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Forward 50 2012
Bruce Ratner
Bruce Ratner may not have Barbra Streisand’s voice or Jay-Z’s rep on the streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant. But the developer had every right to trumpet himself as the King of Brooklyn after his long-delayed Barclays Center finally opened its doors. Ratner beamed as the arena opened to sold-out shows by Babs and hip-hop’s big- gest star,…
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Forward 50 2012 Meir Soloveichik
On August 28, Meir Soloveichik, a 35-year old rabbi, stepped into the national spotlight at the Republican National Convention, delivering the opening invocation, the capstone of a year that saw his influence spread widely throughout political circles. In May, Soloveichik led a widely praised discussion on religion in education with Newark Mayor Cory Booker at…
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Forward 50 2012 Michael Uram
In the lead-up to the first national conference of the movement to boycott, divest from, and implement sanctions (BDS) against Israel on the University of Pennsylvania campus in February, tensions were high. Activists on both sides of the aisle anticipated major protests and a breakdown in campus civility. But then the campus quieted. For the…
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Forward 50 2012 Elana Drell-Szyfer
How does an Israeli cosmetics company dramatically expand in America? First it hires Elana Drell-Szyfer, a 20-year veteran of the beauty industry who was named one of Jewish Women International’s 2012 Women to Watch and one of Pink magazine’s Top 10 Women in Business — and then it lets her run the show. As general…
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Forward 50 2012 Sharon Brous
In 2004, when Rabbi Sharon Brous launched IKAR as a unique spiritual community within the sprawling landscape of conventional Los Angeles Jewry, she was hailed as a bold and charismatic leader who maybe had figured out how to attract and hold younger, unaffiliated Jews. But there was no telling whether her experiment, like so many…
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Forward 50 2012 Barbra Streisand
Singer, actress and Jewish megastar Barbra Streisand marked her 50th year in show business with a high-profile return to her hometown, performing two sold-out concerts at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center as part of her first United States tour since 2006. In a nod to her Flatbush roots, she tweaked the lyrics of “As If We Never…
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Forward 50 2012 Roz Rothstein
A family operation that started off as a local effort to support Israel during the second intifada has turned into a $4 million operation under the energetic leadership of Roz Rothstein. With 15 branches and a growing presence across the country, StandWithUs, founded by Rothstein, 60, a family therapist by training, celebrated its 10th anniversary…
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Forward 50 2012 Andy Bachman
The February fight over whether a Brooklyn supermarket should boycott Israeli goods may not have been the most important battle in the debate over the international movement to impose boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel. It may, however, have been the most visible. That’s because the supermarket was the Park Slope Food Co-op, the venerable…
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Forward 50 2012 Andy Statman
It’s one thing to be an acknowledged master of one instrument and musical style; it’s quite another to be a master of two. For more than 40 years, Andy Statman has been a celebrated player of bluegrass mandolin and klezmer clarinet — and all combinations thereof. This year, on the heels of his critically acclaimed…
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Forward 50 2012 Ken Marcus
With the Israel debate roiling college campuses around America, there has been no shortage of hand-wringing from the organized Jewish community about the welfare of Jewish students. Ken Marcus has taken a different approach. A former staff director at the U.S. Department of Education, Marcus, 46, has emerged as a vocal proponent of using federal…
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Forward 50 2012 Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Her position as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee has brought Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz plenty of attention, some for better and some for worse. She was in the national spotlight chairing the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte and took center stage at one of the convention’s most moving moments, when she accompanied her…
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