Richard Michelson, author of "Fascinating—the Life of Leonard Nimoy"

Michael Krasny, author of "Let There Be Laughter"

Andrew Coe and Jane Ziegelman, authors of "A Square Meal"

Terrorism and nuclear weapons 15 years after 9/11: Professor William Potter, Director, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professors of Nonproliferation Studies Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

Cantor Richard Cohn, Director, Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute for Religion, New York

Rabbi Jonathan Greenberg, Sr. VP of the Haym Salomon Center for American Jewish Thought

Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, influential theologian, pluralist, founder of CLAL, author of the new book "Sage Advice"

Ron Wolfson, Ph.D, author of Relational Judaism

Rabbi Seth Limmer, winner of 2015 Eisendrath Award for Journey for Justice walk with Torah from Selma to Washington, DC

Rabbi Sally Priesand, first woman ordained a rabbi in a seminary in America