Speaker Biographies

Julie Cohen, Lion of Judah Luncheon, 11/4/19

Julie Cohen is the Academy Award-nominated director and producer of RBG (Magnolia, Participant, CNN Films, 2018) along with Betsy West. She’s directed nine previous documentary feature films, including The Sturgeon Queens, The Jews of New York, and American Veteran.

Before she started ma…

Jennifer Weinstock, Women Business Leaders Breakfast, 11/7/19

Jennifer Weinstock is the Senior Vice President of Philanthropy at Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP). She is a sought-after teacher and trainer who has worked with professionals and board members at dozens of Jewish organizations in North America including federations, day schools, Jewish…

Bret Stephens - Major Gifts Event - 11/5/19

Bret Stephens became an op-ed columnist for The New York Times in 2017. Before that, he spent 11 years as the author of “Global View,” the foreign-affairs column of The Wall Street Journal, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in 2013. He also served e…

Shmuel Rosner

Shmuel Rosner is an Israeli journalist, author, researcher, and publisher.

Rosner is a Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times and the Political Editor of LA’s Jewish Journal, where he writes on political, cultural, social, and religious issues affecting Israeli and American Je…

Glenn Leusink, SOS Security

Glenn Leusink, who will be instructing the JEMS De-escalation training in June 2019, is Vice President-Director of Training for SOS Security. He has been with SOS for 30 years, progressing through a variety of leadership roles. He also served in the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard in a…