Presenters: C

Daniel Cainer

A theatre-maker, songwriter, producer, broadcaster, composer and many other words with ‘er’ on the end, Daniel performs his unique Jewish storytelling-in-song in theatres, temples and homes around the world. He’s an Edinburgh Fringe award winner and just completed a third off-Broadway run in New York.

Michael Capek

Michael Capek has been a GP in South Manchester for the last 31 years and has a practice in hypnotherapy. He supports the local primary care mental health teams He is clinical lead for mental health to South Manchester CCG and advises on matters of quality and mental health.

Graham Carpenter

Graham is the New Gen coordinator for New Israel Fund, a trustee for Liberal Judaism, member of the Willesden Green community and teacher at the LJS. He grew up song-leading in LJY-Netzer, and this year was on the Roswell Klal Yisrael Fellowship, a think-tank for young-adult global Jewish leadership.

Philippa Carr

Philippa manages Head Room the education and training resource at UK Jewish mental health service Jami. Philippa has worked as a mental health trainer in education and as a drama therapist in NHS Adult Mental Health. She is the former head of education for Target Ovarian Cancer.

Sarah Chandler

Sarah Chandler is the CCO (Chief Compassion Officer) and team leader at the Jewish Initiative for Animals where she works to support Jewish institutions to establish meaningful food policies rooted in Jewish ethics and animal welfare.

Naomi Charatan

Naomi is a musician and secondary school teacher based in London, performing with 'Miriam's Sister.' Although she is originally a classically-trained pianist, she also plays the accordion, clarinet and loves to sing. Naomi is looking forward to making lots of music with everyone at Limmud!

James Charles

James Charles is a session drummer and guitarist who plays drums in the Tom McCartney Band, a raucous blues and country five-piece from Nottingham. James blends the guitarist's ear for melody with the drummer's feel for rhythm in his playing.

Jaclyn Chernett

Jaclyn Chernett is the first woman in the UK to be ordained as a Chazan. She founded EAJL, the European Academy for Jewish Liturgy in 2007. She is a vice-president of Masorti UK and Chazan at Kol Nefesh Masorti Synagogue.

Maurice Chernick

Maurice Chernick (clarinet, vocals) started the band Shir in 1997, since when the group has become a major force on the UK Jewish music scene, performing concerts and fulfilling the original function of the Klezmorim – entertaining at Simchas! Maurice is also a composer and music teacher.

Chaim Chesler

Chaim Chesler is founder and chairman of Executive Committee, Limmud FSU. Chaim served as an executive director of the Israel Public Council for Soviet Jewry, headed the Jewish Agency's delegation to the FSU and the USA and served as treasurer of the Jewish Agency.

Gail Chester

Gail is a feminist activist, Hackney resident, writer (recently published "Murder Mile and Other Riffs and Rants"), editor, publisher, book historian, mother, carer, born-again atheist and strong believer that the personal is political. She has just helped save Feminist Library from closure.

Daniel Chinn

Daniel was born in London and made Aliyah in 1988. He is a partner in a commercial law firm and chair of Kehilat Kol Haneshama, Jerusalem, as well as being a past member of the National Board of the Israel Reform Movement. He is married with three children, all of whom are currently serving in the IDF.

Angel Chorapchiev

Born in Bulgaria. PhD in Jewish history. Currently working as a lecturer in Modern Greek history at the University of Haifa and an archival specialist for the Balkan states at the Yad Vashem Archives. Main field of research: history of the Jewish communities in the Balkans during the 20th century.

Ivan Ciment

Ivan Ciment is co-founder of the Morningside Group of companies and publisher of globalthoughts.com. He has visited 65 countries and corresponds with professionals and analysts worldwide. He is from New York City, Orthodox, married with 2 kids, and has spoken at prior Limmud conferences.

Anthony Clavane

Born and in Leeds, Anthony is now chief sports writer for the Sunday Mirror. He has won Press Gazette Feature Writer of the Year and BT Regional Sportswriter of the Year awards. His previous book Promised Land was named Sports Book of the Year by the National Sporting Club and the Radio 2 Book Club.

Jane Clements

Dr Jane Clements is director of CCJ (the Council of Christians and Jews). She has a degree in Theology, an MA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies and a PhD in Holocaust Education. Jane is a member of the former Anglican-Jewish Commission and was a founding trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.

Jonathan Clingman

Jonathan Clingman is Development Coordinator for The Together Plan, a UK charity working with communities in the former Soviet Union, encouraging self-sufficiency and international collaboration. He acts as a link between communities in Belarus and the UK, helping to implement community projects in a Belarusian cultural context.

Beverley Cohen

Beverley Cohen works in media and communications. Over twenty years ago, she decided she wanted some peace and quiet and rocked up at Gaia House in Devon. Over the past three years she has been sharing what she has learned from her meditation practice with a small group in north London, with people in Brighton, where she now lives, and at the HaMakom retreat in Kent. She is thrilled to finally find a way for her Judaism and her meditation practice to come together.

Louise Cohen

Louise Cohen has recently graduated from the University of Nottingham in Geography and is now working for the Union of Jewish Students as a J-Soc officer. As well as being responsible for 11 campuses countrywide, Louise is also in charge of guest speakers and campus education.

Rachel Cohen

Rachel Cohen is the Director of Communications at Stonewall, where she has overall responsibility for PR, digital, design and branding. She has extensive experience working in communications for both public and private sector organisations through previous roles at Metro Bank, Launch PR and Edelman.

Ruvan Cohen

Ruvan Cohen is a businessman from New York. He has worked throughout his life to infuse his economic life with the Torah's ethics and values. He has given shiurim on various topics from "Jewish Sources for Disabilities Advocates" to "Jewish Ethics and Halacha."

Shelley Cohen

Founder of the Jewish Inclusion Project, Disability Inclusion Training for Rabbinic Students and Jewish Leaders; advocates for inclusion of children with disabilities in Jewish educational and recreational settings. Member RespectAbility USA, Foundation Jewish Camp, US Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro.

Shoshana Cohen

Rabbi Shoshana Cohen teaches Talmud, Midrash at the Conservative Yeshiva. Shoshana is the educational director of ATZUM's Takum, a social justice beit midrash housed at the CY. She has semicha from Rabbi Daniel Landes. She lives in Jerusalem with her two children.

Henry Cohn

Historian and lecturer. Emeritus Reader in European History, University of Warwick. Member of North Western Reform Synagogue, London, and Birmingham Progressive Synagogue. Henry has attended and presented at more Limmuds than he can count.

David Collier

David was born in the UK and spent 19 years in Israel, before the first intifada until after the 2006 Lebanon war. He has been writing about Israel for 18 years. David spends much of his time on campus. He has an MSc in Ethics and is currently researching anti-Zionist forces, Antisemitism and BDS.

Eve Cowan

Eve Cowan is a retired insurance broker. She was a member of Bournemouth Reform Synagogue and collected, edited, and published two volumes of members' life stories. Eve would like to explain to others how to create similar collections.

Margueritte Cox

Margueritte is a biostatistician at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, the largest academic research organization in the world. A convert to Judaism, she is passionate about Jewish learning and teaching - her dream is to become a rabbi.

Samantha Cozens

Sam is one of the voluntary co-ordinators of the Drop-in for Asylum Seeker Families run out of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue. When she's not busy with the Drop-in, she works as a solicitor and is also currently completing a master's in psychotherapy.

Mark Creeger

Mark Creeger has worked in Jewish education and IT, separately and together, teaching at primary, secondary and university level and working on national and international projects for UK and Israeli companies. A regular speaker at Barnet Synagogue, he also works with youth, children and families.

Rachel Creeger

Rachel Creeger is an award-winning director, performer and playwright specialising in new writing and comedy. She has over fifty credits to her name, from scratch performances to full productions in West End venues. Rachel hosts monthly comedy gigs and is a popular guest speaker at communal events.

Katharine Crew

Katharine is campus leadership manager at the Council of Christians and Jews running the university interfaith scheme. While at university she was active as interfaith rep for her Christian Union. She has experience as a researcher at the Royal Observatory and as part of the training team at Three Faiths Forum.

Ben Crowne

Ben is Chair of Limmud Conference 2016. In the copious free time this role allows, he works as a forensic accountant, and lives, teaches and volunteers in London.

Beverley Crowne

Beverley is a businesswomen based in London, and a long-time volunteer in a number of community projects. She is the proud mother of one of the Conference Chairs (not Steve...)

Tilla Crowne

An award-winning artist who has exhibited in the Saatchi Gallery, Tilla’s art explores the boundary between identity and memory using living and organic matter. She also examines how women carry family memory and identity, and how domestic spaces and craft shape the stories women tell about themselves.

Darryl Crystal

Darryl Crystal has served as an interim rabbi for 12 years. He trains interim rabbis for the CCAR. He has studied organization development at Northwestern and Harvard Universities, was ordained at HUC-JIR, and studied at Pardes. Darryl photographs historic Torah scrolls in shuls where he works.