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Dan Mackenzie

By day, Dan is a strategy consultant, helping businesses understand new technology to innovate and progress, in addition to the more human factor of how they interact and communicate with each other. By night, Dan dances away on the modern jive dance floor.

Pam Mackenzie

Pam has built up a thriving property portfolio in the last 5 years and is passionate about educating people to take responsibility for the own financial future, especially the younger generation.

Yahya Mahamid

Yahya Mahamid is an Israeli-Arab Zionist from Umm Al Fahm who grew up indoctrinated to hate Jews and Israel. Interactions with Israelis began challenging his negative views and a journey to combat demonisation of Israel began. Working at StandWithUs, he now educates about Israel through his story.

Sarah Mali

Sarah is the Director of the Jewish Agency for Israel’s Global Leadership Institute and the Machon Le’Madrichim. She has lived in London, Toronto, and Jerusalem, dedicating her career to building the capacity of and advancing the interconnectivity between Jews around the globe.

John Mann

John Mann is an MP and is chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Anti-Semitism, MP for Bassetlaw since 2001 and former Chair of Labour Students when close relations with UJS were first built.

Nir Mantzur

Nir is one of Israel's leading and most respected drummers. He has played with many Israeli artists, including Berry Sakharof, Dana Berger, Ahuva Ozeri and Shai Tsabari, on stage and in the recording studio. Nir's own group Izabo represented Israel in the 2012 Eurovision contest.

Annette Margolis

Annette came back to the UK after living in Latina near Rome for 23 years, and discovered that life in Ambridge, Borsetshire, hadn't changed very much. She is a member of Birmingham Progressive Synagogue where she teaches basic Hebrew.

Ezra Margulies

An MPhil candidate in Philosophy of Religion at Gonville & Caius, Cambridge, Ezra worked for two years as project manager of the Louis Jacobs Project and as an editor for the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. He earned a BA in Jewish Studies from Oxford University, and studied for one year at Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi in Jerusalem.

Laura Marks

Laura is a serial social entrepreneur who loves setting up and improving projects and organisations which make our society safer, stronger and more inclusive. Her particular focus is on the faith groups, social action and gender.

Josh Martin

Josh is Director of Informal Education at Reform Judaism where he supports youth and student work including RSY-Netzer and Jeneration. Before this Josh was Head of Physics at JCoSS where his lessons often blurred the lines of formal and informal, and segued into Jewish education whenever appropriate.

Peter Mason

Peter is the National Secretary of JLM, and serves on the Labour Party’s London Regional Board and National Constitutional Committee, working at the heart of the Party’s struggle with handling antisemitism. He is also Councillor and Cabinet Member for Transformation at the London Borough of Ealing.

Avi Mayer

Avi Mayer is the international spokesman of The Jewish Agency for Israel, the largest Jewish nonprofit organisation in the world, and its chairman, Natan Sharansky. He's been named the third most influential person on "Jewish Twitter." Avi lives in Jerusalem.

Eliza McCarroll

Eliza is a first year rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR). A native of Sydney, Australia, she grew up heavily involved in the Reform movement, and is currently living in Jerusalem for the start of her studies.

Michael Mendoza

Singer, rapper, poet - Jewish educator. Love a philosophical black hole.

Zohar Mendzelevski-Steinberg

Zohar is a student and LGBT+ Society events officer at Imperial, a KeshetUK volunteer and a Noamnik.

Gillian Merron

Gillian Merron is the Chief Executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, a position she has held since 2014. Gillian was MP for Lincoln from 1997-2010 and was a minister in a number of Government departments.

Noa Metuki

The director of Global Seminars in Diller Teen Fellows, Noa Metuki worked for many years as a tour guide and the manager of the British desk at Israel Experience. She holds an MA in Business Management and a BA in Informal Education and Israel Studies. She is also a certified tour guide.

Arieh Miller

Arieh reached an important milestone this year. He is attending his 30th Limmud! As well as being a serial Limmudnik, Arieh is Exec Director of the Zionist Federation, aiming to educate, engage and empower on all things Israel. Arieh has a background in education and youth and community work.

Helena Miller

Helena is UJIA Director of Research. She has a doctorate in Jewish Education and teaches and writes widely. A past co-chair of Limmud International, the 2012 recipient of the Max Fisher Prize for outstanding contribution to Jewish education, and is Senior Editor of the Journal of Jewish Education.

Steve Miller

Steve is a social entrepreneur and community activist. Founder of Tzedek and Restore Community Projects, Steve works with organisations who share a vision of a more just, creative, connected, inclusive, and sustainable society. Steve teaches in Jewish communities across the UK and Europe.

Richard Miron

Richard was a BBC journalist for 17 years, 5 of which he reported from Israel. He went on to be the spokesman for the UN Secretary General’s Envoy in Jerusalem and then worked for the World Bank in Washington on anti-corruption issues. He is now based in London where he has a podcast consultancy.

Rachel Montagu

Rachel Montagu teaches Biblical Hebrew at City Lit and to private students. She volunteers in the S&P Sephardi Community'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.

Jessica Montell

Jessica Montell is Executive Director of the Israeli human rights organisation HaMoked. She has been a leading figure in Israeli civil society for two decades. For 13 years she headed B'Tselem. From 2016-2017, she was founding director of the initiative SISO: Save Israel, Stop the Occupation.

Reut Mor

Reut Mor has lived most of her life in Jerusalem. Previously she worked in informal education managing a neighbourhood youth department. Reut was a group facilitator at Gesher, leading workshops delving into the Jewish & Israeli identity of youth 16-22. Today she is a community shlicha to Leeds.

Daniel Morgan-Thomas

Daniel Morgan-Thomas has been a member of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain since 2008. Since then Daniel has served on the Programme Committee, as a library volunteer and helped run JGSGB workshops at the Jewish Museum. JGSGB helps people to find out more about their Jewish heritage.

Patrick Moriarty

Patrick Moriarty is headteacher at JCoSS, and curate at St Mary's East Barnet. He has taught Religion & Philosophy in North London schools for 30 years and is almost certainly the only ordained Anglican to lead a Jewish school. A CCJ trustee, he is married to Lucy Caperon, and father to 7 children.

Abigail Morris

Abigail is chief executive of the Jewish Museum in London. She is passionate about the museum representing the entire Jewish community whilst also facing out to the wider world, engaging with urgent questions of identity and heritage and exploring Jewish art and culture. She is a keen runner.

Leon Morris

Leon Morris is president of the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem, and the first alumnus to head the institution. After many years in the field of adult Jewish study in New York, and after serving as a synagogue rabbi in the charming village of Sag Harbor, he made aliyah with his family in June 2014.

Nina Morris-Evans

I am a proud and practicing reform Jew who spent seven months of my recent gap year studying the conflict in Israel. I've lived all my life in Camden, and now study PPE at Oxford. Limmud is a family institution, and I've been every year of my life with my parents, sisters, and grandparents.

Jonny Mosesson

Soulful Sephardic songs to lively Balkan rhythms - Bis-Bas present their spicy fusion of Klezmer & Middle Eastern music, a potent mix of rhythm & song from their upcoming debut album. Featuring vocalist Jonny Mosesson, violinist Bogdan Vacarescu, Jake Painter on trumpet & guitarist Peter Michaels.

Hod Moshonov

Hod is a celebrated keyboard, keytar, and vox artist who has performed on coveted stages across the globe. He has worked with Major Lazer, DJ Braindead, Assaf Avidan, A-WA and Shai Tsabari. As his alter ego BEMET, Hod has been making waves in the electronic and dubstep worlds.

Robin Moss

Robin Moss works for UJIA as Director of Strategy, volunteers for Liberal Judaism as Officer for Youth and Education and volunticipates for Limmud as Publications co-chair. Enthusiasm for Israel, Zionism, text, youth empowerment, Jewish travel, and Jewish history surpassed only by that for whisky.

Yariv Mozer

Yariv Mozer won an Israeli Academy Award for his latest documentary "Ben-Gurion, Epilogue", and graduated with distinction from Tel-Aviv University’s Film School. Since then, he has created both feature & documentary films. Among them: "Snails in The Rain", "The Invisible Men", and "My First War".

Hannah Myerson

A proud Leodensian, Hannah has a degree in English and Creative Writing from the University of Birmingham. She joined World Jewish Relief as a Trust Fundraiser in 2015, responsible for securing significant grants and building relationships with major donors. She is a fierce advocate of Palwin No10.