Re: Award-winning report

I am pleased to report that a Jewish Voice & Herald story about a painful subject, “Anti-Semitic acts in Budapest stun Habonim congregants,” earned a third-place award in the Religion and Spirituality Category from the Rhode Island Press Association at its May 2 banquet. Of that April 26, 2013, story, the Idaho Press Association judges wrote, “Powerfully evocative of the shadows of the past. Very nicely written and not over-written. The facts speak for themselves.” Thank you to Temple Habonim’s Rabbi Andrew Klein for recounting those troubling experiences with me so that I, in turn, could share the story with readers of this newspaper. Thanks, too, to Steve Jacobson, of the Dorot Foundation, who provided me invaluable context and historical perspective for this story. Eleven entries were submitted in this category; Ed Fitzpatrick of the Providence Journal and Brian Jones, freelance writer for Rhode Island Monthly, earned second and first place respectively. Nancy Kirsch Providence, R.I. Kirsch is the former executive editor of The Jewish Voice.