American Jews whose experiences and challenges are quite different from our parents’ and even our own. >>
2014 ANNUAL REPORT
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We engaged readers, staff and contributors, Forward Association members and outside
experts to reflect on our legacy and mission, and to examine how people use and interact with
media today. Together, we conceived a new Forward, more effective at connecting Americans
of all ages and affiliations (even if that is no affiliation) with their Jewishness, while continuing
to fearlessly scrutinize those who represent and claim to represent us as a community.
While the most visible changes – our bold new logo, redesigned website, and reimagined
newspaper – wouldn’t be unveiled until early 2015, the ideas behind them increasingly
informed our work in 2014. More distinct voices and deeply personal narratives appeared
in our pages, like Josh Nathan-Kazis’s account of his quest for Spanish citizenship based on
his Sephardic heritage, and Tuvia Tenenbom’s chronicles of Jewish life in all its absurdity.
We launched new features to address the challenge of finding meaning and community, and
a contemporary twist on the Forward’s beloved Bintl Brief, offering advice for navigating
interfaith relationships, and Wondering Jew, exploring the range of rituals and meaning
American Jews find in the annual cycle of holidays.
At the same time, we continued to set the gold standard of Jewish journalism, with
unmatched reporting of the Gaza War and its human toll on both sides of the border;
enlightening political and diplomatic analysis from editor-at-large J.J. Goldberg; unflinching
coverage of dangerous circumcision practices, far-flung Jewish communities and insular
Hasidic enclaves; diverse views of culture both controversial and inspirational, from
commentary and videos sustaining the mameloshn in the Forverts newspaper and to a
growing audience on yiddish.forward.com.
nonprofit, public media organization; it remains truly independent, unbeholden to powerful
individuals or institutions, only because it can rely on those, like you, who cherish a uniquely
welcoming home for our many Jewish voices.
our products and engage new readers. We thank you for your donations, which made those
investments possible, and hope you will invest with us to sustain these efforts and ensure
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Thank YouThe Forward Association gratefully acknowledges the individuals and organizations listed below and later in this report, whose gifts made between January 1 and December 31, 2014, helped sustain the Forward as a vibrant, independent Jewish media organization for readers today and for future generations.
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OCTOBER 14, 2014
The End-of-Life Battle Over Jewish Souls
PAUL BERGER
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Paul Berger
JULY 6, 2014
Families of Slain Israeli and Palestinian Teens Turn to Each Other for Comfort
SIGAL SAMUEL
DECEMBER 3, 2014
Hasidic Enclave Keeps Its Secrets Amid Elusive Rebbe’s Tight Control FRIMET GOLDBERGER
MARCH 10, 2014
How Do I Tell My Russian Host Family I’m a Jew? PAUL BERGER
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
Shalom, Bloomingburg
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July 24, 2014:
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newsOCTOBER 14, 2014
The End-of-Life Battle Over Jewish Souls
PAUL BERGER
forward.com page views +476% in five years
4.5 million page views
25.9 million page views
2009
2014
MARCH 10, 2014
How Do I Tell My Russian Host Family I’m a Jew? PAUL BERGER
NOVEMBER 30, 2014
Chasing Ghosts, Reviving Spirits: The Fall and Rise of Poland’s Jews JANE EISNER
OCTOBER 5, 2014
Needy Israeli Brides Find Wedding Day Nirvana Courtesy of Charities
NAOMI ZEVELOFF
MARCH 27, 2014
Rabbi Performs Controversial Metzitzah B’Peh Circumcision Rite — Law or No
PAUL BERGER
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July 24, 2014:
257,000 page viewsa one-day record
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1,275culture articles
published in 2014
BEGAN JULY 8, 2014
Our Promised Lands
(A 50-State Series)
VARIOUS AUTHORS
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
A Song of Love and Memory for Leonard Cohen at 80
EZRA GLINTER
OCTOBER 20, 2014
The Resurrection of ‘Klinghoffer’ADAM LANGER
JANUARY 26, 2014
Can Sephardic Jews Go Home Again — 500 Years After the Inquisition?JOSH NATHAN-KAZIS
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Liza Schoenfein
Adam Langer
culture
Donors to the Forward
JANUARY 22, 2014
Chef Micah Wexler Brings Deli Revolution to Los Angeles
LEAH KOENIG
JULY 15, 2014
Mom in the Bomb Shelter – The Sisterhood
DEBORAH MEGHNAGI BAILEY
NOVEMBER 25, 2014
Food Chains Ask Who Picks Your Food
RACHEL KAHN-TROSTER
OCTOBER 20, 2014
The Resurrection of ‘Klinghoffer’ADAM LANGER
JUNE 5, 2014
A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to the Rolling Stones Concert TUVIA TENENBOM
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BEGAN SEPTEMBER 17, 2014
Wondering Jew
ABIGAIL POGREBIN
OCTOBER 7, 2014
Why Hamas Never Wanted War — and Knows It Lost
J.J. GOLDBERG
2.9 million visits to forward.com from 97 different social media sites in 2014
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DECEMBER 14, 2014
Dear Santa, Please Stay Away From My Little BoySUSAN KATZ MILLER, HAROLD BERMAN, JIM KEEN
J.J. Goldberg
JUNE 2, 2014
Why Is It So Hard To Convert to Judaism?JANE EISNER
BEGAN FEBRUARY 24, 2014
The Seesaw – Answering All Your Questions About Interfaith Life
JULY 15, 2014
A Gaza Mother Amid the Airstrikes – The Sisterhood
EMAN MOHAMMED
Facebook users clicked through to
forward.com
2.1 million
times in 2014
Jay Michaelson
Jane Eisner
MAY 12, 2014
Dear Santa, Please Stay Away From My Little BoyJAY MICHAELSON
JULY 10, 2014
How the Gaza War Started — and How It Can EndJ.J. GOLDBERG
Rukhl Schaechter
Yiddish Forverts e-newsletter
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57%from 2013 to 2014
Forverts published
1,844 original articles488 blog posts107 videos and 268 podcasts
in Yiddish in 2014
Jordan Kutzik
Yiddish Forward
Hasidic Women’s Dresses and Masochistic Fantasies
First Gay Wedding in a British Synagogue
Shiva: Short and Not So Somber, Please
Financial Summary*
*Audited financial statements available upon request
Expenses
Sources of Funds
Newspaper and digital media: English $5,794,166
Funds drawn from invested assets $3,644,598
Newspaper and digital media:
Yiddish $1,027,569
Fundraising $420,982
Management $1,342,155
TOTAL $8,584,872
Advertising $812,799
Print subscriptions & newsstand sales
$796,634
Other (rentals, royalties, misc.)
$185,095
Fundraising $957,302
Investment income
$2,188,444
TOTAL $8,584,872
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