The 2009 Forward 50 list is up, and we’re proud to have connections to so many of the honorees.

To wit!

• Jehudah Reinharz — Doctoral Dissertation grantee and current president of Brandeis University
• Thought-provoking and occasionally controversy-courting director Ari Roth — New Jewish Theater grantee
• Up-and-coming literary light Sana Krasikov — runner-up for our 10th annual Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers
• Subject of our 2006 Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film grantee Orthodox Stance, boxer Dmitriy Salita