Meet our 2023 speakers.
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Prof. Yuli Tamir
Former Minister of Education, President of Beit Berl College
Beit Berl College -
Justice Prof. Elyakim Rubinstein
Deputy President (Ret.)
The Supreme Court of Israel -
Dr. Einat Wilf
Author, Former MK
Jewish Priorities -
Rabbi Shai Held
President, Dean, and Chair
Hadar Institute -
Luc Bernard
Director
Voices of the Forgotten -
Dr. Mijal Bitton
Rosh Kehilla
Downtown Minyan Community -
Rabbi Amitai Fraiman
Director, The Z3 Project
OFJCC -
Elana Jagoda Kaye
Jewish Musician
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Tova Dorfman
President
World Zionist Organization -
Dr. Yakir Englander
Senior Director of Gvanim and Leadership Education
Israeli-American Council (IAC) -
Dr. Samantha Vinokor-Meinrath
Senior Director of Knowledge, Ideas & Learning
The Jewish Education Project -
Zack Bodner
Author and President & CEO
OFJCC -
Jake Cohen
Cookbook Author
I Could Nosh -
Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin
Political Analyst
Haaretz -
Prof. Amichai Magen
Visiting Professor in Political Science & Fellow in Israel Studies
Stanford University -
Dr. Beza Abebe
Research Fellow
Bechol Lashon -
Janine Zacharia
Journalist, Lecturer
Department of Communication, Stanford University. -
Rabbi David Gedzelman
President & CEO
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life -
Laura E. Adkins
Opinion Editor
The Forward -
Rabbi Shlomo Elkan
Director
Chabad at Oberlin College -
Adam Bellow
Publisher
Wicked Son Books -
Tal-Or Cohen Montemayor
Founder & Executive Director
CyberWell -
Elad Nehorai
Writer, Activist, and Marketer
Justice Marketing -
Rivka Nehorai
Post-denominational, Abstract Figurative Painter
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Daryl Messinger
Chair
ARZA- Association of Reform Zionists of America -
Rabbi Josh Weinberg
Vice President, Israel and Reform Zionism
Union for Reform Judaism, Executive Director, ARZA -
Tova Birnbaum
Director of Jewish Content
Oshman Family JCC -
Dr. Larry Diamond
Senior Fellow
Hoover Institution and FSI, Stanford University -
Dr. David Hazony
Editor
Jewish Priorities -
Dr. Tamar Hofnung
Israel Institute Fellow
UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies -
Dr. Ilan Amit
Co-CEO
AJEEC-NISPED -
Sigal Vardi
Musician, Singer, and Composer
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Shai Weingarten
Executive Director and Co-President
Weingarten Foundation -
Kher Albaz
Chairman of the Board
AJEEC-NISPED -
Rebecca Goodman
Director of Jewish Community Engagement
Jewish Community Relations Council -
Tye Gregory
CEO
Jewish Community Relations Council -
Saul Kaye
Jewish Music Artist
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Maya Mirsky
Writer
J. the Jewish News of Northern California -
Ambassador Marco Sermoneta
Consul General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest
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Neta Katz Epstein
Chief Program Officer & Head of The Jewish Agency Delegation in North America
The Jewish Agency for Israel -
Rabbi Jessica Kirschner
Rabbi and Executive Director
Hillel at Stanford University -
Saul Singer
Author
"Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle" -
Sophia Shramko
Stanford MBA'19
Stanford University -
Yotam Polizer
CEO
IsraAID -
Rabbi Nico Socolovsky
Senior Rabbi
Congregation Shir Hadash -
Dr. Chuck Freilich
Senior Fellow
Institute for National Security Studies, Tel-Aviv -
Jonathan Mintzer
Engagement and Relationship Development
Jewish Community Relations Council -
Ariel Horowitz
Writer, PhD Candidate
Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University -
Joshua Jankelow
Undergrad, Class of 2023. Economics and Political Science
Stanford University -
Yotam Berger
JSD Candidate at Stanford Law School
Stanford University -
Lavi Hammel
Class of 2027. Majoring in Bioengineering.
Santa Clara University