Lemn Sissay
Lemn Sissay is a BAFTA-nominated, award-winning writer and broadcaster. He has authored collections of poetry and plays and his memoir My Name Is Why was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. His Landmark poems are visible in London, Manchester, Huddersfield and Addis Ababa. He has been made an Honorary Doctor by the universities of Manchester, Kent, Essex, Huddersfield and […]
Lea Taragin-Zeller
Lea Taragin-Zeller is a medical and social anthropologist with research interests in religion, ethics, medical anthropology, gender and reproductive politics. She is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an affiliated scholar at the Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc), University of Cambridge. Lea has published in leading […]
Lavie Tidhar
Lavie Tidhar was born just ten miles from Armageddon and grew up on a kibbutz in northern Israel. He has since made his home in London, where he is a Visiting Professor and Writer in Residence at Richmond University. He is a columnist for the Washington Post. Image © Kevin Nixon, Future Publishing
Lauren Elkin
Lauren Elkin is the author of several books including Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art, She is also an award-winning translator, most recently of Simone de Beauvoir’s previously unpublished novel The Inseparables. After twenty years in Paris, she now lives in London. Image © Sophie Davidson
Lara Molins Caplin
Lara Molins Caplin is an Irish cricketer who played at One Day International (ODI) level for the Irish national side between 1999 and 2001, including at the 2000 World Cup. She is part of the Molins cricketing dynasty in Ireland, where both her cousins Jason and Greg Molins also represented the Irish National side.
Keren David
Keren David is the managing editor of The Jewish Chronicle. She is the award-winning author of 13 Young Adult novels. She has worked as a journalist in London, Scotland and the Netherlands.
Karen Skinazi
Karen Skinazi is Professor of Modern Jewish Literature & Culture and Director of Louchheim School for Judaic Studies at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles. She is currently revising Ness, a saga following generations of Jewish women. Based on an excerpt, Karen was selected to be part of the inaugural Genesis Emerging Writers Programme and […]
Julian Ovenden
Julian Ovenden was nominated for the 2023 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Emile de Becque in South Pacific (Chichester Festival Theatre/Sadlers Wells) and is known for his many film, TV and stage roles. He has starred in numerous plays and musicals, and has performed internationally as a concert and recording […]
Julia Neuberger
Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger is Chair of UCH NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust. She was Senior Rabbi of the West London Synagogue from 2011 until March 2020 and is now Rabbi Emerita. She is a cross bench Peer, and an author. Image © Derek Tamea
Joshua Rozenberg
Joshua Rozenberg KC is an honorary Master of the Bench of Gray’s Inn and a non-executive board member of the Law Commission. He was the BBC’s legal correspondent for 15 years before moving to newspapers. He now presents the popular Radio 4 series Law in Action and appears regularly on other news networks in the UK […]
Josh Howie
Josh Howie is the writer and star of two series of the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 sitcom Josh Howie’s Losing It, nominated for a BBC Radio Award, as well as playing one of the leads in hit Netflix sitcom Hapless. With Season 2 just wrapped, Josh is back in his day job as a much in-demand stand-up […]
Joseph Dweck
Rabbi Joseph Dweck is a rabbi, teacher and writer based in Jerusalem. He served for eleven years as Senior Rabbi of the S&P Sephardi Community of the UK, and before that as rabbi of Congregation Shaare Shalom in Brooklyn and as Head of School/Rosh Yeshiva of Barkai Yeshiva Day School. Through the Office of Rabbi […]