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Jessica Seinfeld, 51, cookbook author who is standing up to hate

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 community — click here. Jessica Seinfeld is better known as a cookbook author than an activist. Her popular books include 2007’s “Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids […]

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Shoshana Nambi, 34, children’s book author

Shoshana Nambi, 34, grew up in the Abayudaya community in eastern Uganda. As a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College, she is a student rabbi at Rodeph Sholom, a Reform congregation on the Upper West Side, where Nambi and her teenage daughter live. Nambi also recently authored a picture book, “The Very Best Sukkah: A […]

Eric Finkelstein, 41, reinventing the Jewish luncheonette

Eric Finkelstein, 41, is the co-owner, along with his partner, Matt Ross, of the hip local sandwich chain Court Street Grocers, as well as the HiHi Room, a “neighborhood restaurant” in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Last fall, the duo was tapped to revitalize an iconic, old-school luncheonette across from the Flatiron Building, which first opened in […]

Julian Shapiro-Barnum, 23, YouTube star

Mattie Kahn, 31, writer

Barry Manilow, 79, hitmaker with Broadway-bound show

Rachael Fried, 36, Jewish Queer Youth executive director

Beatrice Weber, 49, Yaffed executive director

Sandy Fox, 34, Jewish camp expert

Heather Miller, 42, school leader, synagogue president and founder of The Multitudes

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