Presenters - J

David Jacobi has been a regular at Limmud for many years and has been involved in several Jewish communities. He works as a Pollution Inspector in London, but having spent time in Israel, he is currently also directly involved with some of their environmental issues.

Sessions:

• Environmental Regulation in Israel
• Poetry in Popular Israeli Songs

Organisation: Leo Baeck College / Liberal Judaism

Richard Jacobi is a final year rabbinic student at Leo Baeck College and Liberal Judaism’s Social Action Co-ordinator. Throughout his life, he's learned a lot from family, friends, teachers, colleagues and management development clients, which he hopes to share.

Sessions:

• 'Not Placing a Stumbling Block' - an Example of How Law Evolves
• Raising Young Social Activists

Organisation: Alyth Synagogue

Bebe Jacobs has been working in Jewish education for 25 years. She was Family Education Consultant and worked on the 'Living Judaism' project for the progressive movements. She's spent last six years at Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto and at the North Western Reform Synagogue (Alyth Gardens) as Director of Education. She's also a life coach and a neuro-linguistic programming practitioner. This is her 24th Limmud!

Sessions:

• How to Run a Successful Cheder

Organisation: Jewish Community Centre for London
Website: http://www.jewishcommunitycentre.org.uk/

The JCC Tribute Troupe is a collective of up and coming Jewish talent including actors, musicians, storytellers and writers brought together by the Jewish Community Centre for London. Their tributes to Leonard Cohen have gone down a storm at the JCC Lit Café. There will be more performances to come!

Sessions:

• The Beat Cafe
• The Leonard Cohen Lit Cafe

Elie Jesner has studied Jewish Thought, General Philosophy and Psychology at Yeshivat Har Etzion, Cambridge University, Warwick University and UCL. All of this prepared him well for a career as a derivatives trader in the City but he's a big believer in the power of multi-tasking.

Sessions:

• Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis
• Revisiting the Lonely Man of Faith

Organisation: Los Desterrados
Website: http://www.losdesterrados.com

Daniel Jonas is the founder of the Sephardic group Los Desterrados and a co-founder of the New Jewish Thought think-tank (www.newjewishthought.org) An innovation consultant by profession, he has also worked extensively in the field of interfaith dialogue and moderates on www.comparative-religion.com. He is married, has one child and lives in London.

Sessions:

• Selections from the Sephardic Songbook