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