Ms Bennett is the Education Program Coordinator with Together for Humanity and an Islamic educator within the Muslim community in Australia. She has background studies in Youth Work, Quranic and Islamic sciences as well as various coaching and mentoring certifications. She has spent  over two decades educating communities about identity, confidence, resilience and the Islamic faith. She has worked closely with countless women and youth through her education and consulting business  and regularly collaborates with local and international community organisations and charities as a facilitator and keynote speaker.

Sharon Berger is the Events & Partnerships Manager at The Jewish Independent. For many years, Sharon has been building Jewish community through her work at the New Israel Fund Australia, the Jewish Agency and Shalom. She enjoys bringing new ideas and thought-provoking speakers, panels and films to Australian audiences. Sharon has been a columnist for TJI since its early days. She has previously worked as a journalist at The Jerusalem Post, The Economist Intelligence Unit and Reuters. She has a master's in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford, but a lot has changed in the Middle East since then.

Rahel is a senior faculty member at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem and has been teaching Mishnah, Talmud and halakha for thirty years. Rahel lectures widely in both Israel and abroad on topics concerning women and Jewish law and a Jewish sexual ethic. She is the Halakhic Editor and an author for JOFA’s Hilkhot Nashim series, published by Maggid, and is a founding member of Congregation Shirah Hadasha in Jerusalem. In June 2015, Rahel received Rabbinic Ordination from Rabbis Herzl Hefter and Daniel Sperber.

Dr Shahar Burla is a Sydney-based researcher, lecturer and Contributing Editor at The Jewish Independent. Shahar holds a Master’s degree in political science from Hebrew University and a PhD in political science from Bar-Ilan University. He is the author of Political Imagination in the Diaspora: The Construction of a Pro-Israeli Narrative (2013) and co-editor of Australia and Israel: A Diasporic, Cultural and Political Relationship (2015).

Sarah is a lawyer, Jewish history nerd, longtime Limmudnik and new mum based in Sydney. Her Jewish studies have spanned Australia, Jerusalem, New York and Warsaw and she has worked in multiple educational and communal roles. A great-granddaughter of Bundists and granddaughter of Yiddishist Danielle Charak OAM z”l, until starting classes with Kadimah in 2025 Sarah could barely count to ten in Yiddish. She is excited to share her newfound passion with Limmud Oz!

Joshua Dabelstein is Head of Communications at the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI), the Head of Movement Against Antizionism Australia (MAAZ AU), and an accomplished writer whose work appears across major Australian media outlets, including the Australian Financial Review, The Australian, SBS, The Sydney Morning Herald, the ABC, and the Australian Jewish News. His reporting, analysis, and public seminars focus on the ideological structures underpinning contemporary cultural discourse, focusing on language, identity, and collective deception in democratic societies.

Mohamed Dukuly is a community leader and an assistant imam with over 20 years’ interfaith experience in Australia and abroad. Originally from Liberia, a country that faced a brutal 14-year war in the '90s and early 2000s, he has been a part of Together For Humanity since 2007. Mohamed is also a social worker specialising in psychosocial education and community development. In 2021, Mohamed received the ZEAST Award for Outstanding Community Leader.

Rabbi Dr Benjamin Elton has been Rabbi of The Great Synagogue since 2015. He has been a regular presenter at Limmud in that period. His interests include Jewish history and philosophy and he was recently appointed an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Philosophy, Notre Dame University of Australia. He is married to Hinda Young and they have three children.

Shoshana Gottlieb-Beker is a Sydney-based writer and educator. She has studied at UTS (BA in Creative Writing and Social & Political Science) and Pardes (Certificate of Jewish Learning and Pedagogy) and is currently completing her Masters of Teaching. In her spare time, Shoshana runs the hilariously irreverent Instagram account JewishMemesOnly through which she brings Jewish learning to the masses, with over 50k followers across Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. She currently co-hosts Season 4 of Ashamed To Admit, a podcast with The Jewish Independent.

Rabbi Zalman Kastel AM is National Director of Together For Humanity. He was raised in the ultra-orthodox Hasidic tradition in the racially divided Crown Heights area of Brooklyn, New York, and was transformed through encounters with Christians and Muslims and has now brought positive experiences of diversity to over 500,000 young Australians. In 2020, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of his work on interfaith and intercultural understanding.

Rabbanit Judith is a lawyer and community educator with over 20 years of experience working in the public legal assistance sector. She is currently the director of the Royal Commission Legal Assistance Service and previously led client centred digital transformation initiatives at Legal Aid NSW. Ordained by Yeshivat Maharat in New York, she runs women’s prayer services, gives shiurim, and prepares girls and brides for lifecycle events. She has been a board member of NCJWA and serves as a chaplain in the ADF reserves.

Elisheva Madar is the Policy and Impact Manager at the New Israel Fund Australia, where she leads advocacy and community engagement for the largest non-government progressive funder of Israeli civil society and human rights organisations. With a varied background across law, policy and consulting, she previously worked at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in wartime crisis management and interned in Jerusalem with IRAC, the legal advocacy wing of the Jewish Reform Movement. 

Adina Roth is Director of Jewish Life at Emanuel school and a clinical psychologist. She received semicha from Yeshivat Maharat and is passionate about b’nei mitzvah and teaching girls to lein (read from the Torah). She also loves teaching texts using Midrash, literature and psychoanalysis. Adina is married to Fazza and mum to Maya and Adam.

Jacob Sacher is an award-winning alternative comedian. He wrote and directed this year's Kadimah Purim Shpiel, and his most recent solo show “Promising Young Mensch” blended modern clowning with an interrogation of his Jewish upbringing. He is a graduate student at Monash University’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation where he researches the role of the schlemiel in 21st century film and television. He was the 2025 recipient of the Doris & David Burstin Yiddish Education Scholarship.

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Tommy is a lawyer and 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 three.

Dane has two life passions – Limmud and trivia. He was a long-time member of Limmud Oz Sydney’s advisory board, co-chaired Limmud Fest, and has appeared on three TV quiz shows. Dane chairs the Shoah Remembrance Committee at the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies and works in data analytics at Australian Community Media.

Gregory Uzelac is an artist and academic whose work focuses on mythology, religion, and cultural identity in the internet age, including contemporary Jewish expression. Originally from New York, Uzelac has worked across the entertainment, editorial, and contemporary art industries internationally, and now serves as an academic in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney, where he lectures in the disciplines of Studies in Religion and Jewish Civilisation.

Sarah is the JNF Israel Emissary to Australia. Originally from Sydney, Sarah made Aliyah 20 years ago and built a distinguished career in Israel’s high-tech and international PR sectors. Dedicated to community building, Sarah is the co-admin of the 5,000-person "Australians Living in Israel" Facebook group. Following October 7 she coordinated media interviews for survivors and hostage families, a pivotal experience that led her to pivot from her corporate career to supporting Israel’s national recovery. Sarah and her family are survivors of the Bondi terrorist attack.

Kate Xavier is the Professional Learning Lead at Together for Humanity. A former high school teacher, she has spent the last 10 Years working in interfaith, intercultural and anti-racism education. Kate is committed to bridge-building between faiths. She currently serves on the NSW Faith Affairs Council and is the Chair of the Catholic Diocese of Parramatta interfaith Commission.