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Henry Waxman, Hollywood elite and other Angelenos named to Forward 50 2014

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November 13, 2014

Angelenos named to the Jewish Daily Forward 50 2014 include Israeli-American Council board chairman Shawn Evenhaim; Rabbi Eliyahu Fink of Pacific Jewish Center; Congressman Henry Waxman; and Micah Wexler of Wexler’s Deli.

And Hollywood figures, including Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lizzy Caplan, Darren Aronofsky and Scarlett Johansson, appear.

The list, published on Nov. 9 by the New York-based publication, includes figures from the United States and abroad.

Rabbi Barry Freundel, the disgraced Washington D.C. modern Orthodox leader who is being charged with six counts of voyeurism on account of placing a hidden camera in a mikvah, comes in at number-44.

“Impact is our driving criteria,” Forward editor-in-chief Jane Eisner said in a writeup, “Why We Chose Rabbi Barry Freundel for the Forward 50.”

Additionally, Steven Sotloff, an American journalist who was beheaded by the Islamic State terrorist organization, is featured.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Rachelli Frankel, mother of Naftali Frankel, whose death this past summer sparked the latest war between Israel and Gaza, also appear. In the aftermath of her son’s death, Frankel reached out in solidarity to grieving Palestinian mothers.

It’s the first time in the list’s history that female nominees outnumber male ones, the Forward website says.

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