Connie is on the executive of the Institute for Polish—Jewish Studies, co-editor of Auschwitz: A History in Photographs. Since 1994 she has had a home in Krakow and has visited Poland over 100 times. In 1999 she was awarded the Silver Cross of the Polish Order of Merit for services to Polish—Jewish relations.

Sessions:

• Polska Year - Thoughts on Visiting Poland
• Polska Year - Why A Day-Trip to Auschwitz Isn't Enough
• Polska Year - How Israel Sees Poland Today
• Polska Year - The Mystery of the Missing Tombstones

Website: http://www.garywebber.co.uk/

Gary Webber and his wife Sally have been helping Limmud delegates to make kiddush cups and challah boards for years. Contrary to popular belief they are not teachers and do not run a craft shop! Sally is an ophthalmologist and Gary is a barrister who works as a mediator.

Sessions:

• The JFS case
• Kiddush Cups

Jonathan is a social anthropologist specialising in the study of Jewish life and culture, including extended periods doing research in Poland. He is currently the UNESCO Chair in Jewish and Interfaith Studies at the University of Birmingham, and the sole British member of the international council responsible for the Auschwitz site.

Sessions:

• Polska Year: Poland and the Jews - Past, Present and Future
• Polska Year - Traces of Memory: The Jewish Heritage of Polish Galicia (1 of 4)
• Polska Year - Traces of Memory: The Jewish Heritage of Polish Galicia (2 of 4)
• Polska Year - Traces of Memory: The Jewish Heritage of Polish Galicia (3 of 4)
• Polska Year - Traces of Memory: The Jewish Heritage of Polish Galicia (4 of 4)

Organisation: Armed Forces Jewish Community

Daniel Weil joined the Royal Navy in 1999 as an Air Engineering Officer and has served on operations in Iraq. He now specialises in the procurement domain. Daniel is also chairman of the Armed Forces Jewish Community which works to develop a community ethos amongst Jews serving in HM Forces.

Sessions:

• Her Majesty's Armed Forces and the Jews that serve in them

Organisation: Hebrew University

Shalva Weil is Senior Researcher at the Research Institute for Innovation in Education at the Hebrew University, specialising in educational programmes for the underprivileged populations. She is President of SOSTEJE (Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry) and an expert on Indian Jews and the Ten Lost Tribes.

Sessions:

• From Falasha or Beta Israel in Ethiopia to Ethiopian Jew in Israel (1 of 5)
• From Falasha or Beta Israel in Ethiopia to Ethiopian Jew in Israel (2 of 5)
• From Falasha or Beta Israel in Ethiopia to Ethiopian Jew in Israel (3 of 5)
• One People, Many Nationalities – A Global Conversation
• From Falasha or Beta Israel in Ethiopia to Ethiopian Jew in Israel (4 of 5)
• Live and Become
• From Falasha or Beta Israel in Ethiopia to Ethiopian Jew in Israel (5 of 5)

Organisation: WiJ at Yeshurun Synagogue

Carole recently retired as senior lecturer in Medieval English and English Language at the University of Manchester. She is an active member of Women in Judaism at Yeshurun Synagogue, South Manchester since it began in 1990, involved in all its activities, and was a member of the core team for the Chief Rabbi's Review 1994.

Sessions:

• Women and their place in Orthodox Judaism

Organisation: European Masorti Bet Din

Chaim Weiner heads the European Masorti Bet Din and is director of Masorti Europe. Ordained at the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem, and a graduate of the prestigious Jerusalem Fellows Programme, he is known for trips to destinations of Jewish interest across Europe.

Sessions:

• The Many Faces of the Talmud: Part One - Bekiyut (1 of 4)
• The Many Faces of Talmud: Part Two – Iyun (2 of 4)
• The Many Faces of Talmud: Part Three – Modern Scholarship (3 of 4)
• The Many Faces of Talmud: Part Four – Midrash (4 of 4)

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

Hannah is the social action and campaigns coordinator for the Jewish Community Centre for London, and the chair of the Jewish Social Action Forum, a body made up of twenty organisations within the UK Jewish community that are committed to Social Action. If you’re looking for her at conference you’ll find her knitting.

Sessions:

• Should Jews stop flying to Israel?

Organisation: Community Security Trust
Website: http://www.thecst.org.uk/

Michael Whine is Director, Government & International Affairs at the Community Security Trust and Director, Defence & Group Relations at the Board of Deputies of British Jews. He is also Consultant on Defence & Security to the European Jewish Congress which he represents at the Organisation for Security & Cooperation in Europe.

Sessions:

• Making Progress in Combating Anti-semitism ?

Organisation: The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute
Website: http://www.wilf.org/

Einat Wilf is a Senior Fellow with the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute and the author of Back to Basics on Israeli Education and My Israel, Our Generation on growing up in Israel. She has a political science PhD from Cambridge, an INSEAD MBA (European Institute of Business Administration) and a BA from Harvard.

Sessions:

• Obama one year on - is he good for the Jews?
• What's wrong with the UK? An Israeli's perspective.
• Political and Social Activism in Israel - How To
• Israeli Electoral Reform - Why is it a bad idea?
• Israel - Political Update
• The Iranian question

Organisation: Church of England
Website: http://www.cofe.anglican.org/

Guy Wilkinson is Adviser on inter religious affairs for the Church of England and the Archbishop of Canterbury. He came to this role from 20 years in varied parish ministry; from many years in business and in the European Commission. He is committed to increasing friendship, understanding and trust.

Sessions:

• Polemical Texts in Christian-Jewish Relations: Their Context, Evolution and Contemporary Understanding
• Jews and Christians in the World Together

I have lectured at Bristol University for 25 years with special research interest centred on the Dreyfus Affair and the involvement of writers, notably Bernard-Lazare. My book Bernard-Lazare's Antisemitism and the Problem of Jewish Identity (CUP 1978) won the Wingate Prize. It was followed by an expanded French edition (Albin Michel 1985).

Sessions:

• Antisemitism "Bottom-up" and "Top-down": the Example of the Dreyfus Affair.
• Bernard-Lazare's Jewish Journey

Jonathan Wittenberg read English and worked as a teacher before studying for semichah. He's rabbi of the New North London Synagogue and senior rabbi of the Assembly of Masorti Synagogues. He loves Judaism and literature and likes people, animals, plants and walking. He's married with three children and one dog.

Sessions:

• Dogs!
• An Impassioned Judaism (1 of 3)
• An Impassioned Judaism (2 of 3)
• Pro-Israel Advocacy in the Era of Urgent De-Occupation
• An Impassioned Judaism (3 of 3)
• The Impact of the JFS Case

Organisation: UK Jewish Film Festival
Website: http://www.ukjewishfilmfestival.org.uk/

Lindsay is a trustee of the UK Jewish Film Festival. She is passionate about the contribution of Jewish film to deepening understanding and expression of Jewish identity, culture and challenges within and beyond the Jewish community. She is an executive coach, specialising in career re-focus and the challenges of leadership.

Sessions:

• Praying with Lior
• Father's Footsteps
• City of Borders
• The Soul Keeper
• Oh My God

Organisation: Changing Direction
Website: http://www.changingdirection.com/

Diana trains people wanting to return to work after a career break helping with strategies for work-life balance. Author of Back to Work, she broadcasts frequently on issues around returning to the workplace. Recently she has been running workshops, coaching people made redundant, guiding them through the present employment market.

Sessions:

• Work-life balance - how to do your own juggling act

Organisation: Jewish Music Institute
Website: http://www.jmi.org.uk/

Laura is the latest member of the Jewish Music Institute team. After a wonderful week learning some Ladino songs at KlezFest she has been researching Greek Jewish music at the JMI Library in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Do you have a Greek connection or want to know more about Jewish Music? Contact her at Laura@jmi.org.uk.

Sessions:

• Sephardi Music in Salonika in the 1930's

After leaving Cambridge with a BA, M.Phil and PhD in history, Jonathan toyed with an academic career before settling into the far more mundane world of Credit Derivatives IT. Jonathan continues to pine for the academic world and gives regular lectures and talks on all aspects of Jewish history.

Sessions:

• 5 Guys Named Moses (1 of 3)
• 5 Guys Named Moses (2 of 3)
• 5 Guys Named Moses (3 of 3)

Website: http://www.pajeuk.co.uk/

Rina Wolfson studied Hebrew and Aramaic at Cambridge University. She is Masorti Education Coordinator and faculty member of Lishma: Jewish Study Centres. She teaches at ‘Gesher’ and the London Jewish Cultural Centre. In 2008 Rina founded PAJE: Passionate About Jewish Education and recently co-founded the Jewish Parent Network.

Sessions:

• Another look at Lot
• Yeshivat Limmud: Bible 1 (Samuel) (1 of 3)
• Raising Kids to Listen, Talk and Love being Jewish
• Siddur SatNav
• Yeshivat Limmud (2 of 3)
• The Jewish Parent Network
• Yeshivat Limmud (3 of 3)

Organisation: Tibetan Jewish Youth Exchange
Website: http://www.tjye.org.uk/

Rachel is currently an architecture student at the University of Nottingham. This summer Rachel returned from Dharamsala, Northern India as a leader on Longsho camp for young exiled Tibetans. She can see what an important role young people have to play in helping young Tibetans engage in their identity.

Sessions:

• Jews for a Free Tibet?

Organisation: London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS)
Website: http://www.lsjs.ac.uk/

Tamra Wright is director of academic studies at the London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS) and a visiting lecturer at King’s College London. A specialist in Jewish philosophy, she lectures on the LSJS/King’s MA Jewish Education and MA Jewish Studies programmes. She runs the LSJS Susi Bradfield Women Educators’ programme and is a UJIA Ashdown graduate.

Sessions:

• Enhancing Your Shabbat Experience with NLP
• Beyond Belief: Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible
• After Auschwitz: Ethics and the 614th Commandment
• Divine Love and Human Love: Ethics in the Thought of Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas