Samuel Norich is the president and publisher of The Forward and The Forverts. Born in Germany in 1947, he immigrated to the United States in 1957. He attended Columbia as an undergraduate, and did his graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Hebrew University.  He was the executive director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research from 1980-1992 and is the author of What Will Bind Us Now: A Report on the Institutional Ties between Israel and American Jewry.