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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Julia Ioffe
Target of Anti-Semitism and a Fiery Responder The rise of the anti-Semitic “alt right” this year sent chills through the Jewish world and beyond. And no one was more affected or more spirited in her response than Julia Ioffe. Instead of huddling in fear, Ioffe pushed back against the trolls. The virulent Jew hatred was…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
Edited the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary for the 21st Century Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, 58, was born into a legendary Yiddishist family. And with the completion of the “Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary” — co-edited with Paul Glasser — she has become a part of the legend herself. The fruit of their labor, a monumental work featuring more than 83,000…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Theo Epstein
The Cubs’ Dealmaker and Cursebreaker Having overturned the 86-year-old curse of the Bambino for the Boston Red Sox in 2004, Theo Epstein brought similar good fortune to the Chicago Cubs. This year, the Cubbies won the World Series and toppled the 108-year-long curse of the billy goat. Anyone who knew Epstein’s family might have predicted…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Paula Vogel
Bringing Sholem Asch to Broadway 90 Years On In May, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel spoke with the Forward about her new play, “Indecent,” which had just opened at Manhattan’s Vineyard Theater. “I’m interested in trying to rediscover the innocence we had as a people before the entire paradigm changed,” she said. With “Indecent,”…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Haim Saban
Hillary’s Funder-in-Chief Seven-figure contributions will buy any political donor an open door and willing heart among presidential candidates, but in the case of Haim Saban and the Clintons, it’s about more than money. The Israeli-American media mogul has been a top donor and close friend to the Clintons for two decades. After contributing tens of…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Michael Dubin
Are His Razor’s Good? They’re $1 Billion Great It started in 2012 with a YouTube video (shot in a day for less than $4,500) that made a bold claim: “Dollar Shave Club’s blades are “f**ing great.” And it ended in July 2016, when Unilever acquired that company for a cool $1 billion. In the whirlwind…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Liz Alpern
Creating the Gefilte Manifesto Gefilte fish is undergoing an unlikely artisanal revival, mainly thanks to Liz Alpern’s Gefilteria culinary venture and her new book, “The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods.” Like Bogie and Bacall or Will and Grace, Alpern, 32, and Jeffrey Yoskowitz, her partner-in-gefilte, are usually mentioned in the same…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Bernie Sanders
Leader of the Bernie Bros Influenced The Election During the first half of 2016, America was Feeling the Bern. Bernie Sanders, 75, rose to become a surprisingly formidable opponent to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries, speaking truth to power in his Brooklyn Jewish accent all across America. Again and again, primaries and polls came…
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