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Darren Isenberg

Darren Isenberg has spent the past 14 years making people feel happy at corporate events, whether through his humorous MC’ing, his tailor-made team-building activities, his captivating corporate training … or by keeping his distance. He has worked all over Australia and the Asia / Pacific region and is experienced in TV and radio, owning one of each. He is also extremely polite and modest … and would like to thank you for reading about him … but wishes he had more interesting things to include in this paragraph.

Fatma Isir

A community worker who has worked with the new and emerging Somali communities in Australia for the past 15 years.

Kim Jacobs

Kim Jacobs is the founder and  Managing Director of Inteq Limited, a specialist corporate, strategic and financial advisory house. Kim has a law degree and a Masters of Business Administration and has held a number of private and public company directorships as well as serving in a voluntary capacity on the boards of community organisations, including his current position as the President of the Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce (NSW Division), which he has held for the past seven years.

Nathan Jacobs

Nathan is a medical student, massage therapist and yoga teacher, with a background in psychology. As founding president of HolisticSoc - Australia's first holistic-medicine society for students - Nathan is a strong advocate of preventive medicine and hopes to inspire people to attain healthy, happy and meaningful lives.

Gerry Jacobson

Gerry Jacobson is a poet and a dancer. He facilitates deep-ecology practices - 'The Work That Reconnects' - and convenes a Jewish meditation group in Canberra.

Eddie Jaku

I am a precision engineer, making surgical instruments, and I was born and educated in Germany. In 1938, at Kristallnacht, I went to my first concentration camp, Buchenwald. In 1939 I went illegally to Belgium and France. Eventually I was deported to Auschwitz. In 1945 I went back to Belgium, where I married. In 1950 I came to Australia with a wife and one son.

 

Nita Jawary

Nita Jawary is a past lecturer in Communication, an artist and a writer. She has written and painted extensively on her Judeo-Babylonian background, most recently in her illutrated multimedia work called The Perpetual Table V1. Her art reflects a sense of wonder at the beauty of life, a sadness for its passing and a love for the Creator of both.

Jeremy Jones

AIJAC's Director of International and Community Affairs; former president of ECAJ; Member, Order of Australia; long-time anti-racist and interfaith activist; winner 2007 Australian Human Rights Medal; member of key international Jewish bodies dealing with antisemitism, inter-religious dialogue, global challenges; speaker at every Limmud-Oz, covering more than twenty different topics.