Speaker for Hillary Clinton - Ruth Messinger 

Ruth W. Messinger, President of American Jewish World Service (AJWS) from 1998 to July of 2016, is currently the organization’s inaugural Global Ambassador. 

Ruth’s 18-year presidency at AJWS began after a 20-year career in public service in New York City as a city council member and Manhattan Borough President. She currently sits on the State Department’s Religion and Foreign Policy Working Group, co-chairs the Sub-Working Group on Social Justice and is a member of the World Bank’s Moral Imperative working group on extreme poverty.

Ruth has been honored for her leadership with awards from many national Jewish organizations and honorary degrees from five major American rabbinical seminaries. Ruth is an active member of her congregation, the Society for the Advancement of Judaism. She holds a B.A. from Radcliffe College and an M.S.W. from the University of Oklahoma. She is married to Andrew Lachman and has three children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Speaker for Donald Trump - Ken Abramowitz 

Ken Abramowitz is a General Partner and co-founder of NGN Capital, a $450 million worldwide healthcare venture capital fund. He joined NGN from The Carlyle Group, where he was Managing Director from 2001-2003, focused on U.S. healthcare buyouts. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Abramowitz was an Analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein where he covered the medical-supply, hospital-management. and HMO industries for 23 years. He was voted the Number 1 analyst in Medical Devices and/or Services for 15 years by the Institutional Investor magazine, which also added him to the Wall Street Analyst Hall of Fame in 2009, with a rank of 15 out of 20,000 analysts. He has published several notable studies on healthcare services, major medical mergers and cardiovascular devices. He earned a B.A. in Chemistry from Columbia University in 1972 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1976.

More recently, in 2013, Mr. Abramowitz created a new movement based on a speech, entitled, “How To Save Western Civilization From Itself!,” .  The speech was developed to try to fill the gaps in analysis between the politicians, academic community, business leaders, and news organizations.

Mr. Abramowitz serves on the boards of Friends of Likud, Americans for a Safe Israel, The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), and Bible Lands Museum. He is also active in 25 pro-Israel/America/Western civilization organizations.

Moderator- Rabbi Shaul Robinson