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London Jewish Cultural Centre
Ivy House,
94-96 North End Road,
London
NW11 7SX
020 8457 5000
is an Artist and Calligrapher specialising in Hebrew Calligraphy and Illumination. She has exhibited widely including at the British Library, The Museum of London and The Jewish Museum. Vetta is an Associate Lecturer with the Open University, and teaches art at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She has an MA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, specialising in Yiddish studies.
is a music lecturer for Birkbeck College and he has also given numerous guest lectures for numerous other institutions including the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Philharmonia Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra.
As a musician, Ross worked as a pianist (and music tutor) for the Royal Ballet School and now, as a specialist lecturer on music for dance, he has been a regular faculty member for annual summer courses for ballet teachers in the U.S.A., Canada and Italy. He has published a number of articles in The Dancing Times.
is an author, and a senior tutor at Christie's Education Department. As well as teaching at the London Jewish Cultural Centre, Patrick has taught for The Prison Service, The Royal Academy of Arts and The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He has also contributed to radio programmes including for Classic FM.
was professor of English literature at Hamline University in St Paul, Minnesota, where she specialized in the English novel. She has published work on Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf. Now retired, she divides her time between London and the US.
is run by three professional women living in North West London:
Kate Kuper (M.Pjil, MBA) worked in government and consulting before joining the World Bank in 1999; Cate Bronstein (B.Com, MBA) has banking experience and most recently left Investec's capital markets division after her daughter Amy was born; and Kelly Heymans (BA hons., HDE, QTS) is an experienced Drama and English teacher who ran her own clinic.
is currently the Course Director for Arts of China, at Christie's Education London, UK as well as an Honorary Research Fellow, in the Department of Art History at the University of Glasgow. Nixi has been a visiting Professor in Osaka, Japan and Beijing, China.
is an actor and lecturer in Jewish History and Yiddish language and literature. He is author of a number of essays on Yiddish writers and Jewish history, and has advised on several films.
works with the Film and Technology department and is one of the in-house film lecturers. He has an Anglo-French cultural and educational background after having spent most of his life in Paris and New York. He read Philosophy at King's College London and studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on his way towards a BA in Film Studies at Columbia.
completed an MA in Jewish History at the University of Haifa, before becoming a teacher. Ahuva also manages History and Citizenship studies.
was born in Cairo of a Sephardic family, grew up in Italy and has lived in London most of her adult life. She studied archaeology at London University, and has a degree in Ancient History and Egyptology from University College London. For many years, Nicole has lectured at the British Museum and the Metropolitan Museum in New York. She is a consultant for the BBC on ancient Egypt, travels extensively in the Middle East, organising trips to places few people have been to. She also lectures at Christies Education, where she met and became friends with our own Patrick Bade.
is a third year PhD student at Birkbeck College writing his dissertation on Spinoza. He is very interested in the social history of philosophy and the concrete effects that philosophical ideas have had on broader society.
has an MA in Jewish Folklore from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and has been a Hebrew teacher in the North Western Reform Synagogue's Cheder and the Clore Shalom school. Ronit has also taught on the subjects of the Holocaust, Israeli History and Jewish Identity both in Israel and the UK.
is former chaplain at St Paul's Girls School and Priest in Ordinary to the Queen at the Chapel Royal. He has lectured on religion, astronomy, and ethics in schools in New York, Sydney, and Buenos Aires; and on the stars to be seen above Africa's Rift Valley in Kenya. Adam is a regular and popular lecturer at the LJCC.
worked in education in Israel for a number of years before moving to London. A recent addition to the Centre, Hani has quickly established herself with our students.
has worked as a teacher, teacher trainer, LEA adviser, and LEA, Ofsted and Pikuach inspector. She has written over 40 books mainly on aspects of religious and cultural diversity in education and is a frequent radio broadcaster on Jewish and educational subjects. She is a UJIA Fellow, teaches Bible at the London School of Jewish Studies and in the Torah L'Am (Torah for Everyone) programme, and is a Holocaust Education Trustee.
is Chief Executive of the London Jewish Cultural Centre and senior lecturer in Jewish history which she has taught for 25 years. She is editor in chief of the teaching resource pack "Lessons of the Holocaust".
is the Director of UJIA Israel Experience, having previously been the Director of the Lessons from Auschwitz project at the Holocaust Educational Trust. He originally worked as Director of European Programmes for the Israel Experience department.
is the London Jewish Cultural Centre's Director of Overseas Projects, represents the UK on the International Task Force for Holocaust and Remembrance and is a senior lecturer in Jewish History. Jerold has also been made Associate Professor of Jewish History at the Institute of Jewish Studies at Henan University in China.
has taught for many years at the Israeli Sunday School and is a welcome addition to our team.
is Executive Director of Languages at the London Jewish Cultural Centre. She was born in Jerusalem, and studied History and Geography at the Hebrew University. She taught Hebrew for 11 years in Paris and has taught at the London Jewish Cultural Centre for more than 18 years.
MD, MPhil [Oxon.] is a specialist in Graeco-Roman Palestine and has widely lectured on Jewish history. She devised a distance learning course covering 2,000 years of Jewish history [300 BCE- 1700CE] for Sheffield students. She has lectured for the London Jewish Cultural Centre for more than 20 years.
is an historian (specialising in Holocaust and war studies), educational consultant and writer, who has been working with the London Jewish Cultural Centre for over twelve years. She was an advisor to the Department of Education for over five years and continues to work with them on a number of projects, including as a lead partner on the Citizenship initiative - Who Do We Think We Are?
is London Jewish Cultural Centre's Access course leader and a senior lecturer in film studies at the University of Portsmouth. He is course leader of BA TV & Film Production and is also the School's Subject Leader for Storytelling and Contextual studies. He is contributor to the key textbook Introduction to Film Studies.
is an Independent Member of the Metropoitan Police Authority, a senior consultant to Limmud and a freelance management and educational consultant. He is a magistrate on the Haringey bench. He has taught at the LJCC and on the Hebrew University Melton programme for many years.
Director of the Office for Small Communities, is also the only guide for walking tours of Willesden Jewish Cemetery which he describes as the 'most important and prestigious Anglo-Jewish cemetery'. Elkan served as 16th President of the United Synagogue and is now the Chairman of the Singers' Prayer Book publication committee.
a specialist in Jewish related film, is manager of the London Jewish Cultural Centre Film Archive. He began to build the archive in 1994 and it is now the largest collection of Jewish related film material in Europe. Stuart lectures, gives film presentations and provides information and material to film researchers, academics and anyone interested in Jewish archive footage.
has an MA in English Literature. She has been a journalist for the New Zealand Jewish Chronicle, a bookshop manager and a writer. As well as running the Ivy House Book circle and Poetry circle, Irene organises our delightful Music Programme.
is a cultural historian and a writer who has edited several anthologies of new fiction by Jewish writers, Jewish woman's poetry and Yiddish film.
is a medieval historian who is Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London. She was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Cambridge University, where she took her doctorate.
Miri studies the social history of Europe between 1100 and 1500, concentrating on the interactions between public rituals, power, and community life.
an Israeli by birth, Vardit completed an MA in American Studies. She teaches Hebrew at Immanuel College and is a long standing member of our team.
is South African born and divides her time between teaching in London and painting in Cannes. She has won Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in the Cannes Grand Prix and feels passionately that anyone can enjoy creating art.
has been teaching Bridge for 30 years and is a professional teacher with the English Bridge Union. Former bridge correspondent of the Jewish Chronicle and author of Practice your Rule of 1 he has written countless articles over the years for English Bridge and Bridge Plus.
is an internationally renowned academic, consultant/analyst and commentator, specialising in the Middle East and related affairs. A regular guest on numerous national and international TV channels and radio stations he also writes for a number of publications around the world. We are delighted that Hagai has agreed to be our scholar in residence this year. Come and hear why.
has worked extensively with children as a group leader, entertainer and childminder for 1-8 year olds, (specialist area 1-3 year olds). Ilana is also a solo singer and with bands, performing, writing and recording original music and old jazz/blues
born in South Africa, obtained a BA at the University of the Witwatersrand. She trained extensively in the USA and Europe in a broad spectrum of physical disciplines. She is certified by the renowned Pilates Foundation, and also by the Australian Institute of Pilates and Physiotherapy (APPI).
graduated from the Courtauld Institute, worked at the Temple Gallery in Holland Park (specialists in Byzantine, Greek and Russian icons) and was a curator at the V&A for several years. He is now a Course Director at Christies Education.
is a keen theatregoer and was an audio-describer for visually-impaired playgoers for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Duke of York's Theatre and the Soho Theatre for many years. She hosts our popular Ivy House Playreading Circle every month.
is an experienced adult educator, who loves to share his enthusiasm for history with others. He holds degrees from three British Universities and has held senior positions in adult education, including the post of Principal of The City Literary Institute in London, one of Britain's premier Adult Education Colleges. His recent MBE was awarded for services to adult education.
tour coordinator for the London Jewish Cultural Centre is a well travelled South African lawyer.
runs a forth generation Family Office based in Hampstead involved in property, sustainable house building and other alternative investments. He read Modern History at Durham University then the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He received his MBA from Cornell University in upstate New York. He regularly lectures on Corporate Governance and sits on the Investment Committee of the Institute of Family Business. He first taught on our Good and Evil seminar last year and this will be his first course at Ivy House.
has a first class honours degree in Hebrew and Aramaic and an MPhil in Medieval Hebrew from Cambridge University. She is a graduate of Midreshet Lindenbaum, Jerusalem, and recently completed a Foundation Course in Counselling and Pschotheraphy at Regents College, London.
studied Education, Criminology and Jewish Studies at Bar-Ilan University, before completing an MA in Hebrew Literature at Ben-Gurion University. She has taught at the London Jewish Cultural Centre for the past 8 years and is in charge of Modern Hebrew A Level at Hasmonean High School.
has a BA in Egyptology from Cairo University and an MA in English/Arabic
translation from the University of Westminster. He has been a professional translator and a private Arabic tutor in the UK for over 20 years.
is an experienced French teacher with a special interest in French Jewish history. Her classes at the LJCC have been very popular and she has built up a loyal following.
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