Jewish Rhode Island wins 2 press awards

Jewish Rhode Island took home two awards in the annual competition sponsored by the Rhode Island Press Association. The winners were announced Sept. 17 at the RIPA banquet, held at the O Club in North Kingstown.

Freelance photographer Glenn Osmundson won second place in the Feature Photography category for his photo “Water Everywhere!,” published in a collection of camp photos in August 2020.

Editor Fran Ostendorf won third place in the News/Feature Columnists category for her columns  in the paper, specifically: “Just another day in quarantine” (May 2020); “A call to action: Make your voice heard” (October 2020); and “End a dark year with the Festival of Lights” (December 2020).

Robert Isenberg, multimedia producer for the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island, won several writing awards for work done while working for Providence Media.

The competition is open to all newspapers and magazines in Rhode Island and is judged by a press association from a different region of the United States. Entries are based on the calendar year.

For a list of all 2020 winners, go to https://bit.ly/3osTFjD.