Emma Jude Harris
Emma Jude Harris is a Jewish director and dramaturg, originally from America. She trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (MFA Advanced Theatre Practice), and at Shakespeare’s Globe/Kings College London (MA Shakespeare Studies). Emma was selected for The Stage’s Fringe Five in 2024. She is the recipient of a Global Talent visa. Image © Christa Holka
Daniel Goldman
Daniel Goldman is a director, translator, teacher and playwright. He trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris and Andamio 90 Theatre School in Buenos Aires. Selected credits include Thebes Land (Off West End Award – Best Production), You’re not like the Other Girls Chrissy (co-directed with Omar Elerian – Olivier Award Nomination), Wanawake Wa Heri […]
Toby Axelrod
Toby Axelrod is the Jewish Telegraphic Agency‘s correspondent for Germany, Switzerland and Austria. A former assistant director of the American Jewish Committee’s Berlin office, she has also worked as staff writer and editor at the New York Jewish Week. She has won numerous awards from the New York Press Association and the American Jewish Press […]
Nikki Scheiner
Dr Nikki Scheiner is one of the founders of the Psychological Response Team at CST and helped develop the protocol for CST’s Psychological First Responders. Nikki is a consultant psychologist with a background in adult mental health, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and has a special interest in building resilience.
Orna Shemer
Orna Shemer is an Israeli social work scholar and community practitioner whose work focuses on trauma, community resilience, participation, and the integration of lived experience into social policy and practice. She is an Associate Adjunct Professor at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. With over […]
Jonathan Boyd
Jonathan has been Executive Director of JPR since 2010, having previously held research and policy positions at the JDC International Centre for Community Development in London and Paris, the Jewish Agency in London and New York, and the UK-based UJIA and Holocaust Educational Trust.
Tim Samuels
Tim Samuels is an award-winning documentary-maker and broadcaster – who has reported around the world for the BBC and National Geographic TV. Tim has won three Royal Television Society awards and best documentary at the World Television Festival. He covered the October 7th attacks on the ground for The Free Press. He is the author […]
Camilla Long
Camilla Long is a columnist and critic for the Sunday Times
Dean Irwin
Dr Dean A. Irwin is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Lincoln. He is currently working on several volumes relating to medieval Anglo-Jewry: an edited collection of the Medieval Lincoln Jewry (Arc Humanities Press), volume 3 of Hebrew and Hebrew-Latin Documents from Medieval England (with Judith Olszowy-Schlanger), and a monograph on Jews and Christians as Neighbours in Medieval England (Palgrave […]
Christoph Dieckmann
Dr. Christoph Dieckmann taught Modern European History at Keele University, worked at the Fritz-Bauer-Institut in Frankfurt and at the University of Bern. He taught some semesters in Haifa and is at present a member of the research-group “Holocaust” in the Ukrainian History Global Initiative. From October to December 2025 he was a fellow at Yad […]
Chen Reiss
With “a voice of silver brightness and clarity” (Bachtrack) with “immaculately produced and enticing tone matched by superb musicianship” (Opera News), soprano Chen Reiss came to prominence as a member of the ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera and as resident artist at the Vienna State Opera. Highlights of the 2025/26 season include her debut […]
XinRu Chen
Dr. XinRu Chen is a pianist and scholar known for her expressive artistry and compelling performances. Between 2023 and 2024, she gave more than ninety concerts across continents, earning acclaim from The Guardian for her “fistfuls of notes, played with bravura execution and effortless command.” Her performances have appeared at major venues throughout the UK, […]