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Alastair Falk
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Alastair Falk is Director of Educational Leadership at UJIA and the lead professional for the JLC’s Jewish Schools Strategy. He has been a Headteacher of two Jewish schools and an Academy and, over 30 years ago, he came up with the idea for something called Limmud.... |
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Ilana Fenster
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Organisation: Zionist Youth Council Currently a movement worker for Noam, the youth movement of the Masorti community, Ilana is a recent Psychology and Philosophy graduate from the University of Nottingham, and a member of the trustee board of NUS. She is winner of the 2011 UJS Alan Senitt award for contribution to Jewish students on campus. |
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Marvin Feuer
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Organisation: AIPAC Marvin Feuer is Director of Policy and Government Affairs at AIPAC. Previously he served in senior staff positions on Capitol Hill and in the executive branch. Until 2006, he was an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University SAIS. |
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Liana Finck
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Organisation: Six Points Fellowship Liana Finck attended Cooper Union College and was a Fulbright fellow in Belgium in 2009. Her publications include ‘Revelations and the Stupid Creatures’ (Mark Batty). A Six Points fellow, Liana is creating a graphic novel based on the Bintel Brief, a Yiddish advice column. She writes for Tablet Magazine. |
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Robert Fine
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Organisation: University of Warwick Robert is emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Warwick. He helped to establish a European Network on Racism and Antisemitism and is co-editing a special issue of a journal on this topic. He is also working on a project on natural law and human rights. |
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Andy Finkel
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Website: rhymebutnoreason.blogspot.com/ Andy is a 53-year old solicitor from Dublin now living in west London, a member of Holland Park Sephardi synagogue. He is a veteran Limmudnik and has presented his quirky brand of songs and poems previously at Limmud Conference. Some of his material can be found on his blog. |
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Wayne L Firestone
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Organisation: Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life Wayne Firestone, CEO of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, has held leadership positions since his days as a Soviet Jewry activist at University of Miami Hillel and the Georgetown Law Center. In Israel, he directed the Office of the Anti-Defamation League, lectured at the Technion, and founded Siliconwadinet Ltd. |
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Lorna Fitzsimons
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Organisation: BICOM Lorna Fitzsimons is CEO of BICOM (Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre). She is a former President of the National Union of Students and former Labour MP for Rochdale. |
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Ellen Flax
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Website: www.ellenflax.com Ellen Flax directs the Schusterman Rabbinical Fellowship and is a New York City-based consultant to nonprofits and foundations. For the past three years, she has been a member of Limmud's International Chavruta Project team. She was ordained at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. |
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Rebecca Joy Fletcher
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Website: www.rebeccajoyfletcher.com Rebecca Joy Fletcher is a Brooklyn-based playwright, actress, and ordained cantor, as well as a scholar and performer of international Jewish cabaret. Recent highlights include: Rebecca's off-Broadway hit ‘Kleynkunst!’ and the theatrical premier of ‘Cities of Light’ at Chicago's Piven Theatre (Nov-Dec 2011). |
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David Ford
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Organisation: Cambridge Inter-faith Programme David Ford is Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, where he is also Director of the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme. He studied classics at Trinity College Dublin and theology and religious studies in Cambridge, Yale and Tuebingen. He is married to Deborah with three children. |
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Flora Frank
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Married, Grandmother and young Great Grandmother and (Adult) educator/lecturer,Flora taught at JFS, Hasmonean and Immanuel College. Deputy for British Emunah - Board of Deputies, involved in Community and Environmental issues. Chairman Kingsbury Mikveh. Fundraiser - has completed 23 full Marathons (London, Tiberias, New York) for Norwood/Emunah. Trustee ZAKA - helping terror victims |
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Noa Frankel
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Organisation: Jewish Agency for Israel Noa was born is Ra’anana, Israel. She studied Arabic and Art History. Noa broadcasted her own radio progamme on "Kol Yisrael" (Israel's official radio station). Noa is the Jewish Agency's young shlicha for the Zofim (Israeli Scouts). She is a part of the London Kommuna, leading at the Halutz Tribe and teaching Hebrew at Akiva School. |
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Stephen Franklin
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Stephen’s long family history of association with the Yishuv includes Sir Moses Montefiore, Herbert Samuel and more. He read Politics, Economics and International Relations at the Hebrew University from 1973-1976. He has had a career as investment banker and has been actively involved in the campaign against media bias against Israel for the last seven years. |
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Paul Freedman
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Organisation: Radlett & Bushey Reform Synagogue Paul studied Physics at Bristol, Education at Cambridge and for the rabbinate at Leo Baeck College. He is married to Vanessa, father of Katie and Joshua, and Rabbi of Radlett & Bushey Reform Synagogue and lectures in Biblical Hebrew at LBC. He has missed one Limmud Conference in the last seventeen. |
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Vanessa Freedman
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Organisation: University College London Vanessa is the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Librarian at University College London. She studied Classics at Cambridge University, Library and Information Studies at UCL, and Judaism in various places, including the Liberal Yeshivah in Jerusalem. She is married to Paul and mother of Katie and Joshua. |
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Richard Elliott Friedman
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Organisation: University of Georgia Richard is Davis Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Georgia, and Katzin Professor of Jewish Civilization Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of ‘Who Wrote the Bible?’, ‘Commentary on the Torah’, ‘The Disappearance of God’, ‘The Hidden Book in the Bible’, ‘The Bible with Sources Revealed’, and ‘The Bible Now’. |
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Matti Fruhman
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Organisation: Tag International Development Matti runs TAG ID which utilises unique Israeli knowledge in developing countries. Previously, Matti worked at the Department of Education and the Rothschild Foundation. He has an MSc in Operations Management from Manchester Business School and a BA in European Studies and German. Post University, he worked for Bnei Akiva. |
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