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Vivi Lachs

Vivi Lachs is Associate Researcher at Birkbeck, Translation Fellow at the Yiddish Book Centre, and a Cockney-Yiddish pop singer who runs the Great Yiddish Parade and London Yiddish Open Mic Café. Her acclaimed book Whitechapel Noise is a new history of the East End through Yiddish song and verse.

Mateusz Lagosz

Mateusz Lagosz is from Kraków, Poland. Mateusz is a guide and educator who works at the Jewish Community Centre in Krakow, where he coordinates the Sunday school programme and Tapuzim BBYO. He was president of the Gimel Student Club.

Harry Lampert

Harry has been helping in the kitchen almost as long as he has been going to Limmud – maybe 20 years? He isn’t sure at this point. Whilst studying Media Production, he runs a food blog where he posts recipes and discusses food science. He has presented at Limmud before and is excited to do so again.

Amitai Landau-Pope

Born in Petach Tikva and born again in JFS, Amitai Landau-Pope is a British-Israeli playwright and theatre director. In 2017, he set up mealspiel, an ensemble theatre company with a Yiddish twang. Amitai is completing an English degree at Oxford, where he is currently president of OUDS.

Juliet Landau-Pope

Juliet Landau-Pope (JLP Coach) is a certified coach, professional organiser and study skills consultant. She coaches adults and teens to develop time management, organising and exam revision skills. Juliet has written 2 books: Being More Productive (2017) and Clearing Your Clutter (2018).

Yoav Landau-Pope

Yoav is a clinical psychologist, trained in Israel, and now lives and works in London. He practices as a therapist, clinical supervisor and consultant to various Jewish organisations. Yoav's interests include community mental health, immigration, multiculturalism, political trauma and human rights.

Isaac Landes

Isaac Landes is a rabbi and learns and teaches at YASHRUT which builds civil discourse through a theology of integrity, justice, and tolerance. An alumnus of Yeshivat Har Etzion Hesder, he does graduate work at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, writing about birth control and infanticide in Victorian England.

Einat Ben Josef Lavi

Einat was born in the Galilee and is an 8th generation Israeli. He hosts groups about Jewish identity, and is a board member for the Committee of the revival of the new Aramaic language. He has a BA in Jewish History and is studying for an MEd in multidisciplinary education and teaching. He is presenting in Hebrew only.

_ Laviot Programming

Laviot is a community of LGBT+ Jewish women and non-binary people. We have a supportive and active online presence, and host regular London-based events. Laviot is an open space for anyone who feels it is relevant for them. However you define it, we support it.

Kedar Lawrence

Kedar is a video artist based in San Francisco. His work combines video art and live video feeds with video projection creating an environment of interactivity. This creates a grainy world that is both familiar and timeless while reflecting on the current state of the world in relation to the past.

Clive Lawton

One of the founders of Limmud, Clive is now a freelance educational consultant, CEO of the Commonwealth Jewish Council and scholar-in-residence at JW3.

Tamar Lazarus

Tamar is IsraAID’s development and communications director. Originally from London, she participated in missions in Nepal, Kenya, Greece and the Bahamas, squeezing work in between Crossfit, beachside camping and her lifelong search for the perfect scoop of mint chocolate chip icecream.

Adam Lenson

Adam is a director and producer with a special focus on new musicals. His directing includes The Rink, Wasted and Superhero (Southwark Playhouse), Songs For A New World, Whisper House and 35mm (The Other Palace). He recently founded a production company devoted to developing artist-driven musicals.

The Leo Baeck Education Center Haifa

Maor Snir, Civics teacher and 11th Grade Coordinator at the Leo Baeck Education Center in Haifa. He leads the Hope for Israel program at LBEC, focused on shared society among Secular, Arab, Zionist Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox sectors. LBEC represents an egalitarian and Progressive Jewish alternative.

Tamar Levi

Tamar grew up in Habonim Dror and made aliyah from Canada. Passionate about the connection between the Jewish people and Israel, she is the Program Director for HeChalutz - Alternative Zionist Education, including shnat coordination for HDUK. She lives on Kibbutz Eshbal, an educators' kibbutz.

Daniel J. Levy

Daniel J. Levy is a graduate of the Universities of Leeds and Oxford where his research focused on Iran's proxies across the Arab world. He is a regular contributor to The Times of Israel, Haaretz, and Jerusalem Post, and undertakes freelance geopolitical, security, and communications consulting.

Joel Levy

Joel Levy is the Rosh Yeshiva of the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem where he has taught for over twenty years. He is interested in modes of Jewish learning that promote spiritual and moral growth. He has served as the rabbi of Kol Nefesh Masorti, the UK's first fully egal, trad. shul since 2000.

Charlie Lewin

Charlie is an ex-Haredi visual artist who escaped her arranged marriage and the stifling confines of a cult-like community. Through her artwork, Charlie aims to inspire change and bring awareness to end abuse in insular communities.

Stuart Lewis

Stu Lewis has been travelling from his home in Prairie Village, Kansas, USA to Limmud UK since 2013, and has presented on a variety of topics. He is an active member of Congregation Beth Torah in Overland Park, Kansas, and is also a long-term member of NEWCAJE in the United States.

Dan Libenson

Dan Libenson is founder and president of the Institute for the Next Jewish Future and co-host of Judaism Unbound, one of the most-downloaded Jewish podcasts, which promotes creativity and innovation in Jewish life. He is also the translator of The Orchard by renowned Israeli novelist Yochi Brandes.

Daniel Lichman

Daniel is rabbi to university students for Progressive Jewish Students. He is also rabbi of Mekor Hayim, a new shul formed by the Shir Hayim and the Willesden Minyan communities. He teaches Jewish spirituality and theology as a path for personal healing and world-redemption.

Kevin Lieberman

Kevin is a Robotics PhD candidate at the University of Michigan. He researches human-robot interaction in the context of high-risk aerospace and military systems. He is a member of the ROI community and has been a leader in the Moishe House, Hillel International, and itrek communities.

Rebecca Lillian

Rebecca wears many hats: interfaith activist, Reconstructionist rabbi, community organiser, Yiddish teacher, and writer. Rebecca spends a lot of time on the bridge between Malmö and Copenhagen and is proud to be part of ÖresundsLimmud. Rebecca works with the Limmud Connections Team.

_ Limmud Social Programming Team

The Limmud Social Programming Team are here to make your Limmud experience a more social one! Look out for a range of activities and sessions that will help you to meet new people, try out new skills, have some time to relax and much more!

Amanda Lind

Amanda has coordinated community gardening in Jerusalem for two decades. She gained the R.B.G. Kew Diploma in Horticulture after discovering her love of nature on Kibbutz. She now coordinates active pensioners groups encouraging volunteering for the environment.

Tim Livesey

Tim is CEO of Embrace the Middle East, a charity working to transform lives in the poorest and most marginalised communities in the Middle East. Formerly a senior diplomat, Tim worked as senior adviser to the Archbishop of Canterbury and chief of staff to the leader of the opposition, Ed Miliband.

Simon Livson

Simon was born in Jerusalem to Finnish parents. In 1989 they moved back to Finland. After serving in the Finnish army, he studied in Jerusalem and started as the rabbi of Helsinki in 2012. Half a year later he was inducted as Chief Rabbi of Finland. He supervises all religious matters in Finland.

Brett Lockspeiser

Brett is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Sefaria, a non-profit organisation dedicated to creating the future of Torah. Sefaria makes Torah texts available online for free and creates tools to help people learn and explore. Brett lives in San Francisco, California.

Eryn London

Eryn London is a rabbi and the JOFA UK Scholar in Residence. She received smicha from Yeshviat Maharat in 2017 and is a board certified chaplain. Since receiving smicha, she was working as a multi-faith hospital chaplain. She has lectured in Israel, Australia, Colombia, Canada, the UK and the US.

_ London Jewish Male Choir

Founded in 1926 in London’s East End, LJMC has entertained audiences worldwide with quality performances across the spectrum of Jewish music. Britain’s oldest Jewish choir, its diverse repertoire includes original compositions by musical director Joseph Finlay. New members welcome.

Kobi Luria

Kobi Luria, born in 1949, is a creator, researcher, musician, lyricist playwright, and academic specializing in Middle Eastern studies. Luria has written songs for some of Israel's most prominent musicians.

Sandra Lustig

Sandra H. Lustig - translator, interpreter, writer. She has been an habitual Limmudnik since 2001 as an attendee, organiser and presenter. Sandra is based in Hamburg, Germany and is co-editor of “Turning the Kaleidoscope – Perspectives on European Jewry” (Berghahn Books).

Ivan Lyons

Jews can run! Ivan is a serial marathon runner with more than 200 marathons (26.2 miles) behind him and has run the equivalent of the circumference of Earth (twice). This session will inspire you to take those first running steps (whatever your age or ability) or to help in reaching your next goal.