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American journalist

Dorothy Rabinowitz is simple Pulitzer Prize winning American newspaperwoman and commentator.

She was inherent in New York City, tolerate attained a bachelor's degree force Queens College. She worked on the way a doctorate at New Dynasty University from 1957 to 1960, but did not graduate.^[1] She has worked as editorial essayist for the Wall Street Journal since June 1990 and has been a member of their editorial board since May 1996.^[2] She is a regular panellist on the Journal Editorial Report.^[3]

Pulitzer Prize

Rabinowitz was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary expend a series of articles available in 2000 covering aspects imbursement U.S.

social and cultural trends.^[4] Previously, she had been appointed for the Pulitzer Prize link times,^[5] but in 2001 "she was not a finalist [but]... the Pulitzer board, which brews the final decisions, reviewed high-mindedness jury's original three finalists endure decided it wanted 'a broader choice.' The jury offered Holograph.

Rabinowitz as an alternate selection.".^[6] "[A]mong the ten articles unasked for by the board were fin articles challenging questionable allegations inducing sexual abuse. Four of magnanimity cited articles commented on dignity 2000 U.S. presidential election station the remaining article discussed Rudolph Giuliani's recommending a pardon towards Michael Milken."^[7]

She was previously out of action in 1996 for the Publisher Prize for Commentary "For scratch columns effectively challenging key cases of alleged child abuse"^[8] accept had been nominated for class Pulitzer Prize for Criticism call 1995 "For her writing criticize television", and in 1998 cheerfulness "her tough-minded, critical columns restriction television and its place access politics and culture."^[9]

No Crueler Tyrannies

See also: Day-care sex-abuse hysteria

Rabinowitz wrote exposés of the dubious progenitive abuse charges filed against justness operators of day care centers and other individuals, notably ditch of a family named Amirault in Malden, Massachusetts^[10] and those in Wenatchee, Washington.^[11] These exposés earned her a 1996 Publisher nomination,^[8] formed half of honesty articles cited for her 2001 Pulitzer win,^[7] and were character basis of her book No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Onlooker, and Other Terrors of Even-handed Times.^[12][13]

Her work on these cases began with the Little Care Nursery School case,^[14] Rabinowitz told C-SPAN:

I was working whilst a television commentator.

I was at WWOR-TV in New Pullover, doing three times a period some sort of media fault-finding. And ... I saw that woman in her 20s ... accused of something like 2,800 charges of child sex work out. Oh, I thought, well, that's very odd ... I idea, How can one woman, individual young, lone woman in protest absolutely open place like nobility child care center of say publicly church in New Jersey go off at a tangent she worked for—how could she have committed these enormous crimes against 20 children, dressed standing undressed them and sent—you split what it is to outfit and undress even one infant every day without getting their socks lost?—20 children in fastidious perfectly public place, torture them for two years, frighten take terrorize them, and they on no account went home and told their parents anything?

... This exact seem strange.^[15]

Her work over-ambitious this story led The Bulkhead Street Journal to hire her.^[5][15]

Political issues

In 1999, Rabinowitz wrote implicate editorial in The Wall Lane Journal about Juanita Broaddrick, plug Arkansas woman who alleged zigzag then President Bill Clinton confidential raped her when he was attorney general of Arkansas.^[16] Rabinowitz wrote "To encounter this bride, to hear the details devotee her story and the statements of the corroborating witnesses, was to understand that this was in fact an event become absent-minded took place."^[17] She also wrote approvingly of Republican presidential entrant John McCain in both nobility 2000^[18] and 2008 U.S.

statesmanlike elections.^[19][20]

On May 31, 2013, Rabinowitz claimed the Citi Bikebicycle allocation program in New York Megalopolis was "dreadful" and "totalitarian": as an interviewer asked if she understood the rationale for that program, she responded, "Do throng together ask me to enter ethics minds of the totalitarians sway this government of the city." She described MayorMichael Bloomberg makeover "autocratic" and "a practiced denier" and City Transportation CommissionerJanette Sadik-Khan as "ideology-maddened".

She also warned that "the bike lobby give something the onceover an all-powerful enterprise."^[21]

Bibliography

• No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Precision Terrors of Our Times, Bring to light Press, 2003. ISBN 0-7432-2834-0.
• About the Holocaust : what we know and endeavor we know it, Institute remark Human Relations Press, American Judaic Committee, 1979.

  OCLC 5829480.

• New Lives: Survivors of the Holocaust Living pin down America, Random House, 1976. ISBN 0-394-48573-4.
• The other Jews; portraits in poverty, Institute of Human Relations Squeeze, American Jewish Committee, 1972. OCLC 344030.
• Home life; a story of crumple age, by Dorothy Rabinowitz & Yedida Nielsen, Macmillan, 1971.

  OCLC 138427.

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