2005 National

Location

Aspen, CO

Participants

• Brad Artson
  Rabbi, Vice president, University of Judaism · CA
• Warren Bass
  Editor, The Washington Post Book Review · DC
• Julie Bernstein
  Former speechwriter for Ambassador of Israel to the UN · MA
• Aaron Bisman
  Executive director, JDub Records · NY
• Laurie Blitzer
  Management consultant, NYC Commission on Cultural Affairs · NY
• George Blumenthal
  Businessman, chairman of On-Line Judaic Studies · NY
• Sanford Cardin
  Director, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Foundation · OK
• Mark Charendoff
  President, Jewish Funders Network · NY
• Jeremy Dauber
  Professor of Yiddish, Columbia University · NY
• Alisa Doctoroff
  President, Abraham Joshua Heschel School · NY
• Michael Dorf
  Music entrepreneur, founder of the Knitting Factory · NY
• Stephen Dow
  Director, Community Action Center · OK
• Stephen Dubner
  Journalist and author · NY
• David Eisner
  President, TheMarkets, LLC · NY
• David Ellenson
  President, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion · NY
• Tali Farhadian
  Clerk to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Washington, DC
• Rachel Fish
  Regional Director, The David Project · NY
• Lisa Goldberg
  President, Charles Revson Foundation · NY
• Dorian Goldman
  President, Irving Goldman Foundation · NY
• Sally Gottesman
  Founder, Moving Traditions · NY
• Lee Meyerhoff Hendler
  Author and philanthropy activist · MD
• Julie Hermelin
  Television director · CA
• Roger Hertog
  Publisher, financial investment leader · NY
• Matthew Hiltzik
  President/CEO – Freud Communications · NY
• Bethamie Horowitz
  Brandeis University Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies · MA
• Rae Janvey
  Consultant and advisor to Jewish leaders and organizations · NY
• Michael Jesselson
  President, Jesselson Capital Corporation · NY
• Richard Joel
  President, Yeshiva University · NY
• Peter Joseph
  Founding chairman of the JCC of Upper West Side · NY
• Jeremy Kalmanofsky
  Rabbi, Ansche Chesed Congregation · NY
• Robin Kramer
  Chief of staff to LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigossa · CA
• Judah Kraushaar
  Author, former Wall Street analyst · NY
• Larry Krule
  President, Jewish Book Council · NJ
• Daniel Kurtzer
  Former US Ambassador to Israel and Egypt · NY
• Lawrence Kushner
  Rabbi, author, educator · CA
• Laura Lauder
  Philanthropist, venture capitalist · CA
• Steven Leder
  Rabbi, Wilshire Boulevard Temple · CA
• Jay Lefkowitz
  Attorney, former Bush White House official · NY
• Rachel Levin
  Righteous Persons Foundation · CA
• Kenneth Levit
  President, Oklahoma University-Tulsa · OK
• Deborah Lipstadt
  Professor of Jewish Studies, Emory University · GA
• David Makovsky
  Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy · DC
• Stuart Matlins
  Publisher, Jewish Lights · VT
• Morton Meyerson
  Chairman, CEO of 2M Companies, former head of EDS · TX
• Mik Moore
  Attorney, former editor of Jewish Student Press Service · NY
• Noam Neusner
  White House liaison to the Jewish community · DC
• Esther Perel
  Author, psychotherapist, New York University · NY
• Yossi Prager
  Executive director, Avi Chai · NY
• Samuel Rascoff
  Attorney · NY
• Aryeh Rubin
  Founder and director of Targum Shlishi, FL
• John Ruskay
  Executive vice president and CEO, UJA-Federation of NY · NY
• Jay Sanderson
  CEO of JTN Productions · CA
• David Saperstein
  Rabbi; Director, Religious Action Center, Washington, DC · DC
• Jonathan Sarna
  Professor of Jewish studies, Brandeis University · MA
• Dan Schifrin
  Novelist and culture writer · CA
• Lynn Schusterman
  Charles and Lynn Schusterman Foundation · OK
• Stacy Schusterman
  Charles and Lynn Schusterman Foundation · OK
• Chaim Seidler-Feller
  Director, UCLA Hillel · CA
• Brian Shirken
  Co-founder, of LA Jewish Venture Philanthropy Fund · CA
• Tiffany Shlain
  Filmmaker, founder of the Webby Awards · CA
• Barry Shrage
  Exec director, Boston Jewish federation · MA
• Judith Shulevitz
  Writer, book critic · NY
• Jeffrey Solomon
  President, Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies · NY
• Meir Soloveichick
  Rabbi, Congregation Kehillath Jeshurun · NY
• Ken Stein
  Professor of Middle Eastern History and Israel Studies, Emory University · GA
• David Teutsch
  Rabbi, Director, Center for Jewish Ethics, RRC · PA
• Rhoda Weisman Uziel
  Director, Professional Leadership Project · CA
• Gary Wexler
  President, Passion Marketing for Issues and Causes · CA
• Diane Winston
  Knight chair in media and religion, University of Southern California · CA
• Jonathan Woocher
  CEO of JESNA · NY
• Laurie Zoloth
  Director, Center for Bioethics, Northwestern University · IL