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Forward 50 2015
Nicholas Lowinger
At 17, Nicholas Lowinger is already an established CEO. But his company is not a run-of-the-mill organization. Lowinger is the founder of the Gotta Have Sole Foundation, which provides children living in shelters with new footwear. “I was 5 when I started visiting homeless shelters with my mom. I was really excited to show the…
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Forward 50 2015 Lori Adelman
It’s been a productive year for Lori Adelman, the executive director at Feministing and associate director for global communications at Planned Parenthood, who made Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in its media section after making The Root 100 2014 list of the nation’s most influential African Americans. Adelman, 29, was raised Jewish in her family’s Conservative…
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Forward 50 2015 Sarah Koenig
By late fall 2014, you could count on one thing coming up in every conversation with anyone who might ever have listened to NPR: Sarah Koenig’s podcast “Serial.” From hours-long debates over the possible guilt of Adnan Syed — the convicted murderer who was the podcast’s subject — to parodies of the ad for MailChimp,…
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Forward 50 2015 American Pharoah
How this reporter imagines the decision to make the Grand Slam-winning 3-year-old colt American Pharoah this year’s “plus one” was made: FIRST EDITOR: Not a lot of outstanding Jews in sport for the list this year. SECOND EDITOR: Maybe Fred Wilpon, for the Mets’ amazin’ season? FIRST EDITOR: Eck. SECOND EDITOR: Dan Snyder, the Redskins…
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Forward 50 2015 Ike Barinholtz
Isaac “Ike” Barinholtz almost became a politician. Instead, Barinholtz is now the writer and actor behind one of TV’s funniest characters, Morgan Tookers, the ex-con-turned-nurse on Hulu’s “The Mindy Project,” and will play opposite Amy Poehler and Tina Fey in the upcoming “Sisters.” Growing up, the Chicago native attended the Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day…
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Forward 50 2015 Ben Lerner
Ben Lerner, 36, began his writing career as a poet, but his two debut novels, one published in 2011 and the other last year, quickly gained critical acclaim and have both been called “brilliant” and “revolutionary,” among other praise. This year Lerner received a MacArthur “genius” fellowship of $625,000 for his work. Though he has…
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Forward 50 2015 Paul Singer
Hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer is coming out of the shadows. A philanthropist and Republican political donor whose name was known only to insiders, Singer is now moving to the front row both in politics and in Jewish life. While much of the public attention in the GOP race has been directed at Sheldon Adelson…
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Forward 50 2015 Eli Broad
Writing for the Los Angeles Times in 2014, Eli Broad and Richard Riordan wrote that “citizens need leaders who sketch a vision of what is possible and rally them to the cause.” They were writing about their funding collaboration for Los Angeles’s long-planned Walt Disney Concert Hall, but the philosophy could easily be used to…
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Forward 50 2015 Ann Lewis
Entering her third Clinton political campaign, Ann Lewis naturally slipped into the position of Hillary Clinton’s point person to the Jewish community, even without an official title. A former adviser to President Clinton, Lewis worked closely on Hillary Clinton’s 2008 unsuccessful presidential campaign and is now back again, leading the candidate’s Jewish outreach efforts. Lewis,…
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Forward 50 2015 Jill Soloway
Jill Soloway, 50, is no new- comer to the entertainment industry. From 2002 to 2005 the Chicago-born director and screenwriter wrote and later co-executive produced the acclaimed HBO series “Six Feet Under.” She wrote and directed the 2013 movie “Afternoon Delight,” about an unhappy mother who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a 19-year-old sex…
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Forward 50 2015 Gary Cohen
Gary Cohen, 59, has spent his entire career trying to reduce pollution. His Virginia-based not-for-profit, Health Care Without Harm, has been at the forefront of the push to eliminate the use of mercury in medical instruments worldwide and to dramatically reduce the number of medical waste incinerators in America, a leading source of pollution linked…
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