LSJS Core Faculty     Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is the President of LSJS and Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth.  He has become an outstanding moral authority of our time.  he is also widely acknowledged internationally as one of the leading exponents of Judaism today.  A gifted communicator, he is a regular contributor to radio, television and the national press.  The Chief Rabbi is a prolific, award-winning author of over twenty books.  The Chief Rabbi is also a visiting Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King's.  Rabbi Sacks was previously Principal of Jew's College.  Educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he pursued postgraduate studies at New College, Oxford and King's College, London.
Rabbi Dr Abraham Levy OBE is Deputy President of LSJS.  Rabbi Levy is the Spiritual Head of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation. Born in Gibraltar, he gained his semicha from Jews’ College and his PhD from the University of London. He is the Founder and Honorary Principal of Naima Jewish Primary School; co-author of publications on Sephardic history and culture; and patron to many organisations including Beit Morasha, Norwood Child Care and the Centre for Jewish-Christian relations. In 2004 Rabbi Levy was awarded the OBE for services to interfaith co-operation.
Dr Raphael Zarum is Chief Executive and Head of Faculty. He is a graduate of the Jerusalem Fellows Programme at the Mandel Leadership Institute in Israel and has an MA in Adult Education from the Institute of Education in London. Raphael is the creator of the Torah L’Am crash course and is the author of Torat Hadracha and The Jampacked Bible. He led the faculty of the Florence Melton Adult Mini School UK while directing the Text and Values project at UJIA. Raphael also has a PhD in theoretical physics from King’s College London. He is a sought-after Jewish educator in the UK and teaches regularly at international Jewish conferences in Israel, the USA and Europe.
Dr Tamra Wright is Director of Academic Studies at LSJS. She is the author of The Twilight of Jewish Philosophy: Emmanuel Levinas’s Ethical Hermeneutics and specialises in contemporary Jewish thought. She is a Visiting Lecturer at King’s College London and Cambridge University and has taught at the London School of Economics and the University of Essex. She joined the academic staff of LSJS (then Jews’ College) in 1995 and was subsequently appointed to the Bradfield Lectureship in Jewish Studies. Dr Wright is also involved in adult Jewish education, having lectured extensively in the UK and abroad. She developed and leads the LSJS Susi Bradfield Women Educators’ Fellowships.   Rabbi Natan Levy is LSJS's Head of Jewish Responsibility Unit.  He is the rabbi of Shenley United Synagogue. He grew up in Berkeley,California, and earned a BA in Comparative Religion at Pomona College. After University he spent a year with AmeriCorps working at a horse ranch with disadvantaged youth. Rabbi Levy received rabbinical ordination under the auspices of R. Chaim Brovender and R. Shlomo Riskin at Yeshivat Hamivtar in Efrat. From 2005 to 2008 he served as the Jewish Campus Chaplain for the Southwest of England and Wales. In 2009 he was appointed as the Environmental Liaison to the Chief Rabbi’s Office. Rabbi Levy lives with his wife, Ariella, and their three young children in Shenley village.
Maureen Kendler is  Head of Educational Programming at LSJS. She has a degree in English Literature from the University of Sussex and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education. She is an Ashdown Fellow and was named Educator of the Year 2004 by the London Jewish Cultural Centre.  Maureen taught English at North London Collegiate School and has held posts as the Education Officer of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality, Head of Jewish Literacy at UJIA and senior faculty member of the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School. Maureen broadcasts regularly for BBC Radio.
Rabbi Harvey Belovski is an LSJS Teaching Fellow and rabbi of the Golders Green Synagogue.  He studied at the Gateshead Yeshivah, where he gained semichah, and at the Gateshead Beis HaTalmud Kollel. He lectures and counsels widely, contributes frequently to the Jewish Chronicle, and has authored two books. He is currently a postgraduate research student in the Department of Religious Studies at Birkbeck College, where he is writing a PhD dissertation on the thought of the Chassidic school of Sochaczew.
Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz is an LSJS Teaching Fellow.  She studied archaeology at Cambridge and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and lived in Israel for seventeen years. She has taught and developed courses at LSJS since 2004 and teaches regularly in many synagogues.  She edits books for the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, runs the Chidushim study programme for teenage girls and writes articles and book reviews for the Jewish Chronicle.  Lindsey is a graduate of the LSJS Susi Bradfield Women Educators’ Programme.
Dr Simon Cooper is a Teaching Fellow at LSJS.  He lectures all over the Jewish community on contemporary Jewish thought, and on medieval and modern Jewish philosophy. Simon is editorial assistant of the Journal of Jewish Studies and leads Jewish educational tours to Israel and Europe. He has a PHD from the Department of Theology & Religious Studies at King's College London and specialises in contemporary Jewish thought.
Adam Taub  is a Teaching Fellow at LSJS.  Adam co-wrote the LSJS Tanach and created the LSJS Chazal Course studying under the guidance of Rabbi Dr Irving Jacobs, a former Principal of Jews’ College. Adam has been a teacher at the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School and is an active communal leader.         Michael Pollak is Head of Professional Studies  at LSJS and a UJIA Fellow.  A graduate of Hevron Yeshiva in Jerusalem, he subsequently studied Philosophy at the LSE and then held a series of high-profile communal positions.  He gives a daf yomi shiur in the Ner Yisrael community and is an educational consultant for the UJIA Jewish Life Education Centre.
Rabbi Dr Michael J Harris is a Research Fellow at LSJS. He gained his PhD in philosophy at SOAS, University of London. His interests include the ethics and philosophy of religion. His first book Divine Command Ethics: Jewish and Christian Perspectives was published by Routledge Curzon in 2003. Dr Harris is Rabbi of the Hampstead Synagogue and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.
Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer is a research fellow at LSJS and is Rabbi of Borehamwood and Elstree Synagogue. He has a PhD in Hebrew and Jewish Studies from the University College London. His academic interests include the study of Hasidism, the History of Jewish Education and Applied Jewish Ethics.
Jo Bruce is the LSJS Head of Women's Programmes & Events.   Jo studied at the advanced women's seminaries of She'arim and Matan and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has a BA in Economics and Politics and is a recent graduate of the UJIA Ashdown Fellowship programme.        Daphna Witztum is Head of Hebrew Studies.   She lectures at SOAS and has lectured at Oxford University and the Hebrew University.  Daphna has degrees in both Hebrew Language and Social Work from the Hebrew University.  She was born in Nahalal, Israel's first moshav, established in 1921.  Enabling students to appreciate and master the Hebrew language is her passion.   Nic Abery is a Teaching Fellow at LSJS.  A graduate of Cambridge Unviersity and an accomplished teacher, she is now focusing on creating innovative visaul thinking programmes for schools and families.   Eve Grubin is LSJS's new Poet-in-Residence.  Her book of poems, Morning Prayer, was published by the Sheep Meadow Press. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in many literary journals and magazines, including The American Poetry Review, The New Republic and Agenda.  She now teaches at NYU in London and the Poetry School.  She was an Arts Fellow at the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education and also studied at Midreshet Rachel V'Chaya College for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem.   Guest Lecturers