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Forward 50 2013
Josh Block
The choice of Josh Block, 40, to head The Israel Project, one of the Jewish community’s fastest growing pro-Israel organizations, marked a clear shift for the group and in Block’s professional trajectory. A former media relations professional, Block was best known as the combative spokesman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, where he served…
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Forward 50 2013 Solon Beinfeld
When Solon Beinfeld, co-editor-in-chief of the new Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, was on a Fulbright scholarship in Paris in the 1950s, Yiddish wasn’t part of his graduate work. But having been raised in a Yiddish-speaking home, Beinfeld couldn’t help but gravitate toward the city’s Yiddish-speaking community, and especially to its Medem Library, named after the Bund…
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Forward 50 2013 Mollie Katzen
Before “VB6” and “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” came “The Moosewood Cookbook.” And this year, Mollie Katzen, the author of that 1977 classic, is back in the kitchen and back in the limelight with her newest book, “The Heart of the Plate: Vegetarian Recipes for a New Generation.” Before Katzen, vegetarians were regarded as a marginal species…
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Forward 50 2013 Eric Garcetti
It took a long and expensive campaign, one of the toughest the city has seen, but at its end Eric Garcetti emerged victorious as the first Jewish mayor of Los Angeles. With that, LA joined the two other largest cities in the nation, New York and Chicago, which also have Jewish mayors at their helms….
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Forward 50 2013 Eli Pariser
Eli Pariser has an aw-shucks wholesomeness born of his upbringing in small-town Maine. He also has a razor-sharp knowledge of the Internet that quickly won him an eight-figure injection of venture capital. He’s even faster at garnering a million online signatures to end an injustice in some far-flung corner of Kansas or Kazakhstan. At 32,…
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Forward 50 2013 Julius Berman
Julius Berman, 78, chairman of the organization that distributes millions of dollars in German reparation funds to Holocaust survivors, has long been seen as one of American Jewry’s most capable lay leaders. But that reputation was called into question this year. An internal probe by the Conference for Material Claims Against Germany found that he…
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Forward 50 2013 Martin Indyk
A career encompassing almost all aspects of Middle East policy has this year landed Martin Indyk at the pinnacle of American efforts to resolve the decades long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As the United States special envoy to the peace talks, Indyk, 62, is tasked with a job few envy. It’s a task many before him have…
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Forward 50 2013 Sue Friedman
Diagnosed at 33, Sue Friedman had already undergone treatment when she found out about the BRCA2 mutation that had given her a 9-in-10 chance of developing hereditary breast cancer. Three years later, in 1999, Friedman founded FORCE: Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered, an organization advocating for awareness of hereditary breast and ovarian cancers. And…
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Forward 50 2013 Michael Solomonov
Israeli food lovers have waited for this year for a long time — the country’s cuisine is finally having its moment in the sun. In the United States, Israeli-American chef Michael Solomonov has become the cuisine’s unofficial ambassador. Answering the question: “What is Israeli cuisine?” is just about impossible. The young country’s culinary identity is…
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Forward 50 2013 Janet Yellen
Poised to be the first woman ever to lead America’s central bank, Janet Yellen comes to the post with a wealth of knowledge and experience accumulated in years of scholarly and public work. Yellen, 67, was nominated by President Obama following an unusually open and intense search process. An economics professor who also served as…
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Forward 50 2013 Harvey Fierstein
It’s been another banner year for the multi-Tony Award-winning writer and performer Harvey Fierstein, the son of a Conservative Jewish family who went on to create such Broadway shows as “Torch Song Trilogy” and “La Cage Aux Folles.” Brought up in Brooklyn, the 59-year-old Fierstein has likened his artistic process to talmudic study: “There is…
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