Ashira Boxman will be serving as assistant rabbi at Temple Beth El of Boca Raton, Fla., beginning July 1. She graduated from Hebrew Union College in New York City in May 2025. During her time in rabbinical school, Ashira taught religious school at Central Synagogue, served as youth director at The Reform Temple of Forest Hills, worked as the rabbinic intern at both Temple Shaaray Tefila at Bedford Corners and Larchmont Temple, spent a summer at URJ Camp Harlam, completed a pastoral-care internship at Bellevue Hospital and interned at HUC Jerusalem. She is both a JDC-Weitzman fellow and a UJA graduate fellow.

Adina H. Frydman is the CEO of Young Judaea Global.  Having spent 12 years at UJA-Federation of New York, first spearheading the synagogue department, SYNERGY and then as executive director of Community Resources, Adina focused on strengthening the NY Jewish community and its organizations through Talent Development, Synagogue and Day School Initiatives, Community Volunteerism, and Crisis Mobilization. In addition, she contributed to thought leadership in the area of synagogue change through articles and commissioned research. Before coming to New York in 2008, Adina was the Director of Focus Israel at the St. Louis Jewish Federation, where she worked to foster engagement between synagogues and Israel. Adina is the proud mother of four children, an alum of Young Judaea and lifetime member of Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America.

David Hazony is an award-winning editor, translator and author. He is the editor of the 2024 collection Young Zionist Voices: A New Generation Speaks Out and the 2023 Jewish Priorities: Sixty-Five Proposals for the Future of Our People. He is the former editor-in-chief of the journal Azure and was the founding editor of TheTower.org. His book The Ten Commandments (Scribner, 2010) was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. His translation of Uri Bar-Joseph’s The Angel (HarperCollins, 2016) was a winner of the National Jewish Book Award. He has edited two previous anthologies: Essential Essays on Judaism by Eliezer Berkovits (Shalem, 2002), and, with Yoram Hazony and Michael B. Oren, New Essays on Zionism (Shalem, 2007). He has a Ph.D. in Jewish Philosophy from the Hebrew University and lives in Jerusalem.

Yocheved Ruttenberg is the founder and CEO of Sword of Iron-Israel Volunteer Opportunities, which has mobilized over 40,000+ people worldwide since October 7. Living in Dallas, Texas, working in roofing, she left everything and flew to Israel just days after Oct 7, bringing 23 duffel bags full of supplies. What was as a two-week trip turned into aliyah and she now devotes herself fully to inspiring people around the world to take action.