Founder of the modern Jewish Pride movement, a leader, thinker, and educator, Ben M. Freeman is the author of the seminal Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People and its follow up, Reclaiming our Story: The Pursuit of Jewish Pride. He is currently working on the finale of his Jewish Pride trilogy, The Jews: An Indigenous People.

Educating, inspiring and empowering, his work focuses on Jewish identity and historical and contemporary Jew-hatred. A Holocaust scholar for over fifteen years, Ben came to prominence during the Corbyn Labour Jew-hate crisis in the UK and quickly became one of his generation’s leading Jewish thinkers and voices against Jew-hate.

Rabba Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz is a teacher, translator and thought leader who believes that Jewish text is for everyone. She received Orthodox ordination from Yeshivat Maharat (2021) and is a co-founder of Azara, a grass-roots learning initiative in the UK.

She studied at Cambridge University, the Hebrew University, and University College London, and published her first book, Challenge and Conformity: The Religious Lives of Orthodox Jewish Women, in 2021. She is currently working on a second book about the history of the Limmud festival.

Anton is the Director of Partnerships at Rabbis for Human Rights, and serves on the board of Oz VeShalom the Orthodox Jewish Peace Movement in Israel. He has worked to promote partnership and equality for Arab citizens of Israel at the Abraham Initiatives; built new initiatives in Diaspora-Israel relations as the Jewish Agency emissary to Washington DC; and designed Israel education programs as the director of the World Bnei Akiva Leadership Institute.

Prof Dorit Nitzan is a global health and humanitarian expert , currently serving as the Director of the Masters Program in Emergency Medicine at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.

She has been active in global health work through the Israeli Ministries of Health and Foreign Affairs, World Food Program and was a consultant to Ethiopia, China, Moldova and the Russian Federation. She previously worked at World Health Organization (WHO) Europe and as the Director of the Food and Nutrition Administration in the Israeli Ministry of Health.

Ron Kampeas is JTA's Washington Bureau Chief. He worked previously at The Associated Press, where he spent more than a decade in its bureaus in Jerusalem, New York, London and, most recently, Washington. He has reported from Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Bosnia and West Africa. While living in Israel, he also worked for the Jerusalem Post. He has won several Rockowers, Jewish media’s premiere journalism award. He has led JTA’s political coverage of every election since 2004.

Over his career he has interviewed a diverse array of personalities including Yehuda Amichai, Barack Obama, Olivia Newton John, the Taliban’s education minister and the Wiggles. He got his start working for Jeremy Jones at the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies.

A popular speaker, Dr. Joel M. Hoffman focuses on "bringing the Bible to life" and is known for his "fresh insights and interpretations about religious life in the 21st century." He has been invited to appear before audiences on all six inhabitable continents, including at Limmud conferences around the world, at the world's second largest Rotary club, and for a TED talk on translating the Bible.

He has authored or contributed to some two dozen books, and served on the faculties of Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, and HUC-JIR in New York City. When not teaching or writing, he usually has a camera in his hand. He lives in the New York City area.