Presenters: C

Daniel Cainer

Daniel is a multi-award-winning songwriter, storyteller, performer, broadcaster, several other words ending in ‘er’, and a regular favourite at Limmud. Currently touring his ever-evolving, one person show of Jewish themed stories-in-song. He also writes music for TV, theatre, radio and synagogues.

Daniel Carmel-Brown

Daniel Carmel-Brown is Chief Executive Officer of Jewish Care, has lived in Redbridge, Israel, Finchley and now back in Redbridge.

David Cassuto

David Cassuto studied law in Holland, Scotland and Israel. He is a modern Orthodox Jew who lives in Jerusalem since 2015. He still lectures law in Holland. In Israel he studies Jewish and non-Jewish sources. He develops a vision on masculinity in the modern world.

Harrie Cedar

Harrie is an academic in homeostasis and health, a chaplain in a central London NHS hospital and runs a Post Graduate Certificate in Multi-faith Healthcare Chaplaincy. The training promotes meaningful encounters for the patients and staff who hold a diversity of faiths and beliefs.

Ela Cenudioğlu

Ela is an international lawyer. Having practiced commercial law in Luxembourg, she reengaged with the local Jewish community in various leadership roles, and recently returned to practice in Istanbul. Ela is also a member of the World Jewish Congress Jewish Diplomatic Corps.

Susan Chalom

Susan has been educating teenagers for over 15 years and she loves being in the modern, dynamic classroom. She has an honours in creative writing and has written for the Jewish Observer magazine for five years. She is currently teaching at Yeshiva College in Johannesburg.

Chaim Chesler

Chaim is founder and chairman of the Executive Committee of Limmud FSU. Chaim served as an executive director of the Israel Public Council for Soviet Jewry, headed the Jewish Agency's delegation to the FSU and the USA and served as treasurer of the Jewish Agency.

Beit Midrash Chevrah

The Limmud Beit Midrash Chevrah are a small group of volunteers who build, teach and study in the Limmud Beit Midrash. The LBM provides detailed textual learning in a Beit Midrash setting morning, afternoon and night, around the theme of Night and Day. We're also running a tisch!

Anne Clark

Anne was the founder and director of Jewish Resource Centre at the University of Roehampton, London. She has worked as a Jewish educator in the UK with Jews and non-Jews of all ages and is a UJIA Ashdown Fellow. Now semi-retired, she divides her time between Jerusalem and London.

Celia Clyne

Celia and her team are responsible for feeding you at Limmud. She has worked her entire life in the food industry – from teaching, to running restaurants to large scale events. She has become a household name in Kosher food with an unrivalled reputation for great food and event experiences.

Adrian Cohen

Adrian is a serial macher, with involvement in communal affairs for 35 years. He’s lay chair of Labour Friends of Israel & London Jewish Forum and a Jewish Leadership Council trustee. He’s also a trustee of Reprieve, campaigning against the death penalty and a partner in an international law firm.

Angy Cohen

Angy is a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Cultural Studies (Tel Aviv University). She researches the construction of identity among Spanish-Moroccan Jews. She is a member of the Sephardi feminist Beit Midrash Arevot (Jerusalem) and coordinator of education of Makom Sefarad in Spain.

Ariel Cohen

Originally from New York City, Ariel made aliyah three years ago. She has been at OLAM for two years and is their operations and communications manager. Ariel holds a BA in History and International Development and Conflict Resolution and an MA in Conflict Resolution and Mediation.

Elaine R. S. Cohen

Elaine is a retired Jewish educator and an active community volunteer in Teaneck, NJ. Professionally, Elaine was a head of school and served as the national director of the Schechter Day School Network. Elaine now enjoys having more flexibility to pursue her many interests.

Eliot Cohen

Eliot is a law student in London, and recently returned from studying in Israel in Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilboa. He also spent the summer studying in Yeshivat Hadar in New York. Eliot has an MPhil and BA in Philosophy of Religion from the University of Cambridge. This is his first Limmud event!

Hayden Cohen

Hayden is a writer, performer, educator and podcaster from Leeds currently living in London. His proudest achievement remains playing Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof aged 8.

Jenny Cohen

Jenny is an active member of Northwood US. Having no brothers, she said kaddish for her father last year and appreciates the great support received from the Northwood and Pinner minyanim. In her spare time, Jenny is a professor of public health at UCL and editor of the Journal of Transport and Health.

Lawrence Cohen

Having reached three score and ten, Lawrence has acquired much knowledge but little wisdom. Regretfully, there is little he can teach anyone. Nevertheless, there are one or two enthusiasms which he would like to share while there is still time.

Tal Cohen

Tal is a Jewish Israeli and has spent the last 5 years in Nepal working for Tevel b'Tzedek- an Israeli Jewish organization committed to sustainable community development in developing countries. We draw our work from Jewish Values and believe in our Jewish responsibility to help repair the world.

Rotem Cohen Kahlon

Rotem is the youngest woman council member ever in the city of Ramle. A social activist for the periphery in Israel. Director at ISEF Foundation. Rotem served as a parliamentary adviser in the 'Kulanu' party of Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon.

Henry Cohn

Henry was a historian of Germany who for 43 years lectured at three British universities, latterly at Warwick, and then made aliyah from Birmingham to North London.

Liat Collins

Liat Collins was born in the UK, moved to Israel in 1979 and joined the IDF. She has a BA in Chinese and international relations and an MA in communications from The Hebrew University. She has worked at The Jerusalem Post since 1988, edits The International Jerusalem Post and writes a weekly column.

Jeremy Conway

Jeremy is a property solicitor and the rabbi of The Queenshill Synagogue in Leeds. My semicha (rabbinical ordination) is in the Laws of Shabbat.

Ann Conway-Jones

Ann is an honorary research fellow at the University of Birmingham, specialising in early Jewish-Christian relations and biblical interpretation. She has been involved in interfaith dialogue for over thirty years, and is Chair of Birmingham CCJ.

Belinda Copitch

Belinda is a TCK: a Third Culture Kid. Born in South Africa, teen years in Israel, adulthood in UK. She was variously schooled in a convent in SA, Jewish schools in SA and Presbyterian mission school in Israel. She was so motivated to find out who she was that she got a PhD in Identity Development.

Esther Craven

Esther is the youth & student outreach worker at Yachad, the pro-Israel pro-peace movement in the UK. A University of Manchester graduate, she has been involved with Jeneration and creating progressive Jewish spaces in Manchester. Now back in London, she is a member of New Stoke Newington Synagogue.

Mark Creeger

Currently working in Corporate Ethics and Compliance software, Mark has taught Jewish Education and IT at primary, secondary, and university levels. A regular speaker and davener at Barnet Synagogue, he has also taught Barmitzvah for 33 years. He is married to fabulous comedian Rachel Creeger.

Rachel Creeger

Rachel Creeger is an award winning comedian, director and playwright, and currently the only practising orthodox Jewish female comedian on the mainstream UK circuit. Rachel is a respected Jewish educator and sought after speaker at communities around the country. As heard on BBC Radio London and 3CR.

Katharine Crew

Katharine Crew is Campus Leadership Manager at the Council of Christians and Jews. She has been running the Campus Leadership Programme since its inception in 2016 and is involved in CCJ’s work with young professionals. She is training as a local preacher in the Methodist Church.

Ben Crowne

Ben lives in, serially volunteers for, and writes about the Jewish community. He serves as a trustee or advisor to several charities, and is Limmud's representative on the Board of Deputies, having previously chaired Limmud Conference.

Natalie Cumming

Natalie worked as PA to Lord Kissin of the Guinness Peat Group and then worked as PA to Lord Jacob Rothschild before retiring. Made Freeman of City of London 1983 and Member of the Guild in 2003. She is a supporter of Missing People Charity from 1986 where she served as Trustee for 16 years and is still involved with them.