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36 to Watch 2023

Dani Zoldan, 42, Stand Up NY comedy club owner

Dani Zoldan, 42, is the owner of the Upper West Side comedy club Stand Up NY. “I used to frequent the club as a comedy fan in my teens and when I was 27, I purchased it with my high school buddy, Gabe,” says Zoldan, who lives on the Upper West Side. Dedicated to Jewish […]

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Lily Brasch, 23, role model and activist for those with disabilities

Lily Brasch is an activist who describes her mission as “an effort to disable the word ‘disabled.’” Earlier this year, the 23-year-old walked in New York Fashion Week as the first model with muscular dystrophy to do so unassisted. She has also has launched a foundation, Born to Prove, highlighting stories like hers of people […]

Miriam Ezagui, 37, TikTok star

Miriam Ezagui, 37, is a labor and delivery nurse, a childbirth educator and a mom of four. But she’s best known for her TikTok account, which has 1.6 million followers. On the platform, Ezagui, who is Hasidic and lives in Brooklyn, posts a mix of storytimes (a popular type of TikTok video in which creators […]

Micaela Diamond, 23, star of Broadway’s ‘Parade’

Aaron Bendich, 29, klezmer music impresario

Dan Goldman, 47, Congressman

Mayer Waxman, 54, Queens Jewish Community Council executive director

Daniel Edelman, 20, New York Red Bulls midfielder

Jessica Tisch, 42, New York City’s sanitation commissioner

Andrew Mandel, 45, innovator and spiritual leader

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