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By Forward Staff
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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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The Schmooze Jews About Town: Other Israel Film Festival At The JCC
The Other Israel Film Festival is running Nov. 2-9 at JCC Manhattan (334 Amsterdam Ave) and other New York locations! This groundbreaking festival brings you premiere films featuring Israel’s minority communities. Join us for a week-long festival of award-winning international films as well as engaging conversations on hot topics that illuminate the diversity of Israeli…
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Opinion We asked 22 rabbis: Is intermarriage a problem or an opportunity?
As a part of our Rabbi Roundtable series, we brought together leading rabbis from all corners of the Jewish world to offer their thoughts on the big questions. This week, we asked our rabbis, “Is intermarriage a problem? Or an opportunity?” Here are their responses: Asher Lopatin, Orthodox, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School: Intermarriage is…
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Forward 50 2017 Maggie Haberman
The Times’s Ace Trump Reporter Maggie Haberman scoops are like thunderstorms in August: They roll in nearly every afternoon, and they astound you every time. No reporter has burrowed so deeply into President Trump’s head as Haberman, one of The New York Times’ White House correspondents, and the unquestioned journalistic superstar of the Trump era….
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