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Zöe Jacobs

A long time fan of Limmud, Cantor Zöe Jacobs was the first ordained cantor in the Reform Movement. She was ordained in 2009 from HUC-JIR and is a product of great youth movements! Zöe is passionate about singing with others, so spends a lot of time online with her community, FRS, and is thrilled for any opportunity to make music with friends!

Howard Jacobson

Novelist, essayist and broadcaster. He has written 16 novels and 5 works of non-fiction. Man Booker Prize Winner for The Finkler Question. Columnist for Tablet Magazine, USA. Themes include: what it means to be Jewish today and challenging anti-Israel boycotts. Table tennis aficionado.

Alex Jakubowski

Alex is the founder and executive director of KAHAL: Your Jewish Home Abroad which creates transformative Jewish experiences for students studying abroad. Alex served as the Director of Mission Measurement's Jewish Impact Genome, a landmark project to build a common language of impact across the Jewish nonprofit sector. During the COVID-19 pandemic Alex led an effort to procure and distribute more than $9m of PPE to 200 nursing homes and frontline medical care agencies.

Leah Jones

Leah Jones is the founder of Natiiv Facilitation in Chicago, Illinois. She opened the company in March 2018 after twelve years in consumer social media at public relations agencies. She is President of Emanuel Congregation, co-founder of TBD Minyan, an active member of ROI Community and completed the Wexner Heritage Fellowship in 2019.

Melinda Jones

Melinda Jones is a scholar, radical feminist human rights lawyer, disability advocate, Jewish educator and Modox. She knows a lot about racism, freedom of speech and racial hatred, disability, the rights of the child, inclusive education, the health rights for children, cancel culture, and the relationship between Judaism and disability.