Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal serves concurrently as the CEO for USCJ and for the Rabbinical Assembly, through the strategic alignment between the two organizations to strengthen and grow the impact of Masorti-Conservative Judaism. Rabbi...
The first woman rabbi to head a Jewish congregational union and seminary, Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D., became president and CEO of Reconstructing Judaism in 2014. Since then, she has drawn on her training as a rabbi and historian to...
Rabbi Rick Jacobs (he/him) is president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the most powerful force in North American Jewish life. The URJ leads the largest and most diverse Jewish movement in North America, reaching more than 2 million people...
Kaminka is the mother of Lieutenant Yannai Kaminka, age 20, who was killed defending the soldiers under his command and neighboring communities in the Gaza envelope on October 7, 2023. During the week of mourning for her son, she reached...
Aziz Abu Sarah is Founder and Co-CEO of InterAct International, a nonprofit dedicated to Middle East Peace. He is a peacebuilder, author, entrepreneur, National Geographic Explorer, TED Fellow, and renowned speaker and trainer on conflict...
Ehud Olmert served as Prime Minister of the State of Israel from 2006 to 2009. Born in 1945 in Israel, a graduate of the Hebrew University in Psychology, Philosophy and Law. Served in the Israeli Knesset from 1973 - 2009 and was elected twice...
MK Dr. Mansour Abbas born 22 April 1974 is an Israeli politician and the leader of the United Arab List (Ra’am), which he represents in the Knesset. In April 2021, he was appointed Chair of the Knesset Special Committee on Arab Society Affairs...
Maoz Inon is Co-CEO of InterAct International, a nonprofit dedicated to Middle East Peace. He is an Israeli peace activist and entrepreneur. He was honored with the prestigious Franco-German Human Rights Prize and the Shared Living Award from...
Amy Spitalnick is the CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the national convener of Jewish coalitions working across communities to build a just and inclusive American democracy. A nationally recognized leader on countering antisemitism...
Jackie Dentino is a US-based arts administrator and flute teacher. She holds a B.A. in Music Performance, Flute from the joint music program at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Music in Cleveland, OH; and an M.S. in Arts...
Philippe Sands KC is Professor of Law at University College London and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard. He is a practising barrister at 11KBW, appears as counsel before the International Court of Justice and other international courts and...
Rula Daood is the National co-Director of Standing Together, a member of its elected leadership, and a Palestinian citizen of Israel. Born and raised in the Galilee village of Kfar Yasif, Rula began her professional life as a speech pathologist before...
Uri Weltmann is the National Field Organizer for Standing Together, part of the national leadership of the movement, and a founding member of Standing Together in 2015. A long-time peace and anti-occupation activist, he also has a background...
Congresswoman Sara Jacobs is in her third term in Congress and proudly serves California's 51st Congressional District, which includes much of the City of San Diego, and all of the Cities of El Cajon, La Mesa, Lemon Grove, and...
Yair Golan is an Israeli politician, leader of the Democrats party, and a senior military officer. He served as deputy minister of economy in the thirty-sixth Israeli government and served as a Member of the Knesset from...
Brian Schatz is Hawaii’s senior United States Senator. Since joining the Senate, he has focused his work on helping workers, veterans, and families and has led key legislation on health care, climate change, and technology. Senator Schatz chairs the...
Senator Chris Murphy is the junior United States Senator for the state of Connecticut. After serving for three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, Murphy was elected to the Senate in 2012 and has been a vocal advocate for...
Rabbi David Saperstein is director emeritus of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, having served as its director and counsel for 40 years. Designated by Newsweek Magazine as the most influential rabbi in America and by the...
Maya Wiley is the President and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights and The Leadership Conference Education Fund — a coalition of more than 240 national organizations working to promote and protect the...
As a scientist, clean energy entrepreneur, CEO, and now as a Member of Congress, Representative Sean Casten has dedicated his life to fighting climate change. In Congress, Representative Casten draws on his two decades of experience as...
Susan B. Glasser, a staff writer at The New Yorker based in Washington, D.C., writes a weekly column on life in Washington and is a host of the Political Scene podcast. Glasser has served as the top editor of several Washington publications...
U.S. Senator Adam Schiff was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2024, after two decades of service in the House of Representatives. He serves on the Agriculture, Judiciary, Small Business and Environment and Public Works Committees, and is a member of…
A co-star on NBC’s THE WEST WING, and ABC’s SPORTS NIGHT, Joshua also appeared in Aaron Sorkin’s THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT, MALICE, and the Broadway production of A FEW GOOD MEN. More recently, he played David Rosen in...
Congresswoman Madeleine Dean was born and raised in Glenside, Pennsylvania. She graduated from La Salle University and earned her law degree at Widener University. For nearly ten years, she was a professor of writing at...
Meirav Solomon is a senior at Tufts University studying International Relations in the Middle East. Originally from North Carolina, she is a proud Conservative Jew who has spent considerable time in Israel/Palestinian areas. She has been a member of...
Senator Chris Van Hollen was elected to the United States Senate by the people of Maryland in November 2016. Chris Van Hollen is committed to fighting every day to ensure that the state of Maryland and our country live up to their full promise of...
Nicole Malina was thrilled to join the J Street Southern California team in 2019. Originally from New York, Nicole has worked in development and nonprofit administration in California for over fifteen years, holding capacity-building roles in...
Noa Landau is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Haaretz, Israel’s oldest daily. Since joining Haaretz in 2009 she served as a reporter, commentator and senior editor including the editor of Haaretz English edition. Landau is also the founder of Haaretz21, an organizational...
Senator Tim Kaine was elected to the Senate in 2012 and serves on the Armed Services; Budget; Foreign Relations; and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committees. As a senator from one of the states most closely connected to the military and...
Jeremy Ben-Ami is the President of J Street, bringing to the role both deep experience in American politics and government and a passionate commitment to the state of Israel. Ben-Ami’s family connection to Israel goes back 140 years to the first aliyah when his great-grandparents...
