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Josh Shapiro
Fast-Rising Star in Pennsylvania Politics This summer, Pennsylvania’s Jewish Attorney General unveiled one of the most shocking documents in the history of the international clergy abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. Standing in front of a dozen sexual abuse victims, Josh Shapiro announced the release of a 1,400-page grand jury report that claimed church leaders…
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Forward 50 2018 Ady Barkan
Giving His Last Breath To Democracy You’re dying, but Ady Barkan, 34, is dying faster. Maybe there are abnormal cells in your skin; maybe there’s plaque in your interior arteries; maybe you’ll be hit by a car. Ady Barkan’s death is less of a mystery. His motor neurons are dying, melting his muscles and gradually…
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Forward 50 2018 Marc Benioff
Billionaire in Tommy Bahama Shirts Tells Tech CEOs To Be Less Greedy Marc Benioff burnt out at a tech firm in his early 30s, so he went to Hawaii to meditate, and then on to India. While he was there, between audiences with gurus and visits to ashrams, he had an epiphany. It was a…
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Forward 50 2018 Bradd Boxman
Calm Amid The Storm Of The Parkland Shooting Running for their lives on February 14, many of the Jewish students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School made their way to Congregation Kol Tikvah. It was Rabbi Bradd Boxman’s day off when he got a call saying that a gunman was loose in Parkland, Florida, in…
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Chabad’s Helicopter Gelt Drop Is Great For Hanukkah – Or Is It?
See the helicopter, hovering low above a grassy field ringed with children jonesing for a sugar rush. Watch pounds and pounds of gelt — chocolate coins in metallic foil — dumped out of said helicopter. Observe the children descend on the fallen gelt like Israelites on manna from heaven. If you happen to be in…
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Forward 50 2018 Amy Sherman-Palladino
Bringing Joyful, Kvetchy New York Jewishness To Television In 2018, TV offers a plethora of wonders: David Benioff and D.B. Weiss’s frighteningly durable “Game of Thrones,” Maggie Gyllenhaal’s bold performance on “The Deuce,” Pete Davidson’s regrettable foot-in-mouthism on “SNL.” But the age of peak TV may have met the age of peak Jewish fantasy in…
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Forward 50 2018 Keren McGinity
Giving A Jewish Response To #MeToo “There needs to be a Jewish response to the #MeToo movement.” That was the clarion call from Jewish Studies professor Keren McGinity detailing some of the harassment she had personally suffered in the Jewish institutional world. A gender historian who specializes in the changing meanings and experiences of Jewish…
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Forward 50 2018 Becca Heller
The ‘Genius’ Who Gets Legal Help To Refugees As climate change and political brinksmanship increase the numbers of immigrants and refugees, our treatment of them will shape how history views us. If history treats us kindly at all it will be due, in part, to Rebecca “Becca” Heller. When Heller, 36, won the 2015 Charles…
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Forward 50 2018 Dasi Fruchter
A New Voice Within The Orthodox Clergy Growing up, Rabbanit Hadas “Dasi” Fruchter often said she wanted to marry a rabbi. Her dream was to become a Jewish leader and make a home like that of her parents, or Abraham and Sarah — “open on all four sides,” deeply caring and rooted in tradition. In…
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Forward 50 2018 Tiffany Haddish
She Ready! It’s Tiffany Haddish’s world, and we’re just living in it, lucky to laugh along. While the 38-year-old comedian has been ready for years — popping up in guest appearances on comedy shows like “That’s So Raven,” “New Girl” and “Chelsea Lately” — it’s only this year that her fame has caught up with…
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Forward 50 2018 Abby Schachner
Coming Forward Is No Joke It takes a lot of courage to be a performer and comedian. Illustrator and storyteller Abby Schachner may have more than most. In November 2017, Schachner was one of five women to speak to The New York Times about Louis CK’s inappropriate sexual behavior. The choice to come forward about…
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