RECORDING OF "Is Peace Possible?" with Ittay Flescher and Dr Lindsay Simmonds (Launch of "The holy and the broken")
RECORDING OF "Is Peace Possible?" with Ittay Flescher and Dr Lindsay Simmonds (Launch of "The holy and the broken")
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About the speakers
Ittay Flescher is the Education Director at Kids4Peace Jerusalem, an interfaith movement for Israelis and Palestinians, and the Jerusalem Correspondent for The Jewish Independent from Australia. In 2025, he published his first book with HarperCollins titled ‘The Holy and the Broken: A cry for Israeli-Palestinian peace from a land that must be shared.’
As an insightful analyst of Israeli politics, he has been published or featured on podcasts with Haaretz, The Age, ABC Religion and Ethics, Jerusalem Post, Fathom, and many other publications and newspapers. Before moving to Jerusalem in 2018, he was a high school educator in Melbourne for 15 years, teaching Australian History, Jewish Studies, and Religion and Society.
Married with two children, he loves his family, religion, country, and all the people around him deeply, especially when they inspire and challenge him to reflect on his actions and be a better human.
Dr Lindsay Simmonds is a Research Fellow at the London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS) where she has lectured, written, and convened courses for over 20 years, focusing on women in Biblical narrative, the Talmud, and Jewish Law. In 2024, she completed a three-year project at the Religion and Global Society Unit at the London School of Economics (LSE), UK, where she led research on Women of Faith and Peacebuilding, examining the work of Israeli and Palestinian women peacebuilders.
In addition to her academic research and lecturing, Lindsay speaks regularly on peaceful shared society, interfaith relations, and conflict negotiation. Lindsay is co-chair of her local Jewish-Muslim Women’s Network Nisa-Nashim, Vice-Chair of trustees for the Abraham Initiatives UK, and Jewish Scholar-in-Residence for the Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ). In 2024, she and Julie Siddiqi MBE were awarded a joint Honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University in recognition of their “contributions and commitment to promoting interfaith understanding and engagement”.
Lindsay studied for several years in Jerusalem: at Nishmat Centre for Advanced Torah Study for Women and as a Bruria Scholar at Midreshet Lindenbaum; she is also a graduate of the LSJS Susi Bradfield Women Educators’ Fellowships. Her PhD (Department of Gender, LSE) is entitled, ‘Generating Piety: Agency in the Lives of British Orthodox Jewish Women’, and she is involved in several UK projects promoting orthodox Jewish women’s Torah study, ritual participation, and leadership.