Jonathan Boyd is the Executive Director of JPR, the Institute for Jewish Policy Research in London. A specialist in contemporary Jewry, he holds a doctorate in educational philosophy from the University of Nottingham. He is the editor of The Sovereign and the Situated Self: Jewish Identity and Community in the 21st Century. His current work is concentrated on British Jewish demography, antisemitism in Europe, the educational philosophy of Limmud and the dimensions of Jewish peoplehood….

Dov Waxman is an associate professor of political science at City University of New York. He specializes in International Relations and Middle East politics. He has also been a visiting fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University and the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. He is the author of The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation and co-author of Israel’s Palestinians: …

David Gerbi- David is based in Rome, where he practices as a psychoanalyst. He is also a playwright and Libyan Jew in exile. He was recently chased out of Libya after trying to restore the Tripoli synagogue. His return to Tripoli was covered in Foreign Policy, The Guardian and the Jerusalem Post…

Maureen is Head of Educational Programming at the London School of Jewish Studies, and a proud veteran Limmudnik. She has taught widely in the UK and at Limmuds around the world. Maureen has degrees in Literature and Jewish education and loves teaching texts, ancient and modern….