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The 2025 edition of B'nai B'rith Magazine -- my last as the editor after 16 years -- won five Rockower awards from the American Jewish Press Association. Our cover story ("Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round: Desegregating Glen Echo Amusement Park") took first place in "Excellence in North American Jewish History." The article, pegged to a film documentary released in 2024, shows how Black Howard University students and Jewish residents of the nearby Bannockburn subdivision united to protest the park in Bethesda, Maryland.
During my time as the magazine's editor, we snagged 23 awards, but five at one time was a record. My first issue as the editor was in 2009 and, over the years we produced an eclectic magazine that covered all Jewish bases without being polemical or pedantic. Past issues can be viewed by clicking here.
Our 2024 issue was also an award winner, snaring three prizes. To read the issue,, click here. The 2023 B'nai B'rith Magazine cover story "When Anti-Semitism Hits Home: How Hate Hurts Kids" won the top prize from the American Jewish Press Association for "Excellence in Writing About Young Families." To read the article by Beryl Lieff Benderly, click here. B’nai B’rith Magazine previously won the “best magazine” award from the American Jewish Press Association. The 2022 cover story (“Stolen Silver: Nazi Plunder and the Unfinished Quest for Restitution”) also won first place for enterprising and investigative journalism.
I was humbled, honored and proud to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award in May 2019 from the Washington Independent Review of Books for his many years of service to the organization and for his years of journalism. On June 29, he received yet another journalism award — his fourth in 2019 alone and his 15th since leaving the Washington Post in 2004. It was for an article in Bethesda Magazine full of insider details about Marriott’s decision to build its new corporate headquarters in Maryland and in Bethesda. The award was his fourth from the National Association of Real Estate Editors since 2013. In 2016, NAREE gave him awards for the Best Freelance Collection, and also for the best commercial real estate stories.
FIVE FOR FREEDOM: The African American Soldiers in John Brown’s Army won the 2019 award for Outstanding Biography/History from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. “Meyer’s impressive research turned up never-before-revealed stories about five African American men whom history has ignored — until now,” the judges said.
Meyer also won the award for the Outstanding Blog Post: “Pittsburgh: Never Again? Just Words,” which appeared on this website in November 2018. The judges said “Meyer thoughtfully compared past pogroms to the Tree of Life synagogue shooting…”
In 2016, Meyer won the best profile award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and Best Collection of Work by an Individual—Commercial Real Estate, for New York Times articles, from the National Association of Real Estate Editors.
