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Forward 50 2017 Shai Held
Teaching The Heart Of Torah In A Heartless Time Imagine a Jewish institution with four presidents. Now imagine that they all complement each other and seem to get along brilliantly. That’s Mechon Hadar, a traditional, egalitarian yeshiva in Manhattan founded a decade ago by friends from Harvard University searching to create a new place to…
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Forward 50 2017 Jason Greenblatt
Trump’s (Un-)Orthodox Negotiator Is Surprising The Middle East With Some Quiet Successes The arrival of Jason Greenblatt to the international stage was inauspicious, to say the least. Moments into one of his first interviews with Jewish reporters, in April 2016, Donald Trump asked his then-campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, to fetch two Jewish members of his…
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Forward 50 2017 Winnie Sandler Grinspoon
Giving The People Of The Book Children’s Books By The Thousands It’s not every 80-something philanthropist who puts his daughter-in-law in charge of the multimillion dollar foundation that bears his name. But then, Harold Grinspoon is not your average philanthropist. And Winnie Sandler Grinspoon is not your average daughter-in-law. The elder Grinspoon — 88 years…
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Forward 50 2017 Marvin Hier
The President’s Rabbi The rise of Donald Trump has been very good to Marvin Hier, founder and leader of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center. Hier has been an oft-noisy voice on the national Jewish scene since the 1970s. But the months since Trump’s inauguration have seen him ascend from the rank and file of…
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Forward 50 2017 Michael Rosbash
It’s Time To Honor The Scientist Who Explained Our Body’s Clock Michael Rosbash’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine — for discovering the genetic mechanisms of the circadian rhythm, the body’s biological clock — was the crowning achievement of a lifetime of research and mentoring. Rosbash arrived at Brandeis University in 1974; he has never…
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Forward 50 2017 Joan Nathan
The Queen of Jewish Cooking With the 2017 publication of “King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking From Around the World” (Alfred P. Knopf), Joan Nathan has used her status as the queen of Jewish cooking to reveal an unexpectedly wide and varied world of Jewish food. Having covered the Jewish Ashkenazi culinary…
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Forward 50 2017 Jake Tapper
Jake Tapper: Asking Tough Questions About The State Of The Union An election season like no other, and the unprecedented presidency that has followed, emphasized the important role of reporters as independent arbiters and speakers of truth to power. For Jake Tapper, CNN’s energetic news anchor, it was a logical transition. Calling out the president…
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Forward 50 2017 Alissa Thomas-Newborn
The Barrier-Breaking Female Orthodox Rabbi Alissa Thomas-Newborn grew up watching a woman lead services in synagogue: Her own mother, Didi Thomas, is the spiritual leader at Temple Emet, a Reform congregation in Torrance, California. Over the years, Thomas-Newborn became Orthodox — but found herself searching for a way to serve as a female religious leader…
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