Rachel Meller
Rachel Meller grew up near London, the middle daughter of Austrian Jewish refugees. After studying neurobiology at Sussex, and research into hormones and behaviour at Cambridge, she became a writer in a communication consultancy. The Box with the Sunflower Clasp is her first book.
Rachel Elior
Rachel Elior is John and Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Jewish Mystical Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The recipient of many honours, she was awarded the 2006 Gershom Scholem Prize for the Study of Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Image © Sasson Tiram
Rachel Creeger
Rachel Creeger is a multi-award-winning stand-up comedian and the only Orthodox Jew on the UK comedy circuit. She co-hosts both internationally renowned chat show podcast “Jew Talkin’ To Me?”, and Neighbours superfan podcast “Leaving Erinsborough”. As seen on BBC1, Amazon Prime Video and NextUp Comedy, and heard across the BBC Radio network, Rachel has taken 4 critically […]
Rachel Cockerell
Rachel Cockerell was born and raised in London, the sixth of seven children. She did her BA at the Courtauld Institute and her MA at City University. Melting Point is her first non-fiction book. Her research has taken her to Texas, Ohio, New York, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Image © Iona Wolff
Pinchas Goldschmidt
Pinchas Goldschmidt was the Chief Rabbi of Moscow, Russia, serving at the Moscow Choral Synagogue. He founded and headed the Moscow Rabbinical Court of the Commonwealth of Independent States since 1989. Since 2011 he has served as President of the Conference of European Rabbis, which unites over seven hundred communal rabbis from Dublin to Vladivostok.
Philippe Sands
Philippe Sands is Professor of Law at UCL and a practising barrister at Matrix Chambers. He has been involved in many of the most important international cases of recent years. He is President of English PEN and a member of the board of the Hay Festival. Image © Antonio Olmos
Philip W. Gold
Dr Philip W. Gold is one of the world’s leading researchers of depressive illness. Since 1974, he has worked at the National Institute of Health Clinical Centre where he has served as Chief of Neuroendocrine Research and Senior Investigator in the National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program, and Chief of the Section on […]
Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny is one of the best known voices in classical music. He presents the Breakfast programme each weekday morning on BBC Radio 3. He is a regular contributor to BBC News’ long running radio series From Our Own Correspondent and its new sibling, From Our Home Correspondent. Image © Rii Schroer
Peter Bradley
Peter Bradley was the Labour MP for The Wrekin between 1997 and 2005. More recently, he co-founded and directed Speakers’ Corner Trust, a charity which promotes freedom of expression, open debate and active citizenship in the UK and developing democracies.
Pen Vogler
Pen Vogler is the author of Dinner with Mr Darcy, Tea with Jane Austen, Dinner with Dickens and Christmas with Dickens. She writes and reviews on food history for the press, edited Penguin’s Great Food series and has recreated recipes from the past for BBC Television. She lives in north London.
Paul Harris
Paul Harris is the senior partner of Edward Fail Bradshaw and Waterson a criminal defence firm where he has worked for over 30 years. Of more importance he is the father of Ava and Grace and step father of BZ. He was married to Rina for 14 years before she sadly passed away in Sept […]
Olga Gershenson
Olga Gershenson is Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies and of Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Gesher: Russian Theater in Israel (2005) and The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe (2013), and most recently, New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre (2023).