Eric is a longtime active member in the Jewish community and served in a number of senior lay positions before being appointed UJA-Federation’s CEO in 2014. Before joining UJA, Eric was a leading partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.

Eric served as vice chair of UJA’s board and was a member of UJA’s Executive Committee and chair of UJA’s Lawyers Division, Commission on Jewish Identity, and Renewal and Global Strategy Task Force.

Eric was a founding board member of Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and has served as president and chair of the board of Manhattan Day School, president of the Beth...

Netanel Hershtik, cantor of the Hampton Synagogue, made his singing debut alongside his father, Chazzan Naftali Hershtik, at the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem. After serving as an IDF medic and attending Sha’arei Mishpat College of Law and the Tel Aviv Cantorial Institute, Netanel began his solo career. His frequent appearances in Israel and worldwide include performances with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and many of the world’s leading choirs. He has sung at Lincoln Center, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Vienna Konzerthaus, Sydney Opera House, and the Casino de Paris, among other prominent venues. He was the first cantor...

Born in Prague to Holocaust survivors, Hadassah Lieberman and her family immigrated in 1949 to the United States. She went on to earn a B.A. in government and dramatics from Boston University and an M.A. in international relations and American government from Northeastern University. She built a career devoted largely to public health that included positions at Lehman Brothers, Pfizer, and the National Research Council. After her first marriage ended in divorce, she married Joe Lieberman, a U.S. senator from Connecticut who was the Democratic nominee for vice president with Al Gore and would go on to run for president. 

In her memoir, Hadassah, Lieberman relates the story...

A graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, Matt spent the early part of his career in education as a teacher and head of school. During this time, he took leave first to serve as senior advisor and national surrogate with the Gore-Lieberman campaign in 2000, and then to play a similar role in 2003 –2004 with the Lieberman for President campaign.

In 2007, Matt started Compass Benefits, Inc., a group benefits consultancy that offers best-in-class benefits programs to leading corporations, banks, law firms, and unions.
 
In 2020, Matt led Raphael Warnock all the way into September in the contest to face Kelly Loeffler for one of Georgia's two U.S. Senate seats —...

Rebecca Lieberman is the executive director of The Applebaum Foundation, Inc., which invests in medical and scientific research and organizations that provide direct services to people in need. She has worked in philanthropy for nearly two decades, including as a senior advisor to The Nadav Foundation in Israel. Previously, she held executive positions in the fields of education reform, child and family well-being, and civic engagement, including launching an organization dedicated to nonpartisan voter mobilization in the early 2000s. Rebecca earned a J.D. from The University of Pennsylvania School of Law and a B.A. from Barnard College in English literature. She and her husband, Jacob Wisse,...

Rob Schwartz is the founder of Hidden Light Institute and executive producer of Centered: Joe Lieberman. He served as chief of staff for Senator Lieberman when he was Connecticut State Senate majority leader. He also functioned as the senator’s political director, assisting him in building his statewide organization, and was the director of his campaign for Congress. A friend of over 40 years, he credits Senator Lieberman with helping him create Hidden Light Institute and make the first English documentary on the life of former Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Upheaval: The Journey of Menachem Begin. Rob is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and Rutgers School...

A fighter from the Bronx, Ritchie Torres has spent his entire life working for the community he calls home. Like many others in the Bronx, poverty and struggle have never been abstractions to him. At 25, Ritchie became NYC’s youngest elected official and the first openly LBGTQ+ person elected in the Bronx. He is a member of the Committee on Financial Services and the House Select Committee on the strategic competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.

Rabbi Ethan Tucker is president and rosh yeshiva at Hadar. He was ordained by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and earned a doctorate in Talmud and rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary and a B.A. from Harvard College. A Wexner Graduate Fellow, he was a co-founder of Kehilat Hadar and a winner of the first Grinspoon Foundation Social Entrepreneur Fellowship. He is the author, along with Rabbi Micha'el Rosenberg, of Gender Equality and Prayer in Jewish Law (2017).