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The John and Catherine MacArthur Foundation yesterday announced the recipients of its annual MacArthur “Genius” Grants, the renowned $500,000 stipends.
Rob Eshman, the editor of the LA Jewish Journal has gone through the recipients and picked out the Jews on his “Bloggish” blog.
Deborah Eisenberg, 63, a short-story writer, Beth Shapiro, 33, an evolutionary biologist at Pennsylvania State University and Elyn Saks, 53, a law professor at the University of Southern California, were among the winners.
Eshman has more about each in his post.
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