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The Conversation

Jewish in America

2007 National

Location

Chateau Elan, GA

Participants

  • Peter Alexander
    NBC news correspondent · CA
  • Sam Apple
    Journalist, author · NY
  • Ronit Avni
    Executive Director, Just Vision · NY
  • Jonathan Baron
    Partner, co-founder, investment firm · NY
  • Maggie Bar-Tura
    Chief operating officer, Foundation for Jewish Camping · NY
  • Adam Berman
    Executive Director, Isabella Freedman · CT
  • Elise Bernhardt
    Executive Director, National Foundation for Jewish Culture · NY
  • Michael Bohnen
    President, Adelson Foundation · MA
  • Yonah Bookstein
    Executive Director, Jewlicious · CA
  • Joel Chasnoff
    Stand-up comedian, writer · NY
  • Lisa Colton
    President, Darim Online · VA
  • David Cygielman
    Executive Director, Forest Foundation · CA
  • Aaron Davidman
    Artistic Director, Traveling Jewish Theatre · CA
  • Ruchama King Feuerman
    Novelist, editor, book coach · NJ
  • Sylvia Barack Fishman
    Author, professor, Brandeis University · MA
  • Barbara Friedman
    Chair, Hebrew Union College/Jewish Institute of Religion Board of Governors · NY
  • Billie Gold
    President, N · Y · chapter, American Jewish Committee · NY
  • Rachel Saifer Goldman
    Former Associate Director, University of Pennsylvania Hillel · PA
  • Niles Goldstein
    Author, Rabbi of The New Shul in Manhattan · NY
  • Marge Goldwater
    Executive Director, Jewish Foundation for Education of Women · NY
  • Yoni Gordis
    Director of Programs, Center for Leadership Initiatives · BC
  • Steve Greenberg
    Author, rabbi, teacher, NY
  • Reid Heller
    Founder, Three Stars Jewish Cinema; Classic Jewish Text Seminars · TX
  • Hayim Herring
    Executive Director, Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal · MN
  • Rae Janvey
    Consultant/advisor to Berrie Fellowship, Jewish leaders and organizations · NY
  • Danielle Josephs
    Founder, Middle East Coexistence House at Rutgers University · NJ
  • Lily Kanter
    Co-founder/CEO, Serena and Lily · CA
  • Michael Karlin
    Founder/President, Mythic Imagination Institute · GA
  • Shaul Kelner
    Sociology and Jewish Studies Professor, Vanderbilt University · TN
  • Idit Klein
    Executive Director, Keshet · MA
  • Aliza Kline
    Executive Director, Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Mikveh/Education Center · MA
  • Scott-Martin Kosofsky
    Author, book designer, editor · MA
  • Michael Kotzin
    Executive Vice-President, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · IL
  • Yehudah Kurtzer
    Harvard University doctoral student and teaching fellow · MA
  • Lori Lefkovitz
    Professor of Gender and Judaism; Reconstructionist Rabbinical College · PA
  • Sarah Lefton
    Internet projects creator; co-founder, Mission Minyan · CA
  • Daniel Libenson
    Executive Director, Hillel at University of Chicago · IL
  • Yavilah McCoy
    New England regional director, The Curriculum Initiative · MA
  • Erika Meitner
    Poet, professor at Virginia Tech · VA
  • Liz Nord
    Documentary filmmaker, producer · NY
  • Aaron Panken
    Vice President, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion · NY
  • Mark Pearlman
    Media executive, chair of Children’s Museum of Manhattan · NY
  • Nessa Rapoport
    Senior Program Officer, The Revson Foundation · NY
  • Shulamit Reinharz
    Professor of Sociology, Brandeis University · MA
  • Leni Reiss
    Former Editor, Jewish News of Greater Phoenix · AZ
  • Robert Rifkin
    Attorney; trustee, JTS, Brandeis, Leo Baeck Institute · NY
  • Gary Rosenblatt
    Editor/Publisher, The Jewish Week · NY
  • Jennie Rosenn
    Rabbi; Director, Jewish Life and Values Program, Nathan Cummings Foundation · NY
  • Chana Rothman
    Musician, teaching artist, activist · NY
  • Terry Rubenstein
    Executive Vice President, Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds · MD
  • Jaynie Schultz
    Vice President, Garrett Creek Ranch Conference Center · TX
  • Daniel Septimus
    Editor-in-chief, MyJewishLearning · com · NY
  • David Shneer
    Director, Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver · CO
  • David Suissa
    Founder, publisher, editor-in-chief, OLAM magazine · CA
  • Loren Sykes
    Rabbi, executive director, Camp Ramah Darom · GA
  • Sharon Waxman
    The New York Times correspondent for Hollywood · CA
  • Robert Wexler
    Rabbi, President of the American Jewish University · CA
  • David Wolpe
    Author, Rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles · CA

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