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Tal Paley

Tal is an artist and art historian whose work focuses on memory, memorials and storytelling, currently working in education. They were part of this past year's microgrant programme, leading workshops that combined Jewish history, art history and craft to engage audiences with the past and understand how it can shape what we create today.

Raphael Papo

Raphael is an Olivier nominated violinist and performer and is currently the Fiddler in the production of Fiddler on the Roof. He is the 1st prize winner of the Bruno Frey Award and is supported by the Harrison-Frank Family foundation. He co-directs the Seida Ensemble and his playing is featured on multiple film and TV soundtracks.

Marsha Parker

Marsha Parker is secretary and founder of Jewish Cemetery Friends' Association King's Lynn. Her research concerns the life and demise of Jewish community from 1747-1852.

Jackie Passman

Jackie’s teaching career spanned Jewish nursery school, mainstream English & French, and deaf education. She and her husband ran their synagogue bookshop and she does regular shul visits for children and adults. Jackie's discovery of her father's wartime diary sparked her interest in WW2 and the lives of the Far East POWs, ‘the forgotten army’.

James Patrick

James studied theology at Cambridge and Oxford, completing a DPhil on the book of Samuel in 2016. He is a member and former officer of the Society for Old Testament Study, and currently serves as chair of the 'Love Never Fails' alliance of British Christian pro-Jewish organisations. He has chosen celibacy to prepare for the coming of Messiah.

Matthew Pearlman

Matthew gives regular shiurim and divrei torah and is passionate about unlocking the meaning of our everyday texts. He is also an insurance consultant with a particular interest in professionalism and ethics, a member of council for his professional body, as well as a charity trustee and a long time school governor.

Leon Pein

Leon founded Biblical Foods, to provide planet-friendly Kosher meat and poultry, without the use of factory-farms, antibiotics, artificial pesticides, hormones or genetic engineering.

Natalie Perman

Natalie Perman is a writer and editor based in London. A past Foyle Young Poet, she is a finalist of The Moth Poetry Prize and Oxford Poetry Prize. Her writing features in the Financial Times, Literary Review, Harvard Review, The White Review, The London Magazine, and others. She currently works at the literary agency AM Heath.

Hannah Peterson

Hannah Peterson is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge studying Orthodox Jewish and Latter Day Saint (Mormon) responses to the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

Anshel Pfeffer

Anshel Pfeffer is The Economist's Israel Correspondent. Since 1997 he has been a journalist in Israel and Britain, most of that period in Haaretz. In addition he has written the biographies of Rabbi Ovadya Yossef and Benjamin Netanyahu and is currently working on books on Jewish fundamentalism and the period of the last Netanyahu government.

Yolande Pieters

Yolande has been an educator for over 30 years. She is Head of Undergraduate degrees and CPD at the London School of Jewish Studies. She also consults for the Rabbi Sacks Legacy Torah V'Chochmah programme, and writes curriculum and mentors teachers in Europe, the US and Australia. Yolande is currently pursuing an EdD at UCL in London.

Ilan Pillemer

Ilan lives and works in London. He has degrees in English, History and Computer Science and enjoys reading Yiddish stories from the centuries his forebears wandered the continent.

Channa Pinchasi

Channa Pinchasi is a leading educator and scholar in Judaism, gender, and democracy. A research fellow at Shalom Hartman Institute and Mandel School faculty member, she lectures on religious feminism and Israeli identity. Her PhD offers feminist Midrash readings. A Jerusalemite mother and grandmother.

Marcia Plumb

Marcia Plumb is a rabbi and co-founder of two Mussar organisations, SoulBalanceMussar, UK and A Soul in Balance, US. She teaches this transformational ancient Jewish wisdom through groups, corporate training, art and soul tours, workshops for managing polarising conversations, school curricula and individual coaching.

Ze'ev Portner

Ze'ev Portner is a Law Lecturer at Buckinghamshire New University. Ze'ev lived in Israel for 5 years, qualifying as an Advocate, in the offices of Gilead Sher and Co, in Tel Aviv. He previously worked for ten years as Parliamentary Assistant to former MP, Louise Ellman. Ze'ev has a real love of history.

Izzy Posen

Izzy Posen is a researcher of Yiddish and Hebrew language, culture and history. A native Yiddish speaker, he works as a writer and translator. His work covers contemporary chassidic culture and language, as well as wider Yiddish culture and history. He translates and researches old Yiddish and Hebrew documents as part of family history.

Mike Prashker

Mike founded Merchavim - The Institute for the Advancement of Shared Citizenship in Israel. Author of “A Place for Us All – Social Cohesion and the Future of Israel". He advised The Ted Arison Family Foundation before co-founding The London Initiative.

Rose Prevezer

Rose is a rabbi, producer, and consultant working with organisations across the arts to deepen their engagement with Jewish culture. She is the Jewish Consultant for the Olivier Award winning production of Fiddler on the Roof, now touring the UK. Rose is the Artistic Director of LABA UK and a scholar-in-residence at Belsize Square Synagogue.

Eliana Pushett

Eliana is the UJIA and Jewish Agency community shlicha in Manchester and the North. Originally from Jerusalem, she has a background in Jewish education and holds degrees in education and English literature. Having worked with major Jewish organisations, Eliana is passionate about connecting Israel and global Jewry and fostering strong connections.