Ruben Shimonov is an educator, community builder, and social entrepreneur passionate about Jewish diversity. He previously served as Director of Community Engagement & Education at Queens College Hillel. Currently, Ruben is the National Director of Sephardi House & Young Leadership at the American Sephardi Federation. He is also the Founding Executive Director of the Sephardic Mizrahi Q Network. As a visual artist, Ruben uses his multilingual Arabic-Hebrew-Persian calligraphy to build Muslim-Jewish interfaith bridges. Ruben is an alumnus of the Nahum Goldmann Fellowship and the Schusterman Foundation’s ROI Summit. He has been listed among The Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36” emerging leaders and changemakers.

Christine Hayes is the Sterling Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica at Yale University and one of the foremost American academics focusing on Talmudic and Midrashic studies and Classical Judaica.

She was born to Australian parents living in the United States, but moved to Australia (Sydney, Adelaide) with her family where she completed high school.

She credits her parents' interest in philosophy, religion, literature, and world culture as instrumental in shaping her own intellectual passions, including her eventual study of Jewish history, culture, and religion.

Upon finishing high school, Hayes returned to the United States to study at Harvard University and received her B.A. summa cum laude in the Study of Religion in 1984. There, Hayes relates that she stumbled into the Harvard University Hillel and began to teach herself to read Hebrew.

Before her appointment at Yale, she served as the assistant professor of Hebrew studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies, at Princeton University, where she completed her first book Between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds (1997) based on her PhD work. Her first monograph was awarded the Salo Baron prize from the American Academy for Jewish Research.

Her second monograph, Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities (2006), was a finalist for the National Jewish Book award, and her third monograph, What's Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives, has won three prestigious awards.[note 1] From 2017–2019, Hayes served as President of the Association for Jewish Studies.

Adrian Arena is Director of the Oak Foundation’s International Human Rights Programme. Focusing on civil and political rights, it works internationally but with a particular focus on the EU, Russia, India, Myanmar, Brazil and the USA. He also oversees the Foundation’s separate Brazil programme. His work largely addresses issues of State violence, arbitrary detention, LGBTI rights, the promotion and safeguarding of democracy and civic activism.

Prior to joining Oak Foundation, Arena spent three years as Deputy Secretary-General of the International Commission of Jurists, a Geneva-based organization that promotes the global rule of law with a particular emphasis on the independence of the judiciary. There he was responsible for management and fundraising and learned first-hand the challenges of being a grant seeker.

Adrian began his career in the Australian Foreign Service serving as a diplomat at the Australian Embassies in Tehran, Stockholm, and Rome. He undertook a range of responsibilities, including political and economic reporting, representation, and immigration work.

He has served on the boards of various foundations including over 10 years at the Human Rights Initiative of the Open Society Foundations. His current Board memberships include Pluralis which invests in successful independent media where media pluralism is at risk, and Physicians for Human Rights, an international ngo based in NYC.

Adrian is London based. He holds a degree in Arts/Law from the University of Sydney and is a keen cyclist.

Abigail Dauber Sterne, who lives in Jerusalem, is the co-author of "Stories for the Sake of Argument," a collection of short stories about Israel. She was founding director of Limmud NY, and served in senior roles at several organizations. Abi is a rabbinical student at the Shalom Hartman Institute/HaMidrasha B'Oranim.

Anshel Pfeffer is a senior correspondent and columnist for Haaretz and the Israel correspondent for The Economist. He has been a journalist for 25 years covering a wide range of issues in Israel and reporting from over 30 countries on four continents. His latest book is Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu

Liza Wiemer is the author of the multi-award-winning international novel, The Assignment. She has had two adult nonfiction books published and several short stories in the New York Times bestselling Small Miracles series. The Algemeiner named her one of “The Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life, 2021.”

Noah Efron founded, and is a professor in, the program on science, technology & society at Bar Ilan University. He hosts “The Promised Podcast” on TLV1. He is a founder and leader of Israel’s Green Party and served on the Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Council. He’s written three books and many essays on the tricky intertwines of Judaism, science, technology and politics. His biggest regret is that he is not Nora Ephron.

Rabbanit Shira Marili Mirvis is the Rabbanit of the Shirat HaTamar congregation in Efrat. She was a Fellow at Midreshet Lindenbaum’s Institute for Halachic Leadership where she became certified various Halachic topics.She is involved in many of Efrat's committees and answers halachic questions. She runs a vlog and podcast.

Ittay Flescher is the Education Director at Kids4Peace Jerusalem, an interfaith movement for Israelis and Palestinians and the Jerusalem Correspondent for Plus61J Media.

He also frequently teaches on gap year programs about the identity, narratives and cultures of the people who call Jerusalem home.

Leah Malamet, M.A., M.Ed, C.Psych. is a registered Clinical Psychologist. She holds a Masters in Clinical Psychology from the University of Toronto and is currently completing her doctoral dissertation on attachment theory and the psychology of religion. Ms. Malamet has provided psychological assessment, treatment, and supervision services for 35 years in hospitals, schools, and private practice in Canada, USA, England, & Israel, to highly diverse as well as underserved populations. In her work with children, adolescents, adults, couples and families, Ms. Malamet's theoretical and clinical approach integrates psychodynamic, somatic, cognitive-behavioural, art, sand tray, and play therapies. Ms. Malamet has taught at Bar Ilan University as well as has given professional seminars in Canada, USA, England, & Israel, on the systematic integration of different theoretical and clinical approaches to psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment, emotional regulation, and the interface between psychology & religion.

Dr. Elliott Malamet is the co-director of Living Jewishly, a non-denominational organization based in Toronto that hosts conversations and events meant to draw out the core existential meanings of Judaism and of a spiritual life. Their website is full of blogs, podcasts and classes meant to inspire new and creative ways of Jewish living and learning. Dr, Malamet taught English literature and Jewish philosophy at Canadian universities for twenty five years before making aliyah with his family in 2013. He currently lectures at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and teaches at various other institutions in Jerusalem and abroad. He is consulted globally on issues related to Jewish education, and his book on the ethics of teenagers is currently under review at a major publisher.

A Career diplomat at the Israeli MFA since 1994, Currently Ambassador of Israel to the Pacific Island States. Former Ambassador to Senegal and West Africa and Head of Mission in Doha, Qatar. Specializing in diplomacy, Israel's national security and foreign relations, political analysis, relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors, Russia, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Above all, my passion is to create bridges between Israel and different people in this global village.