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Neil Rubin is editor of the Baltimore Jewish Times. He oversees the day-to-day operations of the award-winning weekly, writes editorials and columns, and represents the paper at national events. He also coordinates the editorial content of http://www.jewishtimes.com .
His main interests are the evolving American Jewish-Israeli Jewish relationship, interfaith dialogue, American Jews in politics, and Israeli politics.
The Baltimore native holds an undergraduate degree in Journalism from the University of Maryland and a masters in Modern Jewish Studies from the Baltimore Hebrew University. He has a Ph.D. from Towson University, focusing on historical attitudes regarding U.S. policy towards Israel and the response of American Jewry. He also teaches regularly at Towson University’s Osher Institute adult education program and gives guest lectures to the school’s graduate level Jewish studies classes.
Neil has was won awards from the American Jewish Press Association (8 times), the Maryland-D.C.-Delaware Press Association (3 times) and the Maryland Professional Chapter: Society of Professional Journalists (4 times). He has appeared on numerous radio and TV stations, including CNN and NPR.
His national volunteer activities include: the executive board of the American Jewish Press Association (AJPA); co-directing the AJPA/Hillel Jewish Student Journalists Initiative; and senior advisor to Brandeis University’s Gralla Fellowships Program for Jewish Journalists. He is active with Congregation Chevrei Tzedek.
Included among the figures with whom he has had extensive sit-down interviews are: Nobel Laureates Elie Wiesel and Shimon Peres, former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Knesset member Natan Sharansky, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Reform leaders Rabbis Alexander Schindler and Eric Yoffee, talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, former USSR Chief Rabbi Adolph Shayevitch, Nation of Islam Chief of Staff Leonard Farrakhan Mohammed and numerous ambassadors, Senators and Congressmen.
Prior to returning home to Baltimore in 1998, Neil spent 7 ½ years editing the Atlanta Jewish Times. He also has been Director of Public Relations for the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, a writer at B’nai B’rith International, and Publications Editor for The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore.