Presenters: K

Scott Kahn

Scott Kahn is the Founder and CEO of Jewish Coffee House, the host of the Orthodox Conundrum Podcast and co-host of Intimate Judaism, and a veteran educator. Scott is a Rabbi and was formerly a Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshivat Yesodei HaTorah in Israel. He and his wife Aliza live in Ramat Beit Shemesh with their seven children.

David Zvi Kalman

David Zvi is a scholar, writer and entrepreneur working at the intersection of technology, religion and art. He serves as research fellow at multiple institutions. A serial podcast producer, David Zvi owns Print-O-Craft Press, an independent Jewish publishing house. He patented the 20-sided dreidel and blogs at jellomenorah.substack.com

Slavyan Kanovski

Slavyan Kanovski is from Bulgaria. He is very passionate about Israeli Dances! He has been dancing for more than 25 years, and teaching dances for more than 15 years. During this Limmud he will be happy to share his passion for Israeli Dances with all of you, so that we can have sessions full of joy and laughter!

Eli Kaplan-Wildmann

Eli is a creative director and designer from Jerusalem, reinventing Jewish ritual and craft through 'unbound' books. His varied creations exist in thousands of copies around the world. Upcoming, 'Sacrifices', is a complete musical based on the stories surrounding the destruction of the Second Temple.

Noah Katz

Noah is a member of the World Jewish Congress Diplomatic Academy, the chair of Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community, a director and trustee of NUS and a deputy for UJS. Noah is an award-winning media host and advocate for the Jewish community. They speak and write about youth inclusion, DEI, the importance of education and pop culture!

Michelle Kay

Michelle has been involved in Jewish community life for over 25 years. A graduate of the Adam Science community leadership course, she has co-chaired Sussex Day Limmud. She sits on the Ralli Hall Community Centre board and takes an active role at Brighton and Hove Reform Synaogue. In her work she encourages service user engagement and involvement.

Martin Kaye

Martin is well known for his 10 years at the popular Limmud Bookshop and delivering a variety of interesting, light-hearted, diverse presentations. These include 'Books for the Jewish home', 'Jewish fictional characters' and 'Important Jews, some of whom you may be blissfully unaware'. Missing Limmud for far too long, Martin now makes a long-awaited reappearance.

Melanie Kelly

Melanie has worked in the Jewish community for many years and has been at UJIA for the last eight. However, her passion is working with yarn: knitting, crochet, embroidery. Her current life mantra is 'life is always better seen through a ball of yarn!' When not working, or yarning, she can be found, reading, cooking or angsting about the world!

Andrea Kelmanson

Andrea Kelmanson has spent 50 years working with Charities; creating young people's volunteering programmes; Deputy Directing the National AIDS Trust, and later being CEO of The National Centre for Volunteering. 27 years ago she set up a Consultancy Practice, specialising in Governance, Strategy and Organisation Development in charities.

Clive Kennard

Clive is an independent scholar with a PhD in 19th century Jewish art. He is on the new generation group of the Jewish Historical Society, where he runs the reading group, and the programming steering committee for the UK Jewish Film Festival. He is a tenor and a high anglican shul queen.

Marion Kinshuck

Marion is a relative newcomer to the world of cryptic crosswords who would like to spend some of each evening at Festival solving a crossword with fellow cruciverbalists. This year Marion coordinated the Limmud Presenter Bootcamp, Limmud's training course for budding presenters.

William Kunin

Bill is Professor of Ecology at the University of Leeds, with research focusing on insect-plant interactions, spatial scaling and conservation ecology. He was raised in Minneapolis (USA), is co-chair of Leeds Masorti congregation and a member of several other shuls. He met his wife at a Tu B'Shvat seder.