2026 Acknowledgements:

This festival would not be possible without the tireless work of the following people:

Staff and Board:

Hilary Helstein, Festival Executive Director;  John Fishel, Honorary Festival Chair & Board Member; Richard Hirschhaut,Board Member; Roz Wolf PR, Publicity & Programming, Dan Kacvinski, Graphic Artist; Roxana Pourshalimi, Assistant.

 

Volunteers:

Kim Cavallo & Michele Kaufman, Founding Co-Chairs; Marge Chirchick & Elke Ereshefsky, Festival Co-Chairs; Larry Anklewicz, Programming Consultant; Shirley & Phil Sniderman, Community Liaisons; Elaine Seltzer, Chair of Volunteer Committee; Regina Safdie, Gay Elfand, Volunteer Coordinators; Marla Rubin, Hospitality; Candy Mintz, Jennifer Kutner, Gay & Ken Elfand, Nancy Glassberg, Regina Safdie, Mike Tauber, Lulu Fairman, Sharon Baumgold, General Committee; Todd Felderstein, Ira Goldberg, Media Arts; Roxana Pourshalimi, Social Media.

 

Additional Thanks:

Lorraine Sais, Mark Katrikh, and staff at Museum of Tolerance, Rabbi David Baron and Kasey Carter at Temple of the Arts, Jackie McDuff, Susan Hirschhaut, April McCall, Billy Schofield, Michal Braun, Adeena Bleich of JAHM-LA, Kimberly DuenĖƒas of Jewtina y Co., Greg Laemmle and staff, Neil Friedman, Heidi Oshin & Ben Saari of Menemsha Films, Oded Horowitz and Panorama Films, Limor Gott-Ronen, Tamar Simon, Henry Eshelman, David Suissa, David Fox, Jonathan Fong, Brian Fishbach, and Ayala Or-El of Jewish Journal, Jennifer Kutner of StandWithUs, Lily Moore of Legacy Entertainment and Hudson Helstein for his flexibility and help!