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1,200+ Entertainment Leaders Release Open Letter Rejecting the Boycott of the Israeli Film Industry

Entertainment leaders from around the globe including Liev Schreiber, Mayim BialikGene SimmonsDebra MessingSharon OsbourneGreg BerlantiJerry O’Connell, Howie MandelJennifer Jason LeighLisa Edelstein, Erin Foster, Anthony Edwards, Rebecca De Mornay, Sherry Lansing, Shari Redstone, Haim Saban amongst many others, call out cultural boycott efforts

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25, 2025 — More than 1,200 entertainment leaders signed an open letter released by the non-profit entertainment industry organizations Creative Community For Peace (CCFP) and The Brigade, rebuking the efforts of their colleagues to silence fellow entertainers and filmmakers.

The letter comes in response to the call to boycott all Israeli film and television companies, productions, festivals, and institutions – a de facto attempt to silence Jewish stories and ostracize Israeli filmmakers.

Its release comes on the heels of Paramount Studios publicly declaring its opposition to the boycott pledge, stating “we need more engagement, not less” and amid multiple calls to boycott Israeli cultural institutions.

This new open letter, signed by over 1,200 entertainment leaders, demonstrates an entertainment industry-wide opposition to chastising fellow artists and creatives.

Chairman and CEO of Saban Entertainment, Haim Saban, said: “Throughout my career, I’ve witnessed how storytelling can be an incredible tool to build understanding around our shared humanity. Excluding Israeli filmmakers because of their identity betrays that mission and undermines efforts for peace. True progress comes when we listen to one another, Israelis and Palestinians alike, and allow art to open doors that politics too often close.”

The boycott attempt coincides with an explosion of antisemitism and censorship of Israeli culture and artists around the world.

Just last month, at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the Israeli documentary, The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue, was disinvited due to boycott pressure. After public outcry, the film was re-instated and went on to win the People’s Choice Award– demonstrating that art transcends political boundaries.

Actress Debra Messing said: “When artists boycott fellow artists based solely on their country of origin, it is blatant discrimination and a betrayal of our role as storytellers. History shows us that boycotts against Jews have long been a tool of authoritarian regimes—by joining this effort, these artists are knowingly or unknowingly aligning themselves with a dark legacy of antisemitism.”

Actress Mayim Bialik said: “Artists and creatives have a unique opportunity and responsibility to remind the world of our shared humanity. Boycotting filmmakers, studios, production companies and individuals simply because they are Israeli fuels division and contributes to a disturbing culture of marginalization. Additionally, this boycott pledge does nothing to end the war in Gaza, bring the hostages home, or help curb the alarming rise of antisemitism globally.”

The open letter also comes on the heels of the Israeli film, “The Sea,” winning the Best Feature award at the Ophir Awards (the Israeli Oscar’s), a film about a Palestinian boy on his way to visit the sea in Tel Aviv for the first time in his life. This story of Palestinian life was produced with support from the Israel Film Fund, which was specifically singled out for boycott.

Actress Rebecca De Mornay said: “Film institutions engage with countries all over the world, including those with serious controversies, yet Israel alone is singled out and condemned—for defending itself in a war it didn’t start, for trying to free hostages still being held, and for confronting an enemy still intent on its destruction. Boycotting Israeli film institutions isn’t a stand for justice, it’s a thinly veiled double-standard for Jews, and a hypocritical, unjust punishment of Israeli artists and films.”

CCFP Executive Director Ari Ingel stated, “while the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement presents itself as a social justice movement to those in the west, it is actually a political movement that seeks the defamation, delegitimization, and eventual elimination of the State of Israel.  The recent boycott pledge also contains blatant statements of misinformation, such as claiming that ICJ ruled that there was a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza, when they did no such thing.”

Ingel added, “the truth is that the film and television industry in Israel is a vibrant hub of collaboration between Jewish and Palestinian artists and filmmakers, who work closely together every single day to tell complex stories that entertain and inform both communities and the world — from Award winning series such as Our Boys, to the Ophir Best Picture winning The Sea, and to powerful documentaries such as Dead Sea Guardians. Silencing the voices of storytellers does nothing to advance peace. The very artists and filmmakers who work across divides, grapple with painful truths, and foster dialogue should be supported. The path to peace will not be paved by boycotts, censorship, or exclusion, but by supporting the courageous individuals who refuse to give up on coexistence. Because in the end, peace will be written not by those who divide, but by those who dare to create together.”

The letter states: “We know the power of film. We know the power of story. That is why we cannot stay silent when a story is turned into a weapon, when lies are dressed up as justice, and when artists are misled into amplifying antisemitic propaganda.”

A representative for the Brigade stated, “As entertainment professionals and members of the creative community, it is our responsibility to preserve artistic freedom and access regardless of political leanings or origins. The ability to collaborate, to exchange ideas and highlight artists is the backbone of our industry. When people call for blacklists, it hurts the very foundation that has fought over-zealous government actions and the squashing of human rights. We adamantly oppose the current virulent and ill-informed boycott movement fomenting in our community. The Israeli artistic community and businesses provide opportunities to elevate Jewish and Palestinian stories and voices. We are obligated to preserve this thriving community for artists and audiences around the world.”

The letter concludes: “We call on all our colleagues in the entertainment industry to reject this discriminatory and antisemitic boycott call that only adds yet another roadblock on the path to peace.”

Signatories Include: Liev Schreiber, Actor; Mayim Bialik, Actor, Writer, Producer; Gene Simmons, Artist; Debra Messing, Actress; Sharon Osbourne, TV Host and Manager; Greg Berlanti,  Writer/Producer/Director; Jerry O’Connell, Actor; Howie Mandel, Host; Jennifer Jason Leigh, Actress; Rebecca De Mornay, Actress; Sherry Lansing, Former CEO of Paramount Pictures; Gary Barber, Hollywood Executive; Ynon Kreiz, Chairman and CEO, Mattel, Inc.; Ben Silverman; Chairman & Co-CEO, Propagate Content; Erin Foster, Actress; Anthony Edwards, Actor; Mare Winningham, Actress; Patricia Heaton, Actress; Haim Saban, Chairman and CEO, Saban Capital Group; Regina Spektor, Artist; Tracy Ann Oberman, Actress; Rick Rosen, Co-Founder, Endeavor; Modi Wiczyk, Co-Founder, MRC; Howard Gordon, Showrunner; Michael Rotenberg, Partner, 3 Arts Entertainment; Susan Rovner, Former Chairman of NBCUniversal Television and Streaming; Jonathan Baruch, President, Rain Management Group; Fred Toczek, Partner, Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson LLP; Patti Felker, Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson McGinnis Ryan; Nina Tassler, CEO Kismet Creative Group; Jacob Fenton, Partner, United Talent Agency; David Kohan, Showrunner and Executive Producer; Bruce Resnikoff, President/CEO, Universal Music Enterprises; Blair Kohan, Partner and Board Member, United Talent Agency; Ram Bergman, Producer; Fernando Szew, CEO, FOX Entertainment Global; Nancy Mendelson Gates, Agent, Partner, UTA; Julie Greenwald, Former CEO/Chairperson Atlantic Records Group; David Draiman, Artist; Danny Cohen, President, Access Entertainment; Orly Marley, President, Tuff Gong Worldwide; Noa Tishby, Producer, Actress and Author; Kevin Yorn, Attorney; Tara Strong, Actress; Martin Singer, Attorney, Lavely and Singer; Lisa Edelstein, Actress; Allan Loeb, Screenwriter; Amy Sherman-Palladino, Writer; Joel Fields, Writer/Producer; Matisyahu, Artist; Marc Guggenheim, Writer and Producer; Matthew Weiner, Showrunner; Gideon Raff, Director; Michael Rapaport, Actor; Lawrence Bender, Producer; David Shore, Writer; Jan Harlan, Producer; Robert Lantos, Producer; Shari Redstone, Hollywood Executive & Former Chairwoman of Paramount Global; Abbe Raven, Chairman Emeritus of A+E Networks, amongst over 1,250 others.

** Note – The signers of this statement do so as individuals on their own behalf and not on behalf of their companies or organizations. All organizations and companies listed are for affiliation purposes only. 

If you are in the entertainment industry and would like to add your name, you can do so here: [Link]

FULL OPEN LETTER

To our fellow artists and the global film community,

We know the power of film. We know the power of story. That is why we cannot stay silent when a story is turned into a weapon, when lies are dressed up as justice, and when artists are misled into amplifying antisemitic propaganda.

The pledge circulated under the banner of “Film Workers for Palestine” is not an act of conscience. It is a document of misinformation that advocates for arbitrary censorship and the erasure of art.

To censor the very voices trying to find common ground and express their humanity, is wrong, ineffective, and a form of collective punishment.

Israel’s film industry includes groundbreaking, celebratory, and critical projects about Palestinians and Jews, which many of you have lauded and celebrated. Israel’s film community is restless, argumentative, and independent, where directors challenge ministers and many of the very festivals you target, consistently program dissent.

Israel’s entertainment industry is a vibrant hub of collaboration between Jewish and Palestinian artists and creatives, who work together every single day to tell complex stories that entertain and inform both communities and the world. Israeli film institutions are not government entities. They are often the loudest critics of government policy.

The pledge uses nebulous terms like ‘implicating’ and ‘complicity.’ Who will decide which Israeli filmmakers and film institutions are ‘complicit’? A McCarthyist committee with blacklists? Or is ‘complicity’ just a pretext to boycott all Israelis and Zionists — 95% of the world’s Jewish population — no matter what they create or believe?

History warns us. Censorship has been used to silence filmmakers before: Nazi Germany’s propaganda machine, Soviet censorship, and even Hollywood’s own blacklists. Every time it was dressed up as virtue. And every time it was oppression. Every time, its targets expanded.

We know that many of you have good intentions and believe you are standing for peace. But your names are being weaponized and tied to lies and discrimination. This pledge erases dissenting Israeli voices, legitimizes falsehoods, and shields Hamas from blame.

If you want peace, call for the immediate release of the remaining hostages. Support filmmakers who create dialogue across communities. Stand against Hamas.

Let art speak the whole truth.

We call on all our colleagues in the entertainment industry to reject this discriminatory and antisemitic boycott call that only adds another roadblock on the path to peace.

Signatories:

Ari Ingel, Executive Director, CCFP

Rakefet Abergel, Actor/Director

Lucy Abrahams, Literary Scout, Lucy Abrahams Literary Scouting

Dariel Abramowitz, Publicist, Ivy PR

Michael Abrams, Talent Manager, CMG

Stuart Acher, Writer/Director

Deborah Acoca, CEO, Novu Entertainment

Orly Adelson, Producer, Orly Adelson Production

Marty Adelstein, CEO, Tomorrow Studios

Dan Adler, Producer

Debbie Adler, Head of Commercial, Garden Studios

Maya Adrabi, Casting Director / Photographer

Shir Aharon, Talent Manager

Elle Alexander, Stuntwoman/Actress

Rotem Alima, Executive Producer, Rotem Alima Productions

Paul Almond, Partner, Fischbach Perlstein Lieberman & Almond

Jayme Alter Wilson, Entertainment Lawyer

Nugit Altschuler, Artistic Director/Programmer, Haifa Cinematheque / HIF

Maya Amsellem, Producer

Ellen Ancui, Writer/Director, Ain’t No Lady Productions

Alex Anhalt, Manager, Brand Studios, Sugar23

Jennifer Apple, Actor

Neta Ariel, Director, Maaleh Film School Jerusalem

Susie Arons, President, 42West

Brian Ash, Producer, Freedomland

Noel Ashman, Film Producer/Director, Noel Ashman Entertainment

Talia Asseraf, Actor

Jeff Astrof, Writer/Show Runner

Liz Astrof, Writer, Universal TV

Shaylee Atary, Film director

Eve Attermann, Partner, WME

Michael Auerbach, Partner, Jackoway Austen

Peter Avery, Theater Educator

Adva Avichzer, CEO, The Ripple Effect

Rotem Avidani, Director

Robert Avrech, Screenwriter, Robert J. Avrech Productions, Inc.

Guy Avshalom, Executive

Jill Baer, Screenwriter

Dean Bahat, Attorney, Ziffren Brittenham LLP

Jordan Bahat, Director

Miranda Bailey, Film Maker/ Actress, Cold Iron Pictures

Liane Balaban, Actor/Writer

Andrea Ballas, VP Communications, CBS/Paramount

Craig Balsam, Producer

Ashleu Bank, Actor/Producer

Yaniv Bar, Senior Vice President, Allied Artists

Varda Bar-Kar, Filmmaker, Wild Rose Pictures

Maya Bar-Lev, Producer, ESPN

Don Barak, Screenwriter-Director

Gary Barber, Entertainment Executive

Eve Barlow, Writer and Owner, Blacklisted

Austin Barmak, Consultant/Manager

Daniel Barman, Musician / Musical Director

Elana Barry, Manager/Producer, Circle Management

Debra Barsha, Composer/Performer

Jonathan Baruch, President, Rain

Eliran Bashan, Entertainer

Richard Baskind, Lawyer, Simons Muirhead Burton LLP

Tamara Becher-Wilkinson, Writer/Producer

Mor Ben Haim, Actor/Filmmaker

Shahar Ben Halevi, Founder, Cornfield Media

Gloria Benaim, Founder, Gloria Benaim Events

Rachel Bendavid, Television Executive

Lawrence Bender, Producer, Lawrence BEnder Productions

Abraham Bengio, Agent, WME

Michael Benson, Writer/Exec Producer

Robert Benun, Owner / Producer, BenunLaw

David Bercovici-Artieda, Producer, Director., EQUINOX DREAM PROJECT

Shaked Berenson, Producer, Entertainment Squad

Ben Berger, Actor

Ram Bergman, Producer

Evie Bergson-Korn, Producer

Adam Berkowitz, President and Founder, Lenore Entertainment Grouo

Greg Berlanti, Writer/Producer/Director

Mayim Bialik, Actor, Writer, Director

Jamie Bialkower, Director, Jump Street Films

Sharon Bialy, Casting Director, Bialy/Thomas & Associates

David Bickel, Writer/Producer

Rick Bieber, Writer/Director/Producer

Jordan Bielsky, Actor and Filmmaker

Josh Binder, Founding Partner, Rothenberg Mohr & Binder, LLP

Daniel Binsted, Cinematographer

Joshua Bitton, Actor

Benjamin Black, Director, Blacklarke Consulting

Jonathan Blair, Partner, Simkins LLP

Neil Blair, Founding Partner, The Blair Partnership

Ariella Blejer, Writer

Saul Blinkoff, Director/Producer

Shelley Blond, Voice over Artist, Yakety yak

Daniella Bloom, Media Personality

Lee Bloomberg, Director

Robyn Bluestone, Manager

Ariel Blumenthal, Composer, Music Producer, Sentient Music for Media

Michael Bogner, Entertainment Attorney / Producer

Remy Bohrer, Development

Bob Bookman, President, Smarty Pants Ventures, Inc./Bob Bookman Management

Dmitry Borshch, artist

Dana Bowling, Casting Director / Podcaster

Brendan Bragg, Manager/Producer

Aaron Brander, Online Editor

Joshua Brandon, Writer, Spitfire Cinema

Jennifer Brandt-Taylor, Creative Director, Thunderwing Studio

Alan Braun, Agent, CAA

Anthony Bregman, Producer, Likely Story

Sarah Bremner, Partner, Co-Founder, Prologue

Josh Breslaw, Manager, Parallel Skies Records

Carl Bressler, Senior Advisor

Joanne Bressler, Attorney

Salome Breziner, Producer

Kevin Bright, Producer, Just Bright Films

Steve Brill, Writer/Director

Marnie Briskin, Manager, Circle MP

Lee Broda, Producer, LB Entertainment

Laura Brody, Costume Designer

Andrew Bronfman, Producer, Beyond the Frame

Hallie Brookman, Agent, United Talent Agency

Dennis Brooks, Writer

Jennifer Brooks, Business Affairs Attorney

Emily Brundige, Animation Writer & Showrunner

David Buchalter, Agent

Andy Buckley, Actor

Osnat Bukofzer, Director of International Affairs and Co-Production Expert, Israel Cinema Project Rabinovich Foundation

Bruce Burger, Music Producer

Janice Burns, Executive Producer, Pink Purse Pictures

Mike Burstyn, Actor Director, Mariella Productions

Marc Butan, CEO, Mad River Pictures

David Byrnes, Attorney, Ziffren Brittenham

Louis Calabro, Executive

Zach Calig, Writer

Emily Cameron, Manager, Plush

Sarah Camlett, Agent

Sean Canino, Co-CEO, Canino Media Company

Emma Canning, Managing Director, Emma Engers Associates ltd

Geoffrey Cantor, Actor

Batsheva Capek, Singer

Mike Capozzola, Actor/Comedian

Inti Carboni, First Assistant Director/Producer

Juan Cardenas, Actor/Producer, Rabiosa Pictures

Matthew Carnahan, Writer/Director

Rebecca Carpenter, Writer, Director, Producer

Robin Carus, Casting Director

David Caspi, Journalist

Rudin Causi, Production Designer, KINO ART

Avigail Cenci di Bello, Director of Development/ Executive Producer

Melissa Center, Actor & Filmmaker

Layla Chaab, Writer/Film & Creative Producer

Uri Chartarifsky, Executive Producer, JFLIXS

Jeffrey Chassen, Publicist

David Chelminsky, CEO, Cine Vídeo y TV

Hilary Cherniss, Writer

Lionel Chetwynd, Writer/Filmmaker

Emmanuelle Chriqui, Actor

Galen Christy, CEO, Octane multimedia

Amanda Cohen, Executive Recruiter, Junction Collective

Carmite Cohen, President, Edgedale Road

Conrad Cohen, Theatre Director and Teacher

Danny Cohen, President, Access Entertainment

Gary Cohen, Writer & Filmmaker

Jay Cohen, Partner, Gersh

Jordan Cohen, Producer, Amazon

Kate Cohen, Director/Producer, MK Entertainment

Laurence Cohen, Director/Editor

Nancy Cohen, Writer/Producer

Neil Cohen, Founder, 1948 Talent

Neil Cohen, Writer/Producer

Omer Cohen, Actor, EMZ Productions

Tanya Cohen, Manager, Range

Ayelet Cohen, Producer

David Cohen, Content Editor, Script Writer

Lola Cohen, Actress/Writer/Personal Trainer, Alignme Fitness

Yossi Cohen, Director of Photography, Nomad Pictures Inc.

Meital Cohen Navarro, Filmmaker

Rhonda Cohn, Comedian

Chris Collins, Producer, Purposeful Pictures, Inc

Nina Colman, Writer

Stephanie Comer, Talent Manager, Sol22

Lindsay Conner, Partner, O’Melveny & Myers

Lauren Cooper, Producer, LC Films

Billiam Coronel, Writer

Y Coronel, Manager, The Coronel Group

Ben Cosgrove, CEO, Leviathan Productions

Adrianna Costa, Journalist, Access Hollywood

Cameron Curtis, EVP, Marketing, Warner Bros.

Omer Dagan, Producer

Ophira Dagan, Producer

Raqueli Dahan-Gonen, Makeup artist Film and Television, Makeup Artist Local 706

Yuval David, Journalist, Actor, Filmmaker, Yuval David Productions

Yoav David, Director/Founder, Davis Media

Robin Davids, Publicity, Sony

Rachel Davidson, Producer, RDProductions, Inc

Howard Davine, COO, Wiip Productions

David Davis, General Counsel / President, CC2DD Music & Entertainment Law

Doug Davis, Founder, The Davis Firm

Mirelle Davis, Artist Manager, Wind up bird limited

Pamela Davis, Writer/EP

Shula Daws, Development Producer, Plum Pictures

Rebecca De Mornay, Actress

Jamie Denbo, Writer/Producer/Actor

Larry Deutchman, Producer/Owner, Great Escape Entertainment

Ken Deutsch, Global Co-Chair, Entertainment & Media Group, Paul Hastings LLP

Avi Diamond, Director, Film/TV Sync, Warner Music Canada

Kayla Diamond, Label Exec, Kolossal Records

Michael Diamond, Talent Manager / Partner, Range Media Partners

Leonard Dick, Writer-Producer

Kathleen Donovan, 1st AD, Entertainment Partners

Craig Dorfman, Manager/Producer, Frontline

Alan Doron, Music Coordinator, HYBE Latin America

Rachel Douglas, Manager, Range MP

Yoann Douieb, Producer, Director

Brian Drach, Music Lawyer, Lewis Brisbois

Chen Drachman, Filmmaker

David Draiman, Frontman, Disturbed

Julie Dretzin, Actor

A.M. Driver, Actress/VO Artist

Rotem Dror, Sound Designer

Duki Dror, Director Producer

Gary Drucker, Creative Director-Writer, Sidewalk Studio

Jeremy Drysdale, Screenwriter

Stacy Earl, Producer, Singer, Songwriter, www.stacyearl.net

Linda Edell Howard, Lawyer, Edell Howard Enterprises

Lisa Edelstein, Actress

Limor Edery, SVP, United King Films Distribution (1990) Ltd

Anthony Edwards, Actor

Michael Ehrenberg, Actor

Kimberly Ehrlich, Casting Director

Daniel Eilemberg, Producer, Clover Studios / Exile Content

Joël Einhorn, Effects Animation

Paula Eiselt, Director

Andrew Eisen, Film Editor

Dan Eisen, Producer / Director / Composer

Lee Eisenberg, Writer

Sharon Eisenberg, Children’s Writer, Designer, Producer, Playfully Posh Pixels

Josh Eiserike, Screenwriter, Cartoonist

Jason Eisner, Producer, Play Practice Productions

Miriam Elchanan, President, Sales & Acquisitions, Fabrication Films

Ellis Elias, Chairman, Broadley Entertainment group Ltd.

Leanne Elias Deutch, Owner, 16 Mile Talent

Jeremy Elice, Elice Island Enterprises

Hila Elkayam, Key Makeup Artist

Jamie Elman, Performer/Writer/Director

Craig Emanuel, Executive, The kid from downunder inc

Amy Engelberg, Writer

Wendy Engelberg, Writer

Emma Engers, Talent Agent, Emma Engers associates

Amy Eppenstein, Actor

Clay Epstein, Owner, Film Mode Entertainment

Hannah Epstein, Agent, CAA

Jane Epstein, Agent

Stefanie Epstein, Producer, SE Productions

Sigal Erez, Writer, www.highwaterfilms.com

Yonatan Esterkin, Director

Samantha Ettus, Author and Executive Producer, 45938

Rami “Kosha Dillz” Even – Esh, Documentary Filmmaker / Rapper / Comic, Kosha Dillz

Adi Ezroni, EVP, Content, Faraway Road Productions

Lindsay Fabes, Actor/Singer/Writer

Sharoa Fae, Literary Manager, SHARONA FAE MANAGEMENT

Jay Faerber, Writer

David Faigenblum, Producer, Concept Entertainment

Sharon Farber, Film composer

Brandon Farbstein, Author, Global Empowerment Speaker & Creator

Isaac Feder, Director

Avi Federgreen, President / Producer, Federgreen Entertainment Inc.

Glenn D. Feig, Attorney, RFLLP

Eric Feig, Partner, Feig/Finkel LLP

Jamie Feldman, Lawyer, Lichter Grossman et al

Josh C. Feldman, Producer, Altar Rock Pictures

Laura Feldman, Manager of Casting

Ryan Feldman, Partner, WME

David Feldman, Writer

David Feldman, Lawyer

Lisa Feldsher, Founding Partner/Writer, Mind Over Media

Jori Felker, Script Coordinator

Patti Felker, Partner, Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson McGinnis Ryan LLP

Rotem Fenichel, Actress

Jacob Fenton, Partner, UTA

Ken Fermaglich, Partner Agent, UTA

Mollie Fermaglich, Writer

Neil Ferris, Music Executive, Brilliant!

Samantha Fetner, Publicist

Sam Feuer, Actor/Producer, Big Boy Films

Mark Feuerstein, Actor, Can’t Get Five Prod

Guy Fields, Producer

Joel Fields, Writer/Producer

Jeff Fierson, Film and TV Producer, Henness Ridge

Tabbert Fiiller, Director

Andrew Fine, Managing Partner, Novel TMT Capital

Dustin Fine, Editor

Daniel Finkelman, Producer/Creator, Sparks Go

Larry Finlay, Retired MD, Transworld/Penguin Random House

Nathan Firer, Founder

Shalom Fisch, Educational Media Content Consultant

Bradley Fischer, Producer

Maya Fischer, Producer, Green Productions

Richard Fischoff, Producer/Executive Producer

David Fisher, Director/Producer

Seth Fisher, Writer

David Fishof, CEO, Rock n Roll Fantasy Camp

Sarah Flack, Film Editor

Niva Fogel, Designer

John Fogelman, CEO, FactoryMade

Alex Foster, Producer

Erin Foster, Actress

Ed Fraiman, Director / Executive Producer

Samuel Franco, Writer/Producer

Etan Frankel, Writer

Rami Frankl, Director

Bruce Franklin, Producer

Leilah Franklin, Producer

Jordan Frazes, Founder, FRAZES CREATIVE

Marcus Freed, Founder & President, Jewish Filmmakers Network

Ari Frenkel, Actor / Filmmaker

Gittit Fridberg, Casting Director

Jody Friedericks, Head of Global Creative, WME Group

Adam Friedman, Executive, Creative Artists Agency

Adina Friedman, Manager

Darin Friedman, Talent Manager, Entertainment 360

Sara Fruman, Founder, Entertainment Manager + Publicist, Soul Evolution Media

Jeff Frumess, Director, Frumess Films

Joe Furey, TV Writer

Jason Furman, Vice President, Paquin Artists Agency

Rachel Gaffin, Actor

Denise Galik, Actress

George Gallagher, Actor/Filmmaker

Eyal Galli, Actor

Siri Garber, CEO, Platform PR

Barbara Garshman, Producer/Writer, Garshman ProductionsLLC

Nancy Mendelson Gates, Partner, UTA

Julie Gelfand, Associate Director

Brett Gelfant, Director of Sales

Yfat Reiss Gendell, Literary + Media Agent, YRG Partners/Talent

Andrew Genger, Manager, Red Light Management

Elliott Gerner, Writer Director

Tamar Gibbert, Film Marketing and Communications

Maya Giladi, Business Affairs Executive

Gary Gilbert, Producer, Gilbert Films

Jamie Gilcig, Writer/Producer

Deborah Gilels, Publicist

Tali Gillette, Founder, ZEROHATE Productions

Jessalyn Gilsig, Actor, Lady in the Tree inc.

Gary Ginsberg, Partner, 25madison

Sarai Givaty, Actress

Fran Glasenberg, Executive

Adam Glass, Writer/Producer/Showrunner, Shattered Glass Productions

Ben Gleib, Comedian/TV Host

David Glick, Investor in creativity

Jordan Glickson, VP, Music & Talent, Vevo

Michael Glouberman, Writer/Producer

Kevin Goetz, CEO, Screen Engine/ASI

Neil Goetz, Producer, BBMG

Lindsay Goffman, Executive Producer, Gratitude Productions

Mark Goffman, Writer, Off the Cliff Entertainment

Elon Gold, Comedian/Actor

Gina Gold, Writer/Producer

Meir Goldberg, Producer

Rachel Goldberg, Director

Daniel Goldenberg, Attorney, Goldenberg & Company

Richard Goldgewicht, Director, Core Story

Jennifer Goldhar, President/Talent Agent, The Characters Talent Agency

Gilad Goldschmidt, Filmmaker

Hedva Goldschmidt, Founder and Managing Director, Go2Films

Michael Goldsheft, Art Director, M. Goldsheft Designs

Marc Goldsmith, Writer/Actor

Alexander Goldstein, Dir. Production, Atlas Media Corp

Guy Goldstein, Producer, Golden Ram

Michael Goldstein, Co-President and Executive Producer, Basset Hound Distribution

Lindy Goldstein, Producer, LGP

Michael Goldwasser, President/Co-Founder, Easy Star Records

Robert Golenberg, President, Pivot Artists Group

Michael Golodini, Actor

Alissa Goodman, Manager

Dana Min Goodman, Writer

Jessica Goodman, Co-Owner, Invisible Narratives

Rosser Goodman, Director / Producer

Elizabeth Goodstein, VP, Business Development, Strategy, and Content Partnerships, Madison Wells

Arlo Gordon, Creative Executive

Dan Gordon, Screenwriter, Producer, Director, DGI

Jonathan Gordon, Producer

Karen Gordon, Film Critic/Content Creator/Story Editor

Steven Gordon, Animator/Artist

Howard Gordon, Writer/Showrunner

Susan Gordon, Author

Uri Gorodzinsky, Managing Director

Michael Gossack, President, MY3D agency

Mitchell Gossett, Partner / Manager, Industry Entertainment

Limor Gott Ronen, Producer

Graham Gouldman, Songwriter/Musician, 10cc

Marc Graboff, Advisor, Redbird IMI

David Grae, TV Writer

Michael Granoff, Founding Partner, Maniv Mobility

Brigit Grant, Editor/Scriptwriter

Pamela Gray, Writer

Amy Green, Producer

Malcolm Green, Film Director, Green AFM Ltd

Yael Green, Writer

Kim Green, Novelist

Anna-Sue Greenberg, Producer

Jackson Greenberg, Film/TV Composer

Jeff Greenberg, TV Lit Agent, Gersh

Rachel Greenberg, Producer

Matt Greenberg, Managing Partner, GCVA, LLP

Geoffrey Greene, Actor

Gloria Z. Greenfield, President, Doc Emet Productions Inc.

Ian Greenstein, Literary Agent, Innovative Artists

Julie Greenwald, Music Executive

Heidi Grey, Writer

Lawrence Grey, Producer

Daniel Grindlinger, Writer

Rinne Groff, Playwright

Debora Guetta, EVP

D.J. Gugenheim, President, Hello Rosebud

Marc Guggenheim, Writer/Producer, Legalscribe Entertainment, Inc.

Jeff Gulko, Founder / CEO, Gulko Publicity

Abe Gurko, Writer/Producer, Won’t Be Silent LLC

Jeff Gurner, Actor/Director/Producer, Tequila Talking Theatrical

Julie Gurovitsch, Talent Executive, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Brett Gursky, Writer / Director / Producer, Magic Hour

Jason Gurvitz, Filmmaker, GREEN DOG FILMS

Sheryl Levine Guterman, Writer/Producer, Test Pilot Productions

Ellen Guylas, Writer

Noa Ha, Actress

Heidi Haddad, Writer/Producer/Actress, Best Case Scenario Productions

Laurent Haddad, Artist

Debbie Haeusler, Talent Agent, Innovative Artists

Simon Halfon, Producer, Nemperor

Pnina Halfon Lang, Executive Director

Jerome Halligan, Writer

Faith Halman, Agent/Manager

Marc Hamou, Partner/Manager, Thruline Entertainment

Omry Hananya, Standup Comedian

Keren Hantman, Writer/Director/Producer

Jan Harlan, retired

Deborah Harris, Literary Agent, The Deborah Harris Agency

Fitz Harris, Editor, Story & Sound

Lynn Harris, Producer, 6th & Idaho

Michael Harris, Talent Agent

Robert Harris, Senior Partner, Lazarus & Harris LLP

Harris Hartman, Partner, Sloane Offer Weber and Dern

Ronny Hatchwell, Industry Relations Manager, Creative Community for Peace

Patricia Heaton, Actress/Producer, FourBoys Entertainment

Andrew Heinze, Playwright & Dramaturg, American Renaissance Theater Company (NYC)

Michael Helfant, Producer; Former President/COO of Marvel Studios

Alexander Helisek, Entertainment Journalist/Producer, Breezeway Productions

Barbara Heller, Writer/Producer/Actor, Barbaila Productions

David Herman, Executive Producer, Double Shot Films

Jonathan Herman, Screenwriter

Mara Herman, Actor/Executive Producer

Ben Hermes, Actor

Kenneth Hertz, Partner, Hertz Lichtenstein Young & Polk LLP

Vanessa Hidary, Performer/Writer

Sarah Hildering, Director Electronic Music, Virgin Music Group, Universal Music

Matthew Hiltzik, CEO

Matthew Hiltzik, Founder, Hiltzik Strategies

Peter Himmelman, Musician, Himmasongs

Michael Hirsh, Producer, Floating Island Entertainment

Alexandria Hoffman, Costume Designer

R Scott Hoffman, Actor

Shmuel Hoffman, Producer & Director, Hoffman Productions

Darrin Holender, CEO/Producer

Kari Hollend, Producer

Kari Hollend, Film Producer

Paige Holtzman, Agent

Zach Holz, Digital Agent, Innovative Artists

Jill Hoppenheim, Founder/ Executive Producer, Bagg Street Productions

Alex Horn, Author and Editor

Charles Horn, Writer

Sammy Horowitz, Writer/Producer

Daniel Housman, Screenwriter

Andii Howard, President, Andi Howard Entertainment

Josh Howie, Actor/Comedian/Broadcaster

Henry Huang, Talent Manager

David Hunt, Actor/Director/Producer

Mikel Hurwitz, Composer, Cinemastasia Music LLC

Rene Ifrah, Actor

Amit Itzcar, Filmmaker

Alexis Jacknow, Filmmaker

Lauren Jacob, Founder & CEO, Tylite Digital

Claudine Jakubowicz, Producer, Epicentral Studios

Jonathan Jakubowicz, Writer & Director, Epicentral Studios

Jennifer Jason Leigh, Actress

Ingrid Jean-Baptiste, Co-Founder & Artistic Director, Chelsea Film Festival

Tatyana Joffe, President International Sales & Distribution, XYZ Films

KC Johnson, Retake Director, The Simpsons

Sandra L Joseph, Sole Prop, SLJ Management

Allison Josephs, Founder & Executive Director, Jewish Institute for Television & Cinema (JITC) Hollywood Bureau

Danielle Josephs, Director, Business & Legal Affairs

Sharon Joy, National Campaign Director, Arts & Entertainment Initiatives, JNF USA

Jim Jusko, Executive Producer, Base Camp Films LLC

Heather Kadin, President, Scripted Television, Range Media Partners

Yarden Kadosh, Actor

Daniella Kahane, Founder, Riverside Pictures

Michael Kalifa, Re-recording mixer

Stacey Kalish, Consultant, Kalish Consulting, Inc.

Bea Bar Kallos, Photographer/Film Industry Professional

Kim Kamen, COO, AMEPA

Aaron Kamin, Songwriter/Producer

Levi Kaminkowitz, Gaffer Owner/Operator, Watch Your Eyes LLC

Kia Kamran, Attorney at Law, Kia Kamran PC

Einat Kapach, Writer, Director

Aaron Kaplan, Producer

Avram Butch Kaplan, Producer, Mase Kaplan Produtions, Inc. Jamsea Productions, Inc.

Cindy Kaplan, Writer/Producer

Michael Kaplan, Writer-Producer

Rachel Kaplan, Executive Producer, Absecon Entertainment

Jay Karas, Director/Producer/Writer

Dorian Karchmar, Agent

Kimberly Karp, Writer/Producer

Adan Karst, Producer / Actor, Optimist Pictures

Kathryn Kates, Retired Entertainment Journalist

David Bar Katz, Writer

Joshua Katz, Actor & Screenwriter

Uri Katz, Writer/Director

Jessu Katz, Actress/Voice Actress

Deborah Kaufmann, Senior Vice President, Literary Affairs, Legendary

Ryan Kavanaugh, Producer, Proxima

Eve Kay, TV Producer

Ronnie Kay, Film and TV Director/Arts Professor, NYU Tisch School of the Arts

Sara Kay, Film Industry Business Owner

Karen Kedmey, Writer, Editor

Sheri Kelton, CEO, SRK Entertainment

Lia Kes Carmi Berman, Founder, KES NYC

Jason A. Kessler, Writer

Jonathan Kier, Co-President, Upgrade Productions

Robert King, Writer/Producer

Russell King, Director, King Law Firm

Melanie Kirschbaum, Writer/Producer

Dana Klein, Show-runner/Executive Producer, Can’t Get Five Productions

Larry Klein, Record Producer/Musician/Songwriter, Strange Cargo Inc

Marc Klein, Screenwriter, Birdy Num Num, Inc.

Spencer Klein, Head of Distribution

Margo Klewans, President, Moonslinger Productions

Barbie Kligman, Writer/Producer, Avenue K Productions

Steve Kline, President/COO, Better Noise Music

Sam Kling, Chief Creative Officer, SESAC

Amanda Kogan, Talent Manager, Aaron Kogan Management

Julia Kogan, Writer, JuKo Productions

Keetgi Kogan Steinberg, Writer/Producer/Showrunner, Iron Triangle

Blair Kohan, Agent

David Kohan, Television Writer-Producer

Michael Konyves, Writer/Showrunner

Roman Kopelevich, President

Zoe Korsner, Production Executive

Jennifer Kovo, Director of Development

Charles Kraft, Sound

Ryan Kramer, Story Artist

Eric Kranzler, Co-Founder, Entertainment 360

May Kravitz, Musician/Actor

Ynon Kreiz, CEO, Mattel Inc.

Brad Krevoy, CEO, MPCA

Julie Kroll, President/ CEO, Summerland Ent

Rob Kutner, Writer-Producer

Paula Kweskin, Founder/Director, The 49%

Stacey Labell, President

Emma Lahana, Actor

Tova Laiter, Producer, Avida Entertainment

Mooly Landesman, Documentary Filmmaker, Sadot North LTD

Sherry Lansing, Founder & CEO, The Sherry Lansing Foundation

Robert Lantos, Producer

Micky Laron, Artistic Director, EPOS

Estelle Lasher, President, Lasher Group

Michael Laskow, CEO

Inbar Lavi, Actress, Tuna Productions

Cathy Lawrence, Production Manager, Sony Animation

Penelope Lawson, Film Director

Sheldon Lazarus, Creative Director, Bitachon 365

Lauren Lebowitz, Actress

Stefanie Leder, Writer

Debby Lee, Exec Producer

Wendy Lee, Writer, Freelance

Sarah Leibov, Writer

Allan Leicht, Writer

Lorna Lembeck, Retired Actor

Dana Lerner, Producer

Luisa Leschin, Writer/Producer, Tortuga Productions

Elliott Lester, Director, Chromista

Richard Lever, Entertainment Lawyer

Blake Levin, Producer

Robert Levin, President/COO, Screen Engine/ASI

Ben Levine, Partner, Link Entertainment

Marla Levine, Entertainment Attorney/Producer/Consultant

David Levine, Founder/Exec Producer, Lightboat Media Ltd

Avi Levy, Producer

Mat Levy, Executive Vice President

Yael Levy, Author & Screenwriter, Freelance

Yehuda Levy, Actor/Producer

Reuben Liber, Producer, Ranger 7 Films

Avi Liberman, Entertainer

Aliza Licht, Founder, Leave Your Mark

Jessica Lieberman, Showrunner’s Assistant, Warner Bros.

NICOLE Lieberman, Co-Founder, Female Film Club

Sharon Lieblein, Casting Director, Sharon Lieblein Casting

Elijah Lifton, Actor/Writer

Samuel Limor, Producer

Koura Linda, Founder & CEO, Space Dream Productions

Udi lion, Producer-Creator

Eli Lipnik, VP, The Swen Group

David Lipper, CEO, Latigo Films

Robin Lippin, Casting Director

Stephanie Liss, Playwright/Artistic Director, The American Jewish Theatre

Jill Littman, Co-President/Manager/Producer, Impression Entertainment

Alex Litvak, Writer

Nina Litvak, Screenwriter, Pictures From The Fringe

Salvador Litvak, Director

Glenn Litwak, Attorney

Ofir Lobel, TV Director, Ofir Lobel

Allan Loeb, Writer

David Lonner, CEO, The David Lonner Company

Ron Lopata, Artist/Producer/Musician, BeatsNKeys Music

Dean Lorey, Writer

Zena Dell Lowe, Screenwriter, The Storyteller’s Mission

Sara Lukasiewicz, Writer, Snarled Entertainment

Jane Lush, MD of independent TV production company

Jamie Lusher, Owner, The Lusher Gallery

Ben Maddahi, President, Unrestricted Publishing & Mgmt

Dan Madia, Storyboard Artist

Sepideh Makabi, Founder / Director, NewMil Media

Shannon Makhanian, Casting Director

Maayan Malka, Actress

Howie Mandel, Entertainer

Randy Manis, Producer/Entertainment Lawyer

Gabriel Mann, Composer

Arnon Manor, Producer/Director, Chemical Soup

Natalie Marciano, Producer, Poster Child Pictures

Deborah Marcus, SVP/CSR

Ari Mark, Owner, Ample Entertainment

Amanda Markowitz, Actor/Producer

Orly Marley, President, Tuff Gong Worldwide

Steven Marmalstein, Writer, Wave Productions

Chris Marrs, Writer

James Maslow, Actor / Musician

Natalia Maus, EP, Nudnik

Mara Maxfield, Vice President, Global Brand Partnerships, Warner Bros.

Seth May, Actor

Devra Maza, Screenwriter

Haim Mazar, Composer

Valerie McCaffrey, Producer, MCaffrey Productions

Yeva McCloskey, Production Designer

Sean McGinly, Writer/Director

Paula McHarg, Founder, PMCM Media

Bethany McShepherd, Head of Innovation, LAMDA (London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art)

Estee Mecklberg, Producer, 2-team productions

Rob Melamed, Composer

Paul A Mendelson, Writer, The Mendelson Partnership

Dani Menkin, Writer, Director, Hey Jude Productions

Abbe Meryl Feder, Actor

Debra Messing, Actor/Producer

Sandor Mester, Producer, Miradouro

Nick Meyer, CEO, Sierra Pictures

Berry Meyerowitz, President, Quiver Distribution

Shana Meyerson, Podcaster, The Yoga of War Podcast

Max Michael, Head of Asia Business, UTA

Darren Michaelson, Director, L25

Samantha Michelle, Director

Laurence Miller, Commerical Director / Producer, Nimax Theatres

Matthew Miller, Singer, Matisyahu

Beth Milstein, Writer

Gev Miron, Director

Mandy Mitchell, Wardrobe Stylist

Eli Mizrahi, Cinematographer

Benjamin Mogil, Managing Director, Qualia Legacy Advisors

Robyn Mogil, Partner

Meredith Mohr, VP Artist Relations, Tribeca Enterprises

Joe Montifiore, President / Talent Manager, Rafterman Media

Michael Robertson Moore, Writer/Director

Ben Mor, Director

Brett Morris, Writer, BAM Consulting

Tony Morris, Lawyer, Level Law, London

Claire Morrissey, Story Artist

Karen Morse, Screenwriter

Daniel Moses, Director

Guy Moshe, Writer/Director

Mark Moskowitz, Producer, Lightstream

Patrick Moss, Writer

Jonathan Mostow, Director/Writer

Johanna Moyal, Online editor, MOCEAN

Yariv Mozer, Filmmaker, Mozer films

Elizabeth Much, CEO, East to West Collective PR

Steven Muller, Talent Agent

Sadaf Muncy, EVP, Development and Production

Robert Munic, Writer/Director/EP, Pull The Pin Productions, Inc.

Jodie Myers, Filmmaker, My Birth Movie

Melissa Myers, Producer/Manager, MM Media

Seth Nagel, Manager/Producer, Impish Grin Corp.

Mikhail Nayfeld, President, Heroes and Villains Entertainment

Grant Neale, Actor/Director, Nomad Theatrical Co.

Kasia Neiman, Producer

Paul Neinstein, Co-CEO, Project X Entertainment

Yelena Nesbit, Executive Director, Publicity, HarperCollins

Elizabeth Newman, Partner, Literate Management

Saskia Newman, Actor, Freelancer

Carolyn Newman, Executive Vice President

Samantha Nisenboim, Film Producer, Modern Magic

Gal Nissim, Actor

Sharona Nomder, Manager, Morse Artists

Jeremy Norkin, President, Music Label Services, HYBE Latin America

Allison Norlian, Writer/Director/Filmmaker

Daniel Novick, Entertainment Attorney, Novick Law PLLC

Ross Novie, Director / 1AD

Stefi Novo, Songwriter

Lisa Nupoff, Manager, iminmusic management

Jerry O’Connell, Actor

Tracy Ann Oberman, Actress, Writer, Producer

Doron Ofir, Executive Producer and Casting Director, Popular Productions Inc.

Rachel Ollagnon, Member Actor’s Equity Association

John Ondrasik, Singer/Songwriter, Five For Fighting

Avital Onn Shachar, Owner, Bitali Entertainment

Andrew Orenstein, Executive Producer/Writer

Sharon Osbourne,

Patrick Pakula, Director/Storyboard Artist

Isaac Palmer, Managing Partner, Qualia Legacy Advisors

Steve Parker, Booking Agency Director, Miracle Artists Ltd

Batia Parnass, Producer

Naomi Parness, Founder, The Narrative Agency

Adam Pasen, Writer

Andrew Patman, Literary Agent, Innovative Artists Entertainment

Adam Paulden, Managing Director, ADAMA Entertainment

Sharon Paz, Founder/Manager, Paz Talent

Leo Pearlman, Co-CEO, Fulwell Entertainment

Debbie Peiser, Writer, Director

Leemour Pelli-Gunzenhauser, Artist, Director, Pelli Studio and Art Archive

Corey Peña, Filmmaker, Lockway Films

Stacey Pianko, Casting Director, Stacey Pianko Casting

David Pick, CEO, Real Music TV

Ari Pinchot, President, Crystal City Entertainment

Mark Pinkus, President, Rhino Records, Warner Music Group

Tim Piper, Film Director

Jonah Platt, Podcaster, Being Jewish with Jonah Platt

Wendy Plaut, SVP, Music & Celebrity Talent, Paramount

Benjamin Polster, DP/Cam Op/PA

Brad Pomerance, Executive Vice President, JLTV

Amitai Porat, Actor

Steven Posen, Producer

Arie Posin, Director

Sami Posner, Manager, ATC

Jonathan Prince, President, PhilmCo Media

Daniella Rabbani, Actor/ Producer, Daniella Rabbani Inc.

Jeff Rabhan, Co-Founder, CEO, Bored of Ed

Glenn Rabney, Writer

Gideon Raff, Writer/Director

Brian Ralston, Composer / Producer, Studio 74 Music, LLC

Golan Ramraz, Writer Producer, EGX Film Factory

Michael Rapaport, Actor

Richard Rapkowski, Lawyer

Ron Rappaport, Writer / Executive Producer, That’s A Rapp Productions

Fred Raskin, ACE, Film Editor

Herb Ratner, Writer

Abbe Raven, Former CEO & Chairman, A&E Networks

Orly Ravid, Founder/Co-Executive Director, The Film Collaborative

Dor Raz, Producer

Oded Raz, Director

Shari Redstone, Hollywood Executive & Former Chairwoman of Paramount Global

Adva Reichman, Writer, Director

Howard Reichman, Writer/Director, Pacific Beach Productions

Mark Reisman, Writer

Itay Reiss, Manager/Producer, Artists First

David Renzer, Chairman/Co-Founder, Creative Community for Peace

Bruce Resnikoff, President & CEO, Universal Music Enterprises

Sydney Richardson, Director of Strategic Initiatives & Operations, Tylite Digital

Will Richardson, Producer/Writer/Presenter, TV Republika (Poland)

Allen Lewis Rickman, Actor

Gil Rief, Writer

Scott Rindenow, Director

Jeffrey Ring, Writer/Director/Producer, Ringmaster Media

Teme Ring, Writer, Comedians Defying Gravity

Florina Rodov, Writer

Pamela Rolfe, Journalist

Miles David Romney, Managing Partner, V42

Jonathan Rosen, Writer/Producer

Rick Rosen, Co-Founder, Endeavor, WME

Rose Rosen, Casting Director, Casting by Rose Rosen

Michael Rosenbaum, Actor/Writer/Podcaster/Director, Rose and Bomb Production

Scott Rosenbaum, Writer/Producer

Thane Rosenbaum, Novelist, Cultural Critic, Law Professor, Touro University

Daniel Rosenberg, Co-Founder, Piro

Erez Rosenberg, Partner/Attorney, Jackoway Austen

Scott Rosenberg, CEO, Producer, EP, Platinum Studios, Inc

Claudia Rosencrantz, TV Executive

Shira Rosenfeld, Producer, Piva entertainment

Scott Rosenfelt, Producer/Writer/Director, 8th Street Films, Inc.

Melissa Rosenfield, Founder, IFP Communications

Shep Rosenman, Lawyer, RLG LLP

Amanda Rosenthal, Talent Agent, Amanda Rosenthal Talent Agency, Inc

Danna Rosenthal, Impact Strategy Partner – Founder, Positive Disruption

Benyamin Ross, Attorney, Gibson Dunn

Nathan Ross, Film / TV producer

Gregg Rossen, Screenwriter

Richard Rossner, Writer

Michael Rotenberg, CEO

Dena Roth, Set Decorator

Lynn Roth, Writer Producer Director, Lynn Roth Productions, Inc.

Joshua Rothstein, CEO, Ice Cream For Dinner

Peymaneh Rothstein, CEO, Precious Time & leap4wrd

Dani Rotstein, Line Producer

Brian Rousso, Writer, Revenant Studios

Robert Rovner, Writer/Producer

Susan Rovner, Producer

Daniela Ruah, Actor

Eric Ruben, President, Eric W. Ruben, Attorney at Law, P.C.

Anna Ruben, Actor/Writer/Producer, Aureus Films ltd

Jonathan Rubenstein, Producer, Crystal City Entertainment

Dodi Rubenstein, Production Manager

Andrew Rubin, Writer

Judith Rubin, Producer/Writer, The Luminary Collective

Tamar Rudoy, Director

Barbara Rugg, Actor

Sara Ryan, Script Supervisor, BBC

Haim Saban, Chairman and CEO, Saban Capital Group

Eric Sabbag, Writer / Director

Wendy Sachs, Director and Executive Producer OCTOBER 8 Film, The October 8 Foundation

Jeff Sackman, President, Quiver Distrbution

David Sacks, Show Runner

Lynn Sadofsky, SVP, Production, WBD

Robin Saex Garbose, Writer – Director

Carin Sage, EVP Film, Paramount

Rochel Saks, Manager

Yonatan Salmon, Creative Director, TMC Animation

Michael Saltzman, Writer/Producer

Richard Salvatore, Producer, March On Productions

Jaydi Samuels Kuba, TV Writer

Marc Samuelson, Producer, Samuelson Productions ltd

Peter Samuelson, Chairman, www.people4peace.net

Laurie Sandell, Writer

Nancy Sanders, Partner, Thruline Entertainment

Fred Savage, Actor/Director

Malina Saval, Writer, Journalist

Dava Savel, Writer, All Roads Lead Productions

Jason Sax, Creative Executive, Living in Sim, Inc.

Josh Schaer, Screenwriter / Producer

Leslie Schapira, Writer/Producer

Hagar Scher, Writer

Joseph Schick, Producer, Schick Pictures

Ayelet Schiffman, Senior Vice President, Promotion, REPUBLIC COLLECTIVE

Barry Schkolnick, Writer/Producer, Schoolboy Productions, Inc.

Isabelle Schneider, Artist

Steve Schnur, Worldwide Executive & Music President, Electronic Arts

Liev Schreiber, Filmmaker

Beth Schwartz, Showrunner

Russell Schwartz, Senior Vice President and Head, Original Programming Business Affairs, Starz

Teddy Schwarzman, CEO, Black Bear

Jay Schweid, Founder / CEO, ephelants/Village

Malia Scotch Marmo, Screenwriter

Adam J. Segal, President, The 2050 Group – Publicity

Noah Segal, Co-President, Elevation Pictures

Muli Segev, Writer/Producer, Keshet

Laurie Seidman, Producer, Laurie Seidman Creative Partners

Dan Seligmann, TV & Film Producer

Tchelet Semel, Producer, OTOTO PRODUCTIONS

Rick Senat, Producer

Alan Sereboff, Screenwriter

David Shair, Story

Ellen Shallman, Executive Vice President, Business Affairs

Yaniv Shalom, Screenwriting

Yaron Shamir, Artistic Director, Haifa International Film Festival

Inon Shampanier, Director

Natalie Shampanier, Writer

Aliza Shane, Director

Reid Shane, Producer

Rachael Shapiro, Programming

Laura Shapiro, Writer

Linda Shayne, Writer/Director

Carly Shear, In-house lawyer, Hat Trick Productions

Hannah Shearer, Writer

Emanuel Shechter, Film Director & Producer

Jessica Sherman, Casting Director

Matt Sherman, Talent Manager

Amy Sherman-Palladino, Writer/Director

Yamit Shimonovitz, DP

Space Ship, Executive VP, Space Dream Productions

Briana Shneyder, Associate, Studio FP&A, Netflix

Karen Shopsowitz, Filmmaker

David Shore, Writer

Jay Shore, Writer

Richard Shore, Partner, Subconscious Content

Matt Shreder, CEO, Concourse Media

Alan Siegel, Manager/Producer, Alan Siegel Entertainment

Maya Sigel, Production Designer

Dan Signer, Writer/Producer

Ashley Silver, Partner-Attorney, Brecheen, Feldman, Breimer, Silver & Thompson, LLP

Adam Silverman, SVP, Legal

Ben Silverman, Chairman & Co-CEO, Propagate

Josh Silverstein, Writer

Gail Simmons, TV Host and Author, GMS Media Inc

Gene Simmons, Musician

Alyssa Simon, Actor

Gregg Simon, Director / Producer, Wenley Inc.

Nikki Simon, Performer / Filmmaker

Marc Simonsson, Film & TV Agent, SoloSon Media Limited

Carla Singer, Producer/Writer

Marty Singer, Managing Partner, Lavely & Singer

Orly Sitowitz, Casting Director

Stacy Skinner, Actor

Lauren Sklar, PR Director, WBD

Alexei Slater, Filmmaker

Jared Sleisenger, Vice President, Leviathan Productions

Jacob Sloman, Writer

Joseph Sloman, Writer

Kenneth Slotnick, CEO, AGI Entertainment Media & Management LLC

Jennifer Smith, Music Supervisor, Rat Dance Party Inc.

Stephen Smith, Producer, Memory Workers

Fonda Snyder, President Creative Co. Agent/Manager for Childrens and Family Book Publishing and Entertainment, Alchemy Ink. Inc.

Alec Sokolow, Screenwriter, Megababy

Karen Solomon, Costumer

Danielle Solzman, Film Journalist, Solzy at the Movies

Jeff Sosnow, EVP, A&R, Warner Records

Susanna Speier, Actor / Producer / Writer

Brian Speiser, Agent

Regina Spektor, Musician

Nancy Spielberg, Producer, Playmount Productions

Immanuel Spira, Owner/Principal, ISLaw

Yael Staav, Director

Tema Staig, Executive Producer

Halle Stanford, President, Executive Producer, 7 Crow Stories

Jason Stare, Sound Designer / Dialogue Editor / Re-recording Mixer, Sinasound Post

Alix Steerman, Director of Development, Blink49 Studios

Johanna Stein, Writer

David Steinberg, Animation Producer

David Steinberg, Entertainment Lawyer

Hank Steinberg, Writer/Producer

Shaina Steinberg, Writer

David Steinberg, Showrunner

Mimi Steinberg, Writer/Producer

Sue Steinberg, Director

Matt Steinman, Vice President, 30WEST

Robert Steinman, Writer

Tracy Steinsapir, Owner/Talent Manager, Main Title Entertainment

Brian Stern, Partner, AGI Entertainment Media & Management LLC

Emil Stern, Writer-Director

Michaela Stern, Actor, Engers Portelli

Rachel Stern, Writer

Estee Stimler, Playwright

Jonathan Stokes, Screenwriter

Lee Stone, Partner, Lee & Thompson

Rebecca Stone, Vice President, Production

Alison Stover, Actor/Filmmaker, Luminous Pictures

Rena Strober, Actor

Phyllis Strong, Screenwriter

Tara Strong, Actress

MaryLynn Suchan, Actor / Writer

Artur Sumarokov, Cinema Critic, Playwright, Moviegram / Flashforward Magazine (Ukraine)

Daniel Sussman, Senior Talent Manager, Brillstein Entertainment Partners

Jackie Swartz, Publicist, 42West

Erika Swartzberg, Personal Manager, Zell Bug Entertainment, Inc.

Michael Swerdlick, Writer

Lars Sylvest, Producer, Thank You Pictures

Aaron Symonds, Film Composer

Fernando Szew, Producer

Nicholas Tabarrok, Producer

Janel Tanna, Actress

Nina Tassler, CEO, Kismet Creative Group

Bill Teck, Director / Producer, Seigur Sound and Pictures

Tamar Teifeld, SVP Digital Marketing, Paramount Pictures

Karynne Tencer, Publicist, Tencer & Associates Inc.

Max Tenenbaum, Producer, Mr. Wavvy

Suzanne Tenner, Photographer

Rebecca Thomas, Agent

Silenn Thomas, CEO / Filmmaker, FMI / PRP

Steph Thwaites, Literary Agent

Dan Tischler, Producer

Noa Tishby, Author

Reut Tobin Buchnik, Producer

Fred Toczek, Partner, Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson McGinnis Ryan LLP

Richard Trank, Documentary Filmmaker, Sea Point Films and Media

Peter Traugott, President, Keshet Studios

Judd Trichter, Writer/Editor/Director

Lee Trink, CEO, Flash Justice

Gabriela Tscherniak, Film, TV Director and Showrunner, Cohen Sisters Entertainment LTD

Eti Tsicko, Director/Screenwriter

Stephen Tsoneff, Partner, Gibson Dunn

Eric Tuchman, Writer

Montana Tucker, Entertainer

Brett Tulchin, Administrative Assistant, Tulchin Entertainment

Carla Tulchin, VP, Tulchin Media

Harris Tulchin, Chairman, Tulchin Entertainment

Neil Turitz, Artist

Ryan Turkienicz, Editor In Chief, The Daily Brine

Ben Turner, Director, Fulwell Entertainment

Bryan Turner, CEO, Melee Entertainment

Aaron Vaccaro, Screenwriter

Noa Vinshtok, Manager, Range Music

Alissa Vradenburg, Talent Manager

Ariel Vromen, Writer/ Director/ Producer, Sumatra Films

Jeffrey Wachs, Business & Legal Affairs Executive

David Wachtenheim, Director, Netflix

Mark Wade, Executive Producer

Vera Wagman, Producer-Director, Velocity + Direction

Karen Wagner, Hair and Makeup Artist

Karyn Wagner, Filmmaker

Darah Wagner Boaz, Producer

Ariyela Wald-Cohain, Costume Designer, Waco Designs

Daniel Warner, CEO, ChaiTech

Evan Warner, Senior Partner/Agent, WME

Ian Wasseluk, Creative Producer / Supervising Director

Tal Waters, PR

Katie Wech, Writer/Producer

Jerry Weil, Actor / Filmmaker

Jon Weinbach, President

Guri Weinberg, Actor/Writer

Yonatan Weinberg, Writer

Matthew Weiner, Writer-Director

Mara Weinstock, Post Production Supervisor, Truly Original

Alon Weinstock, Director

Joe Weisberg, Writer

Jay Weisleder, Producer, Fuego Films

Michael Weisler, Founder and Executive Director, Glow in the Dark

Ido Weisman, Film Director

David N. Weiss, Writer – Director, Fat Dancing Productions

Danny Weiss, Writer/Producer

Adam Wells, Director

Ilana Wernick, Writer/Producer

Ron West, Managing Partner, Thruline Entertainment

Gerald Wexler, Scriptwriter

Nicole Wichinsky, Coach, Teacher, Producer

Modi Wiczyk, Cofounder, Co-Chairman, MRC

Gadi Wildstrom, CEO, Freeway Entertainment

Junior Williams, Actor/Producer, Rossi Productions

Rebecca Windsor, Producer

Mare Winningham, Actor

Cara Wodnicki, Founder, CSW Publicity

Julie Sherman Wolfe, Screenwriter

Roger Wolfson, Writer

Dan Wolman, Filmmaker, Dan Wolman Film Productions Ltd

Julia Wolov, Writer/Actor

Dan Wolpe, Playwright/Actor

Michael Wolter, Owner, Gravity

Annie Wood, Writer

Christine Wu, Producer, Musician, LA Strings

Sharon Yablon, Playwright

Jake Yanowski, Producer

Sasha Yelaun, Producer

Yaël Yermia, Journalist, Movieintheair

Kevin Yorn, Entertainment Attorney, Founder Yorn Levine LLP

H Spencer Young, Writer/Director/Producer, Grand Unified

Jonathan Yunger, President, Millennium Media

Amotz Zakai, Partner, Echo Lake Entertainment

Laurie Zaks, President / Executive Producer, RosewoodTV

David Zannoni, North America Consultant, Freeway Entertainment

Igal Zeevi, General Manager, Haifa Film Festival, ETHOS

Shara Ashley Zeiger, Actor/Filmmaker, The Platform Group

Shelley Zellman, Writer/Producer

Sherri Ziff, Writer

Avigail Zilberman, Video Editor, YZ Content

Leonid (Leo) Zisman, 1st AD/Director

Inon Zur, Composer, Inon Zur Inc

Additional Signatories:

David Abeles, Actor

Jordan Agian, Filmmaker

Marilee Albert, Writer

Eric Alexander, Filmmaker, Document This

Amanda Alley, Director, Motion Pictures Production, Paramount Pictures

Yoav Allon, Cinematographer, Avallon Productions

Ali Axelrad, Actor

Michael Baker, Producer

Kirtana Banskota, Producer/Director, Banskota Productions

Lisa Barr, Author

Henrik Bastin, CEO/Executive Producer, Fabel Entertainment

Dave Beling, Cinematographer, AB Films

Rick Benattar, Producer, Benattar/Thomas Productions

Joe Bendel, Film Critic, J.B. Spins

Jean Marc Benguigui, 1st AD

Shaked Berenson, Producer, Entertainment Squad

Matt Berger, Development Executive, Mad River Pictures

Emanuel Bergmann, Writer

Daniel Berk, Writer/Director, Cover Films US Inc

Raphael Berko, President, Media Artists Group

Benjamin Berkowitz, Producer/Writer, Not A Billionaire / Berkowitz Bros.

Max Berkowitz, Producer/Writer, Not A Billionaire / Berkowitz Bros.

Rebecca Berman, Actress

Michael Berns, Writer/Showrunner

Tyson Bidner, Producer

Jennifer Biehn, Actor, Blanc Biehn Productions

Michael Biehn, Actor, Blanc Biehn Productions

Allison Binder, Attorney

Jeremy Broekman, Publicist/PR Consultant, Broekman Communications

Lynne Bronstein, Writer

Brent Brotine, Writer, Brotine Communications

Jesse Brown, Co-Owner/VP, Destiny Events

George Burger, President, Spotlight Television Inc.

Katie Burnett, Actor

Dan Carrillo Levy, Writer/Director

Joe Cecchini, Producer

Jared Chiang-Zeizel, Writer/Producer

Craig Cohen, Attorney/Producer, McCue Sussmane Zapfel & Cohen, PC

Daniel Cohen, Actor

Sari Colt, Executive Producer

Victoria Cook, Lawyer

Jenny Cooper, Actor, Netflix/Virgin River

Andy Corren, Author, Dirtbag Queen

Nicole Czarnecki, Author and Writer

Joy Darash, Actor

Anámika Datta, Actress

Andrea Davis, Actress

Ben Decter, Composer

Rik Deskin, Actor

Avi Diamond, Director, Film/TV Sync, Warner Music Canada

Hope Diamond, Publicist, Hope Diamond Public Relations & Marketing

Donna Dickman, PR Consultant

Sherise Dorf, Independent Filmmaker

Jana Edelbaum, Founder CEO, Ideal Partners

Nimrod Erez, Director and Producer, The October 8 Foundation

Philip Estrin, Actor

Bob Ezrin, Producer/Creator, The Ezrin Company

Nathan F, Musician

Gary Fayman, Writer

Jesse Feldberg, Filmmaker

Brenda Feldman, Entertainment Publicist, Feldman Public Relations

Ben Fineberg, Director, My Box Office

Eva Finn, Screenwriter

Aaron Fishman, Partner & Cofounder, APG Pictures

Michele Fitoussi, Writer

Seth Flicker, Screenwriter

Amanda Foldes, Assistant Production Coordinator

Jonathan Formica, Producer, Documentary Filmmaker

Marisa Fox, Director, Producer, Writer

Jennifer Freed, Artist Manager

Elina Furman, Author & Publisher, ORA magazine

Jaime Gallagher, Actress, Casting Director, Producer

Elliot Gaynon, Film Editor

Andrew Gelman, President, Cranetown Media LLC

Adam Gelvan, Talent Manager, Octagon

Fanny Germon, Actress

Sophie Gluck, Film Publicist, Gluck PR

Alex Goelet, Screenwriter, Very Good Films

Darlena Goetz, Writer

Caitlin Gold, Producer, Tanbark Pictures

Judy Gold, Comedian/Actor/Writer

Ariel Goldberg, Director, Talent Acquisition, Skydance Animation (Paramount)

Gary L. Goldman, Screenwriter, Esplanade Productions, Inc.

Gil Goldschein, Producer

Paul Goleburn, Editor

Adam Gordon, DJ, DJ Fat Adam Ltd

Poppy Gordon, Director, Feral

Graham Gouldman, Songwriter/Musician, Gouldman Music Ltd

Helen Greenberg, Actress

Shira Gross, Actress

Terry Grossman, Writer

Jay Gruska, Composer/Songwriter

Paul Hackner, Feature Film and TV Sound Designer and Mixer, Kent Road Sound Design

Roger Harris, Producer, Director, Writer, Cyclotron

Lindsay Heiman, Showrunners Assistant, Warner Bros

Brian Herschel, Cinematographer, Boatman Films

Ariana Hewitt, Production Accountant

David Ireland, Writer

Mark Ivanir, Actor, Mark Ivanir Inc

Mara Jacobs, Producer

Leigh Jacobson, Production Security/Special Events, The Walt Disney Company

Max Jacoby, Producer

David Jason, Actor/Stage Director

Derek Johnson, Producer, Kaifilms

Michael Joseph, Talent Manager

Aidan Kahn, Producer

Jenny Kaiser, Executive Producer, Eleven Eleven Studios, LLC

Mike Karz, Producer, Gulfstream Pictures

Dave Katz, Producer/Live Sports, Katzstats

Dan Kellmer, Actor

Jonathan Kesselman, Writer/Director/Producer/Editor, The Worldwide Media Conspiracy

James Kirchick, Writer

Julie Klein, Producer, Indeisbest

Yoav Kleinman, Director

Shoshi Korman, Managing Director, Cinephil

Lisa Korn, Costume Designer

Nicole Kosoff, Recruiting & Talent Development Specialist

Estelle Lasher, President, Lasher Group

David Jay Lasky, Producer, David Jay Lasky Productions

Alan Lazar, Composer, Music Executive, Beautiful Life Music

Judith Lederman-Lasky, Producer/Writer/Actress

Brittany Ledgin, Production Coordinator

Eden Levi campana, Director/Author/Producer, Balagan Films

Debbie Levin, CEO, Environmental Media Association

Cooper Levy, Actor

Micky Levy, Writer

Michael Lewis, Agent

Evgeniia Lieberman, Artist, Writer, Screenwriter

Marci Liroff, Intimacy Coordinator

Gabriela Lugo, Writer/Director, Revek Entertainment

Alexandra Lumerman, Photographer, Alexandra Lumerman Photography

  1. A. MacFinn, Filmmaker, Animator, Partner at CGMuse

Rick Markovitz, President, Weissman/Markovitz Communications

Andrea McKinnon, Owner/Publicist, AMcK PR, Inc.

Briana Meyer, Video Editor

Risa Miller, Writer

Tamara Miller, Composer/Songwriter

David Millstone, Actor/Producer

Jenny Mitchell, Performer

Joshua Moss, Professor of Screenwriting and Media Studies, California State University, Chico

Martin Moszkowicz, Producer, Transcontinental Entertainment Studios

Mark Mower, President/COO, Recursion Media

Lawrence Novikoff, Actor

Tommy O’Haver, Writer/Director

Michal Ofek, Entertainment Attorney

Mitchell Peck, Producer

Samantha Perelman, Executive

Adam Platzner, Founder/CEO, Corbellus Capital Entertainment

Jessica Poter, Writer/Producer

Michael Potter, Director, Free Radical Productions

Jeremy Powell, Writer/Producer

Daniel Praid, Editor

Gigi Pritzker, Producer, Madison Wells

Michael Rauch, Writer

Chris Reilly, Actor

Wendy Revel, President & Founder, The backStorygroup

Matt Ritter, Screenwriter

Malik Roberts, Film Historian, Illustrator & Cartoonist

Judith Rogoff, Scenographe, MDA

Jill Rosen, Publicist

Lawrence Rosen, Composer/Lyricist

Jeffrey Rosenberg, Producer, Writer/Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Actor

Gaylen Ross, Producer/Film Director, GRFilmsinc

Seth Rudetsky, Musician/Radio Host, SiriusXM

Eric Samuels, Photographer/Filmmaker, Inside Out Reels and Images

Sam Sandak, Vice President, Bad Hat Harry Productions

Sammy Scher, Executive Producer

Adam Schroeder, Producer, Adam Schroeder Entertainment

Steven Schub, Actor

Allyson Schue, Actress

Jenny Schulder Brant, Creative, Nimblist

Rick Schwartz, Producer

Keren Shahar, CEO, Keshet International

Erik Shapiro, TV Writer

Keaton Shyler, Actor & Director

Geoff Silverman, Partner, TV Literary Management, Evoke Entertainment

Chiara Simmons, Writer/Script Supervisor, Fremantle

Geoff Siskind, Producer, Antica Productions

Mary Smith, Owner/Creative Director, View Times Two

Alexandra Socha, Actor

Steve Sole, Documentarian

Emre Amram Sonmez, Location Scout

Meg Stagaard, VP, 42West

Robert Steinberg, Attorney

Itay Sulami, Filmmaker

Derek Sulek, Director, Producer, Writer

Josh Sussman, Actor

Rachel Sweeney, Filmmaker

Gil Talmi, Film Composer

Timothy Tremper, Author

Jonathan Tropper, Writer/Producer

Esther Turan, Producer, Moviebar Productions

Cole Walderman, Writer

Avishai Weinberger, Screenwriter

Martin Weinert, CEO/Founder, Intervox Production Music

Eric Weinthal, Writer/Actor

Sandy Welch, Photographer

Shawna Wexler, Partner/Head of Talent, Sugar 23

Ester Wierzchucka, Screenwriter, AB Films

Neil Willenson, Actor/Producer, Ryan’s Light Productions

Tracy Winters, Actor & Dialect Coach

Howard Wiseman, Screenwriter/Playwright/Associate Professor Emeritus

Theo Wolf, CFO, Theo & Juliet

Michal Wright-Ward, Design Supervisor, Nickelodeon

Justin Younesi, Producer, SC1 LLC

Kevin Zegers, Actor

Juliet Zeif, CEO, Theo & Juliet

Jeryll Adler, Actress/Producer/Film Marketing & Advertising Executive

Ruth Adler, Artist/Animator

Pouyan Arephpoor, Writer, 40Gamers

Sophie Attelann, Writer

Barry Avrich, CEO, Melbar Entertainment Group

Isaac Baranoff, Novelist, Yareakh Entertainment

Jackie Barrie, Music Industry Executive

Susan Bedusa, Producer

Ilan Ben-Yehuda, Writer/Actor

Wendy L. Bernfeld, Founder, Rights Stuff BV

Shelley Blond, Voice Artist

Adam Brill, CEO, Brill Media Group LLC

Jonathan Chinn, Producer

Lauren Chriqui, Founder, Jabberhaus

Olivier Cohen, Writer, Director

Omri Dagan, Cinematography, Omri Dagan – Films & Video

David Evenchick, Partner, UTA

Preston Fassel, Novelist/Author

Todd Felderstein, Director

Daniel Feldman, Actor

Wayne Fitterman, Senior Partner, WME

Erica Forster, Head of Entertainment Ventures, MannaPG

Alex Franklin, Lecturer, UCLA

Abe Friedtanzer, Film/TV Critic, Awards Buzz

Taina Galis, Cinematographer

Daniela Garkov, Location Manager, Creative Producer

Mustafa Gatollari, Producer/On-Camera Host

Roni Geva, Actor/Writer/Producer, Small & Mighty

Eleanor Ghinghis, Art Direction, Eien Sof

Kourtney Gleason, Producer

Rafael Goldwaser, Actor

Karen Gordon, Film Critic/Story Editor

Seven Graham, Producer/Writer/Actor, 7 Graham Solutions

Paul Greenberg, CEO, Greenberg Direct, Inc.

Diana Groó, Writer/Director, Katapult Film

Aidan Grossman, Director / Producer, The Grossman Film Group

Ryan Guiterman, Writer-Director, Precariat Productions

Christina Haag, Actor/Author

Nancy Hacohen, Producer

Victoria Hakim, Attorney

Annaka Harris, Writer/Producer

Andrej Hermlin, Musician, Swing Dance Orchestra

Stanley Isaacs, CEO, 100% Entertainment

Alan Jacobson, Actor, Producer

Thushari Jayasekera, Actress/Writer

Rebecca Johnson, Director

Cheryl J. Kagan, President, CherylJKagan Image, Project, PR Consulting

Leora Kalish, Actress/Screenwriter

Tal Kapelner, Managing Attorney, Kapelner, P.C.

Danny Kashper, Actor/Producer

Samuel Katz, Author

Sarah Katz, Editor/Story Producer

Rosie Kay, Director, Freedom in the Arts

Susan Kesser, VP, Publicity

Eric Kessler, SVP Business & Legal Affairs, Lion Forge Entertainment

Cameron Keys, Writer Director, Ring Plane

Glenn Kirschbaum, Producer/Director/Writer

Bruce David Klein, Filmmaker

Matthew Kniaz, Partner/Manager, Crimson Media

Nina Kossman, Writer, Artist

Tristan Lafferty, Actor, Certified CFO Productions

Annie Levine, Writer

Martin Lewis, Producer / Writer / Humorist, Springtime!

Maureen Lipman, Actress

Ethan Mackin, VP, Creative and Strategy, Brigade Marketing

David Maderich, Makeup Artist

Lawrence Makow, Executive Producer, Beautiful Dancing Music, Inc. (David Lynch: The Art Life)

Fred Melamed, Actor

Mina Mileva, Director, activist38

Julie Morgentaler, Actor

Jake Moss, Business Manager

Karen Nochimowski, Author

Daniel Nyíri, Filmmaker and Teacher, Daniel Nyiri and Associates

Ben Peled, Cinematographer

Jack Plotnick, Actor/Director, Television/Film Actor

Sami Posner, Music Supervisor / Artist Management, Blue Lily Music

Elizabeth Pugh, Actor, Playwright, Singer/Songwriter

Esta Rae, Musician/Songwriter

Alex Rich, Actor

Justin Richards, Cinematographer and Colorist

Julian Roberts, Writer/Director/Producer, Omega Pictures

Shael Rosenbaum, Producer, Yad Vashem

Jaymie Rubin, Talent Agent, Artist and Brand

Jill Samuels, Producer/Director/CEO, Jill Samuels Prods Ltd/Films Without Borders

Stelio Savante, Actor/Producer, Stroop Fik Entertainment

Eva Sawyer, Artist, Author

Stuart Schnitzer, Actor

Anna Senger, Musical Director, Devil Wears Prada, Dominion Theatre

Yael Shaoulian, Founder, EOM

Julie Shapiro, Business and Legal Affairs

Tracy Shayne, Actor

Leslie Shuman, Actor/Singer/Composer, Voices of Experience

Daniel Steinman, Executive

Joanie Strulowitz, Writer/Publisher

Ilona Suschitzky, Artist/Animator

Peter Suschitzky, Director of Photography

Serge Tiar, Writer/Director

Richard Walters, President, Smash Music Inc

Elizabeth Warner, Celebrity Guest Booker, Bizzy Lizzy Productions

Lee Wilkof, Actor/Director

Josh Willenson, Actor, Writer, Director, Certified CFO Productions

Leigh Wolfson, Communications Manager

Gloria Zimmerman, Producer, Stonedog Productions

Lenore Zion, Writer

Franck Zuanic, Producer/Director/Writer

Cover Photo: THESSALONIKI – GREECE, OCTOBER 31, 2014: People during opening ceremony of 55th Thessaloniki International Film Festival at Olympion Cinema 285448307

 

CCFP Literary Alliance Condemns PEN America

Based largely on information supplied by Hamas, Pen America’s distorted report is filled with hateful lies and glaring omissions that are simply designed to demonize Israel.

By downplaying the horrors of October 7th and largely dismissing Hamas’ own actions that led to the current situation in Gaza, Pen America seeks to further silence Israeli and Jewish voices in literature and culture.

In doing so, the organization has lost sight of its mission and gravely damaged its own credibility. Art and literature are meant to build bridges and foster dialogue, not to be twisted into tools of division and hate.

— CCFP Literary Alliance

 

Cover Photo: New York, NY – August 19, 2022: Siri Hustvedt speaks during PEN America rally in support of Salman Rushdie and freedom to write on steps of NYPL

1000+ Entertainment Leaders Release Open Letter Criticizing TIFF’s Handling of Film

Entertainment leaders from around the globe including Amy Schumer, Debra Messing, Mayim Bialik, Jerry O’Connell, Howie Mandel, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sherry Lansing, Haim Saban, Rebecca De Mornay, Rick Rosen, Gary Barber, Ben Silverman amongst many others, call on accountability from TIFF

LOS ANGELES, August 15, 2025 — More than 1000 entertainment leaders signed an open letter released by the non-profit entertainment industry organization Creative Community For Peace (CCFP) critiquing the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)’s handling of the film, The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue.

The letter comes in response to TIFF “disinviting” the film and then following public backlash, offering to “work with the filmmakers” to meet screening requirements. It’s clear that this was never about legal rights to footage, but rather appeasing anti-Israel and antisemitic activists’ intent to silence Jewish voices.

TIFF’s attempt to disinvite the documentary is part of a growing trend of silencing Jewish and Israeli voices under the excuse of “security concerns.” Rather than standing steadfast against violent intimidation and protecting filmmakers, TIFF gave cover to those who make threats.

TIFF’s attempt to disinvite the film coincides with an explosion of antisemitism in Canada. In 2024, despite making up 1% of the population, Jewish people were the group most targeted by hate crimes in Canada. The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue is not a political film. If focuses on a heroic story of Jewish survival. Based on their reporting around TIFF’s decision to include the film in the festival, it appears the story of Jewish survival is deemed controversial to many within TIFF.

Co-Founders of MRC, Modi Wizyck and Asif Satchu, said: “TIFF has championed AMERICAN FICTION, FAIR PLAY, KNIVES OUT and THE BLACKENING, some of MRC’s most provocative and complex films. We are glad that TIFF has reconsidered to ensure that the festival continues to be a haven for art and artists that embody diverse perspectives – especially on contentious topics.”

The letter highlights previous communications given by TIFF leadership that they’d stand firm in the face of political pressures, stating: “Last year, Creative Community for Peace and other entertainment industry leaders urged TIFF leadership to provide a platform for Israeli and Israeli-themed projects. TIFF leadership “assured” us they would do so “even in difficult times like this.” That assurance was apparently a lie.”

CCFP Executive Director Ari Ingel said, This incident is not an anomaly—it is part of a disturbing pattern that has emerged since October 7th, in which Israeli and Jewish creatives in film, television, music, sports, and literature are confronted with barriers no other community is made to face. The deliberate effort to marginalize and silence Jewish voices in the arts worldwide is intolerable, and it cannot be allowed to persist.”

The letter states: “While the film has been reinstated after a significant public backlash, the festival still has not offered a sincere apology or explanation for the harm it created for the Jewish community.”

A spokesperson from The Brigade said, “While TIFF’s choice to initially allow hate to prevail and undermined its own stated mission “to present transformative film experiences that enlighten, enrich understanding, and foster empathy and foster an environment of constructive and respectful dialogue” was egregious, It was also encouraging to see such a diverse set of voices come together to ensure that the film gets a worthy premiere. The Brigade will continue to work in collaboration with many others that support filmmakers who are facing these challenges, to ensure that other festivals practice real inclusion and that these actions are not normalized.”

The letter concludes: “We call on the Board of Directors to question the leadership of TIFF, to platform Israeli voices moving forward, and to choose dialogue over exclusion and peace over prejudice.”

Signatories Include:

Amy Schumer, Actress; Debra Messing, Actress; Mayim Bialik, Actress; Sherry Lansing, Former CEO of Paramount Pictures; Rebecca De Mornay, Actress; Jennifer Jason Leigh, Actress; Howie Mandel, TV Host; Jerry O’Connell, Actor; Gary Barber, Chairman and CEO, Spyglass Media Group; Ben Silverman; Chairman & Co-CEO, Propagate Content; Haim Saban, Chairman and CEO, Saban Capital Group; Modi Wiczyk, Co-Founder, MRC; Michael Rotenberg, Partner, 3 Arts Entertainment; Nancy Mendelson Gates, Agent, Partner, UTA; Susan Rovner, Former Chairman of NBCUniversal Television and Streaming; Jonathan Baruch, President, Rain Management Group; Marty Singer, Attorney, Lavely and Singer; Patti Felker, Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson McGinnis Ryan; Fred Toczek, Partner, Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson McGinnis Ryan; Jacob Fenton, Partner, United Talent Agency; Nancy Spielberg, Producer;  Rick Rosen, Co-Founder, Endeavor;  Fernando Szew, CEO, FOX Entertainment Global; David Kohan, Showrunner and Executive Producer; Blair Kohan, Partner and Board Member, United Talent Agency; Julie Greenwald, Former CEO/Chairperson Atlantic Records Group; Emmanuelle Chriqui, Actress; Todd Moscowitz, Founder and CEO of Alamo Records and Santa Anna Label Group; David Draiman, Artist;  Danny Cohen, President of Access Entertainment; Kevin Yorn, Attorney; Tracy Ann Oberman, Actress and Playwright;  Orly Marley, President, Tuff Gong Worldwide; Ryan Kavanaugh, Relativity Media; Matisyahu, Artist; Lawrence Bender, Producer; Howard Owen, Founder and Co-CEO of Propagate Content; David Renzer, Former Chairman/CEO Universal Music Publishing; Erik Feig, CEO Picturestart; Neil Blair, Partner, The Blair Partnership; John Ondrasik, Five for Fighting; Leo Pearlman, Co-CEO, Fulwell Entertainment; Patty Jenkins; Director, and over 1000 others, a full list can be seen below.

FULL OPEN LETTER

We, the undersigned members of the entertainment industry, are deeply concerned about the Toronto International Film Festival’s (TIFF) initial decision to disinvite the documentary The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue, and its subsequent communications. This is the only documentary scheduled for this year’s program that puts forward Israel’s narrative.

This follows the 2024 festival, which likewise didn’t platform a single Israeli documentary that didn’t disparage the country. In contrast, TIFF 2024 featured three anti-Israel documentaries, with four more slated for 2025.

Last year, Creative Community for Peace and other entertainment industry leaders urged TIFF leadership to provide a platform for Israeli and Israeli-themed projects. TIFF leadership “assured” us they would do so “even in difficult times like this.” That assurance was apparently a lie.

Not only did TIFF omit The Road Between Us from the initial slate announcement, but TIFF pressured its filmmakers to change the film’s title—only to then cancel its participation.

While the film has been reinstated after a significant public backlash, the festival has not offered a sincere apology or explanation for the harm it created for the Jewish community.

Furthermore, the initial claim that the project couldn’t be screened because the filmmakers didn’t have the rights to footage Hamas – a Canadian designated terrorist group, broadcast to the world on October 7, 2023, when they massacred, raped, brutalized, and kidnaped thousands of innocent people from toddlers to Holocaust survivors — strains credibility.

As did the claim that the cancellation was for security reasons—when anti-Israel productions face no such barrier and instead of ensuring a safe environment, TIFF caved to these violent demands that only increased a sense that the Jews of Canada don’t count.

This incident was clearly a surrender to an antisemitic campaign determined to silence Jewish and Israeli voices, at a time when antisemitism in Canada is surging to historic levels. TIFF’s decisions this past week have only deepened and legitimized that hostility.

Documentaries and Film Festivals have the power to affect lives and effect positive change in the world. They can bridge cultural divides and bring people together through a shared love of the arts.

We call on the Board of Directors to question the leadership of TIFF, to platform Israeli voices moving forward, and to choose dialogue over exclusion and peace over prejudice.

** Note – The signers of this statement do so as individuals on their own behalf and not on behalf of their companies or organizations. All organizations and companies listed are for affiliation purposes only.

To add your name to this letter, you can do so here: [Link]

SIGNATORIES

Ari Ingel, Executive Director, CCFP

Rakefet Abergel, Director

Dariel Abramowitz, Publicist, Ivy PR

Stuart Acher, Director

Marty Adelstein, CEO, Tomorrow Studios

Dan Adler, Producer

Debbie Adler, Head of Commercial, Garden Studios

Rachel Adler, Talent Agent

Shir Aharon, Talent Manager

Michael Ross Albert, Writer

Kayla Alpert, Exec Producer, Netflix

Michael Altman, Rigging Supervisor, Walt Disney Animation Studios

Maya Amrami, Set designer, Eugene Wolf – Teeamim

Ellen Ancui, President/Director/Writer, Ain’t No Lady Productions

Tom Appelbaum, Writer

Neta Ariel, Director, Maaleh Film School

JoJo Arkin, Writer

Susie Arons, President, 42 West

Brian Ash, Producer and Writer, Freedomland

Noel Ashman, Film Producer/Director, Noel Ashman Entertainment

Ricki Askin, Founder, Music Agency

Anne-Marie Asner, Co-Founder, Animation Israel

Eve Attermann, Literary Agent, WME

Michael Auerbach, Partner, Jackoway Austen

Peter Avery, Director Of Theater, NYC schools

Jordan Bahat, Director

Liane Balaban, Actor/Writer

Efrat Baler-Moses, Artist, Efrat Baler ART

Andrea Ballas, VP of Comms, CBS/Paramount

Craig Balsam, Music Exec/Poducer, RT Industries

Maya Bar-Lev, Producer, ESPN

Avivit Bar-Yosef, Filmmaker

Don Barak, Writer-Director

Gary Barber, Executive

Paul Barkin, Producer, Alcina Pictures

Eve Barlow, Journalist/Owner of Blacklisted

Elana Barry, Manager, TV Lit, Circle Of Confusion

Jonathan Baruch, President, Rain

Hili Baruch Stern, Actor

Austin Basis, Actor

Richard Baskind, Lawyer/Partner, Simons Muirhead Burton

Judy Batalion, Writer

Aron Baumel, Partner, GGSSC

Noemie Becache, International sales

Dusan Becker, Costume Designer

Rinne Becker, Arts Professor, NYU

Aton Ben-Horin, EVP, A&R, Warner Music Group / CEO, Plush Management

Gloria Benaim, Owner, GBE

Rachel Bendavid, Producer

Lawrence Bender, Producer, Lawrence Bender Productions

Shaked Berenson, CEO, Studio Dome

Adam Berkowitz, President and owner, Lenore Entertainment Grouo

Zack Bernbaum, Director, Producer

Mayim Bialik, Actor, Writer, Director, Sad Clown Productions

Sharon Bialy, Casting Director, Bialy/Thomas & Associates

Joyce Billet, Artist

Allison Binder, Partner, GGSS&C, LLP

Josh Binder, Founding Partner, Rothenberg, Mohr & Binder LLP

Benjamin Black, Founder/Director, Blacklarke Consulting

Catherine Black, Actor-Director

Morgan Blackbyrne, Actor, Morgan Blackbyrne

Neil Blair, Founder, The Blair Partnership

Elena Blekhter, Principal/Executive Producer, Bold Beautiful Productions

Marion Blinkoff, Producer, Life of Awesome LLC

Saul Blinkoff, Director/Executive Producer, Life of Awesome LLC

Remy Bohrer, Film/TV Development

John Ross Bowie, Actor

Judy Bowman, Casting Director

Dan Brecher, Principal/Partner, Rothman Brecher Ehrich Livingston

Maria Breese, Owner, 3:33 Creative Productions

Anthony Bregman, Producer, Likely Story

Josh Breslaw, Manager, Parallel Skies Records

Salome Breziner, Filmmaker, SEMBLANCE

Kevin Bright, Producer/Director, Just Bright Films

Sydney Bright, Head of Global Animation

Steve Brill, Director/writer

Lee Broda, Producer and CEO, LB Entertainment

Alex Brody, Producer’s Assistant, EGX Film Factory

Laura Brody, Costume Designer

Andrew Bronfman, Producer, Beyond the Frame

Jonathan Bronfman, Producer/AI/VFX, MARZ

Hallie Brookman, Agent, United Talent Agency

Eric Brooks, Partner, GGSSC, LLP

Harvey Brown, Director

Mark Brown, Writer

David Buchalter, Agent

Andy Buckley, Actor

Osnat Bukofzer, Director of International Affairs, Israel Cinema Project Rabinovich Foundation

Bruce Burger, Music Producer

Daisy Burnham, Manager

Lori Burns, PR

Janice Burstein,, Black Box Pictures

Marc Butan, President/CEO, Mad River Pictures

Richard Butchins, Producer/Director

Michal Butel, CEO, Hop! Media Group

David Byrnes, Attorney, Ziffren Brittenham

J.R. Cacia, Actor

Emily Cameron, Manager

Sarah Camlett, Agent

Geoffrey Cantor, Actor/Director

Talia Cantor, 2nd AD Film / TV

Juan Javier Cardenas, Actor

Michele Carlisle, Executive Producer, Epiphany Productions

Civia Caroline, Consultant, CLiC Impact Entertainment

Robin Carus, Casting Director, Robin Carus Casting

David Caspi, Journalist

Rudin Causi, Production Designer, Kino Art Collective

Melissa Center, Actor/Filmmaker

David Chesnoff, Lawyer, Chesnoff and Schonfeld

Lionel Chetwynd, Writer/Director/Producer

Emmanuelle Chriqui, Actor/ Producer

Barri Cohen, Filmmaker, Writer-Producer, Cave Bear Creative Inc.

Conrad Cohen, Theatre Director

Danny Cohen, President, Access Entertainment

Elizabeth Cohen, Creative Executive, Amazon

Gary Cohen, Writer/Filmmaker

Janet Cohen, Stand Up comedian

Nancy Cohen, Writer/Producer

Neil Cohen, Founder, 1948 Talent

Tanya Cohen, Manager, Range

Alex Cole, Makeup artist, Fl.aw.less

Chris Collins, Film Producer, Purposeful Pictures

Nina Colman, Writer

Leanne Coronel, Manager, The Coronel Group

Ben Cosgrove, CEO, Leviathan Productions

Caitlin Cronenberg, Director

Ophira Dagan, Producer

Robin Davids, Publicity, Sony

Howard Davine, COO, Wiip Productions

David Davis, President/General Counsel, Barrister & Solicitor

Doug Davis, Founder, The Davis Firm

Mirelle Davis, Artist Manager, wind up bird ltd

Shula Daws, Development Producer, Plum Pictures

Will Daws, MD, Plum Pictures

Rebecca De Mornay, Actor

Danielle Del, Partner/Owner, D2 Management

Shai DeLuca-Onofre, On Air Presenter, SDID

Jamie Denbo, Writer/Producer/Actor

Larry Deutchman, Owner/Producer, Great Escape Entertainment

Ken Deutsch, Global Co-Chair, Entertainment & Media Group, Paul Hastings LLP

Kayla Diamond, Producer / Label President, Kolossal Records

Michael Diamond, Talent Manager/Partner, Range Media

Amit Divekar, Actor

Rachel Douglas, Manager, Range

Brian Drach, Music Attorney, Lewis Brisbois

Chen Drachman, Writer/Actor/Producer

Tal Drori, Agent, KEY Talent Management

Jeremy Drysdale, Screenwriter

Ellen Dubin, Actor/Producer, Dubin Productions

Linda Edell Howard, Owner/ Entertainment Attorney, Edell Howard Enterprises

Neal Edelstein, Producer

J Einhorn, Effects Animator, wdas

Ori Eisen, Executive Producer, Original Films

Sharon Eisenberg-Cytrynbaum, Writer-Producer, Playfully Posh Pixels

Josh Eiserike, Writer

Jason Eisner, Producer, Play Practice Productions

Jessica Elbaum, President, Gloria Sanchez Productions

Ellis Elias, Chairman, The Broadley Entainment Group Ltd

Hillary Ellis, Studio Owner, HDC

Jamie Elman, Performer, YidLife Crisis

Craig Emanuel, Production Executive, The Kid From Downunder Inc.

Amy Engelberg, Writer/Producer

Wendy Engelberg, Writer/Producer

Emma Engers, Talent Agent/MD, Emma Engers Associates

Hannah Epstein, Agent, CAA

Jane Epstein, Agent

Nimrod Erez, Producer Director, The October 8 Foundation

Antoine Erligmann, SVP Content Distribution & Licensing, Animaj

Samantha Ettus, Author and Producer

Jonathan Evans, Professor of Theater and Cinema, Los Angeles Pierce College

Rami Even-Esh, Rapper/Comic/Film Maker, Kosha Dillz

David Evenchick, Partner, United Talent Agency

Charles Evered, Writer/Director, Ordinance 14

Adi Ezroni, Producer, Faraway Road

David Faigenblum, Producer, Concept Entertainment

Sharon Farber, Film composer, Score by Score Music

Abbe Feder, Actor/CFO, Forever Beatrice Films, Inc

Isaac Feder, Director

Avi Federgreen, Producer/Director, Federgreen Entertainment Inc.

Eric Feig, Entertainment Attorney, Feig/Finkel LLP

Yael Feingold, Theater Director

David Feldman, Lawyer

Ryan Feldman, Agent, Senior Partner, WME

Patti Felker, Partner, Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis Ryan LLP

Rotem Fenichel, Filmmaker

Jacob Fenton, Partner, UTA

Ken Fermaglich, Agent Partner, UTA

Neil Ferris, Music Executive, Brilliant!

Samantha Fetner, Publicist

Mark Feuerstein, Actor, Can’t get five productions

Joel Fields, Writer/Producer

Andrew Fine, Partner, Novel TMT Capital

Tommy Finkelstein, General Counsel, Head of Business Affairs, IAG

Shalom Fisch, Educational TV content consultant

David Fisher, Director/Producer

Scott Fisher, Chairman, Select Management Group

Seth Fisher, Writer

Katie Flutie, VP, Disney

Seth Fradkoff, Publicity Principal, Amazon MGM Studios

Jordanna Fraiberg, Writer/Producer, Iron Butterfly

Alex Frank, Head of Sales & Marketing, 237 Global

Jennifer Freed, Artist Manager

Marcus Freed, President, Jewish Filmmakers Network

Jessica Freedman, Producer, Mile Zero Productions

Jody Friedericks, Head of Global Creative, 160over90 / WME Group

Adam Friedman, Executive, CAA

Emily Friedman, Director, FPM

Alexa Frisch, Producer

Sara Fruman, Founder, Soul Evolution Media

Marc Frydman, Producer, Perfection Hunter

Roderick Gadaev, Film Director, RodAndCo Productions

Rachel Gaffin, Actor

George Gallagher, Actor

Siri Garber, CEO, Platform Public Relations

Hailey Gardiner, Dancer/Dance Educator/Choreographer

Jason Gardner, Manager, Coast Oak LLC

Hannah Garfield, Artist

Rachel Garfield, Academic, Professor of Fine Art, Royal College of Art

David Gassman, CCO, Mammoth Creative Inc

Nancy Mendelson Gates, Partner, UTA

Andrew Genger, Manager, Red Light Management

Rick Genow, Lawyer, GGSSC

Tchavdar Georgiev, Documentary Filmmaker

Iris Gilad, Actor

Maya Giladi, Business Affairs

Gary Gilbert, CEO, Gilbert Films

Jamie Gilcig, Writer/Producer

Gary Ginsberg, Partner, 25madison

Sophie Giterman, Broker of Record, Easy List Realty LTD

Shana Glassman, Co-Founder, The Golda Project

Harvey Glazer, Director/Producer, The Different

Bryan Glick, President, GQue Films

Jordan Glickson, VP, Music & Talent, Vevo

Michael Glogauer, Professor

Ross Golan, President, Unknown Music Publishing

Rue Golan, Music Manager, 929music

Gina Gold, Writer/Producer, Gold Ink, Ltd.

Jake Gold, CEO

Daniel Goldenberg, Principal, Goldenberg & Company

Jennifer Goldhar, President/Talent Agent, Characters Talent Agency

Michael Goldsheft, Designer/Art Director, M. Goldsheft Designs

David Goldsmith, Writer

Alexander Goldstein, Director of Production, Atlas Media Corp

Bram Goldstein, CEO, BIG HQ INC

Lindy Goldstein, Producer, LGP

Michael Goldstein, Executive Producer

Michael Goldwasser, President/Co-Founder, Easy Star Records

Helena Goldwater, Artist

Robert Golenberg, President, Pivot Artists Group

Michael Golodini, Actor

Adam Gonshor, Publicist, Collabo PR

Rosser Goodman, Executive Producer, Circle Content

Arlo Gordon, Creative Executive

Cambria and Howard Gordon, Author and TV Exec Produce, Teakwood Lane Productions

Howard Gordon, Writer/Producer

Karen Gordon, Film Critic/Writer, original-cin.ca/cbc

Steven Gordon, Animation Artist

Michael Gossack, President, MY3D Agency

Limor Gott Ronen, Producer

Tzvi Gottlieb, CEO, Israeli Film & TV Producers Association

Graham Gouldman, Songwriter/Musician, 10cc

Manick Govinda, Independent Arts Curator & Writer, former Artists’ Film/Video Producer

Neil Grant, Executive Producer

Cynthia Gravinese Brown, Actress, Producer, Writer, Three Wise Women Productions

Amy Green, Producer

Dylan Green, Director of Partnerships, TikTok

Malcolm Green, Filmmaker, Green AFM Ltd

Roger Green, Co-Head Motion Picture Department, WME

Jackson Greenberg, Film/TV Composer

Jef Greenberg, Agent, Gersh

Julie Greenwald, Music Executive

Daniel Grindlinger, Writer

D.J. Gugenheim, President

Abe Gurko, Producer/Writer, Won’t Be Silent LLC

Jeff Gurner, Actor/Director/Producer, NewYorkRep, Tequila Talking Theatrical

Julie Gurovitsch, Producer, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Jason Gurvitz, Producer, GREEN DOG FILMS

Paul Haas, Agent, WME

Noa Hadad, Co-Founder of a Film Festival in Spain

Laurent Amir Haddad, Artist, SASH Productions

Simon Halfon, BAFTA-nominated Producer, Nemperor Ltd

Jerome Halligan, Writer

Noreen Halpern, CEO, Halfire

Vered Halutzi, Director, Animation Guild of Israel R.A.

Elle Hamilton, Former VP, Stuntwomen’s Association

Keren Hantman, 1st AD

Lynn Harris, Producer

Michael Harris, Talent Agent, Apollo Artist Management Ltd

Robert Harris, Senior Partner, Lazarus & Harris LLP

Talia Harris Ram, Manager/Producer, DHA CONTENT

Harris Hartman, Partner, Sloane Offer Weber and Dern

Ronny Hatchwell, Industry Relations Manager, Ccfp

Wendy Hauser, Showrunner, Netflix

Elena Hazanov, Film Director

Andrew Heinze, Playwright

Wendy Heller, President, Heller Law

Michele Hennessy, Senior Creative Executive, Apple

David Hershon, Writer, KOLOSSAL records

Sarah Hildering, Director, Dance & Electronic Music, Virgin Music Group

Matthew Hiltzik, Founder and CEO of Hiltzik Strategies

Jonathan Holborn, Actor, PKA

Darrin Holender, Producer/Distributor

Kari Hollend, Producer

Laura Holstein, Producer

Jill Hoppenheim, Producer, Bagg Street Productions

Joanne Horowitz, Talent Manager/Producer, Joanne Horowitz Management

Sammy Horowitz, Writer/Producer

Daniel Housman, Writer

Andi Howard, President, Andi Howard entertainment

Josh Howie, Comic/Actor

Louis Huglin, Entertainment Lawyer

David Hunt, Actor, Director, Producer, FourBoys Entertainment

Rene Ifrah, Actor

Jon Imparato, Writer/Producer/Activist

Sally Ingrey, Lecturer/Animator

Alexis Jacknow, Filmmaker

Jonathan Jakubowicz, Filmmaker, Epicentral Studios

Jennifer Jason Leigh, Actress

Brandt Joel, Agent, WME

KC Johnson, Retake Director, 20th Century TV Animation

Jasmine Joseph-Danielpour, Manager

Ashley Josephson, Manager, Untitled

Heather Kadin, President, Scripted Television, Range Media Partners

Michael Kalifa, Re-recording Mixer, Emulsion

Stacey Kalish, Story and Research Consultant, Kalish Consulting, Inc

Aaron Kamin, Songwriter/Producer

Kia Kamran, Attorney, Kia Kamran P.C.

Cindy Kaplan, Writer

Michael Kaplan, Writer-Producer

Rachel Kaplan, Producer, Absecon Entertainment

Dorian Karchmar, Partner Agent, WME

Kim Karp, Writer/Producer

Kathryn Kates, Entertainment Journalist

Brian Katz, Producer/CEO, Umbrelic

Martin Katz, President, Prospero Pictures

Daniel Kaufman, Director, BOGADA

Ryan Kavanaugh, CEO, Gentv

Eve Kay, Executive Producer, Freelance currently at Dragonfly

Z Kay, Production Manager

Richie Keen, Director

Sheri Kelton, CEO, SRK Entertainment

Jason A. Kessler, Screenwriter

Jon Kinnally, Writer, Underpants Inc

Warren Kinsella, Lawyer, Daisy Documentaries

Melanie Kirschbaum, Writer

Larry Klein, Record Producer/ Composer/ Songwriter, Strange Cargo Inc

Marc Klein, Screenwriter

Olivia Kleinman, Advertising Executive

Barbie Kligman, Writer/Producer, Avenue K Productions

Steven P. Kline, President/COO, Better Noise Entertainment

Scott Kluge, Producer

Keetgi Kogan Steinberg, Writer/Producer

Blair Kohan, Board member, United Talent Agency

David Kohan, Television Writer-Producer

Michael Konyves, Writer/Producer

Lawrence Kopeikin, Executive Producer

Lisa Korn, Costume Designer

Ray Kosarin, Timing Director

Heidi Kozak, Writer/Producer/Actress, Best Case Scenario Productions

Eric Kranzler, Co-Founder, Entertainment 360

Jessica Kuba, Writer

Roger Kumble, Director

Rob Kutner, Writer-Producer

Paula Kweskin, Founder/Director, The 49%

Emma Lahana, Actor

Nicole Lampert, Journalist

Dana Landman, Management

Patti Langton, Producer/Director (Retired), BBC

Sherry Lansing, Philanthropist, The Sherry Lansing Foundation

Estelle Lasher, President, Lasher Group

Nirda Laufer, President, Asper

Danielle Lauren, Media Executive

Cathy Lawrence, Producer

Tessa Laws, CEO, Percy&Warren

Sheldon Lazarus, Producer, Bitachon 365

Stefanie Leder, Writer

Wendy Lee, Writer, Freelance

Colin Lester OBE, Chairman, JEM Music Group

Asher Levin, Producer, Loud

Monica Levinson, Producer, All of Us Prod.

Avi Levy, Producer

Ira Levy, President/Executive Producer, Spike &Sadie Media

Ray Levy, Music Consultant, Ray Levy Music Consultant

Tanya Levy, Artist

Avi Liberman, Entertainer

Micha Liberman, Music Editor, Mind Meld Arts, Inc.

Aliza Licht, Founder, Leave Your Mark

Sharon Lieblein, Casting Director, Sharon Lieblein Casting

Debbie Liebling, Film Producer

Elijah Lifton, Actor/Writer

Laura Lilienthal, Artist

Koura Linda, Founder & CEO, Space Dream Productions

Rachel Lipman, Writer

Robin Lippin, Casting Director

Dina Lipton, Brand Manager

Stephanie Liss, Artistic Director/Playwright, The American Jewish Theatre

Jill Littman, Manager/Producer, Impression Entertainment

Salvador Litvak, Writer Producer Director

Cory Litwin, Managing Partner, Range Media Partners

David Lonner, CEO, The David Lonner Company

Marta Lonyai, Lawyer

Benji Lovitt, Comedian/Author

Gabriela Lugo, Writer/Director/Producer

Jane Lush, MD TV Production

Noa Maiman, Director and Writer

Juliana Maio, Producer, Lighthouse Productions

Howie Mandel, TV Host

Terry Mandel, Talent agent, Abstract Talent

Leora Manischewitz, Actor/Psychologist

Gabriel Mann, Composer

Ari Mark, Owner, Ample Entertainment

Rick Markovitz, President, Weissman/Markovitz Comms

Limor Markovzki, Actress

Orly Marley, President, Tuff Gong Worldwide

Rafael Marmor, Partner, Delirio Films

Ori Marmur, VP Film, Netflix

Nancy Matalon, President, Evil Eye Ent.

Lisa May, Company Director, Trullo Leonora Srls

Devra Maza, Screenwriter

Laura McDonald, Agent

Barry McPherson, Executive Vice-President/Talent, Independent Artist Group

Estee Mecklberg, Film Producer, 2-Team Productions

Rob Melamed, Composer

William Mercer, Partner, Thruline Entertainment

Debra Messing, Actor/Producer

Sandor Mester, Producer, Miradouro

Alona Metzer, Producer

Nick Meyer, CEO, Sierra Pictures

Shana Meyerson, Podcaster, The Yoga of War Podcast

Darren Michaelson, Director, L25 Entertainment

Joel Michaely, Actor/ producer

Samantha Michelle, Filmmaker

Alexandra Milewich, Producer

Laurence Miller, Commerical Director, Nimax Theatres

Matthew Miller, Musician, Matisyahu

Petra Miller, Event Producer/Director, Alive Activation

Robin Mirsky, Executive Director, Rogers Group of Funds

Matthew Mishory, Director/Producer, Rubber Ring Films

Rebekah Miskin, Filmmaker

Eli Mizrahi, Director

Joe Montifiore, President/Talent Manager, Rafterman Media

Brett Morris, Executive Producer, Bioscope Films

Karen Morse, Screenwriter

Todd Moscowitz, Founder and CEO, Alamo Records/ Santa Anna Records

Daniel Moses, Director

Ariela Moskowitz, Entertainment Attorney, Brecheen Feldman Breimer Silver Thompson

Patrick Moss, Writer / Co-Executive Producer, STARZ / Moroccan Boychik

Sharon Moverman, VP of Acquisitions and International Operations, Hop! Media Group

Elizabeth Much, CEO, East to West Collective PR

Matt Myers, AVP Sales, Tundra

Melissa Myers, Producer, MM Media

Seth Nagel, Manager/Producer, Impish Grin Corp

Mikhail Nayfeld, President, Heroes and Villains Entertainment

Samantha Neal, Editor

Grant Neale, Artistic Director/Actor, Nomad Theatrical

Paul Neinstein, Co-CEO, Project X Entertainment

Carolyn Newman, EVP

Elizabeth Newman, Partner/Talent & Literary Manager, Literate

Saskia Newman, Actor

Ian Nothnagel, Set Decorator

Lisa Nupoff, Manager, iminmusic management

Jerry O’Connell, Actor

Tracy Ann Oberman, Actor Writer Producer, Augusta Productions

John Ondrasik, Singer Songwriter, Five for Fighting

Howard Owens, Founder and Co-CEO, Propagate Content

Scott Packman, Managing Member, SSP Partners & Associates LLC

Batia Parnass, Producer, Poster Child Pictures

Jessica Parry, Photographer

Andy Patman, Literary Agent, Innovative Artists Agency

Adam Paulden, Producer, ADAMA Entertainment

Sharon Paz, Manager, Paz Talent

Joe Pearlman, Director

Leo Pearlman, Co-CEO Fulwell Entertainment

Alison Peck, Screenwriter

Debbie Peiser, Writer, Director

Corey Peña, Actor, Lockway Films

Shayna Penn, Producer

Jennifer Perez, Manager

Stacey Pianko, Casting Director, The Casting Fairy

David Pick, CEO, Real Music TV

Mark Pinkus, President/Rhino Records

Tim Piper, Director

Jonah Platt, Podcaster, Being Jewish with Jonah Platt

Wendy Plaut, SVP, Music & Celebrity Talent, Paramount

Brad Pomerance, Executive Vice President, JLTV (Jewish Life Television)

Arie Posin, Director

Jill Arthur Posner, EVP, Television, Fifth season

Jessica Poter, Writer

Elinor Price, Actress

Liane Pritikin, VP Marketing, Horizon Media

Marion Pudeleau, VP Communications

Daniella Rabbani, Producer, Daniella Rabbani Inc.

Jeff Rabhan, Music Industry Executive

Gideon Raff, Filmmaker

Jeff Rake, Creator/Showrunner

Golan Ramraz, Writer/Producer, EGX Film Factory

Ron Rappaport, Writer/Producer, That’s A Rapp Productions

Fred Raskin, Film Editor

Michael Rauch, Writer

Abbe Raven, Industry Executive, Raven Media

Orly Ravid, Founder/Co-Executive Director, The Film Collaborative

Oded Raz, Film & TV Director, Oded Raz Production

Noa Regev, CEO, Israel Film fund

Adva Reichman, Director, Ripple Productions

Daniel Reisinger, Director, Cameleon Pictures

David Rennert, Author

David Renzer, Former Chairman/ CEO of Universal Music Publishing Group

Frederic Richter, Researcher & Producer

Doron Ritter, Producer/Photographer, Industryfilm

U Robbins, Songwriter

Wendy Robbins, Development Executive

Kerry Roberts, Producer

Adam Rodness, Co-Founder, 5’7 Films

Florina Rodov, Writer

Yaniv Rokah, Creator & Owner, MasMas Productions

Daphna Romi, President

Etai Romi, Music Producer & Audio Engineer, Freelance

Charlotte Rose, Literary Agency Owner, Green Light Artist Management

Jeff Rose, Producer, Harriman Partners

Rick Rosen, Co founder Endeavor/WME, WME

Lee Rosenbaum, Partner, RLG LLP

Scott Rosenbaum, Writer/Producer, Skeeter Rosenbaum Productions

Erez Rosenberg, Attorney, Jackoway Austen

Claudia Rosencrantz, TV Producer

Shira Rosenfeld, Producer, Piva Entertainment Inc

Scott Rosenfelt, Producer/Writer/Director, 8th Street Films, Inc.

Howard Rosenman, Producer, Howard Rosenman Productions

Shep Rosenman, Managing Partner, RLG LLP

Amanda Rosenthal, Talent Agent, Amanda Rosenthal Talent Agency

Danna Rosenthal, CEO & Founder, Positive Disruption

Jan Rosenthal, President, Abstract Talent, inc

Shani Rosenzweig, Partner and Talent agent, UTA

Nathan Ross, Film Producer

Michael Rotenberg, CEO

Robert Rothman, Owner/Managing Partner, Rothman Brecher Ehrich Livingston

Shani Rotkovitz, Line Producer/Photographer

Dani Rotstein, Producer

Susan Rovner, Producer

Ian Royston, Prodcuer, Chromista

Anna Ruben, Actor/writer/producer, Aureus films ltd.

Jonathan Rubenstein, Producer, Crystal City Entertainment

Eric S, Vice President

Haim Saban, Chairman and CEO, Saban Capital Group

Wendy Sachs, Director, Executive Producer/ OCTOBER 8, October 8 Foundation

Jeff Sackman, President, Quiver Distribution

David Sacks, Executive Producer

Lynn Sadofsky, SVP, Food Network, WBD

Rochel Saks, Manager

Glenn Sanders, Writer

Nancy Sanders, Partner/Manager, Thruline Entertainment

Fred Savage, Actor/Director

Leslie Schapira, Writer/Producer

Sammy Scher, Executive Producer

Joseph Schick, Producer – Jerusalem ‘67, Schick Pictures

Barry Schkolnick, Writer, Schoolboy Productions, Inc.

Sara Schraeter, Artist

Amy Schumer, Actress

Jordan Schur, Chairman & CEO, Suretone Entertainment and Mimran Schur Pictures

Adam Schwartz, Writer

Russell Schwartz, Senior Vice President and Head, Original Programming Business Affairs, Starz

Jay Schweid, Founder/CEO, ephelants/Village

Mariah Sebastiani, Makeup Artist

Guy Seemann, Producer, The American Question

Adam Segal, President, The 2050 Group – Publiciity

Tchelet Semel, Producer, OTOTO Productions

David Shair, Storyboard Artist/Writer

Inon Shampanier, Director

Natalie Shampanier, Screenwriter

Dan Shanan, Executive Director, Doc Edge (New Zealand)

Aliza Shane, Director

Yuval Shapira, Filmmaker

Laura Shapiro, Writer

Hillary Shaw, MD, Shaw Thing Managemnt LTD

Carly Shear, Head of Legal, Hat Trick Productions

Hannah Shearer, Writer/Producer

Mona Sheres, Creative Director, Sheres Industries Inc

Doniel Sherman, Technologist, Netflix

Matt Sherman, Talent Manager, Matt Sherman Management

Lee Shira, Producer, Siena FilmFoundation

Debbie Shofet, Writer

Karen Shopsowitz, Documentary Filmmaker

David Shore, Writer

Matt Shreder, CEO, Concourse Media

Marti Sichel, Editor

Alan Siegel, Producer, Alan Siegel Entertainment

Maya Sigel, Production Designer

Dan Signer, Writer/Producer

Ashley Silver, Attorney, Brecheen, Feldman, Breimer, SILVER & Thompson, LLP

Adam Silverman, SVP, Legal

Benjamin Silverman, Chairman, Propagate Content

Alyssa Simon, Actor

Gregg Simon, Director/Producer, Wenley Inc.

Keren Simon, Film Distribution Consultant, Mean Streets Management

Tamar Simon, Film Distributor / Publicist, Mean Streets Management

Marc Simonsson, Film and TV Agent, SoloSon Media Limited

Bonnie Singer, Agent

Marty Singer, Managing Partner, Lavely & Singer

Jacob Sloman, Writer

Jennifer Smith, Music Supervisor, Rat Dance Party Inc

Mark Smulian, Musician and Lecturer, MindHarp

Sid Soil, President, Docudavit Solutions Inc.

Danielle Solzman, Film Journalist, Solzy at the Movies

Jeff Sosnow, EVP A&R, Warner Records

Susanna Speier, Writer/Actor

Nancy Spielberg, Producer, Playmount Production

Yael Staav, Director

Halle Stanford, President, 7 Crow Stories

Jason Stare, Sound Designer

Marianna Staroselsky, Writer

Andrew Stearn, Producer

Alix Steerman, Director of Development, Blink49 Studios

Sami Steigmann, Actor

JM Stein, Writer-Producer

Hank Steinberg, Writer Producer

Mimi Steinberg, Writer/Producer

Rona Steinberg, Consultant

Sue Steinberg, Director

Nancy Steingard, Co President, 2 Friends Entertainment

Tracy Steinsapir, Owner/Talent Manager, Main Title Entertainment

Deena Stern, Studio and Distributon Marketing Executive

Emil Stern, Writer-Director

Michaela Stern, Actor

Rachel Stern, Writer/Producer

Estee Stimler, Playwright

Lee Stone, Partner, Lee & Thompson

Rebecca Stone, VP, Production

Alison Stover, Actor/Filmmaker, Luminous Pictures

Belinda Struminger, Executive Producer, FRANK Content

Geoff Suddleson, Partner / Co-Head, Unscripted Television, UTA

Artur Sumarokov, Cinema Critic, Playwright, Moviegram

Daniel Sussman, Talent Manager, BEP

Aaron Symonds, Film Composer

Fernando Szew, Partner, MarVista Entertainment

Fernando Szew, Producer

Hylton Tannenbaum, Film Director, Bioscope Films

Tal Tavin, Actor

Bill Teck, Producer/Director, Seigur Pictures

karynne Tencer, Public Relations Exec.

Michael Testa, Casting Director, Michael Testa Casting

Robyn Todd, Producer, Norton Productions

Adam Toltzis, Writer / Producer

Richard Trank, Academy Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker, Sea Point Films and Media

Anne Trauben, Artist/Curator/Gallery Director

Gabriela Tscherniak, Director, Cohensisters Entertainment Ltd

Eric Tuchman, Writer-Producer

Brad Turell, COO, IAG

Ben Turner, Director

Tamas Vajda, Journalist

Nathan Vincenti, Actor, Legal Alien Entertainment

Noa Vinshtok, Manager, Range Media Partners // Range Music

Esther Vlessing, Actor

David Wachtenheim, Director

Vera Wagman, Producer, Velocity + Direction

Karyn Wagner, Producer/Responsible filmmaker, Karyn Wagner LLC

Darah Wagner Boaz, Producer

Ariyela Wald-Cohain, Costume Designer

Katie Walder, Actress

Richard Walters, President, Smash Music Inc

Evan Warner, Senior Partner/Agent, WME

Dena Waxman, Executive Producer / Writer / Director, Freelance

Jeff Waxman, Producer, Waxylu films inc.

Ben Weinberg, Director

Guri Weinberg, Actor

Matthew Weiner, Writer-Director

Jenni Weinman Voake, Publicist, The Current Co,

Lynn Weintraub, Actor/Director, M2 Talent Management

Jay Weisleder, Producer, Nojac Films Inc.

Michael Weisler, Filmmaker, Vienna Gold

David N. Weiss, Writer-Director, Fat Dancing Productions

Adam Wells, Director

Ilana Wernick, Writer/Producer

Ron West, Managing Partner, Thruline Entertainment

Gerald Wexler, Screenwriter

Pearl Wexler, President, Kohner Agency

Modi Wiczyk, Co-Founder, MRC

Junior Williams, Actor, Rossi Productions

Rebecca Windsor, Producer

Cara Wodnicki, Founder, CSW Publicity

Jorey Worb, Filmmaker, 21 Grams

Daniel Yankelevits, EVP Legal Affairs, Sony Pictures

Sasha Yelaun, Producer

Yaël Yermia, Scénariste, Movieintheair

Kevin Yorn, Attorney

H Spencer Young, Director, Grand Unified

Jonathan Yunger, President, Millennium Media

Hanna Zabolotna, Graphic Designer

Kerri Zane, Executive Producer, KZE enterprises.

Suzanne Zionts, Writer/Producer

Arnie Zipursky, Co-Founder/Executive Producer, Neshama Entertainment

Dayna Zipursky, Executive Vice President, Neshama Entertainment

Farah Zipursky, Production Coordinator, Neshama Entertainment

Evie Bergson-Korn, Producer, Buffalo Pictures

Jamie Bialkower, Director, Jump Street Films

Ricky Blitt, Writer/Actor

Dmitry Borshch, Artist

Michael Capozzola, Stand Up Comedian/Presenter

Layla Chaab Bellenstein, Writer/Executive Producer, Spoon River Motion Pictures

Craig Dorfman, Talent Manager/Producer, Frontline

Jake Epstein, Actor

Sharona Fae, Literary Manager, Sharona Fae Management

Rob Fried, Producer, Fried Films

Aura Friedman, Creative Director, Auracolorist Creative

Tamar Gibbert, Film Marketing & Publicity

Deborah Gilels, Publicist

Elizabeth Goodstein, VP, Strategy and Content Partnerships, Madison Wells

David Harring, Writer

Karen Hermelin, EVP, Marketing, Strategy and Insights, Paramount Pictures

Patty Jenkins, Filmmaker, Wicious Pictures

Alexandra Lumerman, Headshot Photographer, Alexandra Lumerman Photography

Yariv Mozer, Filmmaker

Barbara Onrot, Music and Entertainment Industry Executive, THE Group Tix Company

Len Pearl, Producer/Director, Historical Film Studios

Sivan Raphaely, Producer, Jake’s Dad Films

Teme Ring, Writer, Comedians Defying Gravity

Malia Scotch Marmo, Screenwriter

Rachel Seed, Director/Producer, Capariva Films

Rhona Shekter, Actress

Rachelle Shukman, CEO, Room 8 Films

Lauren Sklar, PR, Warner Bros Discovery

Leonardo Szew, Software Engineer, Netflix Animation

Adam Taylor, President/CEO, APM Music

Ori Winokur, Head Of Music

Julie Sherman Wolfe, Screenwriter, Chance of Rain Entertainment, Inc.

Jake Yanowski, Producer

Lisa Zaks, Vice President Global Publicity, Sony Pictures

Frederick Zollo, Producer

Cover Photo: TORONTO, ONTARIO – SEPTEMBER 11: The TIFF logo is seen at the TIFF Bell Lightbox is seen at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2020 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)

CCFP Statement on Toronto Film Festival (TIFF)

Our Statement

The Toronto International Film Festival’s decision to pull The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue from this year’s festival is deeply disturbing. 

They are choosing to censor a Jewish story of survival and attempting to erase the experiences of survivors of the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust.

This decision is part of a growing trend of silencing Jewish and Israeli voices under the excuse of “security concerns.” 

Rather than standing up to violent intimidation and protecting filmmakers, TIFF is rewarding those who threaten their lives. 

TIFF’s claim that the issue is “clearance” for Hamas-filmed footage is absurd. Does anyone believe Hamas would authorize use of evidence of its own war crimes? This is a pretext to bow to threats, protecting those who make them rather than those targeted by them.

By silencing this film, TIFF abandons artistic freedom and sends the chilling message that some victims’ stories matter more than others. 

We call on TIFF to reverse its decision and stand for the principles it claims to uphold: artistic freedom, courage, and the right for every story to be told.

TORONTO, ONTARIO – SEPTEMBER 11: The TIFF logo is seen at the TIFF Bell Lightbox is seen at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2020 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)

CCFP Statement on Current Situation – June 2025

Creative Community for Peace (CCFP) stands firmly with Israel’s right to defend itself and its citizens against existential threats. 

Iran is not only a threat to Israel—it is the single most destabilizing force in the region and a global sponsor of terror. Through its support for Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and its tyrannical oppression of its own people, the Iranian government has fueled war, extremism, and suffering across the Middle East. And a nuclear-armed Iran would present an existential threat not only to Israel, but to civilians in the entire region.

Israel, like any sovereign nation, has both the right and the duty to defend its citizens. The strikes on Iranian military assets are a defensive response aimed at degrading Iran’s nuclear capabilities. 

Throughout history, Iran has used moments like this to attack Jewish communities around the world. At this tenuous moment, we call on our colleagues in the entertainment community to stand with the Jewish community and use their platforms to encourage peace. 

 

400+ Entertainment Leaders Release Open Letter Calling Out Lies and Deadly Consequences of Anti-Israel Incitement

Notable entertainment leaders from around the globe including Debra Messing, Julianna Margulies, Mayim Bialik, Sharon Osbourne, Jerry O’Connell, Patricia Heaton, Uzo Aduba, Sherry Lansing, Haim Saban, Rebecca De Mornay, Ynon Kreiz, Rick Rosen, Gary Barber, Ben Silverman, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Leo Pearlman, Diane Warren amongst many others, demand an end to amplification of anti-Israel propaganda.

LOS ANGELES, May 29, 2025 — More than 400 entertainment leaders signed an open letter released by the non-profit entertainment industry organization Creative Community For Peace (CCFP) calling for a rejection of extremist rhetoric and the spread of misinformation.

The letter comes in response to the deadly shooting of two young people outside a Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. and after the release of multiple open letters from the entertainment and literature communities filled with fallacious claims and incendiary accusations.

Actress Mayim Bialik said: “History repeats itself: peddling lies about Jews has deadly consequences. For the past two years, public figures and influencers with millions of followers have consistently promoted fallacious and menacing anti-Israel propaganda masquerading as advocacy. This stream of lies against the Jewish people and the Jewish ancestral homeland has now – unsurprisingly to anyone watching closely – turned deadly in the United States. This moment requires public figures to use their platforms responsibly. We implore these individuals to lend their voices to those of moral clarity, peace and tolerance, instead of division, distortion and delegitimization.”

Since October 7th, the rhetoric and actions from anti-Israel activists around the globe routinely embrace extremism and antisemitism.

Following the shooting in Washington, D.C., the suspect repeatedly yelled, “Free Palestine,” showcasing how the anti-Israel movement has been radicalized to violence.

Saban Capital Group Chairman and CEO Haim Saban said: “When public figures accuse Israel of genocide, call for intifada, or claim Jews are colonizers, they may not understand the history they’re invoking — but the people who act on those words often do. This open letter is a plea for truth, for accountability, and for responsibility — especially from those with powerful platforms.”

The letter highlights how celebrities unknowingly platform dangerous propaganda, “Some well-meaning celebrities and public figures have been manipulated by this constant stream of misinformation, which they have also helped to amplify.”

CCFP Chairman/Co-Founder David Renzer and Executive Director Ari Ingel said, For the past 600 days, the anti-Israel movement has espoused an unrelenting stream of extremist rhetoric to demonize Israel and anyone who supports the country — it’s a toxic mix of distortion, bigotry and incitement. Given the power of social media, it’s incumbent on entertainers and public figures, with their ability to influence millions around the world, to use their platforms responsibly. Without a course correction, we will only see more hate, more violence, and more innocent people targeted simply for being Jewish.”

The statement is the first of its kind – a call from the entertainment community to unequivocally condemn the anti-Israel movement’s role in scapegoating and endangering Jews around the globe.

The letter states: “Hamas, Iran, and their allies and ideological sympathizers in the West have flooded the world with their hateful lies and antisemitic incitement since October 7 — lies designed to demonize Israel, the Jewish people, and their supporters.”

The letter concludes: “We call on all our colleagues to reject this extremist rhetoric and the spread of misinformation so that we can all work toward a future in which all Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in peace and dignity.”

Signatories Include:

Debra Messing, Actress; Uzo Aduba, Actress; Julianna Margulies, Actor, Producer, Author; Jerry O’Connell, Actor; Mayim Bialik, Actor, Writer, Producer; Sharon Osbourne, Manager & TV Host; Patricia Heaton, Actress; Rebecca De Mornay, Actress; Sherry Lansing, Former CEO of Paramount Pictures; Haim Saban, Chairman and CEO, Saban Capital Group; Rick Rosen, Co-Founder, Endeavor; Gary Barber, Hollywood Executive; Ynon Kreiz, Chairman and CEO, Mattel, Inc.; Ben Silverman; Chairman & Co-CEO, Propagate Content; Diane Warren, Songwriter; Aaron Bay-Schuck, CEO/Co-Chairman Warner Records; Fernando Szew, CEO, FOX Entertainment Global; Julie Greenwald, Former Chairman & CEO, Atlantic Records Group; Lyor Cohen, Global Head of Music Google and YouTube; Diane Warren, Songwriter; John Ondrasik (Five For Fighting), Artist; David Draiman, Lead Singer of Disturbed, Artist; Emmanuelle Chriqui, Actress; Danny Cohen, President of Access Entertainment; Jonathan Shalit OBE, Chairman InterTalent Rights Group / Chosen Music / Project 30 Studios;  Matisyahu, Musician; Fred Savage, Actor; Modi Wiczyk, Co-Founder, MRC; Leo Pearlman, Co-CEO, Fulwell Entertainment; David Renzer, Former CEO/Chairman Universal Music Publishing; Michael Rotenberg, Partner, 3 Arts Entertainment; Dean Cain, Actor; Neil Blair, Partner, The Blair Partnership;  Blair Kohan, Partner, UTA; Billy Ray, Writer, Producer; amongst many others.

Add Your Name: If you are a member of the entertainment community (only), you can sign onto the letter here: [Link]

FULL OPEN LETTER

We, the undersigned, are saying enough! Enough with the lies, and enough with the extremism.

Hamas, Iran, and their allies and ideological sympathizers in the West have flooded the world with their hateful lies and antisemitic incitement since October 7 — lies designed to demonize Israel, the Jewish people, and their supporters.

Some well-meaning celebrities and public figures have been manipulated by this constant stream of misinformation, which they have also helped to amplify.

On May 21, 2025 we saw that these lies can have deadly consequences when two young people were murdered outside a Jewish Museum in Washington D.C., as the perpetrator chanted “Free Palestine” — a chant that has now become a call to violence.

War is horrific — where far too many civilians suffer — which is why even though Hamas launched wars against Israel in 2008, 2012, 2014, 2018, and 2021, the wars were short-lived.

But the gruesome Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023 changed everything.

Tragically, the suffering of civilians in Gaza is a strategy of Hamas, with one Hamas official stating that it is “a small price” to pay.

When Russia launched its war on Ukraine, it was the women and children that went underground in the metro system for safety while the men fought above ground.

In contrast, in Gaza —  after Hamas launched their genocidal war on Israel —  it was their fighters who went underground into the Gaza “metro,” while leaving women and children above ground to be used as their human shields.

This is a war Hamas started, and one that they can end by releasing the hostages, by laying down their arms, thereby freeing the Palestinians of Gaza from their tyrannical rule as well.

Yet, Hamas refuses to relent on their demand to have all of the land between the river and the sea cleansed of Jews, as they state in their own charter:

“The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: ‘O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.’ (Article 7).

The anti-Israel campaign shares this extremism.

The anti-Israel campaign refuses to hold Hamas accountable for the death and destruction caused by their illegal and repeated use of hospitals, mosques, schools, and UN facilities to launch attacks and shield their command centers.

The anti-Israel campaign refuses to acknowledge that the vast majority of “journalists” pumping out propaganda in Gaza are, in fact, members or supporters of the terrorist organizations themselves — even joining Hamas on October 7th to help broadcast their massacre inside Israel to the world.

The anti-Israel campaign spreads the antisemitic blood libel that the Jewish state – and all the Jews that support Israel – are bloodthirsty, intentionally targeting civilians, and committing “genocide.”

The anti-Israel campaign makes outrageous claims — such as Israel seeking to murder 14,000 babies in a 48-hour period — claims so egregious they should collapse under the weight of its own absurdity. Yet, these claims are amplified by the media, in addition to celebrities who share this disinformation to their millions of followers on social media.

The anti-Israel campaign claims that Jews are colonizers, when they are indigenous to the land of Israel and have the right to self-determination in their historical homeland as enshrined by the UN Charter.

We reject all these lies.

We reject the anti-Israel movement co-opting every social justice cause — outrageously claiming that to stand with the LGBTQIA+ community, or with anti-racist, anti-colonialist, anti-Islamophobic and anti-antisemitic movements, is to stand against Israel.

This is all done to paint Israel — and Jews around the world — as embodying the world’s ultimate evils. This is antisemitism.

We call on all our colleagues to reject this extremist rhetoric and the spread of misinformation so that we can all work toward a future in which all Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in peace and dignity.

SIGNATORIES

Ari Ingel, Executive Director, Creative Community for Peace

Aaron Bay-Schuck, CEO/Co-Chairman Warner Records

Rakefet Abergel, Actor

Michael Abrams, Talent Manager, Constellation Media Group

Jason Adelman, VP, Brand Innovators Labs

Orly Adelson, Former President of ITV Studios, America

Marty Adelstein, CEO, Tomorrow Studios

Dan Adler, Producer

Uzo Aduba, Artist

Shir Aharon, Talent Manager

Michael Auerbach, Partner, Jackoway Austen

Dean Bahat, Attorney, Ziffren Brittenham LLP

Andrea Ballas, VP Communications, CBS/Paramount

Craig Balsam, CEO, RT Industries

Gary Barber, Executive

Eve Barlow, Writer

Jackie Barrie, A&R Executive

Jonathan Baruch, President, Rain

Richard Baskind, Partner & Head of Music, Simons Muirhead & Burton

Aton Ben-Horin, Executive VP A&R, Warner Music Group/CEO, Plush Mgmt.

David Bercovici-Artieda, Director/Producer, EQUINOX DREAM PROJECT

Adam Berkowitz, Founder and President, Lenore Entertainment Group

Mayim Bialik, Actor, Writer, Producer, Sad Clown Productions

Sharon Bialy, Casting Director/Co-Owner, Bialy/Thomas & Associates

Hillary Bibicoff, Transactional Entertainment Attorney, Feig Finkel LLP

David Bickel, Writer/Producer

Allison Binder, Partner, GGSS&C

Joshua P. Binder, Partner, Rothenberg, Mohr, & Binder, LLP

Neil Blair, Partner, The Blair Partnership

Evan Bogart, Songwriter & CEO, Seeker Music

Sarah Bremner, Partner, Prologue Entertainment

Joanne Bressler, SVP, Attorney

Kevin Bright, Producer, Just Bright Productions.

Drew Buckley, Group President, COO, Propagate Content

Benjamin Budde, CEO, Budde Group

David Byrnes, Partner, Ziffren Brittenham LLP

Dean Cain, Actor

Emily Cameron, Manager, Plush Management

Sarah Camlett, Agent

Civia Caroline, Industry Impact Consultant, CLiC Impact Entertainment

Markell Casey, Founder & Manager, Worldwide Tracks

Cliff Chenfeld, Co-Founder, Razor & Tie

David Chesnoff, Partner, Chesnoff and Schinfeld

Emmanuelle Chriqui, Actor

Danny Cohen, President, Access Entertainment

Emily Cohen, Director

Gabriella Cohen, Musician

Lyor Cohen, Global Head of Music, Google and YouTube

Tanya Cohen, Partner, Range Media Partners

Leanne Coronel, President, The Coronel Group

Raye Cosbert, Managing Director, Metropolis Music

Ben Cosgrove, CEO, Leviathan Productions

Avi Dahan, Attorney, Boyarski Fritz LLP

Robin Davids, Publicity, Sony Pictures Entertainment

David Davis, Lawyer

Doug Davis, Attorney and Founder, The Davis Firm

Mirelle Davis, Artist Manager, Wind Up Bird Ltd

Rebecca De Mornay, Actress

Linda Deal, Social Work

Danielle Del, Partner, D2 Management

Jamie Denbo, Writer/Actor

Kurt Deutsch, President, Broadway Music Group

Avi Diamond, Director, Film & TV Licensing, Warner Music Canada

Michael Diamond, Talent Manager/Partner, Range Media Partners

Ro Diamond, Vice President, SDB Partners

Craig Dorfman, Owner/Manager, Frontline Management

Rachel Douglas, Manager, Range Media Partners

Brian P. Drach, Attorney, Lewis Brisbois

David Draiman, Frontman of the band Disturbed

A.M. Driver, Actress

Jeremy Drysdale, Screenwriter

Linda Edell Howard, Attorney, Edell Howard Enterprises LLC

Jessica Elbaum, Producer, Gloria Sanchez Productions

Talya Elitzer, Co-Founder, Godmode Music

Craig Emanuel, Executive, The Kid From Downunder Inc.

Emma Engers, Agent, Emma Engers Associates Ltd

Dvora Englefield, Partner and Head of Music Artist Strategy, WME

Hannah Epstein, Agent, CAA

Rami “Kosha Dillz” Even-Esh, Artist/Comic/Filmmaker

Ron Fair, Record Producer & CEO, Faircraft Inc.

Sharon Farber, Film Composer

Eric Feig, Partner, Feig/Finkel, LLP

Joel Feigenbaum, Vice President, Warner Music Group

Patti Felker, Partner, Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis Ryan LLP

Jacob Fenton, Partner, UTA

Ken Fermaglich, Partner, UTA

Mark Feuerstein, Actor

Bradley Fischer, Producer

Erica Forster, COO, Pendulum

Jordan Frazes, Founder, Frazes Creative

Jennifer Freed, Artist Management

Hilary Freeman, Journalist and Author

Adam Friedman, Executive, Creative Artists Agency

Adina Friedman, Manager, Artist House

Daryl Friedman, Former Chief Advocacy & Industry Relations Officer, The Recording Academy

Siri Garber, CEO and Founder, Platform Public Relations

David Gardner, President, Artists First

Jeremy Garelick, Writer/Director/Producer

Barbara Garshman, Writer/Producer, Garshman ProductionsLLC

Andrew Genger, Manager, Red Light Management

Maya Giladi, Business & Legal Affairs, Netflix

Gary Ginsberg, Author and TV Producer

Jordan Glickson, VP, Music & Talent, Vevo

Elissa Gold, Creative Event Producer & Cultural Programmer

Michael Goldstein, Executive Producer

Michael Goldwasser, President/Co-Founder, Easy Star Records

Robert Golenberg, President, Pivot Artists Group

Jonathan Gordon, Producer

Michael Gordon, Partner, Creative Artists Agency

Andrew Gould, President, Music Publishing, Roc Nation

Marc Graboff, Media Consultant

Westside Gravy, Artist

Scott Greenberg, Manager and Partner, LBI Entertainment

Julie Greenwald, Music Executive

Daniel Grindlinger, Writer

Julie Gurovitsch, Producer, NBC

Elle Hamilton, Stuntwoman, Stuntwomen’s Association

Lynn Harris, Film Producer

Ronnie Harris, Partner, Harris & Trotter LLP

Ronny Hatchwell, Industry Relations Manager, CCFP

Patricia Heaton, Actress

Noreena Hertz, Writer

Joanne Horowitz, Talent Management/ Producer, Joanne Horowitz Management

Sammy Horowitz, Writer/Producer

Josh Howie, Comedian/Writer

Richard “BournRich” Ingram, Artist/Creative Director

Neil Jacobson, CEO, Hallwood Media

Jonathan Jakubowicz, Writer & Director

Sara Johnson, Access Consultant

Heather Kadin, President, Scripted Television, Range Media Partners

Dan Kanter, Musical Director

Michael Kaplan, Writer-Producer

Zach Katz, CEO & Co-Founder, Fixated

Melanie Kessler, Production Co-ordinator

Dana Klein, Writer, EP

Sam Kling, Chief Creative Officer for SESAC

Keetgi Kogan Steinberg, Writer/Producer/Showrunner

Blair Kohan, Partner, United Talent Agency

David Kohan, Writer-Producer

Eric Kranzler, Co-Founder, Entertainment 360

Ynon Kreiz, Chairman and CEO, Mattel Inc.

Rick Krim, CEO, Krim Music + Media

Sherry Lansing, Former CEO, Paramount Pictures

Estelle Lasher, President, Lasher Group

Adam Leibner, Partner/Agent, UTA

Allan Leicht, Writer

Colin Lester OBE, Chairman/CEO, JEM Music Group

Ben Levine, Partner/Link Entertainment, Link Entertainment

Robert Levine, Editor At Large, Billboard

Avi Liberman, Entertainer

Sharon Lieblein, Casting Director, Sharon Lieblein Casting

Sean Liebowitz, Agent

Robin Lippin, Owner, Lippin/Block Casting

Cory Litwin, Managing Partner, Music, Range Media Partners

David Lonner, CEO, The David Lonner Company

Jane Lush, Former BAFTA Chair and Former BBC Head of Ent.

Ben Maddahi, President, Unrestricted Publishing/Management

Gabriel Mann, Composer/Producer

Deborah Marcus, Executive, CAA

Ashlee Margolis, Founder & Managing Partner, The A List

Julianna Marguiles, Actor, Producer, Author

Orly Marley, President, Tuff Gong Worldwide

Rafael Marmor, Partner, Delirio Films

Matisyahu, Musician

Nancy Matalon, Manager

Debra Messing, Actor/Producer

Max Michael, Head of Asia Business Development, UTA

Darren Michaelson, Director, L25 Entertainment

Petra Miller, Account Director, Alive Activation

Gev Miron, Director

Elizabeth Much, CEO, East to West Collective PR

DJ Nash, Showrunner/Executive Producer/Director, Next Thing You Know, Inc.

Stefi Novo, Songwriter

Lisa Nupoff, Manager, iminmusic management

Jerry O’Connell, Actor

John Ondrasik, Five for Fighting

Sharon Osbourne, Manager & TV Personality

Howard Owens, Co-CEO, Propagate

Scott Packman, Founder and Managing Member, SSP Partners LLC

Sharon Paz, Manager/Founder, Paz Talent

Leo Pearlman, Co-CEO, Fulwell Entertainment

Mark Pinkus, President, Rhino Records

Jonah Platt, Creator/Host, Being Jewish with Jonah Platt

Wendy Plaut, SVP, Celebrity Talent, Paramount Global

Rhonda Price, Managing Partner, Gersh Agency

Jeff Rabhan, CEO, Bored-of-ed.com

Sylvie Rabineau, Co-Head, Book to Film/TV, WME

Golan Ramraz, Writer-Producer, EGX Film Factory

Billy Ray, Writer/Director

David Renzer, Former CEO/Chairman Universal Music Publishing

Bruce Resnikoff, President & CEO, Universal Music Enterprises

Frederic Richter, Archive Producer, Researcher, Writer

Doug Robinson, Producer, DRP

Dan Rosen, President, Warner Music Australasia

Rick Rosen, Co-Founder, WME

Aaron Rosenberg, Partner, Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light

Erez Rosenberg, Attorney

Shani Rosenzweig, Partner, Talent Agent, UTA

Brian Ross, Writer-Producer

Gregg Rossen, Screenwriter

Michael Rotenberg, Partner, 3 Arts Entertainment

Lynn Roth, Writer. Producer, Director, Lynn Roth Productions, Inc.

Joshua Rothstein, CEO/Founder, Ice Cream For Dinner

Susan Rovner, Producer, Aha Studios

Jonathan Ruggiero, Filmmaker

Haim Saban, Chairman and CEO, Saban Capital Group

Wendy Sachs, Director/Producer, October 8 Film

David Sacks, Executive Producer

Laura Salvato, Director, Publicity, Paramount Pictures

Nicola Saul, Personal Assistant, Warner Music

Anna Savage, Manager, Full Stop Management

Fred Savage, Actor/Director/Producer

Leslie Schapira, Writer/Producer

William Schmidt, TV Writer

Steve Schnur, Worldwide Executive & Music President, Electronic Arts

Jordan Schur, CEO & Chairman, Mimran Schur Pictures & Suretone Entertainment

Sam Schwartz, Co-principal, Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency

Teddy Schwarzman, CEO, Black Bear

Jay Schweid, Founder/CEO, ephelants / Village

Adam J. Segal, President, The 2050 Group – Publicity

Rick Senat, Producer

Stefi Shabashev, Songwriter

Professor Jonathan Shalit OBE, Chairman, InterTalent Rights Group / Chosen Music / Project 30 Studios

Carly Shear, Head of Legal, Hat Trick Productions

Ben Silverman, Chairman and Co-CEO, Propagate Content

Tamar Simon, Film Distribution/PR, Mean Streets Management

Marty Singer, Managing Partner, Lavely & Singer

Danielle Solzman, Film Critic, Solzy at the Movies

Jeff Sosnow, EVP A&R, Warner Records

Donna Spievak, VP of Strategic Marketing, Interscope Records

Halle Stanford, President, Executive Producer, 7 Crow Stories

Mimi Steinberg, Writer and Producer

Jonathan Steinsapir, Attorney

Tracy Steinsapir, President, Main Title Entertainment

Deena Stern, Marketing Executive

Caroline Stevens, Director, iSolutions Ltd

Gary Stiffelman, Founder, GSS Law

Estee Stimler, Writer

Lee Stone, Entertainment Lawyer, Lee & Thompson

Alison Stover, Actor/Filmmaker, Luminous Pictures

Daniel Sussman, Talent Manager, Brillstein Entertainment Partners

Aaron Symonds, Film Composer, AJS Music

Fernando Szew, President, Fox Entertainment Studios

Traci Szymanski, President of Co-Star Entertainment

Sharon Tal Yguado, Founder & CEO, Astrid Entertainment

Nina Tassler, Prodicer, Kismet Creative Group

Adam Taylor, President, APM Music

Suzanne Tenner, Photographer

Fred Toczek, Partner, Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson LLP

Lee Trink, CEO, Game Theory Ventures

Eric Tuchman, Writer/Producer, MGM-TV

Montana Tucker, Singer/Actress/Dancer/Social Media Activist

Noa Vinshtok, Streaming Manager, Range Media Partners/Range Music

Alex Voihanski, President, Paramount Business Group

Vera Wagman, Producer

Katie Walder, Actress

Evan Warner, Senior Partner/Agent, WME

Diane Warren, Songwriter, Producer

Joshua Washington, Artist/Producer

Jon Weinbach, President, Skydance Sports

Jenni Weinman, Strategist, The Current Co.

Nola Weinstein, Entertainment Executive

Jarred Weisfeld, President, Objective Entertainment

Joshua Weisleder, Global Music Rights

Ilana Wernick, Writer/Producer

Modi Wiczyk, Co-Founder, MRC

Cindy Wiener, Music Executive, Realsongs, Realsongs

Evan Winiker, Managing Partner, Music, Range Media Partners

Cara Wodnicki, Founder, CSW Publicity

Seth Yanklewitz, Casting Director, Yanklewitz Pollack Casting

Hilary Zaitz Michael, Co-Head & Partner, Literary Packaging at WME

Kari Zalik, Publicist, Bad Parade

David Zedeck, Global Co-Head of Music, UTA

Oran Zegman, Film/TV Director, Van Zegman Films

ADDITIONAL SIGNATORIES

Mika Aharfi, Composer, Echomusicfarm

Susie Arons, President, 42West

Bob Bergen, Voice Actor

Brent Brotine, Writer

Avigail Cenci di Bello, Director of Development

Sadaf Cohen Muncy, SVP, Development and Production, HappyNest Entertainment

Adrianna Costa, Journalist/Host

Howard Davine, COO, Wiip Productions

Jon Ehrlich, Composer

Samantha Ettus, Author

Diana Golan, Make Up Artist

Heidi Haddad, Writer/Producer/Actress, Best Case Scenario Productions

Simon Halfon, Producer, Nemperor Ltd

Elizabeth Hepworth, Actress

Dana Landman, Management

Micha Liberman, President/Lead Music Editor, Mind Meld Arts, Inc.

Alexandra Lumerman, Photographer, Alexandra Lumerman Photography

Molly Madden, Manager/Partner, 3 Arts Entertainment

Arnon Manor, Producer, Chemical Soup

Laurence Miller, Producer/Commercial Director, Nimax Theatres

Brad Pomerance, Executive Vice President, Jewish Life Television/JLTV

Chris Queen, Editor, PJ Media/Townhall Media

Lisa Randleman, Actor

Fred Raskin, Film Editor

Itay Reiss, Partner, Artists First

Teme Ring, Writer, Comedians Defying Gravity

Florina Rodov, Writer

Nathan Ross, Film/TV Producer, lilyrose productions inc

Jonathan Rubenstein, Producer, Crystal City Entertainment

Jordan Rush, Writer/Producer

Yuri Rutman, Director-EP, Filmdemand

Brett Ruttenberg, SVP, imPRint

Sammy Scher, Executive Producer, Film & TV

Adam Silverman, SVP, Legal, Head of Legal for Programming and Advertising

Jennifer Smith, Music Supervisor, Rat Dance Party Inc

Susan Stremple, Producer

Richard Trank, Filmmaker, Sea Point Films and Media

Gabriela Tscherniak, Director, Cohensisters Entertainment Ltd

Dena Waxman, Executive Producer/Writer, Wax Poetic Productions

Guri Weinberg, Actor

Jay Weisleder, Producer, Fuego Films

Michele Weisler, Producer, Clearblack Films

Sherri Ziff, Writer/Producer

Elena Zilberman, SVP

Judie Aronson, Actress

Gail Banack, SVP, Travel Edge

Maya Bar-Lev, Associate Producer, ESPN

Rachel Bendavid, EVP Scripted Programming, BBC Studios LA

Ross Boyask, Writer-Director

Airion Chantel, Musician, Actress, Multi-media Artist

Hilary Cherniss, Writer

Lisa Cohen, President, Associated Booking Corp

Ben Daniels, Screenwriter

Yuval David, Actor, Filmmaker, Journalist

Shula Daws, Development Producer, Plum Pictures

Mandana Dayani, Creator, I Am A Voter and Calanet Foundation

Ron Dicurcio, President, CineFex

Stefanie Epstein, Producer

Charles Evered, Writer, Ordinance 14

Lisa Feldsher, Writer and Founder, Mind Over Media

Mollie Fermaglich, Writer

Michael Garlin, Radio Host and Comedian

Ben Goldsmith, Performing Artist & Songwriter

Malcolm Green, Filmmaker and Writer, Green AFM Ltd

Abe Gurko, Producer, Won’t Be Silent LLC

Andi Howard, President, Peak Records and Andi Howard Entertainment

Jennifer Lanter, Artistic Director, SHTARKcontrast

Fredric London, Actor

Peter Macklin, Actor/Playwright

David Prior, Writer/Director, DreamLogic Pictures

Phillip Ramati, Writer

Abbe Raven, Media Executive

Orly Ravid, Founder/Co-Executive Director, The Film Collaborative

Thane Rosenbaum, Novelist

Jeff Sackman, President, Quiver Distribution

Charlie Sanders, Attorney/Chair, National Music Council of the United States

Joseph Schick, Producer, Schick Pictures

Steven Schub, Actor/Singer/Writer

Michelle Shine, Author

Lori Silfen, Executive

Artur Sumarokov, Playwright and Cinema Critic

Beth Ellyn Summer, Author

Kimberly Wallis, Actress

Pearl Wexler, President, Kohner Agency

Arnie Zipursky, CEO, Neshama Entertainment

Lucy Abrahams, Literary Scout, Lucy Abrahams Literary Scouting

Anne-Marie Asner, Co-Founder, Animation Israel

Howard Benson, Music Producer and CEO, Judge&JuryRecords

Allison Bibicoff, Intimacy Coordinator

Jordan Bielsky, Actor and Writer

Lori Blackman-Master, Supervising Producer, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon

Aaron Brander, Editor

Anthony Bregman, Producer, Likely Story

Corey Breier, President, Yiddish Theatrical Alliance

Paul Burger, CEO, Soho Artists

Layla Chaab Bellenstein, Writer / Film & Creative Producer

Conrad Cohen, Theatre Director & Acting Teacher

Neil Cohen, Founder, 1948 Talent

Nina Colman, Writer

Matt Einstein, CEO, Producer, Tradition Pictures

Jane Elias, Writer/Actor

David Faigenblum, Producer, Concept Entertainment

David Faiman, Managing Director, Odessa Mama Records

Matt Finkelstein, Partner, ArentFox Schiff LLP

Sara Flatow, Assistant Editor, Producer

Seth Fradkoff, AmazonMGMStudiosTheatrical

Simon Friend, Producer, Melting Pot

Fritz Froehlich, Manager

Sara Fruman, Founder, Soul Evolution Media

Robert Ftiedman, CEO, Bungalow Media+Entertainment

Jeffrey Gandel, Lawyer, The Law Office of Jeffrey B Gandel

Deborah Gilels, Publicist

Elizabeth Goodstein, VP, Strategy and Content Partnerships, Madison Wells

Anna-Sue Greenberg, Producer, Facet4 Media

Matthew Greenberg, Managing Partner, Greenberg, Chopurian-Valencia & Associates, LLP

Susan Gurman, Agent, Gurman Agency

Brett Gursky, Writer / Director / Producer

Ronnie Harris, Partner, Harris and Trotter

Michael Kalifa, Sound Mixer

Annie Kaplan, Screenwriter

Mitchell James “Chip” Kaplan, Novelist

Jonathan Kier, Co-Founder, Upgrade International

Steve Kline, President/COO, Better Noise Music

Delia Kropp, Actor

Evan Lamberg, President, North America, Universal Music Publishing

Scott Lieberman, Actor, Podcast Host

Kate Mannix, Actor

Amanda Markowitz, Actor/Producer

Natalia Maus, Founder/Executive Producer, Nudnik

Berry Meyerowitz, President, Quiver Distribution

Norma Morrow, Founder/Artistic Director, Jewish Repertory Theatre of Nevada

Robyn Okrant, Writer/Actress

Chris Pollack, President/Partner, A Penny for Your Thoughts

Julia Radochia, Actor, Filmmaker

Adva Reichman, Writer, Director

Ilene Rosenzweig, Writer

Edward Sabin, Founder, Cypher Content

Ari Shagal, Bandleader/Composer, The Summarily Dismissed

Marc Sheinman, Artist /Producer-Manager, 7980 Music / Red Light Management

Matt Sherman, Talent Manager, Matt Sherman Management

Maya Sigel, Production Designer

Michael Swerdlick, Writer

Natalie Tamar, Writer, Artist

Roberto Thesea, Executive, CAA

Rebecca Thomas, Agent

Gabriela Tscherniak, Showrunner, Director, Writer

Darah Wagner Boaz, Executive Producer

Nicole Weinroth, Agent, WME

Rebecca Windsor, Producer

Ali Axelrad, Actor

Elisa Baum, Writer

John Ross Bowie, Actor/Writer

Sheva Elliot, Singer/Songwriter/Composer/Producer

Sheyna Galyan, Award-winning Author

Leslie Kendall Dye, Actress

Cathy Lawrence, Production Manager

Adrienne Ross Scanlan, Writer/Editor

Susanna Speier, Actor | Journalist | Publisher

** Note – The signers of this statement do so as individuals on their own behalf and not on behalf of their companies or organizations. All organizations and companies listed are for affiliation purposes only.

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200+ Entertainment and Business Leaders Demand BBC Accountability

Notable entertainment and business leaders from around the globe including Ozzy Osbourne, Debra Messing, Mayim Bialik, Sharon Osbourne, Leo Pearlman, Danny Cohen, Professor Jonathan Shalit OBE, Raye Cosbert, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Neil Blair, Lyor Cohen, Brian Message amongst many others, call for the establishment of a full independent commission of inquiry into BBC

LONDON, March 6, 2025 — More than 200 leaders from the entertainment and business industries signed an open letter released by the non-profit entertainment industry organization Creative Community For Peace (CCFP) calling for a full investigation into the BBC’s bias against Israel.

The letter comes in response to the airing of the documentary, “Gaza: How to Survive in a Warzone.” The BBC acknowledged the serious journalistic failings in their presentation of the documentary. Not only did they platform Hamas propaganda, but they also used British tax dollars to pay the family of a Senior Hamas official.

Partner at The Blair Partnership Neil Blair said: “This is the latest in a long line of misreporting the Middle East and sugarcoating Hamas and it shatters public trust in the BBC. The BBC has its own rules to follow, as well as the law of the land, and its approach to both has been cavalier at best. Unfortunately, this is just the tip of the iceberg and there needs to be a thorough, independent and transparent investigation process so the BBC can get its house in order and restore public confidence in its output.”

Since October 7th, the British Jewish community has consistently criticized the BBC’s coverage of Israel.

The Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Jewish Leadership Council and the Community Security Trust, which monitors antisemitism and provides security for Jewish communities in Britain, accused the BBC as being “institutionally hostile to Israel.” The recent airing of “Gaza: How to Survive in a Warzone” substantiates the ongoing critiques of the British Jewish community.

Co-CEO of Fulwell Entertainment Leo Pearlman said: “As antisemitism explodes across the globe, the spread of misinformation is not just irresponsible, it’s dangerous. When major trusted media outlets like the BBC amplify biased narratives and allow propaganda to be broadcast as truth, it fuels anti-Israel sentiment, emboldens extremists, and puts Jewish communities around the world at risk. Accurate, responsible journalism is not just an ethical obligation; it’s a matter of safety.”

The letter highlights the gravity of the moment for BBC, “This is a true crisis for the broadcaster, which it is treating as a minor inconvenience whilst its highest paid presenter is allowed to openly deny there is an issue at all.”

CCFP Executive Director Ari Ingel said, “At a time when accuracy and responsible reporting are more critical than ever, media outlets must uphold the highest standards, not serve as a megaphone for terrorist organizations. This is even more important when the media outlet is a public service broadcaster. So far, BBC’s public response does not reflect the seriousness of their mistakes. They not only failed to inform the public but misled them with Hamas-sanctioned propaganda.”

The statement is the first of its kind – a call from the entertainment and business community to unequivocally condemn the BBC’s response to this crisis. And to call for the establishment of a full independent commission of inquiry into the processes that allowed this documentary to air and to other instances of bias the past 16+ months.

The letter states: “It is time for the BBC to acknowledge that it has a systemic problem of bias against Israel of which this is the tip of the iceberg.”

The letter concludes: “This episode makes mockery of the Reithian Principle – to inform, educate and entertain—widely understood and recognized as a distillation of the BBC’s mission and as such is embedded in the BBC Royal Charter. The board and senior management should be considering their positions.”

Signatories Include:

Ozzy Osbourne, Artist and Author; Sharon Osbourne, Author, Manager, TV Personality; Danny Cohen, President, Access Entertainment; Mayim Bialik, Actress & Author; Debra Messing, Actress; Neil Blair, Partner, The Blair Partnership; Leo Pearlman, Co-CEO, Fulwell Entertainment; Rick Rosen, Co-Founder, Endeavor; Professor Jonathan Shalit OBE, Chairman, InterTalent/Project 30 Studios/Chosen Music; Colin Lester OBE, Founder/Chairman JEM Music; Raye Cosbert, Managing Director, Metropolis Music; Fernando Szew, President and Head of FOX Entertainment Studios; David Renzer, Former Chairman/CEO, Universal Music Publishing; Alistair Goldsmith, President, Chosen Music Ben Silverman; Chairman & Co-CEO, Propagate Content; Tracy-Ann Oberman, Actress; Noreena Hertz, Writer; Lyor Cohen, Global Head of Music, Google/Youtube; Brian Message, Director, All Things Considered Management; Jonathan Strauss, CEO, Create Music Group; Modi Wiczyk, Co-Founder, MRC; Doug Davis, Founder, The Davis Firm; David Draiman, Frontman of the band Disturbed; Lee Trink, CEO, Game Theory Ventures; Rebecca De Mornay, Actress

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FULL OPEN LETTER

We, the undersigned are calling for a full commission of inquiry into the recent actions taken by the BBC. The BBC has now acknowledged the very serious journalistic failings in their presentation of the documentary, “Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone,” and the damage it has caused to the BBC’s reputation.

It is time for the BBC to acknowledge that it has a systemic problem of bias against Israel of which this is the tip of the iceberg. This is a true crisis for the broadcaster, which it is treating as a minor inconvenience whilst its highest paid presenter is allowed to openly deny there is an issue at all.

This episode makes mockery of the Reithian Principle – to inform, educate and entertain—widely understood and recognized as a distillation of the BBC’s mission and as such is embedded in the BBC Royal Charter. The board and senior management should be considering their positions.

The unwillingness of the BBC to address these problems transparently over the last 16+ months is what has led to the debacle.

Not only did the BBC platform a Hamas propaganda documentary — that featured the family of a Hamas leader and inaccurate translations — but it is has now admitted to actually using British taxpayer money to pay the family of a senior Hamas official.

The BBC must allow for a full independent commission of inquiry to investigate the processes that led to this documentary being produced, and the pervasive anti-Israel bias that has been allowed to pervade through the BBC system unobstructed.

SIGNATORIES:

Ari Ingel, Executive Director, Creative Community for Peace

Tiran Aakel, Actor

Marty Adelstein, CEO, Tomorrow Studio

Annabel Anisfeld, Writer/Producer, Metalwork Pictures, Olami Productions, Cygnet Gin

Rene Anisfeld, Voluntary Worker

Ricki Askin, Music Executive

Andrea Ballas, Publicity, Paramount

Craig Balsam, CEO, RT Industries

Will Barton, Actor

Richard Baskind, Lawyer, SMB

Bellamy Bellucci, Speaker, Ballet Coach, Model, Advocate and Activist

Abraham Bengio, Agent, WME

Adam Berkowitz, Founder and President, Lenore Entertainment Group

Luc Bernard, Director, Voices of the Forgotten

Mayim Bialik, Actor, Director, Sad Clown Productions

Annelise Bianchini, Actor

Josh Binder, Partner, Rothenberg Mohr & Binder, LLP

Andrea Black, Actress/Singer/Songwriter/Author, AKR Records

Neil Blair, Partner, The Blair Partnership

Ben Bodie, Music Publishing, NWS Music Group

Dan Brunn, Founder, Dan Brunn Architecture

Roni Brunn, CEO, Form and Pattern

Adam Cailler, Chairman of Reach PLC’s Jewish Network and Daily Star Senior Reporter, Reach PLC

Emily Cameron, Manager, ATC Management

Danny Cohen, President, Access Entertainment

Kate Cohen, Producer, Straight Up Films/MK Entertainment

Lyor Cohen, Global Head of Music, Google/YouTube

Jonathan Conway, Literary Agent, Jonathan Conway Literary Agency

Leanne Coronel, President, The Coronel Group

Raye Cosbert, Managing Director, Metropolis Music

Ben Cosgrove, CEO, Leviathan Productions

Eddy Cottridge, Actor

Doug Davis, Founder, The Davis Firm

Mirelle Davis, Artist Manager, Wind Up Bird Ltd

Shula Daws, Development Producer, Plum Pictures

Will Daws, Managing Director, Plum Pictures

Rebecca De Mornay, Actor

Avi Diamond, Director, Film & TV Licensing, Warner Music Canada

Laura Dodsworth, Writer

Craig Dorfman, Owner/Manager, Frontline Management

Brian Drach, Music Lawyer, Lewis Brisbois

David Draiman, Frontman of the band Disturbed

Jeremy Drysdale, Screenwriter, big:bam:boo:film:tv

Rabbi Pini Dunner, Rabbi, Beverly Hills Synagogue

Linda Edell Howard, Attorney, Edell Howard Enterprises

Ellis Elias, Chairman, Broadley Studios Ltd.

Craig Emanuel, LFG Productions

Eric Feig, Entertainment Attorney, Feig/Finkel LLP

Jacob Fenton, Partner, United Talent Agency

Ken Fermaglich, Partner, United Talent Agency

Larry Finlay, Retired Publisher, Transworld/Penguin Random House

Bradley Fischer, Producer, Wise Owl Media

David Fishof, Producer and Music Executive

Andrew Fox, Researcher and Writer, Henry Jackson Society

Jordan Frazes, Founder FRAZES CREATIVE

Adam Friedman, Executive + Investor, CAA + Connect Ventures

Adina Friedman, Manager, Artist House

Siri Garber, CEO & Founder, Platform Public Relations

Clive Gehle, Actor/Writer

Brett Gelman, Actor/Writer, Jaddy Inc.

Andrew Genger, Manager, Red Light Management

Maya Giladi, Business and Legal Affairs, Netflix

Gary Ginsberg, Partner, 25madison

Dan Glatman, Senior Relationship Director, Digital Futures

David Glick, Founder & CEO, Edge Group

Diana Golan, Make Up Artist

Elissa Gold, Creative Event Producer and Cultural Programmer, Admin & Event Solutions Limited

Saul Goldberg, Agent, CAA

Alistair Goldsmith, President, Chosen Music

Warren Goldstein, Chief Rabbi of South Africa, UOS

Michael Goldwasser, President/Co-Founder, Easy Star Records

Julian Goodkind, CEO, Pure Sync

Elizabeth Goodstein, VP, Business Development + Strategy, Madison Wells Media

Andrew Gould, President, Music Publishing, Roc Nation

Malcolm Green, Director and Writer, Vigilante

Scott Greenberg, Manager and Partner, LBI Entertainment

Brett Gursky, Director, Magic Hour

Ronnie Harris, Partner, Harris and Trotter

Jonathan Hart, Producer

Alex Hearn, Creative Director, The Big A

Murray Hecht, Creative

Noreena Hertz, Writer

Sarah Hildering van Lith, Director, Electronic Music Virgin Music Group, Universal Music Group

Tsiona Hill, Actor

Sammy Horowitz, Writer/Producer

Josh Howie, Comedian/Writer

Sandra Jackson, Management, Phil Carson Associates

Sharon Joy, National Campaign Director, Jewish National Fund USA

Daniella Kahane, Founder, Riverside Pictures LLC

Rosie Kay, Director & Choreographer, K2CO

Richard Kemp, Writer

Charlotte Kendall, Accountant, Harris and Trotter LLP

Adam Kenwright, CEO, Kindred Partners

Lee Kern, Writer and Comedian

Melanie Kessler, Production Coordinator

Yosefa Koholany, Project Manager, Indipende

Jacob Krichefski, Actor

Dani Labi, Sales and Marketing, Dani Labi Consulting

Nicole Lampert, Journalist and Broadcaster

Colin Lester OBE, Founder/Chairman, JEM Music Group

Ray Levy, Music Consultant, Ray Levy Consultant

Sean Liebowitz, Agent, Creative Artists Agency

Danielle Livesey, Music Management, PUSH Music Management

David Lonner, CEO, The David Lonner Co.

Patty Malkin, Costume Supervisor, Universal/Warner/Netflix

Gabriel Mann, Composer/Producer

Deborah Marcus, CAA Foundation, Executive, CAA

Amanda Markowitz, Actor/Producer

Orly Marley, President, Tuff Gong Worldwide

Dylan Massoni, Product Manager, Paramount

Natalia Maus, Producer, Nudnik

Brian Message, Director, All Things Considered Management

Debra Messing, Actor

Darren Michaelson, Director, L25 Entertainment

Laurence Miller, Commercial Director/General Manager, Nimax Theatres Ltd

Mark Morris, Managing Director, Investream

Michelle Morris, PR, Emerald PR

Tracy Ann Oberman, Actress and Playwright

Laura Ohnona, PR, LOPR

Ozzy Osbourne, Artist and Author

Sharon Osbourne, Music Manager, Television Host, and Author

Leo Pearlman, Co-CEO, Fulwell Entertainment

Wendy Plaut, SVP Celebrity Talent, Paramount Global

Gina Powell, Producer

Golan Ramraz, Producer, EGX Film Factory

David Renzer, Former Chairman/CEO, Universal Music Publishing

Rick Rosen, Co-Founder, WME

Erez Rosenberg, Partner, Jackoway Austen

Claudia Rosencrantz, TV Producer

Nathan Ross, Film/TV Producer, Lilyrose Productions Inc.

Michael Rotenberg, Partner, 3 Arts Entertainment

Colin Schaverien, Managing Director, Prolifica

Ayelet Schiffman, SVP, Promotion, REPUBLIC

Steve Schnur, Worldwide Executive & Music President, Electronic Arts

Nadia Schoenzwytt, Director

Jordan Schur, CEO and Chairman, Mimran Schur Pictures and Suretone Entertainment

Camila Seta, Executive, Brand Consulting

Ofer Shabi, Director, Soho Sonic Ltd

Professor Jonathan Shalit OBE, Chairman, InterTalent/Project 30 Studios/Chosen Music

Hillary Shaw, Managing Director, Entertainment Management

Jeremy Sigel, SVP Marketing Strategy & Operations, Paramount

Ben Silverman, Chairman and Co-CEO, Propagate Content

Tamar Simon, Owner, Mean Streets Management

Martin Singer, Attorney, Lavely & Singer

Jon Smith, Consultant, First Artist

Jeff Sosnow, EVP, A&R, Warner Records

John Spencer, Executive Director, Urban Warfare Institute

Halle Stanford, Executive Producer, The Jim Henson Company

Jonathan Steinsapir, Attorney, Kinsella Holley Iser Kump Steinsapir

Caroline Stevens, Director, Isolutions Property Services Ltd

Estee Stimler, Playwright/Lyricist

Jonathan Strauss, CEO, Create Music Group

Tara Strong, Actress

Fernando Szew, Head of Studio, Fox Entertainment

Adam Taylor, President, APM Music

Inge Teeuwen, TV Producer, Inge Teeuwen Media

Karynne Tencer, Publicist, Tencer & Associates

Stephanie Thwaites, Literary Agent, Curtis Brown

Fred Toczek, Partner, Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis Ryan LLP

Lee Trink, CEO, Game Theory Ventures

Laura Tropp, Publicist, Paramount Pictures

Eric Tuchman, Writer, Producer

Jonathan Turner, Chief Executive, UK Lawyers for Israel

David Ventura, Managing Director, Music Publishing

Noa Vinshtok, Range Media

Vera Wagman, Producer, Velocity + Direction

Karyn Wagner, Costume Designer, Karyn Wagner Costumes Inc

Ariyela Wald-Cohain, Costume Designer, Waco Designs

Evan M. Warner, Senior Partner/Agent, WME

Adam Wells, Director

Rebecca Wicking, Actor/Singer

Modi Wiczyk, Co-Founder, MRC

Jennifer Zeller, Music Consultant, ESP

** Note – The signers of this statement do so as individuals on their own behalf and not on behalf of their companies or organizations. All organizations and companies listed are for affiliation purposes only.

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1000+ Authors, Writers, Journalists, Publishers, and Entertainment Leaders Stand United Against Cultural Boycotts

Writers from around the globe including Lee Child (creator of Jack Reacher), Bernard Henri-Lévy (Philosopher and Author), Herta Müller (Author, Poet, and Nobel Prize Award Winner), Sir Simon Schama (Historian and Author), Howard Jacobson (Booker Prize-winning Author), Simon Sebag Montefiore (Historian and Author), Adam Gopnik (Writer), Yossi Klein Halevi (Author), David Mamet (Author & Pulitzer Prize Winner), Elfriede Jelinek (Author and Nobel Prize Award Winner) join entertainment leaders, Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing, Julianna Margulies, Scooter Braun, Haim Saban, Ynon Kreiz, Ozzy Osbourne, and Gene Simmons, amongst many others, to reject boycotts against authors and literary institutions.

LOS ANGELES (October 30, 2024) — More than 1000 leaders from the literary and entertainment industry signed an open letter released by the non-profit entertainment industry organization Creative Community For Peace (CCFP) in support of freedom of expression and against discriminatory boycotts.

The letter comes in response to continued efforts to boycott, harass, and scapegoat Jewish and Israeli authors and literary institutions. Among the signatories are Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, and Booker Prize winners.

Booker Prize-winning author, Howard Jacobson said: “Art is the antithesis to a political party. It is a meeting place not an echo chamber. Art explores, discovers, differs, questions and surprises. Precisely where a door should be forever open, the boycotters slam it closed.”

Recent calls to boycott Israeli literary institutions follow a year filled with efforts to demonize and ostracize Jewish authors across the globe. In the last year, bookstore appearances have been canceled based on authors’ identities and book readings have been shut down. Activists have publicized lists of “Zionist” authors to harass and just last week, ads for a book with ‘Israel’ in the title were rejected.

Author of the Jack Reacher novel series, Lee Child said: “Politically targeting novelists, authors, and publishing houses based on their nationality is misguided. At a time when dialogue is paramount and when compromise can lead to peace, castigation and blanket boycotts are counterproductive. The written word, and the dissemination of it, must always be protected, especially in times of heightened tension. And to achieve peace, we must humanize one another and build bridges across communities through the open exchange of ideas. Literature allows for that. Boycotts hinder it.”

The letter highlights the unique role that writers and books play in society, “We believe that writers, authors, and books — along with the festivals that showcase them — bring people together, transcend boundaries, broaden awareness, open dialogue, and can affect positive change.” It continues, “We believe that anyone who works to subvert this spirit merely adds yet another roadblock to freedom, justice, equality, and peace that we all desperately desire.”

Actress and Author Mayim Bialik said, “Harassing authors, canceling bookstore appearances, and boycotting people based solely on their identity is disturbing and polarizing in ways that cannot be dismissed or minimized. Attempts to dictate “who” or “what” should be published have nothing to do with any path to coexistence or peace. This kind of rhetoric encourages demonization and hatred. As an author and as a creative, I believe in peace, I believe in humanity, and I believe in meaningful discourse. Silencing and sowing discord in this way reduces complex individuals to oversimplified caricatures which only hardens existing hostility and makes the hope for peace inch farther away.”

Philosopher and Author Bernard-Henri Lévy said: “I have always believed in the power of ideas and truth. I have always been in favor of debate, clash of opinions, even the confrontation of convictions. But what we have here is not a clash of opinions or a debate. Boycotting Israeli writers, publishers and festivals is pure anti-Semitism – and it’s anti-democratic and dangerous. The goal of this boycott is the delegitimization of the only Jewish state in the world—Israel. It is a moral obscenity and must be firmly condemned by all free-thinking and democratic citizens of the world.”

Author and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore said: “The resort to witch hunt is always dangerous and ugly especially when the inquisitors are writers. History is full of examples of self-righteous cadres of self-appointed judges who tried to enforce their version of purity by excluding people. Whatever one thinks of this tragic Middle Eastern war, who judges who is good, who bad? Once started where would it stop? Who is pure enough?

The statement is the first of its kind – a call from the literature and entertainment community to unequivocally voice support against boycott attempts based on identity or litmus test.

The letter states: “Regardless of one’s views on the current conflict, boycotts of creatives and creative institutions simply create more divisiveness and foment further hatred.” The letter concludes: “We call on our friends and colleagues worldwide to join us in expressing their support for Israeli and Jewish publishers, authors, and all book festivals, publishers, and literary agencies that refuse to capitulate to censorship based on identity or litmus tests.”

CCFP Executive Director Ari Ingel said, “Authors, writers, and literary groups have faced non-stop harassment by a dedicated group of illiberal activists since October 7th. This is not just about Israeli authors. This is a coordinated campaign to bully and threaten anyone who refuses to condemn Israel, which targets Jews and their allies worldwide. These boycott calls, now being led by members of the literary community themselves, are reminiscent of the 1933 boycott of Jewish authors, when antisemites burned over 25,000 books. The works of Jewish authors like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, alongside American works by Ernest Hemingway and Helen Keller were burned. This is where things are once again headed.”

Signatories Include:

Howard Jacobson, Booker Prize-winning Author; Lee Child, Author; Mayim Bialik, Actress & Author; Dr. Simon Sebag Montefiore, Historian and Author; Bernard-Henri Lévy, Philosopher and Author; Sir Simon Schama, Historian and Author; Yossi Klein Halevi, Author; Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright,  Author and Nobel Prize Award Winner; David Mamet, Author & Pulitzer Prize Winner; Ozzy Osbourne, Artist and Author; Sharon Osbourne, Author, Manager, TV Personality; Herta Müller, Author and Nobel Prize Winner; Dara Horn, Author; Debra Messing, Actress, Gene Simmons, Author & Artist; Julianna Margulies; Actress; Jerry O’Connell, Actor; Douglas Murray, Author; Scooter Braun, Founder/CEO, Hybe America, Ynon Kreiz, Chairman and CEO, Mattel, Inc.; Haim Saban, Chairman and CEO, Saban Capital Group;  Aaron Bay-Schuck, CEO/Co-Chairman Warner Records; Sherry Lansing, Former CEO of Paramount Pictures; Rick Rosen, Co-Founder, Endeavor; Jenji Kohan, Writer/Producer; Adam Gopnik, Writer; Deborah Harris, The Deborah Harris Agency; Diane Warren, Songwriter; Anders Rydell, Author; Ilya Kaminsky, Author and Poet; Elisa Albert, Author; Aayan Hirsi Ali, Author; Lionel Shriver, Author; Noreena Hertz Author; Sir Niall Ferguson Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Author; Rebecca De Mornay, Actress; Jennifer Jason Leigh, Actress; Amy Sherman-Palladino, Writer and Producer; Matti Friedman, Author; Neil Blair, Partner, The Blair Partnership; Anthony Julius, Attorney and Author; Gail Simmons, Author; Ben Silverman; Chairman & Co-CEO, Propagate Content; Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize Winner; Brett Gelman, Actor/Writer/Author/Comedian; Fernando Szew, President, Fox Entertainment Harlen Coben, Author; Jeff Garlin, Actor; David Draiman, Artist, Disturbed Frontman; Jaime King, Actress; Jonny Greenwood, Musician, Radiohead; Sam Harris, Author, Neuroscientist, PEN Award Winner; David Lagercrantz, Author; Joel Fields, Showrunner; Gary Barber, Executive, amongst many others.

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FULL OPEN LETTER

We, the undersigned writers, authors, and entertainment industry professionals reject the calls to boycott Israeli and Jewish writers, publishers, authors, book festivals and literary agencies, along with those who support, work with, or platform them.

We continue to be shocked and disappointed to see members of the literary community harass and ostracize their colleagues because they don’t share a one-sided narrative in response to the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

Israel is fighting existential wars against Hamas and Hezbollah, both US, UK, and European Union designated terrorist groups.

The exclusion of anyone who doesn’t unilaterally condemn Israel is an inversion of morality and an obfuscation of reality.

History is full of examples of self-righteous sects, movements and cults who have used short-lived moments of power to enforce their vision of purity, to persecute, exclude, boycott and intimidate those with whom they disagreed, who made lists of people with ‘bad’ views, who burned ‘sinful’ books (and sometimes ‘sinful’ people).

Over the past year, planned bookstore appearances by Jewish authors have been canceled, ads for books about Israel have been rejected, book readings have been shut down, literary groups have been targeted, and activists have publicized lists of “Zionist” authors to harass.

The instincts and motivations behind cultural boycotts, in practice and throughout history, are directly in opposition to the liberal values most writers hold sacred.

Boycotts against authors and those who work with them is illiberal and dangerous.

In fact, we believe that writers, authors, and books — along with the festivals that showcase them — bring people together, transcend boundaries, broaden awareness, open dialogue, and can affect positive change.

We believe that anyone who works to subvert this spirit merely adds yet another roadblock to freedom, justice, equality, and peace that we all desperately desire.

Regardless of one’s views on the current conflict, boycotts of creatives and creative institutions simply create more divisiveness and foment further hatred.We call on our friends and colleagues worldwide to join us in expressing their support for Israeli and Jewish publishers, authors, and all book festivals, publishers, and literary agencies that refuse to capitulate to censorship based on identity or litmus tests.

** Note – The signers of this statement do so as individuals on their own behalf and not on behalf of their companies or organizations. All organizations and companies listed are for affiliation purposes only. 

SIGNED

Ari Ingel, Executive Director, Creative Community for Peace

Aaron Bay-Schuck, CEO/Co-Chairman, Warner Records

Tiran Aakel, Actor

Lucy Abrahams, Literary Scout

Jon Acker, Musician/Composer

Marty Adelstein, CEO, Tomorrow Studios

Corie Adjmi, Writer

Jenny Afia, Partner and Solicitor Advocate, Schillings

Elisa Albert, Novelist

David Alberts, Co-Founder, BeenThereDoneThat

Alexandra Aldrich, Author

Rotem Alima, Executive Producer, Rotem Alima Productions

Tamar Almor, Full Professor, The College of Management

Robert Alter, Writer, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Sherry Amatenstei, Author/Psychotherapist

Maya Amrami, Artist

Rebecca Amsellem, Author, Gloria Media

Melissa Amster, Book Publicist

Jillian Apfelbaum, EVP Film, Village Roadshow Entertainment Group

Sarah Aroeste, Author

Sarah Aronson, Author

Bennett Arron, Author

Robert Asahina, Author

Anne-Marie Asner, Producer & Author

Jeff Astrof, TV Writer/Producer

Moran Atias, Actor/Writer, Nine Images

Shira Atik, Poet and Translator

Eve Attermann, Literary Agent, WME

Joshua Azouz, Playwright

Jenny Lyn Bader, Playwright & Author

Jill Baer, Screenwriter

Andrea Ballas, VP Comms, CBS

Craig Balsam, Producer

Varda Bar-Kar, Director-Producer, Wild Rose Pictures

Don Barak, Filmmaker and Author, Don Barak Productions

Julie Barer, Literary Agent

Eve Barlow, Writer, Blacklisted

Cody Barnes, Actor

Archie Baron, Filmmaker and Author, Wingspan Productions

Lisa Barr, Author

Jackie Barrie, A&R, Jackie Barrie Entertainment

Nicole Barrs, Author

Fred Barton, Composer/Arranger

Will Barton, Actor

Yosef Baskin, Author

Richard Baskind, Partner, Simons Muirhead Burton LLP

Judy Batalion, Author

Elisa Baum, Writer

Brian Baumgartner, Actor, Writer

Jaime Becker, Event Producer

Gina Bellman, Actor

Shahar Ben Halevi, Author, Cornfield Media

Aton Ben-Horin, EVP, A&R, Warner Music Group and CEO, Plush Management

Jessica Benhamou, Director

Steven Bensusan, President, Blue Note Entertainment Group

Susie Berg, Sensitivity Reader, Writer, Consultant

Ram Bergman, Producer, T-Street

Johanna Berkman, Journalist

Adam Berkowitz, President and Founder, Lenore Entertainment Group

Mickey Berman, Partner/Agent, UTA

Paul Berman, Writer

Arnie Bernstein, Writer/Teacher/Speaker

Donna Bertaccini, Journalist

Paul Besterman, Actor

Mayim Bialik, Actor, Author

Sharon Bialy, Casting Director, Bialy/Thomas & Associates

Annelise Bianchini, Actor/Writer/Producer

Frances Bildner, Managing Director, Creative Wiz Kids

Julie Bindel, Writer

Josh Binder, Founding Partner, Rothenberg Mohr & Binder, LLP

Klaus Bittermann, Publisher and Writer, Edition Tiamat, Berlin

Sylvain Bitton, Entrepreneur

Georgie Black, Arts Patron

Madeleine Black, Author

Lori Blackman-Master, Supervising Producer/Head of Talent, NBC TSJF

Jonathan Blair, Partner, Simkins LLP

Neil Blair, Partner, The Blair Partnership

Sarah Blake, Author

Keren Blankfeld, Author

Jeanne Blasberg, Author

Diana Bletter, Writer, Times of Israel

Susan Blumberg-Kason, Author, The Artists Against Antisemitism

Evan Bogart, Songwriter & CEO, Seeker Music

Zoe Bohm, Publisher

David Bolchover, Writer

Joseph Bonn, Film Music Editor

Bob Bookman, Producer/Literary Manager, Smarty Pants Ventures, Inc.

John Boyne, Author

Frédéric Brahami, Author, Directeur d’études, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris

Scooter Braun, Founder/CEO, Hybe America

Jamie Brenner, Novelist

Jonathan Brent, Hiss Professor of History and Literature, Bard College

Howard Bressler, Author

Paul Brest, Professor Emeritus, Stanford Law School

Kate Brookes, Author

Caroline Brower, Author, Caroline Freedman Personal Training

Jennifer S. Brown, Writer

Rebecca Bruckenstein, Author/Editor

David Buchwald, Assistant Director

Benjamin Budde, CEO, Budde Group

Zeeva Bukai, Writer/Novelist, published by Delphinium Books

Julie Burchill, Writer

Paul Burger, CEO, Soho Artists

David Byrnes, Partner, Ziffren Brittenham

Stuart Cabb, Managing Director, Plum Pictures

Beverley Calvert, Artist

Emily Cameron, Manager, EmCam Arts

Michelle Cameron, Author

Emma Canning, Company Director, Engers Portelli

Allard Cantor, Partner, Epicenter

Inti Carboni, First Assistant Director

Talia Carner, Novelist, HarperCollins

Mike Carr, Producer

Liane Carter, Author

Geoffrey Charin, Author

Richard Charkin, Publisher

Phyllis Chesler, Author, Emerita Professor of Psychology

David Chesnoff, Partner, Chesnoff and Schonfeld

Lee Child, Author

Lee Child, Author

Historian Chinn, Co-founder/Producer, Lightbox

Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, Author, Journalist

Emmanuelle Chriqui, Actress

Claudia Clare, Artist and Writer

Sarah Claxton, Author

Adam Cohen, Head of Development, Noah Media Group

Danny Cohen, Entertainment Investor, Access Entertainment

Gary Cohen, Writer & Filmmaker

Kate Cohen, Producer/Director, Straight Up Films

Sharon Cohen, CMO, Common Sense Networks

Sir Ronald Cohen, Author/Businessman

Tanya Cohen, Partner, Range Media Partners

Hazel Collins, Company Director, Hazel Collins Design

Rosie Collins, TV Development, Miramax

Nina Colman, Writer

Jonathan Conway, Literary Agent

Raye Cosbert, Managing Director, Metropolis Music

Ben Cosgrove, CEO, Leviathan Productions

Paul Craig, Manager, Nostromo Management

Pamela Crystal, Co-Chair, BFAMI

Leah Cypess, Author

Miriam Dagan, Journalist

JR Dahan, Writer, Author

Christina Dalcher, Author

Linda Dangoor, Author

Sarah Darer Littman, Author

CJ Daugherty, Author

Sye Davidson, TV Producer

Doug Davis, Founder, The Davis Firm

Mirelle Davis, Artist Manager, Wind Up Bird Ltd

Kat Davis Solomon, Author

Shula Daws, Development Producer, Plum Pictures

Will Daws, Managing Director, Plum Pictures

Rebecca De Mornay, Actress/Director

Jamie Denbo, Writer/Producer, ABC

Reinhard Denke, Screenwriter, Amicus Pictures

Deborah Desser, Author/Writer, TULU PUB LLC

Leanne Deutch, Talent Producer, 16 Mile Talent

Benjamin Deyo, Author

Avi Diamond, Director, Film/TV Sync, Warner Music Canada

Laura Dodsworth, Author

Naomi Donne, Make Up Designer Film/TV/Theatre

Craig Dorfman, Talent Manager/Producer, Frontline Management

Rachel Douglas, Manager

David Draiman, Frontman, Disturbed

Erika Dreifus, Author

Wendy Dreskin, Author, Retired Journalist

William Dreskin, Author, Photographer, Musician

Jeremy Drysdale, Screenwriter, big:bam:boo:film:tv

Eli Eban, Professor, Jacobs School of Music

Linda Edell Howard, Lawyer, Edell Howard Enterprises LLC

Lisa Edelstein, Actor, Filmmaker

Zehara Eden, Business Affairs, WME

Angela Edwards, Artist

Sarah Einstein, Writer

Jessica Elbaum, Producer, Gloria Sanchez Productions

George Eltman, Senior Editor, The Deborah Harris Agency

Craig Emanuel, Ryan Murphy Productions

Dvora Englefield, Head of Music Artist Strategy, WME

Andrea Epstein, Communications Executive, CBS Studios

Estelle Erasmus, Journalist

Josh Erlick, Dramatherapist

Michael Etherton, Chief Executive, UK Jewish Film

Samantha Ettus, Author

Rami “Kosha Dillz” Even-Esh, Hip Hop Artist/Comic

Blake Ezra, Photographer and Writer, Blake-Ezra Photography Ltd.

Robert Faggen, Ph.D., Author

David Faigenblum, Producer, Concept Entertainment

Sharon Farber, Composer, Score by Score Music

Miriam Farbey, Author

Eric Feig, Attorney, Feig Finkel LLP

Lisa Feldsher, Partner/Writer, Mind Over Media

Patti Felker, Partner, Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis Ryan LLP

Anne Fenton, Chair, Lumina Search

Jacob Fenton, Partner, UTA

Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford

Ken Fermaglich, Partner, United Talent Agency

Amy Ferris, Author

Lauren Feuer, Author

Michael Feuer, Dean, George Washington University

Ruchama Feuerman, Author

Rachel Fidler, Actor/Producer, Echoes

Molly Fiedler, Producer, Klazer Consulting

Ross Filler, Artist, Remedy

Ellen Filreis, Author, Petits Trésors

Emma Fine, Scripted Coordinator, Cineflix

Karen Fine, Author

Larry Finlay, Retired Managing Director, Transworld/Penguin Random House

Sholly Fisch, Author

Debbie Reed Fischer, Author

Richard Fischoff, Producer

David Fishof, CEO, Rock n Roll Fantasy Camp

Wayne Fitterman, Partner, WME

Olga Flor, Author

Dr. Amanda Foreman, FRSA, Historian, Columnist, Presenter

Michael Foster, Economist, Fostermco Limited

Andrew Fox, Author

Emily Fox Kaplan, Author

Seth Fradkoff, Marketing, AmazonMGM Studios

Julia Franck, Novelist and Essayist

Alli Frank, Author, Alli and Asha Productions

Valerie Frankel, Author

Shulamit R Frankel Rudowski, Artist

Jordan Frazes, Founder, FRAZES CREATIVE

Stacey Freed, Writer

Dov Freedman, CEO, Curious Films

Hilary Freeman, Writer

Ariel Frenkel, Actor/Filmmaker

Jacqueline Friedland, Author

Adina Friedman, Manager, Artist House

Aimee Friedman, Author

Daryl Friedman, Former Chief Advocacy and Industry Relations Officer, Recording Academy

Matti Friedman, Author

Matt Gallagher, Author

Cecile Ganansia, Founder Director, Canopy Collections

Siri Garber, CEO, Platform Public Relations

David Gardner, President, Artists First

Jeff Garlin, Comedian

Nancy Gates, Partner, UTA

Charlie Gatsky Sinclair, President of Brands & Entertainment, Uncommon Creative Studio

Julie Gelfand, Associate Director

Danielle Geller, Author

Brett Gelman, Actor/Writer/Author/Comedian, Jaddy Inc.

Yfat Reiss Gendell, Literary Agent, YRG Partners

Andrew Genger, Manager, Red Light Management

Ilse Gerhardt, Journalistin, Autorin, Veranstalterin vo0n Kulturevents, Sängerin jiddischer Liedkultur, IG Literatur Kärnten

Geula Geurts, Literary and Foreign Rights Agent, Deborah Harris Agency

Adina Gewirtz, Author

Jessica Ghitis, Writer/Educator, Museum of Tolerance

Stuart Gibbs, Author

Joe Gibson, Author

Gary Ginsberg, Author, Partner, 25madison

Karen Glaser, Features Editor, Jewish Chronicle

Udi Glaser, Guitar Composer

Jaimie Glasson, Executive Producer

Ben Gleib, TV Host, The Young Turks

David Glick, Founder, Edge Media

John Glusman, Vice President and Executive Editor, W.W. Norton & Company

Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, Artist

Bracha Goetz, Author, Growing IMPACT Publications

Margarita Gokun Silver, Author

Judy Gold, Author, Comedian

Julie Gold, Screenwriter

Justine Gold, Deputy Head of Marketing, Simon & Schuster UK

Trudy Gold, Educational Programmer and Lecturer, Lockdown University

Lee Goldberg, Author

Natalie Goldberg, Producer

Rachel Goldberg, Director

Harriett Goldenberg, Psychotherapist, Trainer and Author

Victoria Goldman, Author

Ben Goldsmith, Chief Executive, Menhaden Plc​

Zac Goldsmith, Politician

Cary Goldstein, Publisher, Bloom

Dana Leslie Goldstein, Playwright/Lyricist/Librettist, Theater Garden, Ltd.

Michael Goldwasser, President, Easy Star Records

Adam Goldworm, CEO & Founder, Aperture Entertainment

Robert Golenberg, President, SLE

Jonathan Golfman, Co-President Film, MRC

Lynne Golodner, Author, Scotia Road Books

Nora Gomringer, Author

Thea Goodman, Author

Dana Goodyear, Author, Journalist, Podcast Host,

Siam Goorwich, Writer

Adam Gopnik, Author

Dan Gordon, Author/Screenwriter/Playwriter/Director

Howard Gordon, Author/Television Writer

Michael Gordon, Agent, Creative Artists Agency

C. Gordon, Author

Jordan B Gorfinkel, Author/Artist

Franklyn Gottbetter, Producer, Creative Necessity, Inc

Diane Gottlieb, Author

Andrew Gould, President, Music Publishing, Roc Nation

Manick Govinda, Arts Writer, Curator, Artist’s Mentor

Neil Grant, Executive Producer

Michael Gray, Producer, Carmaklyn Productions Inc.

David Greenberg, Historian, Writer, Professor, Rutgers University

Jeff Greenberg, TV Lit Agent/Senior VP, Gersh

Scott Greenberg, Manager and Partner, LBI Entertainment

Steve Greenberg, Founder/CEO, S-Curve Records

Jan Greenfield, Author

Yardenne Greenspan, Literary Translator, Writer

Melissa Greenwood, Writer

Naomi Greenwood, Editor

Heidi Grey, Writer

Elvira Gross, Editor

Tom Gross, Writer & TV Journalist

Gabriel Grossman, Author

Sabine Gruber, Author

Marc Guggenheim, Writer/Producer, Legalscribe Entertainment, Inc.

Allyson Gur-Aryeh, Writer

Michael Gurin, Author

Georgia Gwynne Gruber, Writer, Darklight Entertainment

Stacy Hackner, Lecturer, UCL

Roya Hakakian, Writer and Public Scholar, Moynihan Center, CCNY

Miriam Halahmy, Author

Martine Halban, Director, Halban Publishers

Simon Halfon, Producer, Nemperor Ltd

Rachel Hall, Writer/Professor, SUNY

Vicky Hamburger, Executive Producer

Emily Hamilon, Producer

Kenny Hamilton, Music Executive/Entrepreneur, CSH Management Group, Inc

Alison Hammer, Author, Berkley (Penguin Random House)

Rachel Harow, Writer

Rebecca Harper, Artist and Associate Lecturer, UAL

Richard Harper, Writer and Lecturer

Deborah Harris, Director, The Deborah Harris Agency

Lynn Harris, Producer, 6th & Idaho

Ronnie Harris, Partner, Harris & Trotter LLP

Toby Harris, Director, 100% Records

Harris Hartman, Partner, Sloane Offer Weber & Dern LLP

Kelly Hartog, Author

Ariana Harwicz, Author

David Hazony, Author, Director and Senior Fellow, Z3 Institute for Jewish Priorities

Murray Hecht, Actor

Wendy Heller, Lawyer, Heller Law Group

Jeffrey Herf, Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park

David Herman, Director, Double Shot Films

Andrej Hermlin, Bandleader and Musician

Jaime Herndon, Writer and Editor

Elisheva Herrera, Executive Director, The American Jewish Theatre

Noreena Hertz, Writer

Henry Herz, Author

Laurina Hildering, Writer, Pentaprogram

Sarah Hildering, Director, Dance & Electronic, Universal Music Group

David Hirsh, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London

Madison Hirshberg, Manager, Netflix

Aayan Hirsi Ali, Writer, Activist and Former Politician

Kitty Hoffman, Author

Bruce Hoffman, FRHistS, Author, Center for Jewish Civilization & Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University

Barbara Honigmann, Author

Jessamyn Hope, Author/Novelist

Jill Hoppenheim, Producer

Dara Horn, Author

Simon Horne, Executive Producer

Anna Horowitz, Agent, WME

Joanne Horowitz, Talent Manager/Producer, Joanne Horowitz Management

Sammy Horowitz, Writer/Producer

Louis Huglin, Senior Counsel, Entertainment Law

Gregg Hurwitz, Novelist

Ed Husain, Author

Frank Hyman, Author

Eva Illouz, Professor and Author, EHESS

Rich “BournRich” Ingram, Artist

Jess Irish, Associate Professor of Media Arts & Design, Parsons School of Design

Judy Ironside MBE, Founder and President, UK Jewish Film

David K. Israel, Composer and Author

Davina Jackson, Artist

Meredith Jacobs, Author

Howard Jacobson, Novelist and Journalist

Neil Jacobson, Founder, Hallwood Media

Michèle Jaffé-Pearce, Artist

Jonathan Jakubowicz, Writer & Director, Epicentral Studios

Brenda Janowitz, Writer

Agnes Jarek, Producer

Edie Jarolim, Author

Jennifer Jason Leigh, Actress

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright and Novelist (2004 Nobel Prize in Literature),

Tiffany Jenkins, Writer and Author

Jennifer Joel, Agent, CAA

Marti Johns, Author

Sara Johnson, Access Consultant, Casarotto

Alden Jones, Writer

Anthony Julius, Author

Heather Kadin, President, Scripted Television, Range Media Partners

Jonathan Kadin, Producer

Moshe Kahn, Literary Translator

Tami Kamin Meyer, Writer

Ilya Kaminsky, Author

Elaine Kandel, Makeup Artist

Avram Butch Kaplan, Producer, Mase Kaplan Produtions, Inc./Jamsea Productions, Inc.

Michael Kaplan, Writer-Producer

Mitchell James Kaplan, Author, Simon & Schuster

Jaime Eliezer Karas, Director/Writer/Producer, Traveling Republic of Karasovia

Dorian Karchmar, Literary Agent, WME

Jeremy Kareken, Writer/Actor, No Monkey LLC

Kimberly Karp, Writer

D Kasriel, Author & Editor

Alejandro Katz, Publisher

Hayley Katz, Media Lawyer, ZH

Zach KatzCEO & Co-Founder, Fixated

David Christopher Kaufman, Columnist and Books Editor, New York Post

Eve Kay, Executive Producer

Rosie Kay, Choreographer, K2Co/Director, Freedom in the Arts

Ysabel Kaye, Set Decoration Buyer, Jackson River Films Ltd

Shirit Kedae, Journalist

Karen Kedmey, Editor

Richard Kemp, UK-AWIS

Tony Kent, Author

Mary Gordon Kerr, Author, High Tide Publishing, LLC

Erica Keswin, Author, OPR LK

Keya Khayatian, Agent, UTA

Justice Kibbe, Filmmaker

Harper Kincaid, Author

James Kirchick, Author

Michelle Kirschner-Grant, Producer

Sharon Klaff, , Campaign4Truth

Yossi Klein Halevi, Writer, Shalom Hartman Institute

Sam Kling, Chief Creative Officer, SESAC

Ann Koffsky, Author

Keetgi Kogan Steinberg, Writer/Producer, ITP

David Kohan, TV Writer/Producer/Showrunner, Komut Entertainment

Jenji Kohan, Writer, Showrunner, Tilted Productions

Marc Koralnik, Literary Agent, Lipman Agency

Tally Koren, Singer-Songwriter

Zoe Korsner, Production Executive

Kym Kovary, Musician/Video Creator/Radio Show Host

Mark Krais, Lawyer

Esther Krakue, Journalist and Writer

Enrique Krauze, Editor, Letras Libres

Ynon Kreiz, Chairman and CEO, Mattel, Inc.

Jacob Krichefski, Actor

Michael Kuhn, Chair, Qwerty Films Ltd

Roger Kumble, Director

Joshua Kuperard, Publisher, Bravo Ltd

Ilana Kurshan, Author, The Deborah Harris Agency

Susan Kusel, Author, Librarian

David Kustow, Trustee, BFI Trust

Lindsay Kutner, Agent, Revolution Talent

Rob Kutner, Writer

julia Kuttner, Writer/Reporter

Adi Lahat, Actress

Tova Laiter, Producer, Avida Entertainment

Deborah Lakritz, Author

Nicole Lampert, Writer

Anita Land, Director, Anita Land Ltd

Dana Landman, Manager

Sherry Lansing, Philanthropist, The Sherry Lansing Foundation

Jen Lanter, Artistic Director, Shtarkcontrast

Lihi Lapid, Author, HarperCollins US & Ketter Publishing Israel

Estelle Lasher, President, Lasher Group Talent Management

Maya Lasker Wallfisch, Author

Keith Lauchlan, Publisher, Hendon Press

Dirk Laucke, Author

Danielle Lauren, CEO, Future Proofing Storytelling

Byrd Leavell, Co-head of Publishing, UTA

Marcus Leaver, Founder and Group Publisher, Gemini Books Group

Caroline Leavitt, Author, Algonquin Books

Adam LeBor, Author

Norman Lebrecht, Author

Stefanie Leder, Writer

Steve Leder, Rabbi and NY Times Bestselling Author, Wilshire Boulevard Temple

Debby Lee, TV Executive, Debby Lee Associates

Marsha Lee, Writer

Teddy Leifer, Producer, Rise Films

Paula Lejbowicz, Publishing Lawyer

Matti Leshem, Producer

Lisa Leshne, Business Owner, Literary Agent, The Leshne Agency

Beverley Lester, Author

Colin Lester OBEFounder/Chairman JEM Music Group

Elliott Lester, Director, Millwall

Efrat Lev, Foreign Rights Director, The Deborah Harris Agency

David Levene, TV Producer, Full House Media

Mark Levenson, Author

Michael Leventhal, Publisher, Green Bean Books

Elliot Levey, Actor

Gilli Levi, Director, Salisbury Group Limited

Monica Levinson, Producer, All of Us

Josh Levs, Host, They Stand Corrected

Caroline Levy, Producer, Carno Productions

David Levy, CEO, Back Nine Ventures

David LevyFormer President of Turner/WarnerMedia and Co-CEO / Founder, Horizon Sports & Experiences

Miranda Levy, Journalist and Author

Yael Levy, Author

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Philosopher and Author

Dassi Lewis, Journalist, Jewish Link

Stephanie Lewis, Creative Executive

Aliza Licht, Founder, Author, and Podcaster, Leave Your Mark

Nina Lichtenstein, Author, Maine Writers Studio

Sean Liebowitz, Agent

Koura Linda, Founder & CEO, Space Dream Productions

Graham Linehan, TV Writer and Director, Journalist,

Susie Linfield, Professor, New York University

Maureen Lipman, Actress/Writer

Jonathan Lipsey, Songwriter, Sony Music

Vivian Liska, Professor, University of Antwerp

Stephanie Liss, Playwright/Artistic Director, The American Jewish Theatre

David Lonner, CEO, The David Lonner Company

Dany Louise, Singer-Songwriter

Howard Lovy, Author, Howard Lovy LLC

Sidura Ludwig, Author

Gabriela Lugo, Writer/Director/Producer, Revek Entertainment

Jane Lush, TV Executive/Former BAFTA Chair, Kalooki Pictures

Alexandra Machinist, Agent, CAA

Sue Macy, Author

Ben Maddahi, President, Unrestricted Publishing & Mgmt

Juliana Maio, Author, Lighthouse Productions

Orly Malka, Publishing Associate, Kuperard

David Mamet, Playwright, Filmmaker, and Author

Gabriel Mann, Composer

Renske Mann, Author

Arnon Manor, Senior Vice President, Visual Effects, Sony Pictures Entertainment

Natalie Marciano, Producer, Rebel Entertainment

Deborah Marcus, Executive, CAA

Ashlee Margolis, Founder, The A List

Judith Margolis, Creative Director, Bright Idea Books

Julianna Margulies, Author

Orly Marley, President, Tuff Gong Worldwide

Josh Marlowe, Owner, Hafadai Inc

Winston Marshall, Musician

Nicholas Martin, Screenwriter

Alex Marwood, Author

Estelle Maslen, Musician

Fiorella Massey MBE, Author

Mara Maxfield, VP, Global Brand Partnerships, Warner Bros. Pictures

Josann McGibbon, Screenwriter

Barry McPherson, Exec VP of Talent, Independent Artist Group

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Professor of History, The New School

Robert Menasse, Author

Debra Messing, Actor/Producer

Nicholas Meyer, Author

Susan Meyer, Professor/Author, Wellesley College

Sonya Michel, Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies Emerita, University of Maryland, College Park

Harriet Levin Millan, Author, Drexel University

Ali Millar, Author

Laurence Miller, Theatre Producer, Nimax Theatres

Michele Miller, Writer

Sharon Miller-Gold, Foreign Rights Director, Bonnier Books UK

Avishai Milstein, Author & Director

Judith Minkove, Author

Yehudah Mirsky, Author

Keren Misgav, Theatre Producer

Daniel Mizrachi, Director, London Film School

Fonya  Mondell, Producer/Director, Fonfilm Productions

Bel Mooney, Journalist and Author, Daily Mail

Charlie Moore, Producer, Filmstein

Roger Moorhouse MA, FRHistS, Writer and Historian

Georgina Morelle, Head Agent, Smile Casting Talent Agency

Melvyn Morley, Author and Playwright

Ros Morris, Author/Historian

Tony Morris, Media Lawyer, LEVEL

Karen Morse, Screenwriter

Patrick Moss, Writer, Moroccan Boychik

Deke Moulton, Author

Herta Muller, Nobel Prize Laureate,

Douglas Murray, Author

Masimba Musodza, Author

Melissa Myers, Producer, MM Media

Talia Myers, TV Agent, UTA

Silvia Nacamulli, Author

Monica Nagler Wittgenstein, Literary Critic

Ruby Namdar, Author

DJ Nash, Writer/Director/Producer, Next Thing You Know Productions

Lori Nash, Managing Editor, Metascience

Nicole Nathan, Author

Sam Neal, Editor

Kasia Neiman, Producer, RatPac Entertainment

Constanze Neumann, Author

David Nevins, Producer

Adam Newman, Director, Aramima Capital Ltd

Anne Newman, Editor

Elizabeth Newman, Partner/Manager, Literate Management & Production

Lesléa Newman, Author

Stacy Nockowitz, Author

Amanda Norman, Children’s Book Designer, Mandy Norman Designs

Lisa Nupoff, Manager, iminmusic management

Sara Nuss-Galles, Writer

Jerry O’Connell, Actor/Host

Tracy Ann Oberman, Actress and Playwright

Gary Ogin, Scriptwriter, Motif Productions

Daniela Olsen, Director, Obsidian Eye

Cosh Omar, Actor/Writer

John Ondrasik, Five for Fighting

Judith Ornstein, Author

Ozzy Osbourne, Artist and Author

Sharon Osbourne, Music Manager, Television Host, and Author

Ilan Ossendryver, Photojournalist, Ic-creations

Anya Ostrovskaia, Theatre Director

Hendrik Otremba, Author

Lizzie Oved Scheja, Executive Director, Jewish Culture in Sweden

Zibby Owens, CEO, Zibby Media

Fania Oz-Salzberger, Author, Professor, University of Haifa

Cynthia Ozick, Writer

Scott PackmanFounder and Managing Member, SSP Partners LLC

Hynek Pallas, Author

Jonathan Papernick, Assistant Professor, Emerson College

Sarah Passick, Literary Agent

David Patrikarakos, Author and Journalist

Leo Pearlman, Managing Partner, Fulwell 73

Rozemarijn Pegt, Actor/Writer

Esmeralda Peleman, CEO, Peleman

Sarah Pelz, Executive Editor, HarperCollins

David Permut, Producer, Permut Presentations, Inc.

Gillian Philip, Writer

Linda Phillips Ashour, Author

Daniel Pinder, Music Editor

Mark Pinkus, President, Rhino Records

Ronit Plank, Writer/Teacher/Editor/Podcaster

Jonah Platt, Host, Being Jewish with Jonah Platt

Robert HP Platz, Composer

Wendy Plaut, SVP, Music & Celebrity Talent, Paramount Global

Agnets Pleijel, Author

Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Author and Activist

Neal Pollack, Author

Meryl Poster, Founder, Superb Entertainment

Jacob Potashnik, Screenwriter

April Powers, Former Chief Equity & Inclusion Officer, Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illstrators (SCBWI)

Sophia Poznansky, Director, Noh Theatre Company

Tad and Meredith Quill, Actors

Sylvie Rabineau, Co-Head, Book to Film/TV, WME

Doron Rabinovici, Author

Heidi Rabinowitz, Podcast Host, The Book of Life Podcast

Golan Ramraz, Writer/Producer, EGX Film Factory

Weina Randel, Author

Rebecca Raphael, Writer

Ron Rappaport, Writer/Producer, That’s A Rapp Productions

Rebecka Ray, Actor

Joshua Redlich, Associate Director, Publicity & Media Strategy, Random House Children’s Books

Larry Reibman, Cinematographer

Walter Reich, Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior, George Washington University

Itay Reiss, Talent Manager, Artists First

Eleanor Reissa, Author, Actor, Singer, Director

David Renzer, Former Chairman/CEO, Universal Music Publishing

Bruce Resnikoff, President & CEO, Universal Music Enterprises

Alyssa Reuben, Agent, WME

Dave Rich, Author

Tim Rich, Poet

Marnie Riches, Author

Frederic Richter, Producer, Writer & Consultant

Scott Rindenow, Director/Associate Director

Robert Rinder MBE, Author, Criminal Barrister

Cindy Rizzo, Author and Consultant, Cindy Rizzo Consulting

Wendy Robbins, Executive Producer

Andrew Roberts, Historian

Gareth Roberts, Writer and Journalist

Cathy Robson, Foreign Rights

Jennifer Rofé, Literary Agent, Andrea Brown Literary Agency

Jill Rogoff, Musician

Mike Rogoff, Translator, Author

Joshua Rom, Journalist, Writer, and Broadcaster

Chloe Rose, Publicist

David Rose, Journalist and Author, UnHerd

Dan Rosen, President, Warner Music Australasia

Jonathan Rosen, Author

Rick Rosen, Co-Founder, Endeavor

Sharon Rosen Leib, Author/Freelance Journalist

Aaron Rosenberg, Partner, Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light

Marion Rosenberg, Personal Manager

Claudia Rosencrantz, TV Producer

Alvin Rosenfeld, Professor, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University

Shira Rosenfeld, Creative Producer, Piva Entertainment

Scott Rosenfelt, Writer/Producer/Director, 8th Street Films, Inc.

Alyssa Rosenheck, Author/Photographer, Alyssa Rosenheck Photography

Rhonda Rosenheck, Author and Publisher, Exsolutas Press

Shani Rosenzweig, Agent, UTA

Nick Ross, Production Director

Adrienne Ross Scanlan, Author & Editor

Rena Rossner, Literary Agent, The Deborah Harris Agency

Michael Rotenberg, Manager, 3 Arts

Lynn Roth, Writer, Director, JDOG Films LLC

Joshua Rothstein, CEO/Founder, Ice Cream For Dinner

Howard Roughan, Author

Susan Royston, Author

Claudia Rubenstein, Director, Jewish Literary Foundation

Gail Rubinfeld, Artist

Anders Rydell, Author

Haim Saban, Chairman and CEO, Saban Capital Group

Howard Sackstein, Author, Journalist, Podcaster

Rochel Saks, Manager, SAKS&

Muriel Salem, Director of Art Collection, Cranford Collection

Laurie Saloman, Health Journalist

Michael Saltz, Attorney, Jacobson Russell Saltz Nassim & de La Torre, LLP

Damian Samuels, Director/Writer, DamSam Productions

Marc Samuelson, Producer, Route 24 Ltd

Lisa Ann Sandell, Author

Jordie Saperia, Author, Purple Glasses Media

Sarah Sassoon, Author

Jacqueline Saturn, President, Virgin Music

Fred Savage, Actor and Director

Sir Simon Schama, Historian

Hana Schank, Author

Leah Scheier, Author

Matthew Schellhorn, Concert Pianist

Jane Scher, Author

Rabbi Naftali Schiff, Founder and Chief Executive, Jewish Futures

Ayelet Schiffman, SVP Head of Promotions, Island Records

Barry Schkolnick, Writer/Producer/Creatoor, Schoolboy Productions

Ralf Schnell, Literary Scholar, University of Siegen

Steve Schnur, Worldwide Executive & Music President, Electronic Arts

Sabine Scho, Author

Sue Schraer, Psychotherapist, Author, and Poet

Orit Schreiber, Art Consultant and Curator

Jordan Schur, CEO & Chairman, Mimran Schur Pictures & Suretone Entertainment

Maxine Schur, Author

Gabriela Schutz, Artist

Daniel Schwartz, Professor of History and Judaic Studies, The George Washington University

Mindy Schwartz, Writer, 4 Legged Balance

Sam Schwartz, Partner, GSA Music

Jay Schweid, Founder/CEO, ephelants/Village

Ellen Scolnic, Author, The Word Mavens

Santa Sebag-Montefiore, Author

Ellen Sed, Author

Deli Segal, Writer

Hon. Evan J. Segal, Author

Karen Segal, Retired Editor

Dan Seligmann, Producer

Lisa Selin Davis, Author

Victoria Selman, Author

Simon Selmon, Author, Writer, Dancer, All Your Dance Needs Limited

Rick Senat, Producer, E H Senat and Partners

Dan Senor, Columnist and Writer

Guy Shalem, Filmmaker, GxS Entertainment

Zeruya Shalev, Author

Ellen Shallman, EVP, Universal Pictures

Denise Shannon, President, Denise Shannon Literary Agency, Inc.

Michal Shany, Entertainment Attorney

Maria Shapiro, Foreign Rights Agent, The Deborah Harris Agency

L.S. Sharrow, Author

Sandra Shashou, Artist

Avner Shavit, Film Journalist, Walla

Hillary Shaw, Manager, Shaw Thing Management Ltd

Carly Shear, Head of Legal, Hat Trick Productions

Sam Shemtob, Director, Name PR

Amy Sherman-Palladino, Writer/Director, Amazon Studios

Heidi Shertok, Author, Alcove and Embla and Faro Editorial

Iliza Shlesinger, Comedian

David Shore, Writer

Lionel Shriver, Author, HarperCollins

Richard Shtiller, Literary Attorney, Law Offices of Richard Shtiller

Leigh Shulman, Author, Mentor, Cloudhead, LLC

Jeremy Sigel, SVP Marketing Strategy & Operations, Paramount

Dan Signer, Writer-Producer

Jeremy Silver, Author

Michael Silver, Actor/Writer/Director, Big Daddy’s Knee Prods.

Viviane Silvera, Artist

Deana Silverberg, Writer

Ben Silverman, Chairman and Co-CEO, Propagate Content

Robert Silverman, Author

Gail Simmons, Author

Gene Simmons, Artist, KISS

Alex Simon, Writer, Wanderer Productions

Gregg Simon, Director/Producer, Wenley Inc.

Ralph Simon, Chairman & CEO, Mobilium Global Limited

Tamar Simon, Film Distributor, Publicist & Talent Manager, Mean Streets Management

Jake Wallis Simons, Editor, The Jewish Chronicle

Marc Simonsson, Dramatic Rights Agent, SoloSon Media Limited

Martha Simpson, Author and Librarian

Marty Singer, Managing Partner, Lavely & Singer

Gary Sinyor, Writer/Director, Magnet Films

Leora Skolkin-Smith, Writer, The Fiction Studio

Barry Skolnick, Director

Carol Skolnick, Author and Editor

Brad Slater, Agent, WME

Joseph Sloman, Writer

Victoria Slotover, Author

Jennifer Smith, Music Supervisor, Rat Dance Party Music Supervision

Joan Smith, Author & Journalist

Jon Smith OBE and Janine Smith, JS Consulting

Amy Sohn, Author,

Justine Solomons, Director, Byte The Book

Danielle Solzman, Film Critic, Solzy at the Movies

Jeff Sosnow, EVP, A&R, Warner Records

Aton Soumache, Producer

Dina Spechler, Associate Professor of Poltiical Science, Indiana University

John Spencer, Author, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies, Madison Policy Forum

Philip Spencer, Emeritus Professor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Kingston University

Nancy Spielberg, Producer, Playmount Productions

Yael Staav, Director, Allsorts Projects

Halle Stanford, President of Television, The Jim Henson Company

Benjamin Stein, Author

Johanna Stein, Writer, Mammoth Creative

Mandy Stein, Producer, Plain Jane Productions Inc

Mimi Steinberg, Writer/Producer

Jonathan Steinsapir, Attorney, Kinsella Holley Iser Kump Steinsapir LLP

Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize winner

Abby Stern, Author and Journalist

Jonathan Stern, Screenwriter

Michaela Stern, Artist, Starting Over Theatricals

Rachel Stern, Writer

Chana Stiefel, Author

Gary Stiffelman, Founder, GSS Law

Estee Stimler, Playwright/Lyricist

Lee Stone, Lee & Thompson

Rebecca Stone, VP, Production, Fox Entertainment Studios

Henya Storch, Author, Publicist, Storch Agency

John Strawson, Emeritus Professor, University of East London

Peter Strom, Author

Tara Strong, Actress

Andrew Stuart, President, The Stuart Agency

Geoffrey Suddleson, Partner/Co-Head Unscripted Television, United Talent Agency

Richard Susskind, Author

Per Svensson, Writer

Aaron Symonds, Film Composer

Fernando Szew, President, Head of Studio, Fox Entertainment

Debra Tammer, Comedian, Across The Pond Productions

Vivek Tandon, Author

Tal Tav, Actor

Adam TaylorPresident, APM Music

J.B. Taylor, Author/Book Designer, Thunderwing Studio/The Librarian

Nic Taylor, Creative Director/Designer, Thunderwing LLC

Karynne Tencet, Publicist, Tencer & Associates

Suzanne Tenner, Photographer

Rebecca Thomas, Agent

Steph Thwaites, Literary Agent

Noa Tishby, two times NY Times best-selling author

Lucy Tobin, Journalist

Fred Toczek, Partner, Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson LLP

Paul Trijbits, Producer, Magical Society

Jonathan Tropper, Author

Eric Tuchman, Writer-Producer, MGM-TV

Ben Turner, Director, Fulwell 73

Gabe Turner, TV/Film Producer, Fulwell 73

Jonathan DC Turner, Barrister, Three Stone

Merri Ukraincik, Writer

Ellen Umansky, Author

Rachelle Unreich, Author

Eric Underwood, Author

Stuart Urban, Writer/Director/Producer

Magda Uzan, Writer

Sharyn Vane, Writer

Danya Vasquez David, Author

Vladimir Vertlib, Author

Grachelle Villar, Art Consultant

Samantha Vinokor-Meinrath, Senior Director of Knowledge, Ideas and Learning/Author

Noa Vinshtok, Streaming, Range Music

Dana Vowinckel, Author

Galina Vromen, Author

Bruce Wagner, Writer

Elissa Wald, Writer/Editor/Publisher, Never Alone

Katie Walder, Actress

David Waldman, EVP Domestic Publicity & Awards, Paramount Pictures

Michael Walzer, Emeritus Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ

Evan Warner, Partner, Unscripted TV WME

Diane Warren, Songwriter, Producer

Joshua Washington, Artist, Composer, Music Teacher, Activist, JoDavi Music LLC

Tom Watson, Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

Jemma Wayne, Author

Jon Weinbach, President, Skydance Sports

Cynthia Weiner, Author

Matthew Weiner, Writer/Director

Rochelle Weinstein, Author, Lake Union Publishing

Jacob Weisberg, Executive Chair, Pushkin Industries

Susan Weiss, Artist

Valerie Weiss, Director

Mai Weisz, Actor and Writer

Adam Wells, Director

Ilana Wernick, Writer/Producer

Laura Wertkin, Creative Director, CAMBA, Inc.

Ron West, Partner, Thruline Entertainment

Naomi Westerman, Writer

Svante Weyler, Publisher

Bernard White, Actor

Modi Wiczyk, Co-Founder, MRC

Leon Wieseltier, Editor, Liberties Journal

Rebecca Wilson, Actor, Writer, and Fight Director

Jana Winograde, Television Executive

Jo Wioofe, Event Producer, Zev Events

Caryn Wiseman, Executive Agent, Andrea Brown Literary Agency

Sara Wiseman, Artist

Jennifer Withers, Talent Agent, StevensonWithers Associates Ltd

Cara Wodnicki, Founder, CSW Publicity

Iona Wolff, Photographer, Iona Wolff Photography

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K Woods, Producer

Michele Woods, Supervising Sound Editor for Film and TV

Stacey Woods, Writer

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Sharon Tal Yguado, Founder & CEO, Astrid Entertainment

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Neil Young, Writer

Nadhim Zahawi, Former Chairman of the Conservative Party

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Malachi Zweers, Author

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Greg Allon, Writer

Steph Altman, Composer, Mophonics

Aron Angel, Editor

Josh Anthony, Author, Tactical Group

Anke Apelt, Author

Bob Armstrong, Author

Rotem Atar, Translator, Poetry Place

Nate Auerbach, Partner, Versus Creative

Arthur Aughey, Author

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John Aziz, Writer

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David Banks, Author

Sarah Banks, Author

Trevor Baxendale, Writer

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William Bee, Children’s Author/Illustrator

Jessica Beer, Editor, Residenz Verlag

Michel Bergmann, Author

Devorah Berman, Author

Luc Bernard, Videogame Director

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Anne Birkenhauer Molad, Translator

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Sarah Camlett, Theatrical Agent, ITG

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Martin Cloutier, Author

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Conrad Cohen, Theatre Director

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Jonathan Guggenberger, Author

Rafaella Gunz, Writer/Journalist

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Andrew Gurland, Television Writer

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Katrin Hammerschlag, Artist

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Ari Hoffman, Associate Editor, The New York Sun

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Kara Jesella, Author

Jack Jewers, Author/Filmmaker

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Emily Judds-Winograd, Author

Ann Kafetz, Author

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Miriam Karp, Author, Poppy Seed Press

Jonathan Kaufman, Writer

Deborah Kaufmann, SVP, Literary Affairs

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Guy Kay, Author

Nick Kenton, Executive Producer

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Paulina Kewes, Author

Andreas Kilcher, Author, University Professor, ETH Zurich

Stephen D. King, Economist and Author

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Lisa Klug, Author

Ingrid Kohn, Author

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Melanie Notkin, Author, Melanie Notkin Media, Inc.

Bernie Nyman, Publishing Lawyer, BM Nyman & Co

Dorit Oliver-Wolff, Author

Monica Osborne, Author, Literary Scholar, Editor, The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

Ronya Othmann, Author

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James Phillips, Writer/Director

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Robert Philpot, Writer

Mark Piggott, Author

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Ben Pobjie, Author

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Jen Gilman Porat, Writer

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Chris Queen, Author/Editor, PJ Media

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Marval Rex, Actor/Producer/Artist

David Rich, Author

Ben Richards, Author and Screenwriter

Meg Richman, Author

Alan Rifkin, Author

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Michelle Rosenberg, Author

Dalia Rosenfeld, Author

Jo Rosenfelder, Media Lawyer

Jennifer Rosner, Author

Shani Rotkovitz, Producer

Jonathan Rubenstein, Producer, Crystal City Entertainment

Rebecca Rubin Seligson, Author, Wheellustrated Tales

Jill Rutter, Author

Jonathan Sachs, Editor

Jacklyn Saferstein-Hansen, Literary Agent, Renaissance Literary & Talent

Shelly Sanders, Author

Michael Sarner, Attorney

Malina Saval, Journalist and Author

Rory Scarfe, Managing Director, Client Management, The Blair Partnership

Robbie Schaefer, Singer/Songwriter

Jocelyn Schaible, Editor

Leslie Schapira, Writer/Producer, CBS

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Michèle Schindler, Author

William Schmidt, TV Writer, Edelson Productions

Yardena Schwartz, Author & Journalist

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Kaamya Sharma, Writer and Literary Translator

Linda Shecter, Author

Sigal Sherman, Artist

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Germán Sierra, Author

Douglas Silver, Author

Julian Sinclair, Author and Translator

Michelle Smart, Author

Noah Smith, Journalist/Producer

Rachel Sontag, Author and Therapist

Joyce Spiegel, Writer

Allan Spielman, Musician, Retro69

Brynn Sugarman, Author

Artur Sumarokov, Playwright, Cinema Critic

Beth Ellyn Summer, Author

Barbara Sumner, Author, Cloud South Films

Wodek Szemberg, Writer and Documentary Filmmaker

Joan Tabb, Children’s Author

David Tarbay, Author, Translator

Aaron Taylor, Author

Maya Tevet Dayan, Poet

Melissa Thomas, Author, New Reality

Bruce Thompson, Author

Laura Thompson, Author

Richard Trank, Filmmaker, Moriah Films

Karen Traviss, Author

Gabriela Tscherniak, Writer, Director & Showrunner, Cohensisters Entertainment

Ross Ufberg, Co-founder, New Vessel Press

Larisa Voloshin, Mosaic Artist

Dana von Suffrin, Author

Mark Wagenaar, Poet

Karen Wagner, Makeup Artist

Samuel Waksman, Author

Mara Weiner, Author

Jay Weisleder, Producer, Fuego Films

Liza Wiemer, Author

Lynn Wiese Sneyd, Author, LWS Literary Services

Michael Z. Wise, Publisher, New Vessel Press

Howard Wiseman, Writer

Paige Wolf, Author

Tilman Wolff, Author and Journalist, Filmbuero Wolff

Helen Wolkowicz, Writer

B.J. Woodstein, Author and Translator

Daniel Woolf, Author and Historian

Jonathan Yavin, Author, Mellel Publishing House

Daniel Zajac, Author

Paul Zakrzewski, Author

Jill Zarin, Author

Yigal Zur, Author

David Abeles, Actor/Musician

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Roshan Ali, Author

Selina Alko, Author, Selina Alko Books

Michael Ames, Author

Elisa Aseva, Author, Aseva

Nicky Austin, Make Up Designer

Michal Babay, Author

Jill Baer, Screenwriter

Laurence Baillie Brown, Author

Jordan Kaspar Baldassini, Publisher, Spider&Fish

Rachel Bar Yosef, Author

Gary Barber, Executive

Dara Barnat, Scholar, Author

Rodrigo Barroso, Jurist, Poet

Leonardo Bartali, Musician

Richard Bausch, Author

Gavin Bell, Author

Shelly Bell, Author

Jacob Benbunan, CEO and Founder, Saffron Brand Consultants

Emily Benedek, Author

Andre Berger, Author, Rejuvalife Vitality Institute

Doreen Berger, Author, Genealogist

Ilana Berry, Author

Barbara Bietz, Author

Joanna Bilska, Author and Retired Theater Director

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Elisa Birnbaum, Author

Bernard Black, Author and Researcher, Northwestern University

Alice Bloch, Author

Dan Bograd, Author

Tally Bookbinder, Makeup Designer

Elisa Boxer, Author

Janet Boyer, Author

Hezi Brand, Video Editor

Sandee Brawarsky, Writer

Ami Brodoff, Author

Isabelle Broom, Author, Hodder & Stoughton (UK)

Laura Brown, Author

Rachelle Burk, Author

David Calcutt, Playwright and Author

Valeria Cervetti, Audiovisual Translator

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Marie Davidson, Author

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Caroline Freedman, Author, Caroline Freedman

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Daniel Friedlaender, Advisor and Speaker

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Jan Gehmlich, Author

Simon Gerra, Finance Director, Snowed-In Productions

Joseph A. Gervasi, Author

Michal Ginsburg, Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, Northwestern University

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Michelle Goodman, Author, Seal Press/Hachette

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Judy Graham, Writer

Linda Grant, Author

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Nick Gurr, Author

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Monica Hernandez, Author

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Matthew Hiltzik, Communications/Producer

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Jessica Hornik, Author

Mark Horowitz, Writer/Editor

Katherine Howe, Author

Juliette Hughes Norwood, Author, Garratts Publishing

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Caroline Igra, Author

David Jacobson, Author

Julie Jaslow Auerbach, Author and Songwriter

Lincoln Jones, Director, American Contemporary Ballet

Danielle Joseph, Author

Jacqueline Jules, Author

Natan Jusid, Actor

Corey Kagan Whelan, Author, Corey Whelan Writers LLC

Jennifer Kam, Author

Aaron Kamin, Songwriter

Sharona Katan, Visual Artist

Vikki Katz, Professor & Author, Chapman University

David Kaufman, Author

Samuel Jay Kdyser, Author, Musician

Steven G. Kellman, Author and Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio

Stephane Kerber, Teacher/Writer

Barbara Kimmel, Author

Leslie Kimmelman, Author

Jamie King, Actress

Beth Kissileff, Author

Lothar Kittstein, Playwright

Francine Klagsbrun, Author

Rebecca Klempner, Author and Editor

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Debbie Koenig, Author

Ana Kohon, Artist, Poet

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Jen Kostman, Author

Michael Kramer, Editor, Translator, Professor of American Literature

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Elbie Lebrecht, Writer

Joan Leegant, Author

Jay Lehrfeld, Producer/Director, Fuzzbuster Films

Sarah Leibov, Writer

Jennifer Levin, Arts & Culture Journalist

Anna Levine, Author

Rebecca Levington, Author

Joanne Levy, Author, Author

Haggai Linik, Author

Elinor Lipman, Author

Amy Losak, Author

Bret Lott, Author

Robert Lowenstein, Author, Trebor Associates

Alex Lubet, Professor of Music, University of Minnesota

Steven Lubet, Author, Northwestern University (emeritus)

Annie Lulu, Author

Desi Lyon, Screenwriter

Erica Lyons, Author

Jeffry Mallow, Author/Professor Emeritus of Physics, Loyola University Chicago

Daniel Mandell, Author

Ann Manheimer, Author

Charles Manski, Author, Professor, Northwestern Univerisity

Richard Marceau, Author

Megan Margulies, Author

Sharlene Martin, President/Founder, Martin Literary Management

Jamie Mason, Author & Publisher, Storm Rhino Press

Carol Matas, Author

Kathleen McCook, Author and Professor

B.W. McFadden, Director

Andrew Meier, Author, Random House

Julie Merberg, Author and Publisher, Downtown Bookworks

Michele Merens, Author and Playwright

Janet Merran, Author, Calumet Editions

Brian Message, Co-chair, Music Business, ATC Group PLC

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Werner Michler, Literature Professor, University of Salzburg, Austria

Joanna Michlic, Author

Ilana D. Miller, Author

Anna Mitgutsch, Author

Victor L. Moore, Author, Playwright and Drama Teacher

Robin Morgan-Bentley, Author/Editor

Daniel D. Moses, Director

Carsten Nagel, Author

Mike Nappa, Author and Literary Agent, Nappaland Literary Agency

William Novak, Author

Debra Nussbaum Cohen, Journalist, Essayist, Author

Allison Ofanansky, Author

Anna Olswanger, Literary Agent, Olswanger Literary LLC

Ranen Omer-Sherman, Author, Book Reviewer, and Professor of Jewish Literature, University of Louisville

Robert Palm, Novelist

Sandra Perez Gluschankoff, Author

Linda Perlman Fields, Poet and Journalist

Nora Pester, Publisher

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Krisztina Politzer Maymon, Journalist, Izraelinfo

Astrid Poppenhusen, Literary Agent, Agentur Poppenhusen

Julia Pustet, Author, Musician

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Keith Raffel, Novelist, Columnist

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Philip Rappaport, Instructor, Writing, Literature, Publishing MA program, Emerson College

Philip Reeve, Author

William H. Reid, Author

Jade Reuben, Celebrity Agent

Zineb Riboua, Writer

Robert Rifkin, Author

Melissa Rifkin Uchiyama, Author, Writing Teacher, and Podcast Host

Ashley Rindsberg, Author & Senior Editor, Pirate Wires

Rebecca Robinson, Hair & Makeup Artist

Gerry Robinson, Writer

Laura Roettiger, Author

Leah Rogin, Author

Jonathan Rosen, Author

Mel Rosenberg, Author,

Ruth Rosengarten, Author

Nathan Ross, Film & TV Producer, Lilyrose Productions

Theodore Ross, Journalist/Writer/Editor

Karen Rostoker-Gruber, Author

Robert Roth, Author

Maxim Rowlands, Pianist

Nadine Rubin Nathan, Literary Agent, High Spot Literary

Jeff Sackman, President, Quiver Distribution Inc.

Kerri Sackville, Author/Columnist

Marnie Salsky, Documentarian

David Salter, Director/Teacher

Andrew Sanger, Author

Jane Schapiro, Author

Zina Schiff, Musician, Author

Derick Schilling, Book Editor

David Schinasi, Filmmaker, Schinasi 17 Production Films

Marianne Schönbach, Literary Agent

Antje Schrupp, Author

Jena Schwartz, Writer

Dahlia Schweitzer, Author

Lionel Scott, Author

Neil Seeman, Author and Publisher, Sutherland

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Miranda Seymour, Author

Anna Sez, Editor

Edna Shemesh, Author and Translator

Maralyn Sherman, Make Up & Hair Designer, Make Up On Screen Ltd

Colin Shindler, Author and Emeritus Professor, University of London

Judith Shulevitz, Journalist, Critic, Author, The Atlantic

Lori Silberman Brauner, Journalist

Shanna Silva, Author

Stephen Silver, Writer, Former Journalist

Hildy Silverman, Author, Editor

Susan Silverman, Author

Avi Sirlin, Author

David Michael Slater, Author

Jared Sleisenger, Vice President, Leviathan Productions

Larry Ratso Sloman, Author/Producer

Sophie Slotover, Make Up Designer

Alan Sommerstein, Author

Luigi Spina, Author, Omero. Il canto dell’orrido Polifemo

Laura Stegman, Author

Tammar Stein, Author

Rina Steinberg, Makeup Artist

Chantelle Stieghan, Author

Melissa Stoller, Author

Anna Stolley Persky, Author

David Stone, Author and Epidemiologist

Mike Stone, Author

John Thompson, Author, The Royal Canadian Military Institute

Andrew Tobias, Author

Rain Tolk, Director/Actor, Moonwalker Film

Vladimir Tsesis, Author

Christopher Uhe, Songwriter/Composer

Jeffrey Van Niel, Attorney and Author

Antoine Vetro, Author

Robin Vigfusson, Author

Ilaria Villa, Scholar and Musician, ARMA Research Centre

Nora Vinograd, Author

Guido Vitiello, Author

Jan Wagner, Author

Stuart Wainberg, President, Wainco Partners,LLC .

Julia Wald, Artist and Writer

Kathleen Walker-Meikle, Author

Herb Wallenstein, Manager

Kresha Warnock, Writer

David H. Webber, Author, Law Professor

Michael Weingrad, Author

Eric Z. Weintraub, Author

Gary Weiss, Author

Penny Wilson, Author, St. Martin’s Press

Meg Wiviott, Author

Michael Wuliger, Author

Suzy Zail, Author

Malka Zeiger Simkovich, Editor-in-Chief and Director, The Jewish Publication Society

Elliot Zellner, Author

Yuan Yi Zhu, Author

Zinovy Zinik, Author

Linda Zisquit, Writer

Beliban Zu Stolberg, Author

James Abadi, Director

Doug Abeles, Former Television Writer (SNL)

Rebecca Abrams, Author

Beth Ain, Author

Patrizia Bartoli, Author

Emanuel Bergmann, Author

Andreas Blegnæb, Composer, Karma Music

Melvyn Bragg, Author, Broadcaster

Carole Braverman, Playwright

Gregory Brown, Author, Editor, Professor of History, University of Nevada – Las Vegas

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Heather Cabot, Author

Carolyn Carbone, Creative Executive

Katharine Clanchy, Writer

Cathleen Cohen, Author

Julie-Ann Corrigan, Author

Naomi Danis, Author

Susan Dubin, Author and Library Director, Off-the-Shelf Library Services

Max Dublin, Author

Susan Dworkin, Author

Elizabeth Ehrlich, Author

Alexander Estis, Author

Joel Fields, Writer/Producer

Dahlia Fisher, Writer/Arts & Culture Marketing, Rebel Readers Cle

Avital Gad-Cykman, Author

William Galinsky, Artistic Director, Director of Programming, JW3 Jewish Community and Cultural Centre

Lauren Galit, Literary Agent, LKG Agency

Alex Gerlis, Author

Elliot Gewirtz, CEO

Seth Greenland, Author

Kerstin Grübmeyer, Dramaturg

Naomi Gryn, Author

Mercedes Gundermann, Author, Editor, Great-grandniece of writer Hans Werner Richter

Steve Hakeman, Author

Joseph Helmreich, Author

Peter Himmelman, Author/Songwriter/Performer, Himmasongs

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Michelle Jones, Author

Michael Kalifa, Sound Mixer, Emulsion

Golda Kass, Retired

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Michel Krielaars, Author

Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Novelist, Poet, Translator

David Jay Lasky, Producer

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Bernice Lerner, Author

Micha Liberman, Music Editor, Mind Meld Arts, Inc.

Amy Long, Author

Myra MacDonald, Author

Phillip Mandel, Author/Publisher

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Marvellous Michael Anson, Author

Phyllis Zimbler Miller, Author, Miller Mosaic LLC

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Stacy Nockowitz, Author

Michael Phillips, Producer, Lighthouse Productions

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More Than 500 Artists and Entertainment Industry Leaders Gathered To Honor Mayim Bialik, Ben Silverman, Elliot Grainge, Phylicia Fant, and Josh Binder at Creative Community for Peace’s 6th Annual ‘Ambassadors of Peace’ Event

Multiple speakers highlighted the need for dialogue and education and the entertainment industry’s responsibility to use their platform to promote peace and understanding

LOS ANGELES – On Tuesday, September 24th, Creative Community For Peace (CCFP), an entertainment industry non-profit organization, hosted its sixth annual “Ambassadors of Peace” (AOP) event to honor prominent entertainment industry leaders for their contributions in using the arts to foster unity, promote peace, and bridge cultural divides.

This year’s honorees were Mayim Bialik, Actress, Author, and Television Host, Ben Silverman, Chairman and Co-CEO of Propagate Content; Elliot Grainge, CEO of Atlantic Music Group and Founder of 10K Projects, Phylicia Fant, Head of Music Industry & Culture Collaborations at Amazon Music and manger to artists such Andra Day and Anthony Hamilton, and Josh Binder, Founding Partner at Rothenberg, Mohr & Binder LLP whose clients include Top Dawg Entertainment, Marshmello, Gunna, and Lisa of Blackpink.

The event was held at the Beverly Hills private residence of Aton Ben-Horin, Executive VP A&R, Warner Music Group & CEO of Plush Management.

Artists and entertainment leaders from across the industry were in attendance such as Grammy Award Winning and 13x Oscar Nominated Songwriter Diane Warren, President of Virgin Music Jacqueline Saturn, President of Music Publishing at Roc Nation Andrew Gould,  television producer and talent manager Benny Medina, CEO of Top Dawg Entertainment Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, Founder and Partner at 3 Arts Entertainment Michael Rotenberg, Co-Founder of Endeavor Rick Rosen; Artist Ava Max, artist and author Rachel Platten, actress and artist Andra Day, Co-President of Artists First Brian Dobbins, Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden, Co-Founders of Best Friends Music Brandon Goodman & Danny Rukasin, CEO of Universal Music Publishing Group Jody Gerson, COO and Co-Chairman of Warner Records Tom Corson, and CEO and Co-Chairman of Warner Records Aaron Bay-Schuck amongst many others.

Previous Ambassador of Peace honorees include luminaries such as Actor Eugene Levy, Actor and Director Liev Schreiber, Showrunner Darren Star, Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr., Grammy Award winning and 14x Oscar nominated songwriter Diane Warren, reggae legend Ziggy Marley, music mogul Scooter Braun, Chairman & CEO of Sony Music Latin America Afo Verde, and CEO and Co-Chairman of Warner Records Aaron Bay-Schuck amongst others.

Paying tributes for this year’s honorees included media personality and film producer, Ryan Seacrest, rapper Flavor Flav, comedian and showrunner Larry Wilmore, model and media personality Sofia Richie Grainge, music producer and DJ Marshmello, writer and producer Jenji Kohan, artist and actress JoJo, comedian Modi Rosenfeld, Chairman and CEO of Saban Capital Group Haim Saban, actor and artist Andra Day, songwriter and producer Salaam Remi, producer & founder of So So Def Recordings Jermain Dupri, actress Melissa Rauch, Senior Vice President at Prime Video & Amazon Studios Mike Hopkins, comedian Elon Gold, and actor Liev Schreiber.

The event also featured a soulful performance by Grammy Award-winning artist, Anthony Hamilton.

CCFP Chairman and Co-Founder, David Renzer, opened the evening stating, “We’re all here tonight as  part of one entertainment community, celebrating our biggest event ever with an amazing, deserving group of honorees who are leaders in our industry.  In this challenging time CCFP has expanded its mission to fight hate, galvanize the entertainment community to push back on antisemitism and support Israel.  We also believe in the power of the arts to help build bridges of peace and hope to return to focus on these initiatives after these difficult times of war.”

The evening featured heartfelt speeches from the honorees, each reflecting on their personal commitment to using their platforms to advance peace and unity:

Honoree Mayim Bialik said, “I never imagined I’d need the kind of support that CCFP has provided. I’m humbled to be recognized. As a scientist, a peace lover, and an activist, I’m just one person trying to figure out where we belong in this upside-down world. Thank you all for being here, and thank you for supporting CCFP, which allows so many of us to stand against discrimination and intimidation.”

Honoree Ben Silverman remarked, “The arts fuel my life, and television drives my ambitions. I believe that everyone should have the freedom to sing their song and speak their truth. The idea of banning people from expressing themselves is wrong. I’m so proud of the honorees here tonight. We all care about the freedom of our families. I encourage everyone to donate to this incredible organization. I also want to thank my colleagues; we’ve had countless conversations about Israel’s place in the world. I’m so glad we’re all here together. In these dark moments, there is only light.”

Honoree Elliot Grainge reflected, “Music has the power to bring us together, something we need now more than ever. That’s why CCFP is so important today. What we do as an industry and a culture has the power to unite us all. All of us have the ability to foster both physical and mental space for understanding. And that’s the true meaning behind unity.”

Honoree Phylicia Fant said, “While I’m thankful for every position I’ve ever held, my true role and purpose in these organizations extends far beyond what my title says; which is to demonstrate what is possible when you believe that anything is possible; to break ceilings and barriers; to make global impact; to uplift and mentor my team; to support my peers; to champion women. But don’t get me wrong, the work I was hired to do is definitely going to get done as well.”

Honoree Josh Binder shared, “We need more dialogue, more education, more tolerance, and less division and hate. Community doesn’t work if it only works for your community. It’s fake news that a Jew and a Muslim can’t accomplish great things together.”

The evening, while celebratory, also reflected on the ongoing challenges facing Jewish communities and the entertainment industry. Since the  October 7th attacks nearly a year ago, and amidst rising tensions in the Middle East, the Jewish community remains on edge. Speakers also acknowledged the continued importance of using their platforms to combat antisemitism and build tolerance.

Ari Ingel, CCFP Executive Director, closed the evening with a message to everyone in attendance, sharing, “These six honorees embody how we should live each day — with purpose and as agents of change. Everyone, all of you here, are change-agents, and have the ability to affect positive change in the world. To effect positive change for the Jewish people, and to effect positive change for the way Israel is seen around the world. And is it incumbent on all of us to do all we can,  to use our platforms to make sure that we continue to have a thriving Jewish community here in America and a thriving State of Israel.”

More information on Ambassadors of Peace can be found on the event’s website: https://www.creativecommunityforpeace.com/gala/

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