Limmud Festival 2019 - Presenters

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Daniel Cainer

Multi-award-winning songwriter, storyteller, performer, broadcaster. Currently touring his ever-evolving, Jewish-themed, one-person show around the world. Daniel has also written scores for TV and radio and his music has launched at least one car and a range of washing machines.

Monday 12:00
Monday 12:00 An audience with... Daniel Cainer and Rachel Creeger
 
Monday 20:30
Monday 20:30 Daniel Cainer: Jewish Chronicles
 
Tuesday 14:40
Tuesday 14:40 Daniel Cainer: more Jewish Chronicles
 
Tuesday 20:30
Tuesday 20:30 Those who can... teach: Celebrating teachers who make a difference
 

Miriam Camerini

Miriam was born in Jerusalem on Purim of 1983 and lives in Milan. A theatre director, actress, singer and writer, she studied at Pardes and is a rabbinical student at Har'El. Miriam is founder and director of Benhashmashot - Jewish Theatre and published a book on food and religion: Ricette e Precetti.

Sunday 20:30
Sunday 20:30 "Hadran", or theatre and the Rabbis: story of a complicated relationship
 
Monday 14:40
Monday 14:40 Mir blaybn do! We stay here: The messianic revolution of the Bund
 
Tuesday 10:45
Tuesday 10:45 What IS a rabbi? Is the (Orthodox) world ready for female rabbis?
 
Tuesday 20:30
Tuesday 20:30 Those who can... teach: Celebrating teachers who make a difference
 
Wednesday 10:45
Wednesday 10:45 Faith in food: Ricette e Precetti, on food and religion(s)
 

Michael Capek

Michael was, until recently, a practicing GP for 34 years. He currently advises the local clinical commissioning group and primary care mental health teams on matters of mental health. He is a practicing hypnotherapist and has degrees in Medicine, Health Psychology and mathematical subjects.

Saturday 21:15
Saturday 21:15 Advanced psychology using the Tenach as text book: Forgiveness
 
Tuesday 19:15
Tuesday 19:15 Advanced psychology using the tanach as text book: religious observance, is it CBT or OCD?
 

Ben Caplan

Ben Caplan is a songwriter and perfomer. His most recent project, Old Stock, is a music / theatre hybrid telling the story of Jewish refugees arriving in Canada in 1908. As an artist, Caplan is interested in exploring Jewish sounds and themes and blending them with contemporary influences.

Tuesday 12:00
Tuesday 12:00 "Jewface": is Falsettogate cultural sensitivity towards Jews in the arts, or just the oversensitivity of artistic Jews?
 
Tuesday 20:30
Tuesday 20:30 Ben Caplan in Concert!
 
Wednesday 13:20
Wednesday 13:20 Making "Old Stock: a Refugee Love Story"
 

Graham Carpenter

Graham is the UK Community Manager for OLAM & JDC Entwine, focusing on engagement in global Jewish responsibility. He has previously worked for Tzedek and the New Israel Fund, and he is a board member for Liberal Judaism and the World Union of Progressive Judaism.

Tuesday 12:00
Tuesday 12:00 The world is still our precious oyster, and it needs you
 
Thursday 12:00
Thursday 12:00 What makes our Jewish values… Jewish?
 

Paul Cartledge

Paul Cartledge is emeritus A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Cambridge University, and currently A.G. Leventis Senior Research Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of over 25 books, the most recent being the monograph Democracy: A Life.

Sunday 18:40
Sunday 18:40 Were the Spartans Jews - or vice versa?
 

Liz Cashdan

Liz Cashdan: poet, writing tutor, poetry editor of Jewish Renaissance. Liz's poems give voices to Jews in the past. She has published widely - most recently, Things of Substance: New and Selected Poems (Five Leaves 2013). She will lead a writing workshop and read her poems.

Tuesday 14:40
Tuesday 14:40 Writing the past: fact or fiction
 
Wednesday 14:40
Wednesday 14:40 Things of substance
 

Laura Cazes

Laura Cazés is the advisor on organisational development for the Central Welfare Board of Jews in Germany. She began her career as coordinator of the German-Israeli Volunteer Service. In 2017-2019, she served as vice-president of the European Union of Jewish Students.

Thursday 09:30
Thursday 09:30 Jewish life in Germany
 

Linda Cesana Benguigui

Linda is a 90's kid raised in Barcelona by a traditional Jewish family. She has been involved in Jewish activities from an early age, being a madricha, youth team lead and board member of her local community. Now in London, she is continuing her journey by launching a new website, The Jewish Guest.

Wednesday 13:20
Wednesday 13:20 Meet a young Catalan Jew who is innovating with London's Jewish events
 

Lauren Chaplin

After writing her master's thesis on Palestinian modes of resistance to Israeli Occupation, Lauren felt compelled to take action, and so joined Na'amod: British Jews Against the Occupation. She has enthusiastically taken p\art in meetings, protests, and educational events since.

Monday 09:30
Monday 09:30 Why Na'amod is talking about the elephant in the room
 

Chaim Chesler

Chaim Chesler co-founded Limmud FSU in 2006. He chairs its Executive Committee. As executive director of the Israel Public Council for Soviet Jewry, he worked in Israel and around the globe to raise awareness of the struggle of Soviet Jews.

Sunday 16:00
Sunday 16:00 Let my people know: Limmud FSU - the story of the first decade - book presentation
 

Rachael Chomer

Born and bred in North London she graduated from PPA drama school in Guildford in 2018. Previous roles include: Lady Montashoe (Timpson: The Musical) The Other Palace, London, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018, she WON the award for Acting from 'The Stage'.

Sunday 23:00
Sunday 23:00 Show tune karaoke
 

Ivan Ciment

Ivan has presented at four Limmuds and travelled to over sixty-five countries. He has been the host of globalthoughts.com for twenty years where the wide range of political, social and travel commentary tends to be more pragmatic than ideological. Ivan lives with his wife and two children in NYC.

Wednesday 13:20
Wednesday 13:20 American Jews, America and Israel - it'll never be as it was , and it's going to be a problem
 

Anne Clark

Anne was the founding director of the Jewish Resource Centre at the University of Roehampton, London. She has worked as a Jewish educator in the UK with Jews and non-Jews of all ages and is a UJIA Ashdown Fellow. Now semi-retired, Anne divides her time between Jerusalem and London.

Tuesday 18:40
Tuesday 18:40 Elections and referendums: To vote or not to vote - what does Torah say?
 

Sam Clifford

Professionally, Sam is the Director of Fundraising at the Jewish Museum London and has worked in a variety of roles in the Jewish community. Sam is honoured to be the Chair of the Mikveh Project UK working with a hugely talented and inspiring team to run this idea into a reality.

Monday 12:00
Monday 12:00 I wish I'd had that place to go
 

Alina Cohen

As a passionate creative, Alina has been involved in art and theatre for most of her life. She has a degree in performance design, is a member of a theatre group and loves to sew. She has been inspired by incredible presenters and is very excited to share her passions with all of you this year.

Friday 21:00
Friday 21:00 Improv session
 
Saturday 11:00
Saturday 11:00 Shabbat morning mindfulness
 

Barbara Cohen

Barbara lives in Weymouth, and trained as a yoga teacher, with the British Wheel of Yoga. She has been teaching yoga for 20 years and practicing meditation for 49 years. She identifies as a JuBu, a Jewish Buddhist, and is very interested in the intersection between Buddhism and Jewish mysticism.

Monday 18:40
Monday 18:40 Gentle yoga, coming back home to the body and the breath
 
Tuesday 17:20
Tuesday 17:20 Meditation, coming back home to the body and the breath.
 

Bernard Cohen

Bernie Cohen is Emeritus Professor of Computing at London City University. He has an abiding interest in the history of computing and maintains a small computing museum at home in Guildford. He is a congregant of North West Surrey Synagogue, widowed with two children and four grandchildren.

Monday 16:00
Monday 16:00 The problem with Easter
 

Evan Gary Cohen

Evan is 51 years old and married to Omri Rosenkrantz. He is international media advisor to the Prime Minister of Israel and linguistics lecturer at Tel Aviv University (phonetics). Evan founded and, until 2019 was the head of, Likud Pride, the LGBT caucus within the Likud Party in Israel.

Tuesday 17:20
Tuesday 17:20 Ech korim lecha? ("What's your name?")
 
Wednesday 09:30
Wednesday 09:30 Gay, Jewish, Israeli, conservative
 
Wednesday 17:20
Wednesday 17:20 In conversation: the Israeli Prime Minister's international media adviser
 

Hayden Cohen

Hayden is a UK based writer, performer amd educator. He produces and hosts 'The Bagel – A Jewish Magazine Podcast' and has taken three one man shows to the Edinburgh Fringe. He is currently putting the finishing touches to his first novel and next show – ‘Camp Mazel: Where Everyday you get Lucky.’

Sunday 19:15
Sunday 19:15 The Bagel Podcast presents: Talmud for Schmeryls
 
Monday 23:00
Monday 23:00 Late night laughs at Limmud!
 
Tuesday 10:45
Tuesday 10:45 The Bagel Podcast presents Bagel Broigus: Gender & Judaism - what does the future hold?
 
Tuesday 21:45
Tuesday 21:45 Camp Mazel: where every day you get lucky
 
Wednesday 12:00
Wednesday 12:00 An audience with... Rachel Creeger and Hayden Cohen
 
Wednesday 19:15
Wednesday 19:15 It’s the Jewification game!
 

Lawrence Cohen

Having reached three score and ten, Lawrence has acquired much knowledge but little wisdom. Regretfully, there isn't a lot anyone could usefully learn. Nevertheless, there are one or two enthusiasms which he would like to share. This year it's how to teach Hebrew reading.

Tuesday 10:45
Tuesday 10:45 Tsadi is for Tsooras!
 

Lucy Cohen

Lucy is the youth director of Noam Masorti. She has previously worked in education, community development and international development the UK, India and Ghana with Tzedek and JDC Entwine. It was whilst living in Mumbai, India that Lucy took up bellydancing, which she now teaches in the UK.

Wednesday 18:40
Wednesday 18:40 Introduction to bellydance
 

Naomi Cohen

Naomi recently graduated from the Susi Bradfield course. As an engineer she is interested in the interplay between halacha and technology. Naomi is community liaison co-ordinator for Camp Simcha, a charity which supports families struggling with serious childhood illness across the Jewish community.

Wednesday 19:15
Wednesday 19:15 Self-driving cars and unavoidable collisions: who would you kill?
 

Richard Cohen

Richard has been a barrister, solicitor, part time historian and a non commercial actor. He gives talks on his great-uncle Jack Cohen, founder of Tesco, and Churchill and the Jews. Richard is a member of the Board of Deputies and Chair of the Jewish Historical Society of England, Essex Branch.

Thursday 10:45
Thursday 10:45 Churchill and the Jews
 
Thursday 12:00
Thursday 12:00 Jack Cohen and one hundred years of Tesco
 

Henry Cohn

Currently a historian and lecturer, Henry formerly taught for 43 years at Glasgow, Leicester and Warwick universities. A member of Alyth Reform and Birmingham Progressive synagogue communities, he made Aliyah in 2014 to the North London ghetto.

Sunday 16:00
Sunday 16:00 The Jews of Jamaica
 

_ Community Security Trust

CST is Community Security Trust, a charity that protects British Jews from terrorism, antisemitism and anti-Jewish extremism. CST received charitable status in 1994 and is recognised by the police and government as a unique model of best practice.

Monday 12:00
Monday 12:00 The body and mind self defence programme (for adults)
 
Tuesday 10:45
Tuesday 10:45 The body and mind self defence programme (for adults)
 

Ann Conway-Jones

Ann is a scholar and popular writer and speaker on early and contemporary Jewish–Christian relations. She is an honorary research fellow at Birmingham University, associate tutor at The Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, and Chair of Birmingham CCJ.

Monday 14:40
Monday 14:40 For goodness' sake: a new chapter in Jewish-Christian dialogue
 

Zaki Cooper

Zaki is a consultant who helps leaders with philanthropy and communications. He has worked for the Chief Rabbi, Buckingham Palace and a range of business and civic leaders. He is a trustee of the Council of Christians and Jews and Co-Chair of the Indian Jewish Association.

Sunday 13:20
Sunday 13:20 Pivoting towards Asia? Jews and Asia - past, present and future
 

_ Council of Christians and Jews

The Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ) is the leading nationwide forum for Christian-Jewish engagement. With 29 UK branches, CCJ works in Education, Dialogue and Social Action through programmes addressing: Holocaust education, antisemitism, student interfaith, Israel-Palestine and social justice.

Sunday 20:30
Sunday 20:30 Help! What’s a Congregationalist?
 
Monday 12:00
Monday 12:00 Why do Christians care about Israel/Palestine and what are they doing to support Christians in the wider Middle East
 
Monday 14:40
Monday 14:40 For goodness' sake: a new chapter in Jewish-Christian dialogue
 
Monday 16:00
Monday 16:00 The Church response to the Holocaust: British Christian army chaplains and the liberation of Bergen-Belsen
 
Tuesday 14:40
Tuesday 14:40 Seven ponies, one old cinema and a council estate in Toxteth: an interactive workshop on the creative ways you can support your local refugee community.
 

Esther Craven

Esther is the Youth & Student Worker at Yachad, the pro-Israel pro-peace movement in the UK. Esther is a University of Manchester graduate, where she helped form progressive Jewish spaces. Back in London, she is a member of NSN Synagogue and is involved with the community organisation, Laviot.

Tuesday 10:45
Tuesday 10:45 God she’s hot: where’s the mechitza?
 
Tuesday 12:00
Tuesday 12:00 Unsettling
 
Tuesday 17:20
Tuesday 17:20 A free nation in the land? Freedom of speech in Israel today
 
Wednesday 13:20
Wednesday 13:20 House building and demolitions in the occupied territories
 

Mark Creeger

Currently working in Corporate Ethics and Compliance software, Mark has taught Jewish education and IT at multiple levels. A regular speaker and davener at Barnet Synagogue, teaching Barmitzvah for 33 years, he is married to fabulous comedian Rachel Creeger, with whom he shares two wonderful boys.

Monday 13:20
Monday 13:20 The shekel and the shofar: billion dollar fines and whistle-blowing lines
 
Tuesday 09:30
Tuesday 09:30 American big business and the Holocaust: IBM, Ford, Rockefeller and Carnegie
 
Wednesday 13:20
Wednesday 13:20 The star-spangled swastika: how Nazi science and ideology shaped the American future
 

Rachel Creeger

An award winning stand up comedian, director and writer, Rachel’s show “It’s No Job For A Nice Jewish Girl” won Best Comedy at Greater Manchester Fringe 2017, was an Edinburgh Festival sell out, toured the UK and Israel. New show “Hinayni!” achieved 4* and 5* reviews at the Fringe and is now on tour.

Monday 12:00
Monday 12:00 An audience with... Daniel Cainer and Rachel Creeger
 
Monday 19:15
Monday 19:15 Where is my beshert? Speed dating for 35-50
 
Monday 23:00
Monday 23:00 Late night laughs at Limmud!
 
Tuesday 14:40
Tuesday 14:40 An audience with... Lynn Ruth Miller and Rachel Creeger
 
Tuesday 20:30
Tuesday 20:30 Those who can... teach: Celebrating teachers who make a difference
 
Wednesday 12:00
Wednesday 12:00 An audience with... Rachel Creeger and Hayden Cohen
 

Michael Crook

Michael graduated from Cambridge University in 1969, and qualified as a chartered surveyor. He retired in 2016, and since then he has become actively involved in the Sussex branch of the JHSE. He has recently researched the Brighton & Hove Jewish Community around the time of the Great War.

Wednesday 12:00
Wednesday 12:00 The Brighton & Hove Jewish Community 1910 - 1920: the effects of the Great War on a provincial community
 

Ben Crowne

Ben lives, teaches and serially volunteers in London’s Jewish community. He is a trustee or senior advisor at a number of organisations, including JW3, the Nashira partnership minyan, and the counter-extremism charity Nahamu. Ben chaired Limmud Conference 2016, and represents Limmud at the Board of Deputies.

Sunday 16:00
Sunday 16:00 Innovation on both sides of the Pond: a panel discussion and live podcast recording
 
Tuesday 20:30
Tuesday 20:30 Those who can... teach: Celebrating teachers who make a difference
 
Wednesday 16:00
Wednesday 16:00 The Year in Scandal
 
Wednesday 19:15
Wednesday 19:15 It’s the Jewification game!
 

Natalia Czarkowska

Natalia Czarkowska is a cultural activist and freelance journalist from Warsaw, Poland. She creates heritage programs for the Taube Center for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Poland Foundation and was an educator for March of the Living UK. Natalia is one of the co-directors of the FestivALT 2019.

Sunday 10:45
Sunday 10:45 Radical Jewish Poland (1 of 2)
 
Tuesday 20:30
Tuesday 20:30 Courting controversy: activist art in Poland (2 of 2)
 
Wednesday 14:40
Wednesday 14:40 Europe spotlight: engaging young adults in Jewish life - tips from practitioners
 

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