Toby Lichtig
Toby Lichtig is the Fiction and Politics Editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He writes for a range of publications and has appeared as a guest critic on various television and radio programmes. He also freelances as a documentary producer. Toby was chair of judges of the 2018 JQ/Wingate Prize and of the EBRD Literature Prize 2020-23.
Thomas Harding
Thomas Harding is a bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than 20 languages. He has written for the Sunday Times, the Washington Post and the Guardian, amongst other publications. His books include Hanns and Rudolf, which won the JQ-Wingate Prize for Non-Fiction, The House by the Lake, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, Blood on the Page, which […]
Tanya Gold
Tanya Gold is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in Harper’s, the Spectator, the New Statesman and the New York Times. She lives in the UK.
Silvia Nacamulli
Silvia Nacamulli is a London-based cook, lecturer, and author specialising in Italian Jewish cuisine. Born and bred in Rome, she is a regular columnist for the Jewish Chronicle and the author of Jewish Flavours of Italy: A Family Cookbook (Green Bean Books). She presents worldwide, and founded Cooking for the Soul, through which she teaches […]
Samantha Ellis
The daughter of Iraqi-Jewish refugees, Samantha Ellis is the author of the books Chopping Onions on My Heart: On Losing and Preserving Culture, How to be a Heroine and Take Courage and her plays include How to Date a Feminist, Cling to me Like Ivy and Operation Magic Carpet. Her journalism has appeared in the […]
Sally Berkovic
Sally Berkovic is the author of Under My Hat, examining the challenges to Orthodoxy by the increased engagement of women in Talmud study, ritual life and religious leadership, and Death Duties, an account of her involvement on the Chevra Kadisha, the Jewish burial society. She is the CEO of the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe.
Raphael Zarum
Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum is Dean of the London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS) and holds the Rabbi Sacks Chair of Modern Jewish Thought, established by the Zandan family.
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 […]
Miri Rubin
Miri Rubin is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary University of London. Her research and teaching explore the religious cultures of Europe through social relations, relations between Jews and Christians, and the operation of gender. She is interested in the diversity of urban life, as explored in her recent book Cities of Strangers, […]
Margaret Hodge
Baroness Hodge of Barking DBE PC, is a British politician and life peer, who served as Member of Parliament for Barking from 1994-2024. A member of the Labour Party, she was previously Leader of Islington London Borough Council from 1982 to 1992. She was the first Children’s Minister from 2003 to 2005, Minister for Universities […]
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 […]
Jonathan Rosenthal
Jonathan Rosenthal is an award-winning journalist and speaker. He is International Editor of The Economist. His previous roles have included Africa Editor, International Banking Editor and European Business and Finance correspondent at The Economist and mining editor and industrial editor at Business Report.