Meet our 2024 Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Legal Advocate, National Jewish Advocacy Center

Former Prime
Minister of Israel

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Naftali
Bennett

Adela
Cojab

  • Marnie Black

    Founder & CEO
    GJCA (Global Jewish Communications Alliance)

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  • Eylon Levy

    Co-Founder
    The Israeli Citizen Spokespersons’ Office

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  • Izabella Tabarovsky

    Senior Fellow
    Z3 Institute for Jewish Priorities

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  • Dr. Joshua Ladon

    Vice President, West Coast and Senior Faculty
    Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

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  • Nadav Eyal

    Journalist
    Yediot Ahronot & Ynet

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  • Rachel Jacoby Rosenfield

    Chief Executive Officer
    Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

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  • Dr. David Hazony

    Director & Senior Fellow
    Z3 Institute for Jewish Priorities

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  • Limor Goldhaber

    MA Counseling Student, Trauma Researcher, & Soundbath Practitioner

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  • Dr. Masua Sagiv

    Senior Faculty
    Shalom Hartman Institute
    Koret Visiting Assistant Professor
    Jewish and Israel Studies, Helen Diller Institute at U.C. Berkeley

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  • Rabbi Amitai Fraiman

    Director
    The Z3 Project, OFJCC

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  • Alissa Bernstein

    Assistant Director
    American Jewish Committee Los Angeles

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  • Zack Bodner

    President & CEO
    Oshman Family JCC
    Author

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  • Charlie Covit

    Student
    Harvard University

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  • Dr. Adi Zief-Balteriski

    Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Entrepreneur, and Trauma Expert

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  • Avi Gamulka

    Advisor to the President
    World Zionist Organization

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  • Amy Albertson

    Jewish Advocate & Educator

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  • Yael Vias Gvirsman

    Founder
    October 7 Justice Without Borders (Ltd)
    Founding Director
    International Criminal and Humanitarian Law Clinic at Harry Radzyner Law School, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya

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  • Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

    Resident Senior Fellow
    Atlantic Council

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  • Julia Steinberg

    Fellow
    The Free Press

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  • Tyler (Tye) Gregory

    CEO
    JCRC Bay Area

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  • Mohammad Darawshe

    Director of Strategy
    Givat Haviva

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  • Vanessa Hidary

    Spoken Word Artist

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  • Andres Spokoiny

    President and CEO
    Jewish Funders Network

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  • Talia Bodner

    Student and Writer
    Columbia University and The Jewish Theological Seminary

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  • April Powers

    VP of DEI
    Project Shema
    Co-Founder
    Jewbian Princess

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  • Liel Leibovitz

    Editor at Large
    Tablet Magazine

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  • Tova Dorfman

    President
    World Zionist Organization

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  • Noah “Westside Gravy” Shufutinsky

    Rapper & Educator
    StandWithUs

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  • Shalom Orzach

    Senior Educational Consultant
    The iCenter

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  • Ayelet Shaked

    Former Israeli Minister
    Interior and Justice

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  • Ambassador Marco Sermoneta

    Consul General
    Israel to the Pacific Northwest

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  • Alana Zeitchik

    Advocate & Executive Director
    The Narrow Bridge Project

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  • Shlomit Naim Naor

    Program Director
    M² The Institute for Jewish Experiential Education

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  • Gregg Drinkwater

    Program Director
    Antisemitism Education Initiative, Center for Jewish Studies, UC Berkeley

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  • Rabbi Dr. Laura Novak Winer

    Director
    Master of Educational Leadership Program, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

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  • Nadav Douani

    CEO
    ScienceAbroad group- the organization of Israeli scientists

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  • Dr. Ezra Kopelowitz

    CEO
    Research Success Technologies Ltd.
    Co-Director Center
    Jewish Peoplehood Education, Research Success Technologies / Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education

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  • Rabba Mor Shimonie

    Director of Family Education
    The Kitchen SF

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  • Rabbi Nolan Lebovitz

    Senior Rabbi
    Valley Beth Shalom

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  • Hila Rabinovich Escapa

    Kibbutz Member
    Resource Development Team

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  • Hilla Drechler

    Director
    Zionist Enterprises Dept, World Zionist Organization

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  • Ziv Frailich

    Kibbutz Beeri Member

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  • Maggie Feldman-Piltch

    National Security Fellow
    The Wilson Center

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  • Prof. Chanan Tigay

    Editor-in-Chief
    J. The Jewish News of Northern California

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  • Dr. Oleg Ivanov

    Executive Director
    StandWithUs Northern California

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  • Emma Goss

    Staff Reporter
    J. The Jewish News of Northern California

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  • Rabbi Daniel Lehmann, Ph.D.

    Head of School
    Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School

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  • Laura E. Adkins

    Senior Director
    Jewish Women International

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  • Tamar Ben Ruby

    Senior Director
    Strategic Initiatives, The Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Anti-Semitism

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  • Idan Raichel

    Producer, Keyboardist, Lyricist, Composer and Performer

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  • Jennifer Mamlet

    Acting President and CEO
    JCC Association of North America

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  • Liz Hirsh Naftali

    Hostage - Humanitarian Advocate & Author, Saving Abigail

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