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Limmud² – pair-powered learning

Limmud², formerly known as the Chavruta Project, takes you one step further on your Jewish journey. Curated by Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, Jessica Spencer, Yael Jaffe, and Leah Jordan, engage with carefully selected texts in an accessible, friendly environment. Our aim is to create a meaningful experience of learning for all participants.

Hagit Peer

Hagit Peer is the elected President of Naamat - The Women's Movement of Israel and Naamat International. Naamat was established in 1921 and provides services for women and working families such as day care centres, legal counselling, domestic violence treatment and prevention, as well as initiating national awareness campaigns and legislation.

Juliana Peña

Juliana is a humanitarian aid and international development expert. She led IsraAID's response to the Venezuelan migrant crisis in Colombia - one of her home countries - and worked with survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Colombia and Sierra Leone. Today Juliana manages IsraAID's disaster response and resilience-building programmes in Asia.

Joanna Phillips

Joanna Phillips is a Talmud nerd and teacher at the Queer Yeshiva. The Queer Yeshiva is a project creating something new in the UK: rigorous, radically inclusive multi-day Talmud learning through an explicitly Queer lens. Joanna is also a trustee of Babel's Blessing, a grassroots language school that funds free English classes for migrants.

Ilan Pillemer

Ilan was born in South Africa, spent some years in Israel at various times and now lives in London with his family. Ilan has a bachelor's degree in English literature and a master's degree in computing. Ilan stays up late at night too reading and thinking.

Sibel Pinto

Gourmand Cookbook award-winning author Sibel is a Sephardi chef-instructor and founder of Action Kashkarikas. As a sustainability trainer, she educates and inspires people to eat real food, reduce food waste and keep a conscious kitchen. Her new book 'Kashkarikas: A Turkish-Sephardi Chef's Recipes and Stories' was published in November 2021.

Marcia Plumb

Marcia is rabbi of Congregation Mishkan Tefila in Boston, Massachusetts. She is passionate about Jewish spirituality and Mussar and has studied and taught it for years. She leads an international mussar group which you are invited to! In London she worked as a congregational rabbi, day school rabbi and director of the Spirituality @ Leo Baeck College.

Zeev Portner

Ze'ev Porner is a law lecturer at Buckinghamshire New University. He previously worked as a trainee advocate at Gilead Sher and Co in Tel Aviv and was a parliamentary assistant to former Labour MP, Louise Ellman. He has a keen interest in history particularly the legacy of Benjamin Disraeli.

Simon Prais

Simon is technical director of LUMESCA Group Ltd. He is an expert in colour communication, artist, and author of 'On the Sixth Day God Created Colour'. He has an art college training with a master’s degree in visual communication. This, combined with his modern Orthodox Torah ethos, is reflected in his Gematriart® work.

Limmud Social Programming

The Limmud Social Programming team (aka ministers of fun) is in charge of some organised fun, getting Limmud participants mixing and mingling.