Speaker Series

Chabad Nantucket Speakers

Chabad presents distinguished speakers who excel at the highest levels of their fields and shape how we understand our world. From frontline journalists to business leaders, from political analysts to innovators and entrepreneurs, these voices offer unfiltered insights on success, challenge, and achievement. Whether addressing Jewish survival, Israeli security, breakthrough innovations, or market dynamics - each conversation brings perspectives that matter to our community and beyond.

"In a place where there are no people of impact, work to be one" (Pirkei Avot 2:5).

Join us for conversations with those who did.

This year's Speakers

Peace, Propaganada and the fight for Israel's future on military and media frontlines. - July 17th, 2025.

American Jews and Political homelessness - August 17th 2025.

Gil Hoffman

July 17th, 2025

Peace, Propaganada and the fight for Israel's future on military and media frontlines.

Gil Hoffman is the executive director of HonestReporting.com. Previously, he served as chief political correspondent and analyst for The Jerusalem Post for nearly 25 years. Well-connected to Israeli and Palestinian leaders, he has interviewed every major figure across the Israeli political spectrum, has been interviewed by top media on six continents and is a regular analyst on CNN, Al-Jazeera and other news outlets. He was raised in Chicago, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Northwestern University’s School of Journalism, and wrote for the Miami Herald and Arizona Republic before moving to Israel. A reserve soldier in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, he has lectured in every major English-speaking country in the world, more than half the Canadian provinces, and recently made history in Hawaii by becoming the first speaker to have lectured about Israel in all 50 US states. He lives with his family in Jerusalem.

Peter Savodnik

August 17th, 2025

American Jews and Political homelessness

Peter Savodnik is senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity

Fair, as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other venues—reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.