Zach Barack: Hollywood’s new hero
Overcoming anxiety about revealing his identity, he became the first trans actor in a Marvel movie.
MaNishtana: Orthodox Polymath
MaNishtana doesn’t shy away from the humor and the pain of the Black Jewish experience.
Eli Cohen: The Rabbi Trying To Heal Crown Heights
Eli Cohen is trying to defuse the tensions between blacks and Orthodox Jews in a notoriously contentious Brooklyn community.
Carly Pildis: Zionist Feminist Activist
Carly Pildis is a writer and advocate and the director of grassroots organizing for Zioness.
Chaya Porus Palevsky: Lithuanian Partisan Hero
A wartime hero and the founder of Nusekh Vilne, she is honored at the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s “Auschwitz” exhibit.
Forward 50 | Adam Berman: The urban farmer
The man behind Urban Adamah, America’s first urban Jewish community farm, stands up for food justice and sustainable agriculture.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman: Refugee, War Hero, Patriot
Lt. Col Alexander Vindman bravely told the truth, and reassured his refugee father he would be safe doing so.
Jamie Margolin: The Teenager Who Would Be President
Jamie Margolin’s activist group, Zero Hour, is helping bring American teenagers together under the banner of stopping climate change.
Joseph Cedar: The Director Of Complexity
Co-creator of the HBO series “Our Boys,” a devastatingly nuanced probe of the brutal murder of a Palestinian teenager by troubled Orthodox Jews.
Abby Stein: The Barrier Breaker
Coming from a long line of Hasidic rabbis, Abby Stein went off the derech to take a path of her own.
