Professor Andrew Pessin, co-editor of "Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech and BDS"

Mohamed al-Samawi, author of "The Fox Hunt: A Refugee’s Memoir of Coming to America – Four Strangers, Three Faiths and One Extraordinary Escape to Freedom"

Filmmaker Arnon Shorr, “The Pirate Captain Toledano” and Jewish pirates

Carine Warsawski, founder, Trybal Gatherings for Young Adults

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"