2021: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards Winner for Book Critic
2020: Southern California Journalism Awards Winner: Print Magazine Feature: Hemispheres Magazine for United Airlines, “Painter by the Numbers, Rembrandt” Finalist for: Online Journalist of the Year, Activism Journalism, Educational Reporting, Broadcast Lifestyle Feature
2019: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards Winner: Soft News Feature for Film/TV: KTLA TV Oscars Countdown to Gold with Lisa Niver Finalist for: Soft News, Business/Music/Tech/Art
2019: Southern California Journalism Awards Finalist: Broadcast Television Lifestyle Segment: Ogden Ski Getaway
Moral cannibalism demands something more than enforcing the boundaries of a group. The accused must participate in their own demise: confess, apologize, accept the indictment, and surrender the part of themselves the group has condemned
Jewish members are describing antisemitism within CFA itself as the union presses to weaken protections born of the post-Oct. 7 campus antisemitism crisis.
The sukkah reminds us to go out into the world, especially when the comforts of insularity beckon us closer—to explore paths we have yet to take and seek journeys ready for wandering.
A Jewish high school in Los Angeles has developed a program that encourages students to reclaim their lives from social media. It is changing the conversation.
A Jewish high school in Los Angeles has developed a program that encourages students to reclaim their lives from social media. It is changing the conversation.
There is a difference between criticism that comes from responsibility and love, and an almost psychological need to prove to the world: I am not one of them.
Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem said Wednesday night that after undergoing lifesaving procedures in its trauma unit, Leiter underwent complex brain surgery lasting several hours along with additional treatments.
While so much of the world seems obsessed with and consumed by its hatred of Israel and Jews, Israelis continue to build, create, work, celebrate, argue, raise families, and plan for the future.
“The biggest concern is that people now have a pathway to shut down Jewish voices through complete falsities that people will believe. … For the future of Jewish entertainment, it’s very scary.”
Mark Smith has compiled an important anthology of Jewish history using 49 works by Yiddish historians to recreate or at least open the door to a world of Jewish thought that was once almost mainstream, but which no longer exists, except in the minds of too few specialists.
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AND THE WINNER IS…Lisa Niver for NAEJ Book Critic
Lisa Ellen Niver
Thank you National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards! I am honored to win 2nd place as BOOK CRITIC!
Thank you Los Angeles Press Club!
Thank you to my editors at Ms. Magazine: Roxy Szal and Carmen Rios. Thank you to Glennon Doyle for Untamed.
https://msmagazine.com/2020/05/03/glennon-doyle-untamed-book-review-brave-means-living-from-the-inside-out/
Thank you to my editor at Wharton Magazine: Richard Rys. Thank you Simon Sinek for The Infinite Game!
Thank you to The Pennsylvania Gazette for their tweet and Facebook congratulations:
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2021: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards Winner for Book Critic
2020: Southern California Journalism Awards Winner: Print Magazine Feature: Hemispheres Magazine for United Airlines, “Painter by the Numbers, Rembrandt” Finalist for: Online Journalist of the Year, Activism Journalism, Educational Reporting, Broadcast Lifestyle Feature
2019: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards Winner: Soft News Feature for Film/TV: KTLA TV Oscars Countdown to Gold with Lisa Niver Finalist for: Soft News, Business/Music/Tech/Art
2019: Southern California Journalism Awards Finalist: Broadcast Television Lifestyle Segment: Ogden Ski Getaway
2018: Southern California Journalism Awards Finalist: Science/Technology Reporting, Travel Reporting, Personality Profile
2017: Southern California Journalism Awards Winner: Print Column “A journey to freedom over three Passovers” Finalist for: Travel Reporting.
https://www.wesaidgotravel.com/award-winner-for-southern-california-journalism-awards-thank-you/
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