Beth Pinsker
By Beth Pinsker
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Opinion Jews Should Emulate Scientology To Recruit Celebs
This article originally appeared in the Forward on March 5, 1999. If Gwyneth Paltrow wanted to belong, who would kick her out of any club? Given her long rabbinical lineage, you’d think the Jews would be happy to have the Oscar-nominated blond bombshell as a member of the tribe. Ah, but the rabbis come from…
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Life Rockefeller Foundation’s Judith Rodin Aims To Take 100,000 Kids to ‘Hamilton’
How important is Judith Rodin? Ask one of the 20,000 New York public school students who got to see the Broadway hit “Hamilton” because of her and they might say she is life-changing. As president of the Rockefeller Foundation since 2005, Rodin has helped bring philanthropy into the 21st Century, not just with theater tickets,…
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