Presenters: K

Roi Kahlon

Roi works for the Israel Ministry of finance. He is a CPA and has a BA and MA in Economics from Ben Gurion University, and lectured at the university. He served as a combat sordier in a special unit in the IDF for three years. Roi is married to Rotem and a father to Omer.

Keith Kahn-Harris

Keith Kahn-Harris is a sociologist and writer. He is a senior lecturer at Leo Baeck College and runs the European Jewish Research Archive at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research. His most recent book is 'Denial: The Unspeakable Truth.'

Lior Kaminetsky

Lior is Rabbi of Birmingham's United Central Synagogue and an internationally-acclaimed violinist. He holds a doctorate of Musical Arts from USC & Rabbinic Semicha from OTS. He occupies a unique niche, combining Judaism and Music. He has released 2 albums: "From Bach to Carlebach" 2017 and "Mediteranean Klezmer" 2006

Gabriel Kanter-Webber

Gabriel is a rabbi-in-training at Leo Baeck College and (very) attached to the York Liberal Jewish Community. He has a particular interest in the crossroads between Jewish law and civil law. He also crochets and writes shorthand - even though for some reason neither is taught on his rabbinic course.

Elliott Karstadt

Elliott is a fourth-year student rabbi at Leo Baeck College in London. He serves a number of different communities across the Liberal and Reform movements, and particularly enjoys bringing Jewish texts to life with adults and teens in community settings.

Ben Kasstan

Ben is a medical anthropologist at the University of Sussex, researching reproductive health and decision-making. In any spare time he is teaching on social justice at Brighton and Hove Progressive, supporting interfaith projects, and promoting sexual and reproductive health rights.

Elie Kaunfer

Elie Kaunfer is a rabbi and CEO of the Hadar Institute. He has worked as a journalist, banker, and corporate fraud investigator. A graduate of Harvard, he holds a doctorate in liturgy and is the author of Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities.

Gordon Kay

Gordon has attended Limmud since 1998. A former Sussex Day Limmud co-chair, he is now part of a team aiming for a new Jewish school in Brighton and Hove. For work, he helps organisations tell their stories better and helps NHS patients to share their experiences to influence improvements in services.

Shelley Kedar

Shelley is the founding director of The Shlichut Institute, chaired by Natan Sharansky. Previously a Senior Shlichah -Director of Campus Shlichim and Hillel International’s first VP of Israel Education and Engagement. In 1999-2002, she was the educational shlichah to Liberal Judaism!

Melanie Kelly

Melanie is Living Bridge Programme Manager for UJIA having previously worked in Jewish primary education for many years. In her spare time she is a compulsive knitter and newly learnt crochet nut.

Maureen Kendal

Academic, film-maker, poet, multi media producer, visual effects, virtual realiity producer, Company director of Cybercare and DreamStudio. Maureen is also contributing author to ' Conquer the Web' published in 2018.

Shay Kerem

Shay is Dana International's manager and a well-known and dominant figure and personality in the LGBT community in Israel and around the world.

Susie Kessler

Susie is the Director of Makom, the Center for Meditation and Spirituality at the Marlene Meyerson JCC in New York City and the Site Manager for the "What Matters: Caring Conversations about the End of Life" programme. She also co-teaches a “Wise Aging” course at the JCC.

Barry Kleinberg

Barry is an orthodox rabbi and teaching fellow at the London School of Jewish Studies. He currently trains osteopaths at two universities and has been practicing osteopathy for over 10 years. Before that he was a solicitor. He is about to start his PhD in Jewish philosophy.

Sana Knaneh

Sana is Development Director of UK Friends of the Bereaved Families Forum and passionate about peace-building in the Middle East. Sana is a Palestinian citizen of Israel, has an MA in International Relations from the Hebrew University and MSc from LSE in International Strategy and Diplomacy.

Roman Kogan

Roman is executive director of Limmud FSU. A graduate of Hebrew University’s department of International Relations and Journalism, Roman was a press attaché in the Knesset, and a shaliach of the Jewish Agency in St. Petersburg and in the Baltic states.

Tomi Komoly

Tomi was born in Budapest in 1936. He left Budapest in 1956 during the uprising and moved to the UK, where he studied and graduated. He then worked as a project manager in Europe and Asia, and as a design consultant. He lives in England, and has two daughters and seven grandchildren. Tomi often visits Hungary to keep in touch with events.

Lev Konstantinovskiy

Lev is an artificial intelligence engineer making computers understand human language. He has been writing algorithms for checking political facts at Full Fact. He is a long-time Russian Limmudnik based in London after a couple of years of digital nomading with a laptop and a backpack.

Jessica Kosmin

Jessica is an independent communications consultant living in Israel. She provides communications and public speaking training to companies and Jewish organizations in Israel and the US. She has an MA in Government and a BA in Ancient and Medieval History.

David Krantz

David Krantz leads Aytzim (Jewcology, Green Zionist Alliance, EcoJews, and Rabbis and Cantors for the Earth) and serves on the boards of the American Zionist Movement and Interfaith Moral Action on Climate. He’s also a National Science Foundation fellow at Arizona State’s School of Sustainability.

Jacob Kraus

Jacob Spike Kraus is a 27 year old songwriter based in NYC, where he is the music teacher for Beit Rabban Day School. He has been song leading for over a decade; his music has been included in the cantorial curriculum of Hebrew Union College, and featured on Jewish Rock Radio and PJ Library.

Itamar Kremer

Itamar Kremer is director of the Koret International School for Jewish Peoplehood Studies at The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot. He is a former aliyah shaliach in NYC, school principal in the Arava and field officer it the IDF

Ilana Kurshan

Ilana Kurshan is the author of If All the Seas Were Ink (St. Martin's Press). She teaches Talmud at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem and works as the Books Editor of Lilith Magazine.