Leadership

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The new generation of leaders is here.

Brenda Ficher – Argentina

Brenda Ficher

Collective construction is one of the founding bases of Jewish identity and I believe that we have a responsibility to follow that mandate. We are better together, we are better with each other.

Hernán Frenkel

I am motivated by the possibility of strengthening the voice of the community in those spaces where it is necessary to make it heard, as well as the desire to build coexistence in diversity.
Florencia Kaplun – Argentina

Florencia Kaplun

Knowing that there is constant discrimination based on ignorance and hate motivates me to activate and contribute my grain of sand.

Nicolás Luna

I am motivated by the traditions, values and knowledge that we share in our community. I am committed to participate wherever it is in order to support it, promote its growth and preserve its roots.

Manuel Palatnik – 2023 NG Fellow

I am motivated by the sense of unity that the community in general has and the opportunity through all the tools that exist today to also represent it and forge or strengthen ties with other cultures, government entities, institutions, etc.
Tamara Grajewer – Argentina

Tamara Grajewer

It motivates me to be part of programs that promote the feeling of community, culture, values and Jewish tradition.
Maia Borenstein – Argentina

Maia Bornsztein – NG Argentina

“The most important thing in life is to cheer up. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.” – Shimon Peres
To me, community is the legacy, the school, and transmission. It’s traditions, family and friends, and the place in the world in which history has situated us. It involves resisting the events of the Shoah and the responsibility that no Jew will go through something like it again. It is the frame of my identity and inspires me to take care, reproduce, and convey it to future generations.

Viviane Tesone

Nothing is more gratifying than to work for my community. It means working for my family, for the wellbeing of my people, and it turns every action, no matter how small, into something significant.

Tamara Grajewer – Argentina

Tomás Mojo

It motivates me to be part of a space for collective construction, for the defense of Human Rights and a place to get to know people, ideas and unique projects, with great social impact and scope.

Gabriel Busnick

I´m motivated by the continuity of the community.

Tamara Grajewer – Argentina

Alejo Bendersky

I´m motivated by community building and belonging.

Nothing is more gratifying than to work for my community. It means working for my family, for the wellbeing of my people, and it turns every action, no matter how small, into something significant.

Ezequiel Sporn

Tamara Grajewer – Argentina

Pablo Escandarani

I´m motivated to develop and strengthen the bridges between  Jews and other communities.

Federico Glustein – Argentina

Federico Glustein – 2023 NG Fellow

It motivates me to be able to collaborate with the resolution of the various problems of Jewish community life, such as anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, the freedom to exercise Judaism in all its forms. Also, to promote brotherhood, peace and multiculturalism.

Sebastián Palatnik

My grandfather Abraham fled Poland in 1939 and 80 years later, I have the opportunity to take up a legacy, to build a better place and a community that will stay alive adapting to the changes of the 21st. Century.

Ilan Buzny – Argentina

Ilan Buzny – 2023 NG Fellow

The pride of belonging and activating in just causes. I don’t think that as young people we are only the future, we are also part of the present and we have to activate to start getting involved and to be able to create the community we want.

Gabriel Katz

What prompts me to work in the community is, on one hand, my family’s example and education and on the other, a deep sense of Jewish-Zionist identity.

Jimena Szpanierman 

Jimena Szpanierman – 2023 NG Fellow

Working for a good cause, to generate change and leave an impact in the world with my actions is what motivates me every day. It motivates me a lot to be part of a group of people that seeks to combat anti-Semitism through closeness with different actors and with society in general.

Geraldine Hochman – 2023 NG Fellow

What motivates me the most is thinking about continuity, and the fruits of a job. In knowing that there is a future led by one or several groups of people who have a common goal and who work for the well-being of something that exceeds one as a person.

Ariel Krok – Brasil

Ariel Krok

I am stimulated not only because I belong, but also by the continuity of the new generations, the legacy of the preceding ones, Israel as-a big miracle, the major role of Jewish communities worldwide. In summary, I am deeply stimulated by the fact that I am part of the history.

Mauro Enbe -2023 NG Fellow

What motivates me to activate in my community is the understanding that, precisely, a community is built from its members. Understanding that, the possibility of participating in community development and in its relationship with the general society, I consider it an honor that is rarely given to a person.
Maia Borenstein – Argentina

Maia Borenstein – Argentina

“The most important thing in life is to cheer up. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.” – Shimon Peres
To me, community is the legacy, the school, and transmission. It’s traditions, family and friends, and the place in the world in which history has situated us. It involves resisting the events of the Shoah and the responsibility that no Jew will go through something like it again. It is the frame of my identity and inspires me to take care, reproduce, and convey it to future generations.