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Adam Eli, 31, addressing the intersection of queer and Jewish identity

Adam Eli, an author of “The New Queer Conscience” and a longtime community organizer, was selected as one of the New York Jewish Week’s 36 to Watch (formerly 36 Under 36). This distinction honors leaders, entrepreneurs and changemakers who are making a difference in New York’s Jewish community. “The New Queer Conscience,” a manifesto about […]

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Nikolai Borodulin, 61, Yiddish maven and star educator

Nikolai Borodulin is the master teacher and director of Yiddish programming at the Workers Circle who has been teaching Yiddish since 1988. He was selected as one of the New York Jewish Week’s 36 to Watch (formerly 36 Under 36). This distinction honors leaders, entrepreneurs and changemakers who are making a difference in New York’s […]

Ryan Turell, 23, Yeshiva University basketball star

Ryan Turell, named the 2022 NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Player of the Year, was selected as one of the New York Jewish Week’s 36 to Watch (formerly 36 Under 36). This distinction honors leaders, entrepreneurs and changemakers who are making a difference in New York’s Jewish community. In the 2021-22 season, he helped lead […]

Avishai Yeganyahu Mekonen, 48, capturing the Ethiopian Jewish experience on film

Rachel Weinstein White, 47, reimagining the ‘Hebrew school’

KM DiColandrea, 37, Jewish educator, debate coach and role model

Sophie Beren, 27, unifying people through conversation

Danielle Brody, 29, remaking Judaism one ‘doodle’ at a time

Dovid Efune, 37, publisher of The New York Sun

Souksvat “Souks” Soukhaseum, 39, advocate for a diverse and inclusive community

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