2008 National
Location
Chateau Elan, GA
Participants
- B. Elka Abrahamson
Vice-President, leadership programs, The Wexner Foundation · OH - Stephen Hazan Arnoff
Executive Director, 14th Street Y · NY - Aaron Back
Director Ford Foundation Israel Fund · NJ - Mem Bernstein
Trustee, AVI CHAI and Keren Keshet foundations · NY - Angelica Berrie
President, The Berrie Foundation · NJ - Jodie Berris
Nike Global Soccer
Field Test Analyst · OR - Elisa Spungen Bildner
Co-founder/co-president, Foundation for Jewish Camp · NJ - Daniel Brenner
Reconstructionist rabbi; Education Vice-President, Birthright Israel Foundation · NY - Steven Burg
International Director, National Conference of Synagogue Youth · NY - Jonathan Carey
Founder, Executive Director, BlueStarPR · CA - Tamara Cohen
Assistant Dean of Students/Director, Multicultural and Diversity Affairs, University of Florida · FL - Laura Cutler
Philanthropist, activist · MD - David Diamond
Screenwriter; President, B’nai David-Judea Congregation · CA - Gregg Drinkwater
Executive Director, Jewish Mosaic · CO - Shira Epstein
Assistant Professor of Jewish Education, The Jewish Theological Seminary · NY - Victoria Lindenbaum Feder
Co-founder, President of the Board, Jewish Community Project of Lower Manhattan · NY - Ruth Feldman
Creator, An Ethical Start · PA - Maxyne Finkelstein
CEO, Jewish Agency for Israel, North America · NY - Sue Fishkoff
Correspondent for JTA Jewish News Agency; author · CA - Arthur Fried
Chairman, CEO, AVI CHAI and Keren Keshet foundations · NY - Dayle A · Friedman
Director of Hiddur
The Center for Aging and Judaism of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College · PA - Seth Frisch
Rabbi; Founder, The Lehrhouse Institute for Jewish Studies · PA - Larry Garber
Chief Executive Officer, New Israel Fund · Washington, DC - Rachel Saifer Goldman
Former Associate Director, University of Pennsylvania Hillel · PA - Gwen Goodman
Executive Director/CEO, National Museum of American Jewish History · PA - Yoni Gordis
Executive Director, Center for Leadership Initiatives · Vancouver, BC, Canada - Jordan Gorfinkel
Entertainment producer, specializing in comics, music, multi-media · OH - Rebecca Guber
Program Director, Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Artists · NY - Richard Hirsch
Former president of the board of Fifth Avenue Synagogue and of The Jewish Week of New York · NY - Michael Hirschhorn
Executive Director, Coro New York Leadership Center · NY - Rae Janvey
Consultant/advisor to Jewish leaders and organizations, leadership coach, advisor to The Conversation · NY - Shira Kline
Performer, music educator · Founding company member, Storahtelling · NY - Robert Krulwich
Reporter, ABC News and National Public Radio · NY - Lucette Lagnado
Investigative reporter, author · NY - Morton Landowne
Director of Nextbook, Inc · NY - Daniel Lehmann
President, Boston Hebrew College · MA - Dahlia Lithwick
Senior Editor, Slate.com; NPR legal commentator · DC - Asher Lopatin
Spiritual leader, B’nai Israel Congregation · IL - Joey Low
Founder, Israel at Heart · NY - Yitta Halberstam Mandelbaum
Author, lecturer, media personality · NY - Adam Mansbach
Author, lecturer, educator · CA - Jenny Medina
Education reporter, New York Times · NY - Andrea Meislin
Gallery owner/director · NY - David Meltzer
Archeologist, professor, SMU · TX - Lauren Merkin
Trustee, Avi Chai Foundation · NY - Ruth Messinger
President, American Jewish World Service · NY - Larry Moneta
Vice-President for Student Affairs, Duke University · NC - Rebecca Neuwirth
Director of Special Projects, American Jewish Committee · NY - Hershey Novack
Founder and Director, Chabad on Campus, Washington University in St · Louis · MO - Vanessa Ochs
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia · VA - Avery Pack
Independent filmmaker, computer game designer · FL - Riv-Ellen Prell
Anthropologist, professor, U · of Minnesota · MN - Gene Rachmansky
Attorney, Managing principle, BDS Investors LLC · NY - Tahl Raz
Founder, Jewcy Media · NY - Leni Reiss
Former Editor, Jewish News of Greater Phoenix · AZ - Joe Richards
Executive Director, Fuel for Truth · NY - Gary Rosenblatt
Editor and Publisher, The Jewish Week · NY - Ruthie Rotenberg
Executive Director, LimmudLA · CA - Erez Safar
Founder, Director of Shemspeed and Sephardic Music Festival · NY - Samantha Shapiro
Contributing writer, New York Times Magazine · NY - Yoav Shoham
Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University · CA - Rachel Sklar
Media and Special Projects Editor, Huffington Post · NY - Daniel Sieradski
Director of Digital Media at JTA · NY - Pessy Sloan
Assistant Professor, Daemen College · NY - Laurel Snyder
Author, poet, editor · GA - Bernard Steinberg
Director, Harvard Hillel; President, Harvard Chaplains · MA - Adee Telem
Director of West Coast Outreach, PeaceWorks Foundation/OneVoice Movement · MD - Melissa Weintraub
Rabbi, Co-Founder, Director, Encounter · NY - Jane Weitzman
Executive Vice-President, Stuart Weitzman LLP · CT