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Organisation: La cucina di Silvia - Cooking for the soul
Website: http://www.cookingforthesoul.com

Silvia Nacamulli is an authority on Italian-Jewish cookery. Born and bred in Rome, she is a freelance cook, teacher and writer. She runs her own business, 'Cooking for the soul', and contributes a monthly column in the food section of the Jewish Chronicle. She is currently writing her first book.

Sessions:

• A Culinary History of Italian Jewry
• A Culinary History of Italian Jewry

Organisation: Montefiore College

A rabbinical student at Montefiore College, Nir Nadav works as a systems engineer. He studied at Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh and saw active service in Lebanon and Judea and Samaria during his National Service in the Israel Defence Forces. He lives in north-west London with his wife Jessica and son Netanel Zvi.

Sessions:

• De-mystifying Your Kosher Kitchen
• Of Mountains, Commitment and Game Shows
• The Joy of Learning Text (1 of 2)
• The Joy of Learning Text (2 of 2)
• Torah Shebaal Peh - Our Tribal Knowledge; or, How We Fell in Love with Halacha!
• Visions and Expectations of the Rabbinate

Organisation: Pro Zion / Jewish Teachers' Association
Website: http://www.prozion.org.uk

Daniel Needlestone is a schoolteacher and e-learning technologist working in a large Hertfordshire secondary school. In his spare time he is completing an MA in ICT in Education, is co-chair of Pro Zion and founder of the year old Jewish Teachers’ Association.

Sessions:

• e-learning for e-veryone
• I'm the Only Jew in the Staffroom
• Israeli Politics for Beginners
• The Social Staffroom: Jewish Teachers (and Wannabe Teachers) Get Together

Julia Neuberger is a rabbi, the President of Liberal Judaism, chair of the Commission on the Future of Volunteering (independent of government), the Prime Minster's Champion for Volunteering, a Liberal Democrat peer, advisor to the Clore Duffield Foundation and advisor to the trustees of Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.

Sessions:

• Volunteering - Tsedakah, G'milut Chassadim or Something Quite Different?
• Why Volunteer?

Aubrey Newman is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Leicester and past president of the Jewish Historical Society. He has taught and written on a number of aspects of Anglo-Jewish History and on Jewish migration history.

Sessions:

• Jewish Migration to South Africa 1885-1914
• The Significance of the Provinces for the Anglo-Jewish Historian

Organisation: Ben Gurion University

David Newman is professor of Political Geography at Ben Gurion University in Israel and editor of the journal Geopolitics. He is involved in Israeli-Palestinian research projects and participates in Track II discussions. He is currently the Israeli academic representative in the UK for matters relating to the academic boycott.

Sessions:

• Israel at 60: Rethinking Israel and the Diaspora (4 of 4)
• Israel at 60: Seeking a Civil Society (2 of 4)
• Israel at 60: the Crisis of Leadership (1 of 4)
• Israel at 60: Where Is Israel? In the Middle East, Europe or the United States? (3 of 4)
• Perspectives on the Academic Boycott

Organisation: Jewish Leadership Council

Jeremy Newmark is CEO of the Jewish Leadership Council. Formerly the Chief Rabbi's spokesperson, Jeremy advises government on antisemitism and other issues affecting UK Jewry. He is a member of the Board of the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and joint head of the Stop the Boycott campaign.

Sessions:

• Stop the Boycott

Organisation: The Joseph Interfaith Foundation
Website: http://www.josephinterfaithfoundation.org

Mehri Niknam is the Executive Director of the Joseph Interfaith Foundation, a joint Muslim-Jewish organisation. She specialises in comparative Judaism and Islam in the Middle Ages. In 2005 she was awarded the MBE for her contributions to Muslim-Jewish relations in Britain and was made Honorary Fellow at Leo Baeck College, 'the premier centre for Progressive Jewish learning'.

Sessions:

• Muslim-Jewish Interfaith Relations - a Realistic Approach