![]() That culture of hosting and eating together and spending long hours talking about art and literature and the contents of People magazine (our other Torah) shaped me. ![]() South of The Kosher Marketplace and north of the train station on 72nd, it feels safe to estimate that around 30% of residents have attended one at some point or another. But also: I am the daughter of a mother and father who have hosted between 15 and 30 people for Shabbat lunch each week for their entire adult lives. It doesn’t get much more formative than that. ![]() ![]() I was educated at Ramaz in New York for over a decade. Was there a formative Jewish experience that influenced your life path? Kahn’s first book, “Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America’s Revolutions” will be out in June recently, the Upper West Sider generated a lot of buzz for her Vogue piece on what she’s dubbed the “Torah-teacher aesthetic.”įor the full list of this year’s “36ers” - which honors leaders, entrepreneurs and changemakers who are making a difference in New York’s Jewish community - click here. She’s won two Front Page Awards from the Newswomen’s Club of New York, most recently for her feature in the Atlantic on Arthur Kahn, the first Jewish person killed in the Holocaust, who was also her great-uncle. Mattie Kahn, 31, is a writer whose work has been published in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Vogue, Elle, Glamour and more. ![]()
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