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Caroline Hagard

Caroline has been teaching for many years in religion schools. A storyteller, songwriter and creator of children's services for the High Holy Days, Caroline is passionate about Judaism & her sessions are great fun. In her spare time she is a full-time medical secretary.

Matt Halfin

Matt is the founder of Unstoppable!, a coaching business that helps people be at their best mentally and emotionally at times of significant change or challenge. He is an accredited IHEART facilitator delivering emotional resilience programmes for students in schools and further education.

Eve Harow

Eve is an Israeli tour guide, veteran radio personality and international speaker whose expertise is giving history a modern context. A longtime resident of Gush Etzion and mother of 7, she's passionate about her people, faith and land.

Laurence Harris

Laurence is a professional genealogist specialising in Jewish family history, tracing ancestors and living individuals around the globe. He has researched and presented on the BBC “Who Do You Think You Are?” TV series, and is a former Chairman of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain.

Elizabeth Harris-Sawczenko

Elizabeth is Director at the Council of Christians and Jews. She served as a Director at the New Israel Fund in Jerusalem and as Public Affairs Director at the Board of Deputies of British Jews. She is a trustee of Abraham Fund and holds an MA in Contemporary Jewry and MSc in Charity Management.

Lihi Haruvi

Lihi is an accomplished Israeli musician and performs around the world. She worked with many artists including UNESCO Artist for Peace Danilo Perez, “Rock & Roll Hall of Fame” drummer Max Weinberg, and the multi-platinum Israeli artists David Broza, to name a few.

Fleur Hassan Nahoum

Fleur is a Jerusalem councilwoman, and the most senior British born political leader in Israel today. Widely known as Jerusalem's "Ambassador to the World" she is the leading voice for the advancement of women, economic development and pluralism in the City of Jerusalem.

Holly Blue Hawkins

Natural Deathcare advocate, author, educator and Rosha of a Chevra Kadisha in Santa Cruz, California, Holly Blue provides training in a wide variety of end-of-life subjects in both Jewish and secular settings, including Kavod v'Nichum conferences, and studies with Gamliel Institute.

Shirah Hecht

Shirah Hecht, Ph.D., is a sociologist/evaluator, Jewish formal and informal educator for adults and children, and aspiring story-teller who loves text and meaning. She studied egalitarian minyanim for her thesis (Chicago) and about Israel (SIIS/Brandeis). She is 2018 Limmud Boston Program team lead.

Stuart Hecht

Stuart teaches theatre at Boston College and is Editor of New England Theatre Journal. His book Transposing Broadway: Jews, Assimilation and the American Musical led to the Peabody Award winning documentary, “The Broadway Musical: a Jewish Legacy.”

Daniel Heller

Daniel works in NHS management, hails from South London, and was recently shocked to hear that some people have never heard of a Womble. Daniel has been an active Limmud volunteer, both in the UK and further afield, for over a decade and has presented on a range of topics.

Paul Heller

Paul is cantor at Belsize Square Synagogue, and member of the Cantors Assembly, European Cantors Association. He has held positions at the Great Synagogue in Stockholm, Sweden, and Quito, Ecuador. In his native Colombia combined with his dental practice, he studied at Yeshiva in Jerusalem and Jewish Theological Seminary N.Y.

Charlotte Hempel

Charlotte is a professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism at University of Birmingham. She is currently working on a project supported by the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council on Ezra's Legacy and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Annika Hernroth-Rothstein

Annika is a political journalist who writes for the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Jerusalem Post and the Washington Examiner. Annika has just finished her first book, "Like Diamonds- stories from the Jewish diaspora", to be published by Bombardier Books in the fall of 2019.

Michael Hilton

Michael is Scholar in Residence at Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London, lectures at Leo Baeck College, and is an Hon Research Fellow at Manchester Uni. He is the author of “The Christian Effect on Jewish Life” and “Bar Mitzvah: A History.” He is trying hard to learn Arabic and Yiddish.

Sherre Hirsch

Sherre is a rabbi, author, speaker and media expert for the Today Show. As Hillel International’s senior rabbinic scholar she serves 550 campuses. She has published We Plan, God Laughs and Thresholds with Random House. She lives in LA, is married with four children, a foster son and dog, Latke.

Avital Hochstein

Avital is President of Mechon Hadar in Israel and research fellow at the Hartman Institute. She is author of "Women out, women in: the place of women in midrash" along with the late Prof. Hana Safrai, and a graduate of the Rabbanut Yisraelit Hartman/Oranim program.

David Hoffman

David is a Jewish rock musician and songwriter, with several albums out, including ‘Blues for Jews’, ‘Kadosh’ and ‘Ancient Inspiration’, available online. He leads ‘Shir Chadash’ musical services based in Manchester. He is also a longstanding Limmud volunteer, currently chair of Limmud.

Vered Hollander Goldfarb

Vered loves to learn and teach Tanach, which she does at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem and at the Hartman Midrashiya. She asks the self-study questions (sometimes without knowing the answers) for the weekly Torah Sparks on the Parasha.

Noëmi Holtz

Noemi Holtz is a Gestalt psychotherapist, educator, passionate reader and writes in Swiss German.

Gil Hovav

Born in Jerusalem in 1962, Gil Hovav is an Israeli author, TV personality and restaurant critic. His memoir Candies from Heaven was recently published in English and Chinese.

Ernie Hunter

Ernie is a volunteer Holocaust educator at the Manchester Jewish Museum and president of his Bnai Brith Lodge. He is invited annually by the Museum of Christians and Jews in Laupheim, Germany, to give talks on his family. He gives similar talks in the UK. He is also happy to be a working Grandpa!

Jonathan Hunter

Jonathan spends a large amount of his non-Limmud leisure time at various modern jive events around the country, and is very much looking forward to sharing the fun of dancing with all at Limmud Festival this year!

Monawar Hussain

Monawar Hussain is an Imam and the Muslim tutor at Eton College, Windsor; Muslim Chaplain to the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; founder of The Oxford Foundation and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham.

Joe Hyman

Joe is an Orthodox LGBT activist working towards greater inclusion for LGBT Jews in our community. He grew up in an Orthodox community where he has grappled with issues of sexuality and religion his whole life.