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Esther Takac

Esther is a psychologist who specialises in child and family assessment and therapy. She is also an author. Her recent book, 'Genesis - the Book With Seventy Faces', won the 2008 National Jewish Book Award (Jewish Family Literature category) and is also a Notable Book for All Ages (2009 Sydney Taylor Book Awards). Her first book, 'Loni and the Moon', has been on the Victorian Premier's Reading List for the past five years.

Colin Tatz

Colin Tatz is a Director of the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He teaches Genocide Studies at the Australian National University and courses on antisemitism for the Melton program.

Geoffrey Tofler

Geoff is a cardiologist whose medical research areas include the link between psychological factors and heart disease. He has an interest in biblical references to the heart and their meaning.

Orna Triguboff

Orna is a Kabbalah scholar (PhD USYD), Spiritual Director of Neshama Life, author of a guided relaxation and meditation CD, 'Kabbalah Dreaming', and a meditation teacher taught by Acharya Upendra Roy. She is training to be a rabbi with the Jewish Renewal movement.

Avraham Arieh Trugman

Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman has been involved in Jewish education for over 30 years. He is Director of Ohr Chadash, which runs programs for English-speaking students in Israel. Rabbi Trugman is the author of five books: 'Seeds and Sparks', 'The Mystical Power of Music', 'The Mystical Meaning of Dreams', 'The Mystical Meaning of Light' and 'Return Again: The Dynamics of Reincarnation'. He lectures extensively worldwide.

Rachel Trugman

Rachel Trugman is co-director of Ohr Chadash - New Horizons in Jewish Experience. She is also a family therapist specialising in trauma release. She has worked with victims of terror and domestic violence. She is the author and illustrator of 'Tales of the Talmud', a colouring book based on stories explained by Rebbe Nachman of Breslev.

Bernie Tuch

Bernard Tuch is an Orthodox Jew and an endocrinologist and runs a research unit developing cell therapies for diabetes. One strategy involves the human embryonic stem cell. He is the Director of the NSW Stem Cell Network as well as being on the Committee of the Australasian Society for Stem Cell Research.

Keren Tuch

Keren works as a physiotherapist in between travel expeditions around the globe.

Paul Turner

Paul used to teach regularly at Limmud in the UK, where he was also on the Limmud Executive and a previous conference Chair. Now a Sydney resident, he has helped organise Limmud-Oz and is an active member of Or Chadash. In his spare time, he works at the Children's Hospital, Westmead.