Jonathan Brent
Jonathan Brent’s books include Stalin’s Last Crime (2003); and Inside the Stalin Archives (2008). He teaches history and literature at Bard College. Brent became Executive Director and CEO of The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in 2009 and in 2019 he received the Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania.
Joanne Greenaway
Joanne Greenaway is the Chief Executive of LSJS. She is an experienced International Arbitration lawyer and formerly Director of Get cases for the London Beth Din. A graduate of Cambridge University, she is part of Ohr Torah Stone’s International Halakha Scholars Program and a Sacks Scholar.
Jenni Frazer
Jenni Frazer is an award-winning journalist who now freelances for a number of publications. She spent three years in Israel on assignment.
Jake Wallis Simons
Jake Wallis Simons is an award-winning British journalist and novelist. He was Editor of the Jewish Chronicle from 2021 – 2025, where he was known for publishing several world exclusives about the Mossad, including the inside story of the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and a major three-part sabotage operation in Iran. He continues to write […]
Hugo Rifkind
Hugo Rifkind is an award-winning Edinburgh-born journalist who writes columns for The Times, The Spectator and GQ. He writes the satirical Times column My Week on Saturdays and is a frequent panellist on BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and presents his own show for Times Radio.
Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson has written seventeen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.
Helen Fry
Historian and biographer Helen Fry is the author of more than twenty books on intelligence, prisoners of war, and the social history of World War II – most recently The White Lady and Women in Intelligence. She appears regularly in media interviews and podcasts and has been involved in numerous documentaries. Image © Greg Morrison
Harry Freedman
Harry Freedman is Britain’s leading author of popular works of Jewish culture and history. His publications include The Talmud: A Biography, Kabbalah: Secrecy, Scandal and the Soul, The Murderous History of Bible Translations, Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius and Britain’s Jews. He has a PhD on an Aramaic translation of the Bible from University of London.
Edward Seckerson
Formerly Chief Classical Music and Opera critic of The Independent newspaper, writer, broadcaster, podcaster, and musical theatre aficionado; Edward Seckerson wrote and presented the BBC Radio 3 series Stage & Screen, in which he interviewed many prominent writers and stars of musical theatre. He produces podcasts of interviews with musical and theatrical artists and appears on the […]
Eduard Shyfrin
Eduard Shyfrin, founder of the theory of the Kabbalah of Information, was born in Ukraine in 1960. During his studies, he developed a profound understanding of physics and received a PhD in Metallurgy from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys. He later co-founded Midland Holdings Resources Ltd and has had a successful career in business […]
David Herman
David Herman, a former TV producer, is a freelance writer based in London. Over the past 20 years he has written almost a thousand articles, essays, and reviews on Jewish history and literature for publications including the Jewish Chronicle, the Jewish Quarterly, Jewish Renaissance, the Guardian, the New Statesman, and Prospect. He has taught courses […]
David Aaronovitch
David Aaronovitch is a journalist, author and broadcaster. He has presented Radio 4’s weekly current affairs programme The Briefing Room since 2016, writes for the Financial Times and is the author of three books, including Voodoo Histories about conspiracy theories and Party Animals about his family and British Communism.