Meet our 2023 speakers.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Maya Mirsky

    Writer
    J. the Jewish News of Northern California

  • Ambassador Marco Sermoneta

    Consul General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest

  • 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