{"id":636495,"date":"2026-10-04T22:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/636495\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T22:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:52:13","slug":"jewish-figures-in-time-magazines-worlds-most-influential-rising-stars-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/636495\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish figures in Time Magazine’s ‘world\u2019s most influential rising stars’ list"},"content":{"rendered":"

From artists and actors to technologists to politicians advancing visions for the future, Time Magazine<\/a> has recognized Jewish figures on its list of \u201cthe world\u2019s most influential rising stars.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The magazine launched the Time100 Next list in 2019 to highlight people whose influence is still taking shape. This year\u2019s list reflected shifts in popular culture, the AI revolution and responses to global crises from the United States to Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jewish members of Time100 Next have talked about their Jewishness as a source of inspiration, angst and activism. Here\u2019s what nine have said about their Jewish identity.<\/p>\n

Marisa Abela\u00a0<\/p>\n

Abela, an actress who rose to fame for her role in the TV financial drama series \u201cIndustry\u201d and portrayed Amy Winehouse in the 2024 biopic \u201cBack to Black,\u201d grew up in England. She has described drawing from her mixed heritage to inhabit her characters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am someone whose mum and dad come from completely different cultures, my dad is Maltese Arab, and my mum is from a family of Polish Jewish refugees,\u201d Abela told The National in 2022.<\/p>\n

\"MarisaMarisa Abela attends the ERDEM SS27 front row during LFW September 2026 at The Roundhouse on September 20, 2026 in London, England. (credit: GETTY\/VIA JTA)<\/p>\n

While Abela\u2019s background differs from that of her \u201cIndustry\u201d character Yasmin Kara-Hanani, whose parents are Lebanese<\/a>, she said that she understood the character\u2019s family tensions. \u201cThe thing I relate to most is that those two cultures can be quite divisive, and you can feel like you\u2019re being pulled in different directions,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

To play Winehouse, Abela said she tapped into shared features of their early lives in Jewish households.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more I got to know her, the more I felt a major connection to this spiky Jewish girl from London<\/a> who had a lot to say, and was really quite unafraid,\u201d she told Harper\u2019s Bazaar in a 2024 interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remembered how I felt when I was young, seeing that woman who was proud and cool, wearing a big Star of David in between a cleavage and a nice bra. I understood what a Friday-night dinner would look like in her home, the humor in her family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jake Auchincloss\u00a0<\/p>\n

Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Auchincloss is one of his party\u2019s staunchest advocates for centrism amid a rising wave of Democratic Socialists. He represents the state\u2019s 4th Congressional District, spanning the heavily Jewish Boston suburbs of Brookline and Newton, where he grew up with a Jewish mother and Episcopalian father.<\/p>\n

After a record of bolstering the Democrats\u2019 pro-Israel wing in Congress, Auchincloss was among the majority of House Democrats who voted in July to cut $3.3 billion in military aid to Israel.<\/p>\n

Auchincloss argued the vote did not contradict his support for Israel. Instead, he said it was a vote against President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who he said had sacrificed the trust of Congress \u201cwith their disastrous war against Iran, their empowerment of settler violence in the West Bank, and their strategic incoherence against Islamist terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n

He has also fended off progressive Democrats who denounce the United States-Israel alliance. In September, Auchincloss defeated a primary challenge from AI and policy researcher Jason Poulos, who said that he was animated by watching the United States send military aid to Israel and \u201cparticipate actively in the genocide of the Palestinian people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Auchincloss told the Jerusalem News Syndicate in 2022 that \u201cJudaism is important\u201d to him even though he is \u201cnot a religious person.\u201d He added that his parents\u2019 interfaith marriage in the 1970s, which took place at the Harvard Memorial Church with a rabbi officiating, was \u201cstill a bit unusual\u201d and made him more appreciative of his Jewish heritage as he was growing up.<\/p>\n

Auchincloss has cited his family history as a factor in his decision to join the Marine Corps. In a 2021 interview with Roll Call, Auchincloss said his maternal grandfather enlisted in the Marines in 1942. Instead of deploying the 17-year-old in combat, the Marines sent him to study biomedical engineering at Purdue University, and he became a pioneer in artificial limbs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think about that, in one of the lowest moments of World War II, one of the lowest moments for Jews in our history, the U.S. government sent a Jewish kid in the Marine Corps to school,\u201d said Auchincloss.<\/p>\n

\"MollyMolly Gordon at FX\u2019s \u201cThe Bear\u201d Final Family Meal Event Red Carpet held at Nine Orchard on June 15, 2026 in New York, New York. (credit: GETTY\/VIA JTA)Molly Gordon<\/p>\n

Actress and filmmaker Gordon has said that her Jewishness resonates throughout her career, not through observance, but through comedy.<\/p>\n

Her Jewish roles span the 2020 comedy \u201cShiva Baby,\u201d the 2023 mockumentary \u201cTheater Camp,\u201d which she also co-created, and the Hulu series \u201cRamy,\u201d where she plays a Jewish woman who dates the title character, a Muslim. Gordon\u2019s star has also risen through roles that are not identifiably Jewish, as in FX\u2019s hit series \u201cThe Bear.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing Jewish in West LA, my religion was watching comedy. That felt like God to me,\u201d Gordon told Vulture in 2021.<\/p>\n

The painter Sasha Gordon, who has no relation to Molly Gordon, won acclaim for her self-portraits set in surreal and nightmarish scenes. She has had multiple solo exhibitions in major cities, including \u201cHaze\u201d at the David Zwirner Gallery in New York City last year.<\/p>\n

Gordon grew up in Somers, New York, with a Korean mother and a Polish American Jewish father. She told Vogue in 2023 that she and her brother were bullied in the predominantly white small town for being different.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019m religious in any way, but I\u2019d say that I\u2019m culturally very Jewish,\u201d said Gordon.<\/p>\n

South African-born fashion designer Kallmeyer is the founder of Kallmeyer, a New York-based brand that specializes in suiting. She also became known for hosting pop-up Shabbat dinners that celebrated the Jewish queer community of New York.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Gossamer, Kallmeyer described herself as a \u201cgay Jewish business owner\u201d with all the accompanying \u201canxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joey King\u00a0<\/p>\n

King has been an actress since childhood, from the 2010 film \u201cRamona and Beezus\u201d to the \u201cKissing Booth\u201d series, which ran from 2018 to 2021, and the 2019 crime drama \u201cThe Act,\u201d which won her an Emmy nomination. Her latest film, \u201cPractical Magic 2,\u201d premiered last month.<\/p>\n

King opened up about her Jewish identity after starring in \u201cWe Were the Lucky Ones,\u201d a 2024 Hulu miniseries based on a true story about Polish siblings who survived the Holocaust while scattered across the globe.<\/p>\n

King told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in 2024 that she jumped at her first opportunity to play a Jewish woman.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t be prouder of who I am and my Jewish heritage,\u201d said King. \u201cWhen you get presented with a story like this, it\u2019s just a once-in-a-lifetime feeling. It\u2019s an immediate yes \u2014 to feel that you get to play a Jewish woman, and you are a Jewish woman.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"KnessetKnesset member Naama Lazimi of the Democratic Party, a leading figure in the opposition to the Israeli government, takes part in an anti-government rally. (credit: GETTY\/VIA JTA)Naama Lazimi\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lazimi has been dubbed by Haaretz a \u201csuperstar\u201d of the Israeli left. The lawmaker in Israel\u2019s Knesset built her political profile with a focus on poverty and public housing, while protesting against Netanyahu\u2019s government and calling for a state commission of inquiry into government failures surrounding the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.<\/p>\n

Lazimi said on social media that Time\u2019s recognition came just before \u201cthe most important elections the State of Israel has ever known.\u201d Lazimi\u2019s Democrats Party hopes to join a centrist governing coalition after the Oct. 27 elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not just a personal achievement, but a badge of honor for an entire camp in Israel, a glorious and determined camp that fights for the democratic character of our country, and for solidarity and social justice,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Lazimi is a longtime ally of Smol Emuni, or \u201cFaithful Left,\u201d a movement of religious left-wing Jews who advocate for peace and oppose the Gaza war. At a conference of Smol Emuni\u2019s U.S. branch in New York, Lazimi said, \u201cPeace is not just true security; it is also the most moral, and the most Jewish, choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yotam Segev\u00a0<\/p>\n

Israeli-born Segev is the leader of Cyera, a company that creates systems to defend sensitive data against attackers in the AI age. Founded in 2021, Cyera is now valued at $12 billion, according to Time.<\/p>\n

Segev, who moved to New York four years ago, told CTech that he became more aware of being \u201ca Jew in the U.S.\u201d since the Gaza war. He cited rising incidents of antisemitism and the fear of being \u201cperceived as someone\u2019s enemy just because of where I come from.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I walk around with my child, I don\u2019t speak loudly in Hebrew without being aware of my surroundings,\u201d said Segev.<\/p>\n

Troye Sivan\u00a0<\/p>\n

Australian singer and actor Sivan went from performing the \u201cshul circuit\u201d as a child to Grammy-nominated pop stardom. He was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household. At 15, he came out after his father shared the belief that \u201cit really doesn\u2019t make sense\u201d for religion to ban being gay, according to a 2019 interview with the New Yorker.<\/p>\n

Sivan launched a lifestyle brand in 2023 called Tsu Lange Yor, the Yiddish phrase for \u201cto long years.\u201d He told W Magazine his great-grandmother spoke Yiddish at home when he was a child. While not himself \u201cparticularly religious,\u201d Sivan said his Jewish identity formed a \u201chuge part\u201d of his cultural identity, and he continued to hold Shabbat dinners.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsidering I\u2019m not very religious and I\u2019m queer, my Jewish identity was something I grappled with and was unsure about,\u201d said Sivan. \u201cI liked the idea of reclaiming it and proudly saying, even to other Jewish people, \u2018I\u2019m queer, and I\u2019m also a Jew \u2014 and these are things that are both equally important in the makeup of who I am.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From artists and actors to technologists to politicians advancing visions for the future, Time Magazine has recognized Jewish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1503,1903,146,287396,85,46,40102],"class_list":["post-636495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-culture","tag-diaspora","tag-entertainment","tag-famous-jews","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-time-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}