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Who participated in The Conversation 2007?

Peter Alexander: NBC news correspondent. CA
Sam Apple: Journalist, author. NY
Ronit Avni: Executive Director, Just Vision. NY
Jonathan Baron: Partner, co-founder, investment firm. NY
Maggie Bar-Tura: Chief operating officer, Foundation for Jewish Camping. NY
Adam Berman: Executive Director, Isabella Freedman. CT
Elise Bernhardt: Executive Director, National Foundation for Jewish Culture. NY
Michael Bohnen: President, Adelson Foundation. MA
Yonah Bookstein: Executive Director, Jewlicious. CA
Joel Chasnoff: Stand-up comedian, writer. NY
Lisa Colton: President, Darim Online. VA
David Cygielman: Executive Director, Forest Foundation. CA
Aaron Davidman: Artistic Director, Traveling Jewish Theatre. CA
Ruchama King Feuerman: Novelist, editor, book coach. NJ
Sylvia Barack Fishman: Author, professor, Brandeis University. MA
Barbara Friedman: Chair, Hebrew Union College/Jewish Institute of Religion Board of Governors. NY
Billie Gold: President, N.Y. chapter, American Jewish Committee. NY
Rachel Saifer Goldman: Former Associate Director, University of Pennsylvania Hillel. PA
Niles Goldstein: Author, Rabbi of The New Shul in Manhattan. NY
Marge Goldwater: Executive Director, Jewish Foundation for Education of Women. NY
Yoni Gordis: Director of Programs, Center for Leadership Initiatives.Vancouver
Steve Greenberg: Author, rabbi, teacher, NY
Reid Heller: Founder, Three Stars Jewish Cinema; Classic Jewish Text Seminars. TX
Hayim Herring: Executive Director, Synagogues
: Transformation and Renewal. MN
Rae Janvey: Consultant/advisor to Berrie Fellowship, Jewish leaders and organizations. NY
Danielle Josephs: Founder, Middle East Coexistence House at Rutgers University. NJ
Lily Kanter: Co-founder/CEO, Serena and Lily. CA
Michael Karlin: Founder/President, Mythic Imagination Institute. GA
Shaul Kelner: Sociology and Jewish Studies Professor, Vanderbilt University. TN
Idit Klein: Executive Director, Keshet. MA
Aliza Kline: Executive Director, Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Mikveh/Education Center. MA
Scott-Martin Kosofsky: Author, book designer, editor. MA
Michael Kotzin: Executive Vice-President, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago. IL
Yehudah Kurtzer: Harvard University doctoral student and teaching fellow. MA
Lori Lefkovitz: Professor of Gender and Judaism; Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. PA
Sarah Lefton: Internet projects creator; co-founder, Mission Minyan. CA
Daniel Libenson: Executive Director: Hillel at University of Chicago. IL
Yavilah McCoy: New England regional director, The Curriculum Initiative. MA
Erika Meitner: Poet, professor at Virginia Tech. VA
Liz Nord: Documentary filmmaker, producer. NY
Aaron Panken: Vice President, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. NY
Mark Pearlman: Media executive, chair of Children’s Museum of Manhattan. NY
Nessa Rapoport: Senior Program Officer, The Revson Foundation. NY
Shulamit Reinharz: Professor of Sociology, Brandeis University. MA
Leni Reiss: Former Editor, Jewish News of Greater Phoenix. AZ
Robert Rifkin: Attorney; trustee, JTS, Brandeis, Leo Baeck Institute. NY
Gary Rosenblatt: Editor/Publisher, The Jewish Week. NY
Jennie Rosenn: Rabbi; Director, Jewish Life and Values Program, Nathan Cummings Foundation.NY
Chana Rothman: Musician, teaching artist, activist. NY
Terry Rubenstein: Executive Vice President, Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds. MD
Jaynie Schultz: Vice President, Garrett Creek Ranch Conference Center. TX
Daniel Septimus: Editor-in-chief, MyJewishLearning.com. NY
David Shneer: Director, Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver. CO
David Suissa: Founder, publisher, editor-in-chief, OLAM magazine. CA
Loren Sykes: Rabbi, executive director, Camp Ramah Darom. GA
Sharon Waxman: The New York Times correspondent for Hollywood. CA
Robert Wexler: Rabbi, President of the American Jewish University. CA
David Wolpe: Author, Rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles. CA






 
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