Limmud Festival 2024 - Presenters

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Leon Fenster

The artist behind the ‘London Jewish Mural’ @ JW3. From Taiwan to Mexico, Leon is commissioned to bring stories to life in his dream-like style, be it a history of political scandals, the global pandemic experience or a single family. He likes to be challenged and is always looking for the next story to tell. He’s also looking for an agent.

Sunday 10:25
Sunday 10:25 Leon’s Dream Worlds
 
Tuesday 09:15
Tuesday 09:15 The Haggadah As You’ve Never Seen It Before
 
Tuesday 11:35
Tuesday 11:35 The ‘London Jewish Mural’
 

Dan Fenster-Simons

Dan is a Chemistry teacher by day and obsessed with the Jewish Stock Exchange by night. The Jewish Stock Exchange game is a labour of love, started 12 years ago and evolved into the beast that it is today!

Saturday 20:15
Saturday 20:15 Launch of the Jewish Stock Exchange (1 of 2)
 
Tuesday 22:00
Tuesday 22:00 The Jewish Stock Exchange...the awards (2 of 2)
 

Nicola Feuchtwang

After a professional lifetime as a paediatrician in the NHS, Nicola trained for the rabbinate at Leo Baeck College. She was ordained in the summer of 2024, and is now one of the rabbis at Alyth Synagogue. Her dissertation was about the 'Language of Smell' in Biblical and rabbinic literature, and its possible relevance to modern communities.

Sunday 09:15
Sunday 09:15 Smell in the Bible and Rabbinic Literature
 
Monday 14:00
Monday 14:00 50 Years On: Where are We?
 

Gila Fine

Gila Fine is a lecturer of rabbinic literature. She is the recipient of the Maimonides Award for Jewish Education, and has been described as “a young woman on her way to becoming one of the more outstanding Jewish thinkers of the next generation” (Haaretz). Her new book is The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic: Rereading the Women of the Talmud.

Saturday 19:05
Saturday 19:05 Strangers in Strange Lands -- Tales of Talmudic Travelers (1 of 4)
 
Sunday 11:35
Sunday 11:35 Strangers in Strange Lands -- Tales of Talmudic Travelers (2 of 4)
 
Monday 12:50
Monday 12:50 Strangers in Strange Lands -- Tales of Talmudic Travelers (3 of 4)
 
Monday 16:15
Monday 16:15 The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic: Book Talk
 
Tuesday 11:35
Tuesday 11:35 Strangers in Strange Lands -- Tales of Talmudic Travelers (4 of 4)
 

Nathan Finkel

Nathan is a musician from London. As well as playing in the House Band at Limmud, he plays his own psychedelic-infused music with a combination of traditional instruments and argumentative machines. His music ranges from the whimsical to the weird and is the perfect way to unwind at a busy festival.

Sunday 18:35
Sunday 18:35 Nathan Finkel & Edge of Chaos
 
Monday 12:50
Monday 12:50 Learn to Jam (1 of 2)
 
Monday 23:00
Monday 23:00 House Band Shindig
 
Tuesday 12:50
Tuesday 12:50 Join the House Band (2 of 2)
 
Tuesday 22:00
Tuesday 22:00 Psychedelic Sound Journey
 

David Finlay

David is a writer of songs and performance pieces on Jewish topics. He is particularly known for creating How Rich They Are telling the life story of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai through the words of his poems and bringing Jewish Shoah diaries to a wider audience.

Sunday 19:45
Sunday 19:45 The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk and other songs
 
Monday 14:00
Monday 14:00 Dear Diary
 
Monday 20:55
Monday 20:55 How Rich They Are: The Life of Israeli Poet Yehuda Amichai
 

Joseph Finlay

Joseph Finlay is a musician and a historian. He is musical director of Mosaic Liberal Synagogue and the London Jewish Male Choir. In 2023 he completed his PhD on Jewish responses to race relations in Britain, at the University of Southampton. He continues to research issues related to Jews, race relations and the British empire.

Monday 18:35
Monday 18:35 Are Jews an Ethnic Minority in British Law? Case Law from the 1980s
 

Matty Fisher

Matty is a final year media student at the University of Leeds and Lauder Fellow of the World Jewish Congress. He previously served as the Union of Jewish Students’s Digital Engagement, Apprenticeships, and Careers Officer, Publicity Officer of Leeds Jewish Society and has produced multiple award-winning productions on student TV and radio.

Sunday 10:25
Sunday 10:25 Mobilise & Amplify: Campaigning through Social Media
 
Sunday 11:35
Sunday 11:35 Being Jewish with Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Panel Discussion and Q&A
 

Ellen Flax

Ellen Flax is a philanthropy specialist who currently supports the work of a graduate school of public health in NYC. She received her rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and serves as the rabbi of several senior-care facilities.

Monday 23:00
Monday 23:00 Getting Schickered: Jews and Booze
 

Yehudis Fletcher

Yehudis is the co-founder of Nahamu, a Jewish organisation that counters ideologically motivated harms. There was a time when she had no academic credentials, and had to fill this bio with jokes. Now she holds a BSc in Social Policy and is undertaking a masters in Religion and Theology. Her memoir, Chutzpah will be published by Transworld in 2025.

Sunday 11:35
Sunday 11:35 Sharp Elbows? Or Shoulders to Lean On: Narratives of High Control Communities
 
Sunday 19:45
Sunday 19:45 15 Recommendations: What Nahamu wants to see in the Children's Wellbeing Bill
 
Monday 12:50
Monday 12:50 'Freedom From' and 'Freedom To'
 
Tuesday 10:25
Tuesday 10:25 Forced Marriage, Marital Rape, and Reproductive Abuse in a Charedi Context
 

Marc Frank

Marc is a Jewish meditation teacher in training with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, and Community Manager for Hamakom UK. He works as a Gestalt Therapist and Mental Health Support Worker, facilitates Totnes Jewish Community, and chairs a Devon-based Interfaith Forum. He's passionate about peace within our lives, and the awareness which makes this possible

Tuesday 09:15
Tuesday 09:15 Kulam Ahuvim - Loving Ourselves Back to Life
 

Jodie Franks

Jodie is an ethusiastic educator, with a passion for all things Torah. Having previously worked at UJS and Maccabi GB, focusing on enriching Jewish student life and combatting antisemitism and anti-Muslim hate, she is now a maths teacher who is excited to learn with, and from, everyone at Limmud!

Saturday 11:30
Saturday 11:30 How did Adam and Eve light their Chanukah candles?
 

Paul Freedman

Paul studied Physics at Bristol, Education at Cambridge and for the rabbinate at Leo Baeck College where he has also taught Biblical Hebrew. He is Senior Rabbi at Radlett Reform Synagogue and has worked on liturgy for both Liberal & Reform Judaism. Final editor of the first ever British Reform Haggadah, and co-editor of its new High Holyday Machzor.

Sunday 11:35
Sunday 11:35 Making a Meal of it: Birkat Ha-mazon Reform
 
Sunday 17:25
Sunday 17:25 Don’t Quote Me – Renewing Your Liturgical Licence
 
Wednesday 10:25
Wednesday 10:25 Our Father, our King! What’s a Meta For?
 

Vanessa Freedman

Vanessa is Hebrew & Jewish Studies Librarian at University College London, and was previously Assistant Librarian at Leo Baeck College. She is married to the senior rabbi of Radlett Reform Synagogue but is definitely not the rebbetzin! She has been an enthusiastic Limmudnik since 1995.

Monday 18:35
Monday 18:35 The Rough Guide to Jewish Resources
 

Sofia Freudenstein

Sofia is a fourth year student at Yeshivat Maharat and a Jewish Philosophy MA student at Yeshiva University. She has learned as a Senior Fellow at R' Aryeh Klapper's Summer Beit Midrash, Yeshivat Drisha, and was Rosh Beit Midrash at Camp Stone. Sofia loves birdwatching, voice-noting, and listening to music.

Sunday 09:15
Sunday 09:15 Is There Torah We Cannot Learn?
 
Sunday 16:15
Sunday 16:15 Halachah: A Project that Builds Worlds
 
Tuesday 09:15
Tuesday 09:15 The Egla Arufa : What Communal Care Entails
 
Tuesday 23:00
Tuesday 23:00 Yarchei Kallah: Torah and Democratization
 
Wednesday 09:15
Wednesday 09:15 How to Relate to the Obligation of Revelation
 

Georgie Friend

Georgie is one of the co-chairs of the Limmud Young Leadership Program, and a Limmud Microgrant Recipient. Professionally, she is a Training Officer at Women's Aid Federation England, working primarily with children, young people, and school staff. She is also a trustee for Masorti Judaism, and has previously been a Moishe House Resident.

Tuesday 15:05
Tuesday 15:05 What Does Shabbat Mean in 2024 and Beyond?
 

Eva Frojmovic

Eva teaches history of art and Jewish cultural history the University of Leeds, and is interested in art and museums. She is active in the British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies (do ask!). She is lucky to be surrounded by Cecil Roth's research library and amazing collection of rare books and manuscripts, and keen to share these treasures.

Monday 22:00
Monday 22:00 Whose Jewish History Month Is it Anyway?
 

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