Natan Sharansky is an Israeli politician, human rights activist, and author who, as a refusenik in the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s, spent nine years in Soviet prisons. During his time in the Israeli government, including as deputy prime minister, and as the head of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Sharansky fought tirelessly for the rights of new immigrants, religious minorities, and women. At the helm of the Jewish Agency, he focused on repatriation of Jews to Israel, strengthening the links between Israel and global Jewry, and made an effort to develop a separate, egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall. Sharansky is the sole living non-U.S. citizen to receive both the Congressional Gold Medal and Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Arie Lipnick is a political strategist and founder of Capitol Hill-based consultancy on the front lines of the most competitive political campaigns of the last decade. With over 20 years of experience in campaign and non-profit consulting, including a who’s who of national party committees, House leadership, 501C organizations, and SuperPACs, he was a senior staff member for Lee Zeldin's New York gubernatorial campaign, one of the 2022 cycle’s biggest near-upsets. He is now a senior advisor to Elise Stefanik, handling policy, Jewish outreach, and fundraising assistance. Lipnick brings deep experience on U.S.-Israel policy, combating antisemitism, and expanding educational opportunity to his leadership role at CAM.
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Robert Singer served as the Chief Executive Officer of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), the leading umbrella organization of Jewish communities around the world from 2013-2019, and as Chief Executive Officer of World ORT (WO), the world’s largest Jewish education and training organization from 1999-2013. Mr. Singer traveled extensively throughout the world, visiting Jewish communities in more than 60 countries while enhancing the WJC and WO’s global diplomatic and educational presence. He has participated in meetings with presidents and prime ministers of various nations, as well as prominent government, business, faith and civil society leaders, including Pope Francis, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, International Red Cross President Peter Maurer and many others.
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Brig. Gen. (Res.) Sima Vaknin Gill is a former intelligence officer in the Israeli air force, served as the Chief Censor of the state of Israel and is a former Director General of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy. Sima is an Expert in Intelligence work, Data and research-based action and campaigns, the De-legitimization campaign against Israel, the BDS movement and Antisemitism. Sima joined the Israel Air Force in 1984 and served for more than 20 years in various positions in the Research and Operational Intelligence departments.
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Dr. Misha Galperin is President of Zandafi Philanthropy Advisors, an international consulting firm working with philanthropists, foundations and non profits to help develop their Vision, Mission and Strategic Plans and Objectives. Zandafi LLC also provides assistance in implementation stages through offering board and staff training, recruitment and ongoing consulting in the areas of organizational development and restructuring, marketing and communications, program and grant allocation and due diligence, and financial resource development. Dr.
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Gabriel Groisman is a Partner at LSN Partners, where he utilizes his unique experiences, skillset, and network to assist companies and entrepreneurs in government affairs at the state and national levels in the areas of advocacy, public affairs, government procurement and relationship building. Groisman is also a practicing attorney and Partner of LSN Law, PA. As a lawyer, Groisman has represented clients in matters related to real estate, intellectual property, defamation, non-competes, breach of contract, business torts, and compliance work related to anti-bribery and anti-money laundering laws. Supplementary to his legal career, Groisman has played a vital role in supporting his community.
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Elan S. Carr was appointed by the President of the United States and the Secretary of State to the office of United States Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. In that capacity, Mr. Carr served as the senior diplomatic representative of the United States and the senior advisor to Secretary Pompeo on the subject of anti-Semitism, and he directed U.S. policy and programs aimed at combating it.� During his two years in office, he negotiated groundbreaking agreements with foreign governments; convened the first-ever U.S.
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Rev. Johnnie Moore is a popular speaker and acclaimed human rights and religious freedom activist best known for his consequential work at the intersection of faith and foreign policy, especially in the Middle East. Moore is the president of JDA Worldwide, a top integrated marketing and public relations agency and the president of The Congress of Christian Leaders, a representative voice for more than 600 million Evangelicals worldwide. Rev.
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Father Patrick Desbois is the president and founder of Yahad – In Unum, a global humanitarian organization, dedicated to identifying and commemorating the sites of Jewish and Roma mass graves in Europe. He is also the Head of the academic council of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center.� He is the grandson of a WWII French prisoner held in the Rawa Ruska camp on the Poland-Ukraine border. In 2004, he began to research the story of the Jews, Roma and other victims murdered in Eastern Europe during WWII by the Nazi mobile killing units, the Einsatzgruppen.� A professor at Georgetown University, in the faculty for the Center for Jewish Civilization. He also served as director of the Episcopal Committee for Catholic-Judeo Relations from 1999 until 2016, under the auspices of the French Conference of Bishops.
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Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt is the rabbi of Congregation B’nai Tzedek in Potomac, Maryland, a vibrant Conservative synagogue of over 600 families he founded in 1988.Rabbi Weinblatt has held a number of leadership positions, locally and nationally, including having served as the President of the Rabbinic Cabinet of the Jewish Federations of North America, as Director of Israel Policy and Advocacy for the Rabbinical Assembly, and as chair of the JNF’s Rabbis for Israel. Most recently, Rabbi Weinblatt formed the Zionist Rabbinic Coalition, a coalition of rabbis from all denominations which seeks to encourage rabbis committed to strengthening ties between Jews of the Diaspora and Israel.Rabbi Weinblatt has given the opening prayer at sessions of the United States Senate, the House of Representatives, both houses of the Maryland State legislature, the inaugurations of Maryland’s Governors, as well as numerous other public gatherings. His dynamic leadership, innovative approach to Judaism and reputation as an outstanding teacher and speaker has been recognized through a number of honors. He was chosen by The Forward as one of “America’s Most Inspiring Rabbis”, as the Greater Washington area ORT “Man of the Year,” a “Pillar of the Community” by the JCRC of Greater Washington, and in surveys conducted by The Washington Jewish Week, as the “Best Rabbi in Washington” by its readers for multiple years.
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The Honorable Irwin Cotler is Emeritus Professor of Law at McGill University, Founder and International Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and longtime parliamentarian. He is a member of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom, Canada’s Special Envoy for Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism and member of the Organization of American States (OAS) Expert Legal Panel on Venezuela. He is an international human rights lawyer, counsel to political prisoners and has been referred to as “Counsel for the Oppressed” and "Freedoms Counsel." He is an officer of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honor, an an Officer of the National Order of Quebec, Quebec’s highest honor, a Member of the Privy Council of Canada, and Avocat emeritus of the Quebec Bar.
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Dr. Friedman holds leadership roles that serve both the Jewish and larger communities. She is the head of the Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS) in the San Francisco Bay Area - one of the largest and most renowned family service institutions in the U.S. She is an expert in social policy and programming for diverse populations, the provision of health and human services, as well as the development of innovative social enterprise models.
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Dina Porat, a Tel Aviv University professor of Jewish history, served as head of the Department of Jewish History, the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, and the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism. She is now head of the Kantor Center for the study of Contemporary European Jewry (that includes the Moshe Kantor Database for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism), and holds the Alfred P. Slaner Chair for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University. Since 2010, Professor Porat has served as the Chief Historian of Yad Vashem.
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With André Azoulay, history meets the present and embraces the future. Born in Essaouira when it was called Mogador, André Azoulay has not forgotten a childhood when Jews and Muslims lived with exceptional and resilient closeness. With Katia, his wife, he made the resurrection of Essaouira the challenge of his life. Thanks to the power of their common dream, the City of the Trade Winds became the flagship of a Judeo-Muslim revival.
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Mario Adolfo Búcaro Flores is a career diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Guatemala from February 2022 to January 2024. He previously served as Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Guatemala to the United Mexican States, State of Israel, Republic of Bulgaria, and Republic of Cyprus. During his Israel posting, Búcaro oversaw his country's historic recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and the opening of the Guatemalan Embassy there. A Lawyer and Notary, he graduated from the Rafael Landívar Catholic University of Guatemala, and was formerly Professor and Dean of the Consular Corps accredited in Guatemala, former Honorary Consul of Georgia in Guatemala, former Dean of the Faculty of Law and Justice of the University of San Pablo de Guatemala, former President of the Board of Directors of the International Mediation Center of Guatemala and former Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Guatemalan-Mexican Chamber of Commerce.
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Valentina Leskaj currently serves as Chairwoman of the Advisory Board of the Albanian Center for Population and Development, which she founded in 1995. She was Member of the Albanian Parliament from 2002 to 2017, when she decided to leave politics. Valentina Leskaj held important leadership roles, among others as Minister of Labor and Social Affairs and a Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe, Chairwoman of the Parliamentary Commissions for Education and Media and Parliamentary Commission for Country Integration. She has been Deputy Chair of the EU-Albania, Inter- parliamentary Committee on Stabilization Association for many years.
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Lord John Mann currently serves as Her Majesty’s Government Independent Adviser on Antisemitism. John Mann was the elected Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom for Bassetlaw from June 2001 until 2019. In the summer of 2005, he was appointed Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism (APPG). John has commissioned two major All-Party Inquiries into Antisemitism and a further inquiry into Electoral Conduct.
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Lord Eric Pickles was appointed as the United Kingdom's Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust issues in September 2015. Lord Pickles works closely with the wide range of Holocaust academics, survivors and educational and social organizations in the UK. Along with the former Labour Cabinet Minister Ed Balls, he co-chairs the United Kingdom’s Holocaust Memorial Foundation. He was made a Life Peer in 2018.
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Uwe Becker is the German state of Hesse's State Secretary for European Affairs and State Commissioner for Jewish Life and the Fight Against Antisemitism. A former Mayor and Treasurer of the City of Frankfurt am Main, Mr. Becker also serves as President of the German-Israeli Society. Mr.
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Ruth R. Wisse is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University emeritus. She is a noted scholar of Yiddish literature and of Jewish history and culture. Professor Wisse is currently the Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Tikvah Fund.
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Martin Oliner was born in 1947 in a German DP camp. A child of Holocaust survivors, he was the first member of his family to graduate from high school and became a successful attorney, businessman, and self-made philanthropist. Devoted to strengthening the ties between the United States and Israel, he currently serves as Co-President of the Religious Zionists of America-Mizrachi, Chair of Israel Bonds New York Region, Committee member of the Jewish Agency, Board member of B’nai B’rith, and a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council for a term expiring January 15, 2026. Martin received a J.D. and an L.L.M. in Taxation with honors from New York University Law School, and is a member of Phi Betta Kappa and the Order of the Coif.
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Aaron Keyak served as the Deputy Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism at the U.S. Department of State from 2021-2025. In helping to have led this office, he worked to advance U.S. foreign policy to counter antisemitism throughout the world. Currently, he leads the firm he founded, Capitol K Consulting, in which Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt (ret.) serves as an adviser.
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Noam Lee is the former executive director of the Democratic Governors Association, where he helped win competitive gubernatorial races across the country, electing and re-electing Democratic governors from North Carolina, Louisiana, and Kentucky to Washington, Delaware, and New Jersey. His extensive background in Democratic politics began as a field organizer for a state senate campaign while studying at Washington University in St. Louis and later included key roles at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and on then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s 2010 re-election campaign.
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Sharona Nazarian is Mayor of Beverly Hills, California, and a member of CAM’s Mayors Advisory Board. The first Iranian Jewish American woman to serve as mayor, she has led efforts to promote sustainability, civic engagement, and community well-being. A longtime Beverly Hills resident, Nazarian previously served as a Public Works commissioner and launched initiatives supporting youth leadership and environmental responsibility. Nazarian has always been vocal about antisemitism and her "Never Again Is Now" initiative will include multiple events throughout the year such as speaker series and book discussions.
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Barbara Feingold is a philanthropist and a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council (Board of Trustees), where she supports efforts to preserve Holocaust memory and educate future generations about the dangers of antisemitism and hatred. She is a former member of the Florida State Board of Education and currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Florida Atlantic University. She is also the Florida Chair and a member of the Republican Jewish Coalition National Board of Directors.
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Scott Singer is the mayor of Boca Raton, Florida, first elected to the City Council in 2014 and to his current post in 2018. A Harvard and Georgetown-educated attorney and former small- business owner, he has focused his tenure on public safety, education, and fiscal responsibility while fostering economic growth and maintaining one of Florida’s lowest property tax rates.
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As principal of Keystone Equities, Jonathan R. Zamir is responsible for all major decisions related to deal sourcing, debt financing, co-investment opportunities, and major transactional matters. His role also involves detailed oversight of all activities of the company in addition to the day to day responsibilities of running the firm. Prior to founding Keystone, Jonathan began his real estate career as Portfolio Manager for The Moinian Group, among the nation’s premier RE firms.
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Ezra Gontownik is the founder and managing partner of private equity firm Rockpost Capital, a former investor at Berkshire Partners, and the co-founder and president of Kol HaNearim, a nonprofit supporting at-risk Israeli youth.
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Tanya Tsikanovsky is a first-generation American whose parents immigrated from the former Soviet Union with the support of the Jewish Federation. She is a proud Jew, unapologetic Zionist, and outspoken advocate dedicated to strengthening Jewish identity, supporting Israel, and combating antisemitism. Tanya is also an openly gay woman and lifelong activist for LGBT equality. A Los Angeles native, Tanya studied and lived in Israel, where she earned her master’s degree in Organizational Behavior Management through a special international program with Masa and NYU Tandon School of Engineering in Rishon LeZion.
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Jordana Yechiel is a British ex-Vogue journalist and current creative design director for a portfolio of international hotels. She is also a board member and CFO of Century Plaza Los Angeles, board member of the 8 Project, and a patron of art museums in Los Angeles and London.
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Alan Feld is the Founder and Managing Partner of Vintage Investment Partners, one of Israel’s largest technology investment groups, with $4.5 billion under management. Vintage runs global venture funds of funds, secondary funds, and late-stage investment funds and provides a free service connecting global companies with venture-backed startups. Prior to founding Vintage in 2002, Alan Feld was a General Partner at Israel Seed Partners and Vertex Ventures Israel. Before Vertex, Alan was the Managing Director of Evergreen Capital Markets/Robertson Stephens Israel.
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Eitan Neishlos is a pioneering businessman and philanthropist, with over 20 years of experience of working and investing in South Africa, Australia, and Israel. From bringing banking to the unbanked to making it easier to get paid than ever before, he has repeatedly proven that business and progress go hand in hand. In order to devote more time and effort to his philanthropy, he has founded the Neishlos Foundation, which operates in Australia and Israel. He is also the founder of Neishlos Capital.
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David Gonski is Chancellor of the University of New South Wales and Chairman of the UNSW Foundation Ltd. He is Non-Executive Chairman of Barrenjoey Capital Partners Group Holdings Pty Limited, Chairman of Sydney Airport, and Chairman of Levande Living. He is also Member of the Board of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, Non-Executive Member of LeapFrog Investment’s Global Leadership Council, Member of the Commonwealth Government’s Competition Taskforce Expert Advisory Panel, Patron of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation and Raise Foundation, and Founding Panel Member of Adara Partners. He was previously Chairman of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., Chair of the Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian Schools for the Commonwealth Government of Australia, and President of the Art Gallery of NSW Trust.
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Dr. Ron Weiser, a dentist from Sydney and son of Holocaust survivors, has been involved in Jewish communal activities for more than 55 years, including leadership roles in B’nei Akiva and the State Zionist Council of NSW. As president of the Zionist Federation of Australia, a position he held for 10 years, he has focused on Jewish education, aliyah, and fundraising for Israel. He also played a key role in addressing issues related to the 1997 Maccabiah tragedy and secured shlichim for Australian youth education.
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Born in 1953 in Sydney to Jewish refugees who fled Europe before the war, Roth has lived in Australia his whole life. Married to Charmaine, Roth has three children and seven grandchildren, with another on the way. Roth has held two career positions -- as a lawyer at a leading national firm from 1977 to 1992, and since 1993, expanding his late father’s property investment portfolio with his brother. A passionate supporter of Israel and Keren Hayesod, Roth began fundraising in 1979, became chairman of the NSW campaign in the late 1990s, and the Australian campaign in the early 2000s.
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Dr. Orna Triguboff is the founder and spiritual teacher of the Neshama Life organization.

She has been a meditation and yoga teacher for more than 20 years, and was trained by Hatha yoga teacher Acharya Upendra Roy. Triguboff has a Ph.D. in Kabbalah and is an ordained rabbi by the Jewish Renewal movement. She is passionate about synthesizing ancient wisdom with nature and scientific findings, and she regularly teaches courses in Australia and internationally in Kabbalah study and meditation.
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Gilad Katz is a seasoned executive with extensive experience in diplomacy, leadership, organizational management, and international relations. Katz is a former Chief of Staff to Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, and he also previously served as Consul General of Israel to the Southwest United States from 2017-2021 and Advisor to Israel’s Prime Minister from 2010-2017. From 2001-2009, Katz was a political reporter for the Makor Rishon newspaper. Katz holds a master’s degree in Political Science and Mass Communication from Bar-Ilan University, and bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Mass Communication, and Modern History, also from Bar-Ilan University.
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