Limmud Festival 2022 - Presenters

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Moshe Ariel Abel

Ariel obtained semicha in 1997, received a commission as a Padre in Merseyside Army Cadet Force 2017 and again in 2022 (Reserves), and has a licence to practise as a solicitor in 2021. Married to Shulamit they live with two children in Liverpool.

Sunday 15:20
Sunday 15:20 Jews and unionism
 
Monday 21:50
Monday 21:50 Sufi meditation session
 

Nic Abery

With over 25 years of experience in Jewish primary education in schools and communities, Nic works as an educational consultant for PaJeS and is the curator of Israel75:Building Artistic Connections. She has spent the past 4 years working with European Jewish schools and communities.

Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 Israel75: a celebration in objects
 

Daniel Aidan

Daniel, a French citizen aged 53, is an executive in a large French bank and a Limoudnik (yes, it exists in France!). He speaks French and some kind of English. He will be presenting the session with two of his four children: Yaelle (21), a biology student in a 'Grande Ecole' near Paris and Samuel (18), a student in maths and physics in a secondary school.

Sunday 11:30
Sunday 11:30 What can you learn from French Judaism? A counter-intuitive approach to community management
 

Anoushka Alexander-Rose

Anoushka is a doctoral researcher in English at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations at the University of Southampton. Her PhD thesis is titled ‘Vladimir Nabokov and his Wandering Jews’ exploring the Jewish theme in his Russian and English, how it reflects history and contributes to literary modernism.

Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 'I don't think she cares very much to admit her origins': Nabokov's Jewesses in life and art
 

Kenden Alfond

Kenden Alfond is a psychotherapist and cookbook/studybook author. Kenden is the author of The Jewish Food Hero Cookbook; Feeding Women of the Bible, Feeding Ourselves; Beyond Chopped Liver; Feeding Women of the Talmud, Feeding Ourselves, and the upcoming cookbook: Kosher Macros (expected 2023)

Saturday 11:40
Saturday 11:40 Feeding women of the Talmud, feeding ourselves
 
Monday 09:10
Monday 09:10 Feeding women of the Talmud, feeding ourselves
 
Tuesday 16:10
Tuesday 16:10 Share your recipe with the Jewish Food Hero community
 

Joshua Alston

Joshua is a historian working at the University of Leeds. He is currently working on a project centring on the ways in which Jewish communities in South Africa responded to their status as white people during the late 20th century. He also has broader interests in Jewish and settler colonial history. Joshua's favourite penguins are Adelie penguins.

Friday 14:00
Friday 14:00 'In common with the other citizens of the country', the response of South African Jews to apartheid
 

Emma Alter

Emma Alter is both professional musician and Feldenkrais teacher. She has 20 years experience of both world-class performance & teaching, specialising in anxiety in performers on and off stage. Her clients come from all walks of life and share a desire to improve their quality of life.

Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 Feldenkrais Method, the Jewish way of moving and feeling better - learning through movement
 
Tuesday 18:20
Tuesday 18:20 Calm is a body state: unwinding the body patterns of fear, anxiety and stress, using the Feldenkrais method
 

Wendy Amsellem

Wendy Amsellem teaches Talmud and Halakha at Yeshivat Maharat and directs The Beit Midrash Program, a joint project of Maharat and Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. She received semikha from Yeshivat Maharat, is an alumna of the Drisha Scholars Circle and has a BA in History and Literature from Harvard University.

Saturday 14:00
Saturday 14:00 On the precipice of disaster: halakhot of the synagogue
 
Saturday 21:50
Saturday 21:50 Torah and cocktails
 
Sunday 21:50
Sunday 21:50 Tall tales and pale ales: a late-night Talmud event at the Limmud Bar
 
Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 Who shall recite God’s praises: Torah, leadership and power
 
Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 The chosen people?
 

Maggie Anton

Maggie is a California novelist and Talmud scholar with expertise in Jewish women’s history. She is author of the award-winning 'Rashi’s Daughters' trilogy, as well as two 'Rav Hisda’s Daughter' novels and the non-fiction 'Fifty Shades of Talmud'. Her latest work, 'The Choice: A Novel of Love, Faith, and the Talmud', takes characters inspired by Chaim Potok and ages them into young adults in 1950s Brooklyn.

Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 Rabbinic interpretation of women's roles from ancient to modern times: the good, bad and ugly
 
Monday 19:30
Monday 19:30 Kindling the Shabbat lights: a new mitzvah with a new blessing
 

Isobel Aptaker

Having worked in a range of cultural organisations I now support 2econd Chance with grant writing and business development. What appealed to me most about being part of the team was the opportunity of providing meaningful work experience to people living with disabilities whilst simultaneously reducing the huge amount of computer waste produced.

Monday 19:30
Monday 19:30 2econd chance
 

Hannah Arnaud

Hannah Arnaud is a current resident of Moishe House Kilburn. She recently completed a Master's degree in Shakespeare Studies and is a former movement worker for Noam Masorti Youth.

Monday 16:10
Monday 16:10 Dobble kef!
 
Tuesday 16:10
Tuesday 16:10 Srugim and discussion
 

Esther Aronsfeld

Esther Aronsfeld is an ordained interfaith minister, lifecycle celebrant and creator of the 'Spirit of Judaism' course for Jews and Christians who want to connect to their spiritual roots.

Tuesday 09:10
Tuesday 09:10 Different ways to say 'I do': interfaith wedding ceremonies that bring everyone together
 

Robin Ashleigh

Robin is the Director of the UK Programme at UJIA, overseeing a variety of educational programmes, including experiences in Israel and grant-making to Jewish communal organisations. Robin is also an educator for March of the Living UK, and has represented Team GB as a table tennis player and coach at the Maccabiah and European Maccabi Games.

Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 Whose Zion is it anyway?
 

Mie Astrup Jensen

Mie Astrup Jensen is an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded PhD candidate at University College London. She researches non-heterosexual Jewish women's lived experiences and practises in England and Israel. Mie is also interested in connections between gender, antisemitism, LGBTQ+ and the Holocaust.

Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Why we need intersectionality to understand antisemitism and discrimination in Europe
 

Nava B. Meiersdorf

Nava B. Meiersdorf was ordained at the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary. She and her husband established an innovative and successful egalitarian minyan in the Ein Karem neighborhood of Jerusalem. Nava has recently started a new 'lab shul' at the Fuchsberg Center in Jerusalem.

Saturday 19:30
Saturday 19:30 Prayer-writing workshop
 
Saturday 23:00
Saturday 23:00 Sacred song circle
 
Sunday 14:10
Sunday 14:10 Secrets of the Hebrew letters (1 of 2)
 
Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 Scribal calligraphy (sofrut) (2 of 2)
 
Monday 20:40
Monday 20:40 Panel on kiddushin (traditional Jewish marriage rites) in the here and now
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 The roundtable – under one tent?
 

Yerach B. Meiersdorf

Yerach serves as the rabbi of Marom, the Masorti/Conservative movement for young adults around the world. With his wife Nava, also a rabbi, they founded a young adult spiritual Masorti congregation in Ein Karem, Jerusalem. Earlier this year Yerach published a book on spiritual education.

Friday 21:10
Friday 21:10 Jewish young adults around the world!
 
Sunday 19:50
Sunday 19:50 Jewish spirituality isn't what you thought it was!
 

Liora Baram

You may know Liora from the controversial JC headline 'Woman Sings Haftarah in Leeds'. Liora has spent her adult life challenging the boundaries that keep women and LGBT+ people excluded from mainstream Orthodox Judaism. Born in Sydney, married to a Londoner, currently living in Leeds.

Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 Kallah v'kallah: our traditional lesbian Jewish wedding(s)
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 The roundtable – under one tent?
 

Rina Barbut

Rina Barbut studied computer engineering and holds an MBA. She works at Microsoft and has been running her initiative JConnect Forum, a network for Young Jewish Professionals from Israel and Europe to encourage innovation, nurture business cooperation, share knowledge and skills, attract investors, and offer access to new markets.

Sunday 15:20
Sunday 15:20 Power of Jewish connections in business by JConnect
 

Allison Barclay

Avielah is the first woman certified as a soferet (Jewish scribe) in 250 years, and both her sofrut (calligraphy) and Judaica are widely collected. She has taught at venues including the Conservative Yeshiva and Machon Pardes. Her areas of research/scholarship include religious feminism, Kabbalah of the Hebrew letters and materials such as ink and parchment.

Friday 12:50
Friday 12:50 ShalhevetYah: the holy flame of the alef-bet
 
Saturday 21:50
Saturday 21:50 The Torah of vegan sofrut (scribal calligraphy)
 
Sunday 19:30
Sunday 19:30 Check your own mezuzah
 
Monday 15:20
Monday 15:20 How to crown your alef-bet
 

Isabel Bard

Isabel loves Torah. She has expressed this in movement work at Noam Masorti Youth as well as studying at Yeshivat Hadar, the Conservative Yeshiva and at the Drisha High School Program. She is currently giving 'Torah im derech eretz' a go via a normal job, combined with furiously chavruta-ing after 5:30pm. She enjoys Python and vegan baking.

Monday 14:10
Monday 14:10 The bloodthirsty vegan, or, How I stopped worrying and learned to love korbanot
 

David Bash

David is a sculptor, storyteller and dyslexia tutor. He also co-leads the monthly 'fully inclusive' multisensory b'Yachad services (geared to congregants with learning disabilities) for Finchley Reform Synagogue. He has recently fulfilled a commission from a large London synagogue for an original modern sculptured piece of Judaica.

Tuesday 10:20
Tuesday 10:20 Making 3D Jewish art pieces - our very own pieces of Judaica!
 

Gershon Baskin

Gershon Baskin is director of the Holy Land Bond. Baskin negotiated between Israel and Hamas for the release of Gilad Shalit. From 2012 to 2020, advised GigawattGlobal on solar energy in Palestine, and from 1988 to 2011 was the founding director of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research & Information, a joint Israeli-Palestinian public policy think-tank in Jerusalem.

Sunday 15:20
Sunday 15:20 What is Jerusalem to me and how is it part of my narrative or national story? (1 of 3)
 
Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 Looking at solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – beyond the failed two-state solution paradigm (2 of 3)
 
Monday 19:30
Monday 19:30 Post-election panel: whither the Israeli left?
 
Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 A united Jerusalem? Unpacking a British Embassy move
 
Tuesday 18:20
Tuesday 18:20 The international community and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (3 of 3)
 

Eddie Bass

Eddie has an eclectic education, but is now very interested in drama, poetry, comedy and the humorous stories, which he writes himself. He digs deep from the legends of Chelm - the ancient 'Village of Idiots'. In modern Chelm, there's plenty of shaggy dog tales to get you laughing (or weeping)!

Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 How they celebrated Yom tov, beat extreme cold and exchanged idiocies in Chelm
 

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt

Nadine is a broadcaster and journalist. As a Black Jew, she has written about the intersection of the two identities and the importance of solidarity against racism across ethnic minority groups. Last year, she travelled to Israel to record a BBC documentary called Black, Jewish And Proud.

Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 Why the claim 'Jews Don’t Count' risks alienating Jews of colour and other ethnic minorities
 

David Becker

David is 85 and for the past seven years has been leading a singalong class for Mill Hill U3A (University of the Third Age). He leads songs which older people enjoy - from shows, musicals, ballads, soul jazz etc.

Monday 16:10
Monday 16:10 Memory lane singalong
 

Nadia Beider

Nadia Beider recently completed a doctorate in contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is currently a Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe post-doctoral fellow at the Social Research Institute, University College London.

Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Why we need intersectionality to understand antisemitism and discrimination in Europe
 

Michael Ben-Gad

Michael is a Professor at City, University of London and former head of its economics department. He previously taught at the University of Haifa and worked at the Bank of Israel. Between 2014 and 2016 he served on the US National Academy of Sciences Panel on the 'Economic and Fiscal Impact of Immigration'.

Saturday 20:40
Saturday 20:40 Economics, migration and the Jews
 

Edward Ben-Nathan

Edward is a retired computer man who has been an avid reader of history and politics for some decades and has been delivering talks on History at the School of Economic Science in London and elsewhere.

Monday 09:10
Monday 09:10 How the Glorious Revolution, with key Jewish help, created the liberal democratic world
 

Geoffrey Ben-Nathan

Geoffrey Ben-Nathan first met Israelite Samaritan 'roving ambassador' Binyamim Tsedaka through Nitza Spiro's Spiro Ark which invited the Samaritan Choir to London in 2007. Geoffrey Ben-Nathan was born in London and is a member of the Wembley Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation and is President of Bedford Progressive Synagogue.

Monday 19:30
Monday 19:30 Today's Israelite Samaritans – ancient Hebrew and Torah customs still retained
 

William Berisch Secretan

William is Principal Psychotherapist within an NHS service for adults with severe and complex mental distress. He specialises in the theory and practice of group psychotherapy and ecopsychology. William is qualified in arts psychotherapy and psychodrama psychotherapy, and is a training member of the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists.

Saturday 16:00
Saturday 16:00 Psychotherapy, Jewish mysticism and the healing of society
 

Sally Berkovic

Sally is a member of a Chevra Kadisha, a team that ritually prepares the deceased for a Jewish burial. Originally from Melbourne, an epistolary romance brought her to London and she is the chief executive of the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe, a foundation supporting Jewish heritage and culture across Europe. Her freelance writing is at https://sallyberkovic.com

Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 Death duties: loss, mourning and the Hevra Kadisha
 

Sophie Bigot Goldblum

Sophie Bigot-Goldblum is the director of Jewish education at BBYO Europe and Talmud Faculty at Hillel Germany. Additionally, she co-facilitates Paideia’s Paradigm program, bringing together European, American and Israeli Jewish professionals and thought leaders for a week of intense discussions and learning on Jewish identity.

Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 The state of Jewish education around the world – and why it matters
 

Dalia Blass

Dalia joined Yachad as their Youth and Student Worker after graduating from Edinburgh university with a 1st in Classics. She has been actively involved in the Jewish community from an early age, including over a decade in the Zionist youth movement Noam. She has led a wide range of programmes for young people in both Jewish and non-Jewish spaces.

Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 Zionist youth movements and the Israel-Palestine conversation
 
Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 We've been to Hebron: reflections on our trip to Israel and the West Bank
 

Carolyn Bogush

Carolyn has been an active Limmudnik for more than 25 years and is currently chair of Trustees as well as vice-chair of UJS. She believes passionately in cross-communalism, volunteering and developing the future leaders of our community. Professionally she is an organisational psychologist.

Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 The future of Jewish education in the UK
 

Joel Brahams

Joel is 14 years old and a proud Jew. He has taken a keen interest in the history of British Jewry since he was young. Growing up in Golders Green, he loves being surrounded by Jewish culture, from the cuisine to the community. He is an experienced public speaker, having been on TV to speak about his love of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Sunday 19:30
Sunday 19:30 Shabbat by the sea
 

Miryam Brand

Miryam Brand is a scholar and lecturer on Second Temple texts, the Bible and the Ancient Near East. She is best known for her book 'Evil Within and Without: The Source of Sin and Its Nature as Portrayed in Second Temple Literature', her podcast (http://understandingsin.com/), and her YouTube classes on biblical and ancient texts.

Saturday 15:00
Saturday 15:00 Ezekiel: the legacy of the dry bones and individual agency
 
Sunday 09:10
Sunday 09:10 Rebecca and Hagar: two biblical women through the lens of ancient law
 
Monday 18:20
Monday 18:20 What's new in... ancient Judaism?
 
Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 Torah and the struggle with sin in the Talmud and Second Temple texts
 

Pamela Brenner

Pamela Brenner is a Yiddish researcher and translator. She holds an MSt from the University of Oxford and a BA from Barnard College, both in Yiddish Studies, and studied at Drisha and Migdal Oz. A 2021 Translation Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center, Pamela is translating popular Yiddish stories by Shomer. She is director of the Begin Scholars.

Saturday 21:50
Saturday 21:50 Tsene-rene: the story of the Yiddish 'Women's Bible'
 
Sunday 11:30
Sunday 11:30 Klezmer and kugel and kvelling, oh my! An introduction to Yiddish
 
Monday 16:10
Monday 16:10 Let's pickle!
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Halakhic responsa as Holocaust resistance? The teshuvot of Rabbi Oshry
 

Jess Bricker

Raised in Australia and based in Israel, Jess is an educator, activist and avid gardener. Jess works with the refugee community in Tel Aviv managing educational programs at the African Refugee Development Center.

Sunday 15:20
Sunday 15:20 Love thy stranger: seeking asylum in Israel
 
Monday 23:00
Monday 23:00 The city that never sleeps and the activists who wish they slept more
 
Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 100 million journeys of displacement
 

Sarah Bronzite

Sarah is Head of Education at KeshetUK. Outside of KeshetUK, she is a primary school teacher and is conducting academic research about school-based sex education. In her ‘spare time’ she writes about gender-based violence, is a Trustee for Migdal Emunah and is learning to temper chocolate. She has two religions: Judaism and choral singing.

Sunday 20:40
Sunday 20:40 Sacrae: singing 'a cappella' Christian settings of Jewish texts
 
Monday 15:20
Monday 15:20 Child sexual abuse in the UK Jewish community: improving outcomes for our young people
 
Monday 16:10
Monday 16:10 LGBT+ and Jewish? A discussion around what an inclusive Jewish community looks like for you
 
Tuesday 16:10
Tuesday 16:10 Have your say! A discussion forum for parents and family of LGBT+ people
 

Rich Brownstein

After a career in Hollywood, Rich has lectured for Yad Vashem's International School for Holocaust Studies, specializing in the use of Holocaust film history and their use in the classroom. His book, 'Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide' was published in 2021.

Monday 20:40
Monday 20:40 What makes a Holocaust film great?
 

Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik

Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik cuts up comic books and reassembles them into papercuts that explore the stories of the Jewish people, connecting popular culture with sacred texts. He and his wife, Shawna Brynjegard-Bialik, a rabbi, co-founded Paper Midrash, offering engaging artist- and scholar-in-residence programs and workshops.

Saturday 19:30
Saturday 19:30 The people of the comic book
 
Sunday 10:20
Sunday 10:20 Torah study with knives
 
Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 Maccabees and other Jewish super-heroes
 
Tuesday 16:10
Tuesday 16:10 Make your own golem
 

Shawna Brynjegard-Bialik

Shawna Brynjegard-Bialik is an engaging teacher of Torah, adapting traditional Jewish concepts to a modern Reform context, and bringing that synergy to students of all ages. She and her husband co-founded Paper Midrash, offering engaging artist- and scholar-in-residence programmes and workshops.

Saturday 19:30
Saturday 19:30 The people of the comic book
 
Sunday 10:20
Sunday 10:20 Torah study with knives
 
Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 Maccabees and other Jewish super-heroes
 
Tuesday 16:10
Tuesday 16:10 Make your own golem
 

Daniel Cainer

Multi award-winning songwriter, storyteller and broadcaster. A veteran of six off-Broadway runs, 18 years at Edinburgh Fringe and concerts all around the world. Composer for TV, theatre, radio and temples. Daniel's been the ‘Singing Reporter’ on the BBC and the world’s only ‘Singing Astrologer’ (probably). Also known as 'The Comic Bard of Anglo Jewry' (The JC).

Sunday 21:50
Sunday 21:50 Daniel Cainer in concert!
 
Monday 17:10
Monday 17:10 Daniel Cainer and Raphael Zarum - new psalms for old ceremonies?
 

Nigel Canin

Trained as a teacher Nigel was inspired by the potential power of technology in the classroom. In 1999 he launched creative programmes for schools; today the flagship programme Purple Mash is used in over 11,000 schools worldwide. More recently he has set up Lemon Soul, an independent campaigns print publishing company and 2econd Chance, a computer recycling community interest company providing training for vulnerable people.

Monday 17:10
Monday 17:10 J'Accuse! A cry from the killing pits of Lithuania
 
Monday 19:30
Monday 19:30 2econd chance
 

Mike Capozzola

MIKE CAPOZZOLA is, by default, "The U.K.'s #1 [only] Italian-American Pro Comedian" Since the late 20th Century, Mike's done many shows for JCC's, synagogues, Hillels, private events and Chabads. TV & Film appearances include: "Men in Black international" "The Batman" "The Phantom of the Open" www.IMDb.me/MikeCapozzola

Saturday 19:30
Saturday 19:30 KUGELRONI – an evening of comedy with the UK's #1 [only] Italian-American Pro Comedian
 

Shalom Carmy

Shalom teaches Jewish studies and philosophy at Yeshiva University in New York, is editor emeritus of Tradition journal and currently contributing editor of First Things journal. He has authored hundreds of articles on Bible, Jewish thought, Talmud and interface of Torah and general culture and has edited two volumes of Rabbi Soloveitchik's writings on prayer.

Friday 21:10
Friday 21:10 Atonement, repentance, suffering? Two 20th-century discourses on their interaction
 
Saturday 19:30
Saturday 19:30 Joseph Ber Soloveitchik and 'deveikut' – partnership with God
 
Sunday 14:10
Sunday 14:10 Sympathy for Cain: the Netziv and (other?) 19th century romantics
 
Tuesday 09:10
Tuesday 09:10 Does the book of Exodus say the Israelites were slaves in Egypt?
 
Tuesday 19:30
Tuesday 19:30 Should Job be read as philosophy, narrative poetry or both? The case of Job's curse (chapter 3)
 

Hava Carvajal

Hava Carvajal is a teacher at the Queer Yeshiva, and is currently completing an MA in Jewish Studies at UCL before beginning a six-month course at Paideia, the European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden. She's a queer transfem who hopes to begin their rabbinic studies soon.

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

Efraim Chalamish

Efraim Chalamish is an international economic legal scholar and professor (New York University, IESE Business School), media commentator (Forbes, Reuters, Jerusalem Post) and public speaker, and serves as a senior advisor and Institute Fellow at Kroll, the global risk-management firm. He was a McCloy Fellow on Global Trends for Association for Corporate Growth and a Rockefeller Foundation resident.

Friday 17:40
Friday 17:40 US-Israel relations in the new era post 2022 elections
 
Saturday 19:30
Saturday 19:30 'It’s the economy stupid': how emerging economic trends, inflation and recession will impact Israel and the Jewish world
 
Sunday 09:10
Sunday 09:10 From the historic Israel-Lebanon agreement to the European crisis: Israel's changing role in global energy politics
 
Monday 14:10
Monday 14:10 Jews in the USA at a crossroads
 

Michelle Charles

Michelle is an artist whose work has been shown widely at galleries and museums in the UK/USA. Her work is also held in public collections at the British Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Wellcome Collection and the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Sunday 10:20
Sunday 10:20 Holding the light/moments in time - the work of Michelle Charles and her relationship to art and time
 

Edwin Chomer

Edwin lives with his family in Sheffield and enjoys cycling in the Peak District. His Jewish journey has taken him through New North London Masorti Synagogue, Noam, Bnei Akiva and Ohr Samayech Yeshiva and he has been a (semi) regular attender at Limmud over the years. He believes that the connection to 'self' is a vital part of the individual Jewish journeys that we undertake.

Saturday 16:00
Saturday 16:00 Breathe – neshima/neshama
 
Sunday 09:10
Sunday 09:10 Moses, Simba and the search for self
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Designing Jewish education for the 21st century
 

Anne Clarke

Anne is the London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden and chairs the Fire and Emergency Response Planning Committee at City Hall. Anne has been a Barnet councillor since 2018 and is chair of Barnet Labour Group.

Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 The London Recovery Plan and the Jewish community post-pandemic: what is needed?
 
Tuesday 18:20
Tuesday 18:20 What is the future for Jewish Barnet?
 

Adrian Cohen

Adrian has been involved in communal affairs from the 1980s. He was national chair of UJS. He is co-chair of the London Jewish Forum, lay chair of Labour Friends of Israel and a trustee of a number of organisations. He has been involved in developing a work-placed community and also in interfaith work. He is a partner in an international law firm.

Monday 21:50
Monday 21:50 Cohesion and antisemitism in London
 
Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 The London Recovery Plan and the Jewish community post-pandemic: what is needed?
 

Barbara Cohen

Barbara lives in Weymouth, Dorset, and trained as a yoga teacher with the British Wheel of Yoga. She has been teaching yoga for 23 years, practising meditation for 52 years and is still a 'a work in progress!' Barbara identifies as a JuBu, a Jewish Buddhist, and is very interested in the intersection between Buddhism and Jewish mysticism.

Saturday 10:00
Saturday 10:00 Gentle yoga – coming back home to the body and the breath
 
Sunday 08:00
Sunday 08:00 Gentle yoga – coming back home to the body and the breath
 
Monday 08:00
Monday 08:00 Gentle yoga – coming back home to the body and the breath
 
Monday 16:10
Monday 16:10 Meditation – coming back home to the body and the breath, giving the mind a rest
 
Tuesday 08:00
Tuesday 08:00 Gentle yoga – coming back home to the body and the breath
 

Lucy Cohen

Lucy is fat and fabulous! She is the Director of Noam Masorti Youth; prioritising inclusion, creativity and Jewish learning. Lucy also facilitates JW3's Full Fat (a community space for fat and plus size Jews), and is a Bellydance instructor, a burlesque performer and cabaret show producer; creating Jewish, Queer spaces and shows for fat performers.

Tuesday 16:10
Tuesday 16:10 Burlesque 101: body confidence and boldness
 
Tuesday 19:30
Tuesday 19:30 Full fat
 

Russell Cohen

Russell advises clients around the world on family governance, succession and tax planning. He is a partner in a London law firm and is convinced that years of taking children's services have provided him with all the communication skills he needs to deal with the world's wealthiest families.

Sunday 20:40
Sunday 20:40 The thickness of a prison wall: what is the Jewish view on tax planning?
 

Marilena Colasuonno

Maria Maddalena Colasuonno teaches Judeo-Italian at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies. She obtained her PhD in semitic philology at UniOr and was granted post-doctoral fellowships on the syntax of Late Biblical Hebrew at Bar Ilan University and Qumran Hebrew at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Her publications deal with ancient and modern Hebrew, Palestinian Arabic and Judeo-Italian.

Monday 14:10
Monday 14:10 Let’s observe some Judeo-Italian manuscripts with a 'magnifying glass': I bet you are able to read several words! (1 of 2)
 
Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 Would you like to learn the meaning and pronunciation of some funny words and curses in Judeo-Italian?
 

Peter Cole

Peter's most recent collection of poems is 'Draw Me After' (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux). He has also translated widely from Hebrew and Arabic—medieval and modern. He is the recipient of many honours, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Jewish Book Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. He divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven.

Monday 15:20
Monday 15:20 Draw me after: a poetry reading and conversation
 

Ben Combe

Ben Combe is a Jewish community professional and was the Chair of Limmud Festival 2021. He currently works at The New Israel Fund UK as Digital Communications Lead.

Tuesday 11:30
Tuesday 11:30 A Jew is the biggest star in professional wrestling and not enough people are talking about it
 

Jacky Comforty

Jacky is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, oral historian and media creator. He has worked on ground-breaking films in Holocaust studies, inclusive education and applied media, including 'The Optimists', 'Balkan Jazz' and 'In the Shadow of Memory'. He is the owner of large photographic, film and audio archives of historical and scholarly significance to the Holocaust, World War II and Bulgarian Jewry. He wrote 'The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust' (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021).

Sunday 19:50
Sunday 19:50 The optimists: the survival of Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust (1 of 3)
 
Monday 18:20
Monday 18:20 The stolen narrative of Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust (2 of 3)
 
Tuesday 09:10
Tuesday 09:10 The power of oral histories and documentation (3 of 3)
 

Ann Conway-Jones

Ann is an honorary research fellow at the University of Birmingham, and freelance theological educator, specialising in early Jewish-Christian relations and biblical interpretation. She has been involved in interfaith dialogue for over 30 years and is chair of Birmingham Council of Christians and Jews.

Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 Sibling rivalry: early Jewish-Christian relations and their legacy
 

Cynthia Cooper

Cynthia L. Cooper is a playwright, journalist and author. Her award-winning plays, published in 17 volumes, include 'Silence Not, A Love Story' about a Nazi resister, and the most recent, 'I Was A Stranger Too,' about a Jewish woman who reaches out to asylum seekers. She lives in New York, where she is an initiator of the Jewish Theatre Circle.

Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 I was a stranger too: writing a Jewish response to the refugee crisis
 

Belinda Copitch

Belinda has a PhD in education and has worked in the Jewish community. Since 2013 she has been researching the impact of Jewish schooling on Jewish family life and Jewish choices. As a teacher she has to deal with youngsters on the autistic spectrum. She is close to several adults who show signs, and may even be autistic herself. You decide.

Sunday 14:10
Sunday 14:10 On the spectrum: is there a Jewish connection?
 

Mark Creeger

Working in corporate ethics and compliance software Mark has taught Jewish Education and IT at multiple levels. He is a regular speaker, parasha discussion and prayer leader at Barnet Synagogue and has taught Barmitzvah boys for over 35 years. Married to fabulous comedian, Rachel Creeger, they share two wonderful boys and a marvellous daughter-in-law.

Friday 14:00
Friday 14:00 A Jewish view of extra-terrestrial life
 
Saturday 11:40
Saturday 11:40 The shekel and the shofar: billion dollar fines and whistle-blowing lines - a Jewish view of ethics and compliance
 
Sunday 21:50
Sunday 21:50 American big business and the Holocaust: IBM, Ford, Rockefeller and Carnegie
 
Monday 21:50
Monday 21:50 The star-spangled swastika: how Nazi science and ideology shaped the American future
 

Rachel Creeger

Rachel Creeger is an award-winning stand-up comedian, writer and director, and the only practising Orthodox Jew on the UK comedy circuit. She is co-host of 'Jew Talkin' To Me?' podcast and resident host for London comedy club 'Upstairs at the Adam & Eve'. As seen on BBC1 and NextUp Comedy, and regularly heard across the BBC Radio network.

Saturday 21:50
Saturday 21:50 Poetry slam – made by you! (1 of 4)
 
Sunday 21:50
Sunday 21:50 Comedy slam – made by you! (2 of 4)
 
Monday 16:10
Monday 16:10 Musical slam – made by you! (4 of 4)
 
Monday 18:20
Monday 18:20 Find your Adam or Eve (for 35-45 year olds)
 
Tuesday 16:10
Tuesday 16:10 Monologue slam – made by you! (3 of 4)
 
Tuesday 22:30
Tuesday 22:30 YOU are my audience!
 

Ben Crowne

Ben lives in East London, works in Central London and comes to North West London twice a month for kosher meat and gossip. He is a forensic accountant and has been a trustee of Limmud and treasurer of the Board of Deputies, among other communal roles. He sometimes assists in the production of the parody magazine 'Private Oy!'.

Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 Haredim – contending with the Jewish future
 
Monday 18:20
Monday 18:20 Leadership crisis? What leadership crisis? (Talmud with the backstory left in)
 
Monday 23:00
Monday 23:00 The year in scandal
 

Tilla Crowne

An artist, cartoonist and irrepressible forager, Tilla is the creator and co-editor of Private Oy! - the UK’s foremost parody magazine of a parody magazine. Follow her through the forest to find fantastic fungi.

Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 Limmud fungus foray (Forest School for grown-ups)
 
Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 The deck of Esther
 

Daniel Daniel

Daniel Daniel is a filmmaker and playwright from London. He is currently studying at the National Film and Television School. Past work includes the award-winning films, 'Web' (2018) and 'Sauce' (2022). His past theatre work includes an adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s 'Nevsky Prospekt' (Pentameters Theatre) and 'The Knot' (Old Red Lion Theatre).

Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 Where is Anne Frank
 
Monday 09:10
Monday 09:10 Who's afraid of Jewish humour?
 
Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 Reckonings
 
Monday 15:20
Monday 15:20 Back in Berlin
 
Tuesday 11:30
Tuesday 11:30 Jewish existentialist cinema
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Short film winners
 

Oli Davidson

Owner of over 45 cookbooks, Oli considers herself a Gayshet Chayil. Raised within the United Synagogue but with a healthy level of scepticism and chutzpah, Oli now moves within US, Partnership and Masorti spaces facilitating women's and LGBT+ programming and inclusion. She is often found putting together last-minute collections of divrei Torah.

Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 Kallah v'kallah: our traditional lesbian Jewish wedding(s)
 
Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 Jewish LGBT+ people and spaces
 

Rosella de Jong

Rosella de Jong likes to ask and answer questions, travel and explore culture. In between, she is a language and literature teacher and working towards a Master's degree in child and adolescent therapy. Prior, she learnt a number of languages and received a bunch of degrees, including film and television studies/media and culture studies.

Saturday 14:00
Saturday 14:00 Bambi is Jewish
 
Monday 15:20
Monday 15:20 You never call! You never visit!
 

WJC Diplomatic Corps

The Jewish Diplomatic Corps of the World Jewish Congress, under the leadership of WJC President Ronald S. Lauder, is a worldwide network of 380 Jewish leaders for the future from over 60 countries, receiving opportunity, experience and skill set to impact Jewish community interests worldwide through diplomacy and public policy.

Friday 17:40
Friday 17:40 Empowering young Jewish leaders to face tomorrow’s challenge
 
Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 Jewish diplomacy and advocacy: advancing Jewish interests on the political world stage
 
Monday 21:50
Monday 21:50 Promoting a positive view of Jewish communities to combat antisemitism
 

John Dunston

John Dunston was Head of two Quaker schools and Vice-President of the Oxford Jewish Congregation. In 2020 he gave the Annual Oxford Brookes Zuckerberg Israel Lecture, and regularly conducted at the Keble College HMD Services. He led Maidenhead Synagogue's Jewish History tour to China in 2013. He has traced his family tree back to 1450.

Sunday 20:40
Sunday 20:40 Sacrae: singing 'a cappella' Christian settings of Jewish texts
 
Tuesday 18:20
Tuesday 18:20 'Stolpersteine' (stumbling stones): memorials to Europe’s murdered Jews
 

Alison Durban

Ali is the Co-Founder of Gesher School. She has over 10 years’ experience working in SEND, and prior to this worked for 20 years in marketing. In addition, she sits on the education steering panel for the new Autism Centre of Excellence, led by Sir Professor Simon Baron-Cohen. Ali has a lived experience of SEND and navigating the education system.

Tuesday 09:10
Tuesday 09:10 Gesher School, from an idea to 'Outstanding' – the importance of a blueprint
 
Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 Navigating the UK SEN system: from diagnosis to funding
 

Joe Dweck

Joseph is the senior rabbi of the S&P Sephardi Community of the United Kingdom and the rosh bet midrash of TheHabura.com. He has a master of arts degree in Jewish Education and is currently working toward a master's in psychotherapy. He oversees the Sephardi Beth Din and the Sephardi Kashrut Authority.

Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 Why I'm a Wyschogrod fan
 
Sunday 16:10
Sunday 16:10 A session in memory of Abraham Levy z"l
 
Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 Solitude: a springboard for growth
 

Marcus Dysch

As head of external affairs at World ORT, Marcus oversees the global education network’s external communications and media collaborations. His key responsibilities include raising awareness of ORT and liaising with 30+ national organizations on media issues. A former journalist, Marcus was previously assistant editor of the Jewish Chronicle.

Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 Does anyone still care about the invasion of Ukraine?
 

John Dyson

Distinguished legal career culminating in appointment as Justice of the Uk Supreme Court and master of the Rolls. Since retirement, has had a varied career including sports arbitrations (e.g. Saracens), international arbitrations and investigations (such as BBC Princess Diana Panorama interview). Has written his memoir A Judge’s Journey.

Monday 14:10
Monday 14:10 The Martin Bashir/Diana Princess of Wales 'Panorama' interview: the Dyson Report
 

Noelle Dückmann Gallagher

Noelle is a longtime Limmudnik and senior lecturer in 18th century literature at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses particularly on representations of the body, disease and medicine in the long eighteenth century (1600-1800) in Britain.

Monday 18:20
Monday 18:20 The pig-faced lady: kashrut and anti-Jewish sentiment in 18th-century England
 

Alyaa Ebbiary

Alyaa is postdoctoral research associate at Durham University, working on the ENCOUNTERS project exploring Muslim-Jewish relations in Europe. She is an officer of the British Association of Islamic Studies (BRAIS). Beyond academia, Alyaa has been a teacher, community organiser and interfaith trainer.

Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Muslim-Jewish encounters in urban Europe
 

Laura Elkeslassy

Born in France, with Moroccan and Israeli roots, Laura is a singer of Judeo-Arab music who lives and works in Brooklyn. In 2022, she released 'Ya Ghorbati: Divas in Exile', a multimedia album that tells the story of Judeo-Arab divas from mid-century North Africa.

Friday 21:10
Friday 21:10 Li habibi: Andalusi singing workshop (2 of 3)
 
Sunday 15:20
Sunday 15:20 Bimei Matitiyahu: Hanukah Moroccan singing workshop (1 of 3)
 
Monday 21:50
Monday 21:50 Laura Elkeslassy: Ya Ghorbati - divas in exile (3 of 3)
 

Bat Ella

Israeli singer and recording artist, Bat Ella, is delighted to be back at Limmud after performing here with the legendary Debbie Friedman in 1995. Best known for inspirational musical experiences, her music represents a soulful bridge among people of all religions and ethnicities. Recorded 5 albums and performs extensively on stages in Israel and US

Sunday 11:30
Sunday 11:30 Debbie Friedman and I
 
Monday 15:20
Monday 15:20 Religious music goes mainstream in Israel
 
Tuesday 22:30
Tuesday 22:30 Bat Ella in concert: an Israeli-Jewish hagigah!
 

Benjamin Ellis

Benjamin co-founded and is former chair of KeshetUK, working for a world where no one is forced to choose between their Jewish and LGBT+ identity. After studying at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel, he studied at Cambridge University and University College London medical school, then public health at Johns Hopkins University in the USA. He can often be found working as a rheumatologist, cycling or singing.

Sunday 14:10
Sunday 14:10 Power and protest in the Bible
 

Yehoshua Engelman

Yehoshua has for many years taught at yeshivot in Israel and was rabbi of Yakar in London and Tel Aviv. He now works as a psychotherapist with analytical interest and enjoys seeing the psychoanalytical depths in Torah texts. He is currently completing his book on hassidic stories – commentary and enhancement - and will share some chapters with us.

Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 Can there be Judaism without mysticism?
 
Sunday 21:50
Sunday 21:50 Jewish jokes
 
Monday 15:20
Monday 15:20 The mitzvah of heresy – learning through hasidic tales
 
Monday 23:00
Monday 23:00 Regret – learning through hasidic tales
 
Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 Olam haba: learning through tales of hasidim
 

Howard Epstein

Howard Epstein is a solicitor of over 50 years’ experience and an author of books and plays. He has lectured on legal matters and Jewish and Israeli themes. He has written for the website israelseen.com and he writes for the Jewish Telegraph. All his works reflect fastidious forensic research, which will shine through in his four Limmud presentations.

Saturday 20:40
Saturday 20:40 Israel at 75: In Weizmann's Image – From the Pale of Settlement to the Balfour Declaration (1 of 3)
 
Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 Israel at 75: In Weizmann's image – the birth of the Jewish state and its future hi-tech miracle (2 of 3)
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Israel at 75: In Weizmann's image – the forgotten hero: Ben-Gurion buries Weizmann’s reputation (3 of 3)
 

Yaffa Epstein

Yaffa is the senior scholar and educator-in-residence at the Jewish Education Project. She has Orthodox ordination from Maharat as well as from Daniel Landes and holds a Law Degree. Yaffa loves Limmud, Torah and the Jewish people and is a proud board member of Limmud North America. Let’s learn!

Saturday 11:40
Saturday 11:40 Listen to your heart: a psychotherapist and a rabbi walk into a session
 
Saturday 19:30
Saturday 19:30 #Problematic: Attempting to redeem the most offensive talmudic stories: Gender (1 of 3)
 
Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 #Problematic: Attempting to redeem the most offensive talmudic stories – #Problematic tales about non-Jews in the Talmud (2 of 3)
 
Sunday 21:50
Sunday 21:50 Tall tales and pale ales: a late-night Talmud event at the Limmud Bar
 
Monday 15:20
Monday 15:20 #Problematic: Attempting to redeem the most offensive talmudic stories: Problematic power dynamics (3 of 3)
 
Monday 19:30
Monday 19:30 Talmud for all: the case for democratizing Jewish texts
 
Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 The state of Jewish education around the world – and why it matters
 

Kelly Erez

Singer-songwriter Kelly was raised in a musical family, singing and writing since she could talk. Featured on BBC One television, radio and in the press, she has performed in places such as the Hilton hotel, the Royal Festival Hall and private events. Kelly also teaches vocal coaching and singing therapy, helping others release emotions through music.

Monday 15:20
Monday 15:20 Singing and lyric therapy
 

Gali Etzion

Gali is an attorney at law in Israel and head of legislative consulting and special affairs department at Naamat - The Women's Movement Israel. She represents Naamat in major legal cases and petitions to the supreme court. Gali also drafts and promotes bills for members of the Knesset on various issues related to women.

Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 Who needs a women’s organisation in Israel in 2022?
 

Itzchak Evan-Shayish (Marmorstein)

Itzchak is a passionate student and teacher of the illuminated teachings of Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook (of blessed memory). As gabbai/educator at Beit HaRav Kook synagogue in Jerusalem and as chairman of Ohr LeRayah he is devoted to introducing and sharing Kook’s universal and enlightened teachings with the world.

Sunday 20:40
Sunday 20:40 ‘All existence whispers to me its secret’: the illuminated poetry of Abraham Isaac Kook
 

Limmud Executive

The Limmud UK Executive is the volunteer group responsible for Limmud UK events and operations. If you'd like to find out more or get involved with Limmud in the UK please email execchair@limmud.org.

Monday 16:10
Monday 16:10 Preparing to present at Limmud Festival 2023 - because everyone can be a teacher
 

Shimmy Feintuch

Shimmy is a New York City-based psychotherapist, professor, writer and public speaker. He speaks about issues relevant to community, addiction, emotional wellness and spirituality. His first Limmud was in Shanghai, and he is excited to finally make it to Limmud Festival!

Saturday 11:40
Saturday 11:40 Listen to your heart: a psychotherapist and a rabbi walk into a session
 
Saturday 20:40
Saturday 20:40 Mindfulness? That’s meshuga!
 
Sunday 09:10
Sunday 09:10 Addiction, the golden calf and us
 

Leon Fenster

Leon is an artist from London whose art re-imagines the familiar. Families and communities, from Taiwan to Mexico, commission Leon to tell their story and capture their memories in his dream-like style. He creates city-specific illustrated haggadot, and an upcoming elaborate visual haggadah drawing on the breadth of Jewish experience.

Saturday 21:50
Saturday 21:50 The Haggadah as you’ve never seen it before
 

UK Jewish Film Festival

UK Jewish Film (UKFF) aims for Jewish film to be enjoyed by the widest possible audience, and to be at the heart of British culture. UKFF believes film crosses cultures and has the ability to unite, engage and educate diverse audiences through visual storytelling, which provides stimulating and unique views of Jewish and Israeli life and culture.

Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 Where is Anne Frank
 
Monday 09:10
Monday 09:10 Who's afraid of Jewish humour?
 
Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 Reckonings
 
Monday 15:20
Monday 15:20 Back in Berlin
 
Tuesday 11:30
Tuesday 11:30 Jewish existentialist cinema
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Short film winners
 

Nathan Finkel

Nathan Finkel is a musician from London who has played with the Limmud House Band for over 10 years. He also creates ambient groove-driven music from loops, using guitars, drum machines and keyboards. He is passionate about mushrooms, community events, and wiring all his music gear together in order to see what happens.

Sunday 23:00
Sunday 23:00 Psychedelic sounds
 

David Finlay

David is a writer of songs and performance pieces which bring to life different aspects of Jewish history. He has taken a particular interest in the work of the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai and will be presenting 'How Rich They Are' which tells Amichai's life story through the words of his poems.

Monday 11:30
Monday 11:30 How rich they are: the life story of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai
 
Monday 17:10
Monday 17:10 Dear Diary
 

Ellen Flax

Ellen Flax is a philanthropy consultant who aids both foundations and grant seekers, and is a partner at Amplify Partners, which provides strategic support to non-profits, foundations and social ventures. She received her rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion.

Sunday 09:10
Sunday 09:10 Schleppers no more: the Torah of packing light
 

Dalia Fleming

Dalia is KeshetUK’s first executive director, working to ensure no one is forced to choose between their LGBT+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans) and Jewish identity. Responsible for the strategic direction of KeshetUK, Dalia has been involved in the UK Jewish and LGBT+ community for over ten years.

Monday 16:10
Monday 16:10 LGBT+ and Jewish? A discussion around what an inclusive Jewish community looks like for you
 
Monday 21:50
Monday 21:50 LGBT+ social space
 
Tuesday 09:10
Tuesday 09:10 An introduction to trans inclusion
 
Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 Jewish LGBT+ people and spaces
 
Tuesday 16:10
Tuesday 16:10 Have your say! A discussion forum for parents and family of LGBT+ people
 

Jeff Fox

Jeff Fox is a rabbi and serves as the Rosh Ha-Yeshiva and Dean of Faculty of Yeshivat Maharat. He was the first graduate of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and served in the pulpit for seven years before joining Maharat. He lives in Riverdale, New York, with his wife Beth and their four boys.

Saturday 16:00
Saturday 16:00 Ruth versus Ezra: competing paradigms for the crisis of conversion and Jewish identity
 
Monday 19:50
Monday 19:50 The status of the foetus and the mother in halakhah: understanding the rhetoric around abortion
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 The roundtable – under one tent?
 

Mark Fox

Mark is the president of West London Synagogue, former vice-chair of the Leo Baeck College and a former deputy on the Board of Deputies. He has a master's degree in Religion at Kings College, London, and is a Religious Studies PhD researcher at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland, and editor of a religion and philosophy blog: www. phlexiblephilosophy.com

Sunday 14:10
Sunday 14:10 Interfaith dialogue: is it worth it?
 

Marc Frank

Therapist, community facilitator, mental health worker and maverick mystic based in Totnes, Devon. Marc is motivated by an enthusiasm for interfaith and a passion for peace, driven by the wish to integrate authentic spirituality into the grounded reality of our everyday lives. Marc loves to explore opportunities for openness in coming home to the heart.

Monday 09:10
Monday 09:10 'Ein od milvado' – we are all connected
 

Deborah Freeman

Deborah is a playwright and short story writer. Plays include 'The Song of Deborah', 'Candlesticks', 'Xanthippe' and 'Remedies'. 'Candlesticks' recently had a successful run in London. 'Tell it Not,' is a short story collection - many with Jewish themes. Several have been published in The Jewish Quarterly, Jewishfiction.net, Stand Magazine and other publications.

Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 What exactly is a Jewish short story?
 

Mordechai (Motti) Friedman

Mordechai (Motti) Friedman is the director of the Institute of Research of Zionism at the JNF in Jerusalem, and the author of the books 'Theodor Herzl’s Zionist Journey – Exodus and Return' and 'Moshe Sachs: A yeke, a charedi and a Zionist'.

Friday 17:40
Friday 17:40 Niggunim of Jerusalem
 
Saturday 15:00
Saturday 15:00 The uniqueness of Odessa (1 of 4)
 
Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 The First Zionist Congress (2 of 4)
 
Monday 18:20
Monday 18:20 The Fifth Zionist Congress (3 of 4)
 
Tuesday 19:30
Tuesday 19:30 Altneuland (4 of 4)
 

Georgie Friend

Georgie is currently the Social Action and Volunteer Programmer at JW3. She is also a resident at Moishe House Kilburn, and a trustee of Masorti Judaism. At last year's Festival she was a co-chair of Young and Teen Limmud and is very excited to be returning to an in-person Limmud as a participant!

Monday 16:10
Monday 16:10 Dobble kef!
 
Tuesday 16:10
Tuesday 16:10 Srugim and discussion
 

David Frisch

Now in yeshivah, David holds an MPhil in political theory from the University of Oxford where he was a Barry Scholar, and a bachelor's degree from Duke University where he studied politics, history and religion as an A.B. Duke Scholar. He has volunteered extensively in family law and served as an invited visiting researcher at the Monash University Law Faculty.

Sunday 15:20
Sunday 15:20 What halakhic and American constitutional debates have in common
 
Monday 19:30
Monday 19:30 Prayer for our country
 

Noa Gendler

Noa Gendler has been many things, including yeshiva bocher, radio producer, shul administrator and bookseller. At Limmud, however, she is your Social Programming chair, and can therefore be found in the bar, playing Assassins, or just generally being a public nuisance. She enjoys inappropriately-themed quizzes and telling other people what to do.

Sunday 23:00
Sunday 23:00 Artscroll or porn? And other classic Yeshivish games
 
Monday 21:50
Monday 21:50 Silent disco
 

Andrew Gilbert

Andrew Gilbert is currently the Co-Chair of the London Jewish Forum and the London Jewish Health Partnership. As well as being Reform, Labour and a Spurs supporter, he has chaired more Limmud Conferences (Festivals) than Jonathan Robinson!

Sunday 11:30
Sunday 11:30 Health and wellbeing have become more important for the London Jewish community post-pandemic - why?
 
Monday 21:50
Monday 21:50 Cohesion and antisemitism in London
 
Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 The London Recovery Plan and the Jewish community post-pandemic: what is needed?
 
Tuesday 18:20
Tuesday 18:20 What is the future for Jewish Barnet?
 

Malcolm Ginsberg

Malcolm is an active 80 year old, involved in the Jewish community. He is a Queen's Scout and one of the first winners of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. In 1951 his parents emigrated (and returned) to Oz, introducing cruising. He was editor in chief of Business Travel News for 30 years and now Travel News Update. Malcolm has written for the Jewish Chronicle, Jewish News and Jewish Weekly.

Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 So you fancy a cruise? It's a complex question
 
Sunday 15:20
Sunday 15:20 London City Airport
 

Elliot Glassenberg

Elliot is an American-Canadian-Israeli Queer Jewish educator-activist. Elliot teaches and advocates on topics relating to Jewish pluralism and inclusion, refugee rights, LGBTQ rights and human rights. Elliot is a senior educator at BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change and lives in Jaffa.

Sunday 15:20
Sunday 15:20 If a secular Jew prays, does it make a sound?
 
Sunday 21:50
Sunday 21:50 Queerness and otherness in the Book of Ruth
 
Monday 09:10
Monday 09:10 The Israel-Rwanda refugee fiasco: a cautionary tale
 
Monday 23:00
Monday 23:00 Synagogue and state in Israel, 2022 edition
 

Pearl Gluck

Gluck’s work has been part of the Sundance Lab, Cannes, Tribeca and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Her first documentary, 'Divan' (2004), was a Sundance Institute project, opened theatrically, and was broadcast on the Sundance Channel. 'Where is Joel Baum' (2012), 'Junior' (2017), 'Summer' (2018), 'The Turn Out' (2018) and 'Write Me' (2020) won prizes such as Best Actor and Best Film. She teaches film at Pennsylvania State University.

Saturday 19:30
Saturday 19:30 Inside out: through the (inside out) hasidic lens
 
Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 Haredim – contending with the Jewish future
 
Monday 19:50
Monday 19:50 Filming the history of Bais Yaakov
 

Micah Gold

Micah Gold is a consultant and founder of Mobilise Public Ltd. Micah delivers change and supports the development of communities, their assets and organisations. He was a volunteer with Limmud, chairing Festival twice, and as a Board member. He's a trustee of the Lambourne End Centre, Barnsbury Housing Association and St Albans Brass Band.

Monday 11:30
Monday 11:30 Two-way street: the Greater Manchester community's strengths and assets
 

Daniel Goldfarb

In the pre-Covid world Daniel (Boston-born lawyer/rabbi; in Jerusalem since 1976) taught at the Conservative Yeshiva and at Limmuds around the world (Conference 2000-2018). He looks forward to resuming his Limmud experience and to teaching Jewish texts to friends old and new.

Saturday 20:40
Saturday 20:40 The mitzvot that earn you double miles
 
Tuesday 18:20
Tuesday 18:20 'Love your neighbour as yourself' (Leviticus 19:18) = 'Choose them an easy death' (Talmud)
 

Nicky Goldman

Nicky is the chief executive of the Jewish Volunteering Network. Nicky has worked professionally in the Jewish community for 38 years in leadership and community development, family education, HR and youth and student work.

Monday 19:30
Monday 19:30 How to find your perfect volunteer role
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Limmud Live! @ Festival
 

Aaron Goldstein

Aaron is a senior rabbi of The Ark Synagogue (Northwood and Pinner Liberal Synagogue). His motto is: 'Count Jews In, Not Out' and passionately supports Liberal Judaism’s inclusion policies and championed the Equal Marriage campaign for Liberal Judaism. Aaron adores cycling and relaxes on the allotment with UnOrthodox podcast and blues/jazz music.

Monday 17:10
Monday 17:10 Noah on the Earth: songs and discussion inspired by Noah's ark
 
Monday 21:50
Monday 21:50 Free synagogue membership for under 30s
 
Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 What does 'equal Jewish marriage' mean today?
 

Lisa Goldstein

Lisa Goldstein is a rabbi and teacher of spiritual wisdom and meditation. She is a NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) practitioner, a modality of healing complex trauma. Educated at Brown University and Hebrew Union College, Lisa has 25 years of executive experience at Hillel of San Diego and Institute for Jewish Spirituality. She is a faculty member for M²'s Jewish Pedagogies of Wellbeing.

Friday 17:40
Friday 17:40 Shalom Aleichem: a model for working with developmental trauma
 
Sunday 15:20
Sunday 15:20 Hanukah: poetry of miracles and meditation
 
Monday 18:20
Monday 18:20 Meditation, distraction and connection
 

Marine Goldwaser

Marine is a musician based in Paris. She runs "Mish-Mash and company" who organise cultural events related to Yiddish music and other traditional music and cultures, but also regularly performs alongside various artists all over the world.

Sunday 19:30
Sunday 19:30 Reincarnation of a melody: nigunim workshop
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Migrations of a melody: a musical journey about klezmer
 

Adam Goodman

I have been involved with 2econd Chance from the start and it's amazing to see how fast it has grown. As my first job I've experienced many new things including meeting new people, a regular routine and being part of a team. Since I started I can feel how much my life has changed and I am much more confident in my everyday life.

Monday 19:30
Monday 19:30 2econd chance
 

Mark Gordon

Mark has attended Limmud for 16 years and has finally got around to presenting a session. He is the Executive Producer of The Jerusalem Post Podcast Travel Edition. In his spare time, he works at the British Embassy in Tel Aviv, where he has watched England beat Germany with Liz Truss on a beach and viewed Prince William take penalties in Jaffa.

Saturday 21:50
Saturday 21:50 Michelin stars, Kars and naked spas – tales of Jewish travel podcasting
 

Mark Gottlieb

Mark Gottlieb is Senior Director of the Tikvah Fund. He received a bachelor's degree from Yeshiva College, rabbinical ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and a master's degree in Philosophy from the University of Chicago where his doctoral studies focused on the thought of Alasdair MacIntyre. He lives in Teaneck, New Jersey, with his wife and family.

Monday 14:10
Monday 14:10 Jews in the USA at a crossroads
 
Monday 21:50
Monday 21:50 Reflections on human and divine sovereignty in a democratic age
 
Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 A world shattered and rebuilt: the crisis of Jewish education after the Shoah
 

Michah Gottlieb

Michah Gottlieb is associate professor in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. An expert on modern Jewish thought, his research centres on ethics and politics. His most recent book is 'The Jewish Reformation: Bible Translation and Middle Class German Judaism as Spiritual Enterprise' (Oxford, 2021).

Sunday 09:10
Sunday 09:10 Losing Eden: the beginning of inequality (1 of 3)
 
Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 What's new in... modern Jewish history?
 
Monday 14:10
Monday 14:10 The awakenings (2 of 3)
 
Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 Regaining equality, restoring Eden (3 of 3)
 

Daniel Grabinar

Daniel Grabinar is a 22-year-old in his second year of Teach First. He has a history degree from the University of Leeds, and is a Maths teacher in the city centre of Leeds.

Sunday 10:20
Sunday 10:20 What do pupils actually know about the Jews?
 

Jaclyn Granick

Jaclyn is a senior lecturer in modern Jewish history, was educated at Harvard (BA) and the Geneva Graduate Institute (MA, PhD) and has held Fulbright and British Academy fellowships. Her book 'International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War' (Cambridge 2021) won the (US) National Jewish Book Award. Jaclyn co-leads research project on Jewish Country Houses.

Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 Country houses, Jewish homes
 
Monday 15:20
Monday 15:20 Book talk: international Jewish humanitarianism in the age of the Great War
 

Natalie Grazin

Natalie is a Limmud Trustee, parent of Eden (14 years old) and Blu (13) and partner to Samantha, whom she met at Limmud in 1997. Aged nearly 50, she is coming to understand her own brain much better. Professionally, she is an executive coach and management consultant, working with leaders in the NHS leaders and charities.

Sunday 13:10
Sunday 13:10 Regulating in the face of meltdown!
 
Monday 11:30
Monday 11:30 Strengthening parent-child connection: SCERTS and attachment theory
 
Tuesday 11:30
Tuesday 11:30 Am I just being a pushy Jewish parent? How to advocate for your SEN child with schools, shuls, youth movements and your Jewish family
 
Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 Jewish LGBT+ people and spaces
 

Abigail Green

Abigail Green is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Oxford. She is the author of the prize-winning "Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero" (2010) and is Principal Investigator of the Oxford-based Jewish Country Houses project. She writes regularly about Jewish books for the TLS, the LRB, and Jewish Review of Books.

Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 Country houses, Jewish homes
 

Michael Green

Michael is an environmental consultant during office hours and a mushroom hunter at most other times. He leads wild food walks and is inspired by how mushrooms and plants connect us with nature and Jewish traditions, as well as the role fungi play in sustaining the health of people and the planet.

Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 Limmud fungus foray (Forest School for grown-ups)
 
Tuesday 09:10
Tuesday 09:10 Foraging, wild food and Jews
 

Joanne Greenaway

Joanne is chief executive of London School of Jewish Studies delivering education programmes and developing excellent teachers and educators. A student on the four-year International Halakha Scholars Program for women educational leaders, Joanne has a languages degree from Cambridge and worked as an international arbitration lawyer before moving to the London Beth Din as Get Case director.

Sunday 15:20
Sunday 15:20 Get refusal – a waiting game?
 
Sunday 19:30
Sunday 19:30 Of iPhones, key cards and microphones - the great Shabbat electricity debate
 
Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 The future of Jewish education in the UK
 
Monday 17:10
Monday 17:10 Agunot and coercive control – how helpful are developments in UK law?
 
Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 The state of Jewish education around the world – and why it matters
 

Joel Haber

Joel Haber researches, writes, and lectures about Jewish food history. He is currently writing a book that looks at the history of Shabbat stews (chulent, hamin, dafina, etc.) from around the world. Recently he published a related ecookbook on the subject, available via his website. Joel is also a licensed tourguide in Israel, and among other things, has guided thousands of tourists in Shuk Machane Yehuda, Jerusalem's famous outdoor market. He loves Limmud, and hopes/believes it is the future of Judaism.

Saturday 14:00
Saturday 14:00 Chulent, hamin and more: many Shabbat stews, one Jewish home
 
Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 The original culinary movers and shakers: Jews as transporters of food
 
Monday 23:00
Monday 23:00 They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat! Jewish food conquers antisemitism
 

Caroline Hagard

Caroline has been teaching for many years in religion schools. A storyteller, songwriter and creator of children's services for the High Holy Days and chagim, Caroline is passionate about Judaism and her sessions are great fun. In her spare time, Caroline is a full-time Medical Secretary in the NHS.

Friday 15:30
Friday 15:30 Family Kabbalat Shabbat
 
Friday 17:40
Friday 17:40 Friday night delight
 
Saturday 10:00
Saturday 10:00 Shabbat morning family service
 
Saturday 11:40
Saturday 11:40 Shabbat morning delight
 

George Halfin

George is a marketing manager, wellbeing coach and creator of the book, ‘A Life Less Serious’. Together with Farah Halabi, she runs monthly wellbeing sessions for Nisa Nashim, the UK national Jewish and Muslim women’s network. George is passionate about supporting women to reconnect with who they are, so their light shines brighter in the world.

Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 How can we learn to live a life less serious?
 

Denise Handlarski

Denise is the founder and spiritual leader of the online community Secular Synagogue. She is the author of the book The A-Z of Intermarriage published by New Jewish Press/University of Toronto Press. Denise got a grant in 2022 to study Jewish responses to the loneliness epidemic.

Sunday 20:40
Sunday 20:40 Jewish responses to the loneliness epidemic
 
Monday 18:20
Monday 18:20 Flip the script: intermarriage is good for the Jews
 
Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 The roundtable – religious, secular, seeker?
 

Ziona Handler

Ziona is a senior independent domestic violence advisor and has worked at Jewish Women's Aid in Manchester for 10 years. Her role is to support Jewish women who have experienced domestic abuse, providing them with the practical and emotional help they need.

Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Domestic abuse: barriers for Jewish women
 

Shabbat and Hanukah Programming

Welcome to the Shabbat and Hanukah programme at Limmud Festival 2022!

Friday 15:00
Friday 15:00 Shabbat and Hanukah candle lighting
 
Friday 17:10
Friday 17:10 Communal kiddush – welcome to Limmud Festival!
 
Friday 17:40
Friday 17:40 Play the dreidel! (1 of 4)
 
Friday 22:20
Friday 22:20 Oneg with instruments
 
Friday 22:20
Friday 22:20 Oneg without instruments
 
Saturday 10:00
Saturday 10:00 Shabbat morning stroll
 
Saturday 15:00
Saturday 15:00 Shabbat afternoon stroll
 
Saturday 15:00
Saturday 15:00 Play the dreidel! (2 of 4)
 
Saturday 16:00
Saturday 16:00 Havruta seudah
 
Saturday 16:00
Saturday 16:00 Board game seudah
 
Saturday 16:00
Saturday 16:00 LGBT+ open seudah
 
Saturday 17:30
Saturday 17:30 Havdalah and communal candle lighting
 
Sunday 16:10
Sunday 16:10 Communal candle lighting
 
Sunday 16:10
Sunday 16:10 Play the dreidel! (3 of 4)
 

Claris Harbon

Claris is Professor of Law and gender at Al Akhawayn University, Morocco, and a Mizrahi-Moroccan feminist lawyer and activist. She directs the Hillary Clinton Center for Women's Empowerment and founded a Mizrahi, feminist, antiracist, and social justice advocacy initiative. Her scholarly work on marginalized minorities is deeply informed by 20 years of experience.

Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 The diaspora within - homeless in their home/land: Mizrahis, gender and law in Israel/Palestine
 
Monday 15:20
Monday 15:20 Affirmative squatting – Mizrahi women in Israel correct past and lingering injustices
 
Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 In search of a home - one Jewish-Moroccan woman’s quest for her identity through language
 

Igal Harmelin

Igal is a spiritual director, meditation teacher and a practitioner of NARM, a therapy modality for healing developmental trauma. He has been studying and teaching mystical understanding of religious texts for decades in various contexts. He has translated into Hebrew a number of books on the subjects of religion and spirituality.

Friday 14:00
Friday 14:00 Can we revive the internal temple?
 
Sunday 19:30
Sunday 19:30 'Hasidic big bang' – 13.7 billion years in seven days?
 
Tuesday 10:20
Tuesday 10:20 Meditation, silence and the self in prayer
 

Daniel Heller

Dan Heller is a senior NHS manager, leading the regional roll out of 'Anticipatory Care' in London. He is a trustee of FEAST With Us, a charity whose mission it is to provide regular access to nutritious meals, nutrition education and skills for people suffering from food poverty. Dan is also on the Limmud Volunteers executive group.

Sunday 20:40
Sunday 20:40 The story of an antisemitically named houseplant
 
Tuesday 19:30
Tuesday 19:30 Cost of living crisis: our responsibility towards those struggling to eat
 

Judi Herman

Judi is an experienced presenter, podcaster, public speaker and reader/interpreter of texts. She has bachelor's and master's degrees in performing arts from Middlesex University, is a BBC trained journalist and an arts and podcast editor for Jewish Renaissance. Judi is in demand to read in synagogue and loves to share how to bring texts to life with Bar/Bat Mitzvah and Kabbalat Torah students and all ages!

Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 Bringing readings alive – including your own words in a sermon or d'var Torah
 

Yizhar Hess

Yizhar, vice chairman of the World Zionist Organization, is one of the leading voices in Israel promoting Jewish peoplehood and pluralism. Yizhar is a regular contributor to the Israeli press about the issue of religion and state. He represented the Masorti movement in the negotiations with the Israeli government regarding egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall.

Monday 09:10
Monday 09:10 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress – what can we learn from Herzl the politician?
 
Monday 14:10
Monday 14:10 State and religion in Israel – the challenge of a Jewish and democratic state
 

David Hochhauser

David is currently doing a master's degree in social anthropology, focusing on communal responses to false prophecy and conspiracy theories. He is also an artist. Like most Limmud-goers, he is slightly too interested in antisemitism.

Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 Merchants, minimalism and media: the visual codification of online antisemitism hiding in plain sight
 
Sunday 23:00
Sunday 23:00 What does the wicked son mean to you anyway?
 

Adina Hoffman

Adina is an award-winning essayist and biographer. Her books include 'Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City', and 'My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century', winner of the JQ-Wingate Prize. She lives in Jerusalem and New Haven.

Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 Ben Hecht: fighting words, moving pictures
 

The Limmud House Band

The Limmud House Band are a group of musicians from across the UK who volunteer their time to act as the backing band for our guest musicians and educators, learning their songs to best support our presenters’ musical vision. Don’t forget to join the Limmud House Band for their own session - a concert of favoured tunes and timeless classics!

Saturday 21:50
Saturday 21:50 Limmud House Band in concert
 

Ernie Hunter

Ernie has been a volunteer Holocaust educator in the UK and Germany for many years. He chairs the Northern Holocaust Education Group and is one of its speakers. Ernie is also one of Generation2Generation’s speakers and sits on the Jewish Representative Council’s Education Advisory Group. In his spare time Ernie is happy to be a working grandpa!

Saturday 21:50
Saturday 21:50 Holocaust education – is it working?
 

Jonathan Hunter

When not at Limmud events, Jonathan spends a large amount of his leisure time at various modern jive dance events around the country and is very much looking forward to sharing the joy of dancing with all at Limmud Festival this year!

Saturday 20:40
Saturday 20:40 Modern jive dancing (1 of 2)
 
Sunday 21:50
Sunday 21:50 Modern jive dancing (2 of 2)
 

Ilana Hutchinson

Ilana is the schools manager at Jewish Women’s Aid. She recently co-developed a Whole School Approach for consent education and sexual violence prevention, reaching out to 3000+ students annually. With 20+ years’ experience as a teacher and youth leader, Ilana is passionate about empowering young people to be positive drivers of change.

Monday 14:10
Monday 14:10 TikTok, media and misogyny: talking to our teens about consent
 
Monday 20:40
Monday 20:40 Everyone is invited: A guide to tackling gender-based violence within the Jewish community
 

Joe Hyman

Joe Hyman is Limmud's director of innovation and engagement. He is an LGBTQ+ activist, co-founder of DAVAR, the Jewish Art Immersive, and previously worked as a cultural programmer at JW3. He studied at yeshivot Hadar and Eretz Hatzvi and has a bachelor's degree in architecture. When Joe isn't at work he can be found at an exhibition, cooking for friends or searching for the perfect Kiddush biscuit.

Sunday 23:00
Sunday 23:00 Queer collage dreams of the future
 
Tuesday 16:10
Tuesday 16:10 Curly haired Q&A and other stories - meet Limmud's new staff
 

Shir Malka Ifrah

Shir is a 23 year-old paytanit (poet). She studied piyutim (liturgical poems) in the organization of Kehilot Sharot and currently teaches piyutim from Moroccan and North African traditions. Shir sings and performs throughout Israel and other countries at shows and festivals of Andalusian and Jewish music. Shir teaches in the Jerusalem Conservatory.

Monday 23:00
Monday 23:00 Musical piyut workshop from Moroccan and North African traditions
 
Tuesday 19:30
Tuesday 19:30 Kehilot Sharot ('Singing Communities')
 

Alex Israel

Alex Israel is a rabbi, international Tanakh lecturer, creative educational director and author. Raised in the UK and a proud Bnei Akiva-nik, he teaches at Pardes, Midreshet Lindenbaum and Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi. His website has over 500 articles and he publishes a 929 podcast - a chapter of the Prophets every day.

Sunday 21:50
Sunday 21:50 Halakhah is the solution. Halakhah is the problem! (A 2500-year journey of spiritual evolution)
 
Monday 09:10
Monday 09:10 Spies, giants and prostitutes – Moses' spies; Joshua's spies
 
Monday 21:50
Monday 21:50 The four (and many more!) who entered Pardes: alumni and friends meetup
 
Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 Why did Jethro leave? The search for personal truth and the challenge of commitment
 
Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 The roundtable – religious, secular, seeker?
 

Thea Jacob

Thea is a community musician and trained singer. Recently she has been experimenting with getting more of her synagogue congregation actively involved in prayerful singing; not a choir but a community that sings. Join Thea to hear about the experiment and experience her Jewish infused vocal warmups, exploring tunes and texts.

Saturday 11:40
Saturday 11:40 Jewish-infused singing warm ups
 

Richard Jacobi

Richard is the rabbi at East London and Essex Liberal Synagogue (ELELS). He is also a member of faculty at Leo Baeck College, a trustee of Tzelem (the rabbinical call for social and economic justice) and co-founder of the Jewish faith workers' branch of the British trade union, GMB. He and Lyn are parents to Josh, Abigail and Hannah, and grandparents to Zach and Harry.

Sunday 14:10
Sunday 14:10 What became of the 'common good'?
 
Monday 11:30
Monday 11:30 To be human is to lie!
 

Nicole Jacobus

Nicole is a theatre production manager and science communicator, as well as a resident at the Moishe House Kilburn. After serving as Logistics Chair for Online Limmud Festival 2021, she's excited to be attending her very first in-person Limmud this year!

Monday 16:10
Monday 16:10 Dobble kef!
 
Monday 21:50
Monday 21:50 Silent disco
 
Tuesday 16:10
Tuesday 16:10 Srugim and discussion
 

Yael Jaffe

Yael Jaffe (she/her) is in her final year of rabbinical school at Hadar. She has taught Torah and led tefilah in a variety of communities across the US and UK, including New North London Synagogue, Ohel Mo'ed, and Noam UK. Yael and her husband BZ divide their time between New York and the UK, and she is excited for her first in-person Limmud Festival!

Saturday 19:30
Saturday 19:30 Proclaiming the miraculous: the other 'She’asah nissim'
 
Monday 21:50
Monday 21:50 Prison or refuge: rethinking the exile from Eden
 

Elie Jesner

Elie is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with a background in philosophy and Jewish studies. His writing and teaching brings together these elements in fresh and original ways. Elie works in private practice in London and is also Head of the Psychotherapy Training Program at the Philadelphia Association in Hampstead.

Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 How to change your life – dealing with guilt
 
Tuesday 18:20
Tuesday 18:20 How to change your life – approaching forgiveness
 

Susan Kahn

Susan Kahn is the associate director at The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School. Her book, 'Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel' (Duke, 2000) won a National Jewish Book Award.

Tuesday 18:20
Tuesday 18:20 Canine pioneer: the extraordinary life of Rudolphina Menzel
 

Deborah Kahn-Harris

Deborah Kahn-Harris is Principal of Leo Baeck College in London. She holds a PhD in Hebrew Bible and has published widely. Her book, 'Polyamory and Reading the Book of Ruth', is forthcoming from Lexington Books. She and her husband, Keith, have two teenage children, a cat, a budgie and an indeterminate number of fish.

Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 A different kind of romance: Naomi - Ruth - Boaz
 

Keith Kahn-Harris

Keith Kahn-Harris is a sociologist and writer. He is a senior lecturer at Leo Baeck College and runs the European Jewish Research Archive at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research. The author of eight books, he has most recent interests are stock photos of Jews and the warning messages inside Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs.

Sunday 19:30
Sunday 19:30 The UK Jewish community in the age of Covid: What changed and what didn't?
 
Monday 15:20
Monday 15:20 Jewish diversity in pictures: something to celebrate?
 
Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 Behold the power of our killing machine: heavy metal and the spectre of the Holocaust
 

Gabriel Kanter-Webber

Gabriel took up his first rabbinic post at Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue this summer and has since had to expend considerable energy in resisting the copious amounts of cake that it turns out rabbis get offered in an average week. Crocheter, shorthand writer, tweeter; once labelled a 'horrible human being'.

Sunday 21:50
Sunday 21:50 Sin city: how not to slaughter an entire town
 
Monday 09:10
Monday 09:10 The calf with the broken neck
 

Michael Kay

Michael has a PhD in the history of science and technology and has done research into the use and spread of electrical technologies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is now interested in the impact of electrification on Jewish communities during that period. He currently works in online learning design at King's College London.

Tuesday 19:30
Tuesday 19:30 How many Jews does it take to install a lightbulb? Early Jewish responses to electricity
 

Martin Kaye

Martin is a familiar face at Limmud running its ever-popular bookshop, providing Limmudniks with Jewish publications from around the world. In the last few years he has turned his hand to presenting. His previous Limmud sessions include 20 Jewish Books that everyone should read and 20 Jewish personalities, of whom you might be blissfully unaware

Monday 18:20
Monday 18:20 20 Jewish characters in non-Jewish fiction
 

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll is a writer and an activist. Born and raised in Lakewood, she now lives in Israel. As co-founder and director of Chochmat Nashim, Shoshanna raises awareness of the growing extremism in Orthodoxy and offers ways the community can counter them. She writes for numerous publications and speaks internationally.

Sunday 15:20
Sunday 15:20 Get refusal – a waiting game?
 
Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 Haredim – contending with the Jewish future
 
Monday 09:10
Monday 09:10 The slide to extremism: can we stop it?
 

Ethan Kelly

Ethan is a songwriter and communications officer from London. He grew up attending Kingston Liberal Synagogue, where he learnt a love of Jewish music. As a fan of classical and popular music, he now writes original songs for guitar, harmonica and voice inspired by Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan. This is his first time at Limmud – please say hello!

Monday 17:10
Monday 17:10 Noah on the Earth: songs and discussion inspired by Noah's ark
 

Harry Kelly

Harry is Global Community Manager for Moishe House supporting young adult community builders across Europe, Canada and China, to create meaningful Jewish experiences for their peers. He has worked across the British Jewish community professionally and as a volunteer and is passionate about growing the Jewish community in new and innovative ways.

Sunday 09:10
Sunday 09:10 What is Moishe House?
 
Monday 14:10
Monday 14:10 What is Moishe House?
 
Monday 19:30
Monday 19:30 Moishe House community/alumni social
 

Clive Kennard

Clive is an art historian with expertise in cultural Hebraism expressed in British 19th-century art and literature. He completed a PhD on the British Jewish pre-Raphaelite artist, Simeon Solomon (1840-1905), and the fast-changing Jewish stereotypes affecting the reception of his work.

Sunday 15:20
Sunday 15:20 Pre-Raphaelite depictions of Saul and David. Part 1: Saul (1 of 2)
 
Sunday 21:50
Sunday 21:50 Kinky toffs and their Jewish doms
 
Monday 19:30
Monday 19:30 Pre-Raphaelite depictions of Saul and David. Part 2: David (2 of 2)
 

Barry Kleinberg

Barry is a non-practising solicitor and a practicing osteopath. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Haifa researching Universalism in Orthodox Jewish Thought. Barry is interested in Jewish views towards animals, the philosophy of Nietzsche and the problem of dirty hands!

Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 Animals and the afterlife in Orthodox Jewish thought
 
Monday 17:10
Monday 17:10 If God is dead – what's next? Nietzsche and Judeo-Christian morality
 

Sefi Kraut

Sefi Kraut is a core faculty member of the Pardes Center for Jewish Educators, based in Jerusalem, where she is thrilled to be involved in training the next generation of Jewish educators. Sefi is also the director of education for the Pardes Mahloket Matters Schools project. This is Sefi’s first Limmud!

Friday 17:40
Friday 17:40 Procrastination of biblical proportions
 
Sunday 19:50
Sunday 19:50 Mahloket matters: the value of constructive disagreement
 
Monday 18:20
Monday 18:20 Punishment or prevention - how to best deal with crime?
 
Monday 21:50
Monday 21:50 The four (and many more!) who entered Pardes: alumni and friends meetup
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 The roundtable – under one tent?
 

Michael Kretzmer

Michael visited Lithuania in 2019 and since then has made a film 'J’Accuse!', a passionate indictment of Lithuanian Holocaust fraud. It features two heroes: Grant Gochin, whose family was murdered by a Lithuanian called Jonas Noreika, and Silvia Foti, Noreika's granddaughter. Michael is a member of Birmingham Progressive Synagogue.

Monday 17:10
Monday 17:10 J'Accuse! A cry from the killing pits of Lithuania
 

Annette Kurer

Annette is senior business leader, international leadership coach and motivational speaker with 30 years in global business and a business reputation in the Private sector, Not for Profit, the Civil Service and a qualified dentist. She is a trusted board advisor and Chair of ORT UK outcome-driven and is enthusiastic to empower and engage others to be their best self and achieve their desired work/life aspirations.

Monday 09:10
Monday 09:10 How to make your first impression count and be memorable!
 

Clive Lawton

Clive, co-founder of Limmud and significantly involved in its international spread, is CEO of the Commonwealth Jewish Council, a lecturer at JW3, a magistrate, a tribunal Chair for the NHS and an internationally active educational consultant. He has published over a dozen books and for 40 years has led the Yamim Nora'im services in Oxford.

Monday 20:40
Monday 20:40 Britain, the USA and Israel: political shenanigans - which is saner?
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 The roundtable – under one tent?
 

Debbie Lechtman

Debbie Lechtman is an educator, author, and artist based out of California. In the past, she has worked for Costa Rica’s only Jewish museum and written for a number of Jewish publications. She currently shares her research on Jewish history on her Instagram account, @rootsmetals, where she has fostered a learning community of over 52,000 followers.

Saturday 16:00
Saturday 16:00 We are teaching Jewish history wrong
 
Sunday 21:50
Sunday 21:50 Jewish activism on social media
 
Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 Coping with antisemitism online
 

Olga Lempert

Born and raised in Lithuania, I now live in Israel and work at the National Library in Jerusalem, managing European projects in the fields of Heritage and Lifelong Learning. I am also a fiction and non-fiction translator, currently earning an MA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation at Bar-Ilan University.

Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 Putting a spin on It: Hanukah storytelling workshop
 
Monday 17:10
Monday 17:10 How do you say this in Jewish? Translating our way through the ages
 
Tuesday 18:20
Tuesday 18:20 In with the new: renewal in Jewish culture
 

The Leo Baeck Education Center Haifa

The Leo Baeck Education Centre is considered of Israel’s premier educational institutions, providing quality educational programs for mainstream, gifted and special needs students of all racial, religious, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 Points of view of Israeli teens - Leo Baeck, Haifa
 

Zvi Leshem

Zvi Leshem directs the Gershom Scholem Collection at the National Library of Israel. He also served as Associate Dean of Nishmat and Rabbi of Shirat Shlomo. Zvi researches Hasidism, Gershom Scholem and Rav Shagar and authored "Redemptions: Contemporary Hasidic Essays", as well as numerous articles. He made Aliyah to Jerusalem in 1979.

Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 Hanukah candles as a paradigm of spiritual growth in the writings of Natan of Nemirov
 
Monday 19:30
Monday 19:30 The hasidic tale: mysterious guests and supernatural flights: Rebbe Nahman of Breslov's haunting Hanukah tale
 
Tuesday 09:10
Tuesday 09:10 Gershom Scholem: book collector and librarian
 

David Levin-Kruss

'Judaism is technology that makes the world better,' says David Levin-Kruss, Jewish Learning Director for Yesod-Europe, which works with professionals to sustain and strengthen Jewish communities. David loves text-life interplay. He also works for JDC. Prior to this, David taught at Pardes, and was community director of Stanmore Synagogue.

Sunday 20:40
Sunday 20:40 L'haim for European Jewish professionals
 

Andrew Levy

Andrew is a senior lecturer in law in London and author of a major new work on the Song of Songs, 'Love in the Time of Tyranny'. He writes for numerous Jewish publications and prolifically on Biblical texts. He is a member of Assif, a prayer group at New North London Synagogue, and is a regular ba’al koreh (Torah reader) and presenter of divrei Torah (words of Torah/sermons).

Sunday 09:10
Sunday 09:10 The Song of Songs – love in the time of tyranny: 1. What has Solomon got to do with it? (1 of 3)
 
Sunday 14:10
Sunday 14:10 The Song of Songs – love in the time of tyranny: 2. The Song of Songs – wonderful, numerous or both? (2 of 3)
 
Tuesday 18:20
Tuesday 18:20 The Song of Songs – love in the time of tyranny: 3. A radical work (3 of 3)
 

Joel Levy

Joel Levy lives in Jerusalem where he serves as rosh yeshiva of The Conservative Yeshiva. He teaches Talmud, Halacha and Tefillah. Joel is also the part-time rabbi of Kol Nefesh Masorti Synagogue in Edgware. He received his rabbinic ordination from David Hartman z'l in 2000.

Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 Shabbat ma'ariv – the Friday night amidah (1 of 3)
 
Monday 15:20
Monday 15:20 Shabbat shaharit (morning service) amidah (2 of 3)
 
Monday 20:40
Monday 20:40 Panel on kiddushin (traditional Jewish marriage rites) in the here and now
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 The roundtable – under one tent?
 
Tuesday 19:30
Tuesday 19:30 Shabbat musaf and minhah (additional and afternoon services) amidah (3 of 3)
 

Mike Levy

Mike Levy is a professional researcher, educator, critic, playwright and journalist. Mike’s book, GET THE CHILDREN OUT! – Unsung Heroes of the Kindertransport was published this year (www.lemonsoul.com). He is a researcher for US Holocaust Memorial Museum and AJR.

Tuesday 10:20
Tuesday 10:20 Stephen Sondheim – a lot of night music!
 
Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 Get the children out! Unsung heroes of the Kindertransport
 

Charlie Lewin

Charlie is a queer ex-charedi artist, musician and photographer living in London. They are currently doing their master's degree in Children's Book Illustration & Graphic Novels at Middlesex University.

Monday 19:30
Monday 19:30 My Stamford Hell
 

Ben Lewis

Ben is a long-standing Limmud volunteer who co-chaired Festival last time it was in Birmingham in 2019 and is now the lead for events on the Limmud Executive. He holds a PhD in chemical biology from Imperial College London and now works as a civil servant.

Saturday 19:30
Saturday 19:30 Science is #fakenews: perilous publications
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Limmud Live! @ Festival
 

Jonathan Lewis

Jonathan Lewis studied Law at Cambridge and practised as a solicitor in the City of London and as a judge. In retirement he studied for and was awarded a doctorate in Jewish History from University College London. A member of Pinner United Synagogue, he is married with two sons and three granddaughters.

Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 Jewish chaplaincy in the British Armed Forces 1892-2022
 

Stuart Lewis

Stu who lives in Prairie Village, Kansas, has been attending Limmud UK since 2013 and has given presentations on a variety of topics both at Limmud and at Certificates in Advanced Jewish Education (CAJE) and NewCAJE in the USA. For the past several years he has written online opera guides for Kansas City Lyric Opera.

Friday 14:00
Friday 14:00 Beyond 'Fiddler' – Jewish characters in Broadway musicals
 
Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 The Jewish music of Leonard Bernstein
 

Yuval Linden

Director of the gap year Department in BINA—The Jewish Movement for Social Change, Yuval is experienced in facilitating study groups with a particular focus on leading identity development processes linked to Jewish and Israeli sources. Yuval holds a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree in modern history. He lives in Hod Hasharon.

Monday 20:40
Monday 20:40 Orthodox, conservative, reform and... Israeli: on the Israeli secular Jewish renaissance
 
Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 The roundtable – religious, secular, seeker?
 

Harris Lorie

Harris enjoys Jewish text study and read theology and religious studies at university. He is a regular at Kehillat Nashira partnership minyan, was a past programming and shabbat co-chair of Limmud Festival, and is a governor at Kisharon Noe School. Harris works as a management consultant in public services.

Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 Flexitarianism: a Jewish way of eating meat?
 

Miriam Lorie

Miriam Lorie is one of the first few Orthodox British women to study for the rabbinate and she is Rabbi in Training at Borehamwood's Kehillat Nashira. Prior to semicha at Yeshivat Maharat, Miriam studied at Pardes, Midreshet Harova and Cambridge. She has worked in inter-faith dialogue, leadership training and is a BBC Pause for Thought contributor.

Monday 09:10
Monday 09:10 How odd of God to choose the Jews - a survey of chosenness in Jewish sources
 
Tuesday 19:30
Tuesday 19:30 I Niddah Hero; a tour through the Jewish menstrual purity laws
 

Asher Lovy

Asher Lovy is an abuse survivor and director of ZA'AKAH, which raises awareness about child sexual abuse in the Orthodox Jewish community, advocates for legislative reforms, and operates a Shabbat and Yom Tov mental health peer-support hotline.

Saturday 15:00
Saturday 15:00 Zoom seders and Netflix on Shabbat: how Covid made halakhah adapt
 
Sunday 15:20
Sunday 15:20 We don't care enough about sexual violence (1 of 2)
 
Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 Haredim – contending with the Jewish future
 
Monday 13:10
Monday 13:10 How to make our communities safer (2 of 2)
 

Chana Luntz

Originally an Australian, Chana Luntz studied at Drisha, Nishmat and the Susi Bradfield Leadership Programme. She is particularly interested in providing access to the complexity of halachic literature, including to those with language barriers and unfamiliarity. When not learning, Chana Luntz works as a lawyer and is married with three children.

Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 Women and the mourner's kaddish
 
Tuesday 13:10
Tuesday 13:10 Abortion in halakhah
 

Yael Maghen

Yael Maghen is a student at Israel's elite Ein Prat IDF cadet training academy, where she studies, inter alia, political philosophy and Jewish thought.

Monday 19:30
Monday 19:30 What goes around... Justice, mercy and time in the philosophical tradition
 

Ze'ev Maghen

Ze'ev Maghen is professor of Arabic and Islamic History and Chairman of the Department of Middle East Studies at Bar-Ilan University. His latest books are Reading Revolutionary Iran: The Worldview of the Islamic Republic's Religio-Political Elite and John Lennon and the Jews: A Philosophical Rampage.

Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 Passover, the holiday of freedom - and other such poppycock
 
Sunday 19:30
Sunday 19:30 God is an Arab
 
Monday 17:10
Monday 17:10 Lick your teeth - the paradox of Khomeinist Iran
 
Monday 18:20
Monday 18:20 Why Jews love money
 

John Mann

John Mann was the Member of Parliament for Bassetlaw from 2001 until 2019. In 2005, he was appointed as Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism, and stepped down in 2019 when he was appointed the Government’s Adviser on Antisemitism by the then Prime Minister. He joined the House of Lords in 2019 as Lord Mann of Holbeck Moor.

Friday 12:50
Friday 12:50 Fighting antisemitism today: lessons from Cable Street
 

Ethan Marcus

Ethan Marcus is the Managing Director of the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America, the national umbrella organization for the Ladino-speaking Sephardic community in the United States. In 2019 Ethan was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Athens, Greece, where he conducted research on the liturgical customs of the Jews of Greece.

Sunday 14:10
Sunday 14:10 Educating the next Sephardic generation: an international approach to advancing Ladino language and culture
 
Monday 18:20
Monday 18:20 Unknown Sephardim: exploring the philosophies, language and culture of Ladino-speaking Jewry
 
Tuesday 09:10
Tuesday 09:10 Ladino 101 – An Introduction to Judeo-Spanish
 

Bat-Sheva Margalit Stern

Bat-Sheva is a professor of history and gender studies at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. Her book 'Redemption in Bondage - The Women Workers Movement in Eretz Israel 1920-1939' (Winner of The Hecht prize 2009) is one of her core topics. Her biography on Ada Fishman Maimon won the Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi prize 2018.

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
 

Ezra Margulies

Ezra is the Limmud Programming Czar having held roles for the organization continuously since 2016. He will take a bribe in the form of an alcohol beverage from anyone who wishes to submit requests or complaints about this year's programme. After spending ten years in the UK he recently relocated to Tel Aviv where he works for a cybersecurity start-up. So great are his responsibilities that he is even capable of submitting a presenter biography that exceeds the official character limit.

Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 What's new in... modern Jewish history?
 
Sunday 20:40
Sunday 20:40 Conceptualizing community
 
Monday 18:20
Monday 18:20 What's new in... ancient Judaism?
 

Erica Marks

Erica is CEO of Migdal Emunah, Jewish sexual abuse support, supporting children, women and men across the UK Jewish community who have experienced sexual abuse, and is a specialist in child and adult safeguarding and services.

Monday 15:20
Monday 15:20 Child sexual abuse in the UK Jewish community: improving outcomes for our young people
 

Avi Mayer

With one of the largest online followings of any Jewish communal figure and a monthly audience in the millions, Avi Mayer is considered one of the most prominent millennial voices in Israel and the Jewish world. A writer, commentator and advocate, he has held senior roles with some of the world's top Jewish organisations. He lives in Jerusalem.

Sunday 19:30
Sunday 19:30 Zionism and anti-Zionism deconstructed
 
Monday 17:10
Monday 17:10 The state of antisemitism in America
 

Sarah McCulloch

Sarah McCulloch is an autistic occupational therapist, autism professional, and founder of the Autistic Empire, a community for autistic adults developing tools and services for all autistic people.

Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 Autistic Jews
 

Paul Mendes-Flohr

Paul is professor emeritus of modern Jewish thought, Divinity School, University of Chicago and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Among his most recent publications are; `'Cultural Disjunctions. Post-Traditional Jewish Identities' (2020), and 'Martin Buber. A Life of Faith and Dissent' (2021).

Sunday 14:10
Sunday 14:10 Judaism facing the challenge of multiculturalism
 

Dafna Michaelson Jenet

Dafna Michaelson Jenet is a Colorado State Representative. She has made over 60 laws around mental health, sexual assault, education and other issues. She brings Torah values to her work legislatively and otherwise. As a 12+ year curator of TEDx in Colorado she has coached over 350 women and youth to give TEDx Talks with ideas worth spreading.

Friday 21:10
Friday 21:10 Being an Israeli Jewish lawmaker in a nation of Christian nationalism
 
Sunday 09:10
Sunday 09:10 From 50 state traveller to US lawmaker, the journey
 
Monday 14:10
Monday 14:10 Jews in the USA at a crossroads
 
Monday 19:50
Monday 19:50 So you want to give a TEDx talk?
 
Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 How to craft your message when lobbying a law maker or anyone else
 

Elhanan Miller

Elhanan Miller is a rabbi and Torah teacher at Pardes and research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is the founder of "People of the Book", an online initiative that teaches the Arab world about Jewish faith and culture.

Tuesday 18:20
Tuesday 18:20 Judaism for Arabs
 

Helena Miller

Helena Miller is the Director of Degrees and Teacher Training Programmes, Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Jewish Studies. She has a doctorate in Jewish education and has taught, researched and written widely for many years. Helena was co-chair of Limmud International (2009-2012) and senior editor of the 'Journal of Jewish Education' (2014-2020).

Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 Maureen's Torah
 
Sunday 19:30
Sunday 19:30 The UK Jewish community in the age of Covid: What changed and what didn't?
 
Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 The future of Jewish education in the UK
 
Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 The state of Jewish education around the world – and why it matters
 

Steve Miller

Founder of Tzedek and Restore Community Projects, Steve works with organisations who share a vision of a more just, creative, connected, inclusive and sustainable society. Steve teaches on a wide variety of Jewish topics in communities across the UK and Europe.

Monday 14:10
Monday 14:10 Covid stories – an oral history project
 
Monday 20:40
Monday 20:40 Debt – poor countries (and rich countries as well), poor people, whose responsibility?
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Dow Marmur z'l – a giant of Progressive Jewish thought and action
 

Ephraim Mirvis

Ephraim Mirvis is Chief Rabbi of the UK and the Commonwealth. He is a primary representative of the Jewish community to government, other faiths and civil society. He is well-known as a principled spiritual leader, who has strengthened Jewish community life and broken new ground in education, interfaith and social responsibility.

Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 The most important verse in the Torah? Our Jewish obligation to a life of social responsibility
 
Monday 18:20
Monday 18:20 Vayehi erev, vayehi voker – And there was evening and there was morning: words of Torah to help us rediscover the light in moments of personal darkness
 

Isaac Montagu

Isaac is a musician and educator, cellist and oudist, currently researching Sephardic liturgical music as a scholar of the JMI. Also co-editor of the new siddur Or veShalom, Isaac believes in widening access to Sephardic traditions. Finally, Isaac would like to take this chance to thank Limmud for being born, Isaac's parents having met here.

Saturday 19:30
Saturday 19:30 Inclusivity in Sephardic liturgy – excerpts from Siddur Or veShalom
 
Monday 21:50
Monday 21:50 Ibn Gabirol was gayer than you think – excerpts from Siddur Or veShalom
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Sephardi sung poetry through history: excerpts from Siddur Or veShalom
 

Rachel Montagu

Rachel Montagu teaches Biblical Hebrew and Jewish studies at City Lit (an adult education centre in London) and to private students. She volunteers in the archives of the S&P Sephardi Community. She studied at Cambridge, Leo Baeck College London, Machon Pardes Jerusalem and Heythrop College London. She met her husband Francis Treuherz at Limmud and they live in London.

Tuesday 11:30
Tuesday 11:30 The man who was
 

Abigail Morris

Abigail Morris is a keen - and chatty - runner. She has previously been Director of the Jewish Museum (from 2012 to 2020) and Artistic Director of Soho Theatre Company (from 1991 to 2006). A member of Finchley Reform Synagogue, she and her family have been coming to Limmud for the last 24 years.

Sunday 08:00
Sunday 08:00 Vayarutz vayomer: he ran and he talked – or 'Run and chat'
 
Monday 08:00
Monday 08:00 Vayarutz vayomer: he ran and he talked – or 'Run and chat'
 
Tuesday 08:00
Tuesday 08:00 Vayarutz vayomer: he ran and he talked – or 'Run and chat'
 

Nina Morris-Evans

Nina is a maths and politics teacher at a state comprehensive secondary school in Camden, London. She lives in a Moishe House, where she runs events for the young adult Jewish community. When not teaching kids or cooking for events, she enjoys running, swimming and being outdoors.

Monday 16:10
Monday 16:10 Dobble kef!
 
Tuesday 16:10
Tuesday 16:10 Srugim and discussion
 

Michael Moskowitz

Mike is the scholar-in-residence for Trans and Queer Jewish Studies at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, the world’s largest LGBT synagogue. Mike received three ultra-Orthodox rabbinical ordinations while learning in Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem and Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, New Jersey. Mike’s writings can be found at www.rabbimikemoskowitz.com.

Friday 21:10
Friday 21:10 Allyship and rebuilding the Temple
 
Saturday 21:50
Saturday 21:50 Torah and cocktails
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 The roundtable – under one tent?
 

Robin Moss

Many moons ago, Robin was a movement worker for LJY-Netzer. He then spent a decade as a Jewish/Israel educator at UJIA. He is now chief executive of Unitas, an amazing youth centre in North London. He is a Trustee of KeshetUK and the Jewish Youth Fund. He edits 'Limmud On One Leg' and has presented at Limmuds around the world. Oh, and he loves whisky.

Sunday 21:50
Sunday 21:50 Israel by comparison: some ways Israel is and some ways Israel is not extraordinary (1 of 2)
 
Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 The future of Jewish education in the UK
 
Monday 17:10
Monday 17:10 Israel by comparison: some ways Israel is and some ways Israel is not extraordinary (2 of 2)
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Limmud Live! @ Festival
 

Tim Motz

Tim is a trustee and prayer leader at New Stoke Newington Shul. Having moved from Reform to Masorti, he has at times felt that everyone but him knows what is going on. Tim previously worked in tech and is currently a pianist in Berlin. He will soon complete the European Academy of Jewish Liturgy's ba'al tefilah (prayer leader) course.

Saturday 20:40
Saturday 20:40 Impostor syndrome in synagogue
 

Naomi Munk

Naomi is a junior barrister and lifelong Limmudnik. She has a particular interest in how secular law interacts with religious issues and how the law protects our beliefs - topics that never fail to spark lively discussion!

Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 Religion, belief and the law: an update on the most fascinating recent cases
 

Russel Neiss

Equally fluent in Yiddish and Javascript, Russel is a Jewish educator who builds critically acclaimed educational apps used by thousands each day. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Ha'aretz and other media outlets He currently serves as a Senior Product Engineer at Sefaria.

Saturday 20:40
Saturday 20:40 8-bit Judaism
 
Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 Visualizing Torah
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Free Torah
 

Neil Nerva

A social worker by training, Neil is a Labour Councillor in Brent. He is Cabinet lead for Public Health Culture and Leisure, Chair of Brent Health and Wellbeing Board, Vice Chair of Local Government Information Unit, member in the London Jewish Health Partnership, Chair of London branch of the Jewish Labour Movement, a member of Belsize Square Synagogue and the Makor Hayim community.

Sunday 11:30
Sunday 11:30 Health and wellbeing have become more important for the London Jewish community post-pandemic - why?
 

David Newman

David, originally from the UK, is professor of Geopolitics at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. In addition to his work on Israeli politics and borders, he is also interested in Anglo-Jewish history and its synagogues. In 2013 he was awarded the OBE for promoting scientific cooperation between Israel and the UK.

Saturday 11:40
Saturday 11:40 Praying for the royal family and adapting to change
 
Sunday 14:10
Sunday 14:10 Five elections in three years – why don't we reform the electoral system? (1 of 3)
 
Monday 18:20
Monday 18:20 Haredim and the future of Israel: a social and demographic challenge (2 of 3)
 
Monday 19:30
Monday 19:30 Post-election panel: whither the Israeli left?
 
Tuesday 09:10
Tuesday 09:10 The tale of a plate and the evolution of Israel's borders (3 of 3)
 
Tuesday 19:30
Tuesday 19:30 The lost heritage of the UK's synagogues
 

Michael Newman

A grandson of a Holocaust refugee, Michael Newman OBE is chief executive of The Association of Jewish Refugees which represents and supports Holocaust refugees and survivors nationwide. Among his other duties, Michael is a member of the UK delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and a Board member of the Claims Conference.

Tuesday 11:30
Tuesday 11:30 Generation 2 Generation asks: where to now for Holocaust education?
 

Jacqueline Nicholls

Visual artist and Jewish educator, Jacqueline's art engages with traditional Jewish texts in untraditional ways. Recent projects include drawing the Talmud ('Draw Yomi'), interpreting the Megillah ('Deck of Esther'), and digital animations that turn prayers into questions. Jacqueline also works at JW3 as part of the Arts & Culture team.

Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 The deck of Esther
 
Sunday 21:50
Sunday 21:50 Tall tales and pale ales: a late-night Talmud event at the Limmud Bar
 
Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 Psalms for the artist
 
Tuesday 22:30
Tuesday 22:30 The rebbetzins' disco
 

Hillel Norry

Not every rabbi can break boards with their bare hands, or hit the bullseye at 25 yards. But Hillel is not your typical rabbi. A Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, certified firearms instructor, and congregational rabbi, Hillel brings spiritual arts and martial arts together. He is widely recognized as a scholar and dynamic leader and speaker.

Saturday 11:40
Saturday 11:40 Punches, prayers, chi and kavanah
 
Sunday 09:10
Sunday 09:10 Is self-defense a mitzvah?
 
Monday 14:10
Monday 14:10 Worship beyond language: mind, body and spirit
 

Tracy-Ann Oberman

Tracy-Ann is an English TV, theatre and radio actress and writer. TV credits include 'Ridley Road', 'It’s a Sin', 'Doctor Who', 'After Life', 'Friday Night Dinner' and more. She will be playing Shylock in the highly anticipated Watford Palace Theatre adaptation of 'Merchant of Venice', a new production set in the East End at the time of the Battle of Cable Street.

Friday 12:50
Friday 12:50 Fighting antisemitism today: lessons from Cable Street
 

The People's Democratic Republic of Not The Gala

An 'Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu'-free zone.

Tuesday 20:40
Tuesday 20:40 Not The Gala
 

Stephen Ogin

Stephen is emeritus professor of engineering, co-founder of the Yiddish Open Mic Café and chair of the Yiddish Café Trust. The Kaczerginski talk was first given at the UK Yiddish Sof-Vokh (June 2022). The research for the talk on settlements followed a chance discussion with a Palestinian family after the Yiddish summer programme in Tel Aviv this year.

Saturday 21:50
Saturday 21:50 What do we need to know about the settlements in the occupied/disputed territories?
 
Monday 09:10
Monday 09:10 Shmerke Kaczerginski: Vilna author and songwriter of Jewish resistance to the Nazis
 

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)
 

Sonti R Ramirez

Sonti is a London-based secondary school history teacher and alumna of University College London's Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

Sunday 20:40
Sunday 20:40 From Auschwitz to Accra: exploring the reinvention of high-profile Nazis in post-colonial Africa
 

Alma Reisel

Alma is a life-long Limmudnik. She is in her fourth and final year of training as a systemic and family psychotherapist, is a social worker and an activist.

Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 Isaac and Rebecca attend family therapy
 
Monday 14:10
Monday 14:10 Approaches to Leviticus 18:22
 

Anthony Reuben

Anthony Reuben is a BBC journalist and fact checker. He was the corporation's first head of statistics and wrote the book, 'Statistical: Ten easy ways to avoid being misled by numbers'. He goes to the 'Assif' service at New North London Synagogue.

Saturday 20:40
Saturday 20:40 Biblical weights and measures
 

Isaac Reuben

Isaac is a student and musician. He represents Barnet on the UK Youth Parliament and writes drama when he can. He attends two synagogues, New North London and Finchley Reform, and neither knows he’s a member of the other. This is his seventh Limmud and he thinks he finally knows how things work, but if you see him looking for Grab’n’Go at 4am, please offer him a hand.

Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 Jews on social media
 

Marcus Roberts

Marcus Roberts is the founder/director of JTrails, creating Jewish Heritage and Holocaust trails in the UK, the Channel Islands and NW France and works with communities and conserves Jewish heritage. JTrails is the UK leg of the official ‘European Route of Jewish Heritage’ and a partner with the Oxford University 'Jewish Country House Project'.

Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 Country houses, Jewish homes
 
Monday 14:10
Monday 14:10 Revealed: the only SS concentration camp for Jews on British territory and the shameful British denial of Holocaust justice for victims
 
Monday 17:10
Monday 17:10 The impact of antisemitism and the Holocaust on English Jewish aristocracy and the UK Jewish country house
 

Jonathan Robinson

Serial Limmud Chair - I'm doing it for the 3rd time!

Monday 23:00
Monday 23:00 And here's to me, Jonathan Robinson!
 

Sarah Robinson

Sarah Hass Robinson is a psychotherapist and professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University. She works at the intersection of leadership and mental health, and makes space for Jewish anti-racism conversation. Sarah and Shaul left the UK seventeen years ago to lead Lincoln Square Synagogue, Manhattan.

Sunday 19:30
Sunday 19:30 Spiritual first aid for humans who lead
 
Tuesday 19:30
Tuesday 19:30 Jewish anti-racism conversation
 

Shaul Robinson

Shaul has been the senior rabbi of Lincoln Square Synagogue, one of the most prominent modern Orthodox Synagogues in America, since 2005. He was previously the first ever Jewish chaplain at Cambridge University and rabbi of Barnet Synagogue. He was born in Glasgow and holds an MBA from Nottingham University.

Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Limmud Live! @ Festival
 
Tuesday 18:20
Tuesday 18:20 The first rule of halakhic change...
 

Simon Rocker

Simon Rocker is assistant editor (education) at the Jewish Chronicle.

Sunday 11:30
Sunday 11:30 The battle for the yeshivot - Stamford Hill vs the Schools Bill
 

Jonathan Romain

Rabbi, writer and broadcaster, Jonathan is minister of Maidenhead Synagogue. He is chaplain to the Jewish Police Association, president of the Accord Coalition (campaigning for inclusive education) and vice-chair of Dignity in Dying. His latest book is 'The Naked Rabbi’ (John Hunt Publishing)

Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 The naked rabbi
 
Monday 17:10
Monday 17:10 What makes Reform rabbis angry?
 

Ella Rose

Ella is the Labour Councillor for Whetstone ward in the London Borough of Barnet. She is a former Marketing and Communications Chair and Catering Chair on various Limmud teams, Equalities Officer of the Jewish Labour Movement and Chair of LGBT+ Labour London.

Tuesday 18:20
Tuesday 18:20 What is the future for Jewish Barnet?
 

Gilla Rosen

Rabbanit Gilla teaches Talmud and Midrash at Yakar Jerusalem, Yakar Tel Aviv and Nishmat, focusing on psychological perspectives and contemporary dimensions. She works as a halakhic adviser and at Forum Takana. Gilla helped to create the first Limmuds together with her late husband, Rabbi Mickey Rosen, Yakar's founder, and their children.

Sunday 13:10
Sunday 13:10 'What's mine is mine; what's yours is yours" - or is it? Elijah versus the hasid
 
Monday 17:10
Monday 17:10 God as mother
 
Tuesday 09:10
Tuesday 09:10 'Acher' (the rebel) and Abraham
 

Ishay Rosen-Zvi

Ishay is a professor of rabbinic literature and is the chair of the department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud at Tel-Aviv University. He has written on Midrash and Mishnah as well as on issues of self-formation and collective identity in second-temple Judaism, early Christianity and rabbinic literature.

Sunday 14:10
Sunday 14:10 Royal garments and ground of shame: body and soul in rabbinic literature
 
Sunday 19:30
Sunday 19:30 What is Midrash?
 
Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 The invention of the 'goy'
 
Monday 18:20
Monday 18:20 What's new in... ancient Judaism?
 

Philip Rosenberg

Phil specialises in faith and diplomatic clients at leading public relations agency The PR Office. He was previously director of public affairs at the Board of Deputies of British Jews, a Labour councillor in West Hampstead and Executive Director of the Faiths Forum for London. Phil is a member of the World Jewish Congress’s Jewish Diplomatic Corps.

Monday 17:10
Monday 17:10 PR-ing your synagogue, charity or business: tricks of the trade from the PR Office
 
Tuesday 09:10
Tuesday 09:10 Antisemitism, Bibi and the cost-of-living crisis: an ABC of Jewish public policy
 

Samuel Rosenberg

Shmuel Rosenberg was born in Tel Aviv and studied at various yeshivas in Bnei Brak and Jerusalem. He holds a BA in Jewish Philosophy from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and an MA in Talmud from Bar Ilan University. He has served as a community rabbi in congregations in Israel as well as in Poland and most recently in NYC.

Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 A spiritual response to an emotional struggle
 
Tuesday 18:20
Tuesday 18:20 A shtetl called Tel Aviv
 

Gary Rosenblatt

Pulitzer Prize-finalist Gary Rosenblatt is often referred to as 'the dean of American Jewish journalism'. He was editor and publisher of 'The Jewish Week' of New York for 26 years. Prior to that he was editor of the 'Baltimore Jewish Times' for 19 years. He continues to write his 'Between The Lines' column at garyrosenblatt.Substack.com

Saturday 14:00
Saturday 14:00 The Baruch Lanner sexual abuse scandal: two decades on
 
Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 The oys and joys of Jewish journalism
 
Monday 14:10
Monday 14:10 Jews in the USA at a crossroads
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 What's so funny about Jewish humour?
 

George Rosenfeld

George is a recent graduate of Cambridge and Harvard where he studied moral philosophy and the psychology of altruism. He is the founder of various initiatives which have collectively raised over £500,000 for charity. He also co-founded Effective Altruism for Jews.

Saturday 21:50
Saturday 21:50 How can we do good, better? Introducing effective altruism for Jews
 

Simon Rosenstone

My name is Simon and I am severely visually impaired (registered blind). I am very sociable and despite my disability I enjoy many outdoor pursuits such as bouldering, and in the past I have sky dived and done bungee jumps for charity. I also enjoy playing UNO. It is a great game that can be played by people of all ages and abilities.

Friday 21:10
Friday 21:10 Do you know UNO?
 

Adam Rossano

Adam Rossano is the executive director of Limmud and previously held leadership roles in both global programming and development at Moishe House. Adam spends his spare time gardening, cooking, hiking and, whenever he can, playing on the beach. He has a bachelor's degree in philosophy and Hebrew and lives in London with his wife Becky and their cheeky son Rafi.

Friday 15:00
Friday 15:00 Nava Tehila singing circle
 
Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 The roundtable – religious, secular, seeker?
 
Tuesday 16:10
Tuesday 16:10 Curly haired Q&A and other stories - meet Limmud's new staff
 

Jeanette Rotstain

Jeanette was born in Iran to a conservative and musical family. Her father was a well-known cantor. She emigrated to Israel when she was 15 years old with Aliyat Hano'ar (Youth Immigration). Jeanette has participated and collaborated with many virtuoso artists in different festivals and settings in Israel and abroad. She is married with three children.

Sunday 20:40
Sunday 20:40 Iranian Jewish piyutim
 
Monday 20:40
Monday 20:40 Great psalms of Iranian Jews
 
Tuesday 19:30
Tuesday 19:30 Kehilot Sharot ('Singing Communities')
 

Samantha Royston

Sam will be running speed-dating this year. She feels vaguely qualified to do this having met her boyfriend at the last physical Limmud (albeit not actually at speed-dating) - but how hard can be it be?! More importantly, Sam needs to find her sister a man so they can go on double dates. Buckle up!

Monday 19:30
Monday 19:30 Find your Adam or Eve (for 25-35 year olds)
 

Gabriel Rozenberg

Gabriel first attended Limmud in 2001, and has subsequently returned enough times to have lost count. He is an entrepreneur currently building a climate-related startup, who has also previously worked across journalism, finance and politics.

Saturday 21:50
Saturday 21:50 Let my people play Go!
 

Aviva Rozenwald

Aviva has been part of Rikudei Am (Israeli dances) for 8 years, teaching and dancing in different countries worldwide including Israel, Russia and the UK. Ready to share the joy of this vibrant, energetic and uniting part of the Israeli culture!

Sunday 15:20
Sunday 15:20 Lo nafsik lirkod! (We won’t stop dancing)
 
Sunday 23:00
Sunday 23:00 Israeli dance party! (1 of 2)
 
Monday 10:20
Monday 10:20 Chagim for everyone: Jewish festival dances
 
Monday 19:50
Monday 19:50 Israeli dance party! (2 of 2)
 
Tuesday 10:20
Tuesday 10:20 Rikud chadash – New dance!
 
Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 Tayelet
 
Tuesday 22:30
Tuesday 22:30 Israeli dance party! (3 of 3)
 

Laun Ruttenberg

Laun has always been curious about how we think, learn, connect and grow. Laun is an enthusiastic reader and believes that is the key to lifelong learning and personal development. On her winding route to life coaching she previously qualified as a social worker, produced for talk radio and worked in local authorities social care IT.

Tuesday 09:10
Tuesday 09:10 People of the Book – what gets us reading?
 

Stav Salpeter

Stav is the Director of Community Engagement at Yachad. While studying international relations and international law at Edinburgh she co-founded the award-winning Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue Society and was elected to the Union of Jewish Students National Council. Beyond Jewish communal life Stav worked for the Norwegian Red Cross and directed the Edinburgh International Justice Initiative legal clinic.

Monday 11:30
Monday 11:30 A window into Hebron: a virtual tour
 
Monday 19:30
Monday 19:30 Post-election panel: whither the Israeli left?
 
Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 A united Jerusalem? Unpacking a British Embassy move
 
Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 ‘Muna’ screening: Mira Awad on art, politics and Palestinian-Israeli identity
 

Jonathan Samuel

When our third child was born with a learning disability, the whole family learned Makaton. This is a system using hand-signs from British-Sign-Language to scaffold spoken communication for people with learning difficulties. This proved invaluable in the early years of our son's life. I extended this to Hebrew prayer.

Saturday 11:40
Saturday 11:40 Learn to SIGN along to the Shema
 
Sunday 14:10
Sunday 14:10 Who needs a Christmas tree? Build a family sukkah!
 

Leonora Samuel

Leonora is a graduate of London School of Jewish Studies Susi Bradfield programme. She is autistic. She maintains broadly orthodox Jewish practice whilst gaining inspiration from many sources. Leonora is a Pets as Therapy visitor with her golden retriever. She also sings in a choir. In her spare time she has served as an adult educator.

Saturday 15:00
Saturday 15:00 My relationship with Dog
 

Benzion Sanders

Benzion (Benzi) grew up in New York City. In 2011 he took on Israeli citizenship and was drafted into the Israel Defence Forces where he served in the Sayeret Nahal special forces unit between the years 2012-2015. Benzi spent most of his service stationed in different parts of the West Bank and was also deployed to the northern Gaza Strip during the 2014 war.

Monday 11:30
Monday 11:30 A window into Hebron: a virtual tour
 

Naomi Seidman

Naomi Seidman was raised in a Yiddish-speaking hasidic home in Brooklyn. She is the Jackman Professor of the Arts at the University of Toronto. Her five books include a history of Bais Yaakov. Her podcast, 'The Heretic in the House', was released in November.

Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 What's new in... modern Jewish history?
 
Sunday 20:40
Sunday 20:40 The heretic in the house
 
Monday 19:50
Monday 19:50 Filming the history of Bais Yaakov
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Freud in the popular Yiddish press
 

Moses Seitler

Moses is the Founder and Director of Screen Share UK and the Communications manager at Refugee Education UK. Before that, he headed up the education and community engagement programme for the human rights advocacy charity René Cassin. He is a graduate of the Chief Rabbi’s Ben Azzai Programme and the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University.

Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 Bridging the digital divide: how the Jewish community is empowering refugees in the UK
 

Monica Selo

I am an ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher and writer who is passionate about stand-up comedy. It's my dream to perform stand-up comedy at Limmud.

Monday 20:40
Monday 20:40 Stand-up comedy
 

Joshua Shanes

Joshua is professor of Jewish Studies and director of the Center for Israel Studies at the College of Charleston. He has published widely on modern Jewish political, religious and cultural history and is currently finishing a book on Jewish Orthodoxy from its German origins until the 21st century.

Sunday 15:20
Sunday 15:20 Zionism: ancient dream or modern revolution?
 

Yuval Shany

Professor Shany is the Hersch Lauterpacht chair in international law and former dean of the law faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee from 2013 to 2020 and served for one year during that time as chair of the committee.

Friday 14:00
Friday 14:00 Human rights for the digital age
 

Hannah Sharron

Raised in Hertfordshire, Hannah has lived in Israel since 2019. She is a keen netballer and writer with two degrees (one from the University of Birmingham), three dogs and boundless enthusiasm for her work at IsraAID - Israel's foremost humanitarian aid and international development organisation.

Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 Does anyone still care about the invasion of Ukraine?
 
Tuesday 11:30
Tuesday 11:30 You've never heard of this emergency
 
Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 100 million journeys of displacement
 

Daniella Shaw

Daniella is an interfaith activist, an LGBT+ community organiser and a sociologist of religions and community. She splits her time between postdoctoral research on Muslim-Jewish relations in Europe and LGBT+ inclusion work in Jewish communities. Side-gigs include writing a book on LGBT+ people of faith, saying ‘yes’ to stuff and trying to parent.

Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 Jewish LGBT+ people and spaces
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Muslim-Jewish encounters in urban Europe
 

Dave Shaw

Dave is a marketing communications specialist and founding trustee of KeshetUK – the charity ensuring that no person should have to choose between their Jewish and LGBT+ identity. He also chaired Gay Jews In London, a group with nearly 900 members, programming social activities for those identifying as gay and Jewish in London.

Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 Jewish LGBT+ people and spaces
 

Marvin Shaw

Marvin J Shaw is a poet and author. Seize The Day, his seventh book, launches at this year's Limmud. Marvin has taught Creative Writing, Counselling, Public Speaking and Jewish-related subjects to various audiences. All Marvin's writing and teaching focuses on maintaining and enhancing one's emotional and mental health.

Sunday 09:10
Sunday 09:10 Seize the day! A poem to enhance every day of the Jewish year
 
Sunday 19:30
Sunday 19:30 How poetry can improve our mental health
 
Monday 15:20
Monday 15:20 What is a poetic autobiography? And how can I write one?
 

Miki Shaw

Miki is an artist, illustrator, graphic designer and educator. She has created and performed live visuals at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Latitude Festival, Bestival and many Limmuds. Her current project is a graphic novel about motherhood. She also runs creative workshops for children and adults, teaches leyning (reading from the Torah) and facilitates for Mothers Who Make.

Saturday 21:50
Saturday 21:50 Creativity for busy people
 

Sybil Sheridan

Sybil is rabbi of the Newcastle Reform Synagogue, director of the Lyons Learning Project and founder of the charity Meketa that supports the Beta Israel community in Gondar, Ethiopia. A Limmud veteran of more than thirty years, Sybil is delighted to be back once more to learn and present sessions in person.

Monday 14:10
Monday 14:10 The seven prophetesses (1 of 2)
 
Monday 21:50
Monday 21:50 The seven prophetesses (2 of 2)
 
Tuesday 09:10
Tuesday 09:10 African Jewish lives
 
Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 The roundtable – religious, secular, seeker?
 

Ruben Shimonov

Ruben is an educator and community builder dedicated to Jewish diversity and intercultural understanding. He is the American Sephardi Federation's National Director of Sephardi House and Founding Executive Director of Sephardic Mizrahi Q Network. As an artist, Ruben combines Arabic and Hebrew calligraphy to build Muslim-Jewish interfaith bridges.

Friday 17:40
Friday 17:40 Understanding, adaptability and worldliness: the classical Sephardic approach
 
Saturday 21:50
Saturday 21:50 At the intersection of Sephardic, Mizrahi and LGBTQ+: lifting our stories out of the margins
 
Sunday 09:10
Sunday 09:10 Sephardic? Mizrahi? Exploring terminology that will deepen our understanding of Jewish diversity
 
Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 The multifaceted history and culture of Bukharian Jews (1 of 2)
 
Monday 10:20
Monday 10:20 Maktoub/katuv: An exploration of Arabic and Hebrew calligraphy
 
Monday 14:10
Monday 14:10 The multifaceted history and culture of Bukharian Jews (2 of 2)
 
Tuesday 19:30
Tuesday 19:30 The rich history of Jewish communities of the Caucasus
 

Michael Shire

Michael Shire is a rabbi and professor of Jewish Education at Hebrew College Boston. He is the founder of Torah Godly Play.

Sunday 20:40
Sunday 20:40 What is neo-hasidism and why is it coming to your synagogue?
 

Adrian Sieff

Adrian has been involved in the Jewish community's environmental work through the Noah Project, and social justice issues through Tzedek and Jewish Support for the Homeless. Adrian and Simone retrofitted their home to an ultra-low energy standard. He is currently completing a master's degree in food policy.

Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 Cutting the cost and carbon of your home energy
 

Jordan Siegel

Jordan is a multimedia journalist focusing on refugees and social and political issues, primarily within photojournalism. Her work has taken her to Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan-Darfur and the West Bank. She is currently filming and directing a feature-length documentary about the war in Darfur and the politics of Sudan's conflict.

Saturday 11:40
Saturday 11:40 Working as a Jewish photojournalist in the Middle East
 
Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 When 'ghost soldiers' threaten Israeli security
 
Monday 20:40
Monday 20:40 How Israel is stepping on the wrong side of history
 

Joshua Silberstein-Bamford

Joshua grew up in Perth, Western Australia, with his biologist parents and their menagerie. He is currently a doctoral candidate in Human Sciences at the University of Oxford, studying the evolution of music and dance. He has also been a host for Moishe House Without Walls and is a community leader for Humanistic Judaism UK.

Saturday 20:40
Saturday 20:40 The genesis of dance and story: perspectives from evolutionary anthropology
 

Alan Silman

Alan is a professor in health science at Oxford University. Outside his major research areas, aside from being a Limmud trustee, he has a long-standing interest as an epidemiologist in the genetic, historical, cultural influences of Judaism on health and diseases. He blogged and also spoke widely to Jewish audiences about the Covid pandemic.

Sunday 14:10
Sunday 14:10 How Jewish is Crohn's disease?
 
Tuesday 09:10
Tuesday 09:10 How much is Parkinson's a Jewish disease?
 

Judith Silver

Judith is an artist who currently mostly works in the fields of music and writing. Her main projects at the moment are Companion Voices, an organisation bringing comfort to individuals at the end of life through singing, and her play with music, ‘Mum Thumb’, which, having been performed on Zoom in 2021, is now being performed live onstage.

Tuesday 13:10
Tuesday 13:10 'Mum Thumb', a play with music by Judith Silver
 
Tuesday 18:20
Tuesday 18:20 'Eshet Chayil' from scratch, a new setting by Judith Silver
 

Samer Sinijlawi

Samer Abdelrazzak Sinijlawi is the head of diplomatic, Israel and international relations at the Fatah Shadow Leadership. He leads dialogue within Israeli society and is the Palestinian with the most appearances on Israeli media. He was arrested for five years in 1987, at the age of 15.

Sunday 15:20
Sunday 15:20 What is Jerusalem to me and how is it part of my narrative or national story? (1 of 3)
 
Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 Looking at solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – beyond the failed two-state solution paradigm (2 of 3)
 
Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 A united Jerusalem? Unpacking a British Embassy move
 
Tuesday 18:20
Tuesday 18:20 The international community and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (3 of 3)
 

Ora Solomons

Ora has spent most of her life in Reading, where she would sing with her family in Shabbat services. She grew up attending Limmud every year - now, with this being her 18th festival, it is the first time she's getting to be a presenter! Ora is in her first year studying an undergraduate degree in music at the University of Birmingham.

Saturday 16:00
Saturday 16:00 Musical traditional seudah shlishit (third meal)
 

Shira Solomons

A lifelong feminist Shira is community director at the Jewish Community of Berkshire in Reading where she organises cheder, community events and Judaism talks at schools. She is passionate about practical spirituality and Jewish education that enables children, women and men to expand their intellectual and spiritual horizons.

Saturday 16:00
Saturday 16:00 Musical traditional seudah shlishit (third meal)
 
Sunday 21:50
Sunday 21:50 Gender in halakhah: a feminist perspective on the challenge of compassionate, inclusive realism in orthodox Judaism
 

Zvi Solomons

One of the last four Jews' College rabbis, Zvi served in Norwich, Potters Bar, Liverpool and Reading. Now the rabbi at JCoB (Jewish Community of Berkshire), he and Shira also serve the student community and hospitals in the area. Besides rabbinic activity, Zvi speaks to thousands of children throughout the South East and on Zoom, teaching on Judaism for Religious Education.

Friday 21:10
Friday 21:10 Make mine a double
 
Tuesday 19:30
Tuesday 19:30 Deprogramming antisemitism
 

Jessica Spencer

Jessica is a Masorti rabbinical student learning at Hebrew College, the Pardes kollel, and the Yashrut Institute. She is a co-founder of Azara, a new cross-communal British yeshiva opening Jewish texts to everyone. Jessica is an HC-SVARA Talmud Pedagogy Fellow, and sporadically writes a feminist blog about periods.

Saturday 20:40
Saturday 20:40 Girls can kiss now, let’s get rabbinic
 

Vivien Spevock

Vivien is a retired primary and special-needs teacher. She enjoys making beautiful things. In particular, she enjoys crafting; embroidery and cross-stitch are her favourites.

Sunday 13:10
Sunday 13:10 Embroider a mizrah (1 of 2)
 

Chlo Spinks

Chlo Spinks is a long-time Limmudnik and music journalist, writing for 'Gigwise', 'The Skinny' and a variety of other publications. As a multi-instrumentalist with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, she likes to dig into the reasons why music affects us, using psychology and music theory to explain the hidden wonders of music.

Sunday 14:10
Sunday 14:10 'Why does that song make my chest hurt?' and other questions
 
Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 From Bowie to Blondie: what is the power of a musician’s persona?
 

David-Yehuda Stern

David-Yehuda (‘DY’) is a Rabbi at Radlett Reform Synagogue. He holds a bachelor's degree in film and television studies from Nottingham University and a master's degree in Jewish education from the London School of Jewish Studies. DY studied for the rabbinate at Leo Baeck College - his final year thesis explored the role of kindness in rabbinic thought and practice.

Saturday 11:40
Saturday 11:40 Does kindness (really) matter?
 
Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 Responding with kindness: a series of rabbinic case studies
 

Helen Stone

Helen Stone is co-chair of Generation 2 Generation and leads their training programme. She has 40 years’ experience as a secondary school teacher. Since her retirement, Helen has been presenting the story of her mother, Emmy Golding, to schools and other organisations. She now teaches English to refugees and asylum seekers for New Citizens’ Gateway.

Tuesday 11:30
Tuesday 11:30 Generation 2 Generation asks: where to now for Holocaust education?
 

Maurice Stone

Maurice is chairman of the Israeli Dance Institute (IDI) and works for the United Jewish Israel Appeal (UJIA). He has been teaching dance for many years at Limmud in the UK, Russia and Ukraine. He believes that Israeli dance is a fundamental educational tool promoting Jewish identity and a connection with Israel. So let’s dance!

Sunday 15:20
Sunday 15:20 Lo nafsik lirkod! (We won’t stop dancing)
 
Sunday 23:00
Sunday 23:00 Israeli dance party! (1 of 2)
 
Monday 10:20
Monday 10:20 Chagim for everyone: Jewish festival dances
 
Monday 19:50
Monday 19:50 Israeli dance party! (2 of 2)
 
Tuesday 10:20
Tuesday 10:20 Rikud chadash – New dance!
 
Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 Tayelet
 
Tuesday 22:30
Tuesday 22:30 Israeli dance party! (3 of 3)
 

Robert Stone

Robert Stone is the author of The Golden Bell, a novel about the medieval poet and philosopher Yehuda Halevi (1075-1141). He has a lifelong fascination with how people of different religions and cultures relate to each other, developed during his career advising governments on strategies to fight poverty, particularly in the wake of conflicts.

Sunday 19:30
Sunday 19:30 The Mediterranean – a Medieval melting pot
 
Monday 17:10
Monday 17:10 Yehuda Halevi – physician, poet, philosopher, mystic
 

Yoni Stone

Yoni's hobbies are football, reading and spreadsheets. His favourite book is the Haggadah. His favourite food is pasta. His favourite Jewish festival is Limmud.

Sunday 23:00
Sunday 23:00 What does the wicked son mean to you anyway?
 

Katja Stuerzenhofecker

Katja is lecturer in Gender Studies in Religion and a fellow of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester. She has a special interest in contemporary Jewish practices and their relation to thought and tradition. For entertainment she organizes the ‘Screen & Talk’ film club at the Centre for Jewish Studies.

Sunday 19:30
Sunday 19:30 The UK Jewish community in the age of Covid: What changed and what didn't?
 

Hannah Style

Hannah is an enthusiastic dietitian specialising in mental health. She enjoys cycling to meet service users and collaborate with service leads across London. Beyond the NHS, Hannah advocates for dietary equality; she founded FEAST, a food poverty charity, and is researching the nutrition of homeless people in partnership with university College London.

Tuesday 19:30
Tuesday 19:30 Cost of living crisis: our responsibility towards those struggling to eat
 

Simon Style

More usually known to Limmud audiences as a leader of shira sessions, Simon is also a chartered accountant with many years' experience in large and small businesses as well as charities. He is the financial trustee for FEAST with us.

Tuesday 19:30
Tuesday 19:30 Cost of living crisis: our responsibility towards those struggling to eat
 

Sarah Sultman

Sarah Sultman is the co-founder of Gesher school, a specialist school for pupils aged 4-16 with mild to moderate special needs. She believes passionately that all children, regardless of any diagnosis, should have the right to access both a Jewish education and communal activities and events whilst having their SEN needs met.

Tuesday 09:10
Tuesday 09:10 Gesher School, from an idea to 'Outstanding' – the importance of a blueprint
 
Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 Navigating the UK SEN system: from diagnosis to funding
 

Sydney Switzer

Sydney is a Jewish educator and artist working with diverse Jewish communities, from her native Canada to Scotland, Poland, Hungary, Israel and India. She makes use of traditional methods and skills to explore ideas of Jewish identity, land, home and traditions, blending textiles, photography, writing and community.

Monday 16:10
Monday 16:10 Limmud knitting circle
 
Tuesday 16:10
Tuesday 16:10 Limmud knitting circle
 

David Tal

David Tal is a professor at the University of Sussex, where he is the Yossi Harel Chair in Modern Israel Studies. His most recent book, 'The Making of an Alliance: The History of the Israel-US Special Relationship' was published by Cambridge University Press in January 2022.

Monday 17:10
Monday 17:10 The making of an alliance: the origins and development of US-Israel relationship
 

Adam Taub

Adam Taub lectures on Tanakh and Midrash at London School of Jewish Studies and at Lockdown University. He is the co-founder of the charity Etgar, which teaches foundational Jewish knowledge to students in the UK and internationally.

Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 Maureen's Torah
 

Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz

Lindsey recently held a Research Fellowship at Manchester University investigating the development of Limmud. She's lectured at several universities and teaches at London School of Jewish Studies. In 2021 she published her first book (on Orthodox Jewish women's religious lives) and received Orthodox rabbinic ordination from Yeshivat Maharat, New York.

Saturday 16:00
Saturday 16:00 The Midrash meditates on itself: reading Shir Hashirim Rabbah
 
Sunday 15:20
Sunday 15:20 Four Hanukah stories? The books of the Maccabees
 
Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 Maureen's Torah
 
Monday 16:10
Monday 16:10 Preparing to present at Limmud Festival 2023 - because everyone can be a teacher
 
Monday 18:20
Monday 18:20 'So how's the Limmud research going?' An update
 

Luz Toff

Luz is a lifelong Limmudnik and currently a student at Yeshivat Maharat. 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.

Saturday 14:00
Saturday 14:00 Torah of winter
 
Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 Almost three years in – reflections on the Daf Yomi journey
 

Abe Tolley

Abe is a fifth-year medical student at the University of Cambridge. He is the Director of Raise, a UK-wide student movement which changes the way students think about giving, and helped start High Impact Medicine, an organisation that helps medics have a broad social impact. He is a former Noam youth leader and member of New North London synagogue.

Saturday 21:50
Saturday 21:50 How can we do good, better? Introducing effective altruism for Jews
 

Marie van der Zyl

Marie van der Zyl is the President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. Marie has spearheaded successful campaigns for the proscription of Hamas and Hezbollah and to amend Covid legislation that could have resulted in forced cremation of Covid victims. In her professional life she is a solicitor and a partner at INCE GD.

Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 The Jewish community versus the BBC
 

Rachel Vogler

Rachel is the Right to Food campaign consultant for René Cassin. For the last 18 months she has been building René Cassin's participation in the national Right to Food campaign, focused also on building Jewish alliances for a strong Jewish response to food poverty.

Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Jewish voices beyond the food bank
 

Yitchak von Schweitzer

Yitzchak was born in 1926 in Austria. He served in the German army on the Russian Front in 1944-45 and was a British prisoner of war between 1945-48. He was then in the Royal Engineers in the bomb disposal service in London. In 1949 he went to London University and following postgraduate studies held a range of executive jobs in England, Europe and South Africa. He converted to orthodox Judaism in South Africa.

Saturday 15:00
Saturday 15:00 Surviving Hitler: my personal story
 

Adam Wagner

Adam Wagner is a barrister specialising in human rights law at Doughty Street Chambers, London. He founded and chairs the award-winning human rights charity, EachOther, and is a visiting professor of law at Goldsmiths, University of London. His debut book, 'Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why It Matters' was released in October.

Monday 09:10
Monday 09:10 Emergency state: freedom, democracy and the pandemic
 
Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 Religion, belief and the law: an update on the most fascinating recent cases
 

Julia Wagner

Julia is a lecturer and writer specialising in film and television. She holds a PhD in Film Studies from University College London. Julia's writing on Jewish-interest culture has been published widely and she lectures with international cultural centres and conferences. Julia hosts filmmaker Q&As and is passionate about media education and public engagement.

Sunday 14:10
Sunday 14:10 Jews on screen: Jewish actors for Jewish roles?
 
Monday 10:20
Monday 10:20 Unravelling 'Shtisel' season 3: doubles, dreams and death
 

John Ware

John Ware is a journalist whose 2019 BBC Panorama "Is Labour antisemitic?" investigated the rise in antisemitism within Labour. Since then, he’s learned a lot more about how the crisis developed and Corbyn's own approach to it. Some of his conclusions may surprise you. Others will not!

Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 Anti-Semitism in Labour – rewriting history
 

Lewis Warshauer

Lewis Warshauer is an independent Jewish studies educator based in New York and a regular presenter at Limmud. His subjects include works of art as commentary on the Bible. Lewis received his rabbinic ordination from Jewish Theological Seminary and in a previous career worked on Middle East policy for the US government.

Saturday 16:00
Saturday 16:00 Limmud, learning and education – all the same?
 

Daniel Weiss

Daniel H. Weiss is Polonsky-Coexist Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is author of Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence (forthcoming 2023, Cambridge University Press), among other publications. He is currently in Tübingen on a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers.

Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 Modern Jewish philosophy and the politics of divine violence
 

Bess Welden

Bess Welden is a theatre-maker based in Portland, Maine. Her play 'Madeleines' won the 2022 National Jewish Playwriting Contest and will be produced in 2023 at the Jewish Theatre of Bloomington (Indiana). Bess is also a performer and faculty member of Colby College's Department of Performance, Theater and Dance.

Monday 13:10
Monday 13:10 Bringing 'Madeleines' to life: an exploration of Bess Welden's play about a family of Jewish women
 
Monday 20:40
Monday 20:40 Jewish theatre-makers schmooze
 
Tuesday 18:20
Tuesday 18:20 Jewish recipes for writing: on-the-page experiments about family, food and memory
 

Emma Weleminsky

Emma is the UK community manager for OLAM, a network of Jewish and Israeli international development organisations, and JDC Entwine, which focuses on engaging young Jews in global Jewish responsibility through travel. Before joining OLAM in 2022 she worked in several heritage and school settings. She lives in London with her husband and dog.

Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 Does anyone still care about the invasion of Ukraine?
 

Chloe Welford

Chloe is a Membership Events Coordinator. She enjoys organising and attending events, socialising, marketing and graphic design. Chloe is newly married and lives with her husband Jake in Hertfordshire.

Saturday 21:50
Saturday 21:50 Couples' evening social session
 

Jake Welford

Jake is head of Global Digital Marketing Innovation, Testing and Optimisation, at WhatsApp. Outside of work he likes (ethical) investing, deep thinking, dabbles in futurism (AI, Robots) and is active on YouTube on the overlap of these topics (Progress is Everything). Jake is newly married, lives with his wife in Hertfordshire and volunteers for Limmud.

Saturday 21:50
Saturday 21:50 Couples' evening social session
 
Sunday 15:20
Sunday 15:20 Ethical investing: how we can heal our world £20 at a time
 
Tuesday 13:00
Tuesday 13:00 Future of me and you, robotics and AI
 

Vivian Wineman

Educated at Yavneh Yeshiva and Cambridge University. Practised as a city commercial lawyer for forty years. Past President Board of Deputies, New Israel fund. Jewish Vice chair CCJ. MA UCL. Studying for PhD on history of Zionism. Fascinated by Jewish history and inter faith relations. Blogs for ToI

Monday 15:20
Monday 15:20 The fall and fall of anti-Zionism
 

Irene Wise

Artist and writer Irene Wise is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Arts, University of Roehampton (previously senior lecturer in Media and Culture). She is a fellow in Holocaust Education at the Imperial War Museum and a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. Irene wrote and curated the app for iPad on Anne Frank’s 'The Diary of a Young Girl'.

Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 Where is Anne Frank
 
Monday 09:10
Monday 09:10 Who's afraid of Jewish humour?
 
Monday 13:00
Monday 13:00 Reckonings
 
Monday 15:20
Monday 15:20 Back in Berlin
 
Tuesday 11:30
Tuesday 11:30 Jewish existentialist cinema
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Short film winners
 

Sara Wolkenfeld

Sara is the chief learning officer at Sefaria, an online interface for Jewish texts. Sara is a fellow at the David Hartman Center at the Hartman Institute of North America and a member of Class Six of the Wexner Field Fellowship. Her current writing projects apply Talmudic ideas to ethical questions raised by technological advances.

Saturday 15:00
Saturday 15:00 From Sinai to Sefaria: Torah and new media
 
Sunday 17:10
Sunday 17:10 Visualizing Torah
 
Sunday 21:50
Sunday 21:50 Tall tales and pale ales: a late-night Talmud event at the Limmud Bar
 
Monday 19:30
Monday 19:30 Talmud for all: the case for democratizing Jewish texts
 
Tuesday 09:10
Tuesday 09:10 Write your own Torah (no scribal arts required)
 
Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 The roundtable – religious, secular, seeker?
 

Jewish Women's Aid

Jewish Women’s Aid is the only specialist charity in the UK working with Jewish women and their children affected by domestic abuse and sexual violence. We run a holistic and culturally sensitive service, offering advocacy and emotional support, counselling, group work, helplines, web chat and children’s therapy services. Our preventive educational work takes place in synagogues, schools, on campus and across Jewish community settings.

Monday 14:10
Monday 14:10 TikTok, media and misogyny: talking to our teens about consent
 
Monday 20:40
Monday 20:40 Everyone is invited: A guide to tackling gender-based violence within the Jewish community
 
Tuesday 15:20
Tuesday 15:20 Domestic abuse: barriers for Jewish women
 

Adam Woolfe

Adam Woolfe is a Bioinformatician and Molecular Biologist by training, working as a Director of Bioinformatics for a start-up in the area of immunotherapy therapeutic discovery. He is one of those south London Jews you've heard about, but has lived in Paris, France for the past 12 years. He enjoys applying his computational skills to Torah study.

Sunday 19:30
Sunday 19:30 Digital pictograms encoded in the Torah
 

Netanel Zalevsky

Nethanel is 46 and lives in Israel. He is a multidisciplinary musician: composer, arranger, singer and multi-instrumentalist. He has performed as a soloist in Israel and around the world. Among other things, he is also involved in the transmission of the Hasidic and Ashkenazi traditions and their preservation, and teaches it in various communities.

Sunday 21:50
Sunday 21:50 The hasidic tradition and its music
 
Tuesday 19:30
Tuesday 19:30 Kehilot Sharot ('Singing Communities')
 

Raphael Zarum

Raphael is the Rabbi Sacks Chair of Modern Jewish Thought at the London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS), and its dean. He trains teachers, rabbis and educators; and writes and lectures about fascinating new readings of old texts. He has a PhD in theoretical physics, an MA in adult education and is a graduate of Jerusalem’s Mandel Leadership School.

Sunday 18:20
Sunday 18:20 Maureen's Torah
 
Sunday 23:00
Sunday 23:00 The penultimate psalm
 
Monday 17:10
Monday 17:10 Daniel Cainer and Raphael Zarum - new psalms for old ceremonies?
 
Tuesday 11:30
Tuesday 11:30 Jonathan Sacks: a radical traditionalist
 
Tuesday 14:10
Tuesday 14:10 Gender in the imagery of God
 

Tony Zendle

Tony is the author of several books on Jewish themes (such as 'The Definitive Guide to Jewish Miscellany and Trivia') and a regular speaker to Jewish groups such as Milim, the Association of Jewish Refugees and JACS (Jewish Association of Cultural Societies). Tony is also an occasional contributor to Jewish newspapers, a member of the Jewish Historical Society of England, an accredited golf referee – and a keen naïve artist.

Saturday 19:30
Saturday 19:30 Jews and food – Ashkenazi style
 
Sunday 09:10
Sunday 09:10 The life and times of Albert Ballin
 
Monday 15:20
Monday 15:20 In space no-one can hear you kvetch - Jews in space
 

Asya Zlatina

Asya was born in Moscow, moved to the USA and trained at the Kirov Academy, Washington Ballet and Goucher College. After performing with Koresh Dance Company she founded ARTIST HOUSE for dance creation and senior and special needs outreach. Asya teaches virtually in Iran. She is known as 'the Jewish dancer' and is proud to carry that title.

Sunday 15:20
Sunday 15:20 Is there more? Hidden symbolism in the choreography of Jewish artists
 
Monday 09:10
Monday 09:10 In the Miriam tradition (1 of 2)
 
Tuesday 17:10
Tuesday 17:10 In the Miriam tradition - Part Tutu (2 of 2)
 

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