Presenters: W

Adam Wagner

Adam Wagner is a KC and barrister at Doughty Street Chambers and the founder/chair of EachOther, a human rights education charity.

Julia Wagner

Julia Wagner is a lecturer and writer specialising in Jewish-interest film and television. She holds a PhD in Film Studies and is a member of the London Film Critics’ Circle. Julia is the author of the BFI Film Classics book, Hester Street (Bloomsbury 2025).

Lewis Warshauer

Lewis is an independent Jewish educator based in New York and has presented at Limmud for many years on topics including art and midrash.

Dawn Waterman

Dawn is the Heritage Advisor at the Board of Deputies of British Jews, where she's leading the Board's heritage plaque project recognising Jewish people, places and institutions that have shaped British life.

Michael Wegier

Michael has been the Chief Executive of the Board of Deputies since 2021. He has worked in Jewish leadership positions in Israel, the USA and the UK. Jewish education and Israel engagement are two of his main areas of interest.

Chaim Weiner

Chaim Weiner heads the European Masorti Bet Din and serves as a Rabbi at the New North London Synagogue. He was ordained at the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem. He is well-known for his innovative work in Jewish education and for leading annual study tours to destinations of Jewish interest around the globe.

Emma Weleminsky

Emma is the UK community manager for OLAM, a network of Jewish and Israeli international development organisations and individuals, and JDC Entwine, which engages young Jews in global Jewish responsibility through travel. Before starting in 2022, she worked in heritage and school settings. Emma lives in London with her husband, son and dog.

Wolfgang Wieshaider

Wolfgang Wieshaider is Professor of Law at the University of Vienna, and a Permanent Visiting Professor at Charles University in Prague.

Alex Wiesler

Alex Weisler is the senior video and digital content producer at JDC (The Joint), the global Jewish humanitarian NGO where he's worked since 2013. He's passionate about global Jewish life, particularly in the former Soviet Union, and is committed to trauma-informed storytelling, an approach honed over his five trips to Ukraine since February 2022.

Atira Winchester

Atira Winchester is the director of content and leadership at New Israel Fund UK and a trained relational dynamics coach. Previous roles include head of creative learning at JW3, as well as a background as editor and journalist. Atira holds an MA in English Literature.

Irene Wise

Artist, writer, illustrator Irene Wise is an IWM Fellow in Holocaust Education. She was Senior Lecturer in Media and Culture at University of Roehampton and Creative Educator at The British Library, writing for their website. She has worked and advised on Holocaust films and writes reviews for Jewish Renaissance. Artwork can be viewed on website.

Noah Wise

Noah is Toronto-raised, London-based and shaped by many years in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Shanghai.  He spends his time when he’s not lawyering or writing poetry thinking about how culture, language and ideas also travel the world.

Benita Wishart

As a proud Brummie, Benita loves celebrating the diversity of the city, building bridges with different communities and developing personal relationships. Her interfaith activity includes Birmingham Citizens, the Combined Authority working group on homelessness and Nisa Nashim West Midlands. She also works within the voluntary sector.

Dalia Wolfson

Dalia Wolfson is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at Harvard University. She is Managing Editor of Translations for the Yiddish Studies journal In Geveb, and the co-producer of the literary translation podcast Paraphrasis. Her translations have been published in Asymptote and the Jewish Review of Books, among others.

Jayne Wynick

Jayne Wynick is a 61 year old grandma from Leeds. She has been involved in the Jewish community all her life. Her first book, Voice From the Heart: A Year of War was published in May 2025, detailing her blogs since Oct 2023 detailing events and her reaction to them since then. Jayne has thousands of daily readers who take comfort from her blogs