The weeklong, immersive program included sessions addressing:
Prayer: Affirmations of Faith Confronting Modernity
Eretz Yisrael in Jewish Thought
Reflections on the Shoah
Dilemmas of Jewish Identity
Leadership in the Bible

Faculty members from Israel, Europe and the United States led the formal sessions while Fellows were invited to lead workshops and community building activities to foster conversation and connections between peers.

Faculty for this NGF consisted of:
Professor Reuven Kimelman, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
Professor Gerhart M. Riegner, Former Secretary General World Jewish Congress, Geneva, Switzerland
Professor Shalom Rosenberg, Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Professor Dan Segre, Department of Political Science, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Professor Uriel Simon, Department of Bible, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

The program for NGF 2 was created with the help of a peer-selected group of NGF Network members, who helped both plan and implement part of the program. They organized the afternoon workshops dealing with Building Jewish Identity and chaired these discussions.

The program was characterized by the high quality of the faculty presentations and ensuing discussions, all of which took place in an ambience of openness and mutual respect. The Fellowship also revealed the strong emotional bonds that developed among the Fellows.  These cross-cultural, cross-ideological and cross-geographical bonds were clearly reflected at the reunion of NGF 1, which preceded NGF 2, at which 19 of the 27 participants of NGF 1 were present.