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Forward 50 2012
Jeffrey Yoskowitz
On the spectrum of Jewish foods, gefilte fish is at the extreme end of iconic Ashkenazi fare. And bacon? Well… it’s not even on the spectrum. But the two are brought together in the passions and profession of Brooklynite Jeffrey Yoskowitz. Along with Liz Alpern and Jackie Lilinshtein, Yoskowitz, 28, launched an artisanally crafted, sustainably…
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Forward 50 2012 Sheldon Adelson
The publication this year of the Forward 50 has happened differently from previous years. This entry includes the final video of this year’s Top 5: those American Jews who we think have had the most significant impact on the news in the past year. Whether you love him or hate him for it, Sheldon Adelson,…
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Forward 50 2012 Jon Stewart
With no Jewish politician vying for a major national post this election year, it has fallen once again to Jon Stewart at the helm of “The Daily Show” to keep the fight fair and the conversation haimish. Stewart, born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz in Lawrenceville, N.J., wears his loyalties to New Jersey, Judaism and honest (though…
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Forward 50 2012 Michael Chabon
It had been too long since Michael Chabon, 49, one of his generation’s most gifted prose stylists, set his sights on contemporary America. Chabon’s most recent full-length novels had seen the author exploring the lives of comic book artists in the 1940s (Pulitzer Prize–winner “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay”) and an alternative Jewish…
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The Great American Deli Rescue
There was a time in the not-so-distant past when the American deli was in dire straits. The last quality holdouts, like the iconic Katz’s Deli in New York and Langer’s Deli in Los Angeles, were still going strong, but the deli landscape overall was rather desolate. Even in New York — dotted with as many…
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Forward 50 2012 Jodi Rudoren
To be the Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times is one of the toughest jobs in American journalism. All sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remain perpetually convinced that whoever holds the position is sympathetic to their opponents, and are eager to prove it. Ethan Bronner passed the highly charged post on to Jodi…
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Forward 50 2012 Scooter Braun
The man who discovered teenage megastar Justin Bieber is Scooter Braun, a 31-year-old talent manager from Greenwich, Conn. Braun is known for finding promising acts on YouTube, drumming up an early fan base with more YouTube videos and then releasing his talent to the broader public with big name endorsements (which in Bieber’s case came…
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Forward 50 2012 Andrew Adler
Until last January, Andrew Adler, 58, was the little-known publisher of a little-known weekly paper called the Atlanta Jewish Times. Long active in the Atlanta community, he had bought the publication, which has a circulation of about 4,000, about two years earlier. Then came the column. In a January 13 opinion piece, Adler wrote that…
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Forward 50 2012 Ross Perlin
At only 29 years old, Ross Perlin has an impressive stack of accomplishments to his name. What’s more impressive is the effect his work is having, from media empires in Manhattan to tiny villages in southwest China. A graduate of Stanford University, Cambridge University, the University of London and the Vilnius Yiddish Institute, New York…
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Forward 50 2012 Bassie Shemtov
When Bassie Shemtov co-founded the Friendship Circle with her husband, Levi, in 1994, her aim was simple: to pair teenagers and special needs children, the idea being that each had much to learn from the other. Eighteen years later, Shemtov, now 40, has given rise to an international phenomenon, with 79 Friendship Circles across North…
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Forward 50 2012 Ted Lerner
The motto of the 2012 Washington Nationals was “Natitude,” a reinvigorating ethos for a long-suffering baseball franchise. Young, talented and brash, the team dominated the National League during the regular season, winning a Major League-leading 98 games. It had taken eight years for the Nationals to go from a new franchise to contenders, but they…
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