An evening with Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein, Rabbi Jeremy Stavisky and Dr Nechumi Yaffe.

Join us for a candid conversation about Torah, Jewish values and democracy at a time of war in Israel. Three leading voices will reflect on how Torah and our tradition can help Israel live up to the founding vision of its Declaration of Independence: a state grounded in Jewish ethics that is just, safe and equal for all who live there.

This is a partnership event between the London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS), the Jewish Agency for Israel and New Israel Fund UK.

Hear from our speakers

Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein in the Times of Israel: Extremist settler violence must be stopped from the pulpit

Rabbi Jeremy Stavisky is featured on this podcast (in Hebrew), and you can watch a short dubbed clip here

Dr Nechumi Yaffe on the 18Forty podcast: “I hate the idea that we are being killed and need to kill”

Date: Thursday 9 July 2026
Time: Doors open 6:45 pm (talk begins 7:15 pm)
Venue: A North West London location, full details will be sent to ticket holders before the event.
Tickets: £5

Dr Nechumi Yaffe is a senior faculty member in the School of Social and Policy Studies at Tel Aviv University. Her research and teaching focus on ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) society in Israel. She is also the Director of the Tatya Institute, which promotes the social and economic inclusion of Haredi society in Israel through research, policy, and leadership. Raised in a Hasidic Haredi family, Dr Yaffe is the first Haredi woman to hold a faculty position at an Israeli university. She is also a leader and activist with groups inspired by Halacha and Jewish ethics to advocate for equality and human rights.

Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein is co-rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion, one of the leading religious Zionist yeshivot, in the settlement of Alon Shvut. He made aliyah from New York with his family in 1971, completed his hesder studies at Har Etzion alongside military service, and received semicha from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. He holds a degree in English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was appointed Rosh Yeshiva of Har Etzion in 2008.

Rabbi Yirmiyahu (Jeremy) Stavisky was principal of the Himmelfarb High School in Jerusalem for 23 years, a school that lost 11 graduates in the war following October 7th 2023 – a war which also cost the life of his son-in-law Yinon Fleishman. He studied at the hesder program at Yeshivat Har Etzion. He holds a B.A. in modern history from Columbia University and an M.A. in religion from Hebrew University.