Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt
The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Human Rights Award
Ambassador Lipstadt is the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism. An author and professor of Jewish history, she won a precedent setting legal battle by defeating a libel suit filed against her by one of the world’s leading Holocaust deniers. Read more about her here.
Ambassador Oksana Markarova
Moment Women & Power Award
Ambassador Markarova is the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States. She was previously a First Deputy Minister and Government Commissioner in the Ukrainian Ministry of Finance. Read more about her here.
Max Weinberg
Moment Creativity Award
Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame drummer Max Weinberg is the drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band. He has also led the band and served as the music director for NBC-TV’s Late Night and Tonight Show franchises. Read more about him here.
Mindy Weisel
Moment Creativity Award
Mindy Weisel is an artist, author and speaker. She was elected into the Smithsonian Archives of American Artists in 2000 and her works are in the permanent collections of the National Museum of American Art, Oxford University and the Israel Museum. Read more about her here.
Cynthia Ozick
Gloria & Mitchel Levitas Literary Journalism Award
Cynthia Ozick writes novels, short stories, essays, and plays. She has received the highest honors in the literary world for her powerful and challenging prose. Read more about her here (Cynthia Ozick’s remarks will be read by author Dara Horn)
Emily Bazelon
The Robert S. Greenberger Journalism Award
Emily Bazelon is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. Read more about her here.
Connie Krupin
Moment Community Leadership Award
Connie is an artist, interior designer, author of A Time To Be Born: A Jewish Baby Journal and a Moment board member.