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Participant Care

Meet your co-chairs for participant care Gaia and Eden! You'll often see us running round the corridors of the Hilton assisting you with all kinds of matters. This year we also have the help from the one and only Raisel from JAMI! When not Limmuding, Gaia is in her final year as a Law student at the University of Birmingham and Eden is a singer songwriter! Come ask us any questions, or even just come for a chat - we’d love to hear all about the sessions you’re enjoying and how your Limmud is going!

Efraim Chalamish

Efraim Chalamish is an international law and economics professor at New York University in New York, a Senior Advisor with Kroll, the global risk management firm, and a leading media commentator. Efraim regularly contributes to many media outlets and platforms, including Israel Hayom, Jerusalem Post, i24, Global Finance, and more.

Ariel Chapman

Ariel is Executive Director of KeshetUK, working to ensure no one is forced to choose between their LGBT+ and Jewish identity. Ariel recently joined the organisation having worked in inclusion and diversity leadership for nearly ten years with a particular focus on Jewish and LGBT+ inclusion in higher education and the workplace.

Mohsin Choudry

Mohsin Choudry is an award-winning London GP and is passionate about addressing lifestyle in order to treat and prevent disease. He has trained in functional medicine, a holistic approach which seeks to address the root causes of disease rather than focusing on symptomatic management by delving into lifestyle, genetic, and environmental factors.

Sam Clifford

Sam Clifford is the new CEO of Jewish Women’s Aid. She has had a varied career within the Jewish charitable sector, with Finchley Reform Synagogue and the Jewish Museum, and works as a freelance project manager. Sam has featured in The Jewish News’ “40 under 40” at number 22 and is a graduate of the JLC’s Dangoor Senior Leadership Programme.

Adrian Cohen

Adrian is Senior Vice President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and Lay Chair of Labour Friends of Israel. A long-standing community leader, he’s a former Union of Jewish Students Chair and co-founded the London Jewish Forum. He is also a senior consultant in an international law firm with 35 years' experience in banking and finance.

Alina Cohen

Alina has been attending Limmud since 2017 and is so excited to be back! She loves to be creative, mythology and to learn from others. Her sessions are collaborative so come and have a chat!

David Cohen

David is a retired Civil Servant (Ministry of Justice) with a Social Sciences degree from Leicester University and a regular Limmudnik. His first book 'Battles of the Wars of the Roses' the turbulent period of English Medieval history was pblished by Pen and Sword in March 2023. His next project will be 'Israel's Wars of Survival'.

Howard Cohen

Howard Cohen is a retired GP and Mohel (Ritual Circumciser). He is an active member of the Progressive Jewish Community both in his local communities and nationally. He is currently studying for a PhD in Sociology at Birkbeck University of London exploring current attitudes towards circumcision amongst British Progressive Jews.

Josh Cohen

Josh is the campaigns and Jewish enrichment officer at the Union of Jewish Students and an LSJS Sacks Learning Fellow. He has been a West Wing fan since the age of 8 days, when he was named after a certain fictional deputy chief of staff. If you don't believe him, just ask his brother, Toby.

Thomas Cohen

Thomas is a current resident at Moishe House Kilburn, and you may have seen him around as Volunteers Co-Chair at festival this year!

Noah Colton

Noah Colton is volunteering as a member of the Limmud Festival Programme Development team.

Simon Colton

Simon is a barrister specialising in commercial litigation. In 2011 he was one of the junior counsel acting for Boris Berezovsky in the high profile Berezovsky v Abramovich trial. Simon continues to act for and against ultra-high net worth individuals from former states of the Soviet Union.

Zack Colton

Zack Colton is a final year student at the University of Bristol, and co-chair of YTL this year.

Zaki Cooper

Zaki is a communications professional, having previously worked for the Chief Rabbi and in the Royal Household as well as in the corporate sector. He is the co-founder of Integra Communications and is actively involved in inter-faith work.

Adam Corre

Adam runs pub psychology social events for young professionals in London. These events also include 'TED style' short talks from experts in the world of psychology. Topics include everything from the psychology of dreams, neurosis, decision-making, psychosis, narcissism and the psychology of psychopaths.

Ali Coy

Ali left a successful career as a software engineer to retrain as a nurse. Ali has volunteered in Africa, India and Palestine. Ali's Judaism informs a commitment to making the world a better place in whatever way possible. Having moved from London to Glasgow out of love for being in nature, Ali is happiest hiking, cycling and wild camping throughout Scotland.

Mark Creeger

Working in ethics and compliance, Mark has taught Jewish Education and IT at multiple levels. A regular speaker, parsha discussion and prayer leader at Barnet Synagogue, he has taught bar mitzvah boys for nearly 40 years. Married to fabulous comedian, Rachel Creeger, they share two wonderful boys, a marvellous daughter-in-law, and a fabulous grandson.

Rachel Creeger

Rachel is a multi-award-winning stand-up comedian, writer and director, and the only practising Orthodox Jew on the UK comedy circuit. She's 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 lives, volunteers and works in London. He is currently the Treasurer of the Board of Deputies, and the Bevis Marks Foundation, and was Limmud’s Treasurer 2020 - 2023. Unsurprisingly he is an accountant, and currently a partner at Vardags, a family law boutique. He is socially acquainted with the anonymous collective who produce Private Oy!

Tilla Crowne

Artist, founder and co-editor of underground satirical zine Private Oy! and serial mushroom-botherer Tilla Crowne will help guide you literally into and metaphorically out of the woods.