Presenters: C

Daniel Cainer

Daniel is a Limmud favourite and a multi-award winning songwriter, storyteller and broadcaster. He is a veteran of seven off-Broadway runs, 18 years at the Edinburgh Fringe and concerts all around the world, with his ever-evolving Jewish-themed 'stories in song'. He composes for TV, theatre, radio and synagogues. Daniel is also known as 'The comic Bard of Anglo Jewry' (The JC).

Rachel Century

Rachel is the Director of Public Engagement and the Deputy Chief Executive at the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and an Educator for March of the Living UK. She has a PhD in Holocaust Studies from Royal Holloway, University of London, and has published a book based on her research in 2017 entitled 'The Female Administrators of the Third Reich'.

Sarah Charak

Sarah is a lawyer, history nerd and Jewish educator from Sydney, Australia. Her Honours thesis analysed the impact of the White Australia policy on Australian Jewish identity. She has studied at Midreshet Lindenbaum, Nishmat and Drisha and worked in educational and leadership roles for Bnei Akiva, Or Chadash and Limmud Oz.

Michelle Charles

Michelle Charles has exhibited and taught in the UK and the USA for the past three decades. She has spent 20 years teaching at art institutions around the world including Parsons, Pratt, Long Island University, St Martins and Camberwell.

Shai Cherry

Shai is a rabbi, has a doctorate and is the author of 'Torah through Time: Understanding Bible Commentary from the Rabbinic Period to Modern Times' and 'Coherent Judaism: Constructive Theology, Creation, and Halakhah'. After many years as a university lecturer, in 2019 Shai made the leap to a Conservative congregation just outside of Philadelphia.

Anna Ciszewska (Betty Q)

Betty Q successfully introduced burlesque to Poland in 2010. Now she is not only Polish leading burlesque performer but also a well known feminist activist and TEDx speaker. MA in Education. Former Director of Education Department at Polish Office of Sochnut

Laliv Clenman

Laliv teaches rabbinic texts and Aramaic at Leo Baeck College and supervises PhDs at KCL. Her research explores themes in talmudic and midrashic discourse, including identity, violence and the interplay between halakhah and aggadah. She is passionate about Jewish literacy and building supportive, inclusive and challenging learning communities.

Allison Cohen

Allison is a JDC Entwine Jewish Service Corps Fellow working for OLAM, a network of Jewish and Israeli international development organizations. She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and is currently based in Tel Aviv.

David Cohen

David is a retired civil servant (Ministry of Justice), has a social sciences degree from Leicester University and is a regular Limmudnik. His first book 'Battles of the Wars of the Roses', the turbulent period of English history in the Medieval period, was published by Pen and Sword in March 2023. His next project will be 'Israel's Early Wars of Survival.'

Jack Cohen

Jack received a BA in Philosophy from University College London before spending five years studying for rabbinic ordination at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel. He has served as the associate rabbi at Hampstead Synagogue and is currently the senior rabbi at the vibrant Mill Hill East Jewish Community in London. His greatest passion is learning and teaching Torah.

Shoshana Cohen

Shoshana Cohen is a rabbi, and senior faculty member and research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. She teaches at Hartman's Hevruta gap year program and was a senior faculty member at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem where she taught Talmud, Midrash and Gender Studies.

Blu Cohen-Grazin

Blu is a committed film analyst, writer, reader, political activist and social critic of the world around her. She is proudly autistic and LGBT-identified. Brought up in New North London Synagogue, she loves the warmth and depth of community but is less convinced by the God part of Judaism. Aged 14, this is her 10th Limmud.

Ilana Conway

Ilana Conway is a London-based UX writer, working in tech. Her fiction writing has received honourable mentions and runner up placing in a number of competitions, and she is looking forward to sharing her love of creativity with Limmud attendees. Come along to her workshop and discover the power of the pen!

Belinda Copitch

Belinda is a qualified teacher whose PhD in Education was based on her Jewish Identity research. Her book on autism has been accepted by her publishers. Her previous published book, ‘Collaboration versus Competition’, was aimed at the business market and utilised many of the techniques she used growing up in Jewish youth movements.

Mark Creeger

Working in corporate risk, ethics and compliance software, Mark taught Jewish education and IT at multiple levels. He is a regular speaker and prayer leader at Barnet United Synagogue and a bar mitzvah teacher. He is married to the fabulous comedian, Rachel Creeger, and they share two wonderful boys, a marvellous daughter-in-law and fantastic grandson.

Rachel Creeger

Rachel 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 has taken four critically acclaimed shows to the Edinburgh Fringe. As seen on BBC1, Amazon Prime and NextUp Comedy, and regularly heard across the BBC Radio network.

Ben Crowne

Ben is a forensic accountant and a partner at Vardags, one of London's leading family law firms. He lives and works in London, and has been a treasurer and trustee of several community charities (including Limmud!).

Tilla Crowne

Tilla is an artist, cartoonist, irrepressible forager and the creator and co-editor of 'Private Oy!', the UK’s foremost parody magazine of a parody magazine.