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Forward 50 2017
David Benioff
Lord Commander Of ‘Game Of Thrones’ Behind the gory, lustful scenes of “Game of Thrones” stand two rather unassuming Jewish boys. David Benioff, born David Friedman in New York City, is one of the two showrunners behind HBO’s megahit, alongside D.B. Weiss. The duo met while studying Irish literature at Trinity College Dublin in 1995….
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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 Joan Nathan
The Queen of Jewish Cooking With the 2017 publication of “King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking From Around the World” (Alfred P. Knopf), Joan Nathan has used her status as the queen of Jewish cooking to reveal an unexpectedly wide and varied world of Jewish food. Having covered the Jewish Ashkenazi culinary…
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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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Forward 50 2017 Joel Pollak
Breitbart’s Jewish Journalist Joel Pollak emerged this year as one of the most influential Jewish conservatives in the country. A senior editor-at-large at Breitbart News, Pollak has rocketed to fame on the heels of the election and his website’s growing power. Pollak, 40, has written countless articles for the website — feeding the right-wing appetite…
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‘Alt-Right’ Conspiracy Theorist Mike Cernovich Draws Angry Protests At Columbia
Joey Siegel was against bringing the “alt-right” provocateur Mike Cernovich to Columbia University, but was overruled by his fellow members of the College Republicans student executive board. The fears of Siegel, who was slammed in threatening campus flyers that were plastered across campus, were proved correct when Cernovich drew what one security official described as…
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When Martin Luther Accused The Jews Of Eating Satan’s S—-
Exactly five centuries ago, Martin Luther sparked what would become the Protestant Reformation by nailing a list of criticisms on a church door in Germany. Luther decried what he saw as abusive and corrupt practices in the Roman Catholic church — but reserved a very special kind of hatred for Jews, whom he branded an…
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Forward 50 2017 Rainer Weiss
He Fled The Nazis, Then Proved Einstein’s Theory Rainer Weiss fled Nazi Germany with his family when he was 6 years old. Nearly 80 years later, he won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics. Growing up in Brooklyn, Weiss took to building hi-fi radio sets out of junk parts, prefiguring the scrappiness and inventiveness that…
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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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Forward 50 2017 Michael Signer
Charlottesville’s Mayor Spoke Out After Hateful Rally A college professor and small-town mayor, Mike Signer never planned to be at the center of a national controversy. But hours after Charlottesville, Virginia, witnessed a deadly attack following hours of neo-Nazi marches, Signer was thrust into the spotlight, faulting the Trump White House for empowering these groups….
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