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Wayne Hoffman, Acting Editor, has done cultural reporting for The Washington Post, The Nation, The Village Voice, Billboard, Out, Nature Conservancy Magazine and dozens of other publications. An avid globetrotter, he has written about travel for Fodor's Travel Guides, Hadassah magazine, America Online and others, and authored the 2003 book "How to Take a Road Trip." His personal essays have appeared in a number of literary anthologies, and he published his debut novel, "Hard," in 2006. He earned a B.A. in social politics at Tufts University, and has a master's in American studies from New York University. He joined the FORWARD in 2003.

Alana Newhouse is the Arts & Culture editor at the FORWARD. She has been on staff since 2002. Before entering the field of journalism, Alana worked for legendary political consultant David Garth, who remains a mentor and friend. A graduate of Barnard College and the Columbia School of Journalism, her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe Ideas section, The Washington Post and Slate.

Oren Rawls is the opinion editor of the FORWARD. On staff since 2001, he served as the Vienna-based European bureau chief from 2005 to 2006. He has published opinion articles in the Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, The Baltimore Sun, Al Hayat and Asia Times. He holds an M.A. in international affairs from New School University, and is a founding member of the Newspaper Guild of New York's English FORWARD unit.

Nathaniel Popper, news editor, has been at the FORWARD since 2003. Before coming to the FORWARD, he was in Berlin on a DAAD fellowship, studying literature and writing for American newspapers. Nathaniel is a graduate of Harvard College, where he wrote for Let's Go travel guides and the Harvard International Review. In the fall of 2006 he traveled to Eastern Europe on a World Affairs Journalism Fellowship. He has received multiple awards from the Independent Press Association of New York and the American Jewish Press Association. He has also been a finalist for the Livingston Awards and the Gerald Loeb business journalism awards.

Sarah Kricheff is the features editor of the FORWARD. She joined the staff in 2003. Her work has appeared in the New York Daily News, RE:D magazine, Metropolis magazine dining guides and on www.Lime.com. She attended Purchase College, where she studied literature and opera, and she sings in the bossa nova band Blame It On Rio and in the pop group The Jack Lords.

Gabriel Sanders, associate editor, joined the FORWARD staff in October 2004, after working for six years in the research department at Vanity Fair magazine. He serves as the moderator of the Looking Back, Facing Forward book series, a joint project of the FORWARD and New York's Museum of Jewish Heritage. His articles have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, The Jerusalem Report, Time Out New York and other publications. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and holds a master's degree in history from the University of Chicago.

Marc Perelman, staff writer, is the diplomatic correspondent for the FORWARD. Prior to that, he was a reporter for Jeune Afrique and Bloomberg News. His writing has appeared in the International Herald Tribune, Fortune magazine, National Journal and ForeignPolicy.com. He holds master's degrees in international affairs from Columbia University, in political science from the Institute of Political Sciences and in international law from the Sorbonne University. He joined the FORWARD in 2001.

Nathan Guttman, staff writer, is the FORWARD's Washington bureau chief. He joined the staff in 2006 after serving for five years as Washington correspondent for the Israeli dailies Ha'aretz and The Jerusalem Post. In Israel, he was the features editor for Ha'aretz and chief editor of Channel 1 TV evening news. He was born in Canada and grew up in Israel. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Jennifer Siegel, Jennifer Siegel, staff writer, is the chief political correspondent of the FORWARD. She joined the staff in 2005, after working for several years as a political organizer and lobbyist. She holds a B.A. in government from Harvard University.

Rebecca Spence staff writer, first worked as a reporter for the FORWARD in 1998 to 1999 and rejoined the staff in 2006. Her work has appeared in New York magazine, Elle, ARTnews and Art & Auction, among other publications. In addition to her journalistic work, she produced "Alice Neel," the award-winning documentary film on the life and art of painter Alice Neel. A graduate of Barnard College, she focused her studies on the Arab-Israel conflict and has traveled extensively in the Middle East.

Anthony Weiss, staff writer, covers religion and Jewish organizations for the FORWARD. His writing as also appeared in a number of other publications, including New York magazine and The Next American City. He holds a BA in history from Yale University.

Teri Zucker is the copy editor of the FORWARD. She joined the staff in 2004, having served in similar capacities, and written short columns and features, for Soap Opera Digest and for the newsletter division of American Lawyer Media. Her creative nonfiction works have been published on such Web sites as The Poet's Haven, Absolute Write and Outcry Magazine. A graduate of CUNY's Brooklyn College, she contributed to the school's literary magazine, Riverrun.

Kurt Hoffman joined the FORWARD as art director in 1997. Previously, he did graphic production work at Rolling Stone and Us magazine, and freelanced for a desktop publishing company, Function Thru Form, where he specialized in electronic illustration. He has a BFA in Fine Arts from Cooper Union. He is also a musician: He composes, and plays tenor sax, clarinet and banjo ukulele. His current project is Les Chauds Lapins, in which he and partner Meg Reichardt sing and play French songs from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s; they released their first album, "Parlez-moi d'amour," in 2007. He has been the recipient of NYFA and Meet the Composer grants for musical composition. He has composed various film and television scores, including "The Opportunists," starring Christopher Walken. As a sideman, he has toured extensively with They Might Be Giants, and recorded with artists such as the Jon Spenser Blues Explosion and Frank Black.

Richard Harrington, deputy art director, joined the FORWARD in 1997. Before working at the FORWARD, he worked in graphic production work for various banks and consulting companies, and at the desktop publishing company Function Thru Form. He is an actor and playwright, and has toured on the Canadian theater fringe-festival circuit and around the world with one- and two-man comedies, most recently the award-winning show “Nharcolepsy,” with Chris Kauffman, a comedy about a cabaret singer and his mime sidekick searching for the Yeti. He was also a founding writer/performer of a radio play collective, the Brick Radio Crash Box, at the Brick Theater in Brooklyn.

Daniel Treiman is the Web editor of the FORWARD. He worked at the newspaper as an editor and reporter from 2002 to 2004 and rejoined the staff in 2007. He was the founder and editor of The Brooklynite magazine and previously served as editor of New Voices, the national Jewish student magazine. His writing has also been published by Beliefnet, Ha’aretz, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and City Limits Weekly. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.

Aram David has been the Webmaster for the FORWARD since the fall of 2005. He worked as a Web developer at JPMorgan Chase from 2003 to 2005 and owns his own Web development company. He is a graduate of Fordham University.