Presenters: D

Daniel Daniel

Daniel is a filmmaker and playwright from London. He is currently studying for his Masters in Directing Fiction at the National Film & Television School. Daniel’s films have been selected and screened at a range of film festivals including the BAFTA-qualifying Aesthetica, SOUL Festival and the Iris Prize Festival.

Abi Dauber Sterne

Abi is co-director of 'For the Sake of Argument', working to create healthy arguments about Israel and more. Abi has had senior roles at Limmud New York, Hillel International and The Jewish Agency. She is a Schusterman Fellow and a rabbinical student at the Hartman Institute-Oranim program. Abi lives in Jerusalem with her spouse and four children.

Aviva Dautch

Aviva is the executive director of Jewish Renaissance, the UK's quarterly Jewish arts magazine. An award-winning poet, her commissions include The National Gallery, The British Museum and Bradford and Hay Literature Festivals. She lectures on modern Jewish culture at the London School of Jewish Studies and JW3 Jewish Community Centre and is a regular contributor to programmes on BBC Radio 4.

Greg Davidson

Greg has presented at Limmud in Birmingham and Southern California on topics as varied as Islamophobia and hiring a rabbi. A graduate of Swarthmore College and the Harvard Kennedy School, he co-authored 'Economics for a Civilized Society' and has worked on space telescopes. As retirement approaches, Greg has started writing novels.

Oli Davidson

Oli is the co-chair of Ohel Mo'ed in London, a co-founder of the Contemporary Women's Group in Leeds and a co-creator for Limmud's 2023 Young Leadership Programme in Birmingham. If there's a community that needs organising, Oli's co-there. Outside of outside of work, she's a product manager.

Eva de Haan

Eva de Haan is an anthropologist from Amsterdam with a specialisation in Jewish culture and peoplehood. She is an active member of Oy Vey, a Jewish cultural hub in Amsterdam. She currently lives in Berlin.

Rosella de Jong

Rosella likes to ask and answer (different) questions, travel and explore culture. Professionally, she is a language and literature teacher and a child and adolescent therapist. She has learnt a number of languages and received a bunch of degrees, including film and television studies/media and culture studies.

Arnold de Vries

Arnold is a member of the Hendon US and until it closed in 2003 was a member of Rabbi Mikey Rosen’s Yakar. He has also been affiliated, since a very young age, to the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogues, particularly at Lauderdale Road. He has been researching his Dutch Sephardi family and came across this very interesting branch of it!

Alison Dollow

Alison lives in a small village located in the South Downs National Park, four miles north of Worthing. Although she has been at Limmud for many years, this is the first time she has been able to attend sessions. Normally she can be found working in the nursery! She is looking forward to experiencing sessions.

Sophie Duschinsky

Sophie lives with her husband and daughters in London. After nearly 10 years in the NHS, she is now in private practice. Sophie specialises in supporting neurodiverse people, and particularly enjoys working with autistic women and girls.

Anna Dyson

Anna lives in Leeds and has worked in several settings, always aiming to build community around shared values and good conversations. Social enterprise community cafe, ToastLoveCoffee, won Anna a national interfaith award. Now Anna co-creates new Jewish spaces in Leeds and online and, since Sept 2023, is a rabbinical student at The Academy for Jewish Religion California.