William Anthony Kirsopp Lake is an American diplomat and political advisor who served as the 17th United States National Security Advisor from 1993 to 1997 and as the 6th Executive Director of UNICEF from 2010 to 2017.
Tau Epsilon Phi (ΤΕΦ),commonly known as TEP or Tau Ep,is an American collegiate social fraternity that was founded at Columbia University in 1910. Currently,the fraternity charters 30 active chapters and eleven alumni associations,chiefly located at universities and colleges on the East Coast. Its national headquarters is located in Troy,New York. Although originally a Jewish fraternity,TEP opened to non-Jewish members in the 1960s.
Michael Bornstein Oren is an American-born Israeli historian,author,politician,former ambassador to the United States (2009–2013),former member of the Knesset for the Kulanu party and a former Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Office.
The Religious Action Center (RAC) is the political and legislative outreach arm of Reform Judaism in the United States. The Religious Action Center is operated under the auspices of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism,a joint body of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Union for Reform Judaism. It was founded in 1961.
Eric H. Yoffie is a Reform rabbi,and President Emeritus of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ),the congregational arm of the Reform movement in North America,which represents an estimated 1.5 million Reform Jews in more than 900 synagogues across the United States and Canada. He was the unchallenged head of American Judaism's largest denomination from 1996 to 2012. Following his retirement in 2012,he has been a lecturer and writer;his writings appear regularly in The Huffington Post,The Jerusalem Post,and Haaretz.
Marvin Hier is the dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center,its Museum of Tolerance and of Moriah,the center's film division.
David Ellenson is an American rabbi and academic who is known as a leader of the Reform movement in Judaism. Ellenson is currently director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies and visiting professor of Near Eastern and Judaic studies at Brandeis University and interim president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR). He previously served as president of HUC-JIR from 2001 to December 31,2013,and is now chancellor emeritus of that college. Ellenson is currently serving as interim president following the death of his successor,Aaron D. Panken.
Arthur Schneier is an Austrian-American rabbi and human rights activist. Rabbi Schneier has served for over 50 years as the Senior Rabbi of New York City’s Park East Synagogue. While being honored with the Presidential Citizens Medal from President Bill Clinton in 2001,Rabbi Schneier was described as “a Holocaust survivor who has devoted a lifetime to overcoming forces of hatred and intolerance and set an inspiring example of spiritual leadership by encouraging interfaith dialog and intercultural understanding,as well as promoting the cause of religious freedom around the world.”Schneier is among the oldest pulpit rabbis in the United States.
Capers C. Funnye Jr. is an African-American Conservative rabbi,who leads the 200-member Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation of Chicago,Illinois,assisted by rabbis Avraham Ben Israel and Joshua V. Salter.
Kesher Israel is a Modern Orthodox synagogue located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington,D.C. The congregation is over 100 years old and its worshipers have included prominent politicians,diplomats,jurists,journalists,and authors.
Since 1937,the United States presidential inauguration has included one or more prayers given by members of the clergy. Since 1933 an associated prayer service either public or private attended by the president-elect has often taken place on the morning of the day. At times a major public or broadcast prayer service takes place after the main ceremony most recently on the next day.
The United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom is the ambassador-at-large who heads the Office of International Religious Freedom in the U.S. Department of State.
Rashad Hussain is an American attorney,diplomat,and professor,who currently serves as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. He previously served as associate White House counsel,as U.S. Special Envoy of President Barack Obama to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC),and the U.S. Special Envoy for strategic counterterrorism communications. Hussain has also served on the United States National Security Council and in the Department of Justice as a trial attorney and a criminal and national security prosecutor.
Yechiel Eckstein was an Israeli American rabbi who founded International Fellowship of Christians and Jews in 1983 and led it for many years. The objectives of the organisation were to support Jews in need of financial help,to promote emigration of Jews to Israel,and to support poor soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces. In 2003,it was listed as the second-largest charitable foundation in Israel by Ha'aretz.
The White House Hanukkah Party is an annual reception held at the White House and hosted by the U.S. President and First Lady to recognize and celebrate the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. The tradition was established in 2001,during the administration of George W. Bush. The guest list includes hundreds of American Jewish politicians,organization heads,and school and yeshiva deans.
Angela Warnick Buchdahl is an American rabbi. She was the first Asian-American to be ordained as a rabbi,and the first Asian-American to be ordained as a hazzan (cantor). In 2011 she was named by Newsweek and The Daily Beast as one of America's "Most Influential Rabbis",and in 2012 by The Daily Beast as one of America's "Top 50 Rabbis". Buchdahl was recognized as one of the top five in The Forward's 2014 "Forward Fifty",a list of American Jews who had the most impact on the national scene in the previous year.
Sharon Kleinbaum is an American rabbi who serves as spiritual leader of New York City's Congregation Beit Simchat Torah. She has been an active campaigner for human rights and civil marriage for gay couples.
Jack Moline is an American Conservative rabbi who retired as executive director of Interfaith Alliance in 2022,having served in the post since January 2015.
Melissa Rogers is an American church-state lawyer and non-resident senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. She previously served as special assistant to President Barack Obama and executive director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. On February 14,2021,President Joe Biden designated Rogers as executive director of the reestablished Office under his administration.
Stafford Fitzgerald Haney is an American diplomat and businessman who served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Costa Rica from 2015 to 2017. Haney was nominated as U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica by President Barack Obama on July 8,2014,and was confirmed by the full Senate on May 23,2015. He served until July 15,2017,having been the only Obama-appointed political ambassador in the world allowed to stay under the Donald Trump administration.
