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Sandra Cahn

Organisation: Limmud FSU

Sandy Cahn is co-founder and financial resource development chair of Limmud Former Soviet Union (FSU). Based in New York, she serves on UJA-Federation’s board of directors and the national board of Hillel. Previously she chaired United Jewish Communities National Women’s Philanthropy Campaign and was northeast director of the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation.

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Daniel Cainer

Website: http://www.danielcainer.com/

Songwriter, composer, music producer and broadcaster. Having lived a largely secular life Daniel now recognises his journey has been a Jewish one all along. His latest material examines his mid-life kosher-crisis with great humour and honesty. The Jewish Chronicle described him as ‘the new comic bard of Anglo-Jewry’!

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Maurice Chernick

Organisation: Shir
Website: http://www.shirmusic.co.uk/

Maurice Chernick started the band Shir some 12 years ago, since when it has become a major force on the Jewish music scene, playing for simchas all over the country, and performing in concerts from Newcastle and Manchester to Trafalgar Square, Madrid, Santander and Cordoba.

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Chaim Chesler

Chaim is founding chair of Limmud Former Soviet Union (FSU), chair of the FSU and Eastern European Committee of the World Jewish Congress, former treasurer of the Jewish Agency of Israel. He played a major part in the aliyah of over 250,000 Russian Jews and holds key roles in many major Jewish organisations.

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Michelle Citrin

Website: http://www.michellecitrin.com/

NYC based Singer/Songwriter, Michelle Citrin is known for her YouTube sensations, “20 Things to Do with Matzah,” and "Rosh Hashanah Girl”. Billboard Music named her a Top Songwriter. The Jewish Week included Michelle in its 2009 list of “36 Under 36: The Next Wave of Jewish Innovators."

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David Clark

Organisation: London Metropolitan University

David Clark wrote his PhD on Jewish Museums in Europe. He is a warden at Wimbledon Synagogue, a member of Second Generation Network and is involved in interfaith work. He is also a regular contributor to Jewish Renaissance magazine and Exiled Writers Ink and writes poetry.

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Janine Clements

Organisation: JAT, Jewish Action and Training for sexual health
Website: http://www.jat-uk.org/

Janine has had a diverse professional life as an educator, health professional and project lead within voluntary and statutory sectors. She commissioned services for adults with learning disabilities and worked with rough-sleeping homeless empowering them to undertake formal and informal education. She now teaches extensively within the whole Jewish community.

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Laliv Clenman

Organisation: Leo Baeck College

Laliv Clenman is Lecturer in Rabbinic Literature at Leo Baeck College. Her research focuses on problems of identity and status, including intermarriage, gender, sexuality, the construction of Jewishness and the impact of halachah on the individual. Her work is conducted in view of ongoing modern legal issues in Judaism.

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Norman Cohen Falah

Website: http://www.cantornorman.com/

Argentinian Cantor Norman arrived in London in 2005 to serve Belsize Square Synagogue as its full-time chazan, having previously sung in Las Vegas, Miami and Amsterdam. He studied chazanut at the Latin-American Rabbinical Seminary and guitar at the National Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires. He specialised in Sephardic music.

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EJ Cohen

Organisation: Leo Baeck College

EJ Cohen is the librarian at the Department of Jewish Education at Leo Baeck College, teaches at Edgware and District Reform and New North London Synagogues and is the Director of Education at Finchley Progressive Synagogue. She is also a certified American Sign Language interpreter and teacher of the deaf.

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Hayden Cohen

Website: http://www.haydencohen.co.uk/

Hayden is a guitarist, singer, actor and entrepreneur. In 2007 whilst at University, he founded Xi Entertainments, an agency specialising in performer management. On whichever side of the stage he may be, he wishes to make people smile, have fun and do something worthwhile.

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Jenny Cohen

Website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology/people/mindellj.htm

Jenny trained as a General Practitioner before moving into public health. She is currently a clinical senior lecturer at University College London, where she leads the UCL team working on the Health Survey for England, and other surveys. She is also co-chair of NOURISH, Northwood United Synagogue’s education programme.

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Nurith Cohen

Organisation: Jewish Agency For Israel (JAFI)

Nurith Cohen was born in Haifa, Israel. She is a graduate of the London School of Jewish Studies and a Susi Bradfield Fellow. She teaches Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Nurith lectures in multicultural seminars on the Jews of Britain anh iIs a member of the Israel Committee at Woodside Park Synagogue.

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Henry Cohn

Organisation: University of Warwick

Henry Cohn is Emeritus Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Warwick,and an author and lecturer. He is President of Birmingham Progressive Synagogue and a Vice-President of Liberal Judaism.

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Sara Cooper

Organisation: Raphael, the Jewish Counselling Service

Psychoanalytic psychotherapist for over 20 years, Sara is a trainer and supervisor of counsellors and therapists. She works with individuals and couples from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, including many Jews, spanning the spectrum from the secular and unaffiliated to the ultra orthodox. Head of clinical services for Raphael, the Jewish counselling service.

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Andrew Copson

Andrew is director of education and public affairs at the British Humanist Association (BHA). He coordinates the BHA's education work promoting understanding of Humanism as a non-religious worldview and campaigns for a secular state and for a rational humanist perspective on public ethical issues.

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Naomi Cotten

Naomi Cotten has been a psychotherapist for many years. Having lived in various parts of London and the world, with numerous questions about Judaism and her place in it, she has found her way back to the community at Alyth Gardens Synagogue.

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Katherine Craddy

Organisation: Galicia Jewish Museum / Polska Year
Website: http://www.galiciajewishmuseum.org/

Kate is director of the Galicia Jewish Museum, Kraków, which is home to the internationally acclaimed exhibition Traces of Memory, currently showing at Limmud Conference. Galicia Jewish Museum is responsible for coordinating all aspects of Jewish programming for Polska Year.Kate is originally from the UK and has been in Poland since 2004.

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Darryl Crystal

Organisation: Har Sinai Congregation

Darryl Crystal is the interimrRabbi of Har Sinai Congregation, in Owings Mills, Maryland. He guides congregations that are in transition and served a synagogue in New York for eighteen years. He studied with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and PARDES. He received semichah from Hebrew Union College.

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