Awards

Since 2022, Tabby Refael has been the recipient of many awards (including nine first-place awards) for her writing in The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles:

*First Place, Award for Excellence in Writing About Women, 43rd Annual Rockower Awards, American Jewish Press Association (2024) for In Honor of Purim, Meet Four Extraordinary Persian Jewish Women

*Second Place, Award for Excellence in Writing About Young Families/People, 43rd Annual Rockower Awards, American Jewish Press Association (2024) for An L.A. Couple is Married. The Wedding Guests? Two Hundred Children.

*Honorable Mention, Award for Excellence in Arts – Review/Criticism 43rd Annual Rockower Awards, American Jewish Press Association (2024) for For a Deaf Woman From Iran, Freedom Never Sounded So Good

*Honorable Mention, Award for Excellence in Writing About Jewish Thought and Life, 3rd Annual Rockower Awards, American Jewish Press Association (2024) for I’m an Observant Jew, and I Need Christmas Music More Than Ever Before

*Finalist, Humor/Satire Writing, 66th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards, Los Angeles Press Club (2023) for If Only the Ancient Jews Knew about Jamie Foxx

*First Place, Writing about Jewish Thought and Life, 42nd Annual Rockower Awards, American Jewish Press Association (2023) for The Anxious and the Pious

*First Place, Writing about Young Families/People, 42nd Annual Rockower Awards, American Jewish Press Association (2023) for Survivors of Mass Shootings: Three Stories, as Shared by Their Mothers

*First Place, Writing about Seniors, 42nd Annual Rockower Awards, American Jewish Press Association (2023) for At 83, Hebrew Lessons and a Wondrous Bat Mitzvah

*First Place, Single Commentary, 42nd Annual Rockower Awards, American Jewish Press Association (2023) for Want to Be Pro-Israel? Support Iranians

*Second Place, Columnist, 65th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards, Los Angeles Press Club (2023) for Want to Be Pro-Israel? Support Iranians

*Finalist, Humor and Satire Writing, 65th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards, Los Angeles Press Club (2023) If The Pilgrims Had Been Jewish

*First Place, Commentary, 64th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards, Los Angeles Press Club (2022) for “Want to Know What Will Become of Afghanistan? Ask Iranian Women”

*Second Place, Humor/Satire Writing, 64th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards, Los Angeles Press Club (2022) for “Beverly Hills, What a Thrill”

*First Place, Award for Excellence in Writing About Antisemitism, 41st Annual Rockower Awards, American Jewish Press Association (2022) for “The Time Iran Sheltered Jews During the Holocaust”

*First Place, Award for Excellence in Single Commentary, 41st Annual Rockower Awards, American Jewish Press Association (2022) for “Thank You, Progressive Jews, for Defending Israel in Difficult Spaces”

*First Place, Award for Excellence in Writing About Seniors, 41st Annual Rockower Awards, American Jewish Press Association (2022) for “There’s Something About Mary”

*Second Place, Award for Excellence in Arts --Review/Criticism, 41st Annual Rockower Awards, American Jewish Press Association (2022) for “Children’s Book Combines the Wisdom of the Talmud with the Ancient Poetry of Rumi”

Finalist, Personality Profiles, 64th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards, LA Press Club (2022) for “Judea Pearl: Reflections on Loss, Artificial Intelligence, and “Zionophobia”

Finalist (Columnist), 62nd Southern California Journalism Awards, Los Angeles Press Club

Honorable Mention (Award for Excellence in Writing About Seniors), American Jewish Press Association for “A Small Business Rises Out of the Ashes”