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HEAR THE INTERVIEWS
 Dr. Mitchell G. Bard
He is the Executive Director of the non for profit American Israeli cooperative Enterprise (AICE). He is also the director of the Jewish Virtual Library, the world’s most comprehensive online encyclopedia of Jewish history and culture. Dr. Bard, who holds a Ph.D in Political Science from UCLA has written and edited 18 books. His latest Will Israel Survive, published in 2007 serves as the basis for this interview.
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Consuls General of Israel
Ruhama Hermon
Dan Haezrachi.
Miki Arbel
Haim Regev
Ofer Bavely was born in Geneva Switzerland. He joined the Foreign Ministry of Israel in 1991 and has served at key diplomatic posts such as Madrid and Rome. In 2005 Mr. Bavely was appointed Policy Advisor to the Foreign Minister of Israel, Mrs. Tzipi Livni. In 2006 he was appointed Counselor of the Foreign Ministry’s North America Division. In August 2007, Mr. Ofer Bavely was appointed Consul General of Israel in Miami Florida.
He is fluent in Hebrew, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and basic German
Ambassador Dr. Dore Gold. Dr. Gold was Israeli ambassador to the United Nations from 1997-1999. He was also Foreign policy advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and advisor to Prime Minister Sharon. Presently he is president of Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He is the author of The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West and the Future of the Holy City and many more books
Avi Granot Ambassador Avi Granot served as ambassador to Ethiopia from 1995-1998 he later acted as minister of inter religious and public affairs at the Israeli Embassy in Washington. Presently Mr. Granot is ambassador to Estonia
Rabbis/ Cantors and Jewish commentators
Rabbi Richard Margolis is the rabbi of Temple Beth Shalom in Melbourne Florida and on the Rabbinic Cabinet Honor Roll. Rabbi Margolis is also a Bridge World’s Master Solver.
Rabbi Helga Newmark is a Holocaust survivor, who survived three concentration camps. At the age of 67 she became ordained as a rabbi, thus becoming the first woman Holocaust survivor to be ordained as a rabbi.
Rabbi Sheldon Artson- Author of the book “It’s a mitzvah.”
Rabbi Laibl Wolf - Kabbalah based meditation. www.kaiblewolf.com
Rabbi Levy Meier Ph.D. Chaplain Of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles California. He is a clinical Psychologist a marriage family and child therapist a prolific writer and Special Issues Editor of Journal of Psychology and Judaism
Rabbi Wayne Dosick Ph.D. Author of Living Judaism: The complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice 1998, Golden Rules The ten Ethical values parents need to teach their children and more
Rebetzin Ester Jungreis, Holocaust survivor, founder of Hineni International, columnist for the Jewish press public speaker, columnist author of Jewish Soul on Fire and The Committed Life
For more information: www.hineni.org
Rabbi Ben Tzion Krasnianski: The Executive Director of Chabad of the Upper East Side of Manhattan He can be reached at chabadues@aol.com
 Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
A prominent American Orthodox radio, television host and author. He hosted the reality T.V. program Shalom in the Home. Amongst his books are Kosher Sex and Shalom in the Home.
His web site is http:// www.shmuley.com/
 Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi Ph.D. Ordained within the Hasidic movement, Rabbi Schachter Shalomi became interested in “ the universality of spiritual truths. ”He is the Founder of the Jewish Renewal Movement and the Yesod Foundation. He is the author of many books amongst them Jewish with Feelings http://www.yesodfoundation.org
Rabbi Brad Hirschfeld is an orthodox rabbi, Vice president of CLAL The national Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. He is also the author of Remembering for Life.
 Rav Michael Laitman: PhD in Philosophy and Kabbalah, founder and president of Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education and Research Institute ( www.kabbalah.info) for the study of Kabbalah Ashlag Research Institute established to research interconnections between the physical sciences and that of the science of the Kabbalah. He is the author of 30 books.
 Cantor Moshe Schulhoff Internationally renowned Cantor
Jaffe McClane.Author.Intermarriage 8/18/96
Rabbi Neil Gillman Ph.D. Is a member of the Conservative movement Rabbinical Assembly and a professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Professor Gillman was a member of the Conservative movement’s commission which produced the document known as Truth and Faith, the first official statement of beliefs of Conservative Judaism. He is the author of Conservative Judaism The New Century. His book Doing Jewish Theology: God, Torah and Israel in Modern Judaism will be published in May 2008
 *Prof. Daniel Matt, On of the world’s leading Zohar translators, he is the author of “Zohar: The book of Enlightenment,” “The Essential Kabbalah” He is also the author of God and the Big Bang. He was a professor for twenty years of Jewish Spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley California
Holocaust
 Elie Wiesel is the author of more than forty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and non fiction. He is the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America Congressional Gold Medal, the French Legion of Honor and in 1986 the Nobel Peace Prize. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University.
 *Irene Zisblatt. Holocaust survivor
Herbert Kaling. Passenger on St.Loius
 Richard Rashke author of Escape From Sobibor and the play Dear Esther
Yeguda Baur Historian professor of Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, author of various books on the Holocaust
Diane Armstrong Award winning author and journalist of such compelling books as Mosaic and Voyage of their life. www.dianearmstrong.com
Larry Frish. Assistant to Otto Preminger in making the movie the Exodus
Josi Harel. Commander of Exodus 10
Prof.Ken Hanson. Holocaust
Mrs. Allegonda Peper- Awarded the Righteous Amongst the Nation Award
Jewish/ Israeli Organizations:
Michael Winograd ADL- Anti Defamation League
Jonathan Woocher Ph.D. JESNA - Jewish Education Service of North America Dr. Woocher,. is the Chief Ideas Officer and Director of the Lippman Kanfer Institute. www.jesna.org
Ken Bricker- AIPAC – American Israel Public Affairs Committee Ken Bricker was Press secretary for AIPAC in 1999 at the time of the interview
James Colbert -JINSA Jewish Institute for National Affairs. James Colbert was Director of communication at the time of interview.
 AJC- American Jewish Committee -
David A. Harris has been the Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee since 1990. In the course of his extensive career in Jewish communal work, he has traveled throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America to monitor the condition of Jewish communities, combat anti Semitism, advance Israel’s diplomatic standing and promote international human right and interreligious and interethnic understanding. ( quoted from AJC experts) For further information go to www.ajc.org
Tamara Sternthal Israel Director for CAMERA: Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting
Yigal Carmon President of MEMRI The Middle East Media Research Institute. www.memri Colonel (ret) Yigal Carmon- founder and President of MEMRI served in the intelligence branch of the IDF. Fluent in Arabic, he served as the Acting Head of Civil Administration in the West Bank as advisor to Prime Ministers Shamir and Rabin and he was a senior member of the Israeli Delegation to peace negotiations with Syria in Madrid and Washington.
Anthony David Marx President of the Daily Alert www.dailyalert.org
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