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Ari Lander

Ari Lander is a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales and a resident playwright at the Griffin Theatre. An ex-member of B'nei Akiva, Ari's PhD is a history of the Zionist youth movements in Australia. He also tutors and lectures at UNSW in courses on Zionism, Southeast Asia and world history. Ari studied at NIDA's Playwriting Studio and his plays 'Broken Dreams' and 'Ezekiel's Song' were presented at Griffin Searchlight in 2005 and at Theatre@Risk's Festival of New Worksin 2007 respectively. In 2008, Ari won the Max Afford Award for 'Revolution', which was presented at the 2008 National Play Festival in Hobart.

Magdalena Langer 

I am a sculptress and I use clay for it's spiritual contents which allow for the distinctive form to express what is inherent in clay. My work portrays arresting images as I mould the tears that feel during the creation of the pieces. Nevertheless, they can also be viewed as opposing an attempt to reflect the figures and feeling through motion and expression for which I make no apology. I have a sculpture at Yad Vashem called "Mother and Child" which is a permanent exhibition.

Jeremy Lawrence

Rabbi Lawrence is Chief Minister of The Great Synagogue. He has a law degree from Oxford University. Registrar on the Sydney Beth Din and a founder of the new Jewish Arbitration and Mediation Service. Keen on ethical, medical and environmental issues. Enjoys Gilbert & Sullivan, magic and skydiving. Married, and has four children and an adopted orang utan.

Ilan Lemberg 

Ilan Lemberg was born in Tel Aviv and studied art at Avni School of Art. He continued his studies in architecture and design in Milan and London, where he also lectured, painted and exhibited. In 1988 he emigrated to Sydney, where he pursues a career in art and design.

Brian Levitan

Brian Levitan has been involved in adult education for over 20 years, in synagogues and a number of adult education programs, including Melton and Mosaic, and has presented at every Limmud-Oz since its inception. He is a physicist and engineer by training and runs a consultancy in Business Improvement, with many global corporate clients.

Judy Levitan

Judith is currently a solicitor and community legal education coordinator at Women's Legal Services NSW. She previously worked as a solicitor in private practice, specialising in the areas of employment law and discrimination. In 2001 she presented her findings on community attitudes to domestic violence in the Orthodox Jewish community in Sydney at the International Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Conference.

Gad Levy

Gad is the founder of Life in Motion, a holistic academy for internal-energy arts, based in Sydney. He started his practice in Zen meditation, Taiu Chi and Kung Fu in 1982 in Jerusalem. Over the past 27 years Gad has provided holistic-care classes and seminars around the world, promoting self-healing and spiritual growth, inspiration and motivation through the internal-energy arts.

Avi Lewin 

Avi Lewin is a 30-year-old Information Security professional from Brisbane. He is a self-confessed movie nerd. His (first) film, 'Left Unspoken', was a finalist at Tropfest 2009.

Mark Lewkovitz

Mark is a 30 year old investment banker. He sits on the board of the Shalom Institute with a particular focus on young adult programs. Past Jewish communal involvement includes roles with Hineni youth movement, NSW Friends of Magen David Adom, and JCA's Young Adult Advisory Board.

Michelle Lowbeer

Michelle Lowbeer started the '2 of a Kind' Jewish Australian dating website back when the Internet was in its infancy. She also founded 'Just Jalsa', salsa dancing classes for Sydney's Jewish community. Michelle is now happily married to a nice Jewish bloke (Ilan), with a little girl, Katie, and is director of Delta Wealth, a financial planning company.

Nitza Lowenstein 

Nitza Lowenstein has been producing and broadcasting documentaries, news bulletins and current affairs segments in Hebrew and in English for SBS since 1988. She is also the Australian Kol Israel (Radio Israel) reporter and the foreign correspondent for the Hebrew daily 'Yedioth Ahronoth'. Nitza is an official Hebrew-English court interpreter and translator and a civil marriage celebrant.