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Dan Mackenzie

A Limmudnik for several years now, Dan is a co-chair of Young and Teen Limmud this year. In his spare time he has taken up modern jive as a hobby and would like to share that with you over Conference.

Khalid Mahmood

Khalid was born in Pakistan and emigrated to the UK as a child. He served as one of Birmingham's youngest councillors in the early 1990s, and was elected as MP for Perry Barr, becoming England’s first Muslim MP. He served as PPS to Home Office Minister Tony McNulty, and as chair of a number of All Party Parliamentary Groups. He was recently appointed Shadow Minister for Europe.

Ezra Margulies

Ezra is a freelance editor working with the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization and the Friends of Louis Jacobs. He also volunteered as one of the track chairs for this Conference. He graduated from Oxford University in 2015 with a BA in Jewish Studies, and studied at Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi.

Candy Markham

Candy Gigi is an aspiring comedienne who has what it takes to be the next big thing: "Candy’s mum". She was recently at the Edinburgh festival where she performed her solo show "If I Had A Rich Man".

Eddie Marshbaum

Eddie is Director of Sports Integrity and Strategy and Quest, a company which advises on issues around integrity, anti-corruption and transparency in sport.

Josh Martin

Josh is Head of Physics at JCoSS and found his passion for education through his years of dedication to RSY-Netzer. Josh regularly crosses the boundaries between formal and informal learning in his classroom and can never resist the urge to get some Jewish education in to his science lessons.

Peter Mason

Peter is a Labour Party insider. A councillor and cabinet member in Ealing, he is the national secretary of the Jewish Labour Movement. On both the party’s London Regional Board and National Constitutional Committee, he is intimately involved in organising campaigns and enforcing party discipline.

Avi Mayer

Avi Mayer is the spokesman to the international media for the Jewish Agency for Israel, the largest Jewish nonprofit organisation in the world. He was recently ranked directly behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the third most influential person on "Jewish Twitter". He lives in Jerusalem.

Monique Mayer

Monique Mayer has engaged in Mussar through The Mussar Institute, and wrote the Liberal Judaism Ba’alei Tefillah programme. She was ordained by Leo Baeck College and received her EdM from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Monique lives in Wales with her husband, Nigel Finkel.

Aylana Meisel

Aylana Meisel is director of strategic initiatives at the Tikvah Fund. Her background includes experience in policy, education, journalism and law. She obtained her J.D. at Georgetown University Law School and her B.A. in Jewish Studies at Macaulay Honors College at Queens College.

Adam Mendelsohn

Adam is a historian of Jews in English-speaking lands. Author of The Rag Race, an award-winning history of Jews and shmattas, and curator of The First Jewish Americans, currently on at the New-York Historical Society, Adam directs the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town.

Ruth Messinger

Ruth Messinger, president/CEO of American Jewish World Service (AJWS) for 18 years, is now their global ambassador. AJWS is a human rights and development organization doing grant-making and advocacy. Messinger now coordinates and expands work with rabbis and interfaith leaders.

Leslie Michaels

After a dozen years on the Limmud programming team, Leslie is now ready to deliver his first session. He is interested in exploring European history in the early 20th century, and to see how apt the lessons are for today's world.

Emily Michelson

Emily lectures in history at the University of St Andrews (yes, there are Jews there, but fewer during Limmud). This talk comes from her current research on forced conversionary preaching to the Jews of early modern Rome.

Ariela Migdal

Ariela Migdal is a women's rights advocate and lawyer who worked as a litigator at the ACLU in New York and clerked on the US Supreme Court for Justice Stephen Breyer. In 2015 she moved to Tel Aviv for two years. She has been part of numerous egalitarian minyanim, often at their founding, in the USA and Israel.

Helena Miller

Helena Miller is director of research, evaluation and Living Bridge at UJIA. She has taught and written widely, is the senior editor of the Journal of Jewish Education, chair of Women in Leadership Gender Equality Plan and past co-chair of Limmud International.

Rosalyn Miller

London-based composer-lyricist and singer-songwriter who performs regularly around London, Rosalyn is working on her first musical (current working title "Casual Fling"). She is a second year member of the Book, Music, Lyrics (BML) workshop learning the craft of musical theatre writing.

Steve Miller

Steve is a social entrepreneur, community activist and educator, co-creator of a furniture recycling project, a drop-in for homeless people, and founder of Tzedek. He has worked in the voluntary sector for 35 years, assisting groups with planning, organisation, creativity and leadership development.

Naomi Minsky

Naomi Minsky is the co-chair of programming this year at conference. She is the Assistant Director of Education at NNLS and is currently completing a MA in Jewish Education at Hebrew College.

Ephraim Mirvis

Chief Rabbi Mirvis was born and raised in South Africa, following which he studied in Yeshivot in Israel. He has served as Chief Rabbi of Ireland. Before his appointment as the 11th Chief Rabbi of Britain & the Commonwealth, he earned a reputation as one of the UK’s most respected community rabbis.

Rachel Montagu

Rachel Montagu teaches Biblical Hebrew at City Lit and to private students. She volunteers in the S&P Sephardi Congregation’s archives. She studied at Cambridge, Leo Baeck, Machon Pardes and Heythrop College and lives in London with her husband Francis Treuherz, whom she met at Limmud.

Sara Moon

Sara has just returned to the UK after participating in the Adamah Fellowship. She has just started working as the Sheffield Reform Jewish Community Development Worker and is pretty excited about helping revive the Jewish North. She is also very excited to be part of 'The Sadeh', the UK Jewish Farm.

Patrick Moriarty

Patrick Moriarty is the headteacher of JCoSS, a cross-communal and pluralist Jewish secondary school in London. He is currently training to be an Anglican priest. Brought to Limmud by the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

Abigail Morris

Abigail Morris has been chief executive at the Jewish Museum since 2012. She was previously artistic director and CEO of the Soho Theatre from 1992-2005, chief executive of Jewish Women’s Aid from 2007–2009 and director of ResponseAbility, a cross-communal Jewish think tank, from 2012-2007.

Benny Morris

Benny Morris, who was born in Israel, is professor of Middle East history in Ben-Gurion University, Israel, and is currently a visiting professor in Georgetown University. Among his books are "1948, a History of the First Arab-Israeli War" (2008) and "Righteous Victims" (1999).

Shalom Morris

Shalom Morris is rabbi of Bevis Marks Synagogue of the S&P Sephardi Community. Bevis Marks is the U.K.’s oldest, and the world’s longest continuously running, synagogue. Rabbi Morris received Ordination from Yeshiva University and is pursuing a PhD concerning Jewry of the First British Empire.

Patrick Morrow

Patrick is a Christian priest and chaplain and interfaith activist. He is also a student of Judaism, and Biblical Hebrew, and lover of Limmud.

Naftali Moses

Dr. Naftali Moses PhD made Aliyah from NY over 30 years ago. He has written on philosophy, ethics, aggadah and medical history, also publishing two books, "Mourning Under Glass" and "Really Dead?" He has taught in various Israeli yeshivot and colleges, and lectured on three continents.

Robin Moss

Robin Moss is the head of the UJIA Centre for Israel Engagement. He finds new and engaging ways to connect the British Jewish community to Israel, across the political and religious spectrum. He is also an officer of Liberal Judaism, the publications co-chair for Limmud, and edits Limmud On One Leg.