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Professor Deborah Lipstadt
Professor Deborah Lipstadt: an American historian, Professor at Emory University, best known as author of the books Denying the Holocaust, History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier, The Eichmann Trial, and Antisemitism: Here and Now.
MaNishtana // Rabbi Shais Rishon
According to his website, MaNishtana is “One of a “growing cadre of incredibly talented Jewish leaders of Color,” MaNishtana is a writer, speaker, and rabbi whose work takes prejudice, bias, and ignorance head on, asking the questions about humanity, race, religion, and social injustice that we all have (and maybe are afraid to talk about), with gut-punching insight and gut-busting sarcasm.”
Rabbi Marc Angel
Rabbi Marc Angel: Rabbi emeritus of Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York City. In 2007, he established the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals. He directs the Institute, and edits its journal, Conversations, which appears three times per year. In 2007, he and Rabbi Avi Weiss co-founded the International Rabbinic Fellowship to "to counter what they see as a rightward shift in the Orthodox community"and reduce centralization of rabbinate authority, though they remained RCA members.
Rabbi Ethan Witkovsky
Rabbi Ethan Witkovsky: Assistant Rabbi Park Avenue Synagogue. Rabbi Ethan Witkovsky joined Park Avenue Synagogue’s clergy as Assistant Rabbi in July, 2014, after being ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he also earned a Masters degree in Talmud and Rabbinic Literature.
Kenneth Stern
Kenneth Stern - Kenneth Stern is the director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, and the author of the forthcoming The Conflict Over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate
Caroline Rothstein
Caroline Rothstein: Internationally touring and acclaimed writer, poet, and performer. She has been performing poetry, public speaking, facilitating workshops and teaching at colleges, schools, performance venues, and community organizations for over a decade. Her work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, The Guardian, BuzzFeed, NYLON, Narratively, The Forward, and elsewhere.
Arielle Angel
Arielle Angel: a Brooklyn-based writer and an editor of Jewish Currents.