Presenters: C

Daniel Cainer

Multi award-winning songwriter, storyteller and broadcaster. A veteran of six off-Broadway runs, 18 years at Edinburgh Fringe and concerts all around the world. Composer for TV, theatre, radio and temples. Daniel's been the ‘Singing Reporter’ on the BBC and the world’s only ‘Singing Astrologer’ (probably). Also known as 'The Comic Bard of Anglo Jewry' (The JC).

Nigel Canin

Trained as a teacher Nigel was inspired by the potential power of technology in the classroom. In 1999 he launched creative programmes for schools; today the flagship programme Purple Mash is used in over 11,000 schools worldwide. More recently he has set up Lemon Soul, an independent campaigns print publishing company and 2econd Chance, a computer recycling community interest company providing training for vulnerable people.

Mike Capozzola

MIKE CAPOZZOLA is, by default, "The U.K.'s #1 [only] Italian-American Pro Comedian" Since the late 20th Century, Mike's done many shows for JCC's, synagogues, Hillels, private events and Chabads. TV & Film appearances include: "Men in Black international" "The Batman" "The Phantom of the Open" www.IMDb.me/MikeCapozzola

Shalom Carmy

Shalom teaches Jewish studies and philosophy at Yeshiva University in New York, is editor emeritus of Tradition journal and currently contributing editor of First Things journal. He has authored hundreds of articles on Bible, Jewish thought, Talmud and interface of Torah and general culture and has edited two volumes of Rabbi Soloveitchik's writings on prayer.

Hava Carvajal

Hava Carvajal is a teacher at the Queer Yeshiva, and is currently completing an MA in Jewish Studies at UCL before beginning a six-month course at Paideia, the European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden. She's a queer transfem who hopes to begin their rabbinic studies soon.

Efraim Chalamish

Efraim Chalamish is an international economic legal scholar and professor (New York University, IESE Business School), media commentator (Forbes, Reuters, Jerusalem Post) and public speaker, and serves as a senior advisor and Institute Fellow at Kroll, the global risk-management firm. He was a McCloy Fellow on Global Trends for Association for Corporate Growth and a Rockefeller Foundation resident.

Michelle Charles

Michelle is an artist whose work has been shown widely at galleries and museums in the UK/USA. Her work is also held in public collections at the British Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Wellcome Collection and the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Edwin Chomer

Edwin lives with his family in Sheffield and enjoys cycling in the Peak District. His Jewish journey has taken him through New North London Masorti Synagogue, Noam, Bnei Akiva and Ohr Samayech Yeshiva and he has been a (semi) regular attender at Limmud over the years. He believes that the connection to 'self' is a vital part of the individual Jewish journeys that we undertake.

Anne Clarke

Anne is the London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden and chairs the Fire and Emergency Response Planning Committee at City Hall. Anne has been a Barnet councillor since 2018 and is chair of Barnet Labour Group.

Adrian Cohen

Adrian has been involved in communal affairs from the 1980s. He was national chair of UJS. He is co-chair of the London Jewish Forum, lay chair of Labour Friends of Israel and a trustee of a number of organisations. He has been involved in developing a work-placed community and also in interfaith work. He is a partner in an international law firm.

Barbara Cohen

Barbara lives in Weymouth, Dorset, and trained as a yoga teacher with the British Wheel of Yoga. She has been teaching yoga for 23 years, practising meditation for 52 years and is still a 'a work in progress!' Barbara identifies as a JuBu, a Jewish Buddhist, and is very interested in the intersection between Buddhism and Jewish mysticism.

Lucy Cohen

Lucy is fat and fabulous! She is the Director of Noam Masorti Youth; prioritising inclusion, creativity and Jewish learning. Lucy also facilitates JW3's Full Fat (a community space for fat and plus size Jews), and is a Bellydance instructor, a burlesque performer and cabaret show producer; creating Jewish, Queer spaces and shows for fat performers.

Russell Cohen

Russell advises clients around the world on family governance, succession and tax planning. He is a partner in a London law firm and is convinced that years of taking children's services have provided him with all the communication skills he needs to deal with the world's wealthiest families.

Marilena Colasuonno

Maria Maddalena Colasuonno teaches Judeo-Italian at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies. She obtained her PhD in semitic philology at UniOr and was granted post-doctoral fellowships on the syntax of Late Biblical Hebrew at Bar Ilan University and Qumran Hebrew at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Her publications deal with ancient and modern Hebrew, Palestinian Arabic and Judeo-Italian.

Peter Cole

Peter's most recent collection of poems is 'Draw Me After' (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux). He has also translated widely from Hebrew and Arabic—medieval and modern. He is the recipient of many honours, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Jewish Book Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. He divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven.

Ben Combe

Ben Combe is a Jewish community professional and was the Chair of Limmud Festival 2021. He currently works at The New Israel Fund UK as Digital Communications Lead.

Jacky Comforty

Jacky is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, oral historian and media creator. He has worked on ground-breaking films in Holocaust studies, inclusive education and applied media, including 'The Optimists', 'Balkan Jazz' and 'In the Shadow of Memory'. He is the owner of large photographic, film and audio archives of historical and scholarly significance to the Holocaust, World War II and Bulgarian Jewry. He wrote 'The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust' (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021).

Ann Conway-Jones

Ann is an honorary research fellow at the University of Birmingham, and freelance theological educator, specialising in early Jewish-Christian relations and biblical interpretation. She has been involved in interfaith dialogue for over 30 years and is chair of Birmingham Council of Christians and Jews.

Cynthia Cooper

Cynthia L. Cooper is a playwright, journalist and author. Her award-winning plays, published in 17 volumes, include 'Silence Not, A Love Story' about a Nazi resister, and the most recent, 'I Was A Stranger Too,' about a Jewish woman who reaches out to asylum seekers. She lives in New York, where she is an initiator of the Jewish Theatre Circle.

Belinda Copitch

Belinda has a PhD in education and has worked in the Jewish community. Since 2013 she has been researching the impact of Jewish schooling on Jewish family life and Jewish choices. As a teacher she has to deal with youngsters on the autistic spectrum. She is close to several adults who show signs, and may even be autistic herself. You decide.

Mark Creeger

Working in corporate ethics and compliance software Mark has taught Jewish Education and IT at multiple levels. He is a regular speaker, parasha discussion and prayer leader at Barnet Synagogue and has taught Barmitzvah boys for over 35 years. Married to fabulous comedian, Rachel Creeger, they share two wonderful boys and a marvellous daughter-in-law.

Rachel Creeger

Rachel Creeger is an award-winning stand-up comedian, writer and director, and the only practising Orthodox Jew on the UK comedy circuit. She is co-host of 'Jew Talkin' To Me?' podcast and resident host for London comedy club 'Upstairs at the Adam & Eve'. As seen on BBC1 and NextUp Comedy, and regularly heard across the BBC Radio network.

Ben Crowne

Ben lives in East London, works in Central London and comes to North West London twice a month for kosher meat and gossip. He is a forensic accountant and has been a trustee of Limmud and treasurer of the Board of Deputies, among other communal roles. He sometimes assists in the production of the parody magazine 'Private Oy!'.

Tilla Crowne

An artist, cartoonist and irrepressible forager, Tilla is the creator and co-editor of Private Oy! - the UK’s foremost parody magazine of a parody magazine. Follow her through the forest to find fantastic fungi.