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Ilana HaCohen

Ilana HaCohen is the director of global engagement at Pardes, where she cultivates partnerships, oversees recruitment and marketing for core immersive programmes, and crafts innovative educational experiences. An alumna of the Pardes Year Programme and a longtime Limmud fan, Ilana lives in Jerusalem with her husband and five children.

Tobie Harris

Tobie is a Jerusalem-based attorney working in the public sector, originally from Chicago. Tobie drew on her eclectic Jewish background, spanning from Beis Yaakov to daf yomi (learning Gemara learning), to undertake a year-long project writing a poem each week related to Parshat Hashavua (the weekly Torah portion).

Elizabeth Harris-Sawczenko

Elizabeth Harris Sawczenko is a consultant at Abraham Initiatives UK, The Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Global Forum for Peace and the Good Faith Partnership. She is a British Israeli who worked as a Director at the New Israel Fund in Jerusalem and as Director of the Council of Christians and Jews in the UK.

Efraim Hazzan

Efraim Hazzan will appear on a panel led by Owen Power called ‘What might an accessible & inclusive Community look like?’.

Michael Heiser

Michael Heiser is an amateur singer and composer of Yiddish songs. He has written around 20 settings of Mordechai Gebirtig and other Yiddish poets, which can be found on his website. He lives in London.

Charles Heller

Charles Heller graduated from Cambridge University and for over 50 years has been a synagogue choir director, composer and teacher, working with major figures including Shlomo Carlebach and Marvin Hamlisch. He is on the editorial board of the 'Journal of Synagogue Music' and has been a frequent presenter at Limmud Toronto and 'Limmud On One Leg'.

Daniel Heller

Dan Heller works in the NHS in London and is a long-time Limmud volunteer, including as one of the co-chairs of Limmud Festival in 2019. He likes to present about Jewish themes in popular music.

Paul Heller

Paul is a bel canto baritone and member of the European Cantors Association. He is a dentist focused on music therapy. He has been the cantor in Bogota and at rabbinical seminars, the spiritual leader of the Ecuador Jewish community, and was at the Great Synagogue of Stockholm (2000-2011). Paul has been the cantor of Belsize Square Synagogue, London, since 2013.

Laura Hendy

Laura recently joined World Jewish Relief in the first position dedicated solely to climate action, as the charity steps up its efforts to reduce its own carbon footprint and to strengthen the climate resilience of its programme participants around the world.

Dov Hikind

Dov is the founder of Americans Against Antisemitism and a New York State Assemblyman for 36 years. Dov's career in advocacy began as an activist fighting for Jewish emigration from Russia before the Iron Curtain fell. As the son of Holocaust survivors, educating the public on Nazi atrocities and combating antisemitism has remained his central mission.

Daniel Hirschfield

Daniel studied Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Oxford University. He is a member of the London Cantorial Singers, active in the European Cantors Association, and a member of the Education and Heritage working groups of the Community and Education Division of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. During the week, he is a financial services lawyer.

Ed Horwich

Ed was raised in the Jewish community of Southport, and by the time he returned it was just 8% of its more glorious days. After a career in the creative industries and broadcasting, Ed was sucked into community life, serving two synagogues. As CEO of JSCN he has been championing small communities for the greater part of the twenty-first century.

Shereen Hunt

Shereen Hunte is Learning Manager at the Jewish Museum London. She is responsible for teaching the museum’s award-winning learning programme, coordinating community-focused exhibitions and leading both the museum’s Inclusive Judaism Programme and Black History Programme.

Ernie Hunter

Ernie is founder and chair of Northern Holocaust Education Group. He is an accredited volunteer Holocaust educator, giving talks to schools, museums and civic groups in the UK and Germany. The son of German refugees, he is passionate about the relevance of Holocaust education today in standing up against antisemitism, discrimination and racism.

Ilana Hutchinson

Ilana is the education manager at Jewish Women’s Aid, working with young people in schools and youth organisations to explore issues such as sexual violence, consent and healthy relationships. Having both teaching and youth work experience, Ilana is passionate about prevention education and establishing a 'consent culture' for all our Jewish youth.

Jill Hyams

Jill Hyams is an archivist at Surrey History Centre in Woking where she has worked since 2004. She is a keen family historian and is interested in refugee history and the history of Jewish communities in Surrey.