Jonathan Wittenberg
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg OBE is the Senior Rabbi of Masorti Judaism UK and a leading writer and thinker on Judaism. He is Rabbi of the New North London Synagogue and is also the author of several books. Image © Marion Davies
Dov Waxman
Dov Waxman is Gilbert Foundation Chair of Israel Studies & Professor at UCLA. His research & writing focuses on Israel-Palestine, antisemitism, and US-Israel relations.
Shaun Walker
Shaun Walker is a journalist and author, noted primarily for his writing on Ukraine and Russia for British newspaper The Guardian. Walker was shortlisted for the 2024 UK Press Awards.
Anthony Warner
Anthony Warner is a professional chef and writer. Anthony writes the Angry Chef column for The Sunday Times and in 2017 was named on the Telegraph’s Food Power List of tastemakers changing the way we eat and drink.
John Tusa
Sir John Tusa is a British arts administrator, author, journalist and former presenter of BBC’s Newsnight. He is the co-chairman of the European Union Youth Orchestra and was formerly the managing director of the BBC World Service and the Barbican Arts Centre.
Rick Pushinsky
Rick Pushinsky studied Architecture at the Prince’s Foundation then Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art and Byam Shaw in London.
Gabrielle Rikind
Gabrielle Rifkind is a practicing psychotherapist and a group analyst and a specialist in the resolution of conflict.
Robert Peston
Robert Peston is ITV’s political editor, presenter of the politics show Peston and the podcast The Rest is Money, and founder of the education charity, Speakers for Schools (www.speakers4schools.org).
Arkady Ostrovsky
Arkady Ostrovsky is an award-winning author and journalist who leads The Economist’s coverage of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Image © Alexander Sorin
Eshkol Nevo
Eshkol Nevo is an Israeli writer who has published a collection of short stories, five novels and a work of non-fiction. One of his novels, Homesick, was awarded the Book Publishers Association Gold Prize and the FFI-Raymond Wallier Prize at the Salon du Livre. Image © Moti Kikayon
Charlotte Mendelson
Charlotte Mendelson’s novels include Daughters of Jerusalem, When We Were Bad, Almost English, The Exhibitionist and Wife. She has won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, has been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and has been longlisted and shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Image © Graeme Robertson
Joanne Limburg
Joanne Limburg is a British writer and poet based in Cambridge. She has published three books of poetry for adults, one book of poetry for children, a novel and two books of memoirs.