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Miriam Edelman

Miriam is an organisational psychologist, and teaches tikkun olam to rabbinic students at Leo Baeck College, and Judaism and ethics for teens at Wimbledon Synagogue. A fully bilingual American who has lived in London since 1994 and has been a Limmudnik nearly as long. Miriam is Limmud’s Treasurer.

Dovid Efune

Dovid is editor and CEO of The Algemeiner. He regularly appears on major TV channels including CBS, CNBC, Fox News and CNN and has met with both US President Donald Trump and Israeli PM Netanyahu. Efune is a popular public speaker and has been widely published.

Yehuda Efune

Yehuda has been the rabbi to the Chelsea Synagogue community in central London, since 2011.

Daniel Eisenberg

Daniel grew up in London. He studied German and French at university and was a Noam movement worker. He spent a year at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem and now lives in London where he helps run Ohel Moed, a halachic-egalitarian minyan. He works in children social services.

Sheila Eizensharf

Born in Israel, Sheila grew up in Latvia and started doing Israeli dance at the age of 13. She works with children, teenagers, adults, volunteers for Baltic Israeli Arts festival “Inbal” and organises “Riga Rokedet” Israeli dance Baltic workshop. Participates in Machol Europa annual Israeli dance teaching course.

Judith Elkan

Judith is chair of UK Friends of the Bereaved Families Forum. Born in Jerusalem, she is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist living in the UK. She has been involved all her life in building bridges between Israelis and Palestinians to live peacefully and creatively side by side.

Benjamin Ellis

Benjamin helped establish and is now chair of KeshetUK, the organisation working so that no one should ever have to choose between their Jewish and LGBT+ identity. He enjoys cycling, swimming, cooking vegetarian food, and sings in Jewish and LGBT+ choirs.

Tamar Elram

Tamar Elram is an ObGyn and expert in HealthCare Admin, trained at Hebrew University (MD) and Harvard (MPA) as a Wexner fellow. Current director of Hadassah Mt Scopus. Past assistant to director general of the Health Ministry, deputy director of Hadassah Ein Kerem and director of Misgav Ladach Hospital.

Nadine Epstein

An award-winning journalist, Nadine reported for the Chicago bureau of the New York Times. Nadine holds a B.A. & M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and was a University Fellow in Columbia University. Nadine has written several books and a documentary film shortlisted for an Academy Award.

Lucas Espinosa Menendez

Photographer by vocation, Design Anthropologist by profession, Talmudist aficionado. Colombian and Spanish Passports. German Resident.

Estelle Eugene

Estelle has been offering yoga sessions at Limmud for many years. She worked as administrator for the Yakar Educational Foundation and co-founded The Jewish Yoga Network with Marcus Freed.