BBUK Virtual Meetings 2025
JDebra Brunner: "The New Middle East" (BBUK – 16/05/2025)
Debra Brunner, as CEO of The Together Plan, is leading the effort to use heritage to reconnect the post Soviet Jewish Community of Belarus with their identity, history and culture. She will tell us how this is helping to establish the community to a position of strength and self-sufficiency within the wider Jewish world
Jotam Confino: "The New Middle East" (Bureau – 15/04/2025)
Jotam Confino has been reporting on the Middle East since 2018 for a variety of media, including CBS News, BBC, The Telegraph, Ha’aretz, USA Today, Sky News, Times Radio, TalkTV, GB News, as well as Danish media. He has a BA in Inter-national Studies from Roskilde University and an M.A. in Security & Diplomacy from Tel Aviv University.
Rabbi Major Reuben Livingstone: "UK Defence and Israel - still a partnership?" (BBUK – 26/03/2025)
Rabbi Major Reuben Livingstone, Senior Chaplain to HM Jewish Armed Forces since 2012. Previously he was a barrister and a communal rabbi
Sacha Stawski “The Current Situation Facing Jews Worldwide and the Response of our European Organisations” (Bureau – 18/02/2025)
Sacha Stawski is president and editor-in-chief of Honestly Concerned an initiative founded in May 2002 to fight biased media coverage of the Middle East conflict and anti-Semitism. As president of “I like Israel” (ILI), he organises an annual Israel day worldwide. He is a member of the B’nai Brith Lodge in Frankfurt, the German representative for the Hostages and Missing Families Forum and a member of international networks combating anti-Semitism and the delegitimisation of Israel
Peter Bradley “The Last Train: a Family History of the Final Solution” (BBUK – 22/01/2025)
Peter Bradley, was the Labour MP for The Wrekin between 1997 and 2005. More recently, he co-founded and directed Speakers’ Corner Trust, a charity which promotes freedom of expression, open debate and active citizenship in the UK and developing democracies. He has written, usually on politics, for a wide range of publications, including The Times, the Guardian, the Independent, the New Statesman and the New European.
