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Forward 50: Most influential American Jews, Mukasey tops all


The Forward 50 is an annual list “of the people who are making a difference in the American Jewish community”

From its own explanation (underneath which you will find the list):

The Forward 50 is not based on a scientific study or survey. The list is compiled each year by the Forward’s staff, based on what we have reported over the past year, what we have heard from community members speaking about other community members and whatever objective signposts ― rising or falling budgets, book sales, published buzz, adoption of new laws or proposals ― can be deemed to indicate public influence.

Membership in the 50 doesn’t mean that the Forward endorses what these individuals do or say. We’ve chosen them because they are doing and saying things that are making a difference in the way American Jews, for better or worse, view the world and themselves. Not all these people have put their energies into the traditional frameworks of Jewish community life, but they all have embodied the spirit of Jewish action as it is emerging in America, and all of them have left a mark.

More about Forward here. More opining on the 50 here.

Politicians include: Henry Waxman, Reva Price, Michael Bloomberg and Jimmy Jamshid Delshad – an Iranian-born Jew who is mayor of Beverly Hills. I believe he also has this in common with State Senator David Goodman: “And while Beverly Hills has had many a Jewish mayor, Delshad was the first to affix a mezuzah to the doorway of the mayor’s office.”

More on Delshad here.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:10 pm November 18th, 2007 in Jewish, Judaism, Media, Politics, Religion 

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