Presenters: J

Ilana Jackman

Ilana Jackman-Overlander is a fundraising coach and consultant. She works across the charity sector to support organisations to do more good, more effectively.

Thea Jacob

Thea Jacob is a singer and facilitator, with 25 years experience. Through a chance conversation at Donisthorpe, the Leeds Jewish care home, she began visiting their advanced dementia units, beginning her journey discovering the profound benefits that shared singing can bring in later life.

Margaret Jacobi

Margaret Jacobi is rabbi of Birmingham Progressive Synagogue. She studied medicine and did medical research before rabbinic studies in the UK and the USA. Margaret has PhD in Talmud and is a magistrate. She loves looking what the Torah and Talmud have to say about the complexities of justice.

Dan Jacobs

Entrepreneur, vegan, satirist and campaigner against antisemitism on the left. Dan is the editor of The Daily Jews, a new online satire website for the Jewish community. He is also Chairperson of the Jewish Vegetarian Society and machers for several other organisations.

Katherine Jamieson

Katherine Jamieson, MFA (Missus G) is an award-winning author, educator and performer whose work is published in The New York Times, Lonely Planet and The Best Women's Travel Writing. She leads the interactive component of Mister G concerts, and develops curricula, workshops, and teacher trainings.

Michelle Janes

Michelle is executive director of Lead (a division of the JLC), an organisation working to enable, develop and strengthen leadership across the UK Jewish community. She has an MBA, is a qualified teacher, passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion and always looking for the next challenge!

Neil Janes

Neil is founder of the Lyons Learning Project, a project for Jewish learning and conversation and leads on Education and Social Action at West London Synagogue. He teaches Talmud at Leo Baeck College, is studying for a PhD at Kings College London, and loves the restorative power of gardening.

Laura Janner-Klausner

Laura Janner-Klausner is Senior Rabbi to Reform Judaism. She is passionate about progressive Judaism, social justice, community cohesion, Israel, LGBT issues and the impact of new technologies on our lives and souls.

Balint Jobbagy

Born and raised in Budapest, Bálint strengthens JDC Junction as the operations and communication manager. He has a totally rational fear of pigeons, his guilty pleasures are ordering colorful socks and old books online. Not a nerd, but Jedi is a religion not a character. Please and thank you.

Shoshana Jones-resnik

Shoshana is CEO of a consultancy based in London, focused on creating positive and inclusive organisational cultures and communities and COO of The Kiverstein Institute, a feminist initiative based in Jerusalem.

Leah Jordan

Leah is currently a Lishma Fellow at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem. Her rabbinic work is focused on teaching Torah & Jewish text study, youth work, community building, and organising for change with Na'amod. She lives in London with her partner, Benji Stanley, also a rabbi.

Lyn Julius

Lyn is the author of UPROOTED: How 3000 years of Jewish civilisation in the Arab world vanished overnight (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018). She founded Harif, the UK Association of MENA Jews. Lyn is published in the Guardian, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish News, JPost, Standpoint, The Article, JNS News, and Times of Israel.