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 Public Understanding of Law at UCL and Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. He is a practising barrister and arbitrator at 11 Kings Bench Walk, and has acted in many significant cases before international courts. He is the author of Lawless World, Torture Team, East West Street (winner of the […]
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).
Nir Cohen
Nir Cohen is the author of Rebels, Soldiers and Drifters: Gay Representation in Israeli Cinema, co-editor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal, and Head of Programming at UK Jewish Film.
Nicole Lampert
Nicole Lampert is an award-winning British journalist and commentator. Writing for publications ranging from The Sun to The Telegraph, the New York Post to The Independent, and The Daily Mail to Unherd, commenting on television, publishing her own Substack (Diary From the Diaspora), and with a large social media presence, she has broken many stories […]
Nicholas Hytner
Sir Nicholas Hytner was Director of the National Theatre from 2003 – 2015, where he directed and produced more than 200 shows. He formed the Bridge Theatre with Nick Starr in 2017. He was knighted in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to drama. Image © Julius
Nicholas de Lange
Nicholas de Lange has written widely about Judaism and about Jewish history, specialising in Greek-speaking Judaism. His latest book is The Jews of Byzantium. He is the Visiting Rabbi of the Etz Hayyim Synagogue in Haniá, Crete.