HEAD OFFICE STAFF

Sophie Dunoff is Chief Executive Officer for University Jewish Chaplaincy, the premier Jewish organisation on campuses across the UK working with Jewish students and universities to enhance the Jewish student experience and safeguard Jewish university life. She manages UJC’s 19 Rabbis and Rabbinic couples and leads operations across the organisation. She previously served as public and parliamentary affairs officer for the Board of Deputies of British Jews, focusing on concerns relating to the Jewish community including such issues as shechita and antisemitism and has a wealth of experience working and volunteering within the UK Jewish community.  Sophie graduated in Sociology with first-class honours from City University, London.  She has one daughter and is a devoted subscriber to Netflix.

Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski, senior consultant of the independent Aitzah Ltd., provides services to UJC as chief strategist and rabbinic head. He enhances the strategic vision and leadership of UJC. Emeritus rabbi of Golders Green Synagogue, he has semichah – ordination – from Gateshead Yeshiva and holds degrees in mathematics (MA – Oxford), organisational psychology (MSc – City University, London) and hermeneutics (PhD – University of London). He is the rav of Kisharon Langdon and a faculty member of the Senior Faith in Leadership Programme. Author of or contributor to several books and hundreds of articles and has broadcast extensively on the BBC.

Michali graduated from City, University of London with a degree in Biomedical Engineering, then joined Chaplaincy as the Operations and Finance Executive. After a break to complete a Master’s degree at UCL in Advanced Biomedical Imaging, she returned to Chaplaincy and now works as our Operations Manager.

Aliza graduated from City, University of London with a first class honours in Mathematics. After spending a couple of years in Israel as a madricha and logistics coordinator at a Jerusalem seminary, Aliza returned to London and joined Chaplaincy in February 2020.

An experienced and admired rabbinic leader, Rabbi Liss is rabbi of Highgate Synagogue, Director of Rabbinics for the United Synagogue and former chairman of its Rabbinical Council. He also recently completed a Master’s degree in Leadership at the UCL Institute of Education.

Esther graduated from King's College London with a Master degree in Conflict Resolution in Divided Societies. She has been very involved in student and youth activism in the UK and internationally and is now working for University Jewish Chaplaincy as their Social Media Executive.