Presenters: K

Susan Kahn

Susan Kahn is the associate director at The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School. Her book, 'Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel' (Duke, 2000) won a National Jewish Book Award.

Deborah Kahn-Harris

Deborah Kahn-Harris is Principal of Leo Baeck College in London. She holds a PhD in Hebrew Bible and has published widely. Her book, 'Polyamory and Reading the Book of Ruth', is forthcoming from Lexington Books. She and her husband, Keith, have two teenage children, a cat, a budgie and an indeterminate number of fish.

Keith Kahn-Harris

Keith Kahn-Harris is a sociologist and writer. He 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 eight books, he has most recent interests are stock photos of Jews and the warning messages inside Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs.

Gabriel Kanter-Webber

Gabriel took up his first rabbinic post at Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue this summer and has since had to expend considerable energy in resisting the copious amounts of cake that it turns out rabbis get offered in an average week. Crocheter, shorthand writer, tweeter; once labelled a 'horrible human being'.

Michael Kay

Michael has a PhD in the history of science and technology and has done research into the use and spread of electrical technologies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is now interested in the impact of electrification on Jewish communities during that period. He currently works in online learning design at King's College London.

Martin Kaye

Martin is a familiar face at Limmud running its ever-popular bookshop, providing Limmudniks with Jewish publications from around the world. In the last few years he has turned his hand to presenting. His previous Limmud sessions include 20 Jewish Books that everyone should read and 20 Jewish personalities, of whom you might be blissfully unaware

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll is a writer and an activist. Born and raised in Lakewood, she now lives in Israel. As co-founder and director of Chochmat Nashim, Shoshanna raises awareness of the growing extremism in Orthodoxy and offers ways the community can counter them. She writes for numerous publications and speaks internationally.

Ethan Kelly

Ethan is a songwriter and communications officer from London. He grew up attending Kingston Liberal Synagogue, where he learnt a love of Jewish music. As a fan of classical and popular music, he now writes original songs for guitar, harmonica and voice inspired by Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan. This is his first time at Limmud – please say hello!

Harry Kelly

Harry is Global Community Manager for Moishe House supporting young adult community builders across Europe, Canada and China, to create meaningful Jewish experiences for their peers. He has worked across the British Jewish community professionally and as a volunteer and is passionate about growing the Jewish community in new and innovative ways.

Clive Kennard

Clive is an art historian with expertise in cultural Hebraism expressed in British 19th-century art and literature. He completed a PhD on the British Jewish pre-Raphaelite artist, Simeon Solomon (1840-1905), and the fast-changing Jewish stereotypes affecting the reception of his work.

Barry Kleinberg

Barry is a non-practising solicitor and a practicing osteopath. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Haifa researching Universalism in Orthodox Jewish Thought. Barry is interested in Jewish views towards animals, the philosophy of Nietzsche and the problem of dirty hands!

Sefi Kraut

Sefi Kraut is a core faculty member of the Pardes Center for Jewish Educators, based in Jerusalem, where she is thrilled to be involved in training the next generation of Jewish educators. Sefi is also the director of education for the Pardes Mahloket Matters Schools project. This is Sefi’s first Limmud!

Michael Kretzmer

Michael visited Lithuania in 2019 and since then has made a film 'J’Accuse!', a passionate indictment of Lithuanian Holocaust fraud. It features two heroes: Grant Gochin, whose family was murdered by a Lithuanian called Jonas Noreika, and Silvia Foti, Noreika's granddaughter. Michael is a member of Birmingham Progressive Synagogue.

Annette Kurer

Annette is senior business leader, international leadership coach and motivational speaker with 30 years in global business and a business reputation in the Private sector, Not for Profit, the Civil Service and a qualified dentist. She is a trusted board advisor and Chair of ORT UK outcome-driven and is enthusiastic to empower and engage others to be their best self and achieve their desired work/life aspirations.