Limmud Festival 2022 - Presenters

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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.

Saturday 14:00
Saturday 14:00 Limmud² – pair-powered learning (1 of 4)
 
Sunday 10:00
Sunday 10:00 Limmud² – pair-powered learning (2 of 4)
 
Monday 10:00
Monday 10:00 Limmud² – pair-powered learning (3 of 4)
 
Tuesday 10:00
Tuesday 10:00 Limmud² – pair-powered learning (4 of 4)
 

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.

Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 Redemption in bondage - the struggles of women in pre-state Israel
 
Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 Who needs a women’s organisation in Israel in 2022?
 
Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 'Nice women don’t make history' – an in-depth look at one of the spiritual mothers of Jewish feminism in Israel
 

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.

Tuesday 11:30
Tuesday 11:30 You've never heard of this emergency
 
Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 100 million journeys of displacement
 

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.

Tuesday 18:20
Tuesday 18:20 A taste of the Queer Yeshiva
 

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.

Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 My experience learning Yiddish
 

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.

Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 Kashkarikas: a wasteless Sephardi kitchen story
 
Monday 09:10
Monday 09:10 Desayuno: Sephardi-style breakfast
 
Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 Isabel Velez's chard and cheese casserole
 

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.

Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 The roundtable – religious, secular, seeker?
 

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.

Saturday 15:00
Saturday 15:00 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.

Monday 10:20
Monday 10:20 Gematriart® – chromatic art of the Torah (1 of 2)
 
Monday 11:30
Monday 11:30 Gematriart® – Torah through the spectroscope (2 of 2)
 

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.

Friday 21:10
Friday 21:10 Limmud Festival buddying
 
Friday 22:20
Friday 22:20 Board games
 
Saturday 14:00
Saturday 14:00 A breath of fresh air (1 of 4)
 
Saturday 15:00
Saturday 15:00 Board games
 
Saturday 20:40
Saturday 20:40 Acquire yourself a friend… (1 of 2)
 
Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 A breath of fresh air (2 of 4)
 
Sunday 16:10
Sunday 16:10 Assassins
 
Sunday 16:10
Sunday 16:10 Five-a-side football (1 of 3)
 
Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 Acquire yourself another friend… (2 of 2)
 
Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 Board games
 
Sunday 19:30
Sunday 19:30 Limmud Festival buddying
 
Sunday 21:50
Sunday 21:50 Pub quiz
 
Monday 12:20
Monday 12:20 The Queue
 
Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 A breath of fresh air (3 of 4)
 
Monday 16:10
Monday 16:10 Wide game
 
Monday 16:10
Monday 16:10 Board games
 
Monday 16:10
Monday 16:10 Babka making
 
Monday 16:10
Monday 16:10 Five-a-side football (2 of 3)
 
Monday 18:20
Monday 18:20 Find your Adam or Eve (for 35-45 year olds)
 
Monday 18:20
Monday 18:20 DJ workshop with DJ Tamboi
 
Monday 19:30
Monday 19:30 Find your Adam or Eve (for 25-35 year olds)
 
Monday 20:40
Monday 20:40 Acoustic café
 
Monday 21:50
Monday 21:50 Silent disco
 
Monday 21:50
Monday 21:50 Cocktail making
 
Monday 23:00
Monday 23:00 Purim, prostitutes and talmudic toilet humour
 
Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 A breath of fresh air (4 of 4)
 
Tuesday 16:10
Tuesday 16:10 Tea and take part
 
Tuesday 16:10
Tuesday 16:10 Board games
 
Tuesday 16:10
Tuesday 16:10 Five-a-side football (3 of 3)
 

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