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Harry Lampert

Harry has been coming to Limmud for the last 14 years. He is currently in his final year at university studying maths & physics. After the success of his Rhapsody in Jew session last year, he has decided to branch out and go down a different artistic route this time.

Juliet Landau-Pope

Juliet Landau-Pope (JLP Coach) is a certified coach, professional organiser, and study skills consultant. She trains teenagers and adults to develop time management, organising, and exam revision skills, and is the author of 'What's Your Excuse for not Being More Productive?'

Yoav Landau-Pope

Yoav is a clinical psychologist, trained in Israel, and now lives and works in London. He practices as a therapist, clinical supervisor, and consultant to various Jewish organisations. Yoav's interests include community mental health, immigration, multiculturalism, political trauma and human rights.

Richard Landes

Richard is an historian living in Jerusalem. He taught medieval history at Boston University until 2015, topics including apocalyptic millennialism, demotic religiosity, & honour-shame cultures. His current book is "They’re so Smart cause We’re so Stupid: A Medievalist’s Guide to the 21st Century".

Jon Lansman

Jon Lansman is a lifelong Labour leftie and after decades in the Wilderness, the Promised Land is not far off. He is the founder of Left Futures and chair of Momentum.

Clive Lawton

Clive, a co-founder of Limmud, is now its Senior Consultant, CEO of the Commonwealth Jewish Council, works worldwide as an educational consultant, broadcasts and writes. Most importantly, he's Anna Lawton's very proud dad!

Anthony Lazarus

Anthony Lazarus Magrill is a 1st year student of Rabbinics at Leo Baeck College (London), who is also pursuing a part-time PhD in English Literature at the University of Cambridge. He is interested in liturgy, and in the modern(ist) uses and abuses of hasidut.

Debbie Lee

Debbie has degrees in musicology from Oxford and Royal Holloway. She sings in the London Symphony Chorus and Finchley Chamber Choir. In a former life she spent time as a pianist, a conductor and mucking around at the back of the 2nd violins. She is currently going through a bit of a Schubert phase.

Joanie Leeds

As one of the top American touring rock singers for kids, multi-award winning, New York City-based singer-songwriter Joanie Leeds has played for thousands of families. She is currently promoting her 8th children's CD, 'Brooklyn Baby' and is a proud PJ Library artist.

Isabella Lenga

Izzy Lenga is VP(Welfare) of NUS. She was Education Officer at Birmingham Guild, led NUS Anti-Racism Campaign. Izzy is passionate about mental health awareness and a proud FZY gap year alumna.

Joey Leskin

A Yemeni Jew from London, Joey spent much of the last decade moving around, visiting over 50 countries. This included a move to Turkey in 2015 as Senior Fieldworker for the JDC, from which he has recently returned. He has a masters in International Relations and was a movement worker for RSY-Netzer.

Amir Levi

Amir was raised in the Galilee, and was involved in the Israeli Scouts. He graduated from Bezalel Academy. During his studies, Amir engaged his major interests, art and social justice, and how the two interrelate in Israeli society. He is currently the Jewish Agency's shaliach to the UJIA, Manchester.

Janet Levin

Janet Levin founded Jewish Renaissance Magazine and is currently its chief executive. On a JR tour to Morocco, she met the founders of Association Mimouna, dedicated to celebrating Jewish culture. JR invited to Limmud Mimouna's Elmehdi Boudra and Laziza Dalil and will be joining them in two sessions.

Mark Levin

Mark H. Levin is a rabbi and author of the book "Praying the Bible: Finding personal meaning in the siddur, ending boredom and making each prayer, experience unique".

David Levin-Kruss

"Judaism is technology that makes the world better," says David Levin-Kruss, Jewish education director for JDC-Europe, which supports European Jews in finding their Jewish voice. David loves text-life interplay. Prior to JDC, DLK taught at Pardes and was community director of Stanmore Synagogue.

Amy-Jill Levine

AJ is professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her books include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, Short Stories by Jesus, and (with Sandy Sasso), 100 Sheep, 10 Coins, and 2 Sons. She co-edited the Jewish Annotated New Testament.

Neil Levitan

Neil is director of programmes at KeshetUK, queer activist, and a youth community work PhD researcher. He is committed to working with young people and communities to promote dialogue, acceptance and transformative change so that all can find a sense of belonging.

Sara Joy Leviten

Sara Joy Leviten has been in the field of youth and community, as a volunteer and professional, starting from her days in Habonim, Jewish organisations, charities and local government. Arriving in her role as Assistant Director of Community Engagement and Volunteers at Jewish Care.

Mike Levy

Mike Levy is a writer, playwright, Holocaust educator, and after a short 50 year gap, has become a student again. He is researching for a PhD in British responses to the 1930s Jewish refugee crisis. He has given many talks at Limmudim. His ambition: to be a cruise ship lecturer.

Charlie Lewin

Charlie Lewin is an artist and songwriter living in London. She has a BA in Songwriting and is currently studying a BA in Fine Art.

Ben Lewis

Ben is one of the Marketing and Communications co-chairs for Limmud Festival 2017. Beyond Festival, Ben is working towards a PhD in Chemical Biology at Imperial College London and works as a writer with the Senior Rabbi to Reform Judaism and on educational content with RSY-Netzer.

Jacqueline Lewis

Jackie Lewis is one half of the 'Curly Cousins' and works with Judi Rose to bring 'Healthy Jewish Cookery' to the UK. Jackie is a General Practitioner and over the last two years has developed an interest in nutrition and is researching for the book 'Lokshen Horror' to be published next year.

Stuart Lewis

Stu Lewis comes to Limmud from Prairie Village, Kansas (USA). He describes himself as a life-long learner. He got hooked on Limmud in 2013 and hasn't missed one since. He has presented at Limmud on such diverse topics as the Tower of Babel, Writing Song Parodies, and the music of Leonard Bernstein.

Gideon Libson

Gideon Libson is Prof. Emeritus of Jewish and Islamic Law in the Faculty of Law at the H.U.in Jerusalem where he earned his Dr. of Law. He continued his research in comparative Jewish-Islamic Law at Princeton University. His book on comparative Jewish-Islamic Law was published by Harvard in 2003.

Daniel Lichman

Daniel recently received semicha from Leo Baeck College. He is one of the chaplains to university students for the alliance of Reform and Liberal Judaism. His rabbinic thesis attempted to contribute a renewed Torah-centred theology for contemporary Progressive Judaism.

Kevin Lieberman

Kevin Lieberman is a Robotics PhD student at the University of Michigan where he researches human-robot interaction. He is the graduate student on the Hillel International Board of Directors, founder of the DC Design Workshop, a Moishe House Without Walls host, and an ROI Community member.

Elements @ Festival Limmud

The Limmud Development and Connection team supports Limmud communities worldwide, both individually and collectively. At Festival we will be creating a platform to engage in challenging issues, strategic thinking and relationship building to strengthen the global Limmud community.

Cnaan Lipshiz

A Dutch-Israeli ex-intelligence analyst, Cnaan Liphshiz worked at Haaretz before heading the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s Europe bureau. Based in Amsterdam, he has followed stories into Russian prisons, Ukrainian rebel outposts, Parisian riots, Japanese synagogues and the Senegal-Mali border.

Antony Lishak

Antony has been a teacher for 35 years and is the author of over twenty books for children and young adults. He is the founder of "Learning from the Righteous", a charity that uses stories of rescue and resistance to inspire children to consider the positive impact that they can have on the world.

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Nathan Lopes Cardozo (1946) is a philosopher, often called a prophetic halachist, and a rabbi for the new millennium. He is known for his fearlessness when presenting his insights into Judaism. His ideas are widely debated internationally. He hails from the Portuguese Jewish Community in Amsterdam.

Adi Lustig

Adi Lustig is a social activist & successfully led a change in the law in favour of environmental impact consideration. She appears regularly at parliamentary committees & in the media to raise awareness that the individual can make a difference. She is a lecturer on motivation & self actualisation.