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Michael Aarons

Michael is a retired Music and Instrumental teacher. Engaging with adults has always been particularly satisfying, and as a result he taught at a community college for several years. Music History has always been of particular interest, and he seems to collect obscure facts about composers, famous and otherwise, that he is happy to share with all.

Nic Abery

Nic is a creative and innovative educator who currently works on school improvement with Jewish schools in Zurich and Istanbul. She spends lots of time travelling and at airports.

Neil Abrahams

Neil played the ukulele in his skiffle group when he was a lad, and didn't pick one up again till he retired about 60 years later. He now leads the Dulwich U3A (University of the Third Age) Ukulele Group, which has a repertoire of over 150 songs and which performs at community centres, festivals, and care homes including the Nightingale Hammerson.

Ariella Abramowski

Ariella Abramowski, artist and facilitator, explores Jewish identity and its demystification. Her late father Robert Abrami, a Holocaust survivor and painter, was a key figure in France advocating for peace for Jews in the diaspora. Through the Abrami Academy, she unites communities with immersive, co-creative art and leadership.

Ibrahim Abu Ahmad

Ibrahim is a Palestinian peace activist from Nazareth, co-founder of the viral podcast The Third Narrative, where he brings his unique voice as a proud Palestinian and Muslim, whilst also having Israeli citizenship. Amid the ongoing devastation, he shares a firsthand look at the conflict’s roots and his vision for a better future for both peoples.

Shaul Adar

Shaul Adar is an acclaimed Israeli Journalist and author. His last book, On The Border: The Rise and Decline of the Most Political Football Club in the World (Pitch) tells the story of Beitar Jerusalem and the road to racism

Anoushka Alexander-Rose

Anoushka Alexander-Rose is a doctoral researcher in English at the Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations. Alongside her thesis titled “Vladimir Nabokov’s Jewish Muse”, she works in interfaith, Holocaust, and Jewish heritage outreach.

Yoni Alon

Yoni Alon is an Israel educator based in Tel Aviv and a former JAFI shaliach to the Denver JCC. He is a graduate of the Haifa MA Ruderman programme and the Chicago iCenter - iFellows Master’s Concentration in Israel Education. The creator of David Cards - a tool for educators to foster open discussions about Jewish identity and Israel.

Emma Alter

Emma Alter is both professional musician and Feldenkrais teacher. She has twenty years experience of both world-class performance and teaching. She specialises in musicians and reducing anxiety. Her clients come from all walks of life and share a desire to improve their quality of life through how they move.

Michael Amdurer

Michael Amdurer, a retired psychiatrist and family therapist, had a special interest in abusive systems because of the numerous patients who felt safe and made first-time disclosures of sexual abuse to him, trusting him to fight for them.

Ali Amla

Mohammed Ali Amla is Solutions, Not Sides' Youth and Partnerships Director, leading on youth empowerment, strategic partnership development and community collaborations. Ali has dedicating his life to bridge building, interfaith, countering Islamophobia and anti-racism.

Arik Ascherman

Rabbi Ascherman has led Israeli human rights NGOs defending Jews and non-Jews since 1995. A role model for faith based human rights work, he endangers himself to defend others. (Google "Ascherman, knife"). Among recognitions, he received the Rabbi David Forman Memial Fund's human rights prize for 5779. .

Uzi Avner

From 1977 to 1999, Uzi Avner served as the District Archaeologist of the Southern Negev for the Israel Antiquities Authority. From 1999 to 2014, he taught desert archaeology at the Eilat campus of Ben Gurion University and at the Arava Institute. Since 2008 he has also been a senior researcher at the Dead Sea-Arava Science Center.

Hannah Azizollah

Hannah is a Psychologist, experienced in group relations and psychodynamics both personally and theoretically interested in looking beneath the surface when relating. She is also experienced in facilitating group processes and discussions in a work setting but a first-timer presenting at Limmud. She is a member of Finchley Reform Synagogue.