Presenters: W

Adam Wagner

Adam is a human rights barrister and commentator. He is the founder of RightsInfo, a multi-award winning charity which builds knowledge of and support for human rights in the UK.

Julia Wagner

Julia Wagner is a writer and lecturer specialising in film. She teaches Film Studies at JW3 and the Phoenix Cinema, and is film reviewer for the Jewish Quarterly journal. Julia’s blog on film and TV is published on the Huffington Post UK. She holds an MA in Italian and a PhD in Film Studies.

Yda Walt

Yda Walt is an artist/designer who lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has a small printmaking business where she designs textiles which are hand screen-printed in her studio, and made up into products. She co-created the WHERE IS KOVNO? project

Lewis Warshauer

Lewis teaches adult education seminars in Judaism and is based in New York. He has presented at Limmud on topics ranging from art of the Bible to matters of faith. His collected essays "Torah, Talk and Talmud" has just been published.

Gary Webber

Gary is a mediator dealing primarily with property disputes and families. He is a recovered barrister and a long-term Limmudnik.

Naomi Webber

Naomi is a lawyer and lifetime Limmudnik, and writes for the acclaimed human rights website, RightsInfo. She has a particular interest in situations in which religion comes into conflict with domestic law.

Lilach Weber

Lilach Weber is a writer, editor, and co-founder of Goddess of Mastik, a literary magazine based in Haifa. Her first poetry book "Not Bad is Okay" was published in Autumn 2017.

Michael Wegier

Michael is the Chief Executive of UJIA and has been active in Jewish education and community service for many years having worked in the USA, Israel and the UK. He is a graduate of UCL, the Hebrew University and the Mandel Jerusalem Fellows.

Sheila Weinberg

After 17 years as a congregational rabbi, Sheila brought mindfulness to the Jewish world at the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. She has published two books: "Surprisingly Happy" and "God Loves the Stranger". She lives in Philadelphia, is a spiritual director, and has six grandchildren.

Saul Weiner

Saul Weiner, MD is an internist and paediatrician at the University of Illinois at Chicago, IL USA. His wife, Suzanne Griffel, is currently Rabbi of Sinai Temple in Michigan City, Indiana USA. Their daughter, Karen Weiner, attended a Jewish Day School and is now at Oberlin College in Ohio, USA.

Roni Weinstein

Roni is an historian of Jewish people during the early modern period. For many years his work focused on Jewish-Italian communities during & after Renaissance period. In recent years he dedicated his research to the history of Jewish religion around the Mediterranean basin & modernisation processes.

Benjamin Weinthal

Benjamin Weinthal is a European correspondent at The Jerusalem Post and a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Dena Weiss

Dena Weiss is the Rosh Beit Midrash (director of full-time immersives) at Mechon Hadar, an institution for higher Jewish learning based in NYC where she teaches Talmud, Midrash, and Hassidut. Dena earned her BA in Religious Studies from NYU and a MA in Theology from Harvard Divinity School.

Judy Weleminsky

Founder of Pro Israel, Pro Palestinian, Pro Peace which engages the public on our city streets providing information & advocacy about Israel. Chair of University of Roehampton Jewish Resource Centre. Trustee Jewish Renaissance magazine. Voluntary Sector career including CE of 5 national charities.

Michael Whine

Michael Whine is Government and International Affairs director at CST, and UK Member of ECRI at the Council of Europe. He is currently involved in promoting 'Words into Action', designed to enhance protection for European Jewish communities for the OSCE, the European regional security agency.

Atira Winchester

Atira Winchester has been Director of Programming for New Israel Fund in the UK since 2015 and was previously she was Head of Creative Learning for JW3. Atira holds an MA in English Literature, has a great passion for the Hebrew language, and lived in Jerusalem between 2000-2008.

Steven Windmueller

Steven Windmueller, retired dean of the HUC-JIR LA, has a distinguished career as a communal professional and academic. Author of articles and four books on Jewish political and social trends, he holds the Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk Emeritus Chair in Jewish Communal Studies.

Barbara Winton

Barbara is the daughter & biographer of Nicholas Winton, organiser of the Czech Kindertransport in 1939 which brought 669 endangered children to safety in the UK. She discusses her father’s achievements in relation to the current refugee crisis & what can be applied today from how he succeeded then.

Irene Wise

Irene Wise is an artist and senior lecturer in Media and Culture at University of Roehampton. She is Creative Educator at the British Library and an Imperial War Museum Fellow in Holocaust Education. Irene exhibits artwork and publishes illustration, and writes on a variety of cultural subjects.

Jonathan Wittenberg

Being a child of German-Jewish refugees profoundly influenced his life. He likes trying to understand & build relationships, between us, our Judaism & our spirituality; between different faiths; between refugees & hope; between humans, plants & animals. Just published "Things My Dog Has Taught Me".

Gabriel Wolff

Gabriel Wolff is a Jewish tattoo artist. He supplies Jews all over the world with Hebrew calligraphy designs for their tattoos. He has talked about identity with thousands of his clients worldwide about their tattoos and thus managed to gain an insight to an evolving avant-garde of Jewish identity.

Rhea Wolfson

Rhea grew up in Glasgow Reform Synagogue. She was previously Mazkira of RSY-Netzer before working for New Israel Fund. Rhea is now a GMB Trade Union Organiser and in 2016 was elected to the Labour Party's National Executive Committee. She stood for parliament in 2017 and is a member of Momentum.

Tamra Wright

Tamra Wright is Director of Academic Studies at LSJS and a visiting lecturer at King’s College London. She teaches modules on Jewish philosophy as part of the LSJS/King’s MA in Jewish Studies, and is programme leader for the LSJS MA in Jewish Education validated by Middlesex University.