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