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Shimmy Feintuch

Shimmy is a New York City-based psychotherapist, professor, writer and public speaker. He speaks about issues relevant to community, addiction, emotional wellness and spirituality. His first Limmud was in Shanghai, and he is excited to finally make it to Limmud Festival!

Leon Fenster

Leon is an artist from London whose art re-imagines the familiar. Families and communities, from Taiwan to Mexico, commission Leon to tell their story and capture their memories in his dream-like style. He creates city-specific illustrated haggadot, and an upcoming elaborate visual haggadah drawing on the breadth of Jewish experience.

UK Jewish Film Festival

UK Jewish Film (UKFF) aims for Jewish film to be enjoyed by the widest possible audience, and to be at the heart of British culture. UKFF believes film crosses cultures and has the ability to unite, engage and educate diverse audiences through visual storytelling, which provides stimulating and unique views of Jewish and Israeli life and culture.

Nathan Finkel

Nathan Finkel is a musician from London who has played with the Limmud House Band for over 10 years. He also creates ambient groove-driven music from loops, using guitars, drum machines and keyboards. He is passionate about mushrooms, community events, and wiring all his music gear together in order to see what happens.

David Finlay

David is a writer of songs and performance pieces which bring to life different aspects of Jewish history. He has taken a particular interest in the work of the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai and will be presenting 'How Rich They Are' which tells Amichai's life story through the words of his poems.

Ellen Flax

Ellen Flax is a philanthropy consultant who aids both foundations and grant seekers, and is a partner at Amplify Partners, which provides strategic support to non-profits, foundations and social ventures. She received her rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion.

Dalia Fleming

Dalia is KeshetUK’s first executive director, working to ensure no one is forced to choose between their LGBT+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans) and Jewish identity. Responsible for the strategic direction of KeshetUK, Dalia has been involved in the UK Jewish and LGBT+ community for over ten years.

Jeff Fox

Jeff Fox is a rabbi and serves as the Rosh Ha-Yeshiva and Dean of Faculty of Yeshivat Maharat. He was the first graduate of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and served in the pulpit for seven years before joining Maharat. He lives in Riverdale, New York, with his wife Beth and their four boys.

Mark Fox

Mark is the president of West London Synagogue, former vice-chair of the Leo Baeck College and a former deputy on the Board of Deputies. He has a master's degree in Religion at Kings College, London, and is a Religious Studies PhD researcher at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland, and editor of a religion and philosophy blog: www. phlexiblephilosophy.com

Marc Frank

Therapist, community facilitator, mental health worker and maverick mystic based in Totnes, Devon. Marc is motivated by an enthusiasm for interfaith and a passion for peace, driven by the wish to integrate authentic spirituality into the grounded reality of our everyday lives. Marc loves to explore opportunities for openness in coming home to the heart.

Deborah Freeman

Deborah is a playwright and short story writer. Plays include 'The Song of Deborah', 'Candlesticks', 'Xanthippe' and 'Remedies'. 'Candlesticks' recently had a successful run in London. 'Tell it Not,' is a short story collection - many with Jewish themes. Several have been published in The Jewish Quarterly, Jewishfiction.net, Stand Magazine and other publications.

Mordechai (Motti) Friedman

Mordechai (Motti) Friedman is the director of the Institute of Research of Zionism at the JNF in Jerusalem, and the author of the books 'Theodor Herzl’s Zionist Journey – Exodus and Return' and 'Moshe Sachs: A yeke, a charedi and a Zionist'.

Georgie Friend

Georgie is currently the Social Action and Volunteer Programmer at JW3. She is also a resident at Moishe House Kilburn, and a trustee of Masorti Judaism. At last year's Festival she was a co-chair of Young and Teen Limmud and is very excited to be returning to an in-person Limmud as a participant!

David Frisch

Now in yeshivah, David holds an MPhil in political theory from the University of Oxford where he was a Barry Scholar, and a bachelor's degree from Duke University where he studied politics, history and religion as an A.B. Duke Scholar. He has volunteered extensively in family law and served as an invited visiting researcher at the Monash University Law Faculty.