Avishai Conyer is the current Federal Mazkir (chairperson) of Netzer Australia, the global youth movement of the Progressive Jewish and Reform Zionist community. He is studying Law and PPE (Politics, Philosophy, and Economics) at UNSW while working as a youth educator and bnei mitzvah tutor for Emanuel Synagogue. Avishai is a passionate Zionist and Jew who is constantly exploring the complexities of these identities.

Rabbi Dr Benjamin Elton is the Chief Minister of The Great Synagogue. He has semicha from YCT Rabbinical School in New York and Rabbis in London, Israel and the United States. He has an MA in History from Queens' College Cambridge and a PhD in Jewish History from London University. He is married to Hinda Young and they have two children.

Shoshana is a writer, educator and romcom-lover based in Sydney. She spends her time watching, reading about, and discussing film and television, and has accidentally found niche online fame via Jewish meme making. Her favourite romcom is When Harry Met Sally, and she doesn't care if that's a boring answer.

Mira started her teaching career in Sydney with BJE before relocating to Hong Kong, where she taught at Carmel School while completing her M.Ed at the University of Hong Kong. From 2011 to 2021 Mira served as Head of Carmel Elementary in Hong Kong. Mira returned to Australia in 2021 to take up the role of College Principal at Masada College. Mira’s three children have had a unique experience growing up as ‘Third Culture Kids’ in Hong Kong and have loved being back in Sydney.

Dr Hilton Immerman OAM was CEO of Shalom College and The Shalom Institute for almost 30 years, introducing many major programs to the community, including the Melton Adult Education Program, Limmud-Oz, the Sydney Jewish Writers’ Festival and PJ Library. He helped to develop and run the successful Shalom Gamarada Indigenous Scholarship Program, which has graduated over 60 Indigenous students from the University of NSW. Hilton received the Ron Castan Humanitarian Award in 2014 and is an Honorary Fellow of UNSW.

Jeremy Jones AM is a long-time Jewish community activist and writer, public speaker, debater, photographer and South Sydney Rabbitohs' tragic. A former president of the Executive Council of Jewry and a senior professional with the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council for more than 30 years, he is a highly regarded international authority on interfaith relations, antisemitism, terrorism and minority rights. He was the first Jewish Australian to be awarded the Human Rights Medal and has won NSW's top honour for community harmony.

Ilona Lee AM is the General Manager of Plus61J Media, co-founder of the Shalom Gamarada Indigenous Scholarship Program and President of COA. She has held many senior positions in the Jewish community over the past 25 years and her professional career was in the Multicultural Health Government Sector. She is proud of Plus61J Media’s collaboration with Together, Yes to get the Jewish community thinking about the upcoming referendum.

Amelia Loewensohn is the Operations and Education Manager of the Survivor School for The Freedom Hub. Her day-to-day work involves helping survivors of modern slavery rebuild their lives. Amelia has a strong connection to her Jewish faith and is excited to present on this issue, which is an intersection of her two greatest passions – her Judaism and social justice.

Shari is currently Head of Planning at JCA. She joined the organisation seven years ago as Planning Manager. Shari's areas of passion include education, diversity and inclusion, and special needs. With broad experience across several industries including finance, construction, real estate, aged care and construction, JCA is her first for purpose role. Shari strives for collaborative outcomes with long-term, sustainable benefit. Proud Mum to two humans and a couple of canines!

Alla Melman is an amateur artist working on silk, canvas, watercolour and mosaics. She enjoys facilitating art workshops to allow everyone to connect with their creative side. When not creating art she is a physiotherapist, PhD student, mother of two energetic children and lover of the great outdoors.

Adina Roth is a Jewish educator, clinical psychologist, and currently Head of Jewish Life at Emanuel school. Previously she ran B'tocham Education, a program focusing on meaningful rites of passage for Bnei Mitzvah. She has taught numerous Torah classes to adults using insights from literature and psychoanalysis. A co-founder of the Jozi Partnership Minyan, Adina was also a Limmud volunteer in South Africa for many years. Adina is currently a third year rabbinical student at Yeshivat Maharat. She lives with her husband Farryl and children Maya and Adam in Sydney.

Kim Rubenstein is Professor in the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at the University of Canberra and Honorary Professor at the ANU. In 2018 she was a Lady Davis Visiting Professor at Hebrew University and has taught Comparative Citizenship at Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University and Bar Ilan University. She was in Israel in January 2023 when the Justice Minister Yariv Levin announced his plans to reform the judicial appointment system and the powers of the Israeli Supreme Court, and witnessed the first public demonstrations against these proposed changes.

Jacquie’s involvement in informal Jewish education over 40 years includes being a Hineni madricha, AUJS leader, Hillel fieldworker, Limmud presenter and part of a team designing and teaching a program for bat mitzvah students. As an employment and education lawyer at Thomson Geer, Jacquie works with schools and universities, and is a guest lecturer at several universities. In 2021/22 she was a member of the JCA’s Education Review Committee.

Dovi Seldowitz is a PhD candidate at UNSW (Sociology) whose research focuses on women's leadership in Hasidic communities and related emancipatory themes in Hasidic sermons. He has presented at Limmud and other Jewish community venues on a range of topics including Hasidic women's leadership, marriage trends in the Australian Chabad community, and trends in Holocaust remembrance. Previously, Dovi received rabbinical ordination from the Central Chabad Yeshivah in Brooklyn.

Tommy is a long-time Limmudnik who loves to ask questions and explore the origin of all things Jewish. His Jewish passion spans the traditional to the academic. He is also a lawyer, husband to a Rabbanit (making him a Rebbitzman) and father of 3 teenagers.

Anna Stern is a Program Manager at Shalom, and has run Limmud, the Sydney Jewish Writers Festival and numerous young adult programs. She is passionate about Jewish culture and community, relational Judaism, and, of course, Limmud. Anna loves reading and watching anything ‘Jew-ish’, researching her family’s genealogy and history, and is a participant in this year’s JCA Frank Wolf Executive Leadership Development Program.

Uri Windt OAM is the founder and publisher of Plus61JMedia, an on-line publication committed to broadening the conversation about issues of importance to our community. Uri was formerly Honorary Secretary and Executive Member of the Jewish Board of Deputies and has a long history of promoting social equity across Australian society, and within the Jewish community. He co-founded Filling the Gap, which recruited dentists to volunteer in regional Aboriginal Medical Centres.