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Malcolm Hoenlein is the vice chairman -- and until recently served as executive vice chairman -- of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. It is a position he had held since 1986. Prior to that, he was the founding executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York and also the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry.
Risa has been teaching Music and Movement to children since 1994. She holds an M.S.Ed. in Early Childhood/Elementary Education. Her passion is teaching your child to read with music and love. Since the pandemic she has moved her clases online. Her most popular zoom music class covers children aged 4-7 and is attended by students from across the country
Chief Operating Officer at the Rabbinical Assembly. She earned an MA in Talmud and Rabbinics and Rabbinic Ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary. She currently serves as a member of the Kehilat Hadar board and steering team
Rabbi of Am Yisrael, a Conservative Synagogue in Northfield, IL. Debra became the Congregation's sole rabbi in 1994 and for many years it was the largest Conservative congregation in the country to have the distinction of being headed by a woman. She is President of the Rabbinical Assembly, the international membership Organization of Conservative Rabbis.
Sarrae Crane is the Executive Director of MERCAZ USA. The Movement to Reaffirm Conservative Zionism’s mission is to support religious pluralism in Israel and strengthen the connection between Israel and the Diaspora. Previously Executive Director of the Women's League for Conservative Judaism
Director of the Conservative Judaism movement in Israel, also known as Masorti. Rekefet has spent 20 years developing programs and services in communities and social organizations. She established and managed the IDF social services and served as a community representative of the Jewish Agency in the USA
Museum and Program Director at The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County in New York. An historian and educator, Thorin ensures the history of the Holocaust and its lessons are taught by combining education with community outreach
Director of Education at The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County in New York. She has degrees in history with a specialty in Holocaust and genocide studies. In addition to overseeing programming for over 23,000 school children yearly, Helen has written on the subject of resistance and material culture in Auschwitz-Birkenau which is slated to be published in early 2020
Served for 25 years in IDF military intelligence specializing in Syria, Arab political discourse, Arab mass media, Islamic groups, and Israeli Arabs. Expert on the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups. He can be emailed at Kedar.Tour@gmail.com
Efraim Zuroff is the chief Nazi-hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the director of its Israel Office. His most recent book is Operation Last Chance; One Man’s Quest to Bring Nazi Criminals to Justice (Palgrave/Macmillan).
He can be followed on Facebook and Twitter @EZuroff.
Executive director of the Holocaust & Humanity Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. For more than half a decade she led the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati. Sarah is a graduate of the Teaching the Holocaust and Antisemitism course at the esteemed Yad Vashem International School for Holocaust Studies
Director of Global Social Action for the Simon Wiesenthal Center. His extensive global career has included visiting Soviet refuseniks, setting up the first Jewish Cultural Center in Moscow and lecturing at the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Sakharov Foundation
Fred is a Holocaust survivor and painter living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Terna was born in Vienna and lived in Prague until he was an inmate in German concentration camps. Terna's canvases seek to address the psychological space of trauma, often incorporating the charged symbols of chimneys and ash to abstract effect
Diana is an Austrian-born feminist painter who is known for her Remembrance (Holocaust) series, which explores the “loss and preservation” of the artist's family members during the Holocaust.
Program Director for Witness Theater at Selfhelp Community Services. Witness Theater is a presentation of Selfhelp's Holocaust Survivor Program. High school students meet weekly throughout the academic year with Holocaust survivors. A drama therapist helps them turn the stories they hear into an uplifting public performance in a unique program in Brooklyn
Lawyer, Holocaust survivor and Jewish community leader who has devoted his professional career-including 38 years with the Anti-Defamation League. The last 16 of them as National Director-to fighting anti-Semitism
Known for drafting the definition of antisemitism, Ken is a Defense attorney and author, Director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, a program of the Human Rights Project at Bard College. His most recent book is The Conflict Over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate
Thane is a celebrated novelist, essayist and law professor. Rosenbaum is a thoughtful and perceptive scholar and public intellectual whose analysis and thought leadership is widely sought by educators, students and media outlets across the country and globally.
Head rabbi at Congregation Beth Sholom in San Francisco. Rabbi Ain develops meaningful ways to worship in the 21st century – creating experiences that speak to people today, using the language, lessons and music of the past. Co-founder of Brooklyn's Because Jewish which "brings Judaism into the now"
Attorney, entrepreneur, university professor and former legislative policy advisor. Currently Deputy Regional Director NY/NJ of the Anti-Defamation League. Currently working on the recent rise in Anti-Semitic Incidents in NY
Internationally known for his leadership on behalf of religious freedom, human rights and tolerance, whose activities have spanned the globe for more than four decades. He has played a major role in addressing issues in the former Soviet Union and Russia, China, Central Europe, Latin America and the Balkans.