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Jonathan Pearlman

Jonathan Pearlman is the foreign affairs and defence Correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.  He joined the Herald in 2002 and has worked as an investigative and political reporter. He has also reported from the Middle East and Afghanistan and covered the 2006 Lebanon war. He is currently based in the newspaper’s federal parliament bureau in Canberra.

Cygal Pellach

Cygal Pellach is a Limmud junkie who has attended every Limmud-Oz and was the coordinator of Limmud-Oz 2007. In December 2007 she attended Limmud UK for the first time and since then she has been looking for the kind donor who will send her back every year. In her non-Limmud time, Cygal is an urban planner working for a consultancy in Melbourne.

Peta Jones Pellach

BA (UNSW), Masters in International Affairs (Columbia University, NY), Jerusalem Fellow, Peta is Education Director of Encounters@Shalom. A Melton educator since 1993 and a founder of Limmud-Oz, she is committed to Jewish education. She also loves Israeli dancing and Scrabble and her interfaith work has enabled her to represent Australia in Indonesia and the Philippines.

Don Perlgut

Don Perlgut has been the film critic for the 'Australian Jewish News' for more than 20 years and is a member of the Film Critics Circle of Australia. He is currently completing a PhD in Media at Macquarie University and is the CEO of the Rural Health Education Foundation.

Sandra Braude Pilowski

Sandra Braude Pilowsky (pen-name: Sandra Lee Braude) is a writer, storyteller and educator. She has published a literary journal, 'herStoriA'. Her books include 'Mpho's Search', 'Pictures of a Strange Town: A Story of the Terezin Ghetto' and 'Windswept Plains'. She migrated to Australia from South Africa in 2000.

Channa Pinchasi

Channa Pinchasi is a doctoral student in Gender Studies at Bar Ilan University. Her research focuses on gender aspects of Midrash. Channa is a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and facilitates a feminist Bait-Midrash (Isha el Achota) at Herzog Center Ein-Zurin. She resides in Efrat and is an active member of Kolech, a feminist Orthodox organisation. Channa has four children.

Ran Porat

Ran is a researcher of immigration history  and is writing a doctorate at Monash University on the Israeli Diaspora in Australia. He is also a journalist working as a Maariv correspondent in Melbourne, and an international relations and security analyst specializing in Intelligence and Arms Control.