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Limmud Families Team

The Families team are here to make sure there are fantastic families provisions at Limmud Festival 2018.

David Farbey

David Farbey has lectured widely, including at Oxford, Bradford and Westminster universities and is the author of several books. He has made a particular study of eta and opera singers, on which he lectures extensively.

Howard Feldman

Howard volunteers as a mentor for Mavar, supporting charedim who wish to transition to the modern world. He is also a technical and management consultant in satellite communications, and is an executive coach and mentor.

Miriam Feldmann Kaye

Miriam is interested in the impact of postmodernism in contemporary Jewish philosophy. As a Post-Doctoral lecturer at the Hebrew University, and project director of the Israel branch of the Faith and Belief Forum, she is author of ‘Jewish Theology for a Postmodern Age’.

Leon Fenster

An artist who creates intricate, exuberant dream-scapes. Get lost in whimsical worlds which capture the totality of an experience: A city, a life, an architectural fantasy, or a Midrashic story. Current projects include depictions of Israeli cities, a Haggadah and a Sino-Israel exhibition.

Sarah Feuer

Sarah is a Research Fellow at Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies and a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. In 2017 she made Aliyah and she currently lives in Tel Aviv.

David Finlay

David is a writer of songs and performance pieces which bring to life Jewish history. In this 70th anniversary year of the creation of the State of Israel David presents A Promised Land: Those who Dared to Dream, based on the words of those who brought the dream to reality.

Ellen Flax

Ellen Flax is a longtime member of Limmud's International Chavruta team and has worked as a grant maker, director, and consultant at several foundations. She received her rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Dalia Fleming

Dalia is KeshetUK’s first executive director, working to ensure no Jewish LGBT+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans) person has to choose between their LGBT+ and Jewish identity. Responsible for the strategic direction of KeshetUK, Dalia has been involved in the UK Jewish and LGBT+ community for over 10yrs.

David Ford

David Ford is Regius Professor of Divinity Emeritus in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Selwyn College. In the 1990s, with Peter Ochs and Dan Hardy, he co-founded the practice of Scriptural Reasoning. He serves in the Rose Castle Foundation and the Elijah Interfaith Institute, Jerusalem.

Jessica Foster

Jess is a tutor in interfaith engagement at a training college for Christian ministers. She is also policy advisor to the Bishop of Birmingham and is heavily involved in interfaith work in the community. She has participated in two CCJ study tours in Israel-Palestine.

Batsheva Frankel

Batsheva is the author of The Jewish Educator’s Companion, developed the award-winning LaunchBox products and Lenses of Questioning method. She has given workshops all over the US and is director of New Lens Educational Consulting and co-director of The Areté Institute.

Harry Freedman

Harry writes books for anyone- Jewish or not- who is interested in the history of classical Jewish texts. His next book, Kabbalah: Secrecy, Scandal and the Soul, will be published by Bloomsbury in January. His previous books include The Talmud: A Biography and The Murderous History of Bible translations.

Paul Freedman

Paul studied Physics at Bristol, Education at Cambridge and for the rabbinate at Leo Baeck College, where he has also taught Biblical Hebrew. He is Senior Rabbi at Radlett Reform Synagogue, final editor of the Reform Haggadah and coeditor of the forthcoming High Holyday Machzor. His 23rd Limmud!

Sigalit Freeman

Sigalit Freeman is the Jewish Agency Central shlicha for student activity in the UK. Previously Sigalit organised Birthright programmes in Israel and served as a Jewish Agency shlicha in Miami, Florida. She has a degree is special education development. She is married with two young children.

Rachael Fried

Rachael identifies as a Destigmatist, using her social work and systems design backgrounds to approach taboos and to reduce stigmas and biases. She is Deputy Director at JQY, a nonprofit in New York that supports LGBTQ youth from Orthodox homes. In her spare time, Rachael creates lovable monsters.

Mordechai (Motti) Friedman

Mordechai Fridman is the director at the Institute of Research of Zionism in the JNF, previously academic director in the Central Zionist Archive, Jerusalem. He is the author of the books: "The bush is burning and consumed - Herzl Zionist Journey" and "Moshe Sachs a yeke a haredi and a Zionist".

Eva Frojmovic

Eva grew up in Czechoslovakia and Germany, before moving to the UK in 1993. She has been teaching history of art and Jewish studies at the Uni of Leeds since 1995. Her main interests are Jewish art, Jewish-Christian polemics (medieval), Jewish museums and Heritage.

Hadassah Fromson

Hadassah is a psychologist and a rebbetzin (GGS). For her PhD she studied religion & sexual satisfaction and now teaches Torah and has a practice in focussing on parenting, relationships, and work with teens. Hadassah was born in Israel, raised in Gibraltar and studied in UCL, Michlalah and Matan.

Sam Fromson

Sam is a rabbi, husband, dad and entrepreneur. He went to CLS and learnt in yeshiva in Jerusalem before studying NatSci in Cambridge and then completing smicha. Sam is assistant rabbi in Golders Green Shul, whilst running an insurtech startup, yulife.