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 and is also providing interim support to Cambridge University. 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, he broadcasts regularly on the BBC Radio 2 Zoe Ball show.

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, the chairman of the Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue and the lead for the United Synagogue on rabbinic careers issues. He also recently completed a Master’s degree in Leadership at the UCL Institute of Education.

Esther studied at the University of Birmingham where she developed her keen activism for youth issues and representation. This involvement spurred Esther on to take her voice further and she became the President of the Union of Jewish Students, 2019-2020.

Esther is currently a Board member of the World Union of Jewish Students and is one of the founding members of the Faiths United Youth Network, where she runs the Leadership & Democracy programs. She is the Social Media Executive for University Jewish Chaplaincy and a Trustee for the London Jewish Forum, focusing on Interfaith and Youth matters.

Esther studies at King’s College London, undertaking her MA in Conflict Resolution in Divided Societies.

Having recently graduated from the University of Nottingham with First Class in Psychology, Orli is now working for UJC this year as the Executive Team Associate.