2025 Manhattan Jewish Hall of Fame Inductees

2025 Inductees

Jack Kliger

Jack Kliger, President & CEO of the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, was born in Florence, Italy to Polish and Hungarian Holocaust survivors before emigrating with his family to Brooklyn, New York at three years old. He began his career at The Village Voice in the mid 1970s and was hired […]

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Sir Frank London

Sir Frank London is a Grammy-award winning trumpeter-composer and co-founder of the Klezmatics. His Yiddish-Cuban opera Hatuey Memory of Fire (with Elise Thoron) premiered in Havana and at Montclair's Peak Performances. He composed the poetry/dance/video/music work Salomé: Woman of Valor (with Adeena Karasick) which performed internationally. In 2019 alone, he premiered the song cycle Ghetto […]

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Robin Bonk

Robin Bronk is Chief Executive Officer of The Creative Coalition (“TCC”)—the leading national, nonprofit, nonpartisan social and public advocacy organization of the arts and entertainment industry. As CEO, Bronk is dedicated to educating the entertainment industry and arts community on issues of public importance, particularly the First Amendment, arts advocacy, arts in education, and media […]

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Sylvain Cappell

Sylvain Cappell was the first-born to Holocaust survivors in Belgium in 1946. Two grandparents and several uncles & aunts were killed at Auschwitz. His parental family emigrated to the U.S. in 1950. He graduated from Yeshiva Salanter in the Bronx and then from Bronx Science in 1963; that year he was the top national scholarship […]

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David L. Picket

David L. Picket is the Chief Executive Officer of Gotham Organization. Since joining the company in 1991, David has led Gotham’s new project development business through a period of unprecedented growth. He assumed responsibility for Gotham’s development and property operations businesses in 1998 and served as President of Gotham Development until 2020. David represents the […]

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Stephanie Simon

Stephanie Simon is a multiple Emmy Award-winning TV news anchor, reporter, and producer whose storytelling talent and passion for culture have made her a standout voice in New York. With multiple Emmys and numerous accolades to her name, Stephanie is best known for her dynamic coverage of the arts—including music, theater, dance, film, food, fashion, […]

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José Rolando Matalon

José Rolando Matalon, B’nai Jeshurun’s Senior Rabbi and Rosh Kehillah (head of the community), was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was educated in Buenos Aires, Montreal, Jerusalem, and New York City. After his ordination at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1986, Rabbi Matalon came to BJ to share the pulpit with his mentor, Rabbi […]

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Shuly Rubin Schwartz

Shuly Rubin Schwartz, Irving Lehrman Research Professor of American Jewish History, a groundbreaking scholar of American Jewish history, and a visionary institutional leader, is the eighth chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary. She is the first woman to serve in this role since JTS was founded in 1886. Previously, Dr. Schwartz played a central role […]

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2025 Inaugural Chaver Amiti Awardees

Gale A. Brewer

Gale A. Brewer represents the 6th Council District, located on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.Brewer chairs the Committee on Oversight and Investigations, which has a far-reaching mandateto examine the mayoral administration, its policies, and its delivery of city services. UnderCouncil Member Brewer’s leadership, the committee assessed costs of the migrant crisis, studiedoperational challenges in family court, […]

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Jenny Low

Jenny has dedicated her life to improving the lives of others and to strengthening underserved communities. Her decades of experience in the private, public and non-profit arenas led her to her current position as the Executive Advisor at Empire State Development Corp’s Division of Minority & Women’s Business Development (DMWBD). The Division is responsible for […]

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