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Zeilig Rabinovitz

CEO of the Yiddishpiel Theatre since 2016. For many years, Zelig was a senior assistant to the director-general of the Broadcasting Authority and the Head of Establishment of Large-scale Projects in the Authority and a director of various bodies.

Karen Radkowsky

Karen heads Impact:NPO, which uses research and brand positioning to help nonprofits achieve greater impact. Earlier, she spent 20+ years at global marcoms agencies, including Ogilvy & BBDO. A member of Limmud’s International Advisory Council, she was previously the global trustee overseeing marcoms.

Alexander Radziewski

Born in1961 in Berlin, Alexander began studying the piano in 1970, switching to timpani and percussion in 1977. In 1987 he was appointed principal Timpanist with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. Since 1986 he has depped in "Cats," "Phantom of the Opera" and finally "Lion King."

Idan Raichel

World famous performer, producer, keyboardist, lyricist and composer, Idan is best known as the leader of The Idan Raichel Project, which brings together singers of different backgrounds and beliefs, most of them from the Ethiopian community.

Cecil Reid

After a career in medicine Cecil has just completed a PhD in the history of Medieval Jewish Spain. Cecil hopes to convey the fascination of this subject since history is not just dusty documents or dry dates, but full of stories of people in whose lives we can, perhaps, even see a mirror of our own.

Derek Reid

Derek is a Jewish poet and folklorist of Ashkenazi traditions, Yiddish folk music, the oral tradition of storytelling and Jewish superstitions. He worked for 20 years with the Yiddish poet Avraham Nachum Stencl. Founder member of The Society for Storytelling.

Pippa Reid

Pippa is a musical storyteller. She runs The Music & Storytelling Experience which creates interactive storytelling for families, adults with special needs and elders.

Rachel Rose Reid

Rachel co-founded Moishe House London and is Spiritual Educator for the Sadeh Farm. She is the first British woman to be ordained by the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute. As co-founder of Yelala she renews knowledge of Jewish women's practices ancient & modern through story, song, ritual & retreats.

Anthony Reuben

Anthony is the author of "Statistical - Ten easy ways to avoid being misled by numbers". He is part of the BBC's fact-checking Reality Check team so spends much of his time making sure that things said by politicians are true. He is usually quite busy.

Dave Rich

Dave Rich is director of policy for CST. He is an associate research fellow at the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. He is author of the book The Left's Jewish Problem and writes regularly about antisemitism and extremism for newspapers and journals in the UK and abroad.

Simon Rickman

Simon is a development coach, who specialises in working with individuals and teams to help them make a change in their professional and personal lives. The biggest motivator for Simon is to walk into a room of individuals and inspire them to think more positively about themselves and others.

Sarah Ridy

Sarah Ridy has both Bachelor and Masters degrees in baroque harp performance from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. She performs with numerous ensembles throughout Europe, in a variety of styles but many of which are rooted in ancient music. She is currently teaching in the Royal Conservatory.

Albert Ringer

Albert Ringer is the rabbi of the Reform congregation of Rotterdam, chaplain at a psychiatric institution in The Hague and a long time Limmud aficionado. For him Judaism is a tapestry of meaning connecting our past with our futures, giving meaning to the lives we live.

Shais Rishon

MaNishtana is a writer, speaker, and rabbi whose work takes prejudice, bias, and ignorance head on with a humorous and often irreverent voice that shatters the misconceptions of Orthodox Judaism, American Jewish racial identity, and African-American religious identity.

Marcus Roberts

Marcus Roberts is the founder/director of JTrails.org.uk and creates Jewish Heritage trails in England, and Holocaust trails in the Channel Islands and NW France, works with communities across England and conserves Jewish heritage. JTrails is part of the ‘European Routes of Jewish Heritage’.

Ruti Roche

Ruti and her husband Nahshon live in Ilford, Essex, whilst their three children and grandchildren live on Bnei Akiva kibbutzim and a moshav. Ruti enjoys helping people of all ages to develop new skills, be it understanding gematria, gardening or making Chanukah crafts.

Reyna Roditi

Reyna “Gina” came fourth in Masterchef Mexico 2015 and participated in Masterchef Mexico All Stars. She can’t wait to come to Limmud Festival in the UK to share her love of Sephardic food and spices.

Lex Rofeberg

Lex Rofeberg is co-host of the Judaism Unbound podcast, and he's studying to become a rabbi through the Jewish Renewal movement. Born in Wisconsin, Lex now lives in Providence, Rhode Island. He roots for Man U (they were the first team he played with in FIFA '99) but don't hold it against him.

Anna Roiser

Anna is a part-time lawyer & part-time student, studying for an MA in Israeli studies. A member of Na'amod, the British Jewish anti-occupation movement, with experience of anti-occupation activism in the West Bank, Anna wants to see democracy and justice for all living under Israeli control.

Jonathan Roland

Jonathan is the Head of Community Engagement at UJIA. UJIA develops informed, confident Jews who are inspired by Israel, and has been at the forefront of building Israel for 100 years. Jonathan brings Israel to UK synagogues and facilitates trips and missions to Israel as part of UJIA's mission.

Jonathan Romain

Rabbi, writer and broadcaster, Jonathan Romain is minister of Maidenhead Synagogue. He is Chaplain to the Jewish Police Association, President of the Accord Coalition (campaigning for inclusive education) and Vice-Chair of Dignity in Dying. His latest book is 'Confessions of a Rabbi’.

Tulio Rondon

Tulio Rondón has completed a doctoral degree in performance at the University of Arizona. He performs throughout the United States, Europe, Middle East, North and South America as a soloist and chamber musician. He is currently the violoncello professor at the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire.

Daniel Rose

Daniel is a UK-born educator with extensive experience in informal and formal Jewish education in the UK, the US, and Israel, including teaching, content and curriculum development, and educational consulting. BA from LSJS, MA from UCL Institute of Education, and a PhD from Hebrew University.

Jeanette Rosenberg

Jeanette’s a popular and knowledgeable genealogy speaker who leads for JGSGB on Education/Mentoring. She’s a professional genealogist and member of several genealogy/family history organisations (UK & worldwide). Jeanette was awarded an OBE in 2016 for disability work, alongside being a Civil Servant.

Phil Rosenberg

Phil Rosenberg is the Director of Public Affairs at the Board of Deputies of British Jews. With this, Phil has a leading role in formulating the community’s policy and advocacy. He previously served as a Labour councillor and is the Co-Chair of the Camden Faith Leaders Forum.

Faye Rosenberg-Cohen

Faye is a lifelong Winnipegger. She loves Jewish learning and was thrilled to bring Limmud to Winnipeg after volunteering at global Limmud events. Faye and her husband Harvey host an independent minyan that meets periodically to celebrate shabbat with learning, davening and of course shabbat dinner

Bex Rosenblatt

Bex teaches Tanakh at The Conservative Yeshiva, where she delves into questions such as: Was Jeremiah the world’s first stand up comedian? What if God always intended for kingship to fail? Is reading Lamentations masochistic or sadistic?

Omri Mordechai Rosenkrantz

Omri was born in 1978 and has an MA in Sociology of Education (TAU, 2007). Omri has been a course coordinator and teacher at the Open University of Israel since 2008, at the department of Sociology and the department of Education and Psychology. Omri is the co-founder of the LGBT caucus in the Likud (2011).

Matan Rosenstrauch

Matan is a passionate Israeli peace activist, who blogs in Haaretz. He coordinated SISO (Save Israel Stop the Occupation) and initiated the South African Jewish Democratic Initiative. This year he moved to London, where he consults for the Balfour Project and participates in interfaith dialogues.

Adi Rothman Berman

Adi grew up in Habonim Dror in Aotearoa New Zealand and after being Mazkira there came to the UK to be on the 5779 Mazkirut. She is still heavily involved in the Jewish Community and a part of Veranenu, an egalitarian, progressive community holding monthly musical Kabbalat Shabbat services in London

Moriel Rothman-Zecher

Moriel is the author of the novel, Sadness Is a White Bird, for which he was named a National Book Foundation ‘5 Under 35’ honoree. He was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Moriel lives in Ohio with his wife, Kayla, and their daughter, Nahar.

Dani Rotstein

Dani is a TV commercial producer, life-long Young Judaean, ROI member, NGF Alumnus, Rikud-aholic, and Limud Mallorca co-founder who recently opened up Jewish Majorca - connecting the island's past with its present in hopes of building a brighter future. He has never been to Magaluf.

Michael Rubenfeld

Michael is a producer and performance maker from Canada living in Poland. Much of his performance work revolves around exploring contemporary Polish-Jewry, including We Keep Coming Back and Lucky Jews. He is the producer of a Canadian Edfringe venue called CanadaHub and co-director of FestivALT, a jewish arts activist festival in Krakow, Poland.

Shoshi Rushnevsky

Shoshi is CEO of TOM Israel. Earlier in her career, Shoshi was working for 16 years in high tech. She holds a BA in computer science and an Executive MBA. Shoshi is also the chairwoman of Restart - an organisation helping wounded soldiers break out of the injury cycle.