Limmud Festival 2019 - Presenters

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Jeremy Tabick

Jeremy teaches at Hadar and is pursuing a PhD in Talmud from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He has produced educational resources for a variety of organisations, including: Limmud, Hadar, and Project Zug, Hadar's online chavruta learning platform. He lives in New York with his wife and toddler.

Sunday 19:15
Sunday 19:15 Redemption or recognition? The relationship between parents and their firstborn
 
Monday 09:30
Monday 09:30 Morning Seder - Advanced Level (1 of 4)
 
Monday 16:00
Monday 16:00 In defence of "eye for an eye"
 
Tuesday 09:30
Tuesday 09:30 Morning Seder - Advanced Level (2 of 4)
 
Tuesday 21:45
Tuesday 21:45 Hearing God’s voice today
 
Wednesday 09:30
Wednesday 09:30 Morning Seder - Advanced Level (3 of 4)
 
Wednesday 13:20
Wednesday 13:20 When we don’t respect our leaders
 
Thursday 09:30
Thursday 09:30 Morning Seder - Advanced Level (4 of 4)
 

Pnina Tamano-Shata

Pnina Tamano-Shata is an Israeli attorney, social activist and former journalist. She is currently MK for "Yesh Atid" political party. Pnina was born in 1981 in the village of Wuzaba in Ethiopia. At age three she made Aliya to Israel through Sudan as part of Operation Moses.

Monday 20:30
Monday 20:30 Israel's challenges in the international arena of 2020
 
Tuesday 16:00
Tuesday 16:00 The epic journey from Ethiopia to the Knesset
 
Wednesday 17:20
Wednesday 17:20 Present and future challenges of Israeli society
 

Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz

Lindsey studied at Cambridge & the Hebrew University and completed a PhD at UCL on the religious lives of Orthodox women (book version coming out in in 2020!). She's a Teaching Fellow at LSJS, has lectured at Cambridge & King's College London and edits for the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization.

Monday 09:30
Monday 09:30 Morning Seder - Beginner Level (1 of 4)
 
Monday 13:20
Monday 13:20 Orthodox women rabbis? The state of play and how we got here
 
Tuesday 09:30
Tuesday 09:30 Morning Seder - Beginner Level (2 of 4)
 
Tuesday 17:20
Tuesday 17:20 Red threads, amulets, and chewing buttons: are modern Jewish women practising magic?
 
Tuesday 20:30
Tuesday 20:30 Those who can... teach: Celebrating teachers who make a difference
 
Wednesday 09:30
Wednesday 09:30 Morning Seder - Beginner Level (3 of 4)
 
Wednesday 19:15
Wednesday 19:15 The secret life of Enoch
 
Thursday 09:30
Thursday 09:30 Morning Seder - Beginner Level (4 of 4)
 

Brian Teeman

With a background in RSY-Netzer and community activism, Brian has never been slow to express an opinion. He has been a leading internet pioneer for over 20 years. In 2019 alone Brian spoke in twelve different countries on a wide range of topics to audiences as small as ten and as large as 5,000.

Wednesday 13:20
Wednesday 13:20 A digital first synagogue
 

Bruce Thompson

Bruce has been actively engaged in promoting good relations between Christians and Jews for more than 20 years. He is outspoken against antisemitism and has authored Echoes of Contempt - a history of Judeophobia in the Christian Church. He is a co-founder of Methodist Friends of Judaism.

Monday 10:45
Monday 10:45 A rabbi and a minister walk into a bar - stories, faith & fun
 

Rob Thompson

Rob Thompson is Senior Programme Manager at the Council of Christians and Jews where he leads CCJ’s Holocaust Education and other Christian educational programmes, including work to combat antisemitism. Rob is a Local Preacher in the Methodist Church and has an MA in Jewish History and Culture.

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
 

Yael Tischler

Yael Tischler is a kohenet (Hebrew Priestess), ritual-weaver, Jewish educator and song leader. She is the co-founder of Yelala, a constellation of work that celebrates Earth-centred, feminist Jewish spirituality and reclaims the practices of our women/femme and folk ancestors. You might also have encountered her with her professional Limmud hat, as this year's Presenter Care administrator.

Sunday 20:30
Sunday 20:30 Diving deep into devotional chant
 

Luz Toff

Luz is a lifelong Limmudnik. Having had the opportunity to learn and teach in a variety of Jewish educational settings, she is passionate about making Jewish learning and practice meaningful, relevant and accessible.

Sunday 12:00
Sunday 12:00 Creativity, text and what next?
 
Monday 16:00
Monday 16:00 Come study with us: intergenerational Jewish learning
 

Penelope Toff

Penelope Toff is a doctor who now works as a hypnotherapist and coach. She is passionate about freeing people from whatever is holding them back from a life and work they love. She is a long-time Limmudnik and a former Chair of the Limmud Conference UK Arts and Culture programme.

Sunday 13:20
Sunday 13:20 Stuck in the middle? Finding work you love at any age
 

Francis Treuherz

Francis has been in private and NHS practice since 1984. He sees patients of all ages, at home in London NW2 and in Letchworth SG6. He is a Board member of the Society of Homeopaths. He teaches, writes, and works on the Homeopathic Helpline. He is a member of the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue, London.

Tuesday 13:20
Tuesday 13:20 Homeopathy in Jewish life & sources (1 of 2)
 
Thursday 10:45
Thursday 10:45 Homeopathy in Jewish life & sources (2 of 2)
 

Isaac Treuherz

Isaac is a musician, liturgy-nerd and Noamnik, who'd like to thank Limmud for his birth, his parents having met here many Ḥanukkah ago. He's now co-founder of Kolot haKahal, a Sephardi egal minyan, and is currently working on Volume II of the newly-published Sephardi egal siddur, Siddur Masorti.

Wednesday 14:40
Wednesday 14:40 I co-edited a Sephardi egal siddur and didn't even fail my degree (yet)
 

Noru Tsalic

Jewish by identity, Israeli by nationality, Romanian by birth, British by current residence. A former IDF soldier, Noru serves as UK envoy for the Israeli organisation Reservists On Duty. Noru writes for politically-incorrect Politics and Times of Israel. He has presented at Limmud in the UK, Bulgaria and Mexico.

Friday 21:00
Friday 21:00 Don't 'Holocaust' me!
 
Tuesday 13:20
Tuesday 13:20 Everything you wanted to know about Iran’s nuclear programme (short of asking Khamenei himself!)
 
Wednesday 21:50
Wednesday 21:50 Israelis, Palestinians and ‘Love Island’
 
Thursday 10:45
Thursday 10:45 Why do Zionist speakers lose debates?
 

Becky Tuck

Becky is a movement worker for Habonim Dror and studies Politics and Sociology. She is a feminist socialist and cultural Jew, and is committed to educating young people towards an equal and just society as a madricha, in JSOCs and as previous president of the Newcastle University Feminist Society.

Wednesday 10:45
Wednesday 10:45 But where was She in the Shoah?
 

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Sarah Tuttle-Singer lives in Israel with her two kids in a village next to rolling fields. Sarah likes taking pictures, climbing roofs, and talking to strangers. She is the New Media Editor at Times of Israel, and the author of the book Jerusalem Drawn and Quartered. Sarah is a work in progress.

Sunday 09:30
Sunday 09:30 Morning news and brews (1 of 5)
 
Sunday 20:30
Sunday 20:30 Israel: on the road
 
Monday 12:00
Monday 12:00 Jerusalem, a love story
 
Monday 16:00
Monday 16:00 (Re-)imagining Jewish: what should our people look like in the future?
 
Monday 21:45
Monday 21:45 Not in front of the goyim
 

Nahum Twersky

Nahum holds an MBA and MA in Jewish Philosophy, with semiha from Yeshiva University. He is a Modern Orthodox innovative presenter on contemporary themes and chair of multi denominational/pluralistic groups in New York. He has also worked with marketing executives to Fortune 100 corporations.

Sunday 12:00
Sunday 12:00 May a non-Jew cook for you - bishul akum?
 

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