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Alastair Falk

Alastair Falk is currently Head of Education for the Careers and Enterprise Company. He has previously been a Headteacher of three schools, CEO of the Birmingham Education Partnership and, more years ago than he cares to remember, the person who came up with the idea (and name) for Limmud and who served as its first ever Co-ordinator.

Zev Farber

Zev Farber is a fellow for Project TABS and editor of TheTorah.com. He holds a PhD (Emory University) in Hebrew Bible and two ordinations from YCT Rabbinical School. He edited Halakhic Realites: Collected Essays on Brain Death and is the author of Images of Joshua in the Bible and Their Reception.

Avraham Faust

Avraham Faust is a professor of Archaeology, specialising in Bronze and Iron Age Israel (biblical archaeology), especially from an anthropological perspective. He has authored six books and well over 100 articles, and is currently directing the excavations at Tel ‘Eton in the Shephalah, Israel.

Mimi Feigelson

Rabbi Dr. Reb Mimi Feigelson, an Israeli Orthodox rabbi, serves as Mashpi’ah Ruchanit (spiritual mentor) and Lecturer of Rabbinic Literature and Chassidic Thought at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. She’s devoted to the exploration and reclaiming lost Jewish burial and mourning traditions.

David Feldman

David Feldman is director of the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, and Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London. He was a Vice-Chair of the Chakrabarti Inquiry into anti-Semitism and other forms of racism in the Labour Party.

Kayla Feldman

Kayla is a writer, director and Limmud-lifer. She is an Anglo-American hybrid now based in London after four years of continent-hopping.

Alan Fell

Alan Fell is a project director of We Were There Too, an HLF-supported project to commemorate London Jewry’s involvement in the First World War. He has extensive experience of working with Jewish community organisations and national government bodies.

Alex Fenton

Alex is the director of public affairs to Laura Janner-Klausner, senior rabbi to Reform Judaism. Together, they tackle major issues that impact on Britain, including Jewish-Muslim relations, refugees and antisemitism.

Gerald Fierst

Gerald Fierst is a storyteller and author. His CDs Tikun Olam and Monstrous Mischief won Parents Choice Awards. In 2017, Plum Street Press will release his illustrated books Bye, Bye, Big and Imagine the Moon.

Nathan Finkel

Nathan Finkel is a musician and environmental scientist based in the UK. He has performed at various Limmud events for the last 10 years and attained an MSc in Architecture and Advanced Environmental and Energy Systems at the Centre for Alternative Technology in 2013.

Yoel Finkelman

Dr. Yoel Finkelman is curator of the Haim and Hanna Salomon Judaica Collection at the National Library of Israel.

David Finlay

David is a writer and performer of songs and performance pieces bringing aspects of modern Jewish history to life. He is particularly known for his work on telling the life story of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai.

Yaacov Finn

Yaacov is the community engagement manager and manager of the Community Development Fund at The United Synagogue. He is also the interim rabbi of the Yavneh Minyan in Borehamwood & Elstree Synagogue and teaches at LSJS (London School of Jewish Studies). He holds an MSc in Health Psychology from UCL and has taught across the country.

Benjamin Fischer

Benny Fischer, 26, is from Germany and the current president of the European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS). For years he worked in youth movements and introduced a broad public to Judaism through activism. EUJS is pluralistic, supports European Jewish students and represents them at the EU, the OSCE and the UN.

Ellen Flax

Ellen Flax is a longtime member of Limmud's International Chavruta team and directs the Hadassah Foundation, which invests in social change for girls and women in Israel and the U.S. She received her rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Malkah Fleisher

Malkah is an acclaimed Jerusalem birth coach as well as a social media professional at JerusalemU, managing a Facebook page with 350,000 followers. She earned a JD at Cardozo School of Law in NY and a degree in Political Communication at GW. She lives on the Mount of Olives and is a mother of three.

Yishai Fleisher

Rabbi Yishai Fleisher is the International Spokesperson of the Hebron Jewish community and has been featured on CNN, Al Jazeera, BBC, and more. Yishai is also a radio show host on the Land of Israel Network, a graduate of the Cardozo School of Law in NYC, and lives on the Mt. of Olives in Jerusalem.

Dalia Fleming

Dalia Fleming leads a team that goes into Jewish schools to facilitate conversations for LGBT+ inclusion. They have researched issues of homophobia and transphobia in the US and the UK.

Nizza Fluss

Nizza has worked in her family business in the East End for two decades, witnessing profound changes in the area. She's an avid photographer, and her political interest has seen her play a role in the recent general elections and the EU referendum in North London.

Freed Voices

The Freed Voices group are a collective of experts-by-experience who have lost over 30 years between them to immigration detention in the UK.

Paul Freedman

After physics at Bristol, a PGCE at Cambridge and semicha at Leo Baeck College, Paul is now senior rabbi at Radlett Reform Synagogue and co-chair of the Assembly of Reform Rabbis. Final editor of the Reform Haggadah and co-editor of the new HHD machzor, married to Vanessa, father of Katie and Joshua. His 21st Limmud!

Vanessa Freedman

Vanessa is Hebrew & Jewish Studies librarian at University College London. She studied Classics at Cambridge and Library & Information Studies at UCL and was assistant librarian at Leo Baeck College. She is a member of Radlett Reform Synagogue and has been an enthusiastic Limmudnik since 1995.

David Freeman

Born in Manchester, England, having lived in small Jewish communities in the UK and Canada, David qualified as a barrister in Belfast and later emigrated to Western Canada, where he has lived in a small town for over 20 years.

Michael Freeman

Michael Freeman is Counsellor for Civil Society Affairs at the Embassy of Israel. His responsibilities include working with Trades Unions, local government and campuses, as well as leading the Embassy strategy and campaign against the BDS movement. He recently served as Deputy Ambassador to South Africa.

Sigalit Freeman

Sigalit Freeman is the Jewish Agency and Students shlicha in the UK, responsible for increasing positive Israel awareness on campuses. Previously, Sigalit organized Birthright in Israel and served as a Jewish Agency shlicha in Miami. She was born in Ashkelon and is married with two young children.

Nadine Fresko

Nadine is a long-term Limmud volunteer and participant, presenting for the first time this year!

Madeleine Fresko-Brown

Madeleine trained through Teach First and has worked as an English teacher in a "challenging" comprehensive academy in North London for over five years. She also oversees the development of trainee teachers in her school and is a trained teacher coach.

Michael Freund

Michael Freund served as prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's deputy communicationsdirector. He founded Shavei Israel, which assists Lost Tribes and hidden Jews to return to the Jewish people. A graduate of Princeton and Columbia, he made Aliyah in 1995, and is a veteran Jerusalem Post columnist.

Edie Friedman

Dr Edie Friedman was born in Chicago and moved to the UK in the 1970s. Wanting see more prominence given to the Jewish commitment to social justice, in 1976 she founded the Jewish Council for Racial Equality (JCORE), of which she is now the executive director. In 2014 she co-founded Tzelem.

Mordechai (Motti) Friedman

Mordechai (Motti) Friedman is academic adviser at the Research Institute JNF. Previously academic director, Central Zionist Archive and managing director of Jerusalem Herzl Museum, he is author of “The Bush is Burning and Consumed-Herzl’s Zionist Journey” and “Moshe Sachs-A Yeke Haredi and Zionist”.

Eva Frojmovic

Eva grew up in Czechoslovakia and Germany, mostly. She has been teaching history of art in the UK since 1993. Her main interest is in Jewish art in the Middle Ages, and Jewish-Christian relations.

Stephen Frosh

Stephen Frosh is professor of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of many books on psychoanalysis and related issues, most recently "Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions".