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This 
 Y
ear’s

Meet these young Jewish 
professionals who are making 
an impact in Metro Detroit.

JN STAFF
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or the past several 
years, the JN has had 
the privilege to meet 
an amazing group of people 
through our annual “36 Under 
36.” Each of the people you’ll 
meet in these pages today was 
nominated by a member of 
our community and selected 
by a judging panel made up of 
community leaders. 
This year’s cohort is incred-
ibly diverse in their profes-
sions, skills and passions. We 
congratulate them on being 
selected as “36 Under 36” and 
look forward to seeing their 
names in our pages as they 
progress through their careers.
Here they are, in no partic-
ular order. 
 

 

DAN 
BROTMAN
Boston-born 
Dan Brotman 
just passed the 
one-year mark 
as executive 
director of the Windsor 
Jewish Federation and 
Community Center. Canada 
is Dan’s third immigration, 
having lived most of his 
adult life in Israel and South 
Africa. Windsor’s Jewish 
population of 1,200 has sig-
nificantly diminished over 
the years, and one of Dan’s 
main goals in his role is to 
leverage Canada’s pro-im-
migration policies to attract 
new Jewish arrivals to the 
city.
In partnership with 
the Jewish Federations of 
Hamilton and London, 
Ontario, Dan is oversee-
ing the launch of Welcome 
Home, a campaign to attract 
new Jewish families to these 
three communities in south-
ern Ontario. He has also 
built a coalition of local part-
ners that has been lobbying 

the federal government for 
Windsor to participate in a 
pilot immigration program 
targeting smaller Canadian 
cities.

 Dan is active in both 
the Windsor and Detroit 
Jewish communities and 
represents Windsor on 
the Achdut Council for 
Young Adults. He is an 
active participant at Partners 
Detroit, The Well and 
Limmud Michigan, as well as 
a contributor to the Detroit 
Jewish News. He aims to 
better integrate the Windsor 
Jewish community with the 
vibrant Jewish communi-
ties across the river. Under 
his leadership, the Windsor 
Federation and JCC has 
partnered on various events 
with Jewish organizations in 
Detroit and Ann Arbor.
Prior to relocating to 
Windsor, Dan owned a cor-
porate education travel com-
pany in South Africa. He is 
an amateur travel writer and 
continues to visit some of 
the world’s most unique and 
unusual destinations.

ASHLEY 
SCHNARR
Ashley Schnaar 
is a planning 
associate at 
the Jewish 
Federation 
of Metropolitan Detroit. 
Through her role, Ashley 
advocates for the needs of 
Jewish community agen-
cies and helps organizations 
demonstrate their impact 
through program evaluation.
 Ashley recently served as 
the coordinator of We Need to 
Talk, the Detroit Jewish com-
munity’s youth mental health 
initiative, where she organized 
educational events and train-
ings and conducted a commu-
nity-wide mental health study.
She grew up in Metro 
Detroit and currently resides 
in Ferndale. In high school, 
Ashley was involved with 
YFTI at Temple Israel and 
NFTY Michigan. Ashley grad-
uated from Michigan State 
University in 2018, where 
she was a student leader at 
MSU Hillel. She received 
her master’s in social work 

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