Hannah Rosenthal served as president and CEO of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation until her retirement in 2018. Rosenthal spent her career successfully advocating for Jewish causes.

Prior to joining the Federation, Rosenthal served as Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism at the U.S. State Department. She also served as executive director of the Chicago Foundation for Women, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the Wisconsin Women’s Council.

Rosenthal is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and studied for the rabbinate in Jerusalem and California. She has long been active in public policy in Wisconsin, serving in support roles to a Wisconsin State Representative and a Wisconsin Member of Congress, as well as heading a Wisconsin state agency and a regional federal agency. Rosenthal is also a former member of the Madison Jewish Federation Board of Directors.

Rosenthal's father was a Holocaust survivor, a former prisoner at the Buchenwald concentration camp, and a Reform rabbi.

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