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Culture Yisroel Goldstein: The Rabbi Of Poway
On April 27, 2019, a white nationalist entered the Chabad of Poway synagogue with guns blazing, killing congregant Lori Gilbert-Kaye and wounding three others, including Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who lost a finger. Despite being shot, Goldstein, 57, continued with his sermon, telling the community “Am Yisrael Chai.” Goldstein’s messages of Jewish pride and calls for…
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Culture Benjamin Dreyer: Copyediting King
Benjamin Dreyer, 61, copy chief at Random House, managed to make his style guide, “Dreyer’s English,” a stunning critical and commercial success. In a genre historically associated with extreme stuffiness, Dreyer’s prose sparkles. He greets readers with a winning mix of smarts and snark — “I don’t want to write about the 19th-Century textual critic…
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Culture Emily Mayer: The Activism Activator
IfNotNow has grown in prominence every year since its 2014 founding. But this past year proved to be its most high-profile one yet. Its campaign against Birthright Israel – planting activists to record themselves walking off the free trips – earned the group a New York Times profile. Local chapters, called “hives,” also came into…
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Culture Nicholas Meyer: The Sleuth of Anti-Semitism
An early-20th Century detective story doesn’t feel like the timeliest of tales in 2019. But this year, when the Los Angeles-based writer Nicholas Meyer, 73, published “The Adventures of the Peculiar Protocols,” setting Sherlock Holmes on the trail of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” the timing was disturbingly apt. In a world where…
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Culture Julian Edelman: The Patriot
When you think about prominent Jews in the National Football League, various owners often come to mind. But there is also a 33-year-old, undersized, overachieving, insanely tough wide receiver named Julian Edelman. He’s Jewish, too. Edelman, possessor of three Super Bowl rings, is one of the best Jewish players to ever play the game, and…
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Culture Howard Zucker: The Anti- Anti-Vaxxer
As measles outbreaks mainly in New York’s Haredi communities raged, Dr. Howard Zucker, the state’s health commissioner, met with Orthodox rabbis, visited religious summer camps and lobbied the legislature to eliminate the religious exemption for vaccination. Zucker, 60, who completed medical school at 22 and is also a lawyer qualified to argue before the Supreme…
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Culture Forward 50 | Alma Hernandez: Intersectional politician
Before her election in November to the Arizona State Assembly at 25, Alma Hernandez had spent her years as an activist working on issues with direct connections to her background: immigration, health care and criminal justice. Hernandez’ mother was born in Nogales, Mexico, a border city through which countless immigrants have passed on their journey…
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Culture Jeremy Borovitz: The Accidental Eyewitness
A New Jersey-bred rabbi’s son and Peace Corps member, Borovitz, 32, has long been drawn to Jewish Europe — it was the subject of his first conversation with Rebecca Blady, who became his wife, a rabbi as well, and his comrade in creating an irreverent, innovative outreach program called Base Berlin. Organizing largely through social…
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