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Sponsored Beating The Odds
Helene Karlin knew something wasn’t right. It was the early ‘90s, and at 7 weeks old, her third daughter, Lindsay, wasn’t developing the same as her older two daughters. Getting a diagnosis was frustrating; one doctor determined she was blind, another said she was deaf. It wasn’t until Lindsay was 6 months old when the…
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Culture January 13-14: Miami, FL: Jodi at the Miami Jewish Film Festival
Don’t miss this year’s Miami Jewish Film Festival, running from January 9-23 in the Sunshine State. Forward editor-in-chief Jodi Rudoren will get in on the action, interviewing Dani Merkin, the director of the documentary, “Aulcie” which continues the story of his award-winning film, “On the Map,” on Monday, January 13. Before the world-premier event, at…
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Culture Taffy Brodesser-Akner: The Internet Breaker
For Brodesser-Akner, 44, a child of divorce who grew up in Orthodox Brooklyn, the very act of reading popular novels was subversive. Now Brodesser-Akner, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, has penned a gloriously racy literary one filled with New York Jewish characters surely based on those in her actual life. Yet…
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Culture Forward 50 | Adam Schiff: Impeacher-in-Chief (No. 1)
Until the Trump era, Rep. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, was a respected specialist in intelligence and foreign affairs, and frequent journalistic source, but not a household name nationally. When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi handed Schiff, 59, the baton to conduct the impeachment inquiry as chairman of the Intelligence Committee, that all changed. Schiff was…
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Culture Zach Barack: Hollywood’s new hero
Just a few years ago, Zach Barack didn’t think he would ever tell anyone he was transgender. Now he’s living his truth in the most high-profile way possible after appearing in this year’s billion dollar-grossing blockbuster “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” where he became the first out trans actor to have a speaking role in a…
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Culture MaNishtana: Orthodox Polymath
MaNishtana (aka Rabbi Shais Rishon), 37, is a playwright, a rabbi, a commentator and — with his roman a clef “Ariel Samson: Freelance Rabbi” (2018) — a novelist, He is also a deft and acerbic observer of the intersections of race and faith, shining a spotlight on prejudice and ignorance faced by Jews of color….
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Culture Forward 50 | Eli Cohen: The rabbi trying to heal Crown Heights
Crown Heights, with its fraught history of black-Jewish tensions that erupted in riots 30 years ago, has this year seen a spike in violent attacks against the visibly Orthodox. Starting this summer, Rabbi Eli Cohen, executive director of the neighborhood’s Jewish community council, teamed up with a prominent black activist, Geoffrey Davis, to meet with…
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Culture Carly Pildis: Zionist Feminist Activist
Carly Pildis, 34, has for several years been a forceful writer on Twitter and in the Jewish media (including Opinion articles in the Forward), addressing anti-Semitism on the left and right, and fighting for progressive Jews who don’t want to hide their support for Israel’s existence. In 2019, as controversies about anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism raged,…
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