The Kyiv Jewish Forum is an annual event bringing together top global leaders to discuss and share their insights on the most pressing issues facing Jewish communities worldwide.
The fifth Kyiv Jewish Forum will be held in Washington, D.C., a few days after the U.S. presidential election. The Jewish Confederation of Ukraine, together with Israel's leading media outlet The Jerusalem Post, has organized the event to highlight the importance of the trilateral relationship between the United States, Ukraine and Israel in ending two of the most large-scale wars of our time.
In the five years that KJF has been held, this will be the second forum during the Russia-Ukraine war and the first one since the Hamas attack on Israel.
Speakers and guests of the forum will try to find answers to the questions of how to counter the modern axis of evil formed by Russia, Iran and North Korea. They will also be looking for answers, how to eliminate the threat of anti-Semitism growth around the world and how to keep the unity of the Jewish diaspora.
The role of the U.S. in addressing all these issues is crucial.
Speakers and guests of the forum will try to find answers to the questions of how to counter the modern axis of evil formed by Russia, Iran and North Korea. They will also be looking for answers, how to eliminate the threat of anti-Semitism growth around the world and how to keep the unity of the Jewish diaspora.
The role of the U.S. in addressing all these issues is crucial.
Boris Lozhkin
President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine
Speakers
Deborah Lipstadt
United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism
Oksana Markarova
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United States
Amichai Chikli
Minister of Diaspora Affairs, Government of Israel
Michael Brodsky
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Israel to Ukraine
John Herbst
Senior Director of the Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council. United States Ambassador to Ukraine (2003-2006)
Yevgen Korniychuk
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the State of Israel
Myhailo Podolyak
Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine
Robert Singer
Chairman Center for Jewish Impact and Member of Governing Board of CAM
Ted Deutch
CEO of the American Jewish Committee
Katharina von Schnurbein
European Commission Coordinator on combatting Antisemitism
Yuli Yoel Edelstein
Speaker of the Knesset (2013-2020)
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Philosopher, public intellectual, author, and filmmaker
Daniel Vajdich
President, Yorktown Solutions
Natan Sharansky
Former Soviet prisoner of conscience, Israeli politician, human rights activist, and author
Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich
Chief Rabbi of Kyiv and Ukraine
Andrew Mac
Partner, head of Washington D.C. office of the Asters Law Firm
Mark Levin
Executive Vice Chairman and CEO of NCSEJ
Pavlo Klimkin
Former Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Michael Kofman
Director of Russia Studies at CNA and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security
William Daroff
CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Seth J. Frantzman
Senior Middle East Correspondent and analyst at The Jerusalem Post
Zohar Raviv
International VP of Educational Strategy for Taglit-Birthright Israel
Yonah Bob
Jerusalem Post's Senior Military Correspondent and Intelligence Analyst
Moderators
Zvika Klein
Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post
Dmytro Anopchenko
Ukrainian Journalist
Programme
- Boris Lozhkin, President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine
- Robert Singer, Chairman Center for Jewish Impact and Member of Governing Board of CAM
- William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
- Ted Deutch, CEO of American Jewish Committee
- Yuli Edelstein, member of Knesset, Speaker of the Knesset (2013-2020)
- Natan Sharansky, Israeli politician, human rights activist, Chairman for the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy
- Oksana Markarova, Ambassador of Ukraine to USA
- Andrew Mac, Partner, head of Washington D.C. office of the Asters Law Firm
- John Herbst, Senior Director of the Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council. United States Ambassador to Ukraine (2003-2006)
- Pavlo Klimkin, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2014-2019)
- Yevgen Korniychuk, Ambassador of Ukraine to Israel
- Michail Brodskiy, Ambassador of Israel to Ukraine
- Myhailo Podoliak, Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine
- Amichai Chikli, Minister of Diaspora Affairs, Government of Israel
- Deborah Lipstadt, U.S. Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism
- Katharina von Schnurbein, European Commission Coordinator on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life
- Mark Levin, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO of NCSEJ
- Zohar Raviv, International VP of Educational Strategy for Taglit-Birthright Israel
- Bernard-Henri Levy, Philosopher and Author of Israel Alone
- Seth Franzman, Senior Middle East Correspondent and analyst at The Jerusalem Post
- Yonah Bob, Jerusalem Post's Senior Military Correspondent and Intelligence Analyst
- Rabbi Bleich, Chief Rabbi of Kyiv and Ukraine
- Boris Lozhkin, President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine
Organizers
The Jewish Confederation of Ukraine is the umbrella organization uniting independent social, charitable and religious Jewish organizations in Ukraine. Its mission is to unite the Jews of Ukraine, preserve Jewish history and culture and support Israel and Jewish communities around the world and fight against anti-Semitism.
The Jerusalem Post is the leading news site in the Jewish world, uncovering stories that matter to Jewish communities and monitoring, educating and combating antisemitism through its journalism. With nearly one million hits a day through the Jerusalem Post's various media outlets it is highly influential and reaches 1.5 million people worldwide.
The Jerusalem Post is the leading news site in the Jewish world, uncovering stories that matter to Jewish communities and monitoring, educating and combating antisemitism through its journalism. With nearly one million hits a day through the Jerusalem Post's various media outlets it is highly influential and reaches 1.5 million people worldwide.
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