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Benjamin Gampel

Benjamin Gampel is the Dina and Eli Field Family Chair in Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is the author of "The Last Jews on Iberian Soil", the editor of "Crisis and Creativity in the Sephardic World", and has just published "Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response, 1391-1392".

Ian Gamse

Many years ago, Ian was the first full-time UJS education worker, having studied at Yeshivat Or Etzion and Cambridge. Then he met Micky Rosen z'l and helped him, just a little, in changing the world. He now teaches Talmud to women at the LSJS Midrasha and teaches frequently at Magen Avot in Hendon.

Joe Gamse

Joe is in his final year of a BA in Italian and Russian, and after a year spent in Milan and Moscow is thrilled to be at Limmud in Birmingham for the first time. Before university he studied at Yeshivat Maale Gilboa, and is a fan of Chekhov, Talmud and the films of Paolo Sorrentino.

Samuel Garas

Samuel Garas is a young teacher and youth leader from Vilnius, Lithuania, who has been trained by the UK Israeli Dance Institute.

Hannah Gaventa

Hannah Gaventa has worked with international development and humanitarian organisations across West Africa and South East Asia. Hannah is an experienced facilitator and trainer in community development and Adaptive Leadership, and recently founded a London based women’s group focusing on gender and Judaism.

Nick Gendler

Nick Gendler is co-chair of Masorti Judaism and a keen, even obsessive, cyclist. To pay for his bikes and Lycra he works as a career coach and counsellor.

Benjamin Gerber

Benjamin has been engaging adults in Jewish learning for nearly two decades in most Jewish communities. Based in Gothenburg, he lectures and works with inter-religious dialogue. He has rarely met an opinion in which he didn't find something to disagree with, but is rarely disagreeable.

Deana Gershuny

Deana was one of the 2016 Spring farming fellows at Adamah, USA and is excited to be one of The Sadeh UK farm team. She's also a final year medical student, interested in holistic and integrative medicine and the health benefits of living sustainably and in community.

Nora Ghodsian

Nora Ghodsian, LCSW, has 40 years of professional experience in counselling individuals, couples and families including raising her own 3 children and 2 grandchildren. She has been increasingly focusing her work on PREVENTION and empowering families to live a happier life.

Andrew Gilbert

Chair of Limmud 1990 to 1997. Founding Chair of Limmud International 2004 to 2010. Currently chairs UK Programme UJIA and Trustee London Jewish Forum.

Jonathan Gillis

Jonathan Gillis’s plays include Close to Home (the Vibrant Festival, Finborough Theatre 2015) and The Dreamer (Limmud 2010; Khan Theatre Jerusalem; Leeds Festival 2011; Cambridge Limmud 2013). He is a board member and former chair of the Israeli disability rights action group, Bizchut.

Malcolm Ginsberg

Malcolm Ginsberg, 74, has had a long career as a public relations expert and writer, specialising in transport and travel. As an 8-year-old he "cruised" to Australia, a £10 Pom. His family returned after a year, but he kept his love of the sea. Malcolm and wife Linda have now been on over 40 ships.

Maurice Glasman

Lord Glasman is an English academic, social thinker and Labour life peer in the House of Lords. He is a senior lecturer in Political Theory at London Metropolitan University, and director of its Faith and Citizenship Programme. He is best known as a founder of Blue Labour, a term he coined in 2009.

Simon Glass

Having produced and directed several award-winning films, Simon's recent documentary "The Last Tribe", about the rise and decline of Britain's provincial Jewry, has screened in London, Toronto, Paris and was selected by the British Film Institute for preservation in their Mediatheque archive.

Ian Gold

Ian has been rocking and davening since childhood through "Studygroup with Ivor", and hasn't grown out of either. For fun he advocates in the criminal courts.

Jessica Gold

Jess is a singer, song-writer and climate change campaigner. Inspired by Debbie Friedman, she began her career as a Jewish music writer and performer and then she created a climate change music programme. She is now bringing the two strands together in the newly formed Miriam’s Sister.

Alex Goldberg

Alex is a barrister, chaplain and human rights activist. He is CEO of the Carob Tree Project, working on international community relations and community development projects. He is chief of heritage at the United Synagogue, Surrey University’s Jewish chaplain and a BBC co-presenter. He is studying for semikha (rabbinical ordination).

Ivor Goldberg

The "complete" Jewish music group, Shir have been entertaining audiences for 19 years with their uplifting, energetic and spiritual brand of Klezmer, Israeli, Ladino, Yiddish, Simcha, Sefardi and Mizrahi music. Back at Limmud for their 4th visit. Get ready to move and to be moved.

Robert Goldenberg

Robert Goldenberg is Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies at Stony Brook University. He currently lives in Princeton, NJ and is actively engaged in adult education along with several editorial projects. His publications have focused on Jewish history in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.

Daniel Goldfarb

Daniel Goldfarb, Boston native/lawyer/rabbi, divides his year between Limmud and 51 weeks in Jerusalem. He teaches Liturgy, Pirkei Avot and the Jewish Calendar at the Conservative yeshiva there, and coordinates its weekly parsha message, Torah Sparks, which is easy to subscribe to - just ask.

Mark Goldsmith

Mark is rabbi at Alyth-North Western Reform Synagogue. He teaches Jewish Life Cycle and Homiletics at Leo Baeck College and has written and taught extensively on Judaism and business ethics. He is fascinated by new ways of discovering Jewish spirituality and loves teaching and studying Talmud.

Nahum Gordon

Nahum is an informal educator, with particular interests in Biblical texts and Jewish history. His links with Limmud go back 20 years when it was held in Worcester. He was a co-founder of the first London Day Limmud which took place in Harrow Weald.

Simon Gordon

Simon works for Douglas Carswell MP and the UKIP Parliamentary Resource Unit. He was previously assistant editor of Mosaic Magazine and speechwriter to Israeli Ambassador Daniel Taub. He read Philosophy and French at Jesus College, Oxford, and is a member of Kol Nefesh Masorti Synagogue.

Rivka Gottlieb

Rivka trained at the Royal College of Music, the Juilliard School (harp) and the Guildhall (music therapy). She has performed internationally and as a studio recording artist for film and TV. She is director of programming at NNLS and Music Therapist at JCoSS working with children on the autistic spectrum.

Joseph Grabiner

Joe is an RSY-Netzer movement worker. Originally from the mean streets of Hampstead Garden Suburb he has been a campaigner with Yachad, and in 2015 co-edited the Limmud Chavruta Project. A diet of pickled cucumbers and salt & vinegar crisps powered him to a degree in Politics and Philosophy at LSE.

Janie Grackin

Janie Grackin is a rabbi and community educator who uses the art of storytelling to inspire and educate, creating multi-sensory educational programmes for intergenerational populations. She was recently recognised with the Grinspoon Award for Excellence in Jewish Education.

James Graham

James Graham is a Middle Eastern Studies graduate from the University of Manchester. Having grown up in BBYO, he is now a J-Soc Officer at the Union of Jeiwsh Students. He is responsible for universities in Scotland and the North West as well as Interfaith projects on campus.

Camille Grahame

Camille is a medical student at the University of Leeds and has been involved with RSY-Netzer since 2010. Last year she a was movement worker and loved the opportunity of working with young people and being part of the MRJ. This is her second Limmud and she is excited to come back!

Sam Grant

Sam Grant is the campaigns manager for René Cassin, the Jewish voice of human rights. Sam joined René Cassin in 2014 after completing his master's in human rights.

Natalie Grazin

At over 20 Limmud Conferences, Natalie has done serious things such as go to sessions, teach, facilitate chevruta and volunteer. Until now, her happiest Limmud moment was winning Strictly Limmud Dancing. However, singing the Narrator in "Joseph" looks set to be an all-time high.

Arthur Green

Arthur (Avraham Yizhak) Green is founder and current rector of the Hebrew College Rabbinical School in Boston. He studies, teaches, and translates the Kabbalistic and Hasidic traditions, as well as writing his own theology based on those sources.

Cantor Jason Green

Chazan, New London Synagogue. Cantor J has been conducting synagogue choirs for 25 years, taught by Stephen Glass. He holds a diploma in nusach and chazanut from the LSJS, and a cantorial commission from the Cantors Assembly. His choirs are known for their choral blend and their fun factor.

Mark Greenfield

Mark Greenfield works at JW3 as the head of community programming department, after 12 years of public sector youth and family work. He is a professional percussionist, performing with Sephardic Soul band Los Desterrados, and alongside Mira Awad, Guy Shalom and numerous other artists.

Aaron Gross

Aaron Saul Gross is a full-time professor of Jewish studies at the University of San Diego and the Founder and CEO of Farm Forward, the organisation executing the US-based Jewish Initiative for Animals. He is currently helping to produce a documentary based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s bestseller "Eating Animals".

Aryeh Grossman

Aryeh works at Koren Publishers and, amongst other things, oversees all UK operations. Aryeh is a qualified teacher and has a BA in Jewish History from UCL. Aryeh was the 1998 winner of the North West London Jewish Day School Year 6 Bible Quiz.

Tal Grunspan

Tal Grunspan is a born and bred Tel Avivian. In his 21 years of social and political activism, Tal has taken part in public campaigns, worked as an adviser in the Knesset and was among the leaders of the Tent Protest for social justice in Israel. Tal is also a yoga teacher. He’s the founding Chair of Limmud TLV Community.

Haviv Gur

A veteran journalist and analyst, Haviv serves as The Times of Israel's senior analyst. He's reported from over 20 countries and served as director of communications for the Jewish Agency for Israel, Israel's largest NGO. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and two sons.