Rabbi Pinchas Taylor

Speaker, Lecturer and Life Coach

Sharon Brous

Senior & Founding Rabbi of "Israel: Knowledge, Advocacy and Responsibility" (IKAR); Famous Jewish Learning, Ritual and Community Speaker

Father Patrick Desbois

French Roman Catholic Priest; Former Head of the Commission for Relations with Judaism of the French Bishops' Conference & Consultant to the Vatican

Vanessa Ochs

Author of "Inventing Jewish Ritual", Winner of 2007 National Jewish Book Award, Professor of Religious Studies at University of Virginia

Rachel Stevens

Rachel Lauren Stevens was born on April 9, 1979 to a Linda and Michael Stevens.

Rick Rubin

Grammy Award-Winning Legendary Music Producer & Founder of Def Jam Records

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Idan Raichel Star of David

In 2003, an unusual song began airing on Israeli’s popular radio stations.

Noa

There are at least three distinct groups working under the name of Noa; the first is a popular Israeli songwriter.

Naked Brothers Band

"The Naked Brothers Band" is a thoroughly entertaining rock and roll musical comedy for children and adults.

Yael Naim

“It’s a dream I almost gave up on along the way”, says Yael Naim about her first album released by Tôt ou Tard.

Danny Elfman

Film Composer, Singer-Songwriter & Instrumentalist; Known as the Lead Singer for Oingo Boingo

Lyor Cohen

Music Industry Executive; Founder of 300

David Broza

Israeli Singer-Songwriter

Zehava Ben

Zehava is very proud of her Moroccan heritage, and most of her music is quite distinctive of that.

Chava Alberstein

Calling someone her country's greatest singer would be a huge compliment to most performers.

Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket is the pseudonym novelist Daniel Handler used while writing his sequence of darkly comic children's books known as A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Bryan Singer

Filmmaker, Producer; Best Known for "The Usual Suspects"

Nancy Meyers

A pioneer who first broke with convention by co-scripting "Private Benjamin" (1980), a rare comedy centered on female characters.

Charlie Kaufman

Oscar-Winning Screenwriter, Producer, Director, Lyricist & Author

Spike Jonze

Director, Producer, Screenwriter and Actor; Screenwriter of "Where the Wild Things Are" & "Her"

Amy Heckerling

Film Director; Best Known for "Clueless" and "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"

William Goldman

Two-time Academy Award Winning Screen Writer

Lowell Ganz

As one of arguably the most successful comedy screenwriting teams in Hollywood, Lowell Ganz, along with writing partner of Babaloo Mandel, penned some of the biggest hits of the 1980s and 1990s.

Mark "Babaloo" Mandel

As one of the most successful comedy screenwriting teams in Hollywood, Marc "Babaloo Mandel, along with writing partner Lowell Ganz, penned some of the biggest hits of the 1980s and 1990s.

Ayelet Zurer

Ayelet Zurer is a child of the Holocaust.

Zoe Weizenbaum

Former Child Actor Known for "12 and Holding" & "Memoirs of a Geisha"

Matt Weinberg

When a family friend suggested that then 8 year-old Matt Weinberg would make a good child actor, his parents wanted no part of it and said no

Anneliese van der Pol

Actress; Known for "That's So Raven"

Raviv "Ricky" Ullman

Actor; Best known for playing Phil Diffy, in the Disney Channel series "Phil of the Future"

Mageina Tovah

She lived in Honolulu for a short time where her father was a US Army psychiatrist in the Greet Berets, and her mother was an Army physical therapist.