| Rabbi David Saperstein | Former Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom and Director emeritus of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism | May 2025 |
| Bishop Mariann Budde | Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington | May 2025 |
| Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum | Senior Rabbi, Congregation Beit Simchat Torah | June 2024 |
| Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy | Founder and Chair, Dvora Institute for Gender and Sustainability Studies and Civil Commission on Oct. 7th Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children | June 2024 |
| Parker J. Palmer | Writer, speaker and activist | June 2024 |
| David Broza | Internationally renowned Israeli singer-songwriter | June 2023 |
| Rev. Liz Walker | Journalist, humanitarian, and minister | June 2023 |
| Rabbi Nancy Flam | Co-founder, Jewish Healing Center and former director of the Jewish Community Healing Program of Ruach Ami: Bay Area Jewish Healing Center in San Francisco | June 2021 |
| Melila Hellner-Eshed | Faculty, Institute of Jewish Spirituality | June 2021 |
| Levi Weiman-Kellman | President, Rabbis for Human Rights | June 2020 |
| Mark E. Atkins | Entrepreneur, Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston | June 2019 |
| Alice Hildegard Shalvi z"l | Educator, feminist activist, social advocate and professor emerita of English literature | June 2019 |
| Mary Evelyn Tucker | Senior lecturer and research scholar at Yale University | June 2019 |
| Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg | Torah scholar, teacher, and author | June 2019 |
| Harold Kotler | CEO, Chief Investment Officer and Partner at GW&K | June 2018 |
| Mary Elizabeth Moore | Dean, Boston University School of Theology | June 2018 |
| Rabbi Jeffrey Summit | Research Professor in the Department of Music and Judaic Studies Program, Tufts University | June 2018 |
| Leon Botstein | President of Bard College | June 2017 |
| Judith Kates | Professor of Jewish Women's Studies at Hebrew College | June 2017 |
| Daniel Matt | Leading authority on Kabbalah and the Zohar and Professor at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California | June 2017 |
| Rabbi David Ellenson z"l | Chancellor Emeritus, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion | 2016 |
| Joshua R. Jacobson | Professor of music and director of choral activities at Northeastern University and founder and director of the Zamir Chorale of Boston | 2016 |
| Diane Troderman | Former chair of Jewish Education Service of North America | 2016 |
| Jane Eisner | Editor-in-Chief, The Forward | 2016 |
| Marc Brettler | Doris Golding Professor of Biblical Studies, Brandeis University | 2015 |
| Shulamit Reinharz | Jacob Potofsky Chair of Sociology, Brandeis University | 2015 |
| Marsha Katz Slotnick | Senior major gifts officer, Hebrew SeniorLife | 2015 |
| Ruth Calderon | Member, Israeli Knesset | 2014 |
| Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi z"l | Founder, Jewish Renewal movement | 2014 |
| Anita Diamant | Author, lecturer and journalist | 2013 |
| Rabbi David Hartman z"l (given posthumously) | Founding president, Hartman Institute | 2013 |
| George Krupp | Co-founder, CEO and senior partner, Berkshire Group | 2013 |
| Morton Mandel z"l | Chairman and CEO, Mandel Foundation | 2013 |
| Barry Mesch | Provost, Hebrew College | 2013 |
| Dr. Anne Lapidus Lerner | Author, lecturer and educator | 2013 |
| Bernard Korman | Business executive and philanthropist | 2012 |
| Jehuda Reinharz | President emeritus, Brandeis University | 2012 |
| Martha Minnow | Dean, Harvard Law School | 2011 |
| Dr. Jonathan Sarna | Historian, educator and author | 2011 |
| Yehudi Wyner | Educator and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer | 2011 |
| Edgar Bronfman Sr. z"l | Businessman and philanthropist | 2010 |
| Betty Brudnick | Philanthropist | 2010 |
| Paula Hyman z"l | Historian, educator and author | 2010 |
| Nancy Falchuk | National president, Hadassah | 2009 |
| Michael Fishbane | Scholar of Judaism and rabbinic literature | 2009 |
| Osvaldo Golijov | Grammy Award-winning composer | 2008 |
| Rabbi Irving "Yitz" Greenberg | Scholar and author | 2008 |
| Diane Cooksey Kessler | Former executive director, Massachusetts Council of Churches | 2008 |
| Samuel Klagsburn | Physician | 2008 |
| Harvey Krueger | Investment banker and civic leader | 2008 |
| Mimi Alpern | National chair, American Jewish Committee | 2007 |
| Rev. Nick Carter | President, Andover Newton Theological School | 2007 |
| Ruth Messinger | President and CEO, American Jewish World Service | 2007 |
| Richard Pzena | Investment manager | 2007 |
| Enid Shapiro z"l | Social-work consultant | 2007 |
| Mickey Cail z"l | Business executive and real-estate developer | 2006 |
| Leonard Fein z"l | Writer and educator | 2006 |
| Louis Kaitz z"l | Business executive and philanthropist | 2006 |
| Marietta Lutze Sackler z"l | Physician, business executive and philanthropist | 2006 |
| E. Robert Goodkind | Attorney and civic activist | 2005 |
| Leon Wieseitier | Writer, critic and magazine editor | 2005 |
| Lawrence Bacow | President, Tufts University | 2004 |
| James Carroll | Author, historian and journalist | 2004 |
| Ralph Goldman '34 z"l | Former director, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee | 2004 |
| Lee Meyerhoff Hendler | Philanthropist, lecturer and author | 2004 |
| Irwin Chafetz | Business executive and philanthropist | 2003 |
| Edith Everett | Business executive and philanthropist | 2003 |
| Barney Frank | U.S. representative, Massachusetts | 2003 |
| Mark Podwal | Author and illustrator | 2003 |
| Ted Cutler z”l | Philanthropist, patron of the arts | 2002 |
| Bernard Hyatt z"l | Owner and publisher, The Jewish Advocate | 2002 |
| Richard Joel | President and international director, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | 2002 |
| Nancy Lurie Marks | Philanthropist | 2002 |
| Dr. Norman Spack | Pediatric endrocrinologist, Children's Hospital Boston | 2002 |
| Joseph Gann z"l | Philanthropist | 2001 |
| Miriam Aaron Roland | Philanthropist | 2001 |
| Moshe Safdie | Architect, urban designer, educator and author | 2001 |
| Barry Shrage | President, Combined Jewish Philanthropies | 2001 |
| Elie Wiesel z"l | Novelist, professor, political activist and Nobel laureate | 2001 |
| Per Axel Ahlmark | Swedish writer and politician | 2000 |
| Rabbi Samuel Chiel z"l | Special adviser to the president and director of the Rabbinic Institute, Hebrew College; former rabbi, Temple Emanuel, Newton | 2000 |
| Stuart E. Eizenstat | Diplomat, statesman and public servant | 2000 |
| Howard I. Friedman | Civil-rights attorney and chairman of the board of the Susan and David Wilstein Institute of Jewish Policy Studies | 2000 |
| Carol Rabb Goldberg | Business excutive and philanthropist | 2000 |
| Rev. Dr. Ralph H. Elliot | Interim president, Andover Newton Theological School | 1999 |
| Ruth Breslau Fein z"l | President and campaign chair, Combined Jewish Philanthropies | 1999 |
| Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg z"l | Author, scholar and activist | 1999 |
| Theodore H. Teplow z"l | Business executive, philanthropist and chairman of the Hebrew College Board of Trustees | 1999 |
| Julian Cohen z"l | Real-estate developer, philanthropist and patron of the arts | 1998 |
| Stuart Stanley Elenko z"l | Founder, Holocaust Museum and Studies Center, Bronx High School of Science | 1998 |
| Marlene Edith Post | National president, Hadassah | 1998 |
| Robert Sanford Brustein z"l | Theatrical critic, producer, playwright and educator | 1997 |
| Rabbi Benjamin Zvi Kreitman z"l | Rabbinical leader in Conservative Judaism | 1997 |
| A. Philip Krupp z"l | Real-estate developer, philanthropist and retired national commissioner, Anti-Defamation League | 1997 |
| Netty Schwarz Vanderpol z"l | Artist and Holocaust survivor | 1997 |
| Maxwell Breslau z"l | Former chairman, Hebrew College Board of Trustees | 1996 |
| William Schwartz z"l | Vice president for academic affairs, Yeshiva University | 1996 |
| Edith G. Shoolman z"l | Philanthropist | 1996 |
| Dr. Theodore Steinberg '31 z"l | Ophthomologist and attorney | 1996 |
| Hon. Raya S. Dreben (ret.) | Associate justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court | 1995 |
| Cyrus H. Gordon z"l | Scholar and educator | 1995 |
| Bernard Reisman z"l | Founding director, Hornstein Program in Jewish Communal Service, Brandeis University | 1995 |
| Benjamin Arthur Trustman z"l | Lawyer, cultural leader, philanthropist and former chairman of the Hebrew College Board of Trustees | 1995 |
| Herbert Berman z"l | Senior partner, Foley, Hoag & Eliot; immediate past chairman, Board of Trustees | 1995 |
| Mary Wolfman Epstein z"l | Singer and actor | 1994 |
| Charles Haar z"l | Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School | 1994 |
| Solomon Kaufman z"l | Engineer, businessman and former chairman of the Board of Trustees | 1994 |
| David Aronson z"l | Painter and educator | 1993 |
| Shoshana Cardin z"l | Women's activist, philanthropist | 1993 |
| Sol Gittleman | German scholar and provost, Tufts University | 1993 |
| Seymour Lipset z"l | Political sociologist and educator | 1993 |
| Gershon Kekst z"l | Strategic, corporate and financial communications executive | 1992 |
| Sylvia Rothchild z"l | Novelist, reviewer and cellist | 1992 |
| Mortimer Zuckerman | Real-estate developer and media proprietor | 1992 |
| Jacob Hiatt z"l | Business executive and philanthropist | 1991 |
| Frances Kopelman z"l | Philanthropist | 1991 |
| Abraham Rosenthal z"l | Former executive editor, The New York TImes | 1991 |
| Nahum Sarna z"l | Modern bliblical scholar | 1991 |
| Martin Peretz | Editor in chief, The New Republic | 1990 |
| Stephen Stone z"l | Periodontist | 1990 |
| Margot Stern Strom z"l | Executive director, Facing History and Ourselves | 1990 |
| Madeleine Kunin | Governor, Vermont | 1989 |
| Norman Leventhal z"l | Developer, philanthropist and civic leader | 1989 |
| Benjamin Halpern z"l | Retired professor of Judaica, Brandeis University | 1988 |
| Cynthia Ozick | Short-story writer, novelist and essayist | 1988 |
| Irving Rabb z"l | Vice chairman, Stop & Shop | 1988 |
| Walter Ackerman z"l | Education chair, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | 1987 |
| Arnold Band MAJS'57 z"l | Professor, Hebrew and comparative literature, UCLA | 1987 |
| Rev. Robert Drinan z"l | Priest, former congressman and educator | 1987 |
| Henry Rosovsky z"l | Economist and Harvard University professor | 1987 |
| Abram Sachar z"l | Founding president, Brandeis University | 1987 |
| Dr. Harry Savitz z"l | Physician and Jewish scholar | 1987 |
| Lewis Weinstein z"l | Attorney and Jewish communal leader | 1987 |
| Gisela Warburg Wyzanski z"l | Zionist Leader | 1987 |
