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2019 Inductees

Eric Kandel

Eric R. Kandel, M.D., is University Professor at Columbia; Kavli Professor and Director, Kavli Institute for Brain Science; Co-Director, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute; and a Senior Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. A graduate of Harvard College and N.Y.U. School of Medicine, Dr. Kandel trained in Neurobiology at the NIH and […]
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Josh Russ Tupper

Josh started his career as an engineer, working in semiconductors, before moving to New York City to continue his family's 105-year-old culinary and cultural legacy. In 2009 Josh Russ Tupper took ownership of Russ & Daughters along with his cousin Niki Russ Federman, as the 4th generation of Russ & Daughters. In 2014 they opened […]
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Rabbi Mark Golub

Rabbi Mark S. Golub is the president and CEO of JBSTV. He has had a very successful career in both teaching and the media. He created the Russian Television Network of America, (RTN) which serves the needs of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union. He has taught in the City College of New York’s […]
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Alice Greenwald

As President & CEO of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, a position she has held since January 2017, Alice M. Greenwald is responsible for the overall vision, financial well-being, management, and long-term sustainability and relevance of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan. From 2006-2016, Ms. […]
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Bizu Riki Mullu

Bizu Riki Mullu is a Good Will Ambassador, an artist, an Ethiopian Jew and an Israeli social entrepreneur. As a representative and community activist for Ethiopian-Israeli Jews living in North America, Bizu Riki has a passion for communicating the rich culture and heritage of Ethiopian Jewry. Bizu Riki shares her unique story of growing up […]
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Brooke Goldstein

Brooke Goldstein is a New York City-based human rights attorney, author, and award-winning filmmaker. She serves as Executive Director of The Lawfare Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness about and facilitating a response to the abuse of Western legal systems and human rights law. Brooke is also the founder and director of the […]
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Dan Biederman

Dan Biederman is the founder of Bryant Park Corporation, 34th Street Partnership, and Grand Central Partnership, three of NYC's most successful Business Improvement Districts (BIDs). He currently serves as the President of the former two. In 1980, he co-founded BPC and began the restoration of Bryant Park. Under Biederman's guidance, BPC instituted a program of […]
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Jane Rosenthal

Jane Rosenthal is Co-Founder, CEO, and Chairwoman of Tribeca Enterprises, a global media company that encompasses the Tribeca Film Festival and award-winning branded content division Tribeca Studios. Rosenthal and Robert De Niro established Tribeca Productions and the Tribeca Film Center in 1989. Rosenthal has since established herself as a leading producer of critically and commercially […]
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Joel Gray

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Niki Russ Federman

Niki Russ Federman was pretty much born in a herring barrel, with a sharp knife in her hand and a penchant for caviar. Educated at Amherst College, Niki worked in a variety of professions from the art world to international development before realizing that her appetite was fulfilled by continuing her family's 105-year-old culinary legacy […]
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Susan Weidman Schneider

Susan Weidman Schneider is a founding mother of Lilith "independent, Jewish and frankly feminist" the award-winning Jewish women's magazine; she has been Editor-in-Chief since its debut in 1976. The magazine and her books, articles and lectures are often credited with changing the way women shape their roles and the world around them. Schneider's groundbreaking reporting […]
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