With close to 35 years in Jewish education and educational leadership, Jason Ablin has served as a teacher, principal and head of school. He holds national certification in leadership coaching and mentoring from the National Association of School Principals and has been supporting and mentoring new leaders throughout the country for over 15 years. At American Jewish University, Jasin also runs AJU's Mentor Teacher Training Certification Program. Jason Ablin lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters, both of whom are proud graduates of Jewish day schools.

From 1998-2018, Stuart Zweiter served as the director of the Lookstein Center for Jewish Education at Bar Ilan University, a leading resource center and think tank for Jewish education throughout the world. In Israel, he also served as an instructor in Talmud at Bar-Ilan University and as a Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. Before making Aliya, he served as a principal at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School and at the Frisch School in Paramus, New Jersey. He has served as an educational consultant to communities throughout the world.

Michael Doppelt is a graduate of the Frisch school in New Jersey and has been an active member of Lincoln Square Synagogue since the late 1990s where he now co-chairs the executive board. He has spent his career in finance. He was an investment banker for over a decade and has worked for nearly 20 years in the private equity industry, primarily raising capital from institutional investors and leading business development efforts. As a lifelong Jewish activist, Michael has been involved in numerous communal initiatives. He is also a 16-time marathon runner, an avid reader and a major Bruce Springsteen fan.

Evelyn co-founded The Shul of Bal Harbour with her husband, Dr. Shmuel Katz. Her passion for Jewish education and Israel led her to the RASG Hebrew Academy, where she served as President in the late 1990’s. Evelyn also served as President of the Greater Miami FIDF Chapter and she serves on the boards of the Friends of the IDF, Greater Miami Jewish Federation, CAJE, NCSY, Bar Ilan University, Hebrew at the Center and Nishmat Board of Governors. Evelyn was awarded “Doctorate Honoris Causa” by Bar Ilan University in 2018. She holds a degree in Education and Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Evelyn was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia. Her parents were European Immigrants and her mother was a survivor of the holocaust.

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Josh is a private-equity attorney at Honigman LLP, where he is a member of the executive committee and the director of Honigman’s Israel office. He also represents families in connection with their philanthropy and business succession. As the father of two Farber Hebrew Day School students in Metropolitan Detroit, Josh has been deeply engaged in the governance of Farber, a Modern Orthodox yeshiva, for nearly fifteen years. He and his wife Rachel have long been involved in Detroit’s Jewish ecosystem, including its Federation.

Lori is a Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where her laboratory studies neural circuits regulating metabolism. She is also the Co-Director of the Nutritional and Metabolic Biology Ph.D. program. After graduating from the Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington, Lori received an A.B. in Molecular Biology from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and her Ph.D. from The Rockefeller University. Lori and her husband Len Berman have three sons who attended the Abraham Joshua Heschel School and Ramaz School. Lori is a past board member of the Ramaz School.