Who’s Who

Shelley Shocolinsky-Dwyer Chief Operating Officer
Rabbi Charley Baginsky Chief Executive Officer

Alexandra Simonon Director of Community Partnerships
Ben Combe Office Coordinator & Comms Assistant
Tanya Garfield Senior Administrator
Janet Manderson Financial Accountant
Simon Rothstein LJ Today Editor & Public Relations
Thomas Rich Fundraising & Events Manager
Becca Fetterman Director of Youth
Jess Mindel LJY-Netzer Movement Worker
Josh Powell LJY-Netzer Movement Worker
Rabbi Anna Posner Student Chaplain
Surat-Shaan Knan Project Manager; Heritage Projects
Rabbi Mark Solomon Interfaith Consultant
Alison Turner Liberal Judaism Archivist

Rabbis

Rebecca Birk Finchley Progressive Synagogue; Co-Chair of The Conference of Liberal Rabbis and Cantors
Dr René Pfertzel Kingston Liberal Synagogue; Co-Chair of The Conference of Liberal Rabbis and Cantors

Dr Robert Ash Lancashire & Cumbria Liberal Jewish Community
Charley Baginsky South Bucks Jewish Community
Rachel Benjamin Liberal Jewish Synagogue (St John’s Wood)
Rebecca Birk Finchley Progressive Synagogue
Janet Burden Ealing Liberal Synagogue
Elana Dellal The Liberal Jewish Synagogue (St John’s Wood)
Nathan Godleman South London Liberal Synagogue
Aaron Goldstein Northwood & Pinner Liberal Synagogue
Dr Andrew Goldstein (Emeritus) Northwood & Pinner Liberal Synagogue
Roberta Harris-Eckstein Eastbourne Liberal Jewish Community
Dr Frank Hellner (Emeritus) Finchley Progressive Synagogue
David Hulbert (Emeritus) East London & Essex Liberal Synagogue
Dr Margaret Jacobi Birmingham Progressive Synagogue
Richard Jacobi East London & Essex Liberal Synagogue
Leah Jordan Kehillah North London
Yuval Keren Southgate Progressive Synagogue
Sandra Kviat Crouch End Chavurah & Shir Hatzafon (Copenhagen)
Miri Lawrence Reading Liberal Jewish Community
Monique Mayer Bristol & West Progressive Jewish Congregation
Dr Charles H Middleburgh (Emeritus) Dublin Jewish Progressive Congregation
Lea Mühlstein Northwood & Pinner Liberal Synagogue
Dr René Pfertzel Kingston Liberal Synagogue
Anna Posner Student Chaplain, Beit Klal Yisrael, & Norwich Liberal Jewish Congregation
Danny Rich (Emeritus) Kingston Liberal Synagogue
Tanya Sakhnovich Nottingham Liberal Synagogue
Mark Solomon Edinburgh Liberal Jewish Community & Leicester Progressive Jewish Community
Jackie Tabick West Central Liberal Synagogue
Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah Brighton & Hove Progressive Synagogue
Pete Tobias The Liberal Synagogue Elstree
Alexandra Wright The Liberal Jewish Synagogue (St John’s Wood)
Igor Zinkov The Liberal Jewish Synagogue (St John’s Wood)

Rabbis who work with Liberal Judaism
Frank Dabba Smith
Janet Darley
Ariel J Friedlander
Anna Gerrard
Dr Deborah Kahn-Harris Principal, Leo Baeck College
Alan Mann
Michael Standfield
Daniela Thau

Officers & Vice Presidents

BOARD OF NATIONAL OFFICERS
Ruth Seager Chair

Karen Newman Deputy Chair
Graham Carpenter Vice Chair
Paul Silver-Myer Treasurer
Amanda McFeeters Company Secretary
Ros Clayton Officer; Fundraising
Hannah Stephenson Officer; Youth
Omar Portillo Officer, Joint Action Group on Black Jews & Jews of Colour Inclusion
Susanne Szal Combe Officer
Owen Power Officer
Janet Berkman Officer
Joel Beckman Officer

The chair(s) of The Conference of Liberal Rabbis and Cantors also sits on the Board of National Officers of Liberal Judaism

LIBERAL JUDAISM PRESIDENT & VICE PRESIDENTS
Rabbi Dr Andrew Goldstein President

Simon Benscher
Monique Blake
Lord Fink
Jeromé Freedman
Louise Freedman
Sharon Goldstein
Lucian J. Hudson
David Lipman
Corinne Oppenheimer
David Pick
Rabbi Danny Rich
Rosita Rosenberg
Tony Sacker
Joan Shopper
Phil Stone
Beverly Taylor
Ken Teacher

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