Jewish in America

2014 National

  • ALLIE ALPEROVICH: Attorney; executive committee, Darkhei Noam partnership minyan. NY
  • NORMAN ATKINS: Co-founder and president of Relay Graduate School of Education. NY
  • MELISSA BALABAN: Executive director, founding president of IKAR. CA
  • TRACEY BILSKI: Vice-president, The Center for Entrepreneurial Jewish Philanthropy. NY
  • ETHAN BRONNER: Deputy national editor, The New York Times. NY
  • DAVID BUTLER: Attorney; chair, JFNA Global Planning Table. MD
  • ERIC COHEN: Executive director, The Tikvah Fund. NY
  • ALAN COOPERMAN: Director of religion research, The Pew Research Center. Washington, DC
  • JOSHUA DAVIDSON: Senior rabbi, Congregation Temple Emanu-El. NY
  • SARA DAVIDSON: Author, Sara Davidson Productions LLC. CO
  • GLENN DREW: Executive director and general counsel, American Hebrew Academy. NC
  • ARNOLD EISEN: Chancellor, Jewish Theological Seminary. NY
  • STEVEN EXLER: Rabbi, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. NY
  • JEFF FEIG: Managing director, Citibank. NY
  • CHERYL FISHBEIN: Clinical psychiatrist, attorney, activist. NY
  • HOWARD FRIEDMAN: Founding partner, Lanx Management LLC; former president, AIPAC. MD
  • JULIE GELLER: Singer/songwriter. CO
  • PAUL GOLIN: Associate executive director, Big Tent Judaism/Jewish Outreach Institute. NY
  • RACHEL SAIFER GOLDMAN: Project coordinator, The Conversation. PA
  • TULLY HARCSZTARK: Rabbi, principal, SAR High School. NJ
  • LISA HOSTEIN: Executive editor, Jewish exponent. PA
  • JARED JACKSON: Founder/executive director, Jews in ALL Hues. PA
  • RAE JANVEY: Leadership development advisor; consultant, The Conversation. NY
  • DAVID ZVI KALMAN: President and co-founder, Jewish Public Media. PA
  • MICHAEL KARP: Venture capitalist, charter school founder.PA
  • NANCY KAUFMAN: CEO, National Council of Jewish Women. NY
  • DANNY KRIFCHER: Business executive; Jewish community activist; facilitator, The Conversation. MD
  • HOWARD LANGER: Attorney; law professor, University of Pennsylvania. PA
  • HAL LEWIS: President/CEO, Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership. IL
  • AMY LIPTON: Attorney, activist, philanthropist. CT
  • MICHAEL MILLER: Executive vice president/CEO, JCRC-NY. NJ
  • JESSICA MINNEN: Rabbi; founding director, Seven Wells, Rabbi in Residence, StartUp Shabbat. NY
  • YEHUDAH MIRSKY: Rabbi, author, associate professor, Brandeis University. MA
  • DAVID NIMMER: Professor, UCLA School of Law. CA
  • MATT NOSANCHUK: Director for Outreach, National Security Council, DC.
  • MICHAEL PAULSON: National religion reporter, The New York Times. NY
  • JOHN PODHORETZ: Editor, Commentary Magazine. NY
  • ABIGAIL POGREBIN: Author, journalist. NY
  • MARLENE POST: Past national president, Hadassah W.Z.O.A. Inc. NY
  • LENI REISS: Associate program coordinator, The Conversation. AZ
  • NAOMI REINHARZ: National director, Next Generation ORT America. NY
  • MATT RONEN: Founder & CEO, Impact Year. NY
  • GARY ROSENBLATT: Editor and publisher, The Jewish Week; founder and host, The Conversation. NY
  • NANCY ROSENFELD: President, Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Family Foundation. CANADA
  • MARILYNN ROTHSTEIN: Director of Alumni Engagement, Alexander Muss High School in Israel. FL
  • HERMAN SHELANSKI: Rear Admiral, United States Navy. DC.
  • MOTTI SELIGSON: Director of Media Relations, Chabad-Lubavitch. NY
  • TILLY SHAMES: Executive director, University of Michigan Hillel. MI
  • ROBERT SHERMAN: CEO, The Jewish Education Project. NY
  • MICHELE SLIFKA: Founder/CEO, IvySage Education. NY
  • ROBERT SUGARMAN: Chairman, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations NY
  • MOSHE WALDOKS: Rabbi, Temple Beth Zion; educator, author, lecturer. MA
  • NANCY ACKERMAN WARSHOFSKY: User experience researcher. FL
  • DEBORAH WAXMAN: President, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Jewish Reconstructionist Communities. PA
  • ISAAC ZABLOCKI: Director, film programs and Israel Film Center, The JCC in Manhattan. NY