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Louise Palmer

Louise Palmer is deputy head of services for Jami, a mental health charity. Louise is an occupational therapist with a strong commitment to finding & developing innovative ways to support people with mental illness. She is a proud mum of an 11 year old boy, enjoys reading historical fiction & baking

Jonathan Pam

Jon is the Community Development Director at Masorti Judaism, designing and delivering services to support our communities. He is also surprisingly good at hiding, looks good in any hat and is the creator of last year's Facebook phenomenon #KnitwearofLimmud.

Zoe Paskett

Zoe is a singer and arts&culture editor. She works for the Ham&High, writing about music, theatre, art, books and comedy. When she isn’t doing that, she writes stories and songs with piano. She’s been Limmud-ing (almost) every year since she was eight, but it's 2017 and we've had enough of experts.

Jackie Passman

Jackie taught in both mainstream and deaf education. She acted as an Independent Person in adjudication for children in care and an expert witness regarding deaf issues. The discovery of her father’s wartime diary sparked her recent interest in POW life in the Far East.

Dan Patterson

Dan Patterson is an award winning TV producer and playwright. He is best known at Limmud, however, for his late night singalongs based firmly on his youthful years, many years ago, spent song leading in Habonim-Dror.

Sally Patterson

Sally is Bristol University's elected Women's Officer. After being Chair of UCS JSoc, she was elected as Education Officer for Bristol Jsoc, and has spent two years on National Council for UJS. Sally co-founded the first student Nisa-Nashim group, uniting Jewish and Muslim women against prejudice.

Joel Peck

Joel Peck is an evolutionary biologist working at Cambridge University. He has published in major journals, including Nature, Science, Evolution, and Genetics. His research focuses on issues including the origin of life, the evolution of “altruism”, cultural change, and the design of societies.

Chari Pere

Chari Pere creates cartoons for Red Bull and is best known for her viral cartoon "Miscarried, The Comic". She lives in Los Angeles with a mission to use her powers for all that is good and/or funny in the world (preferably both).

Ariella Perry

Ariella is National Director for Sex Therapy at Leumit National Healthcare, an accredited sex therapist through the American Association for Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists, and a clinical social worker with over 13 years of experience working with youth, elderly and in mental health.

Ashley Perry

A former advisor to Israel's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Ashley now advises heads of state, former leaders, governments, members of parliament and organisations around the world. He is also President of Reconectar, an organisation reconnecting with over 100 million Anousim.

Phil Peters

Despite his mother's protestations, Phil gave up a 'steady' job at Tesco to join Zing Zing last year and has overseen the Chinese takeaway chain’s rapid growth in 2017. In his spare time, Phil is the vice chair of the Maccabi Football League and one of Limmud Festival's Finance and Commerce chairs.

Denise Phillips

Through her books, multiple food columns and master classes, Denise has gained a reputation as the doyenne of Jewish cookery. Her 'hands on' classes provide inspiration for many. Date On A Plate is unique in offering singles a success proven way of networking, cooking & meeting new people.

Michael Picardie

Michael Picardie has a M.Phil and a Ph.D. in theatre aesthetics and post-modernist critical theory and a M.A. in psychiatric social work. He taught social and developmental psychology at Barnett House, Oxford University, and at Cardiff and Botswana Universities. He teaches yoga and kabbalah.

Idit (Edie) Pick

Idit is an educator on Arab-Jewish relations in Israel, currently establishing UJIA’s new educational programme on Arab-Jewish shared society. She comes from the Israeli voluntary sector, and previously worked for the Mandel School for Educational Leadership in Jerusalem.

Sargam Picker

Sargam is a creative arts therapist, tutor, & healer. Her background in counselling, psychology and creative arts therapy helps clients integrate the physical, mental, emotional, & spiritual, making sense of their healing process on all levels. She also offers personal rituals focusing on fertility.

Paula Plaskow

Paula began her career at Jewish Care in 2002. She is team manager of North West Social Work and End of Life Care Team working in collaboration to assist the coordination of people's general needs and at end of life.

Matt Plen

Matt Plen is the Chief Executive of Masorti Judaism in the UK, a Jewish educator with over 20 years' experience teaching young people and adults in Israel, the USA and the UK, and a PhD student at UCL-Institute of Education where he is completing his thesis on Jewish Social Justice Education.

Simon Plosker

Since 2005 Simon has been the Managing Editor of HonestReporting, the largest global grassroots organisation defending Israel from media bias. He has also worked for the Board of Deputies, BICOM, NGO Monitor and IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. With degrees from Birmingham University and LSE, he made aliyah in 2001.

Marcia Plumb

Marcia Plumb is the rabbi of Congregation Mishkan Tefila in Boston. She is a fellow of the Clergy Leadership Incubator, a trained spiritual director and meditation teacher. She has studied and taught Mussar for 30 years and is passionate about it.

Tirtsa Posklinsky Shehory

Tirtsa Posklinsky-Shehory is a poet and lecturer on issues of humanistic Judaism. Her book "Transparent Medusa Goes" was published at 2016, and she holds a masters degree in industrial engineering and management from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Robin Powell

Having recently retired from his NHS post as a psychiatrist, Robin works in London as a consultant in the private sector (proving that there is life outside of the NHS) as well as assisting in his family business, baking bread, and making cheese.

Lucy Prevezer

Lucy is currently a second year movement worker for RSY-Netzer. She has been involved in the youth movement since she was 14 years old. She graduated from Leeds University in June 2016 after studying Managing Performance.

Social Programming Team

The Limmud Social Programming Team are here to make your Limmud experience a more social one! Look out for a range activities and sessions that will help you to meet new people, try out new skills, have some time to relax and much more!

Colin Purkey

In his teens Colin became interested in mysticism and wanted to study the kabbalah. Later on he became interested in the mythology of Lilith in the Zohar. This led him into an investigation of the Shekhinah and the importance of her role in our relationship with God.