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Daniel Dable

Daniel is a Jewish student who is passionate about national and global political affairs. In his session Daniel will explore the Jewish teachings from the Talmud and beyond on how to respond to misrepresentation, and how these teachings can guide us to understand and respond to misrepresentations in media in the current day.

Jeremy Dable

Jeremy is a lawyer and mediator, and volunteers in interfaith, citizens' advice, law centres, refugee support and mountain rescue. Jeremy is active in Jewish education at shul, schools, colleges and Cub-Scout groups. He is a wandering soul, adapting to loss of empire and the rise of AI. Daniel is interested in the polarisation of everything and disruptive tech. Member of one progressive shul visitor to progressive liberal and orthodox shuls. He is a member of Begali Hindu organisations in Manchester and Liverpool.

Linda Dangoor

Linda Dangoor is an artist and also a food writer. She is the author of two cookbooks, Flavours of Babylon: a celebration of the flavours and recipes of her Baghdadi heritage, and From the Tigris to the Thames: a tapestry, part memoir, part cookbook interweaving recipes with personal reflections on the idea of home and belonging.

Daniel Daniel

Daniel Daniel is a London-based filmmaker whose award-winning short films have screened internationally and on platforms including All4 and BFI Player. A graduate of the National Film and Television School, he’s been bringing his passion for cinema and storytelling to Limmud for many years.

Louis Danker

Louis is the President of the Union of Jewish Students. An Edinburgh graduate, he is passionate about telling stories of warm, vibrant and resilient Jewish student life, and has become a bit of a broken record about it. Likes: Jewish pride, fish finger sandwiches, music festivals. Dislikes: New ketchup bottle liquid, antisemitism.

Aviva Dautch

Aviva Dautch is the Executive Director of Jewish Renaissance, the UK’s quarterly Jewish arts magazine. An award-winning poet and regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4, she has worked as an educator for many of the major London cultural institutions and is the inaugural Scholar-in-Residence for Oxford University’s new Jewish Women’s Voices programme.

Ayala Deckel

Ayala Deckel is an Israeli author, and a lecturer in the fields of Judaism, identity, and gender. She is a Research Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute and the former Rosh Yeshiva (head) of the secular Yeshiva of BINA .

Martin Devereux

Martin has worked in the cultural heritage sector for over 25 years. As a qualified archivist, Martin has worked with a range of organisations including universities, charities, museums, embassies and businesses. Martin is currently cataloguing Limmud's archive as part of a project funded by the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe.

Joshua Dresner

Josh works in design for the UK Government by day and for the last year has been also co running Still Alive - drawing the Jewish community alongside Abigail, as part of the Limmud microgrant project. He is keen to promote sketching and art as meditation and as a way to see and appreciate our Jewish community.

Gregg Drinkwater

Gregg Drinkwater is a lecturer in Jewish studies at the University of California, Berkeley; director of Berkeley's antisemitism education initiative; and a scholar of queer Jewish history. He was the founding director of a U.S.-based Jewish LGBTQ organisation and co-editor of "Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible" (2009).

Noam Dromi

Noam Dromi is an Emmy Award–winning writer, producer, and executive based in Los Angeles. As Managing Director of Reboot Studios, he develops and funds film, TV, digital, and audio projects exploring Jewish identity. He co-created Dolphin Tale and produced AMC’s The Walking Dead: Red Machete.

Carmel du Parc Braham

Carmel is co-chair of the Civil Service Jewish Network and works in information. Previously a History and Politics teacher, she harbours a range of niche interests including (but not limited to): researching Jewish folktales; singing in barbershop harmony competitions; and penning poems of dubious quality.

Josh Dubell

Josh is the Education Director for Solutions Not Sides (SNS), overseeing the Youth Education Programme. Josh has worked in Israel-Palestine education for the past 15 years including working for LJY & RSY-Netzer, NFTY and UJIA. Solutions Not Sides is a British charity which educates young people around the country on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Sophie Duschinsky

Sophie is a clinical psychologist working in central London. She specialises in supporting neurodivergent people of all ages and their families. Sophie enjoys creating a space for people to reflect on their strengths and values, and how they can use these to understand the parts of life they find difficult and the changes they want to make.

John Dyson

John Dyson is a member of the House of Lords, as well as a former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and Master of the Rolls. Since retiring, he has performed international arbitration, sports arbitration, as well as investigations such as that into the BBC Panorama interview of Princess Diana.