Lindsay Simmonds

Lindsay Simmonds is a Research Fellow at the London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS) where she has lectured for over 20 years, focussing on women in Biblical narrative, the Talmud and Jewish Law. From 2021 to 2024 she led a 3-year project at the London School of Economics (LSE), UK, researching Israeli and Palestinian women peacebuilders.

Lindsay speaks regularly on peaceful shared society, interfaith relations and conflict negotiation. In 2024, she and Julie Siddiqi MBE were awarded a joint Honorary Doctorate in recognition of “contributions and commitment to promoting interfaith understanding and engagement”. Additionally, Lindsay is co-chair of her local Jewish-Moslem 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).

Lindsay studied for several years in Jerusalem at Nishmat Centre for Advanced Torah Study for Women and was a Bruria Scholar at Midreshet Lindenbaum; and is a graduate of 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 actively promotes orthodox Jewish women’s education, ritual participation and leadership.