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Vivi Lachs

Vivi Lachs is a historian, Yiddish translator and singer. Her books Whitechapel Noise, London Yiddishtown and East End Jews explore Jewish history through popular culture. She co-hosts the Cockney Yiddish Podcast, runs the Great Yiddish Parade, is vice chair of the Yiddish Café Trust, leads East End tours and sings with Klezmer Klub and Katsha’nes.

Harry Lampert

Harry is a long term Limmudnik working professionally in TV and Podcasting. He's also appeared as a contestant on Netflix's Crazy Delicious and featured in the Jewish Chronicle for recreating and reviewing the technical challenges from the Great British Bake Off. He is one of this year's Programming Chairs.

Joanna Landy

After a successful PhD viva, Joanna discovered she was dyslexic. This made sense of many of her ongoing challenges but not all. Things really began to fall into place, seven years later, after being diagnosed with Adult ADHD (inattentive type). Since her diagnoses she has spent a lot of time collecting productive coping strategies to life more enjoyable.

Robin Lansman

Robin was born in Manchester. He has been an osteopath for over 30 years and lectures in leadership in healthcare and osteopathy for undergraduate and postgraduate health professionals. Singing is his passion, as well as theatre directing and performance. He loves green spaces and travel as well as cooking.

Clive Lawton

Clive is the Executive Chair of the Commonwealth Jewish Council and a co-founder of Limmud. A former headteacher, CEO of Jewish Continuity (Jonathan Sacks' flagship project), chair of a hospital trust, Metropolitan Police governor and Home Office adviser on race issues, Clive is a Presiding Justice in Wiltshire, chair of NHS tribunals and works worldwide in educational development.

Ellie Lerman

Ellie is a fine art shipper in London. She studied History of Art at Bristol and has an MA from the Warburg Institute, researching medieval illuminated haggadot and pseudo-Hebrew in the northern Renaissance. When not transporting Hockneys and Warhols around the world, Ellie sings in her local choir. This is her first time presenting at Limmud.

Jan Levi

After a rewarding career in education, including outdoor education and special educational needs, Jan is newly retired. Life is full and busy as ever, spending time in nature, playing sports and doing outdoor activities. This inspires creative pastimes, such as painting and writing. Jan does love a challenge!

Eliah Levin

Eliah Levin, 26, is a peace activist from Haifa. Moving to Israel at 12, she felt both belonging and the injustices and racism around her. After October 7th, she began university and sought joint Jewish-Palestinian activism. In Standing Together, she found a community to share pain and hope, and a platform to push for change.

AJ Levine

The first Jew to teach New Testament at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, she is the recipient of the Seelisberg Prize for Jewish-Christian Relations and the Archbishop of Canterbury’s H. Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation. AJ, an unorthodox member of an Orthodox synagogue, works to counter harmful exegesis. This is her 5th Limmud Festival.

Luke Levine

Originally from Essex, Luke has worked in charity 10+ years, specialising in youth development, fundraising, and community building. A trustee and LGBT+ inclusion facilitator, he champions equality for trans young people of faith. He is completing an MA in Childhood and Youth with The Open University and runs Luke Sonny Pets!

Daniel J Levy

Daniel J. Levy is Programmes Manager at the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) where he oversees the thinktank's media operations, networking, and capacity building. He is also a British Army veteran, and a Programming Team Track Chair for Limmud Festival 2025.

Eleanor Levy

Eleanor Levy is an enthusiastic mature History student who has morphed into a historic power point presenter. She taught American undergraduates at Regents College for 20 years. No topic off limits and the more contentious the better.

Charlie Lewin

Charlie is a queer creative visual artist, illustrator and photographer from the UK. They have two BAs - one in Songwriting and one in Fine Art. They recently completed their Masters in Children’s Book Illustration and Graphic Novels. Charlie’s art focuses on their former community - the Ultra Orthodox Jewish (Haredi) community which they were born and raised in.

Helen Lewis

Helen is a career NHS manager who is also the first female Chair of Trustees for Leeds Jewish Welfare Board. She lives in Leeds with her husband Bill and is the proud parent of 4 communally active children. She's almost finished processing the contents of her late mother's house and is now an expert in sorting, recycling and gifting.

Daniel Lichman

Daniel, an ordained rabbi, is a storyteller and theologian. In 2023 the ground that he stood on to teach Torah collapsed. Daniel set out on a long ‘pilgrimage’ across the terrain of his collapsed theology in the hope that he might be able to tell it anew. He has returned with stories to share.

Sarah Lightman

Sarah Lightman is an artist, writer, curator and faculty at The Royal Drawing School. She has a doctorate in comics, a graphic novel, “The Book of Sarah”, and two books on Jewish women and comics which have won many awards including an Eisner. In her art she borrows biblical women from famous paintings and places them in her life and ageing body.

Beit Midrash Limmud

Family Team Limmud

The Limmud Family Team invites everyone to join our fun, creative, and inclusive activities! Programmes run 16:00–19:00 (between crèche and baby listening). Kids must be supervised by an adult. Parents are encouraged to help lead, engage, and keep the atmosphere joyful and fitting for each activity.

House Band Limmud

For over a decade, the Limmud House Band has backed guest musicians from around the world and kept the festival’s stages moving. From folk and funk to pop and jazz, they play whatever the moment calls for. Between sets, they host How to Jam — and bring versatility, good humour, and very little sleep to every stage.

Participant Care Limmud

The Wellbeing Hub is a peaceful space at Festival where you can take a break and recharge. Whether you need a quiet moment, friendly support, or just a breather from the buzz, the hub offers a calm, welcoming environment for everyone.

Programming Team Limmud

Limmud Programming Team is wonderful yay

Social Programming Limmud

The team that organises Limmud Social events.

Daniel Limor

Daniel Limor was born and raised in Montevideo, Uruguay, making aliyah at age 16. He served as a paratrooper's officer, and was, from 1979 to 1983, commander of Operation Brothers, the clandestine Ethiopian aliyah through the Sudan. He recently completed a project of mapping and research of emerging/Judaising communities around the world

Deborah Lipstadt

Deborah Lipstadt was the US State Department's Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism. A Distinguished University Professor at Emory University, she is also known for having been sued for libel by Holocaust denier David Irving.

Miriam Lorie

Miriam is rabbi at Kehillat Nashira, a partnership minyan community in Borehamwood. She is Rabbinic Scholar to JOFA UK, chaplain at Finchley Memorial Hospital and a Pause for Thought contributor for BBC Radio 2. She studied Theology & Religious Studies at Cambridge and has learnt at Pardes in Jerusalem and Midreshet Harova.

Asher Lovy

Asher Lovy is an abuse survivor and director of ZA'AKAH, which raises awareness about child sexual abuse in the Orthodox Jewish community, provides resource referrals for survivors, publishes educational materials and information about cases relevant to the community and operates a Shabbat and Yom Tov mental health peer-support hotline.