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Alastair Falk

Alastair Falk is the founder of Tsitsit , the Jewish Fringe Festival and Director of the newly established UK Jewish Arts Foundation. He has worked for a number of Jewish and national education organisations.

Roni Fantanesh Malkai

Roni is an attorney, media personality and activist. She is the author of 'We Are Black Jews: Ethiopian Jewry and the Journey to Equality in Israel' and 'Bibiland: How Benjamin Netanyahu made Israel in his own image. Roni has an MA in public policy and government (with Honours) from the Hebrew University and an LLB in law from Tel Aviv University.

Leon Fenster

The artist behind JW3’s 9-storey London Jewish Mural. Liked that? You’ll love his new Haggadah! He’s commissioned to bring stories to life as kaleidoscopic artworks: from cities or vast historical events to the story of one family or couple as a Ketubah. He was previously Chazan & para-rabbinical leader at a shul in Taiwan. He’s looking for an agent

Nathan Finkel

Nathan Finkel is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and live performer whose work spans festivals, fires, and international jam sessions. A long-time member of the Limmud house band, he blends genres and creates inclusive, improvisational spaces that bring musicians and audiences together.

Joseph Finlay

Joseph Finlay is a historian of British Jews. He is writing a book on Jewish responses to British race relations, based on his PhD. He is beginning a postdoctoral fellowship at Birkbeck on Jewish colonial governors. He writes the newsletter Torat Albion and is the musical director of Mosaic Liberal Synagogue and the London Jewish Male Choir.

Charlotte Fischer

Charlotte leads Love & Power, which organises women to make change on issues that matter to them. For 10 years she worked across the Jewish community from Liberal to Orthodox to develop communities internally – and win 60,000 care workers a Living Wage, the resettlement of 5000 refugees, and changed how violence against women is recorded nationally

Ellen Flax

Ellen Flax is a philanthropy specialist who currently supports the work of a graduate school of public health in NYC. She received her rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and serves as the rabbi of several senior-care facilities.

Yehudis Fletcher

Yehudis Fletcher is a co-founder of Nahamu, a Jewish organisation that counters ideologically motivated harms. There was a time when she had no academic credentials, and had to fill this bio with jokes. Now she holds a BSc in Social Policy and an MA in Religion and Theology. Her memoir, Chutzpah was published by Penguin earlier this year.

Josh Forman

Josh is the Head of Science, Education and Outreach for Jnetics, aiming to go into the community to prevent the next generation being born with devastating genetic diseases such as Tay-Sachs disease and Cystic Fibrosis and also save lives via the NHS Jewish BRCA Testing Programme.

Marc Frank

Marc is a qualified teacher of Jewish mindfulness meditation and works as community manager for HaMakom UK, as well as a practising Gestalt therapist and mental health support worker. Living in Totnes, Devon, he helps facilitate the local Jewish community and promotes regional interfaith initiatives as current Chair of Devon Faith and Belief Forum.

Baron Frankal

Baron is CEO of the Portland Trust. He was born Orthodox, is now Progressive, always secular. He has lived in the Arab world (aviation); was MAG Director, set up Combined Authority, corporate finance, UN, Honorary Consul, NHS Non- Executive Director, Besht Tellers, set up East-Euro Jewish student unions, ANU Museum Tel Aviv (several years), Habo movement work, JCOSS Gvnr, married two kids

Suzanne Franks

Suzanne Franks is Professor Emerita of Journalism at City St Georges, University of London. She has enjoyed pilates for over 20 years.

Tim Franks

Tim Franks presents Newshour on the BBC World Service, and is a former Middle East correspondent. His new book "The Lines We Draw: the Journalist, the Jew and an Argument about Identity" has been hailed in the papers as “brilliant, considered, thoughtful”, and "an inquiry into the forces that shape one’s self, (in) a history that spans centuries”.

Paul Freedman

Paul was a Physics teacher before training for the rabbinate at Leo Baeck College where he has also taught Biblical Hebrew. He is senior rabbi at Radlett Reform Synagogue and has worked on liturgy for both Liberal & Reform Judaism, including as final editor of the first ever British Reform Haggadah and co-editor of its new High Holyday Machzor.

Vanessa Freedman

Vanessa is Hebrew and Jewish Studies Librarian at University College London, and was previously Assistant Librarian at Leo Baeck College. She is married to the senior rabbi of Radlett Reform Synagogue but is definitely not the rebbetzin! She has been to almost every Limmud since 1995.

Miki Friend

Miki Friend and Annie Whiteson are two of the most social people that you will ever meet. Let them program you socially this Limmud so that you too can experience the joys of social programming and friendship whilst socialising problematically. Join this duo to make friends, lovers, and enemies both socially and programatically.

Eva Frojmovic

Eva Frojmovic is the director of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds.

Stephen Frosh

Stephen Frosh is the author of many books and papers on psychosocial studies and on psychoanalysis. His latest books are 'Antisemitism and Racism: Ethical Challenges for Psychoanalysis' (Bloomsbury, 2023) and 'How to be Real' (Verso, 2025). He is the co-editor of the ‘Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Jewish Studies’ (Routledge, 2025).