Limmud Festival 2023 - Presenters

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Tori Egherman

Tori is a core team member of Oy Vey, studies with Ze Kollel, and co-leads The Jewish Manifesto, a collaborative project with Jewish and Jewish-adjacent folks in the Netherlands. She (co-) leads conversations that foster community and that will lead to co-creating a manifesto that captures the hopes, fears, dreams and demands of the participants.

Sunday 09:00
Sunday 09:00 What do Jews in the Netherlands want? Initial findings of The Jewish Manifesto
 
Monday 10:00
Monday 10:00 Shaping the future: challenges and visions for European Jewish communities
 

Haggai Elkayam Shalem

Haggai Elkayam Shalem is a social and political psychologist, specializing in behavior research and design. He holds a PhD in political psychology from the Hebrew University. Haggai provides consulting services focusing on strategic communications, branding and messaging, measurement and evaluation, and public opinion research.

Sunday 09:00
Sunday 09:00 Politics in everyday life
 
Sunday 11:10
Sunday 11:10 The political psychology of the 2023 protests in Israel
 
Monday 10:00
Monday 10:00 No comparisons: the power of multi-model thinking
 
Wednesday 10:00
Wednesday 10:00 The psychology of media: how media shapes public opinion
 

Louise Ellman

Louise Ellman was first elected in 1970 and was Labour/Co-op MP Liverpool Riverside 1997-2019. She resigned from the Labour Party after 55 years membership because of antisemitism under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership and re-joined in 2021. She represents JLM on the Board of Deputies and is a Board member of Labour Friends of Israel.

Monday 11:10
Monday 11:10 150 years of Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation
 
Monday 14:20
Monday 14:20 Left antisemitism - from Labour under Jeremy Corbyn to Gaza
 

Neil Elton

Neil has been fascinated by stories and storytelling and drawn to wonderful Jewish stories through film, television, books and live events. He has always been very spiritual and believes he is on a journey of self discovery, which has drawn him to the Limmud Presenter Bootcamp, inspiring himself and other people to tell their own unique stories.

Sunday 12:20
Sunday 12:20 Jewish love languages
 

Ilan Emanuel

Ilan was born in the USA, raised in the UK and then returned to the USA to study to be a Reform rabbi at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ilan is the rabbi of Temple Concord in Syracuse, New York, and has previously served communities in Lincoln, Nebraska, Toronto, Ontario, and Corpus Christi, Texas.

Sunday 17:50
Sunday 17:50 Kabbalah for rationalists - how to appreciate Jewish mysticism when you're not a mystic
 
Monday 16:40
Monday 16:40 Judaism and American politics
 

Judith Valerie Engel

Judith Valerie is an Austrian concert pianist and musicologist, currently pursuing a DPhil in Historical Musicology at the University of Oxford, and on leave from the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance at the University of British Columbia.

Saturday 20:20
Saturday 20:20 Jewish women and music in Vienna from the 18th to 20th century
 

Howard Epstein

Howard, a practising solicitor, has written books in four genres and two plays, which were performed live and on Zoom, writes a weekly column for the Jewish Telegraph and lectures for the Abraham Events and Lockdown University.

Sunday 19:00
Sunday 19:00 Forgotten heroes: Chaim Weizman, first President of Israel (1 of 3)
 
Monday 20:10
Monday 20:10 Forgotten heroes: Leo Szilard, father of the Manhattan Project (2 of 3)
 
Tuesday 19:00
Tuesday 19:00 Forgotten heroes: Vasily Grossman, star WWII journalist and author (3 of 3)
 

Jekaterina Erlich-Koren

Jekaterina is an active member of Jewish community of Estonia. She has also volunteered at several Limmud Baltic events. Jekaterina is an HR and crewing management professional with a legal background. In her free time she is a singer in the Jewish Duo Ma-s-Ka.

Saturday 20:20
Saturday 20:20 Limmud Europe schmooze: cocktails, connections and conversations
 
Sunday 21:20
Sunday 21:20 Ma-S-Ka Duo Evening of Songs
 

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