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 Joseph Telushkin on Jewish literacy
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin is the author of 15 books, including Jewish Literacy and The Book of Jewish Values, a senior associate of CLAL, a board member of the Jewish Book Council, and the rabbi of the Los Angeles-based Synagogue for the Performing Arts.
 David Gordis on advocacy
Dr. David Gordis is President and Professor of Rabbinics at Hebrew College and founding Director of the Susan and David Wilstein Institute of Jewish Policy Studies.
 Paula Hyman on Jewish history
Professor Paula Hyman is the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University. She offers courses on topics in modern European and American Jewish history, with a special emphasis on the history of women and gender.
 Avraham Infeld on Israel and Klal Yisrael
Avraham Infeld is the President of Hillel, The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life.
 Larry Kushner on
sacred texts, God and Kabbalah
Lawrence Kushner is the Emanu-El Scholar at Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco. He also serves as Visiting Professor of Jewish Spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Author of 16 books, he has helped shape the present agenda for personal and institutional spiritual renewal.
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 Ruth Messenger and Ari Goldman on ethics and mitzvot
Ruth Messenger is the president and executive director of American Jewish World Service, a humanitarian organization providing support to grassroots social change projects throughout the world. Ari L. Goldman came to Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 1993 after spending 20 years at The New York Times. Professor Goldman is author of three books: The Search for God at Harvard, Being Jewish and Living a Year of Kaddish.
 Alana Newhouse, Liel Leibovitz and Chanan Tigay on arts and popular culture
Alana Newhouse is the arts and culture editor at the Forward newspaper. She has written for The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe Ideas section and Slate. Liel Leibovitz, an alumnus of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, is the Cultural Editor of The Jewish Week, the largest Jewish publication in the country. He is also a frequent contributor to numerous publications, including Moment Magazine, B’nai B’rith Magazine, and Hadassah Magazine. He is formerly a spokesperson for the Israeli consulate in New York. Chanan Tigay covered the intifada from the Jerusalem bureau of Agence France Presse, the attacks of Sept. 11 for both AFP and United Press International, and has been the New York correspondent for the Jerusalem Report magazine. He has interviewed Sens. Joe Lieberman, Hillary Clinton and John McCain, along with Shimon Peres and Ehud Olmert.
 Yosef Leibowitz
on text
Rabbi Dr. Yosef Leibowitz, the Director and Founder of the Yad Yaakov Fund, received his ordination from Yeshiva University and his Doctorate from Berkeley. He served for fifteen years as Rabbi in Berkeley California before moving to Israel. In Israel Rabbi Leibowitz taught for fifteen years at the Pardes institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem and for ten years ran the Torah education program for the city of Kfar Saba. He is also Rabbi at the Minyan Hachadash in Kfar Saba. He has lectured in many cities across the United States and is currently publishing a book, The Journey of the Soul in Biblical Stories.
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