Prof. Steven Windmueller is an American Scholar and Jewish Communal Professor, Prof. Emeritus, Contemporary Political Issues and American Jewish Affairs, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion. He is currently working on a book – “21st Century American Judaism” – for the University of Southern California, USA.

Rabbi Dr. Samuel Lebens is a professor in the Philosophy department at the University of Haifa., and a dynamic Jewish educator. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from Birkbeck College (University of London) and held post-doctoral positions at the University of Notre Dame and Rutgers, Israel.

Rabbi Dr. Rachel Sabath Beit Halachmi is an American-Israeli leader, author, and public speaker, and the inaugural senior rabbi at Har Sinai-Oheb Shalom Congregation in Baltimore. Ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewisn Institute of Religion in New York, Rabbi Sabath also holds a doctorate from the Jewish Theological Seminary. She teaches Jewish leaders around the world through the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and the Kaplan Center for Jewish Peoplehood. Prior to her arrival in Baltimore, Dr. Sabath served on the faculty of HUC-JIR as assistant professor of Jewish thought and ethics and led a four-campus team. She was vice president of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, wrote a monthly column for The Jerusalem Post, and has published pieces in The Times of Israel and Haaretz. Currently, she serves on the editorial board of the CCAR Journal of Reform Judaism and is at work on two volumes, one on Jewish peoplehood and the other, co-edited with Rachel Adler, on ethics and gender. Rabbi Sabath is an alumna of the Wexner Foundation Graduate Fellowship and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Most recently, Rabbi Sabath was selected to be a scholar of Our Common Destiny, a partnership between philanthropists, the Israeli Foreign Ministry and former Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.

Dr. Eric Goldman is a film historian and educator who lectures and writes on Jewish, Yiddish, and Israeli cinema. He is adjunct professor of cinema at Yeshiva University and instructor at the Streicker Academy for Adult Jewish Learning in New York City. He hosts “Jewish Cinematheque” on the Jewish Broadcasting Service, telecast in the U.S. and livestreamed across the globe on jbstv.org.

Steve Brand is an Emmy Award-winning producer and editor. His documentary Kaddish, about growing up as the child of a Jewish Holocaust survivor, featuring Yossi Klein Halevi, won a Special Jury Award at Sundance and has been shown theatrically throughout the U.S. and abroad. The film’s 4K Restoration, funded by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and Sundance, had its World Premiere at the NY Jewish Film Festival in 2022. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and three grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Steve is currently working on Praying With My Legs, a feature-length documentary on the life, thought and transformative impact of religious thinker and human rights activist Abraham Joshua Heschel.

Elyssa Moss Rabinowitz is a veteran experiential Jewish educator who constructs worlds of Jewish meaning and beauty. Elyssa is co-founder and Executive Director of Kol HaOt — Illuminating Jewish Life through Art, a Jerusalem-based organization dedicated to weaving the magic of the arts into Jewish educational experiences. Located in the beautiful artist colony in Hutzot HaYotzer in Jerusalem, the Kol HaOt Center hosts workshops, gallery exhibits, performing arts, and an artist-in-residence program. She also serves as the director of their flagship program, the Legacy Heritage Teacher Institute for the Arts, a year-long PD program for North American Day School teachers, Israel.

Prof. Danny Fainstein, Dean and professor of Jewish Studies at the Universidad Hebraica in Mexico City. He is also a member of the MFJC Board of Trustees, Mexico

Dr. Laura Shaw Frank is the National Director of the William Petschek Contemporary Jewish Life Department at American Jewish Committee (AJC). She holds a PhD in Jewish history from the University of Maryland, College Park, and undergraduate and law degrees from Columbia University, USA.

Yossi Klein HaLevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, where he co-directs the Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative. He is the author of The New York Times bestseller Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, as well as Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist, At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden andLike Dreamers, which won the Jewish Book Council’s Everett Book of the Year Award.

Dr. Channa Pinchasi is a research fellow at the Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought at the Shalom Hartman Institute. In addition, Channa leads and facilitates think tanks at the “Center for Judaism and State Policy”. She initiated and directs “Cheder Mishelach 0.2”, a leadership program for religious feminists. She is also a staff member of “Ad He’na”, a writing seminar for Russian-speaking Israelis. In 2022, Channa completed seven years as Director of the Be’eri School for Teacher Education

Dr. Galeet Dardashti is an Anthropologist, vocalist, and composer who  has earned a reputation as a trail-blazing advocate for Middle Eastern and North African Jewish culture.  Her scholarly publications examine Israeli music/media and Mizrahi cultural politics in Israel and the US; she has held postdoctoral fellowships at NYU and Rutgers, Assistant Professor positions at JTS and NYU and she will be a Fellow at University of Pennsylvania’s Katz Center in 2024.   She is widely known as leader/founder of the all-woman Sephardi/Mizrahi ensemble Divahn, and through her multi-disciplinary commission, The Naming; her upcoming release, Monajat, (supported by Indiana University,  MFJC, and FJC) comes out in September.

David Moss is a Mitzvah Beautifier. David is an artist whose work gives fresh, creative expression to Jewish texts, ideas and values. Best known for his revival of the art of the hand-made Ketubah, his Haggadah, and the Tree of Life Shtender with Noah Greenberg, he also works in diverse media, including calligraphy, illumination, papercuts, sculpture, wood, prints, artist books, architecture, pottery, drama, educational programming and others. He is one of the co-founders of Kol HaOt- a Jerusalem based organization dedicated to Jewish Education through the arts, where he serves as senior mentor as well. He is also the Senior Director of the Legacy Heritage Teachers Institute for the Arts- a year-long professional development program for Jewish day school teachers to harness the power of the arts and creativity to deepen Jewish learning. Through his “Minyan” program he is continually creating original, limited edition works of ‘teachable art’ for individual and institutional subscribers. His magnificent artwork has been acquired by major museums and is included in many private collections, Israel.