Speakers of the 2009 General Assembly
Rabbi Elka Abrahamson
Vice President, The Wexner Foundation
Roni Akale
Representative of Ethiopian Jewish Community Organizations in Israel & CEO, Fidel Association for the Education and Social Integration of Ethiopian Jews in Israel
Richard Altman
Chief Executive Officer, Jewish Child Care Association of New York
Benjamin Amon
UC Berkeley
Toby Appleton
Director, Fifth Generation: Kibbutz at 100
Bruce Arbit
Chairman, United Israel Appeal
Avinoam Armoni
CEO, Beit Hatfutsot
Yonatan Ariel
Executive Director, MAKOM: The Israel Engagement Network
Reed Baker
CEO, Sophist Productions
Avinoam Bar-Yosef
Founding Director, Jewish People Policy Planning Institute
Dan Ben David
Executive Director of the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies
Dr. Liat Taiber Ben-David
Director - MAYDA: The Ashalim National Knowledge and Learning Center
Eitan Ben Eliahu
Member, International Board of Governors, Beit Hatfutsot: the Museum of the Jewish People
Marina Belotserkovsky
Senior Director, Russian Communications, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
Mandell L. Berman
Philanthropist
Laura Bialis
Director, Sderot: Rock in the Red Zone
Elisa Spungen Bildner
President, JTA; Co-Founder, Foundation for Jewish Camp
Aaron Bisman
Co-founder, President, and CEO of JDub Records and Jewcy
Judith Brachman
Co-Chair, The Jewish Federations of North America Domestic Affairs Aging and Family Caregiving Workgroup
Adam Bronfman
Managing Director, The Samuel Bronfman Foundation
Charles Bronfman
Dr. Erica Brown
Director, Adult Education, The Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning and scholar-in-residence, The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
Stuart L. Brown
Trustee, Naomi & Nehemiah Cohen Foundation
Nina Bruder
Executive Director, Bikkurim: An Incubator for New Jewish Ideas
Alex Budnitsky
Chief Operating Officer, Marks Jewish Community House (Bensonhurst)
Stacy Burdett
Associate Director, Government and National Affairs, Anti-Defamation League
Sandy Cahn
Co-Chair, Limmud
Sanford R. Cardin
President of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation
Cindy Chazan
Vice President, The Wexner Foundation
Patrick Clawson
Deputy Director for Research, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Eli Cohen
Director, Aliyah and Absorption Department, Jewish Agency for Israel
Marvin Cohen
Len Cole
Chair, UJC Representatives to the Birthright Israel Steering Committee
Lisa Colton
President, Darim Online
The Hon. Irwin Cotler, P.C., O.C., M.P.
Member of Canadian Parliament
Beth Cousens
Director, Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Experience, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
Steve Cupertino
Chief Information Officer, The Jewish Federations of North America
William Daroff
Vice President for Public Policy & Director of the Washington Office, The Jewish Federations of North America
Rachel W. Davis
Chief Development Officer, Jewish Family Service, Houston
Mohammad Darawshe
Co-Executive Director, The Abraham Fund Initiatives
Nancy-Ann DeParle
Director, Office of White House Health Reform
Liz Donnenfeld
Executive Director, Jewish Federation of the North Shore (Salem, MA)
Dr. Maureen Dowling
Acting Director, Office of Non-Public Education, U.S. Department of Education
Bill Drayton
C.E.O. and Founder, Ashoka
Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat
Chair, Board of Directors and Professional Guiding Council, Jewish People Policy Planning Institute
Shep Englander
CEO, Jewish Federation of Cincinnati
Howard English
VP, Corporate Communications, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto
Rabbi Seth Farber
Maj. Gen. (Res.) Aharon Zeevi Farkash
President, Jewish People Policy Planning Institute
Dr. Judy Feder
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Ethan Felson
Vice President, Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA)
Allan Finkelstein
President, JCC Association
Maxyne Finkelstein
CEO, JAFI North America
Wayne L. Firestone
President and CEO, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
Cheryl Fishbein
Chair, Domestic Affairs, The Jewish Federations of North America
Michael Fisher
Director, Development and Community Outreach, Orr Shalom
Matt Freedman
Chief Strategy and Development Officer, The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore
Dr. Peter Friedman
Executive Vice President, Planning and Allocations, Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Dr. Misha Galperin
Executive Vice President and CEO, The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
Tony Gelbart
Founder and Chairman, Nefesh B'Nefesh
Michael C. Gelman
Treasurer, The Jewish Federations of North America
Susie Gelman
President, Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
Ben Gittleson
News editor, Tufts Daily newspaper; Editor, Tufts scholarly journal on the Middle East
Leah Golan
Director General, Israel Department, Jewish Agency for Israel
Barbara Black Goldfarb
General Campaign Chair, Greater Miami Jewish Federation
Jane Goldstein
Co-Chair, The Jewish Federations of North America Domestic Affairs Aging and Family Caregiving Workgroup
Bradley Gordon
Director of Policy and Government Affairs, American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Rabbi Yitz Greenberg
Founding President, The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life
Jill Greer
Manager, National Jewish Federation Bond Program, UJC
Gidi Grinstein
President and Founder, The Reut Institute
Steve Gutow
President and CEO, Jewish Council for Public Affairs
Susan Gutterman
Director, Planned Giving, Greensboro Jewish Federation
Beth Guttman
President, The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati
Prof. Jack Habib
Director, Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute
Moshe Halbertal
Professor, Hebrew University
Yossi Klein Halevi
Senior Fellow, Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies, Shalem Center, Jerusalem
Felicia Herman
Executive Director, Natan Fund
Yizhar Hess
Executive Director & CEO, Masorti Movement
Malcolm Hoenlein
Executive Vice Chairman, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Alan Hoffmann
Director General, Education Department, Jewish Agency for Israel
Andrea Hoffman
Director of Immersion Experience, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
Michael Hoffman
CEO, See3 Communications
Stephen H. Hoffman
President, Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland
Judy Horowitz
Director, UJC Consulting
Aharon Horwitz
Co-Director, PresenTense Group
Colonel (reserve) Elisha Hosman
Director, Youth Futures Division, Israel Department of the Jewish Agency for Israel
Liz Livingston Howard
Associate Director, Center for Nonprofit Management, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Linda Hurwitz
Chair, National Women's Philanthropy, The Jewish Federations of North America
Avraham Infeld
Senior Consultant, Nadav Fund
Maish Isaacson
Chairman of Telfed, South Africa
Andrew Jacobs
Director, Four Seasons Lodge
Dinah Jacobs
Academic Director, Kellogg Management Education for Jewish Leaders
Eliezer Jaffe
Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Richard Johnson
Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
Deborah Joselow
Director, Commission on Jewish Identity and Renewal, UJA-Federation of New York
Elana Kahn-Oren
President, American Jewish Press Association
Ron Kampeas
Washington Bureau Chief, Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
Randall Kaplan
Chair, International Board of Governors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
Rabbi Gilad Kariv
Associate Director, Israel Religious Action Center
Jeff Kaye
Director General for Resource Development & Public Affairs, Jewish Agency for Israel
Joyce Garver Keller
Executive Director, Ohio Jewish Communities
Rabbi Jason Kimelman-Block
Director, The PANIM Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values, a division of BBYO, Inc.
James Kirchick
Assistant Editor of the New Republic and Contributing Writer to the Advocate
Joe Klein
Senior Writer and Political Columnist, Time Magazine
Lori Klinghoffer
Chair, MetroWest UJC Israel & Overseas Committee; President, National Women’s Philanthropy of The Jewish Federations of North America
Irina Nevzlin Kogan
Managing Director, The Nadav Fund
Dr. Ezra Kopelowitz
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Research Success Technologies Ltd
Dr. Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz
Director, UJC Research & Analysis
Dr. Michael Kotzin
Executive Vice President of the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Benjamin Krasna
Israel's Deputy Consul General in New York
Keith Krivitzky
Vice President, Center for Jewish Philanthropy at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle
Alisa Rubin Kurshan
Vice President for Strategic Planning and Organizational Resources, UJA Federation of New York
Lucette Lagnado
Author
Emily Landau
Senior Research Fellow and Director, Arms Control and Regional Security Program, Institute for National Security Studies
Shawn Landres
CEO and Director of Research, Jumpstart
Mary Leary
Joslin LeBauer
Director, Planned Giving & Endowments' Create a Jewish Legacy, UJC/Jewish Federations of North America
Jeffrey Levin
Chief Planning Officer, Greater Miami Jewish Federation
Jimmy Levy
Managing General Partner, Al Bawader
Anne Lewis
President, Nolimits.org
Richard Licht
Charles Lipson
Peter B. Ritzma Professor in Political Science and the College, Founder and Co-Director, PIPES: Program on International Politics, Economics and Security, University of Chicago
Benji Lovitt
Comedian
Nancy Lublin
CEO, DoSomething.org; Founder, Dress for Success
Dr. Frank I. Luntz
President, The Word Doctors
Alisa Malki
UCLA Hillel, Co-founder, Challah for Hunger
David Makovsky
Ziegler Distinguished Fellow, Director, Project on Middle East Peace Process, The Washington Institute for Near Policy
Rabbi Noam Marans
Associate Director, Contemporary Jewish Life, American Jewish Committee
Dan H. McCormick
CEO and Founder, McCormick Group
Mark Mellman
CEO, The Mellman Group
Gary Miller
CEO, Jewish Family & Career Services, Atlanta
Jenna Mitzner
Program Director, Central Florida Hillel
Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi
Founder and President, The Israel Project
Rabbi Jack Moline
Rabbi, Agudas Achim Congregation of Northern Virginia
Joanne Moore
Chair, UJC National Young Leadership
Larry S. Moses
President, The Wexner Foundation
Dr. Steven B. Nasatir
President, Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Leonid Nevzlin
Initiator and Major Founder, The Nadav Fund
Ori Nir
Spokesman, Americans for Peace Now
Robert Nomberg
Interim Executive Director, Richmond Jewish Foundation
Nicole Opper
Director, Off and Running
Asher Ostrin
Executive Director, Former Soviet Union Department, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Laurie E. Paarlberg
Professor, University of North Carolina-Wilmington
Andy Paller
Director, UJC Consulting
Dan Pallotta
Author, Uncharitable
Ron Pollack
Executive Director, Families USA
Yossi Prager
Executive Director, Avi Chai North America
Tina Price
Chair, Caring Commission, UJA-Federation of New York
Martin J. Raffel
Senior Vice President and Director of the Task force on Israel, World Jewry & International Human Rights, JCPA
Dr. Shlomi Ravid
Director, International School for Jewish Peoplehood Studies
Cokie Roberts
Senior News Analyst, NPR News
Steve Roberts
Author and Journalist
Marcella Kanfer Rolnick
President and Chair, The Lippman Kanfer Family Foundation
Jon Rosenberg
CEO, Repair the World
Gary Rosenblatt
Editor & Publisher, The Jewish Week of New York
John S. Ruskay
Executive Vice President and CEO, UJA-Federation of NY
Aiman Saif
General Director, Authority for Economic Development of Minority Sectors, Prime Minister's Office, Israel
Barbara Salmanson
President, Board of Trustees, Jewish Child Care Association
Steven R. Scheck
Chair, UJC Jewish Service Initiative
Rabbi Dr. Martin Schloss
Director, Division of Day School Education, Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York
Ady Schonmann
International Human Rights Law Advisor, Israel Mission to the United Nations
Steve Schwager
Executive Vice President and CEO, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Dan Senor
Investor, Author and Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies, Council for Foreign Relations
Midge Perlman Shafton
Past Chair, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Natan Sharansky
Chairman, Jewish Agency for Israel
Bob Sherman
CEO, BJE New York
Lee Sherman
President/CEO, Association of Jewish Family & Children’s Agencies
Yoav Shoham
Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Bruce Sholk
2010 Board Chairman, The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore
Barry Shrage
President, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston
Iantha Sidell
Campaign Chair, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle
Kristen Silverberg
U.S. Ambassador to the EU
Robert Singer
Director General & CEO, World ORT
Joy Sisisky
Executive Director of the Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York; 2007-08 JDC Ralph I. Goldman Fellow
Elise Slobodin
Planning Director, the Caring Commission, UJA-Federation of New York
Carol Smokler, Ph.D
Chair, Social Venture Fund for Jewish-Arab Equality and Shared Society, The Jewish Federations of North America
Adam J. Smolyar
Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing and Communications, UJC
Aleksander Smukler
President, NCSJ: Advocates on behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia
Ted Sokolsky
President and CEO, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto
Carole Solomon
Chair, Jewish Agency for Israel North America
Jeffrey Solomon
Stan Z. Soloway
Member, Board of Directors, Corporation for National and Community Service
Elisa Spungen Bildner
President, JTA: The Global News Service of the Jewish People and Co-founder, Foundation for Jewish Camp
David Steirman
Chair of the Board, JESNA
Susan K. Stern
New York State Commission on National and Community Service
Eric B. Stillman
President and CEO, Jewish Federation of Broward County
Raya Strauss Bendror
Philanthropist
Stephanie Strom
National Correspondent, The New York Times
David Strong
Marsha Sussman
Consultant, Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
Irit Tamir
CEO, Kav Mashve
Michael Tarnoff
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Joel D. Tauber
Founder, Tauber Institute for Global Operations (University of Michigan)
Marc Terrill
President, THE ASSOCIATED: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore
Gil Troy
Professor of History, McGill University
Mara Vanderslice
White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
United States Representative, Florida
Michael Wegier
Executive Director, Melitz
Doug White
Senior Governance Consultant, BoardSource
Leon Wieseltier
Literary Editor, The New Republic
Dr. Einat Wilf
Senior Fellow, Jewish People Policy Planning Institute
Mark Wilf
Vice Chair, UJC Board of Trustees
Susan Worrel
Executive Director, Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte
Rachel Smoller Yoskowitz
Project Chessed, Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan Detroit
Vice President, The Wexner Foundation
Roni Akale
Representative of Ethiopian Jewish Community Organizations in Israel & CEO, Fidel Association for the Education and Social Integration of Ethiopian Jews in Israel
Richard Altman
Chief Executive Officer, Jewish Child Care Association of New York
Benjamin Amon
UC Berkeley
Toby Appleton
Director, Fifth Generation: Kibbutz at 100
Bruce Arbit
Chairman, United Israel Appeal
Avinoam Armoni
CEO, Beit Hatfutsot
Yonatan Ariel
Executive Director, MAKOM: The Israel Engagement Network
Reed Baker
CEO, Sophist Productions
Avinoam Bar-Yosef
Founding Director, Jewish People Policy Planning Institute
Dan Ben David
Executive Director of the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies
Dr. Liat Taiber Ben-David
Director - MAYDA: The Ashalim National Knowledge and Learning Center
Eitan Ben Eliahu
Member, International Board of Governors, Beit Hatfutsot: the Museum of the Jewish People
Marina Belotserkovsky
Senior Director, Russian Communications, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
Mandell L. Berman
Philanthropist
Laura Bialis
Director, Sderot: Rock in the Red Zone
Elisa Spungen Bildner
President, JTA; Co-Founder, Foundation for Jewish Camp
Aaron Bisman
Co-founder, President, and CEO of JDub Records and Jewcy
Judith Brachman
Co-Chair, The Jewish Federations of North America Domestic Affairs Aging and Family Caregiving Workgroup
Adam Bronfman
Managing Director, The Samuel Bronfman Foundation
Charles Bronfman
Dr. Erica Brown
Director, Adult Education, The Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning and scholar-in-residence, The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
Stuart L. Brown
Trustee, Naomi & Nehemiah Cohen Foundation
Nina Bruder
Executive Director, Bikkurim: An Incubator for New Jewish Ideas
Alex Budnitsky
Chief Operating Officer, Marks Jewish Community House (Bensonhurst)
Stacy Burdett
Associate Director, Government and National Affairs, Anti-Defamation League
Sandy Cahn
Co-Chair, Limmud
Sanford R. Cardin
President of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation
Cindy Chazan
Vice President, The Wexner Foundation
Patrick Clawson
Deputy Director for Research, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Eli Cohen
Director, Aliyah and Absorption Department, Jewish Agency for Israel
Marvin Cohen
Len Cole
Chair, UJC Representatives to the Birthright Israel Steering Committee
Lisa Colton
President, Darim Online
The Hon. Irwin Cotler, P.C., O.C., M.P.
Member of Canadian Parliament
Beth Cousens
Director, Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Experience, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
Steve Cupertino
Chief Information Officer, The Jewish Federations of North America
William Daroff
Vice President for Public Policy & Director of the Washington Office, The Jewish Federations of North America
Rachel W. Davis
Chief Development Officer, Jewish Family Service, Houston
Mohammad Darawshe
Co-Executive Director, The Abraham Fund Initiatives
Nancy-Ann DeParle
Director, Office of White House Health Reform
Liz Donnenfeld
Executive Director, Jewish Federation of the North Shore (Salem, MA)
Dr. Maureen Dowling
Acting Director, Office of Non-Public Education, U.S. Department of Education
Bill Drayton
C.E.O. and Founder, Ashoka
Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat
Chair, Board of Directors and Professional Guiding Council, Jewish People Policy Planning Institute
Shep Englander
CEO, Jewish Federation of Cincinnati
Howard English
VP, Corporate Communications, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto
Rabbi Seth Farber
Maj. Gen. (Res.) Aharon Zeevi Farkash
President, Jewish People Policy Planning Institute
Dr. Judy Feder
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Ethan Felson
Vice President, Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA)
Allan Finkelstein
President, JCC Association
Maxyne Finkelstein
CEO, JAFI North America
Wayne L. Firestone
President and CEO, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
Cheryl Fishbein
Chair, Domestic Affairs, The Jewish Federations of North America
Michael Fisher
Director, Development and Community Outreach, Orr Shalom
Matt Freedman
Chief Strategy and Development Officer, The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore
Dr. Peter Friedman
Executive Vice President, Planning and Allocations, Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Dr. Misha Galperin
Executive Vice President and CEO, The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
Tony Gelbart
Founder and Chairman, Nefesh B'Nefesh
Michael C. Gelman
Treasurer, The Jewish Federations of North America
Susie Gelman
President, Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
Ben Gittleson
News editor, Tufts Daily newspaper; Editor, Tufts scholarly journal on the Middle East
Leah Golan
Director General, Israel Department, Jewish Agency for Israel
Barbara Black Goldfarb
General Campaign Chair, Greater Miami Jewish Federation
Jane Goldstein
Co-Chair, The Jewish Federations of North America Domestic Affairs Aging and Family Caregiving Workgroup
Bradley Gordon
Director of Policy and Government Affairs, American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Rabbi Yitz Greenberg
Founding President, The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life
Jill Greer
Manager, National Jewish Federation Bond Program, UJC
Gidi Grinstein
President and Founder, The Reut Institute
Steve Gutow
President and CEO, Jewish Council for Public Affairs
Susan Gutterman
Director, Planned Giving, Greensboro Jewish Federation
Beth Guttman
President, The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati
Prof. Jack Habib
Director, Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute
Moshe Halbertal
Professor, Hebrew University
Yossi Klein Halevi
Senior Fellow, Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies, Shalem Center, Jerusalem
Felicia Herman
Executive Director, Natan Fund
Yizhar Hess
Executive Director & CEO, Masorti Movement
Malcolm Hoenlein
Executive Vice Chairman, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Alan Hoffmann
Director General, Education Department, Jewish Agency for Israel
Andrea Hoffman
Director of Immersion Experience, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
Michael Hoffman
CEO, See3 Communications
Stephen H. Hoffman
President, Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland
Judy Horowitz
Director, UJC Consulting
Aharon Horwitz
Co-Director, PresenTense Group
Colonel (reserve) Elisha Hosman
Director, Youth Futures Division, Israel Department of the Jewish Agency for Israel
Liz Livingston Howard
Associate Director, Center for Nonprofit Management, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Linda Hurwitz
Chair, National Women's Philanthropy, The Jewish Federations of North America
Avraham Infeld
Senior Consultant, Nadav Fund
Maish Isaacson
Chairman of Telfed, South Africa
Andrew Jacobs
Director, Four Seasons Lodge
Dinah Jacobs
Academic Director, Kellogg Management Education for Jewish Leaders
Eliezer Jaffe
Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Richard Johnson
Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
Deborah Joselow
Director, Commission on Jewish Identity and Renewal, UJA-Federation of New York
Elana Kahn-Oren
President, American Jewish Press Association
Ron Kampeas
Washington Bureau Chief, Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
Randall Kaplan
Chair, International Board of Governors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
Rabbi Gilad Kariv
Associate Director, Israel Religious Action Center
Jeff Kaye
Director General for Resource Development & Public Affairs, Jewish Agency for Israel
Joyce Garver Keller
Executive Director, Ohio Jewish Communities
Rabbi Jason Kimelman-Block
Director, The PANIM Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values, a division of BBYO, Inc.
James Kirchick
Assistant Editor of the New Republic and Contributing Writer to the Advocate
Joe Klein
Senior Writer and Political Columnist, Time Magazine
Lori Klinghoffer
Chair, MetroWest UJC Israel & Overseas Committee; President, National Women’s Philanthropy of The Jewish Federations of North America
Irina Nevzlin Kogan
Managing Director, The Nadav Fund
Dr. Ezra Kopelowitz
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Research Success Technologies Ltd
Dr. Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz
Director, UJC Research & Analysis
Dr. Michael Kotzin
Executive Vice President of the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Benjamin Krasna
Israel's Deputy Consul General in New York
Keith Krivitzky
Vice President, Center for Jewish Philanthropy at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle
Alisa Rubin Kurshan
Vice President for Strategic Planning and Organizational Resources, UJA Federation of New York
Lucette Lagnado
Author
Emily Landau
Senior Research Fellow and Director, Arms Control and Regional Security Program, Institute for National Security Studies
Shawn Landres
CEO and Director of Research, Jumpstart
Mary Leary
Joslin LeBauer
Director, Planned Giving & Endowments' Create a Jewish Legacy, UJC/Jewish Federations of North America
Jeffrey Levin
Chief Planning Officer, Greater Miami Jewish Federation
Jimmy Levy
Managing General Partner, Al Bawader
Anne Lewis
President, Nolimits.org
Richard Licht
Charles Lipson
Peter B. Ritzma Professor in Political Science and the College, Founder and Co-Director, PIPES: Program on International Politics, Economics and Security, University of Chicago
Benji Lovitt
Comedian
Nancy Lublin
CEO, DoSomething.org; Founder, Dress for Success
Dr. Frank I. Luntz
President, The Word Doctors
Alisa Malki
UCLA Hillel, Co-founder, Challah for Hunger
David Makovsky
Ziegler Distinguished Fellow, Director, Project on Middle East Peace Process, The Washington Institute for Near Policy
Rabbi Noam Marans
Associate Director, Contemporary Jewish Life, American Jewish Committee
Dan H. McCormick
CEO and Founder, McCormick Group
Mark Mellman
CEO, The Mellman Group
Gary Miller
CEO, Jewish Family & Career Services, Atlanta
Jenna Mitzner
Program Director, Central Florida Hillel
Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi
Founder and President, The Israel Project
Rabbi Jack Moline
Rabbi, Agudas Achim Congregation of Northern Virginia
Joanne Moore
Chair, UJC National Young Leadership
Larry S. Moses
President, The Wexner Foundation
Dr. Steven B. Nasatir
President, Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Leonid Nevzlin
Initiator and Major Founder, The Nadav Fund
Ori Nir
Spokesman, Americans for Peace Now
Robert Nomberg
Interim Executive Director, Richmond Jewish Foundation
Nicole Opper
Director, Off and Running
Asher Ostrin
Executive Director, Former Soviet Union Department, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Laurie E. Paarlberg
Professor, University of North Carolina-Wilmington
Andy Paller
Director, UJC Consulting
Dan Pallotta
Author, Uncharitable
Ron Pollack
Executive Director, Families USA
Yossi Prager
Executive Director, Avi Chai North America
Tina Price
Chair, Caring Commission, UJA-Federation of New York
Martin J. Raffel
Senior Vice President and Director of the Task force on Israel, World Jewry & International Human Rights, JCPA
Dr. Shlomi Ravid
Director, International School for Jewish Peoplehood Studies
Cokie Roberts
Senior News Analyst, NPR News
Steve Roberts
Author and Journalist
Marcella Kanfer Rolnick
President and Chair, The Lippman Kanfer Family Foundation
Jon Rosenberg
CEO, Repair the World
Gary Rosenblatt
Editor & Publisher, The Jewish Week of New York
John S. Ruskay
Executive Vice President and CEO, UJA-Federation of NY
Aiman Saif
General Director, Authority for Economic Development of Minority Sectors, Prime Minister's Office, Israel
Barbara Salmanson
President, Board of Trustees, Jewish Child Care Association
Steven R. Scheck
Chair, UJC Jewish Service Initiative
Rabbi Dr. Martin Schloss
Director, Division of Day School Education, Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York
Ady Schonmann
International Human Rights Law Advisor, Israel Mission to the United Nations
Steve Schwager
Executive Vice President and CEO, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Dan Senor
Investor, Author and Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies, Council for Foreign Relations
Midge Perlman Shafton
Past Chair, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Natan Sharansky
Chairman, Jewish Agency for Israel
Bob Sherman
CEO, BJE New York
Lee Sherman
President/CEO, Association of Jewish Family & Children’s Agencies
Yoav Shoham
Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Bruce Sholk
2010 Board Chairman, The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore
Barry Shrage
President, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston
Iantha Sidell
Campaign Chair, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle
Kristen Silverberg
U.S. Ambassador to the EU
Robert Singer
Director General & CEO, World ORT
Joy Sisisky
Executive Director of the Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York; 2007-08 JDC Ralph I. Goldman Fellow
Elise Slobodin
Planning Director, the Caring Commission, UJA-Federation of New York
Carol Smokler, Ph.D
Chair, Social Venture Fund for Jewish-Arab Equality and Shared Society, The Jewish Federations of North America
Adam J. Smolyar
Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing and Communications, UJC
Aleksander Smukler
President, NCSJ: Advocates on behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia
Ted Sokolsky
President and CEO, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto
Carole Solomon
Chair, Jewish Agency for Israel North America
Jeffrey Solomon
Stan Z. Soloway
Member, Board of Directors, Corporation for National and Community Service
Elisa Spungen Bildner
President, JTA: The Global News Service of the Jewish People and Co-founder, Foundation for Jewish Camp
David Steirman
Chair of the Board, JESNA
Susan K. Stern
New York State Commission on National and Community Service
Eric B. Stillman
President and CEO, Jewish Federation of Broward County
Raya Strauss Bendror
Philanthropist
Stephanie Strom
National Correspondent, The New York Times
David Strong
Marsha Sussman
Consultant, Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
Irit Tamir
CEO, Kav Mashve
Michael Tarnoff
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Joel D. Tauber
Founder, Tauber Institute for Global Operations (University of Michigan)
Marc Terrill
President, THE ASSOCIATED: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore
Gil Troy
Professor of History, McGill University
Mara Vanderslice
White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
United States Representative, Florida
Michael Wegier
Executive Director, Melitz
Doug White
Senior Governance Consultant, BoardSource
Leon Wieseltier
Literary Editor, The New Republic
Dr. Einat Wilf
Senior Fellow, Jewish People Policy Planning Institute
Mark Wilf
Vice Chair, UJC Board of Trustees
Susan Worrel
Executive Director, Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte
Rachel Smoller Yoskowitz
Project Chessed, Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan Detroit










