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By Forward Staff
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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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Forward 50 2017 Winnie Sandler Grinspoon
Giving The People Of The Book Children’s Books By The Thousands It’s not every 80-something philanthropist who puts his daughter-in-law in charge of the multimillion dollar foundation that bears his name. But then, Harold Grinspoon is not your average philanthropist. And Winnie Sandler Grinspoon is not your average daughter-in-law. The elder Grinspoon — 88 years…
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Forward 50 2017 Marvin Hier
The President’s Rabbi The rise of Donald Trump has been very good to Marvin Hier, founder and leader of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center. Hier has been an oft-noisy voice on the national Jewish scene since the 1970s. But the months since Trump’s inauguration have seen him ascend from the rank and file of…
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Forward 50 2017 Michael Rosbash
It’s Time To Honor The Scientist Who Explained Our Body’s Clock Michael Rosbash’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine — for discovering the genetic mechanisms of the circadian rhythm, the body’s biological clock — was the crowning achievement of a lifetime of research and mentoring. Rosbash arrived at Brandeis University in 1974; he has never…
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