Join us this Erev Yom Hashoah Wednesday, April 23 at 7PM at Beth Am

This spring marks 80 years since the end of the Holocaust and WWII. With antisemitism’s rise in the past decade and dominating the headlines since Oct. 7, Rabbi Burg joins Forward enterprise reporter Arno Rosenfeld for a candid conversation about the issues, challenges, and responsibilities Jewish journalists face when covering antisemitism.

About Arno Rosenfeld:

Arno Rosenfeld is an enterprise reporter at the Forward. An award-winning investigative journalist, he has chronicled the Jewish American response to rising fears over antisemitism, covered Jewish college students confronting hostile political climates on campus, reported on local communities grappling with a surge of white supremacist propaganda, and exposed the deep rifts among national organizations over political issues.

Rosenfeld is based in Washington, D.C., and has reported for the Forward from Charlottesville, Virginia, Colleyville, Texas, Tel Aviv, Berlin, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and elsewhere. He won the Boris Smolar Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting from the American Jewish Press Association in 2023 for his article on the experience of Jewish students engaged in Israeli politics at George Washington University.

Rosenfeld previously covered state politics for the Casper Star-Tribune, Wyoming’s statewide newspaper, where he won the Pacemaker Award for Agriculture Reporting from the Wyoming Press Association for coverage of wild horses. He got his start in Jewish journalism at J. The Jewish News of Northern California, and has written for JTA, The Times of Israel, and other publications.

This program will be livestreamed here.