Articles written collectively by the Forward’s staff.
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By Forward Staff
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Forward 50 2017 Eric Greitens
Breaking The Mold Of Jewish Politicians With A Superhero Warrior Résumé The most noticeable Jewish Republican to emerge in 2016, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, is already being mentioned on lists of future national leaders. Combining rugged good looks and a solid conservative agenda, Greitens — who started out as a Democrat — won his race…
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Forward 50 2017 Sandra Fox
The Feminist Yiddish Podcast Host Sandy Fox wanted to listen to a Yiddish-language podcast for people like herself. A young, feminist Yiddish speaker with friends and colleagues spread widely across religious and political divides, this New York University graduate student followed the do-it-yourself ethos of her generation and created “Vaybertaytsh,” the world’s first feminist Yiddish…
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Forward 50 2017 David Benioff
Lord Commander Of ‘Game Of Thrones’ Behind the gory, lustful scenes of “Game of Thrones” stand two rather unassuming Jewish boys. David Benioff, born David Friedman in New York City, is one of the two showrunners behind HBO’s megahit, alongside D.B. Weiss. The duo met while studying Irish literature at Trinity College Dublin in 1995….
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Forward 50 2017 Joseph Dweck
A Sephardic Rabbi Causes Controversy By Condemning Homophobia The young American senior rabbi of the synagogue of London’s historic S&P Sephardi Community, Joseph Dweck is a bit of a local celebrity — known for his eloquent speeches and polished charisma. But his celebrity status skyrocketed, perhaps unintentionally, when he gave a talk on homosexuality in…
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Forward 50 2017 Ivanka Trump
Is The First Daughter A Fighter Or A Fig Leaf? Ivanka Trump, 36, has unprecedented duties for a first daughter. She keeps a West Wing office and serves as a special assistant to her father. She has promised to champion such women’s issues as family leave and child care. She even has taken foreign trips…
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Forward 50 2017 Stephen Miller
Trump’s Last Nationalist Standing Stephen Miller, 32, belongs to a small and select group of President Trump’s Jewish confidants — Steve Mnuchin, Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt and Gary Cohn, among others. But unlike those supposedly moderating influences, Miller embraces the new administration’s nationalist-populist agenda and has no qualms advocating for it. Miller, a domestic policy…
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Forward 50 2017 Shai Held
Teaching The Heart Of Torah In A Heartless Time Imagine a Jewish institution with four presidents. Now imagine that they all complement each other and seem to get along brilliantly. That’s Mechon Hadar, a traditional, egalitarian yeshiva in Manhattan founded a decade ago by friends from Harvard University searching to create a new place to…
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Forward 50 2017 Jason Greenblatt
Trump’s (Un-)Orthodox Negotiator Is Surprising The Middle East With Some Quiet Successes The arrival of Jason Greenblatt to the international stage was inauspicious, to say the least. Moments into one of his first interviews with Jewish reporters, in April 2016, Donald Trump asked his then-campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, to fetch two Jewish members of his…
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