Presenters: F

_ Families Programming

The Families Team are here to make Limmud Festival as meaningful and memorable as possible for our youngest participants and their adults!

Gal Farhi

Gal is into music which comes from places that have/had Sephardi Jewish communities - the Middle East, North Africa and a few of the Balkans. EasternBeats is the name of the collective Gal’s a part of. They do weddings and Bar/Bat/Butt Mitzvahs too. No joke.

Elias Fasja-Cohen

A drama aficionado, in 1985, Elias created, with Mónica Unikel, the Sefarad Group, an ensemble of Mexican Jewish artists, which performs moving and successful shows with Judeo- Spanish melodies and poetry. Elias is a professional in the licensing business through his company Tycoon Enterprises.

Kayla Feldman

Kayla is an Anglo-American writer, director, producer, cultural Masorti Jew and lifelong Limmudnik, based in London. She is the co-artistic director and co-founder of Snapper Theatre, associate producer for Maiden Speech Festival, and a script-reader for Nouveau Riche and Hampstead Theatre.

Daniel Fenster Simons

Dan does not like writing about himself but is very happy to refer to himself in the third person. Dan has spent far too long planning his session and hopes you will enjoy it as much as he does. Dan worked for Noam and was a teacher at JCoSS before moving to focus on his latest venture.

Laurence Field

Laurence is JW3 Head of Gateways, Gateways founder and JW3 safeguarding lead, Laurence was the former Youth and Community director at the London Jewish Cultural Centre and representative on the Children Youth Involvement & Participation Strategy Group for Barnet Children’s Services.

Nathan Finkel

Nathan Finkel is a multi-instrumentalist and producer who has performed at many Limmud events as part of the Limmud house band, supporting visiting artists. When performing his own music, he’s largely given up on humans, and instead prefers to rely on machines. At least they can count to four.

David Finlay

David Finlay is a writer and performer of songs and performance pieces which bring to life aspects of modern Jewish history. He is particularly well known for telling the life story of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai through the words of Amichai's poems.

Deborah Fishman Shelby

Deborah Fishman Shelby founded FED, a platform for ideas in an inclusive Jewish community. An Advisor of Hakhel: Jewish Intentional Communities Incubator and NYC Igniter of ROI Community, she weaves local and global networks of community-builders using creativity for Jewish engagement.

Ellen Flax

Ellen Flax is a philanthropy consultant based in New York City, and was a long-time member of the International Chavruta team. She received her rabbinical ordination from the Hebrew Union College--Jewish Institute of Religion.

Dalia Fleming

Dalia is KeshetUK’s first executive director, working to ensure no one has to choose between their LGBT+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans) and Jewish identity. Responsible for the strategic direction of KeshetUK, Dalia has been involved in the UK Jewish and LGBT+ community for over 10yrs.

Ittay Flescher

Ittay Flescher is the Education Director at Kids4Peace Jerusalem, an interfaith movement for Israelis and Palestinians. He is also the Israel correspondent for the Jewish Australian publication Plus61J Media, and frequently teaches diaspora youth on gap year programmes.

Yehudis Fletcher

Yehudis grew up in the charedi community and is intent on staying within it, working to make it a safer and more sustainable home for her and her family. She is the founder of Nahamu, a thinktank examining extremism in the Jewish community. She is a student of social policy at Salford University.

David Fligg

David Fligg has a PhD and is a lecturer at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, and Visiting Professor at Chester University. His research area is music during the Holocaust, specifically the music of Gideon Klein.

Doret Florentin

Native of Thessaloniki, Greece, Doret has studied at the University of Tel-Aviv and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. She performs in major venues all over the world and teaches Recorder, methodics on the recorder and baroque ensembles in the Levinsky college and in various schools in Israel.

Nizza Fluss

Nizza Fluss is a Conservative Councillor, representing the Hendon ward on Barnet Council. She was elected in May 2018. She sits on varies commitees, such as Hendon Residents and the planning committee. She grew up in North West London.

Lance Forman

Lance Forman is the London MEP for the Brexit Party and owner of H. Forman & Son (smoked salmon) and restaurant. He is the author of ‘Forman’s Games – The Dark Underside of the London Olympics’ and was formerly a special adviser to the Secretary of State for Trade & Industry.

Mark Fox

Mark is taking a Masters degree in Religion at Kings College London. He is appearing at Limmud in a personal capacity but is also president of West London Synagogue, a member of the Board of Reform Judaism, a former deputy of the Board of Deputies and former vice chair of the Leo Baeck College.

Marc Frank

Gestalt Counsellor, Mental Health Worker and interfaith youth leader based in Totnes, Devon. Jewish community facilitator, seeker, poet and maverick mystic, Marc loves to tussle with transcendent truths and is passionate about possibilities for peace in opening to awareness as the essence of everything...

David Frankel

David Frankel is a classical guitarist from Belgium trained at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp and the Jerusalem Academy of music.

Noah Frankel

Noah is a 13 year old boy from London, who attends the Archer Academy school, he is in year 8. He is passionate about saving the planet. He enjoys ice hockey and Formula 1.

Shai Fredo

Shai was born in the village of Matcha, in the mountains of northern Ethiopia. In 1983 his whole family made aliya to Israel via a long journey through Sudan. Shai is a writer and actor. He is producer & artistic director of "Sigdiyada"- the largest Ethiopian culture festival in Israel.

Jon Freedman

Jon Freedman is Deputy Director of Limmud and a member of Finchley Reform Synagogue. He lives with his wife and daughter in Enfield, North London.

Paul Freedman

Paul studied Physics @ Bristol, Education @ Cambridge and for the rabbinate @ Leo Baeck College, where he has also taught Biblical Hebrew. He is Senior Rabbi @ Radlett Reform Synagogue, final editor of the Reform Haggadah and coeditor of the forthcoming High Holyday Machzor. This is his 24th Limmud!

Rebecca Freedman

Rebecca Freedman lives in Enfield, North London with her husband and daughter and is a member of Finchley Reform Synagogue. She is Deputy Headteacher at a primary school for children with autism.

Andre Fremd

André Fremd was born in Uruguay. He currently works as the general coordinator of Helpers, an NGO that seeks to save lives. In two years they trained more than 5000 people and acted in 140 emergency cases. He has a BA in Social Work and in 2015 he finished a Master's degree in Social Policies.

Madeleine Fresko-Brown

When she is not on maternity leave, Madeleine is an assistant head teacher at Northwood School, and teaches English and psychology. This year, in case having a toddler and baby to look after wasn't enough to do, she is co-chairing families at Festival.

Mordechai (Motti) Friedman

Mordechai Friedman is the academic director at the Institute of Research of Zionism at the JNF. He is the author of the books "The Bush is Burning and Consumed: Herzl's Zionist Journey" and "Moshe Sachs: a Yeke, a Haredi and a Zionist".

Georgie Friend

Georgie is currently a Noam Masorti Youth movement worker and a Marom fieldworker. She recently graduated from Warwick with a degree in Politics & Sociology, where she spent time teaching communication and public speaking skills to primary school aged children.

Eva Frojmovic

Born in Bohemia, since 1995 Eva has taught History of Art and Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds. Passionate about Jewish heritage in all its forms, especially material and artistic, she researches medieval Jewish-Christian relations and modern Jewish museums/collecting. She has also published about Giotto.

Hadassah Fromson

Hadassah is a psychologist (DPsch) and a rebbetzin (GGS). For her thesis she researched religion and sexuality. She has a clinical practice in Golders Green and works with parents, couples and teenagers. 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. Sam went to CLS and learnt in yeshiva in Jerusalem before studying Natural Sciences in Cambridge and then completing semicha. Sam is assistant rabbi in Golders Green Shul, whilst running an insurtech startup, yulife.