Adam Levinson, author of "The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah"

Comedian and attorney Elliot Glicksman, Comedy for Charity

Rachel Laser, Executive Director, Americans United for Separation of Church and State

Tova Mirvis, author of The Book of Separation

Sociologist Professor Steven M. Cohen of Hebrew Union College, the new Portrait of Bay Area Jewish Life and Communities

Isaac Shapiro, author of "Edokko: Growing up a Stateless Foreigner in Wartime Japan"

Ben Rimalower, actor, playwright, director and creator of the shows “Bad With Money” and “Patti Issues”

Elhanan Miller, Arab affairs journalist, rabbinical student, creator of the "People of the Book" Youtube series, on Arab-Jewish relations

Ruchama Feuerman, author of "The Rebbetzin’s Courtyard"

Rabbi Manis Friedman, author of "The Joy of Intimacy: a Soulful Guide to Love, Sex and Marriage"