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Jacky Rosen
From Shul President To Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen has climbed the leadership ladder quickly. In 2016 she was her Las Vegas-area synagogue’s president, then in 2017 she was elected to Congress, before winning an even bigger national office — being elected senator for Nevada in 2018. She’s the first freshman congresswoman to ever win a…
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Forward 50 2018 Craig Newmark
Defender Of Trustworthy News Craig Newmark assured reporters that he did not make a donation to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism out of guilt. Newmark, founder of Craigslist — the online service which has claimed a major part of the billion-dollar classified ad business from newspapers — gave the school $20 million in June…
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Forward 50 2018 Howard Schultz
Life Beyond Coffee Before he stepped down as Starbucks’ executive chairman, Howard Schultz announced that the coffee chain would open its restrooms to all visitors, regardless of whether they are paying customers. The policy change was Schultz’s way of acknowledging the controversy that hit in the company in May, when two black men were arrested…
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Forward 50 2018 Max Boot
A Change of Heart Max Boot is one of those rare public intellectuals with firmly held beliefs who is willing to admit that he was wrong. He’s done that a lot in the last year, and garnered enormous attention for it. A Jewish refugee from the Soviet Union who was raised in California and once…
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Forward 50 2018 David Lubell
A Welcoming Jewish American I write this from Pittsburgh, from what is literally Mister Rogers’s neighborhood, a neighborhood now surrounded by grief and sadness after the murder of 11 members of the Jewish community. Just prior to invading the sacred space of the synagogue, the murderer posted a hateful rant against Jews, against refugees, against…
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Forward 50 2018 Debra Katz
Fierce Defender In The Face Of #MeToo As Christine Blasey Ford bravely testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September, sharing her allegation of sexual assault against now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, there was another strong woman by her side: Debra Katz. Representing Ford was a natural fit for Katz, 60, a civil rights lawyer…
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Forward 50 2018 Julia Salazar
Contested Identity, Uncontested Election Julia Salazar sprang to public attention when she surprisingly defeated incumbent Martin Dilan in the Democratic primary for a New York State Senate seat. A young woman with South American roots coming from the left of the party to shock a centrist, Salazar was hailed as a Jewish Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She…
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Forward 50 2018 Jeffrey Cohen
In The Face Of Tragedy, Act With Humanity The day after the Pittsburgh massacre, Dr. Jeffrey Cohen went to see the man who had killed his friends. Cohen, 63, is a member of the Tree of Life synagogue, and is president of Allegheny General Hospital, where Robert Bowers, the shooter, was taken for treatment. Two…
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Forward 50 2018 Jeffrey Myers
Choosing Peace Before Politics Rabbi Jeffrey Myers was introduced to the world in a photograph of him being rushed away from the Tree of Life synagogue, with a talit over one shoulder, clutching his kippah to his head. He quickly became the face of Jewish Pittsburgh, speaking at length to the media and eventually taking…
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Forward 50 2018 Julie Cohen
For The Love Of RBG With all of the love out there for Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, it was only a matter of time before a documentary came along. 2018’s “RBG” gave us a long-awaited cinematic look at RBG’s career that was met with near-universal acclaim — and even gave publicity to RBG’s…
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Forward 50 2018 Joe Weisberg
Mastermind Show Runner Joe Weisberg is the closest thing we have to a Jewish Ian Fleming. Creator of FX’s Emmy-winning spy series, “The Americans,” one of Weisberg’s first jobs out of college was at the Central Intelligence Agency. Weisberg eventually left the Agency to teach special education in Queens. He turned to TV writing in…
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