Baltimore Jewish Times

The newspaper was founded in 1919 by David Alter, and at one time it was the largest Jewish publication in the country.Dechter, Gadi.[http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=11593 Foxy Meets Orthodoxy], Baltimore City Paper, March 15, 2006. Alter built a seven newspaper chain, but only two survived the Great Depression, including the Baltimore Jewish Times.

In 1972, the paper was taken over by Charles "Chuck" Buerger, the grandson of the founder, and in 1974 he was joined by Gary Rosenblatt as editor.{{Cite web |date=2019-06-26 |title=Gary Rosenblatt stepping down as editor and publisher of The New York Jewish Week |url=https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/gary-rosenblatt-stepping-down-as-editor-and-publisher-of-the-new-york-jewish-week |access-date=2023-10-25 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2012-03-29 |title=Baltimore Paper Goes on Auction Block |url=https://forward.com/news/153923/baltimore-paper-goes-on-auction-block/ |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=The Forward |language=en}} The two expanded the scope of the paper's coverage, as well as the size; in the 1980s the paper regularly exceeded 200 pages, and circulation peaked at over 20,000. In the 1980s the two also acquired The Detroit Jewish News and The Atlanta Jewish Times, which were given similar makeovers.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=1996-11-15 |title=Publisher of 6 Jewish weeklies, Charles Buerger, dies at 58 |url=https://jweekly.com/1996/11/15/publisher-of-6-jewish-weeklies-charles-buerger-dies-at-58/ |access-date=2023-10-25 |website=JWeekly |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=1996-11-09 |title=Jewish Times publisher Charles Buerger, 58, dies He transformed modest weekly into leader in its field |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1996-11-09-1996314001-story.html |access-date=2023-10-25 |website=Baltimore Sun}}

Rosenblatt left in 1993 to become editor of New York's The Jewish Week. Buerger started the Palm Beach Jewish Times in November 1994, and a Boca Raton/Delray Beach edition in August 1996.De Marco, Donna. [http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/1998/05/04/story8.html?jst=s_cn_hl Jewish Times sells off its papers in Florida], Baltimore Business Journal, May 1, 1998.

Buerger died in 1996, and the paper was taken over by his son Andrew.{{Cite web |date=1996-11-27 |title=Buerger's son to run Jewish Times 'No one likes to replace a legend' |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1996-11-27-1996332049-story.html |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=Baltimore Sun}} In 1998 Andrew Buerger sold off the Florida newspapers, and in 2000 he sold the Detroit and Atlanta papers to Jewish Renaissance Media.[http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2000/02/07/daily16.html Jewish Times owner sells two newspapers], Baltimore Business Journal, February 11, 2000.

Phil Jacobs, a Baltimore native and former Jewish Times reporter who had been serving as editor of the Detroit paper, was named Executive Editor of the Baltimore Jewish Times in 1997. During his tenure, the paper published a series of investigative reports on child molestation by members of the rabbinate, and revealed that he had been molested himself as a child. The series won critical acclaim, but also outrage from some members of the Orthodox community, who disputed some of the accusations made. Jacobs' experience writing the series and living through the controversy it raised in his community was chronicled in Standing Silent, a 2010 documentary film by director Scott Rosenfelt (producer of Mystic Pizza and Home Alone, among others).{{cite news|last=Wax|first=Emily|title='Standing Silent' follows uncovering of sexual abuse in Baltimore's Orthodox Jewish community|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/documentary-standing-silent-recounts-efforts-to-uncover-abuse-in-orthodox-community/2012/02/28/gIQAewi9NS_story.html|access-date=July 25, 2012|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=March 19, 2012}}

Jacobs left the Baltimore Jewish Times in June 2011 to become editor of Washington Jewish Week. Andrew Buerger then became editor and publisher, and runs the publication's former parent company, Alter Communications, which also produces Baltimore STYLE magazine and a number of custom publications.

In 2011, the Baltimore Jewish Times underwent a major redesign and became more magazine-like, with coated glossy stock, a smaller page size and more color photography and graphics. In 2012, the publication was sold at bankruptcy auction and purchased by Route 95 Publications LLC, owner of the Washington Jewish Week.[http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2012/04/02/baltimore-jewish-times-sold-at-auction.html Baltimore Jewish Times sold at auction to Washington Jewish Week owner], Baltimore Business Journal. Retrieved July 13, 2012.

In 2006 the Baltimore Jewish Times won a 2005 Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in News Reporting and Writing about Scientific and Technological Innovation Out of Israel from the [http://www.ajpa.org/ American Jewish Press Association].[http://www.ajpa.org/rockower2005.php Simon Rockower 2005 Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060816084905/http://www.ajpa.org/rockower2005.php|date=August 16, 2006}}, American Jewish Press Association website. Retrieved July 12, 2006. The paper won six Simon Rockower Awards in 2020,{{Cite web |title=AJPA - 2020 Competition |url=https://www.ajpa.org/2020-Competition |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=www.ajpa.org}} one in 2021,{{Cite web |title=AJPA - 2021 Competition |url=https://www.ajpa.org/2021-Competition-Winners |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=www.ajpa.org}} and another two in 2022.{{Cite web |title=AJPA - 2022 Competition |url=https://www.ajpa.org/page-18159 |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=www.ajpa.org}} In 2023, the American Jewish Press Association awarded the Baltimore Jewish Times one Rockower Award.{{Cite web |title=AJPA - Winners List |url=https://www.ajpa.org/page-18179 |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=www.ajpa.org}}

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