Madison Jackson |
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Madison Jackson lives in Cleveland, Ohio, USA and is the founder of the Global Jewish Pen Pal Program, a non-profit which matches together Jews from around the world with pen pals in other countries for either virtual or handwritten correspondence. She also freelance writes for various organizations.
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Ivor Jacobs |
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Ivor Jacobs is a 14-year Trustee of Friends of LouisJacobs.org, constantly adding content to the first site and to the new Booksof.LouisJacobs.org site. Almost all of the books, articles, videos and information by and on Rabbi Jacobs is online. To commemorate the 100th year since Louis Jacobs birth Dr Harry Freedman has written a new biography.
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Zöe Jacobs |
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A long time fan of Limmud, Cantor Zöe Jacobs was the first ordained cantor in the Reform Movement. She was ordained in 2009 from HUC-JIR and is a product of summer camp. Zoe is passionate about singing with others, so spends a lot of time online with her community, FRS, and is thrilled for any opportunity to collaborate with friends!
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_ JAMI |
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For over 30 years, Jami has provided practical and emotional support for the mental health of the Jewish community. Established in 1989, Jami works with individuals, communities and organisations to help prevent mental illness from developing, improve early intervention and promote wellbeing.
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Michelle Janes |
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Michelle is the Interim Co-CEO of the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC) and heads up its Leadership Development division, Lead. She is an experienced community leader with a background in training and education. She is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion and enjoys nothing more than being beaten at board games by her two children!
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Laura Janner-Klausner |
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Laura Janner-Klausner is the former senior rabbi to Reform Judaism. She has focused on leadership training and Palestinian-Israeli/Muslim-Jewish dialogue. She has just published "Bitesize Resilience, A Crisis Survival Diary". She is a founding partner of a consultancy for leaders, focusing on societal issues such as race, gender and sexuality.
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Valeria Jegisman |
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Valeria is a journalist in Washington D.C. at Voice of America's Russian language division, covering U.S-Russia and transatlantic relations, Eastern Europe and US foreign policy. She has worked for various INGOs; at the Estonian newspaper Postimees; as press secretary at the Estonian Ministry of Internal Affairs, and at World Jewish Relief in 2017.
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_ Jewish Bereavement Counselling Service |
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Sheila Mattison - Social Worker & Adult Psychotherapist dealing with loss and grief, often of the complicated type. Margi Abeles - Medical Social Worker & systemic Family Therapist working with Holocaust survivors & refugees. For many years they have been JBCS supervisors & members of Clinical Advisory Group.
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_ Jewish Care |
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Paula Plaskow, is a palliative social worker and End of Life and Palliative Care Lead at Jewish Care. Her role is to educate her Social Work and Community Support team and other colleagues who support people in the community and our care homes with all aspects of end of life care education, including Advance Care Planning.
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_ Jewish Volunteering Network |
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At JVN, volunteers come first. JVN aims to help find everyone an opportunity that suits their interests, skills and availability. They do this by connecting volunteers to volunteering roles, stimulating more people to volunteer and to become the central source of inspiration and leadership for volunteering in the Jewish community. www.jvn.org.uk.
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_ Jewish Women Aid |
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Jewish Women's Aid is the only specialist organisation in the UK supporting Jewish women and children affected by domestic abuse and sexual violence.
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Tzipporah Johnston |
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Tzipporah is a textile and mixed media artist based in Edinburgh, working primarily in hand embroidery. Her current projects include Neuk Collective, a new collective of neurodivergent artists from across Scotland, and The Fruit of Her Hands, a participatory textile art project to make a Torah mantle in honour of scrub- and mask-making volunteers.
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Oliver Joseph |
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Oliver Spike Joseph is rabbi for New North London and Havurah. He studied in Israel at the Conservative Yeshiva, Hartman Institute, Tel Aviv University and was ordained at the Ziegler in LA in 2015. Oliver previously worked in activist communities in Israel, the USA, Canada and the UK. He loves Jewish learning, cooking, hiking, martial arts and bicycles.
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Anthony Julius |
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Anthony Julius is a lawyer, writer and academic.
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