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Adam Wagner

Adam is a human rights barrister at Doughty Street Chambers. In 2015 he founded and now chairs the human rights education charity RightsInfo. He is a visiting professor of law at Goldsmiths University and has recently launched the Better Human Podcast.

Julia Wagner

Julia Wagner is a film lecturer and writer. She holds a PhD in Film Studies and an MA in Italian Studies. Julia is curator of archive project, Jewish Britain on Film. She regularly hosts Q&As with filmmakers and is passionate about film education and public engagement.

Lewis Warshauer

Lewis is an independent Jewish adult educator based in New York and a veteran Limmudnik. His interests include understanding the bible through art, power and politics in Judaism, and the workings of Jewish law. He is also a great fan of the British detective novel and sings oratorios.

Dawn Waterman

Dawn is the Board of Deputies' Archives and Heritage Manager. She is managing next year's Year of Jewish Archives.

Ruth Waterman

Born in Leeds, Ruth has enjoyed an international career as a solo violinist, from London’s Proms to New York’s Great Performers at Lincoln Center. She is also a writer, conductor, educator, broadcaster and painter; her book When Swan Lake Comes to Sarajevo was an Observer Book-of-the-Year.

Naomi Webber

Naomi is a junior barrister and lifelong Limmudnik. She has a particular interest in how secular law interacts with religious issues - a topic that never fails to spark lively discussions!

Sandra Webber

Sandra is from south east London. She has taught cheder for 25 years. She studied German, Italian and public administration. She has retired twice and now has three jobs in miscellaneous corners of governments.

Michael Wegier

Michael is an educator, strategist and fundraiser who has worked in Jewish communal organisations in Israel, the USA and the UK. He most recently served as chief executive of UJIA and now runs an independent consultancy.

Alona Weimer

Alona Weimer currently lives in Leipzig, Germany. When not in Germany, Alona mobilises American Jews on racial and economic Justice. She graduated Brandeis University with a degree in Black Studies, and has participated in the JOIN for Justice Organising Fellowship and the Yeshivat Hadar Fellowship.

Neta Weiner

Neta is an Israeli artist and social activist. A lead singer for the multilingual Jewish-Palestinian hip-hop ensemble System Ali, Neta is also artistic director of Beit System Ali Culture Centre in the Jessi Cohen neighbourhood in Hulon.

Jonathan Weissbart

Jonathan is a regular ba'al tefilla (cantor/service leader) and choral conductor in various synagogues around London. He takes tunes from a variety of different sources, whether choral or Carlebach, traditional or modern, quaint or quirky, and blends them into the liturgy to enhance the services.

Emma Weleminsky-Smith

Emma is the activities and volunteer manager for the House of Life at Willesden Jewish Cemetery, a project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and supported by the United Synagogue. She previously worked in the learning team of the Jewish Museum London and as a religious education teacher.

Jake Welford

Jake is co-founder at JCal (Jcalendar.co.uk), and freelances in digital marketing. Outside of work, he YouTubes about freelancing (www.youtube.com/c/progressiseverything) and is writing a book provisionally titled: Thinking Backwards, about contrarian and counter-intuitive thinking.

Corrine Westwood Servi

Corrine is one of the Families co-chairs this Limmud. She is the mother of two amazing children and the Head of a Music Department in a secondary performing arts school in Barnet. She is a musician and artist and has many years experience in working with young people from diverse backgrounds.

Linda White

Linda White is the founder of ImaginationPlayProject. She creates experiences for all ages using a variety of objects that encourage exploration and engage the senses. Linda has worked with communities in Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine and Israel.

Brett Wigdortz

Brett founded and led Teach First for fifteen years, building it into the largest graduate recruiter in the UK. He is co-founder and CEO of Tiney.co and chairman of National Citizen Service. He is a trustee & co-founder of Teach First Israel (Chotam) and the Fair Education Alliance.

Deborah Williger

Deborah Williger received her PhD in agricultural sciences and her MS in International Agricultural Development. She worked in Germany, Austria and India. She is a cow whisperer. She received her BA in Jewish and Religious Studies and her MA in Jewish Theology and currently serves as lecturer.

Atira Winchester

Atira has been director of programming at New Israel Fund UK since 2015. Prior to this she was head of creative learning at JW3. Passionate about Hebrew, Atira also holds an MA in English Literature.

Vivian Wineman

Vivian attended Yavneh Yeshiva and Cambridge University and recently obtained MA from UCL on Jewish History. Vivian practised as lawyer and has lectured on Jewish History at Spiro and Limmud UK, China, and Oz. Vivian is the past chair of Peace Now and the New Israel Fund, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, chairman of the Council of the European Jewish Congress and vice-president of the World Jewish Congress

Ben Winton

Ben is a philosophy graduate, qualified teacher and currently works in policy. He pursued his religious interests by attending Yeshivat Maale Gilboa, Pardes and Hadar. When not thinking about the future of the Jewish people, Ben can be found bouldering, meditating or hanging out with his wife, Ren.

Rachel Winton

Rachel is an artist and filmmaker from London. Her first film about queerness in the Orthodox community was made in 2017 and in 2018, she was 1 of 10 artists chosen to take part in the 10-month Collaborative-Studio residency at UnionDocs in Brooklyn.

Irene Wise

Irene Wise is an artist and senior lecturer in Media and Culture at University of Roehampton. She is an Imperial War Museum Fellow in Holocaust Education and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. Irene exhibits artwork and publishes illustration, and writes on a variety of cultural subjects.

Jonathan Wittenberg

Being a child of German-Jewish refugees profoundly influenced his life. He likes trying to understand and build relationships, between us, our Judaism and our spirituality; between different faiths; between refugees and hope; between humans, plants and animals. Just published "Things My Dog Has Taught Me".

Guy Woolf

Guy is an actor, director and composer based in London. He is creative director of represent theatre, dedicated to redressing the socioeconomic imbalance in theatre, and currently touring his one-person drag show around the UK. He is thrilled to come to Limmud for the first time.

Tamra Wright

Tamra Wright is Director of Academic Studies at LSJS, and a visiting lecturer at King’s College London. She has published on Buber, Levinas and post-Holocaust philosophy. Her most recent book, co-edited with Peter Atterton, is “Face to Face with Animals: Levinas and the Animal Question”.