Limmud Festival 2019 - Presenters

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Nathan Eddy

Nathan is deputy director of the Council of Christians and Jews. He has worked as a university chaplain and as a Christian minister, and recently earned a PhD in Hebrew Bible. He and his wife Clare, an Anglican vicar, live in London with two kids, two apple trees, and eight chickens.

Sunday 20:30
Sunday 20:30 Help! What’s a Congregationalist?
 
Monday 14:40
Monday 14:40 For goodness' sake: a new chapter in Jewish-Christian dialogue
 

Miriam Edelman

Miriam is an organisational psychologist. She has taught tikkun olam to rabbinic students at Leo Baeck College, and Judaism and ethics to teens at Wimbledon Synagogue. Miriam has been a Limmudnik since 1995; she’s currently your Treasurer. She is returning to Kansas after 25 years in London.

Monday 10:45
Monday 10:45 Limpets, martyrs, and other difficult volunteers
 

Deborah Eliezer

Debórah Eliezer, writer/performer of (dis)Place[d], co-artistic director of foolsFURY in San Francisco. An Arab Jew, her work disrupts assumptions about art, human values and society. She holds a BA from SFSU and a certificate in Sound, Voice, and Music Healing from CIIS.

Saturday 20:00
Saturday 20:00 Claiming your national narrative
 
Sunday 10:45
Sunday 10:45 My Story is a Bridge: The making of a new play
 
Monday 21:45
Monday 21:45 The Tea Salon: a delicious space for reflection
 
Tuesday 19:15
Tuesday 19:15 (dis)Place[d]: a true story of an Iraqi Jew, a play written and performed by Debórah Eliezer
 

Chloe Elton

Chloe is part of the Jewish start-up Jcal and will be working on events and organisational/customer support. She works on events and digital design in her spare time.

Monday 19:15
Monday 19:15 Launching Jcal - the new Jewish digital events platform
 
Wednesday 12:00
Wednesday 12:00 The future of Jewish social events
 

Karen Engel

Karen is a seasoned radio journalist and educator who has been active in Jewish affairs in Austria and Europe. She is now pursuing rabbinical studies at the Zacharias Frankel College in Potsdam/Berlin, Germany.

Tuesday 18:40
Tuesday 18:40 Sh'ema: listening as a Jewish practice
 

Marc Epstein

Marc Michael Epstein, professor on the Mattie M. Paschall (1899) & Norman Davis Chair in Religion and Visual Culture at Vassar College was Vassar’s first Director of Jewish Studies. He has written on various topics in visual and material culture produced by, for, and about Jews. Marc's participation has been partly funded by Eli and Muriel Abt.

Monday 09:30
Monday 09:30 Everything old is new again: Pre-Raphaelite field trip
 
Monday 17:20
Monday 17:20 Lighting the darkness: Chanukah, the visual, and Jewish learning
 
Monday 21:45
Monday 21:45 The inner life of Jewish art 1: Zipporah's pout (1 of 3)
 
Tuesday 09:30
Tuesday 09:30 The inner life of Jewish art 2: discomfiting Pharaoh (2 of 3)
 
Wednesday 17:20
Wednesday 17:20 The inner life of Jewish art 3: "Appropriate" and "misplaced" mourning (3 of 3)
 

Estelle Eugene

Estelle gave yoga sessions at Limmud for many years and co-founded The Jewish Yoga Network with Marcus Freed. She teaches Chair Yoga for a medical practice, a stroke group and U3A. Estelle worked for many years as administrator for the wonderful Yakar Educational Foundation when it was based in the UK.

Tuesday 17:20
Tuesday 17:20 Chair Yoga
 

_ European Union of Jewish Students

The European Union of Jewish Students is the umbrella organisation representing 165.000 young Jews across 35 countries. EUJS seeks to strengthen Jewish communities and European society through Jewish student activism and advocacy. The president is Bini Guttmann, from Vienna, Austria.

Sunday 14:40
Sunday 14:40 Passport to Europe
 
Tuesday 12:00
Tuesday 12:00 Jewish student activism in Europe
 
Tuesday 20:30
Tuesday 20:30 Empowering our future leaders
 
Wednesday 14:40
Wednesday 14:40 Europe spotlight: engaging young adults in Jewish life - tips from practitioners
 

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