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Chaya Parkoff

As a licensed clinical social worker, life coach and Torah educator, Chaya has devoted her personal and professional life to inspiring others to become the best they can be. Chaya loves to share the wisdom of Torah when she counsels, coaches, teaches or speaks! Chaya's goal is always to connect with her audience and make the ideas relevant and practical in our lives.

Anita Peleg

Anita Peleg is the daughter of sculptor and Auschwitz survivor, Naomi Blake. She is Chair of Trustees for Generation 2 Generation and a trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. She is committed to Holocaust education and presents her mother’s story to a range of audiences in educational, civic and community organisations.

Eliora Peretz

Eliora Peretz is a faculty member at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem where she teaches Talmud, Poskim and Mussar. She is finishing an orthodox smicha programme (Yoreh Yoreh) at Beit Midrash Harel under the supervision of Rav Herzl Hefter.

Efrat Perri

Efrat Perri is a diplomat for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the director of public diplomacy at the Israel Embassy in the UK. She was previously posted in China.

Uriel Perugia

Urial Perugia is the Secretary General of UCEI, the Union of Italian Jewish Communities with the vision of strengthening Italy's Jewish communities. Most recently, UCEI, under Uriel’s leadership, has led the Jewish community in sponsoring the integration of Afghan refugee families into Italian society.

Hugh Petrie

Hugh Petrie is Heritage Development Officer at the London Borough of Barnet, based at Hendon Library.

Denise Phillips

Denise Phillips has written seven cookbooks. She has regular 'hands on' and Zoom cookery classes that provide inspiration and new skills, plus "Date on a Plate" - online events for singles which are an excellent way of meeting new people. Denise runs corporate events suitable for companies entertaining clients or team building for staff through cookery classes.

Marcia Plumb

Marcia Plumb is senior rabbi of Congregation Mishkan Tefila, in Boston, Massachusetts. Passionate about Mussar, she has studied and taught it for many years. She leads a New England Mussar conference and teaches an international online Mussar group for Americans and Brits. She lived and worked in London for 25 years. She is on the board of LimmudBoston.

Stephen Pollard

Stephen Pollard is editor of the Jewish Chronicle, a London-based Jewish weekly newspaper founded in 1841.

Zeev Portner

Ze'ev Portner is a Law lecturer at Buckinghamshire New University. He previously qualified as an advocate in Israel and worked for ten years for former Labour MP, Louise Ellman, as her Parliamentary Assistant. Ze'ev enjoys reading books about history and politics and has developed a specialist interest in the history of the Jews of Barbados.

Owen Power

A deaf queer Jew with a passion for social action, inclusion and HIV prevention. A member of Liberal Judaism Board of National Officers with the inclusion brief, Beit Klal Yisrael Liberal Jewish Community, and LGBT+ officer for the Salford and Eccles CLP. For relaxation Owen likes coffee, murder dramas, cooking, conversation, ballet and social media! He/Him.

David Prager

David Prager was born in Manchester in 1952. A chemist by profession, he retired following a prestigious management career in BP Chemicals and its successor companies. He has studied the music and careers of the leading cantors of the world. In 2021 he was appointed a co-editor of the Jolles Encyclopaedia to advise on cantorial biographies.

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Dana Pulver

As a cultural entrepreneur, Dana explores new genres to approach Jewish texts. She created a musical project, Talmudic Ballads. Another original genre of hers is Midrashirt or T-Midrash, on dresstelling.com. In this initiative Dana creates clothes that conduct a dialogue between Jewish heritage and pop culture.