About JLEC

UJIA’s Jewish Life Education Centre is the British Jewish community’s leading centre for youth work and informal Jewish education. It works in partnership with the Jewish Agency for Israel to serve the community’s youth and student movements, clubs, and Jewish societies in mainstream schools, offering their staff and leaders training, support, mentoring, guidance and materials in order to help them best achieve their goals.

For more information, or to request advice, training, or resources, please contact the staff at the centre by clicking on their names below;

Shelley Marsh Director of Informal Jewish Education

Eric Finestone Senior Advisor

Rena Arbel Manchester Shlicha (Jewish Agency Emissary)

David Brown Education & Leadership Development

Neil Levitan UJIA JAMS Co-ordinator

Adit Orlev Education & Leadership Development

Naomi Russell Social Welfare Informal Educator

Candice Smith Centre Administrator and Resource Manager