Presenters: R

Rob Rabinowitz

After working in Jewish and religious education in London and New York, Rob shifted career to environmental finance. He currently works in the field of solar energy, as well as running a data consultancy. Rob has a PhD in Philosophy and is still hard at work on a much-delayed magnum opus about Wittgenstein.

Alma Reisel

Alma is a Family Therapist in the NHS and private practice and a social worker. Alma loves Jewish teaching and learning. Alma is passionate about helping people strengthen the most important relationships in their lives and working with others to create a better, more just and hopeful world.

Isaac Reuben

Isaac Reuben is a songleader, stage director and Labour Party activist. When he is not doing any of these things, he studies politics at the University of Leeds. He comes from Finchley, like you probably do, where he lives in the holidays with his loving guinea pigs Pamela and Doreen, and his family. This is his ninth Limmud.

Bruce Rigal

At Deutsche Bank, Bruce was Chief Operating Officer of Banking and Human Resources. He designed performance management, compensation and other motivational tools. He has an MSc in Behavioural and Economic Science (University of Warwick, 2018). In 1989 he completed his MBA at the home of Neo-Classical Economics - the University of Chicago.

Albert Ringer

Albert Ringer is a rabbi living and working in Rotterdam. He has been a long-standing Limmud activist, attending Limmud for over 20 years. Albert originally studied art history and worked as a software engineer before becoming a rabbi. He combines his diverse skills in both his work and studies.

Yael Roberts

Yael Roberts is Director of Community & Adult Education at Westminster Synagogue. She has recently taught Chassidut the past two summers with Azara Yeshiva, and is a Vatichtov Fellow at Yeshiva Maharat '23-'24.

Samantha Robinson

Sam has worked for The Jewish Agency for 14 years. Currently, her focus is on cultivating international partnerships and building resilience, tailoring responses to the challenges of global Jewish communities. Sam made Aliyah from London in 2009. She lives in Jerusalem with her husband - a reservist in the IDF - and their four children.

Zoom Rockman

Zoom Rockman is an award-winning political cartoonist, illustrator, puppet-maker and animator. Zoom is the youngest-ever contributor to The Beano and Private Eye. The Evening Standard named Zoom as one of the Most Influential Londoners under 25.

Jonathan Romain

Rabbi, writer and broadcaster, Jonathan Romain is Convenor of the Reform Beit Din, the rabbinic court serving synagogues throughout the UK. He is Chaplain to the Jewish Police Association, President of the Accord Coalition (campaigning for inclusive education) and Chair of Dignity in Dying. His latest book is 'Confessions of a Rabbi’ (Biteback).

Adam Rose

Adam Rose is a partner at Mishcon de Reya. Alongside Adam Wagner, he has been representing the British and closely connected hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, since October 2023. In the wider Jewish world, he is currently a trustee of UJS, Masorti Judaism and the Jewish Youth Fund. He is past-chair of HIAS+JCORE.

Jeremy Rose

Jeremy is a partner at COMSYS, a satellite communications consulting firm providing technical and commercial/market advisory services to clients in Africa, the Middle East and Asia/Pacific region. He has been travelling in these regions for many years and has many interesting stories related to Jewish observance when on the road.

Yosef Rosen

Yosef Rosen is the Director of Jewish Life and Learning at the Jewish Federation of Portland. He is a Jewish educator, scholar of Kabbalah, and DJ. His workshops merge what modern society often keeps separate: the contemporary and the ancient, the academic and the experiential, the religious and the secular, the spiritual and the somatic.

Phil Rosenberg

Phil Rosenberg is the 49th President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. At 38, he is the youngest ever President in the Board’s 264-year history. Phil is the Deputy for Brondesbury Park Synagogue, and is a consultant specialising in government relations, media, faith and diplomacy.

Benny Ross

Benny Ross has lived and worked in London, in China and in Newcastle upon Tyne. He also teaches cheder and is a regular but sometimes critical participant in shul services. Being Jewish is important to him, but he doesn’t think Jews are more important than anyone else.

Michael Ross

Michael Ross is an accredited ADHD Empowerment & Financial Coach and former Chartered Financial Planner. Diagnosed with ADHD at 38 and a father of a child with ADHD, his mission is to help others understand themselves and find solutions that transform their lives by blending personal insight with professional expertise.

Adam Rossano

Adam is the Executive Director of Limmud and previously held leadership roles in both global programming and development at Moishe House. Adam spends his spare time gardening, cooking and, whenever he can, playing on the beach. He has a degree in Philosophy and Hebrew, and lives in London with his wife Becky and their two children.

Tamar Rotstein

Tamar is a pioneer in the creation of an authentic, Torah-based, serious practice of yoga, integrating the meditation, spirituality and texts of yoga with those of modern orthodox Judaism over the last 20 years. Tamar lives on Moshav Nehusha in Israel with her husband, their six children and a yoga yurt in her garden.

Naomi Rowe

Naomi Rowe is a music therapist with over 10 years experience and originated the intersectional psychodynamic method for working with neuroqueer populations. They also moonlight as Bonnie wheelass, a proudly disabled drag queen

Melanie Rozencwajg

Melanie Rozencwajg is a data analyst with a background in creative technology and history. Her master's research focused on the transformation of physical archives into digital data and its impact on historical preservation. Fifteen years later, she revisits this amid AI’s rise and misinformation.

Rotem Rozental

Rotem Rozental is Executive Director and Chief Curator at the Los Angeles Center of Photography. A lecturer at USC Roski School of Art and Design, she mentors artists worldwide and contributes regularly to magazines, journals and exhibition catalogues. Her book, Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement, was published in 2023.