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Magda Teter, 52, is the first-ever Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies at Fordham University, the Jesuit university in the Bronx. Although she is not Jewish, Teter...
Larisa Boas, 47, is the executive director of the Shorefront Jewish Community Council in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Recently, the social services organization has seen a dramatic...
Stephanie Luxenberg, 50, and Ayelet Pearl, 30, are the co-founders, along with Rabbi Jonathan Pearl, of Ashreynu, a new pluralistic, creative and musical Jewish community in...
Lily Henley, 31, is a Brooklyn-based folk singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose most recent release, an album of new Ladino songs, “Oras Dezaoradas” (“Hours Without Hours”),...
Orly Gottesman, 36, is owner and operator of the popular kosher and gluten-free restaurants Modern Bread and Bagel, and Thyme and Tonic, an Upper West Side...
Heather Miller, 42, is a public school leader and founder of The Multitudes, an organization that supports Jews of color. Miller has facilitated workshops that have...
Like many academics, Sandy Fox, 34, wears many hats. She teaches history as a visiting assistant professor at NYU; she’s the director of the just-launched Archive...
Beatrice Weber, 48, is the executive director of Yaffed, whose mission is to improve the quality of secular education in New York’s Hasidic and haredi yeshivas....
Rachael Fried, 36, is the executive director of Jewish Queer Youth, a nonprofit that supports and empowers LGBTQ youth with a focus on those from Orthodox,...
For the full list of this year’s 36 to Watch — which honors leaders, entrepreneurs and changemakers who are making a difference in New York’s Jewish...
Mattie Kahn, 31, is a writer whose work has been published in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Vogue, Elle, Glamour and more....
(New York Jewish Week) – Hip-hop music blasted through loudspeakers as about a dozen models strutted up and down a makeshift runway. Some of them wore...