Dani Dayan is the Chairman of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center. Dayan also serves as the IHRA Chair of the Israeli IHRA Presidency from 2025-2026.

Prior to his position at Yad Vashem, he served as Israel’s Consul General in New York. Previously, he served as Chairman of the YESHA Council and before that as Chairman of the Board and CEO of Elad Software Systems Ltd., a company he founded. In addition, Dayan volunteers as the Head of the Advisory Board of Nefesh B’Nefesh and, until his posting in New York, was a member of the Yad Vashem Council.

Dayan holds a Master’s degree in Finance (with honors) from Tel Aviv University, and a Bachelor’s in Economics and Computer Science (cum laude) from Bar Ilan University.

Dara Horn is the award-winning author of eight books, including the novels In the Image (Norton 2002), The World to Come (Norton 2006), All Other Nights (Norton 2009), A Guide for the Perplexed (Norton 2013), and Eternal Life (Norton 2018), the Passover-themed graphic novel One Little Goat (Norton 2025), the essay collection People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (Norton 2021), and the nonfiction book The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living(Avid Reader Press, 2026).

One of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists (2007), she is the recipient of three National Jewish Book Awards, among other honors, and she was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, the Wingate Prize, the Simpson Family Literary Prize, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books, Booklist’s 25 Best Books of the Decade, and San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of the Year, and have been translated into thirteen languages.

Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, Tablet, and The Jewish Review of Books, among many other publications. She is also the creator of the history podcast Adventures with Dead Jews.

Horn received her doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard University, studying Yiddish and Hebrew. She has taught courses in these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University, and held the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard. She has lectured for audiences in hundreds of venues throughout North America, Israel, and Australia.

She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children.

Adam Kuperstein is an award-winning journalist who anchors NBC 4 New York’s 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. daily newscasts. He moved into his current role following three years as a weekend evening anchor and weekday general assignment reporter for the station.

Kuperstein’s anchoring and reporting was a key component of NBC 4 New York’s award-winning COVID-19 coverage, honored in January, 2021 with the prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for “creat(ing) a 360 view in real time of the coronavirus pandemic, with courageous and thorough reporting on the virus’s explosion in New York City.” The duPont has long been recognized as the broadcast, documentary and on-line equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, also awarded by Columbia University.

Additionally, Kuperstein was the first local television reporter to report live from the scene of December 2019’s deadly Jersey City shootout. Describing the unfolding events in real-time during breaking news coverage, Kuperstein’s field reporting was recognized by the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA), which awarded NBC 4 New York the 2020 National Edward R. Murrow Award for “Top Television Newscast,” as well as two Regional Awards for “Breaking News Coverage” and “Team Coverage.”

Kuperstein has covered many memorable news stories including, in January 2021 he reported from the U.S. Capitol riots that interrupted the certification of the 2020 Presidential election and in October 2018, he reported from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania following the deadly a​​ntisemiticattack at Tree of Life Synagogue. He spoke with members of the Steel City’s faith community and interviewed Tri-State officials attending the Squirrel Hill memorial service. He also reported from Parkland, Florida in February 2018, following the deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. He spent several days on the ground covering the response and community impact. One month later, he again spoke with Marjory Stoneman victims, their families and student supporters from the Tri-State at the “March for our Lives” rally in Washington, D.C. He has also covered Hurricanes Irma and Dorian in Florida, the deadly 2018 Trump Tower inferno in Manhattan and was awarded a New York Emmy® for anchoring team coverage of the January 4, 2018 Tri-State blizzard.

Prior to arriving in New York, Kuperstein worked as a weekday news and sports anchor for NBC6 / WTVJ in South Florida for more than a decade. At WTVJ, Kuperstein covered three presidential elections and reported from the 2012 presidential debate at Lynn University. He also led the station’s sports coverage, including live reports from the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Kuperstein has worked as the weekend sports anchor for Fox affiliate WUPW-TV in Toledo, Ohio, as well as at WHIZ-TV, the NBC affiliate in Zanesville, Ohio. He is a graduate of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and earned a dual bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism and Finance. He resides with his family in Manhattan.