Bernie Sanders, Ivanka Trump, Daveed Diggs, Aly Raisman, and Natalie Portman don’t often find themselves on the same list. But The Forward 50, an annual list of the country’s most influential Jews, includes that combination and more.

Every year since 1994, the New York-based Jewish newspaper The Forward has produced a list of that year’s most prominent Jews in business, community, culture, food, law, media, politics, science and sports. A special “Top 5” section highlights the most influential all; this year’s winners include Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Hamilton star Daveed Diggs, Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein, Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan, and journalist Julia Ioffe.

The 2016 list, arriving on the heels of the election results and an ongoing resurgence of anti-Semitism, holds special significance, according to the publication’s editor Jane Eisner.

“I do think it’s important for the Jewish community specifically and for the United States more generally to recognize the hate that was released in this campaign, particularly that which came from the far right, and for us all to do our best to tap it down,” Eisner tells DCist. “It’s not going to go away.”

The campaign she’s referring to, of course, is the one led by Donald Trump — among many other groups, the tone of his rhetoric and the opinions of his staffers have unleashed an unprecedented torrent of harassment on Jewish journalists, Eisner says.

Just yesterday, Trump’s team announced that one of the top positions in his administration will be occupied by his campaign manager Steve Bannon, a conservative media executive whose website Breitbart is one of the nation’s most prominent outlets for white nationalist sympathies and anti-Semitic views. Bannon has also been accused of anti-Semitism and domestic abuse by his ex-wife.

Bannon and newly named chief-of-staff Reince Priebus will work as “equal partners to transform the federal government, making it much more efficient, effective and productive,” according to Trump’s transition team.

Eisner and her colleagues have been on the receiving end of anti-Semitic sentiments for months, and there’s a reasonable concern that the issues could get worse.

The Forward 50 list is an attempt to remind readers that that narrative is only one of many in American Jewish life right now. The list does include lightning-rod election players like Sanders, Ivanka Trump, and Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law. But Eisner hopes readers’ eyes will wander beyond those household names.

“Too often in journalism, all we do is write about the bad things people do,” Eisner says. “This gives us an opportunity to write about the wonderful things people do too.”

Some of those accomplishments involve the election, as with Russian-American journalist Julia Ioffe, who profiled Melania Trump in GQ only to be targeted by fervent anti-Semitic groups for weeks afterwards. But others made their mark elsewhere. Foreign affairs journalist Jeffrey Goldberg became editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. Mark Hetfield led an effort to help the refugee community as president and CEO of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society charity. Rachel Gilmer — who was raised Jewish but no longer identifies as such — launched a Black Lives Matter-affiliated movement to condemn Israel’s treatment of Palestine as genocide.

Epstein, meanwhile, earned his place on the list earlier this year, but the Cubs’ recent World Series win made his inclusion mandatory, according to Eisner. “That was a nice little gift,” she says.

Eisner hopes the Forward 50 will inspire similar efforts and represent the ongoing importance of free press in the United States. Examining positive role models has proved an effective distraction from election mania and the harassment she’s endured, she says.

“It does encourage us to look for the good in people, and to understand that there are many aspects to American Jewish life. It’s not just politics, it’s not just what happens in a presidential campaign,” Eisner says. “There are amazing people doing all kinds of things in all walks of life. I’m sure there are way more than 50. It’s certainly helped me in the last few weeks.”

The full list is available on The Forward’s website.