CUFI SUMMIT PRESS

CUFI 2025 Washington Summit Press Schedule

This schedule is subject to change. Press credentials must be requested by the close of business on June 25th. If you’ve not already requested credentials, please click below to do so.

SUNDAY, JUNE 29th   

6:00 pm           Press facilities open

7:00 pm           The Fight for Next Gen on Campus

  • Shari Dollinger, CUFI Co-Executive Director
  • Destiny Albritton, CUFI NextGen Senior Director

7:20 pm           Countering Antisemitism in High School: Jewish and Christian Perspectives

  • Musa Suriel, High School Student
  • Brandon Diehl, CUFI High School Student Programs Director

7:45 pm           Battlefields: From Gaza to Campus

  • Max Long, DePaul University, IDF Reservist, and Co-founder and Executive Director of GroWings
  • Kirby Calhoun, Director of CUFI on Campus
  • Arianna-Rosie Bourgoin, Texas Wesleyan University
  • Nicholas Marks, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Nataly Manzano, University of Connecticut

8:05 pm           Antisemitism in the Ivory Tower: The Harvard Story

  • Shabbos Kestenbaum, Harvard (formerly)

8:30 pm           Influencing the Influencers: Israel Beyond the Algorithm

  • Kasim Hafeez, CUFI Deputy Communications Director
  • Alyssa Rosenheck, Author and Photographer
  • Danny Eley, Content Creator

8:30 pm           Press Facilities close

 

MONDAY, JUNE 30th   

8:30 am           Press facilities open

9:30 am           Our Mandate: Standing with Israel and Her People

  • Pastor John Hagee, founder and Chairman, CUFI

10:00 am         Israel’s Critical Threats and Opportunities

  • Lt. Col. (IDF ret) Jonathan Conricus, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies

10:20               America, Israel and Protecting the Judeo-Christian Alliance

  • Malcolm Hoenlein, Vice-Chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

10:45 am         Iran Strikes: An Expert Discussion on the Path Forward

  • Benham Ben Taleblu, Senior Director of the Iran Program and Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
  • Boris Zilberman, Director of Public Policy and Strategy, CUFI Action Fund
  • Anthony Ruggiero, Senior Vice President, American Global Strategies

11:10 am         Faith in Action: Building the Zionist Vision

  • Miriam Adelson, American-Israeli physician and philanthropist

1:30 pm           Israel on the Plains: A Coach’s Moral Courage

  • Bruce Pearl, Head Coach, Auburn University Men’s Basketball
  • Sandra Hagee Parker, Chairwoman, CUFI Action Fund

1:45 pm           In God We Trust: Defending the West Through Faith and Courage

  • Marissa Streit, CEO, Prager U

2:15 pm           Survival, Sacrifice and Hope: A Nahal Oz Story

  • Amir Tibon, Nahal Oz resident, author, Ha’aretz Diplomatic Correspondent

2:30 pm           On the Record: Israel’s Media Battlespace

  • Fleur Hassan Nahoum, Israel’s Special Envoy for Innovation

2:50 pm           Peace through Strength, A View from the State Department

  • Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone, Advisor to the Middle East Special Envoy 

3:10 pm           CUFI’s 2024 Legislative Agenda

  • Sandra Parker, CUFI Action Fund Chairwoman

7:30 pm           Night to Honor Israel

  • Pastor John Hagee, founder and Chairman, CUFI
  • Rabbi Avraham Scheinberg, Senior Rabbi and Executive Director, Rodfei Sholom, San Antonio
  • Rachel Goldberg-Polin, American-Israeli Hostage Advocate
  • Mark Levin, Host of “Life, Liberty & Levin”

 

TUESDAY, JULY 1st   

8:30 am           Press facilities open

9:30 am           Why Anti-Zionism is Antisemitism

  • Roy Altman, US District Court Judge for the Southern District of Florida 

10:00 am         The Legal Battle to Defeat Jew Hatred: From Campus to Boardroom

  • Jason Miyares, Attorney General of Virginia
  • Kenneth Marcus, founder and Chairman, Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law
  • Sandra Parker, Chairwoman, CUFI Action Fund

10:30 pm         Fighting Terror: Israeli Warfare and International Hypocrisy

  • (ret) Richard Kemp, British Armed Forces

12:00 pm         Press Facilities Close Until Evening

6:30 pm           Press Facilities Open

7:30                 Evening Banquet 

  • Sandra Parker, Chairwoman, CUFI Action Fund

 9:00                Behind Enemy Lines: Representing Israel at the UN 

  • Danny Danon, Permanent Representative of Israel to the UN

 

The following audio/video/photo support will be provided at all open press events:

  • A camera riser will be made available to those who have arranged space on the riser in advance with CUFI staff.
  • A/V box with BNC (video) and XLR (audio) plug-in to live professionally produced feed will be available on the riser during remarks at plenary sessions.
  • Official photos available upon request.