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Who participated in The Conversation 2006?

Dan Ahdoot: Comedian; Last Comic Standing finalist. NY
Harlene Winnick Appelman: Executive Director, The Covenant Foundation. NY
Sam Ball: Filmmaker. CA
Kenneth Brander: Inaugural Dean, Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future. FL
Rachel Brodie: Executive Director, Jewish Milestones.CA
Michael Brooks: Executive Director, University of Michigan Hillel.MI
Sharon Brous: Founding rabbi of IKAR.CA
Erica Brown: Scholar-in-Residence, Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. MD
Sender Cohen: Partner, Venn Capital, N.Y.; KCS Capital, Israel. NY
Menachem Creditor: Co-founder of Keshet Rabbis: The Alliance of Gay-Friendly Conservative Rabbis.MA
Nathan Diament: Director of Public Policy, OU. DC
Ariela Dubler: Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School. NY
Sandi DuBowski: Director, "Trembling Before G-d." NY
Kari Dunn: Executive Director, President's Council on Service and Civic Participation.DC
Dan Ehrenkrantz: President, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. PA
Lisa Eisen: National Program Director, Schusterman Foundation.DC
Ruth Andrew Ellenson: : Author; editor, "The Modern Jewish Girls' Guide to Guilt." CA
Rob Eshman: Editor, Jewish Journal of Los Angeles. CA
Wayne L. Firestone: President/CEO, Hillel. DC
Pearl Gluck: Filmmaker; professor of Yiddish, Rutgers University. NY
Ari Goldman: Author, professor of journalism, Columbia University. NY
Dov Greeberg: Executive Director, Stanford University's Rohr Chabbad House. CA
Simon Greer: President/CEO, Jewish Fund for Justice/The Shefa Fund. NY
Matthew Grossman: Executive Director, B'nai B'rith Youth Organization. DC
Michael Hammer: Founder, high technology firms; author, "Reengineering the Corporation." MA
Stuart Himmelfarb: Director, Berrie Fellows Leadership Program. NJ
Rae Janvey: Consultant and advisor to Jewish leaders and organizations. NY
Danny Krifcher: Board President, JTA: The Global News Service of the Jewish People.MD
Amichai Lau-Lavie: Founder/artistic director, Storahtelling: Jewish Ritual Theater Revived. NY
Morlie Levin: Executive Director, Hadassah.NY
Naomi Levy: Founder/Spiritual Leader of Nashuva: A Soulful Community of Prayer in Action. CA
Rebecca Lieberman: Independent consultant with expertise in philanthropic and non-profit sectors.NY
Deborah Meyer: Executive Director, Moving Traditions. PA.
Jennifer Meyerhoff: Activist, strategist for Jewish institutions. MD
Tova Mirvis: Novelist. MA
Leon Morris: Director, Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning; author, rabbi. NY
Pamela Nadell: Director of Jewish Studies Program, American University; history professor.DC
Michael Paley: Rabbi, director of Jewish resource center of UJA-Federation of New York. NY
Julia Pimsleur: Development Director at Echoing Green, providing seed funding mentorships to social entrepreneurs; documentary producer. NY
Marcella Kanfer Rolnick: New Ventures Director, GOJO Industries; President/Chair, Lippman Kanfer Family Foundation. Iowa
Gary Rosenblatt: Editor/Publisher of The Jewish Week, NY
Hannah Rosenthal: Executive Director, Chicago Foundation for Women. Il.
Leonard Saxe: Professor of Social Policy/Director of Brandeis Steinhardt Institute for Social Research. MA
Basya Schechter: Pharoah's Daughter. NY
Lacey Schwartz: Film and documentary director/producer; attorney. NY
Rochelle Shoretz: Executive Director, Sharsheret, for young Jewish women fighting breast cancer. NJ
Jerry Silverman: President of Foundation for Jewish Camping. NY
Daniel Sokatch: Executive Director, Progressive Jewish Alliance. CA
Peter Stein: Executive Director, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.CA
Gil Troy: History professor, McGill University; lecturer, author. Canada
Ari Wallach: Director of Brand and Product Development at Seed Media Group. NY
Rami Wernik: Acting Dean, Fingerhut School of Education, University of Judaism. CA
Jenny Wiener: Co-founder, Jewcy Media Group; owner/operator, Arts Nova NY
Ruth Wisse: Professor, Yiddish and Comparative Literature, Harvard University. MA





 
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