2026 Scholars and Entertainers

Yair Rosenberg
Yair Rosenberg is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers the intersection of politics, culture, and religion, and writes the Deep Shtetl newsletter. Previously a senior writer at Tablet Magazine, he has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, and his work has received awards from the Religion Newswriters Association and the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Mark Wildes
Rabbi Mark Wildes is the Founder of Manhattan Jewish Experience (MJE), a highly successful Jewish outreach and educational program engaging unaffiliated Jewish men and women in their 20s & 30s with Judaism and the Jewish community.

Rabbi Dr. Yosie Levine
Rabbi Dr. Yosie Levine is the Rabbi or the Jewish Center in New York City. Before joining the Center, he served as the educational director of the Lauder Foundation’s Beit Midrash in Berlin, Germany and as the visiting scholar of Congregation Knesseth Israel in Birmingham, Alabama.

Adina Shoshana — @NowJewishNanny
Once known as NonJewishNanny, I’ve journeyed from caregiver and opera singer to a proud convert to Orthodox Judaism, sharing my life and love for Yiddishkeit online and in speeches around the world. I started nannying for Orthodox Jewish families in Boca Raton over five years ago and fell in love first with their children

Eylon Levy
Eylon Levy is a former Spokesman for the State of Israel, who became one of the most globally recognized voices for Israel in the October 7 War. He previously served as international spokesman to President Isaac Herzog after a career as a television news anchor.

Morton Klein
Morton A. Klein is National President of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest pro-Israel group in the U.S., founded in 1897. Mr. Klein is widely regarded as one of the leading Jewish activists in the United States. Morton Klein is a child of Holocaust survivors, born in a displaced persons camp in Gunzberg, Germany.

Ryan Quinn
Ryan Quinn is a singer and musician from Central NY most known for his four-chair-turning performance on Season 10 of NBC’s “The Voice.” While on “The Voice,” he was able to work with Adam Levine, Tori Kelly, Miley Cyrus, and Christina Aguilera, and advanced to the “Live Playoffs.”

Zoë Koelewijn
Zoë Morgan Koelewijn serves as General Manager of Covenant Winery. Growing up in Napa Valley as the daughter of Covenant’s owners and co-founders, Zoë was immersed in both the family business and the broader wine industry from an early age.

Daycamp Director- Adina Lipson
Adina Lipson has enjoyed a career in formal and informal education, in both school and camp environments. She has worked at Camp Nesher, an overnight camp in the Poconos, since 2013, originally as the Early Childhood Director in the Day Camp shared program with Camp Shoshanim, and then as the Girls Head and Assistant Director.