Presenters: J

Niki Jackson

Niki Jackson is director of education at NNLS. Prior to this she was on the senior leadership team at Clore Shalom primary school, where she was head of early years and head of Hebrew.

Abigail Jacobi

Abigail grew up coming to Conference and has previously chaired the Inclusion and Accessibility, Programming and Families teams. She is excited to be co-Chairing Limmud Conference 2017 with the fantastic Anna Lawton. If you'd like to be involved, please email conf17-chairs@limmud.org.

Margaret Jacobi

Margaret Jacobi is rabbi of Birmingham Progressive Synagogue. Before becoming a rabbi she studied medicine and has published articles on Jewish medical ethics. She has a PhD in Talmud, loves exploring its struggles to discover what is just, and is active in refugee support and interfaith work.

Ivor Jacobs

Now partially retired from his software and print business and directing Friends of Louis Jacobs and the Louis Jacobs Foundation, Ivor and Ian Gold have revived their '60s song group The Rubens.

Michelle Jacobs

Michelle is the director of programmes and operations at JHub. Being able to channel her broad experience into the positive and creative opportunities that JHub provides, and having the chance to work alongside inspirational individuals, is a privilege that she values every day.

Ruth Jacobs

Ruth is chair of the Representative Council of Birmingham and West Midlands Jewry. She has been involved with interfaith activity in Birmingham for almost two decades, including with the Birmingham Council of Faiths, the West Midlands Faith Forum, the Birmingham CCJ and the Birmingham Muslim Jewish Dialogue Group.

Zoe Jacobs

Maidenhead child, Scottish student and now London young adult, Zoe is interested in involving young people in Jewish communities wherever they might be. She is a keen dancer, swimmer and Harry Potter fan.

Zöe Jacobs

Zoe is the Cantor at Finchley Reform Synagogue. Passionate about community singing and harmonising, Zoe was inspired at Hebrew Union College, where she was ordained. Working part-time for the Reform Movement, she created "Shirei Chagigah", an inspiring, biennial music and prayer-leading conference.

Nadia Jacobson

Nadia Jacobson is the founding director of WriteSpace Jerusalem, which nurtures English-language writing in Israel. She serves as a fiction editor at the Ilanot Review, an international journal of creative writing in English, and her fiction has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies.

Neil Janes

Director of the Lyons Learning Project and rabbi at West London Synagogue. Neil is a PhD student at Haifa University and lecturer in Talmud and Jewish education. Professionally devoted to Jewish education, now a parent, he sees the experience of teaching the next generation through new eyes!

Laura Janner-Klausner

Laura Janner-Klausner is senior rabbi to Reform Judaism. She is passionate about social justice, Israel and LGB and T+ issues. She worked in Israel with youth leaders and in Israeli-Palestinian dialogue. The Huffington Post says she’s "fast becoming the most high-profile Jewish leader in the country."

Elliot Jebreel

A proud Jewranian, Elliot wants the Jewish community to celebrate its diversity. He strives to make this happen as a trustee of Sephardi Voices UK, preserving the stories of Jews from the Middle East/North Africa, and through working to make LGBT Jews more welcome.

Roxana Jebreel

Elie Jesner

Elie is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a Jewish educator. He set up the Beit Midrash at JCoSS and the Honest Theology Project of the Louis Jacobs Foundation. He studied Philosophy and Jewish Thought at Cambridge, Warwick, and Yeshivat Har Etzion. His writing appears regularly in Haaretz.

Jessica Lucas

Jessica (not her real name) is a long-time Limmud volunteer and participant, presenting for the first time this year.

Jews throughout the ages

Join some of Limmud Conference 2016's most exciting and talented presenters for a journey through Jewish history and tradition, as told through our the enduring power of our literary correspondence.

JewSalsa

JewSalsa is a unique French community of artists, which combines Klezmer, Salsa & Oriental music, reinterpreting Jewish songs in new and lively ways.

Simon Johnson

Simon is the CEO of the Jewish Leadership Council. Prior to this he served as the senior lawyer at the Premier League, director of corporate affairs at the FA and chief operating officer of England’s 2018 World Cup bid. He started his career as a lawyer, spending 10 years with ITV.

Piotr Jordan

Piotr Jordan (violin). Born in Poland, he started playing the violin at 6 and studied at the Warsaw Conservatory. Since 1994 he has played in the UK in a variety of styles - Hot Club to Gaelic to Hungarian Gypsy. A founding member of Shir, he is also leader of the Balkan group Dunajska Kapelye.

Oliver Joseph

Oliver is a rabbi for Elstree and Borehamwood Masorti Community. He studied at Conservative Yeshiva, Hartman Institute and Tel Aviv University and received semicha at the Ziegler School, LA. Oliver is passionate about Torah study, cooking, hiking, martial arts and mountain biking.

Ben Judah

Ben Judah is a journalist. He was born in London and spent his childhood in the Balkans. He is the author of "Fragile Empire", a study of Putin's Russia, and "This Is London", a portrait of a city transformed.

Lyn Julius

Lyn Julius co-founded HARIF, a UK association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa. A journalist and blogger, her work has appeared in the Jewish Chronicle, Jerusalem Post, the Times of Israel, Huffington Post and Standpoint among others.