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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Liz Alpern
Creating the Gefilte Manifesto Gefilte fish is undergoing an unlikely artisanal revival, mainly thanks to Liz Alpern’s Gefilteria culinary venture and her new book, “The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods.” Like Bogie and Bacall or Will and Grace, Alpern, 32, and Jeffrey Yoskowitz, her partner-in-gefilte, are usually mentioned in the same…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Bernie Sanders
Leader of the Bernie Bros Influenced The Election During the first half of 2016, America was Feeling the Bern. Bernie Sanders, 75, rose to become a surprisingly formidable opponent to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries, speaking truth to power in his Brooklyn Jewish accent all across America. Again and again, primaries and polls came…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Sarah Hofstetter
The Orthodox Marketing CEO With a Heart of Gold Sarah Hofstetter, 42, is CEO of 360i, an ad agency whose clients include Coca-Cola, Nestlé and Capital One. She’s also an Orthodox, Sabbath-observant mother of two — a feat in an industry known for providing clients with 24/7 attention. In addition to juggling work, kids and…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Gloria Allred
In October, as women stepped forward to accuse then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump of sexual assault, odds were that they’d announce their accusations with one woman by their side: Gloria Allred. Allred, 75, a powerhouse attorney who specializes in cases of women’s rights, famously represented Norma McCorvey, to get McCorvey publicly known as the real…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Eric Schneiderman
The New York AG Was a Vocal Trump Attacker New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, 61, learned earlier than most what Donald Trump and his allies were capable of. In August 2013, Schneiderman’s office sued Trump University, the GOP candidate’s now-defunct real estate seminar, for $40 million, claiming it had defrauded its students. The…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Gali Cooks
Building a New Generation of Leaders America’s large Jewish organizations are facing a challenge. In the next decade, most of their senior leaders will retire, and no one is sure where the next generation will come from. That’s where Gali Cooks, the head of Leading Edge, has stepped into the breach. Leading Edge’s mission is…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Alexandra Brodsky
Title IX Warrior Alexandra Brodsky began 2016 as a law student. She will end it with a degree from Yale, as a leading feminist activist, and one of the most respected voices on the hot-button issue of “rape culture.” She’s a senior editor at Feministing.com and a co-founder of Know Your IX, a not-for-profit that…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Charles Schumer
The Most Important Democrat on Capitol Hill The electoral earthquake that derailed the political establishment on Election Day did not deliver to Sen. Chuck Schumer what he so desperately wanted — a Democratically controlled U.S. Senate. But Donald Trump’s triumph does leave Schumer in line to be the most important Democrat on Capitol Hill, perhaps…
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