{"id":3580,"date":"2015-11-10T18:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T01:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=3580"},"modified":"2015-11-10T18:00:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T01:00:54","slug":"50-jewish-stars-21-interesting-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/10\/50-jewish-stars-21-interesting-women\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Jewish Stars; 21 Interesting Women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meet the\u00a0Forward 50<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u2013 fifty Jewish Americans designated worthy of special attention as 2015 draws to a close. \u00a0That \u201cForward\u201d in \u201cThe Forward 50?” \u00a0It\u2019s The Jewish Daily<\/em> Forward. \u00a0A newspaper founded in 1897 as a Yiddish language publication, it has also\u00a0published in English for the past 25 years,\u00a0won a ton of awards, and at one time in the 1920\u2019s had a larger circulation than the New York Times!<\/p>\n

Every year, most likely as circulation-building clickbait, the paper publishes a list of fifty Jews who are “deeply, loudly and passionately embedded in some of the most pressing political and social issues in the nation.”<\/p>\n

Not so unusual, but I was pleased to see that nearly half (21) were women so I decided see\u00a0who they are, and they’re pretty interesting and modern.<\/p>\n

Two of their “Top 5” are women, one an\u00a0academic, one a star: Princeton professor and newly minted MacArthur “genius”\u00a0Marina Rustow<\/a>\u00a0– <\/strong>who is also the first Jewish Studies person to receive a MacArthur — and our own beloved\u00a0Amy Schumer<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Four of the six “Activists” are women:\u00a0Rachel Sklar and her daughter Ruby<\/a>,\u00a0Emma Sulkowitcz<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0who carried a mattress – everywhere<\/em> – \u00a0through her last years at Columbia University to protest the school’s inaction in her rape allegations. Ruth Messinger<\/a>, <\/strong>long-time crusader and organizer, who in the 17 years she spent running the United Jewish Word Service, “created a uniquely Jewish way to promote economic and gender equality in the developed world” and street harassment activist\u00a0Shoshana Roberts<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

In general, this is a varied, original and exciting list. \u00a0Twenty-one\u00a0of 50<\/a> isn’t perfect but what’s kind of cool is how many of these women are closer to the edge not just of Jewish culture but the culture of the US generally. Which is nice, given the battles going on in some other Jewish institutions.<\/p>\n

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Meet the\u00a0Forward 50\u00a0\u00a0\u2013 fifty Jewish Americans designated worthy of special attention as 2015 draws to a close. \u00a0That \u201cForward\u201d in \u201cThe Forward 50?” \u00a0It\u2019s The Jewish Daily Forward. \u00a0A newspaper founded in 1897 as a Yiddish language publication, it has also\u00a0published in English for the past 25 years,\u00a0won a ton of awards, and at one … Continue reading 50 Jewish Stars; 21 Interesting Women<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,1917,9,98,1,29],"tags":[3509,3518,3513,3510,3520,3505,3506,3519,3516,3507,3522,194,348,3508,3511,3517,3521,3514,3512,3515],"class_list":["post-3580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-nablopomo","category-politics","category-religion","category-uncategorized","category-women","tag-amy-schumer-rachel-sklar-and-her-new-daughter-ruby","tag-and-transparent","tag-ann-lewis","tag-emma-sulkowitcz","tag-feministing","tag-forward","tag-forward-50","tag-jill-soloway-lori-adelman","tag-key-us-negotiator-in-the-iran-serial","tag-marin","tag-nail-salons","tag-new-york-times","tag-planned-parenthood","tag-rustow","tag-ruth-messinger","tag-sarah-koenig","tag-sarah-maslin-nir","tag-senator-dianne-feinstein","tag-shoshana-roberts","tag-wendy-sherman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-VK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3580"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3588,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions\/3588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}