David Twersky (journalist)

David Twersky (February 19, 1950 – July 16, 2010) was a journalist, Zionist activist, and peace advocate in Israel and the United States. He was an editor for ''The Jewish Daily Forward'' and ''The New York Sun'' and a leader of the American Jewish Congress.

Biography

David Twerksy was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, where he grew up in the left-leaning Sholem Aleichem cooperative housing project. He attended Ramaz School in Manhattan and was active in the Labor Zionist youth movement Habonim. He attended City College of New York. In 1974, Twersky made '' aliyah'' (emigrated to Israel) and helped to re-establish Kibbutz Gezer. Twersky died of cancer on July 16, 2010, at the age of 60 in his home in West Orange, New Jersey.

Journalism career

In Israel, Twersky worked for the Labor Party's international affairs department, where he dealt with the Socialist International. He edited '' Shdemot'', the literary journal of the kibbutz movement, and ''Spectrum'', an English-language political monthly. Twersky served in an artillery unit during the 1982 Lebanon War.

Twersky returned to the U.S. in 1986 and became a full-time journalist. When the Yiddish ''Forverts'' started an English-language edition in 1990, he became deputy editor and Washington bureau chief. During his seven years at ''The Forward'', Twersky was responsible for breaking many news stories. One of his best-known stories involved President Bill Clinton's associate Johnnetta B. Cole, who had been suggested as a possible nominee for Secretary of Education, and the fact that she had served on the national committee of the Venceremos Brigade. Another of Twersky's stories brought to light some views of Lani Guinier, a law professor whom Clinton had nominated to be Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights; those opinions were considered controversial and her nomination was withdrawn.

After leaving ''The Forward'', Twersky became editor of the ''New Jersey Jewish News''. Later he joined ''The New York Sun'' as foreign editor and columnist. Twersky also worked as director of international affairs for the American Jewish Congress.

References

Further reading

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*Kaufman, Alan ( July 20,2010) "A Man In The Heart Of History" Haaretz https://www.haaretz.com/2010-07-30/ty-article/a-man-in-the-heart-of-history/0000017f-db16-df9c-a17f-ff1ee85f0000
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External links

David Twersky archive
at ''The Jewish Daily Forward''
David Twersky archive
at ''The New York Sun''

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1950 births
2010 deaths
American male journalists
American emigrants to Israel
Deaths from cancer in New Jersey
City College of New York alumni
People from West Orange, New Jersey
Ramaz School alumni