Ivanka Trump, daughter of the president-elect and an adviser to him, tops this year’s Forward 50, the Forward’s annual list of 50 Jews who have impacted American life.
Joining the 35-year-old Trump among the top five are Bob Dylan, the singer-songwriter who recently won the Nobel Prize for Literature; Theo Epstein, president of baseball operations for the World Series champion Chicago Cubs; Julia Ioffe, a Jewish journalist targeted with anti-Semitic posts on Twitter apparently by supporters of Donald Trump, and Daveed Diggs, a rapper and “Hamilton” actor.
To see the full list, which was released Nov. 15, visit www.forward.com/series/forward-50/2016.
Of Trump, who converted to Judaism before marrying husband Jared Kushner, the Forward wrote that she “carried none of the baggage of the Trump family” and that “her style of Trump was less gold leaf and loud ties; more pastels and pencil skirts.” — jta