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 sixth Executive Director of UNICEF from 2010 to 2017.
Michael Bornstein Oren is an American-Israeli diplomat,essayist,historian,novelist,and politician. He is a former Israeli 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.
Ron Dermer is an American-born Israeli political consultant and diplomat serving as the Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs since 2022. He served as the Israeli Ambassador to the United States from 2013 to 2021.
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 instrumentality 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.
David Ellenson was an American rabbi and academic who was known as a leader of the Reform movement in Judaism. Ellenson was director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies and visiting professor of Near Eastern and Judaic studies at Brandeis University and previously 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 was later chancellor emeritus of that college until his death. Ellenson had served as interim president following the death of his successor,Aaron D. Panken until the inauguration of Andrew Rehfeld,the 10th and current President.
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.
J Street is a nonprofit liberal advocacy group based in the United States whose stated aim is to promote American leadership to end the Arab–Israeli and Israeli–Palestinian conflicts peacefully and diplomatically. J Street was incorporated on November 29,2007.
Kesher Israel,also known as the Georgetown Synagogue,is a Modern Orthodox synagogue located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington,D.C. The congregation was founded in 1911 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.
Jill Jacobs is an American Conservative rabbi who serves as the executive director of T'ruah:The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights,formerly Rabbis for Human Rights-North America. She is the author of Where Justice Dwells:A Hands-On Guide to Doing Social Justice in Your Jewish Community and There Shall be No Needy:Pursuing Social Justice through Jewish Law and Tradition. This book includes chapters on tzedakah,poverty,health care,housing,labor,criminal justice,and environmental justice in America,seen through a Jewish viewpoint. She has served as the Rabbi in Residence of Jewish Funds for Justice and as the Director of Outreach and Education for Jewish Council on Urban Affairs.
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.
Rabbi Steve Gutow is an American rabbi,lawyer,community activist,and Jewish leader. He is a visiting scholar at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and co-director of the Religious Leadership and Civic Engagement initiative. He formerly served as the president and CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA).
Agudas Achim Congregation is an egalitarian Conservative synagogue located at 2908 Valley Drive,Alexandria,Virginia,in the United States. The synagogue was founded in 1914,and its cemetery was founded in 1933.
Angela Buchdahl is an American reform rabbi. She was the first East Asian-American to be ordained as a rabbi,and the first East 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.
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.
