Keynote Address:

Yossi Beilin, former Israel Minister of Justice, Author of "His Brother's Keeper: Israel and Diaspora Jewry in the 21st Century"

Featured speakers included:

Dominique Schnapper (Acclaimed sociologist and author, & Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

Aliza Shenhar (former Israeli Ambassador in Moscow, & head of the Shenhar Commission on Education)

Egon Mayer (Director, Center for Jewish Studies, The Graduate Center of the City University of NY)

Sherwin Wine (Founder of the denomination known as Humanistic Judaism)

Théo Klein (former chairman of the European Jewish Congress and Honorary President of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France, President of the Museum of Art and History of Judaism in Paris, Author of "Libérez la Torah")

Michael Brenner (Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich)

Nelly Hanson (well-known historian & director of the Fondation du Judaïsme Français)