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Forward 50 2012
Nancy Kaufman
In the less than two years since she grabbed the reins of the National Council of Jewish Women, Nancy Kaufman, 61, has injected energy and purpose into the venerable organization. Her native Boston accent is still strong, but Kaufman is now playing on the national stage, using her network of 90,000 members and supporters to…
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Forward 50 2012 Brad Sherman
Brad Sherman is a survivor. Left for dead in the fiercest Jewish political battle of the 2012 election cycle, the 58-year-old California Democratic Congressman defied a fundraising deficit and an embarrassing viral video to pull off a convincing victory over his foe Howard Berman. Sherman shouldn’t have had to fight for his spot in Congress….
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Forward 50 2012 Joy Ladin
When prize-winning teacher and poet Jay Ladin got tenure at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women in 2006, he knew he could finally have the gender reassignment procedures that would free him from a body he had never felt at home in, without risking his job. Life was tough as a man, but there’d be…
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Forward 50 2012 Judy Gross
After a period of relative restraint, Judy Gross this year dramatically ramped up the campaign to liberate her husband from a Cuban jail. With the help of a top Washington PR firm, Burson-Marsteller, and subsequently a specialist human rights firm Perseus Strategies, Gross, 63, began to use the American media to call on the Cuban…
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Forward 50 2012 Dan Senor
Dan Senor might be the one Jewish Republican who had more of an impact on Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign than even billionaire political donor Sheldon Adelson. A rising young foreign policy hawk, Senor, 41, speaks both the language of the neoconservative old guard and the language of the Tea Party. He served dual roles for…
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Forward 50 2012 Alison Klayman
Armed with a day school education and a college history degree, Alison Klayman, now 28, graduated from Brown University in 2006 and headed for Beijing, to learn the language and explore the culture. She told her parents that she’d stay for a few months; six years later, she is garnering international acclaim for her documentary…
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Forward 50 2012 Hindy Poupko Galena
Ayelet Galena’s January death, at the age of 2, from a rare bone marrow disease, set off a wave of mourning that spanned time zones and oceans. Some 14,000 people around the world had been following the little girl’s fight for her life on the family’s Eye on Ayelet blog. For months, as Ayelet was…
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Forward 50 2012 Jack Lew
Since January, Jacob (Jack) Lew has officially been the Jew closest to the ear of the president. As White House chief of staff, Lew is not only the Oval Office gatekeeper, but also a key voice on policy issues, especially those relating to his field of expertise — budget and economy. Lew is the first…
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Forward 50 2012 Errol Morris
Errol Morris might just have a genetic predisposition to seek justice. After all, earlier this year, the Academy Award–winning documentary filmmaker and author, who became a bar mitzvah at the Conservative Congregation Sons of Israel in Woodmere, N.Y., revealed to the Forward that he is the great-grandson of a Talmud scholar. Long before the term…
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Eilenberg’s Beard
Eilenberg trimmed his beard on Tuesday and did not leave home until Friday. It was his wife, my good friend Gitty, who put an end to it — she who could not understand him. “You wanted to trim your beard for over a year,” she screamed, exasperated. “Why are you crying now like you lost…
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Forward 50 2012 Aly Raisman
The publication this year of the Forward 50 is happening a little differently. We are rolling out videos of the Top 5, the American Jews who we think top our list of those who have impacted the news most significantly in the past year. Count down with us through Monday as we profile the new…
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