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Who's speaking at the J Street Conference?

  • Dana Agmon, Director of Major Gifts, OneVoice
  • Salam Al-Marayati, Executive Director, Muslim Public Affairs Council
  • C. Ross Anthony, PhD, Senior Economist, RAND Corporation
  • Ziad Asali, President and Founder, American Task Force on Palestine
  • Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Executive Director, Rabbis for Human Rights
  • Amjad Atallah, Co-Director, Middle East Task Force, New America Foundation
  • Bernard Avishai, Business Consultant; Author, The Tragedy of Zionism and The Hebrew Republic
  • Colette Avital, Former Israeli Consul General; Former Member of Knesset
  • Ronit Avni, Executive Director and Founder, Just Vision
  • Ami Ayalon, Former Member of Knesset; Former Head of the Shin Bet
  • Julia Bacha, Media Director, Just Vision
  • Aaron Back, Director, Ford Israel Fund
  • Shula Bahat, Director, American Friends of Beit Hatfutzot
  • Diane Balser, Former Executive Director, Brit Tzedek v'Shalom
  • Elissa Barrett, Executive Director, Progressive Jewish Alliance
  • Gadi Batilansky, Director General, Geneva Initiative Israel; Former Spokesperson, Prime Minister Ehud Barak
  • Noa Baum, Storyteller; Diversity Facilitator
  • Prof. Shlomo Ben-Ami, Former Israeli Foreign Minister; Vice President, Toledo International Centre for Peace
  • Nadia Bilbassy, Correspondent, Middle East Broadcasting Center
  • Representative Charles Boustany (LA-07)
  • Rabbi Sharon Brous, Founding Rabbi, IKAR
  • Jonathan Chait, Senior Editor, The New Republic
  • Rabbi David J. Cooper, Kehilla Community Congregation (Piedmont, CA)
  • Representative Geoff Davis (KY-04)
  • Alvaro de Soto, Former UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process
  • Representative Donna Edwards (MD-04)
  • Rabbi Amy Eilberg, Co-Director, Yedidya Center for Jewish Spiritual Director
  • Jane Eisner, Editor, The Forward
  • Hagai El-Ad, Executive Director, The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)
  • Akiva Eldar, Diplomatic Affairs Analyst, Haaretz
  • Rabbi Edward Feld, Education Director, Rabbis for Human Rights - North America; Rabbi-in-Residence, The Rabbinical School of the Jewish Theological Seminary
  • Malka Fenyvesi, Director of Interfaith Programming/NewGround Co-Director, Progressive Jewish Alliance
  • Representative Bob Filner (CA-51)
  • Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, Congregation Nevei Kodesh (Boulder, CO); Co-Chair, Rabbis for Human Rights - North America
  • Lara Friedman, Director of Policy & Government Relations, Americans for Peace Now
  • Rabbi John Friedman, Judea Reform Congregation (Durham, NC)
  • JJ Goldberg, Author; Editorial Director, The Forward
  • Michelle Goldberg, Author, Kingdom Coming
  • Dr. Calvin Goldscheider, Scholar in Residence, Center for Israel Studies, American University
  • Ralph Hexter, President, Hampshire College
  • Ambassador Martin Indyk, Acting VP and Director, Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution; Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel
  • General James Jones, United States National Security Advisor
  • Senator John Kerry, Massachusetts (INVITED)
  • Greg Khalil, President and Co-Founder, The Kairos Project
  • Bassim Khoury, Palestinian Minister of Economic Affairs
  • Simon Klarfeld, Executive Director, Columbia/Barnard Hillel
  • Ezra Klein, The Washington Post
  • Rabbi Peter Knobel, Beth Emet The Free Synagogue (Evanston, IL); Former President, Central Conference of American Rabbis
  • Shawn Landres, Co-Founder and CEO, Jumpstart
  • Scott Lasensky, Senior Research Associate, Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, United States Institute of Peace
  • Rabbi Joshua Levine-Grater, Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center (Pasadena, CA)
  • Daniel Levy, Senior Fellow and Director, Middle East Initiative, New America Foundation
  • Rachel Liel, Incoming Israel Executive Director, New Israel Fund
  • Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Former Chief of Staff, Israel Defense Forces
  • Carinne Luck, Former Director of Grassroots and Chapter Development, Brit Tzedek v'Shalom; Former Chief of Staff, J Street
  • Robert Malley, Program Director for Middle East and North Africa, International Crisis Group
  • Hillary Mann Leverett, CEO, STRATEGA (Political Risk Consultancy)
  • John Marks, President and Founder, Search for Common Ground
  • Aimee Mayer, Member, J Street U Student Board of Directors
  • Shlomo Molla, Member of Knesset (Kadima)
  • Laurie Moskowitz, Founding Partner and Director, FieldWorks
  • Oded Na'aman, Breaking the Silence
  • Hagit Ofran, Director, Peace Now's Settlement Watch
  • Eli Pariser, Former Director, MoveOn.org
  • Trita Parsi, President and Founder, National Iranian American Council
  • Mark Pelavin, Associate Director, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
  • Amir Peretz, Member of Knesset (Labor), Former Israeli Defense Minister
  • Kenneth Pollack, Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy
  • Dr. Ron Pundak, Director General, The Peres Center for Peace
  • His Royal Highness Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein, Ambassador of Jordan
  • Didi Remez, Senior Partner, Ben-Or Consulting
  • MJ Rosenberg, Senior Fellow, Media Matters; Former Director of Policy Analysis, Israel Policy Forum
  • Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, Program Director, Nathan Cummings Foundation
  • Hannah Rosenthal, Former Director, Jewish Council for Public Affairs; Corporate Vice President, Wisconsin Physicians Service
  • Rabbi Julie Saxe-Taller, Congregation Sherith Israel (San Francisco, CA)
  • Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
  • Dahlia Scheindlin, Public Opinion Research Consultant, Freelance Writer
  • Maureen Shea, Director of Government Relations, The Episcopal Church
  • David Shneer, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Program in Jewish Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Daniel Sokatch, CEO Designate, New Israel Fund
  • Rabbi Toba Spitzer, Congregation Dorshei Tzedek (Newton, MA)
  • Douglas Suisman, Author, The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State
  • Yuli Tamir, Member of Knesset (Labor); Former Minister of Immigrant Absorption
  • Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor, The Nation
  • Toni G. Verstandig, Director of Middle East Programs, The Aspen Institute
  • Ari Wallach, Co-Founder, The Great Schlep; Partner, studioBenZion
  • Rabbi Melissa Weintraub, Co-Founder & Co-Director - North America, Encounter
  • Representative Robert Wexler (FL-19)
  • Ambassador Philip Wilcox, President, Foundation for Middle East Peace; Former U.S. Consul General to Jerusalem
  • Richard Wolffe, Journalist and Author
  • Matt Yglesias, Center for American Progress
  • Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President, Union for Reform Judaism
  • Ron Young, Co-Founder, National Interreligious Leadership Initiative for Peace in the Middle East
  • Isaac Zablocki, Executive Director, Other Israel Film Festival

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