Presenters: W

Adam Wagner

Adam Wagner is a barrister specialising in human rights law at Doughty Street Chambers, London. He founded and chairs the award-winning human rights charity, EachOther, and is a visiting professor of law at Goldsmiths, University of London. His debut book, 'Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why It Matters' was released in October.

Julia Wagner

Julia is a lecturer and writer specialising in film and television. She holds a PhD in Film Studies from University College London. Julia's writing on Jewish-interest culture has been published widely and she lectures with international cultural centres and conferences. Julia hosts filmmaker Q&As and is passionate about media education and public engagement.

John Ware

John Ware is a journalist whose 2019 BBC Panorama "Is Labour antisemitic?" investigated the rise in antisemitism within Labour. Since then, he’s learned a lot more about how the crisis developed and Corbyn's own approach to it. Some of his conclusions may surprise you. Others will not!

Lewis Warshauer

Lewis Warshauer is an independent Jewish studies educator based in New York and a regular presenter at Limmud. His subjects include works of art as commentary on the Bible. Lewis received his rabbinic ordination from Jewish Theological Seminary and in a previous career worked on Middle East policy for the US government.

Daniel Weiss

Daniel H. Weiss is Polonsky-Coexist Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is author of Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence (forthcoming 2023, Cambridge University Press), among other publications. He is currently in Tübingen on a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers.

Bess Welden

Bess Welden is a theatre-maker based in Portland, Maine. Her play 'Madeleines' won the 2022 National Jewish Playwriting Contest and will be produced in 2023 at the Jewish Theatre of Bloomington (Indiana). Bess is also a performer and faculty member of Colby College's Department of Performance, Theater and Dance.

Emma Weleminsky

Emma is the UK community manager for OLAM, a network of Jewish and Israeli international development organisations, and JDC Entwine, which focuses on engaging young Jews in global Jewish responsibility through travel. Before joining OLAM in 2022 she worked in several heritage and school settings. She lives in London with her husband and dog.

Chloe Welford

Chloe is a Membership Events Coordinator. She enjoys organising and attending events, socialising, marketing and graphic design. Chloe is newly married and lives with her husband Jake in Hertfordshire.

Jake Welford

Jake is head of Global Digital Marketing Innovation, Testing and Optimisation, at WhatsApp. Outside of work he likes (ethical) investing, deep thinking, dabbles in futurism (AI, Robots) and is active on YouTube on the overlap of these topics (Progress is Everything). Jake is newly married, lives with his wife in Hertfordshire and volunteers for Limmud.

Vivian Wineman

Educated at Yavneh Yeshiva and Cambridge University. Practised as a city commercial lawyer for forty years. Past President Board of Deputies, New Israel fund. Jewish Vice chair CCJ. MA UCL. Studying for PhD on history of Zionism. Fascinated by Jewish history and inter faith relations. Blogs for ToI

Irene Wise

Artist and writer Irene Wise is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Arts, University of Roehampton (previously senior lecturer in Media and Culture). She is a fellow in Holocaust Education at the Imperial War Museum and a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. Irene wrote and curated the app for iPad on Anne Frank’s 'The Diary of a Young Girl'.

Sara Wolkenfeld

Sara is the chief learning officer at Sefaria, an online interface for Jewish texts. Sara is a fellow at the David Hartman Center at the Hartman Institute of North America and a member of Class Six of the Wexner Field Fellowship. Her current writing projects apply Talmudic ideas to ethical questions raised by technological advances.

Jewish Women's Aid

Jewish Women’s Aid is the only specialist charity in the UK working with Jewish women and their children affected by domestic abuse and sexual violence. We run a holistic and culturally sensitive service, offering advocacy and emotional support, counselling, group work, helplines, web chat and children’s therapy services. Our preventive educational work takes place in synagogues, schools, on campus and across Jewish community settings.

Adam Woolfe

Adam Woolfe is a Bioinformatician and Molecular Biologist by training, working as a Director of Bioinformatics for a start-up in the area of immunotherapy therapeutic discovery. He is one of those south London Jews you've heard about, but has lived in Paris, France for the past 12 years. He enjoys applying his computational skills to Torah study.