2024 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

  • Dr. Jonathan Haidt is a professor of social psychology at New York University’s Stern School of Business and the author of several books, including The Coddling of the American Mind and The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.

  • The Honorable Nikki Haley served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2017 or 2019. Previously, she served as governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017, and is currently the Walter P. Stern Chair at the Hudson Institute.

  • The Honorable Ben Sasse was president of the University of Florida from 2023 to 2024. Previously, he served as U.S. senator from Nebraska from 2015 to 2023. He is the author of Them: Why We Hate Each Other—and How to Heal and The Vanishing American Adult.

  • Michael Oren is an American-born Israeli historian, soldier, and bestselling author who served as Israel’s Ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013 and later as a Member of the Knesset and Deputy Minister of Diplomacy in the Prime Minister’s Office. Throughout his illustrious career as a Middle East scholar, Oren has been a fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Wilson Center and a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown. His books include Six Days of War, Power, Faith, Fantasy: America in the Middle East from 1776 to the Present, and Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide, and his latest writing can be found on his Substack, Clarity.

  • Dan Senor is the host of the “Call Me Back” podcast and co-author of The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World. He is a co-founder and member of the board of directors of the Foreign Policy Initiative, and previously served as an advisor to Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, and the administration of George W. Bush.

  • Dr. Yuval Levin holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute, and is the author of numerous books and articles, including most recently American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again. He is also the founder and editor of National Affairs and previously served as executive director of the President’s Council on Bioethics.

  • Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveitchik is a senior fellow at Tikvah, director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University, and senior rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel. He is the author of numerous articles in the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, and Mosaic, as well as Providence and Power: Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship and Sacred Time.

  • A professor emerita of Yiddish literature at Harvard, Ruth Wisse is a distinguished senior fellow at Tikvah, a regular contributor to Mosaic, and host of the Stories Jews Tell podcast. She has written numerous books on Jewish literature and Jewish politics, and, most recently, a memoir: Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation.

  • The Honorable Elliott Abrams is the chairman of Tikvah and of the Vandenberg Coalition, as well as senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has served as a foreign policy adviser for every Republican administration since President Reagan's, and is the author of several books, most recently If You Will It: Rebuilding Jewish Peoplehood for the 21st Century.

  • Eric Cohen is the CEO of Tikvah, co-chair of the Jewish Leadership Conference, and publisher of Mosaic. He is the author of In the Shadow of Progress: Being Human in the Age of Technology.

The Jewish struggle for the soul of America has come to our doorstep. At this year’s Jewish Leadership Conference, we at Tikvah will seek to answer the call. The JLC is Tikvah’s flagship gathering of Jews, Zionists, and patriotic Americans dedicated to marshaling Jewish ideas and talent to help the United States meet the cultural, educational, and geopolitical challenges of our age. It is an important gathering of Jewish civic leaders and a galvanizing event for our growing community of supporters, students, and friends.

Sponsors

Leader

Stephanie Dishal
Edelman Family Foundation
Susan and Roger Hertog
Gary Rosenthal
The Paul E. Singer Foundation

Platinum

Elisabeth and Max Gitter
Morris-Singer Foundation
Caryl Ratner and The CBR Fund

Gold

Anonymous
Ahuva and Martin Gross
Marshall and Naomi Jaffe
Shelly and Michael Kassen

Silver

Erika and John Ammirati
Anonymous
Anonymous
Lawrence Askowitz
John Chapman
Stephanie and Eric Cohen
Betsy and Philip Darivoff
Diamond Family Foundation
Marilyn and Michael Fedak
Susan Fried and Family
Heritage Foundation
Jessica and PJ Heyer
Paul Isaac
Gary and Diane Katz
Laura Levin
Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History
Perri and Daniel Moskovic
Kim and Eric Rechtschaffen
David Schimel
Dr. and Mrs. Michael Schmerin
Ilene and Dr. David Siscovick
Madelene and Stan Towne
Wander/Freedman Family
Juli and Michael Woronoff

Bronze

Hon. Elliott Abrams
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Daniel J. Arbess
Paul B. Bergman
Amy Berko
Bermont Gold Wealth Advisory of Raymond James
Desiree and Max Blankfeld
Barbara Israel Bortniker and David Bortniker
Sarit Catz and David Legow
Joyce and Fred Claar
Mishel and Stephen Cohen
Gilbert H. Daniels MD
DonorsTrust
EdChoice
Judi and Alan Eiseman
Deborah and Ira Feigenbaum
First Liberty’s Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy
Janita and Brad Forney
Gale Foundation
Debbie and Jim Gordon
Jess Green
Meghan and Yoav Haron
Rachel and Dan Haron
Carol and Larry Hyatt
Raymond D. Jasen
Jewish Future Promise
Amelia and Joshua Katzen
Alice and Jacob Klein
Steven Kleinman
Sally and Michael Kliegman
Sari Scheer and Sam Kopel
Karen and Daniel Kosowsky
Sarit Catz and David Legow
Karen Lehman
Carol and Jonathan Lieber
Governor Linda Lingle
Ariel and Rabbi Hershel Lutch
Jean and Mark Mandell
Parents Defending Education
Marcie and Brad Pickard
Gabrielle and Daniel Rosen
Phillip Rosen
Loren and Jamie Rosensweig
Amy Roth
Robert P. Roth
Dr. Sheldon Rubenfeld
The Santomero Family Foundation
Sari Scheer and Sam Kopel
Allen K. Schwartz
Susan and Kurt Schwartz
Minna and Mark Seitelman
Susan and Charles Shabsels
Kimberly Allis and Alan Shapiro
Daryl and Edward Shapiro
Steven Shapiro
Laurence Shiff
Mr. Kyle B Smith
Elizabeth Bartman and Andrew P. Solomon
Karen and Robert Spitalnick
Susan and Warren Stern
In Honor of Alan Stone
Mrs. Marilyn and Dr. Robert Swedarsky
Beverly Baker and Dr. Edward Treisman
Drs. Margo and Doug Woll
Sherri and Marty Zigman