Meet our 2024 Speakers
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Legal Advocate, National Jewish Advocacy Center
Former Prime
Minister of Israel
Naftali
Bennett
Adela
Cojab
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Marnie Black
Founder & CEO
GJCA (Global Jewish Communications Alliance) -
Eylon Levy
Co-Founder
The Israeli Citizen Spokespersons’ Office -
Izabella Tabarovsky
Senior Fellow
Z3 Institute for Jewish Priorities -
Dr. Joshua Ladon
Vice President, West Coast and Senior Faculty
Shalom Hartman Institute of North America -
Nadav Eyal
Journalist
Yediot Ahronot & Ynet -
Rachel Jacoby Rosenfield
Chief Executive Officer
Shalom Hartman Institute of North America -
Dr. David Hazony
Director & Senior Fellow
Z3 Institute for Jewish Priorities -
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 -
Rabbi Amitai Fraiman
Director
The Z3 Project, OFJCC -
Alissa Bernstein
Assistant Director
American Jewish Committee Los Angeles -
Zack Bodner
President & CEO
Oshman Family JCC
Author -
Charlie Covit
Student
Harvard University -
Dr. Adi Zief-Balteriski
Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Entrepreneur, and Trauma Expert
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Avi Gamulka
Advisor to the President
World Zionist Organization -
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 -
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
Resident Senior Fellow
Atlantic Council -
Julia Steinberg
Fellow
The Free Press -
Tyler (Tye) Gregory
CEO
JCRC Bay Area -
Mohammad Darawshe
Director of Strategy
Givat Haviva -
Vanessa Hidary
Spoken Word Artist
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Andres Spokoiny
President and CEO
Jewish Funders Network -
Talia Bodner
Student and Writer
Columbia University and The Jewish Theological Seminary -
April Powers
VP of DEI
Project Shema
Co-Founder
Jewbian Princess -
Liel Leibovitz
Editor at Large
Tablet Magazine -
Tova Dorfman
President
World Zionist Organization -
Noah “Westside Gravy” Shufutinsky
Rapper & Educator
StandWithUs -
Shalom Orzach
Senior Educational Consultant
The iCenter -
Ayelet Shaked
Former Israeli Minister
Interior and Justice -
Ambassador Marco Sermoneta
Consul General
Israel to the Pacific Northwest -
Alana Zeitchik
Advocate & Executive Director
The Narrow Bridge Project -
Shlomit Naim Naor
Program Director
M² The Institute for Jewish Experiential Education -
Gregg Drinkwater
Program Director
Antisemitism Education Initiative, Center for Jewish Studies, UC Berkeley -
Rabbi Dr. Laura Novak Winer
Director
Master of Educational Leadership Program, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion -
Nadav Douani
CEO
ScienceAbroad group- the organization of Israeli scientists -
Dr. Ezra Kopelowitz
CEO
Research Success Technologies Ltd.
Co-Director Center
Jewish Peoplehood Education, Research Success Technologies / Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education -
Rabba Mor Shimonie
Director of Family Education
The Kitchen SF -
Rabbi Nolan Lebovitz
Senior Rabbi
Valley Beth Shalom -
Hila Rabinovich Escapa
Kibbutz Member
Resource Development Team -
Hilla Drechler
Director
Zionist Enterprises Dept, World Zionist Organization -
Ziv Frailich
Kibbutz Beeri Member
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Maggie Feldman-Piltch
National Security Fellow
The Wilson Center -
Prof. Chanan Tigay
Editor-in-Chief
J. The Jewish News of Northern California -
Dr. Oleg Ivanov
Executive Director
StandWithUs Northern California -
Emma Goss
Staff Reporter
J. The Jewish News of Northern California -
Rabbi Daniel Lehmann, Ph.D.
Head of School
Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School -
Laura E. Adkins
Senior Director
Jewish Women International -
Tamar Ben Ruby
Senior Director
Strategic Initiatives, The Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Anti-Semitism -
Idan Raichel
Producer, Keyboardist, Lyricist, Composer and Performer
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Jennifer Mamlet
Acting President and CEO
JCC Association of North America -
Liz Hirsh Naftali
Hostage - Humanitarian Advocate & Author, Saving Abigail