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Forward 50 2014
Eliyahu Fink
“Our mission is to provide the maximum number of positive Jewish experiences to the maximum number of people,” said Eliyahu Fink, 33, the rabbi of the Pacific Jewish Center in the Venice Beach neighborhood of Los Angeles. Through smart use of social media and open-minded outreach, Fink promotes a fresh take on Orthodox Judaism. Fink,…
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Forward 50 2014 Rachel Sandalow-Ash
Over the past year, Rachel Sandalow-Ash reports being called an anti-Semite, a kapo, and a self-hating Jew. But the hate has deterred neither Sandalow-Ash, 21, nor Open Hillel, the organization she leads, from their mission: opening the conversation about Israel at Hillel, the Jewish campus organization, to more critical voices. The group protests Hillel International’s…
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Forward 50 2014 Tavi Gevinson
Started an acclaimed fashion blog? Check. Founded a magazine? Check. Gave a TED talk? Check. Acted alongside Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini? Check. Hung out with Vogue’s Anna Wintour? Check. Starred in a Broadway show? Check. But celebrate her 18th birthday? That’s something Tavi Gevinson managed only this past April. At 11, Gevinson had garnered…
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Forward 50 2014 Shelly Sterling
Stopping a serious communal shande in its tracks is no mean feat — especially if you can put a cool billion bucks in your pocket at the same time. Shelly Sterling, 80, achieved both when she pressured her estranged husband, Donald Sterling, to sell the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team after he was caught on…
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Forward 50 2014 Doug Seserman
The revolution can take a while to organize. When Doug Seserman became head of the Denver Jewish Federation in 2002, it was struggling. A study conducted a decade later found Denver Jews actually disliked the institution that was supposed to bring them together as a community. Seserman, 51, who describes himself as “part Jewish leader…
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Forward 50 2014 Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman, philanthropist and former New York City mayor, could have flown by private jet to Israel on July 23. But it was the middle of the Gaza conflict, just after the United States Federal Aviation Authority banned U.S. carriers from flying to or from Tel Aviv, and Bloomberg had a point…
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Forward 50 2014 Safra Catz
As an Israeli-American child growing up in Massachusetts, Safra Catz dreamed of working at an ice cream store. But fate had other plans. In September, Catz, 52, was appointed co-CEO of Oracle, the software giant, after longtime CEO Larry Ellison announced he was stepping down. Catz oversees finance, operations and legal affairs, while fellow CEO…
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Forward 50 2014 Temimah Zucker
Even though one in 10 Americans will suffer from an eating disorder at some point in their lives, many of the affected feel ashamed and isolated. Temimah Zucker was no different when she developed anorexia at the age of 18. “I didn’t want anyone to know,” she said. It wasn’t until Zucker, now 23, who…
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Forward 50 2014 Barton Gellman
As high school seniors in Philadelphia, Barton Gellman and his co-editors of the school paper published stories about sex, contraception and abortion. Or tried to. Before the papers could be distributed, the school’s principal destroyed them and fired the editors. Gellman sued and won a favorable settlement, presaging the willingness to challenge authority that has…
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Forward 50 2014 Barry Freundel
It’s hard to imagine a more disturbing violation of a sacred Jewish space than the one of which Orthodox rabbi Barry Freundel is accused. In late September, someone saw the 62-year-old Washington, D.C., rabbi plug in a clock in his synagogue’s mikveh. The clock was spotted again on October 12, and synagogue officials gave the…
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Forward 50 2014 Steven Sotloff
Steven Sotloff should be ineligible for the Forward 50. Our list honors the living. But Sotloff, who was murdered by Islamic militants in the summer, merits special inclusion. To the end, he held fast to his beliefs, both as a journalist and as a Jew. If not for the fanatical ideology of his murderers, Sotloff…
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