2006 National
Location
Wye River, MD
Participants
- Dan Ahdoot
Comedian; Last Comic Standing finalist · NY - Harlene Winnick Appelman
Executive Director, The Covenant Foundation · NY - Sam Ball
Filmmaker · CA - Kenneth Brander
Inaugural Dean, Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future · FL - Rachel Brodie
Executive Director, Jewish Milestones · CA - Michael Brooks
Executive Director, University of Michigan Hillel · MI - Sharon Brous
Founding rabbi of IKAR · CA - Erica Brown
Scholar-in-Residence, Jewish Federation of Greater Washington · MD - Sender Cohen
Partner, Venn Capital, NY; KCPS Capital, Israel · NY - Menachem Creditor
Co-founder of Keshet Rabbis
The Alliance of Gay-Friendly Conservative Rabbis · MA - Nathan Diament
Director of Public Policy, OU · DC - Ariela Dubler
Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School · NY - Sandi DuBowski
Director, “Trembling Before G-d” · NY - Kari Dunn
Executive Director, President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation · DC - Dan Ehrenkrantz
President, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College · PA - Lisa Eisen
National Program Director, Schusterman Foundation · DC - Ruth Andrew Ellenson
Author; editor, “The Modern Jewish Girls’ Guide to Guilt” · CA - Rob Eshman
Editor, Jewish Journal of Los Angeles · CA - Wayne L · Firestone
President/CEO, Hillel · DC - Pearl Gluck
Filmmaker; professor of Yiddish, Rutgers University · NY - Ari Goldman
Author, professor of journalism, Columbia University · NY - Dov Greeberg
Executive Director, Stanford University’s Rohr Chabbad House · CA - Simon Greer
President/CEO, Jewish Fund for Justice/The Shefa Fund · NY - Matthew Grossman
Executive Director, B’nai B’rith Youth Organization · DC - Michael Hammer
Founder, high technology firms; author, “Reengineering the Corporation” · MA - Stuart Himmelfarb
Director, Berrie Fellows Leadership Program · NJ - Rae Janvey
Consultant and advisor to Jewish leaders and organizations · NY - Danny Krifcher
Board President, JTA: The Global News Service of the Jewish People · MD - Amichai Lau-Lavie
Founder/artistic director, Storahtelling: Jewish Ritual Theater Revived · NY - Morlie Levin
Executive Director, Hadassah · NY - Naomi Levy
Founder/Spiritual Leader of Nashuva: A Soulful Community of Prayer in Action · CA - Rebecca Lieberman
Independent consultant with expertise in philanthropic and non-profit sectors · NY - Deborah Meyer
Executive Director, Moving Traditions · PA - Jennifer Meyerhoff
Activist, strategist for Jewish institutions · MD - Tova Mirvis
Novelist · MA - Leon Morris
Director, Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning; author, rabbi · NY - Pamela Nadell
Director of Jewish Studies Program, American University; history professor · DC - Michael Paley
Rabbi, director of Jewish resource center of UJA-Federation of New York · NY - Julia Pimsleur
Development Director at Echoing Green, providing seed funding mentorships to social entrepreneurs; documentary producer · NY - Marcella Kanfer Rolnick
New Ventures Director, GOJO Industries; President/Chair, Lippman Kanfer Family Foundation · IA - Gary Rosenblatt
Editor/Publisher of The Jewish Week · NY - Hannah Rosenthal
Executive Director, Chicago Foundation for Women · Il · - Leonard Saxe
Professor of Social Policy/Director of Brandeis Steinhardt Institute for Social Research · MA - Basya Schechter
Pharoah’s Daughter · NY - Lacey Schwartz
Film and documentary director/producer; attorney · NY - Rochelle Shoretz
Executive Director, Sharsheret, for young Jewish women fighting breast cancer · NJ - Jerry Silverman
President of Foundation for Jewish Camping · NY - Daniel Sokatch
Executive Director, Progressive Jewish Alliance · CA - Peter Stein
Executive Director, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival · CA - Gil Troy
History professor, McGill University; lecturer, author · Canada - Ari Wallach
Director of Brand and Product Development at Seed Media Group · NY - Rami Wernik
Acting Dean, Fingerhut School of Education, University of Judaism · CA - Jenny Wiener
Co-founder, Jewcy Media Group; owner/operator, Arts Nova · NY - Ruth Wisse
Professor, Yiddish and Comparative Literature, Harvard University · MA