He enthralls audiences the world over with his passion and unbounded joy in bringing sacred Jewish music and opera classics to life.

Holding his first concert for the first time at age 23, Helfgot immediately took the world of cantorial song by storm with his powerful renditions of three renowned classics—Zibert's "Mimkomcha," Kwartin's "Tiher Rabbi Yishmael," and Rosenblatt's "Ad Hena." His magnificent and soulful voice has reigned supreme and captivated the international stage ever since.

Cantor Helfgot appears regularly in concerts, as well as serving as guest cantor for communities around the globe—from New York to Beijing, from South Africa to Italy, from Russia to Australia. He leaves audiences spellbound with his masterful renditions of classics by Rosenblatt, Koussevitzky, Kwartin, Sirota, and Hershman, transporting audiences back to the Golden Era of Chazzanut.

Cantor Helfgot has collaborated with some of the greatest cantors and musicians of our time, including Cantor Chaim Adler, Jimmy Barnes, comedian Elon Gold, and Itzhak Perlman.

In December 2006, he held a solo concert at the Metropolitan Opera House with the New York Philharmonic, its choir, and directed by Maestro Mordechai Sobel. In January 2007, he sang in Madison Square Garden to an audience of 30,000 at Siyum HaShas. In December 2007, he performed at Lincoln Center in Avery Fisher Hall, accompanied by the New York Philharmonic, in a tribute to Cantor Moshe Koussevitzky. He shared a stage with Cantor Shimon Farkas of Central Synagogue in Sydney, Australia, Cantor Yehuda Niassof, and rockstar Jimmy Barnes in August 2009. In December 2010, he performed at the White House during a Chanukah menorah lighting ceremony. He has also performed in distinguished venues, synagogues and concert halls in almost every European city and the world over, including the Warsaw Opera House in Poland, Henry Crown Hall in Jerusalem, and Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Cantor Helfgot's recent recording entitled Barchi Nafshi – Bless Hashem O My Soul and his latest album Mevasser Tov have broken Jewish record sales.

The public will soon enjoy Cantor Helfgot's unprecedented collaboration with Itzhak Perlman, the world-renowned violin virtuoso, in an album entitled Eternal Echoes to be released by SONY in the fall of 2012. This project blends the masterful zeal of Perlman's violin with Helfgot's powerful voice while they perform their personal Israeli, classical and cantorial favorites that pay tribute to musical tradition and history.

Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot currently serves as Chief Cantor of the Park East Synagogue in New York City, where congregants delight in rapturous Shabbat and High Holy Day services projected by Helfgot's voice of divine magnificence.

Juju Chang is a multiple Emmy Award-winning co-anchor of ABC News’ “Nightline.” She also reports regularly for “Good Morning America” and “20/20.” Chang’s decades of reporting converged in two hour-long prime time specials in 2021. She co-anchored an ABC News Live special “Stop The Hate: The Rise In Violence Against Asian Americans.” And after the mass shooting at three Asian-themed spas, Chang co-anchored and reported from the scene for an “ABC News 20/20” breaking news special “Murder In Atlanta”, which won a Front Page award in 2022.

Chang has been recognized for her in-depth personal narratives set against the backdrop of pressing national and international news: from natural disasters to terrorism and racial equity. Her long-form storytelling includes a critical examination of the controversial “Remain in Mexico” immigration policy, told through the eyes of one pregnant woman and her family among the 60,000 asylum seekers camped for months along the Rio Grande. Chang’s award-winning report “Trans and Targeted” on violence against transgender women of color across the country caps a series of her stories on LGBTQ+ issues. Chang won a GLAAD award for her story about Matthew Shepard’s murder and the legacy his parents built in his honor.

Chang has covered major breaking news for decades for ABC News including extensive coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic: the science, the economic fallout, the racial disparities, the impact on hospital ICUs and essential workers.

Chang has covered mass shootings and the myriad issues raised by shootings at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, at the concert in Las Vegas and at the Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Conn.

She’s reported on global climate issues including a trip through Guatemala examining the “dry corridor” impact on climate refugees profiling a desperate farming family faced with the stark choice of starvation or migration. Chang has consistently covered gender-based violence through Central Africa on the front lines against Boko Haram and #bringbackourgirls. She traveled to Honduras for “Femicide: the Untold War,” an eye-opening look at rampant violence against women.

Russell F. Robinson serves as Chief Executive Officer of Jewish National Fund-USA. For 26 years, he has worked tirelessly to fulfill the Zionist organization’s philanthropic vision for the land and people of Israel, creating a new generation of changemakers, represented through its JNFuture donor society for young professionals and its Alexander Muss High School in Israel. Most recently, Robinson led the organization to achieve the fundraising target of its One Billion Dollar Campaign, an audacious plan to attract 800,000 new residents to Israel’s Negev and Galilee, bringing the positive impact of Zionism to a new generation. Following the tragic events of October 7, Robinson and Jewish National Fund USA are bringing organizations from across the world together to rebuild Israel’s shattered southern communities and reimagine the future of Israel’s north. In 2024, Robinson mobilized the organization's national network of college affiliates to combat the insidious disinformation campaign against Israel, inspiring Jewish students everywhere to stand up, combat hate, and show their Zionist pride.

Rabbi Elie Abadie, M.D. hails from a long and distinguished rabbinical lineage dating back to 15th Century Spain and Provence. Following the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, and later Provence, his family migrated throughout the ages through Italy, the Balkans, Greece, Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon. Rabbi Dr. Abadie was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and grew up in Mexico City.  He moved to the United States to attend College and University, and later became a naturalized, United States citizen.

Rabbi Dr. Abadie earned his B.A. in Health Sciences in 1983, B.Sc. in 1984 in Bible Studies, Hebrew Teacher's diploma in 1985, and a Master's degree in Philosophy in 1986. He then received his Rabbinic ordination in 1986 from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He attended SUNY Downstate Medical Center, where he graduated in 1990 with an M.D. degree. He did his residency in Internal Medicine, and later his fellowship in Gastroenterology at Maimonides Medical Center, finishing in 1995.

Rabbi Dr. Abadie is the founding Rabbi and Spiritual Leader of the Edmond J. Safra Synagogue, and the Founder and Rabbinic Advisor of the Moise Safra Center in Manhattan. He was the Founder and Head of School of the Sephardic Academy of Manhattan and is the founding Rabbi and Spiritual Leader of the Manhattan East Synagogue, New York City. He is the Director and Professor at the Jacob E. Safra Institute of Sephardic Studies at Yeshiva University. He is a scholar and college teacher of Sephardic Judaism, history, philosophy, and comparative traditional law. He was an Officer of the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA), and Treasurer/Vice-President of the New York Board of Rabbis. He is member of the Board of Governors of the Diaspora Museum – Beit Hatfutsot/ANU.

As Co-President of Justice for Jews from Arab Countries (JJAC), he was instrumental in passing a Congressional resolution on behalf of Jews from Arab Countries to be recognized by the U.S government in their negotiations regarding the issue of Middle Eastern Refugees. He has lectured on Jewish themes, philosophy, law, and medical ethics around the world, and enjoys close ties with many government officials in Israel, Bahrain and the UAE. As a member of the board of the American Sephardi Federation and World Sephardic Educational Center, he lectures on Sephardic Judaism, history, and comparative traditional law. Featured in many notable publications around the world, he has been interviewed on several notable news programs, including Fox News, CNN and ABC News. BBC, Russian TV Arabic, Spanish Radio, CCTV and Telemundo, America TV Canal 41, UNIVISION, i24 Israeli Media, Galei Zahal, Arutz 10 and 7. He was featured in the Jewish Voice Weekly, Image Magazine, the Jewish Week, Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Enlace Judio, Diario Judio, Hamevasser, Israel Hayom, Hamodia, LaMishpaha Magazine and many others. 

In addition to countless of awards received throughout his career, Rabbi Dr. Abadie received the Orden Del Merito Civil, with the title of Excelentisimo, the highest civil decoration by His Majesty King Juan Carlos I of Spain. He is honored to be following in the footsteps of the greatest Jewish scholar and philosopher Moses Maimonides, who was both a rabbi and a physician. He was Knighted by the Oder of Parte Della Guelfa with with the title of Cavaliere / Sir in Firenze, Italy in 2022.

Rabbi Dr. Abadie is fluent in English, Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, French, and conversant in Italian and Portuguese. Presently, he is the Senior Rabbi of the Jewish Council of the Emirates, the Chief Rabbi of the Association of Gulf Jewish Communities, and the Chairman of the Council of Sephardic Sages. He is a Medical Gastroenterologist, and is married to Elise Eichler for over 37 years, and together they live in Dubai. United Arab Emirates 

Moishe Rosenfeld is a producer, writer, actor, agent, and radio host who has been a part of New York's Yiddish cultural world since his arrival from his native Montreal in 1969. He runs Golden Land Concerts, an agency representing leading performers of Israeli, Sephardic, and Yiddish music. He has conceived and produced hundreds of concerts in many of New York’s most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Central Park Summerstage. Among the artists he has presented are Ella Fitzgerald, Itzhak Perlman, Neil Sedaka, Noa, Mandy Patinkin, Joel Grey, Debbie Friedman, and many superstars of Israeli and Chassidic

music. He was the writer and host of the daily Yiddish radio newscast on WEVD from 1982 to 2000. His acting career included major roles in Yiddish theater, Off Broadway, and principal roles in films such as Sophie's Choice, Crossing Delancey, Avalon, and A Midsummer Night Sex Comedy. With his cousin Zalmen Mlotek, he has co-created and produced The Golden Land, On Second Avenue, and the Broadway musical revue Those Were the Days (nominated for two Tony Awards). In recent years he was the Yiddish dialect coach for the Broadway hit Indecent, the music producer for the Kulturfest International Yiddish Culture Festival, and in 2020

he produced the concert commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz at Temple Emanuel, which featured Itzhak Perlman and the cast of Fiddler in Yiddish.

Marcy’s 35 year career in retailing culminated with the successful combination of Syms and Filene’s Basement. Marcy and her father, founder Sy Syms, were spokespersons for the company and made the line, “An educated consumer is our best customer.” a household logo. Since 2013 Marcy has been a founding Organizer of the ERA Coalition and the ERA Project at Columbia Law School. Founding trustee and president of the Sy Syms Foundation since 1985, Marcy has been supporting the Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University since its inception. A board member of The Forward, The National Public Radio Foundation, SAFRA Center of Ethics at Harvard University. A funder of Weizmann Institute, WNET Public Broadcasting and countless other non-profits making our world a better place.

Marcy is past director of Benco Dental, the third largest distributor of dental supplies in the U.S.,

and past director of Rite Aid Corp., American Materials and Rebel Media. She was a Reserve Bank of New York former Chair, Small Business and Agricultural Advisory Council.

She recently completed the Advanced Leadership Program at Harvard University and is a lifetime World Presidents’ Organization at large member. A long time columnist at Family Business Magazine and author of “Mind Your Own Business and Keep It in the Family”, in the Fall of 2025 she will be coming out with a new book, “Leading with Respect; From Backroom to Boardroom”.

Dina and Jonathan Leader are dedicated to making a positive impact on the Jewish world, guided by their belief in Klal Yisroel, the unity of all Jews.

Dina actively supports various Jewish organizations, ranging from supporting Russian-Jewish families affected by 9/11 to collaborating with young Israeli-Americans. Jonathan, with a financial background, now focuses his philanthropy

in the U.S. on programs for Jewish students and professionals.

The Leaders' commitment is exemplified by the establishment of the Leader Family Scholarship Awards for Jewish students at Yale University and the Hillels of the City University of New York, where they recently made a naming gift to the Baruch College Hillel. 

Since October 7th, the Leaders have expanded their support in Israel, particularly for soldiers and children with PTSD, earning recognition from the Family Nest in Ashkelon, a social service organization that assists the most vulnerable members of society. 

The Leaders’ mission is to leave a legacy of kindness, generosity, and support for the Jewish community, inspired by their recent trip to Israel that reinforced their belief in Jewish unity. They support over 30 organizations worldwide.

Judy has had stand-up specials on HBO, Comedy Central and LOGO and appeared on Netflix's Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration. She is the author of Yes I Can Say That: When They Come For The Comedians, We Are All In Trouble, a critically acclaimed book about free speech and cancel-culture which debuted as the number one comedy release on Amazon and was featured in the New York Times Book Review. The solo show, Yes I Can Say That! directed by BD Wong and starring Judy premiered in March 2023 at 59E59 Theaters and received rave reviews. She is also featured prominently in Trevor Noah’s recent documentary XCLD: The Story of Cancel Culture. Judy is also host of the hit podcast, It’s Judy’s Show with Judy Gold.

Judy is featured in the new Netflix documentary Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution, which explores the history of LGBTQ+ standup comedy. Judy’s recent acting credits include feature films She Came To Me (Susan Shaw), Tripped Up (Chef Missy) and Love Reconsidered (Susie). TV credits: Showtime’s City On A Hill (Cassndra Kassell), FX’s Better Things (Chaya). Showtime's The First Lady (Elizabeth Read), Apple TV+ Extrapolations (Sophie). Other guest stars include Hulu’s Life and Beth, Girls 5 Eva and recurring roles on Comedy Central's Awkwafina, Netflix’s Friends from College and TBS’ Search Party. 

Judy is one of the main subjects in the Hulu documentary Hysterical.  She has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Tonight Show. From 1999-2010, Judy was the host of HBO’s At the Multiplex with Judy Gold. Judy also won two Emmy awards for writing and producing The Rosie O’Donnell Show. She was also a writer on the final season of Better Things.

Judy has written and starred in three critically acclaimed Off-Broadway hit shows, the aforementioned Yes I Can Say That!  The Judy Show – My Life as a Sitcom (Outer Critics Circle Nomination), and 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother (GLAAD Media Award – Outstanding NY Theater, Drama Desk Nomination – Actor). Judy received rave reviews as Gremio in The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park all-female production of The Taming of The Shrew. She also co-starred in Off-Broadway’s Clinton! The Musical, and Disaster! The Musical. 

Judy has made numerous appearances on The View, The Today Show, The Drew Barrymore Show, and on MSNBC, CNN and NewsNation as a free-speech advocate. She often pops up on The Food Network, but please do not mention Chopped All Stars or Rachel vs. Guy to her. 

Judy’s three albums, Conduct Unbecoming, Kill Me Now and Judith’s Roommate Had a Baby are available wherever you get your music. You can also check out her website, JudyGold.com or follow her on Twitter, Instagram or Tik Tok - @jewdygold

Josh Einiger joined WABC-TV as a reporter in September 2009. Every night, he covers the big story on the station's top-rated Eyewitness News at 11.

While at WABC, Josh has reported from the scene of the world's biggest news events. When he traveled to Israel in the aftermath of October 7, he showed the world some of the first images of the devastated Kibbutz Nir Oz, where one in four residents was either killed or kidnapped by Hamas. Months later, he returned to Israel in time to watch the nation’s vaunted Iron Dome defense system fend off Iran’s historic barrage of missiles and drones.

Previously, Josh covered mass shootings in Parkland and Orlando, FL, along with hurricanes in Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico. He reported from the catastrophic condo collapse in Surfside, FL, the concert bombing in Manchester, England and the inferno at Notre Dame in Paris. He won Emmy awards for his coverage of the refugee crisis on the Ukraine-Poland border, as well as the Trump Administration’s "family separation" policy at the Mexico border. Josh has reported extensively on national politics from Washington, and he was on the scene for the capture of the Boston Marathon bomber.

Josh's stories from the front lines of New York's 2020 Coronavirus lockdown contributed to the station's national Edward R. Murrow award for its pandemic coverage. Josh has also won Emmy awards for his role covering a terror attack on a Manhattan bike path and the fatal crash of a helicopter in the East River. He chronicled the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, as well as countless other severe weather events in the New York area and beyond. As WABC's Long Island Reporter, he led the station's coverage of the search for a serial killer near Gilgo Beach.

Before joining WABC, Josh worked as a reporter in Philadelphia, Orlando and Albany, and as a national correspondent for Fox News affiliates. He got his start behind the scenes as a field producer, photographer and assignment editor in New York and Philadelphia.

Josh is a graduate of the Horace Mann School and the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in political science and history. He lives with his family in Manhattan, blocks from where he was born and raised.

Ethel Sheffer is an urban planner, civic and community leader, and educator. She served as President of the NY Metro Chapter of the American Planning Association for three terms and was named an APA National Fellow in 2012, recognized for her “outstanding contributions” to the field. More recently, she served for six years as the Mayor's Representative on the New York City Public Design Commission.

Ethel has been a community leader and advocate in almost every major development in New York’s Upper West Side, serving over the past several decades as Chairperson of Community Board 7, the Tri-Board Task Force on Columbus Circle, the Riverside Center Working Group, and the Task Force on Zoning 96th Street-110th Street. 

In addition to her work as a community planner and leader, teaching and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students has been an essential part of Ethel’s life from her early years teaching political science to undergraduates and directing the Liberal Studies Program for New York City Police Officers at Brooklyn College to her many years teaching in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Ethel was married to Isaiah Sheffer, who created and ran Symphony Space for 32 years. This theatre is widely recognized as a major arts venue in New York, and Ethel was a close partner in this great adventure.