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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings
Bob Dylan
Most Likely He’ll Go His Way (To Sweden, for a Nobel Prize) As of press time, there was one thing that nearly everybody in America knew and another that only one person did. What everybody knew was that the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to an American-born Jewish singer-songwriter, memoirist, poet and occasional…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Abbi Jacobson
The Book Writing Broad of Broad City This season, “Broad City” took comic aim at Birthright in the episode “Jews on a Plane.” The show’s creators, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, starred in a two-episode arc that featured their characters going on a free trip called “Birthmark.” “We’re going to Israel,” Jacobson, 32, herself a…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
Edited the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary for the 21st Century Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, 58, was born into a legendary Yiddishist family. And with the completion of the “Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary” — co-edited with Paul Glasser — she has become a part of the legend herself. The fruit of their labor, a monumental work featuring more than 83,000…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump – The Jewish Trump Card Donald Trump’s now Jewish daughter, Ivanka Trump, used to seem like a different kind of Trump. Sure, Ivanka, 35, worked for her dad at the Trump Tower in NYC. And sure, just like her father, Ivanka capitalized on the Trump name, spinning off the Ivanka Trump lifestyle brand…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Evan Spiegel
The Snapchat Billionaire At 22, a Jewish student drops out of his Ivy League school to turn his social media idea into a business. Fast-forward a few short years: He’s a billionaire. Sound familiar? No, the student in question isn’t Mark Zuckerberg, but in (very) similar fashion, Evan Spiegel left Stanford to pursue what began…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Paula Vogel
Bringing Sholem Asch to Broadway 90 Years On In May, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel spoke with the Forward about her new play, “Indecent,” which had just opened at Manhattan’s Vineyard Theater. “I’m interested in trying to rediscover the innocence we had as a people before the entire paradigm changed,” she said. With “Indecent,”…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Julia Ioffe
Target of Anti-Semitism and a Fiery Responder The rise of the anti-Semitic “alt right” this year sent chills through the Jewish world and beyond. And no one was more affected or more spirited in her response than Julia Ioffe. Instead of huddling in fear, Ioffe pushed back against the trolls. The virulent Jew hatred was…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Michael Dubin
Are His Razor’s Good? They’re $1 Billion Great It started in 2012 with a YouTube video (shot in a day for less than $4,500) that made a bold claim: “Dollar Shave Club’s blades are “f**ing great.” And it ended in July 2016, when Unilever acquired that company for a cool $1 billion. In the whirlwind…
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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 Theo Epstein
The Cubs’ Dealmaker and Cursebreaker Having overturned the 86-year-old curse of the Bambino for the Boston Red Sox in 2004, Theo Epstein brought similar good fortune to the Chicago Cubs. This year, the Cubbies won the World Series and toppled the 108-year-long curse of the billy goat. Anyone who knew Epstein’s family might have predicted…
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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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