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Maureen has a degree in English Literature, a Post Graduate Certificate in Education and an MA in Jewish Education. She is a UJIA Ashdown Fellow and broadcasts regularly for BBC Radio. loves teaching texts, ancient and modern, preferably at the same time!
Maureen Kendler
After gaining her BA in Divinity from Cambridge, Rabbi Janner-Klausner lived for 15 years in Jerusalem, working in Jewish education; as Director of the Christian Centre for Encounters with Israel and also training facilitators in Palestinian-Israel dialogue. She returned to London in 1999 and was ordained in 2004. She worked as a communal Rabbi for nine years and has served as the Senior Rabbi to Reform Judaism since 2012. She has extensive media experience, including appearances on BBC 1's "The Big Questions", Radio 4's "Thought for the Day" and Radio 2's "Pause for Thought". She is the past Chair of the British Rabbis for Human Rights. Laura broadcasts and campaigns on issues of faith and ethics and is passionate about human rights, egalitarianism, LGBT rights and Israel-Palestine.
Rabbi Laura Janner Klausner
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Dina Brawer was born in Milan and raised in an Orthodox Jewish family. She pursued her religious studies in Jerusalem and New York and currently studying for Orthodox rabbinic ordination at Yeshivat Maharat in New York. She developed an interest in Jewish Orthodox Feminism over the last decade and in her current role as JOFA UK Ambassador she has initiated a feminist movement within Orthodox Judaism. As a mother of four sons she is concerned about their exposure to gender stereotyping in the media and she is keen to counter this by enabling them to see society through women’s eyes. Dina was recently listed in The Jewish Chronicle’s Power 100 List of individuals who are most influential in shaping the UK Jewish community.
Topics that Dina is happy to speak on can be found here.
Dina Brawer
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Rabbi Joseph Dweck is the Senior Rabbi of the S&P Sephardi Community of the United Kingdom. Rabbi Dweck is American born and has lived in Los Angeles, California and Brooklyn, New York. After high school, he studied in Jerusalem at Yeshiva Hazon Ovadia under the tutelage of former Sephardi Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef z”l. He also studied psychology and philosophy at Santa Monica College in California and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Studies. He received his Semikha (rabbinic ordination) from Rabbi Ovadia Yosef under the auspices of the Sephardic Rabbinical College of Brooklyn, New York.
Rabbi Dweck served as rabbi of Congregation Shaare Shalom, a Syrian Sephardi synagogue of over 700 members, in Brooklyn, New York from 1999 to 2014. Rabbi Dweck also served as Headmaster of Barkai Yeshivah, a large Jewish day school in Brooklyn from 2010 to 2014. He has an eclectic taste in music and has received training as a hazzan in the Oriental Sephardi tradition by Rabbi Rephael Elnadav z”l and Cantor Moshe Habusha. Currently, Rabbi Dweck resides in London with his wife, Margalit, and five children.
Rabbi Joseph Dwek
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