The Jewish struggle for the soul of America has come to our doorstep. At this year’s Jewish Leadership Conference, we at Tikvah will seek to answer the call. The JLC is Tikvah’s flagship gathering of Jews, Zionists, and patriotic Americans dedicated to marshaling Jewish ideas and talent to help the United States meet the cultural, educational, and geopolitical challenges of our age. It is an important gathering of Jewish civic leaders and a galvanizing event for our growing community of supporters, students, and friends.
2024 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
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Dr. Jonathan Haidt
Dr. Jonathan Haidt is a professor of social psychology at New York University’s Stern School of Business and the author of several books, including The Coddling of the American Mind and The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.
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Hon. Nikki Haley
The Honorable Nikki Haley served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2017 or 2019. Previously, she served as governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017, and is currently the Walter P. Stern Chair at the Hudson Institute.
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Ben Sasse
The Honorable Ben Sasse was president of the University of Florida from 2023 to 2024. Previously, he served as U.S. senator from Nebraska from 2015 to 2023. He is the author of Them: Why We Hate Each Other—and How to Heal and The Vanishing American Adult.
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Dan Senor
Dan Senor is the host of the “Call Me Back” podcast and co-author of The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World. He is a co-founder and member of the board of directors of the Foreign Policy Initiative, and previously served as an advisor to Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, and the administration of George W. Bush.
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Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik
Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveitchik is a senior fellow at Tikvah, director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University, and senior rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel. He is the author of numerous articles in the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, and Mosaic, as well as Providence and Power: Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship and Sacred Time.
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Dr. Yuval Levin
Dr. Yuval Levin holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute, and is the author of numerous books and articles, including most recently American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again. He is also the founder and editor of National Affairs and previously served as executive director of the President’s Council on Bioethics.
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Hon. Elliott Abrams
The Honorable Elliott Abrams is the chairman of Tikvah and of the Vandenberg Coalition, as well as senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has served as a foreign policy adviser for every Republican administration since President Reagan's, and is the author of several books, most recently If You Will It: Rebuilding Jewish Peoplehood for the 21st Century.
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Dr. Ruth Wisse
A professor emerita of Yiddish literature at Harvard, Ruth Wisse is a distinguished senior fellow at Tikvah, a regular contributor to Mosaic, and host of the Stories Jews Tell podcast. She has written numerous books on Jewish literature and Jewish politics, and, most recently, a memoir: Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation.
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Eric Cohen
Eric Cohen is the CEO of Tikvah, co-chair of the Jewish Leadership Conference, and publisher of Mosaic. He is the author of In the Shadow of Progress: Being Human in the Age of Technology.
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Jonathan Silver
Dr. Jonathan Silver is the chief education officer at Tikvah, Tikvah’s Warren R. Stern senior fellow of Jewish Civilization, the editor of Mosaic, and the host of the Tikvah Podcast.