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Naftuli Moster
It took a product of the ultra-Orthodox school system to get New York City to investigate the quality of secular education at the city’s ultra-Orthodox schools. Following a campaign by Naftuli Moster, 29, founder and executive director of an activist group called YAFFED (Young Advocates for Fair Education), New York City’s Department of Education announced…
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Forward 50 2015 Jeffrey Tambor
Jeffrey Tambor has called his lugubrious philosophy an integral part of his Jewish identity. Answering a fan’s question about happiness, he once quipped: “I’m Russian Hungarian, I know nothing about happiness. That wasn’t on the menu at our house.” Long known for playing supporting characters (Hank Kingsley on “The Larry Sanders Show” and George Bluth…
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Forward 50 2015 Billy Eichner
As per “Billy on the Street”: For a dollar, name all of Billy Eichner’s recent achievements in 60 seconds. You can’t. There are too many. In two years, Eichner, 37, went from hosting Fuse’s “Billy on the Street” to finding a new home for the show on truTV, receiving a Daytime Emmy nomination for the…
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Forward 50 2015 Jerrold Nadler
The anonymous advertisements started soon after U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler announced he would support the Iran nuclear agreement in September. “How Do You Spell Betrayal? N-A-D-L-E-R,” read one, which ran in a Brooklyn Orthodox paper. An angry New York State Assembly member sent a bus to Nadler’s office with a picture of the Iranian supreme…
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Forward 50 2015 Alon Shaya
An Israeli restaurant in New Orleans doesn’t sound like a recipe for success, but when chef Alon Shaya opened his namesake eatery, Shaya, on Magazine Street this past February 2015, he proved the doubters wrong. In May, he won the James Beard Award for Best Chef: South for Domenica, another of the John Besh Group…
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Forward 50 2015 Nicole Eisenman
When Nicole Eisenman, 50, learned she was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, she said she was shocked. But the honor didn’t come as a surprise to those who know her work as a painter, sculptor, printer and draftswoman. Eisenman is a painter who uses narrative elements to reimagine and explore gender and familial roles….
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Forward 50 2015 Hari Nef
In May, 23-year-old Hari Nef made history when she became one of a handful of transgender women to be signed by a major modeling agency. But joining IMG Models is just the latest step in Nef’s ascent into the high-fashion big leagues. Prior to her graduation from Columbia University this year, she had already starred…
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Forward 50 2015 Yehuda Sichel
Michael Solomonov gets the (well-deserved) glory for the mini empire of CookNSolo Philadelphia eateries (Zahav, Dizengoff, etc.) that he runs with partner Steven Cook. But outside the spotlight, the Solomonov acolyte Yehuda Sichel is turning out foods of the Jewish Diaspora at Abe Fisher, which CookNSolo opened in September 2014. Sichel, who went to culinary…
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Forward 50 2015 Dianne Feinstein
At 82, Dianne Feinstein is the oldest serving member in the U.S. Senate, but she is showing no sign of slowing down. After forcefully taking on the CIA for its practice of torture and for holding up a congressional attempt to investigate the clandestine service, Feinstein, a security-focused Democrat from California who serves as the…
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Forward 50 2015 Sarah Maslin Nir
Sarah Maslin Nir, 32, got her start at The New York Times in 2009 after she stayed up for 24 hours straight to cold pitch one of the editors. She sent him almost a dozen stories in one night and the next morning received word that two had been accepted. In May Nir published the…
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Forward 50 2015 Sheldon Adelson
America’s 18th richest person decided this year to oppose the campaign to boycott Israel. And Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas casino magnate, did it in typical style — with mountains of cash. Adelson’s anti-BDS initiative, launched in a closed-door meeting at his Venetian hotel, took community activists by surprise. Some felt sidelined and others complained…
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