Presenters: K

Keith Kahn-Harris

Keith is a senior lecturer at Leo Baeck College and runs the European Jewish Research Archive at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research. The author of seven books, his eighth, 'What does a Jew look like?', a collaboration with the photographer Rob Stothard, will be published in 2022.

Andrea Kamens

Andrea tells traditional, original, Jewish and first-person stories. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, and Zooming everywhere, she’s a host at The Story Space, a religious school teacher and a mom of five. She is co-founder and director of Youth Standing Strong Camp, a global online camp where youth aged 5 to18 find their voice within the storytelling community.

Tamar Kamionkowski

Tamar Kamionkowski is Professor of Biblical Studies at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Her most recent publication is Leviticus: A Wisdom Commentary, a feminist commentary on the Book of Leviticus. Kamionkowski is also the founder of the Kamionkowski Bet Midrash, an online platform for Hebrew learning.

Gabriel Kanter-Webber

Gabriel is in his final year of rabbinic training at Leo Baeck College. After ordination in July 2022, he will become rabbi of Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue. He is father to Omri, who was born on the last day of last Limmud.

Agnes Kaposi

Agnes is a Holocaust Survivor who worked as a child labourer in the camps of Austria. She lived through Communist Hungary and in 1956 she escaped to Britain as a graduate engineer. She started a family and built a career as a researcher, educator and consultant. Agnes was the third woman to become a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Martin Kaye

Martin is a familiar face at Festival, having run Limmud's successful bookshop for over 17 years. At Limmud 2020 he presented 20 'must-read' books of Jewish interest and has spent many months engaged in online discussion ever since. For this year he has chosen 20 Jewish personalities. Some, if not many, of whom you may be blissfully unaware.

Lauren Keiles

Lauren Keiles is the communities manager for the Board of Deputies of British Jews. She is a trustee for Rene Cassin and a fellow on the United Nations EDIN project, seeking to use social media to counter extremist narratives. Lauren is a resident of Moishe House London Hackney and an ambassador for Chief Rabbi Mirvis' Ben Azzai programme.

Etienne Kerber

Recently ordained at the Leo Baeck College, Etienne Kerber is now working as the rabbi at the Communauté Juive Libérale de Paris. He teaches mysticism at the Ecole Rabbinique Libérale de Paris and recently published a book about his experience as a mystic in his rock 'n' roll band.

Mikhael Kesher

Mikhael is director of Israel Programs at Harvard Hillel in Cambridge, Massachusetts, former co-chair of the Limmud Chavruta Project and Limmud Publications Team, and a long-time chavrutah (study partner) of Robin Moss.

Loolwa Khazzoom

Loolwa Khazzoom (KHAZZOOM.com) is founder of Iraqis in Pajamas (IraqisInPajamas.com), a band combining Iraqi Jewish prayer with original conscious rock, with songs in English, Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Khazzoom's work has been featured in top media including the NY Times and Rolling Stone.

Anna Kislanski

Anna is CEO of the Israeli Reform Movement. She is an experienced educator and community-building specialist. During Anna’s tenure, the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism has more than doubled its congregational presence in Israel from 25 to 53. Anna and her family live in Even Yehuda, Israel, and are founding members of HaShachar, one of IMPJ's newer congregations.

Chaim Klein

Chaim Klein was born in Slovakia in 1947, moved with his parents to Israel in 1949. First they lived in a tent and then in a moshav. All the adults were Holocaust survivors and Hungarian was the primary language. Conditions were rough. Military service, wars, university, marriage to an English girl, children and a reluctant relocation to London.

Monika Krawczyk

Monika is director of the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw and chairperson of Auschwitz Museum Council. Previously CEO of the Foundation for Preservation of Jewish Heritage, Poland and lay leader in the Union of Jewish Communities of Poland. She headed her private legal practice, studied law in the Universities of Warsaw and Toledo, and studied Jewish Studies at Pardes.