Individual Category: Task Force Advisory Committee

Joshua Boettiger is a Jewish Chaplain Rabbi at Bard. Previously he served a congregation in Ashland, Oregon, where he taught Jewish Meditation

Ambassador Frederic Hof is an author, veteran, diplomat in Residence at Bard College and served as special coordinator for regional affairs

Susannah Heschel is an author, scholar, and the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College

Reverend Mary Grace Williams is Chaplain, Dean of Community Life, and Vicar of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church at Bard College.

Jeffrey Wilkinson is a facilitator, focusing on issues of equity, social justice and inclusive education. His current work concerns

Hussein Ibish is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. He is a weekly columnist for Bloomberg 

Raja Khouri is a community leader, social entrepreneur and human rights advocate. His active work in equity projects over the past 20 years

Steven Windmueller is the Emeritus Professor of Jewish Communal Studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

Varun Soni is a professor, author, producer, speaker, and Dean of Religious Life at the University of Southern California.

Ruth Sohn is a rabbi, teacher, and writer. She is Director of the Leona Aronoff Rabbinic Mentoring Program at Hebrew Union College

Bruce Phillips is an author, researcher, and Professor of Sociology & Jewish Communal Service at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute

Steve Rabinowitz is a political image maker, media strategist, publicist, and event planner who works for progressive and Jewish causes.

Aaron David Miller is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, focusing on U.S. foreign policy.

Burton L. Visotzky is a scholar, author, lecturer, and rabbi. He serves as Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies

Rabbi Joel Thal Simonds is the founding executive director of the Jewish Center for Justice, where he envisioned the need for

Daniel Kurtzer, a professor of Middle East policy at Princeton University since 2006, was the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and to Israel

Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller is a faculty member at the Shalom Hartman Institute; also director emeritus of the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center

Rabbi John L. Rosove is senior rabbi emeritus of Temple Israel of Hollywood in Los Angeles, is a national co-chair of the Rabbinic

Rabbi Jennie Rosenn is founder and CEO of Dayenu, a Jewish Call to Climate Action. Two decades leading Jewish nonprofit organizations

Rabbi Joy Levitt is the CEO of the JCC of Manhattan. She also was a congregational rabbi on Long Island and in New Jersey.

Hannah Rosenthal served as United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism in the Obama administration

Rabbi Jill Jacobs is the executive director of T’ruah: the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, which mobilizes more than 2,000 rabbis

Jeremy Ben-Ami is the president of J Street, which organizes pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans to promote U.S. policies

Dr. John Ruskay is executive vice president emeritus of UJA-Federation of New York and a senior partner of JRB Consulting Services.

Sarah Bunin Benor is an author, editor, and Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion

Michael Berenbaum is the Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust

Rabbi Sharon Brous is the senior and founding rabbi of IKAR,which launched in 2004 with the goal of reinvigorating Jewish tradition

Geoffrey Cowan is a lawyer, government official, best-selling author, professor, nonprofit executive, and Emmy Award-winning producer.

Reuven Firestone is a scholar, author, and the Regenstein Professor in Medieval Judaism and Islam at Hebrew Union College

Rabbi Laura Geller is rabbi emerita of Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, CA. She was twice named one of Newsweek’s 50 Most Influential Rabbis

Father James Lewis Heft is an ordained priest in the Society of Mary and he is president of the Institute of Advanced Catholic Studies

Dove Kent served as the director of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice from 2011 to 2017, and is the co-founder of Tzedek Lab