THE SPEAKERS

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Madeleine Albright
U.S. Secretary of State
U.S Permanent Representative to the United Nations
www.thealbrightgroupllc.com



Racheli Atias
Manager, Yachini Student Village


Moni Beniosev
Country Manager, Latvia, JDC
www.jdc.org
 


Ilan Berman
Vice President for Policy, American Foreign Policy Council
www.afpc.org


Melissa Boteach
Poverty Campaign Coordinator,
Jewish Council for Public Affairs

Anti-Poverty Campaign
www.jewishpublicaffairs.org


Gabrielle Brechner
Writer and Director, Wakka Wakka Productions
www.wakkawakka.org



Desmond Brown
Senior Director, Legislation Affairs for Catholic Charities USA
www.catholiccharitiesusa.org


Dr. Erica Brown

Scholar-in-Residence, Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
Director of Adult Education, Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning

www.pjll.org

Lauren Brownstein
Yoga Instructor


Bonnie Deutsch Burdman
Director, Jewish Community Relations Council of Youngstown Federation
www.jcrc.org



Claire Burson
Singer and song-writer, Six Points Fellowship
www.sixpointsfellowship.org



Jenna Bush
International Children's Rights Advocate and New York Times Best-Selling Author


Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin
Director of Jewish Life at the JCC of Greater Baltimore
General Consultant for the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life
Jewish Environmental Manifesto
www.coejl.org


Sveta Chekhmir
Regional Program Manager, Moldova, JDC
www.jdc.org

Rachel Cohen
Birthright Israel alumnus
www.birthrightisrael.com

Jeffrey Colman
Deputy Director of Policy and Government Affairs, AIPAC
www.aipac.org



Josh Cooper
Executive Director, Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee
www.cjpac.ca



Kasay Keren Damoza
Israeli Ministry of Absorption
http://www.moia.gov.il/Moia_en



Galeet Dardashti
Artist, Six Points Fellowship
www.sixpointsfellowship.org



William C. Daroff
Vice President of Public Policy, UJC
www.ujc.org


Ron Dermer
Israeli Minister of Economic Affairs


Ted Deutch
Florida State Senator, 30th District
www.flsenate.gov


Lawrence S. Eagleburger
U.S Secretary of State


Alyson Fieldman
JDC Service Corps
www.jdc.org



David Fisher
UJC National Campaign Chair
www.ujc.org



Ari Fleischer
Former White House Press Secretary for George W. Bush
President of Ari Fleischer Communications
www.fleischersports.com



Alexis Frankel
Senior Program Manager, JDC International Development Program
www.jdc.org



Michael Friedman
Avodah Advisory Council
www.avodah.net
 


Dr. Misha Galperin
Executive Vice President and CEO, The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
www.shalomdc.org



David Gillette
Deputy Director of Policy and Goverment Affairs, AIPAC
www.aipac.org 



Naftali Goldsmith
Director, Interactive Strategy, UJC
www.ujc.org



Brad Gordon
Director of Policy and Government Affairs, AIPAC
www.aipac.org



Jonathan Greenblatt
Co-Founder of Ethos Water
Former Vice President of Starbucks Coffee Company
Senior Advisor to the United Nations Foundation
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www.ethoswater.com 


David Gregory
NBC News' Chief White House Correspondent


Rebecca Guber
Project Director, Six Points Fellowship
www.sixpointsfellowship.org



Gideon Herscher
JDC Specialist in Ethiopian-Israeli and Non-Sectarian Activities in Rwanda
www.jdc.org


Adam Hootnick
Director of 2007 Slamdance Film Festival Best Documentary, UNSETTLED
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Jeremy Issacharoff
Deputy Chief, Israeli Embassy
www.israelemb.org 



Jodi Jacobson
Director of Advocacy, American Jewish World Service
www.jewishworldwatch.org


Amos Kamil
Director, Israel Advocacy Initiative
www.israeladvocacy.org












 


 

 






Rabbi Elie Kaunfer
Executive Director, Mechon Chadar 
www.mechonhadar.org


Jennifer Kefer
Climate and Energy Policy Program Coordinator, Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life
www.coejl.org



Rabbi Daniella Kolodny
Rabbi, Naval Academy
www.usna.edu



Mirm Kriegel
Branding Strategist/Account Director, BBMG
www.bbmg.com


Daniel C. Kurtzer
Fomer U.S Ambassador to Israel and Egypt


Michelle Labgold
Senior Director, Domestic Affairs, UJC
www.ujc.org



Ann Lewis
Senior Advisor for Hillary Clinton for President

Mara Liasson
National Political Correspondant for National Public Radio
www.npr.org



David Makovsky
Senior Fellow and Director, Washington Institute's Project on the Middle East Peace Process
www.washingtoninstitute.org


Mark Mellman
President and CEO, Mellman Group
www.mellmangroup.com


Dr. Daniel Orenstein
Visiting Fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies
Science and Policy Fellow with the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life

www.coejl.org


Raphael Ouzan
Officer, Israel Defense Forces



Michael Pirron
CEO, Impact Makers
www.impactmakers.org



Martin J. Raffel
Associate Executive Vice Chairman, Jewish Council for Public Affairs
www.jewishpublicaffairs.org


Joseph Richards
Founder, Fuel for Truth
www.fuelfortruth.org



Howard Rieger
President and CEO, United Jewish Communities
www.ujc.org


Amy Aarons Rosen
Legislative Associate, UJC - Washington
www.ujc.org



Michael Rubin
Director of Operations, Jewish Foundation for Group Homes
www.jfgh.org



David Sable
 
Vice Chairman and COO, Wunderman
www.wunderman.com



Ari Sandel
Director of 2007 Academy Award Winner for Best Short Film, West Bank Story
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David Saperstein
Director, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
www.rac.org


Nigel Savage
Founder, Hazon
www.hazon.org


Dr. Adele Schneider
Director, Clinical Genetics, The Victor Center for Jewish Genetic Diseases
http://www.einstein.edu/jewishgenetics/


Tzivia Schwartz-Getzug
Executive Director, Jewish World Watch
www.jewishworldwatch.org


Tiffany Shlain
Producer/Director, "The Tribe"
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www.tiffanyshlain.com



Rochelle L. Shoretz
Founder, Sharsheret
www.sharsheret.org


David Siegel
Spokesman, Embassy of Israel
www.israelemb.org


Zach Sisisky
Former Peace Corps Volunteer
www.peacecorps.gov

 
Michael B. Soberman
Director, National Initiatives for the Next Generation UIA Federations Canada
www.jewishcanada.org

Susan Solow-Dubin
Managing Director, National Campaign Resources, UJC 
www.ujc.org



Ronald Soloway
Director, Public Affairs, UJA Federation of New York
www.ujafedny.org


Stefanie Somers
Concierge for Jewish Education, Bureau of Education of Los Angeles


Hadar Susskind 
Washington Director, Jewish Council for Public Affairs
www.jewishpublicaffairs.org



Kobi Tav
Israel Regional Specialist, JDC
www.jdc.org



Yaron Tsaclach
Area Head for Immigrant Youth Education, JDC
www.jdc.org



Sasha Vail
Israel's Anti-Trust Authority
www.antitrust.gov.il


Matin Vilnai
Israeli Deputy Minister of Defense
www.mod.gov.il


Jonathan S. Westin
Asst. Director for Legislative Affairs, UJC - Washington
www.ujc.org


Steven Woolf
Senior Tax Policy Consel, UJC - Washington 
www.ujc.org

Amy York
Asst. Vice President, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago’s Government Affairs Office in Washington, DC
www.juf.org


Brian Walsh
Director, Global Service Engagement, Liquidnet
www.liquidnet.com


 

 

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Ari Sandel's West Bank Story
Coolooloosh

Jonathan Greenblatt

Adam Hootnick's Unsettled

Tiffany Shlain's The Tribe