Limmud Festival 2025 - Presenters

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Adam Zagoria-Moffet

Adam Zagoria-Moffet is the rabbi of St. Albans Masorti Synagogue and the Director of Strategy for Masorti Judaism in the UK. He was ordained from the Jewish Theological Seminary where he also received an MA in Jewish Thought. He also runs Izzun Books, a small independent publisher of unusual Jewish titles.

Monday 12:00
Monday 12:00 The surprisingly unmodern history of Masorti Judaism
 

Raphael Zarum

Raphael is Dean of the London School of Jewish Studies and the Rabbi Sacks Chair in Modern Jewish Thought, established by the Zandan family. He is Resident Scholar at London's Central Square Minyan, has a PhD in physics and is a wildly creative international lecturer. His latest book, 'Questioning Belief: Torah & Tradition in an Age of Doubt' won the Yeshiva University Prize and he hosts the 'Big Questions of Jewish Belief' podcast.

Saturday 15:25
Saturday 15:25 Vayigash: the perfect speech
 
Saturday 20:15
Saturday 20:15 'A time for war and a time for peace': Is pursuing peace a naïve dream for Israel today?
 
Sunday 13:20
Sunday 13:20 Contemporary antisemitism: how bad is it?
 
Monday 09:20
Monday 09:20 Person not concept: Rabbi Sacks on getting more God in your life
 
Monday 14:40
Monday 14:40 God/atheism/spirituality and everything in between
 
Monday 17:20
Monday 17:20 Antisemitism: an historical analysis
 
Tuesday 09:20
Tuesday 09:20 God, what?! Jonah’s surprising second prayer
 
Tuesday 12:00
Tuesday 12:00 People of the Book
 
Tuesday 16:00
Tuesday 16:00 Dignity in your last days: The Assisted Dying Bill vs The Book of Life
 

Ruvi Ziegler

Ruvi is a British-Israeli law professor at Reading where he chairs the LGBTQIA+ staff network, Senior Research Associate at Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre and at London’s Refugee Law Initiative, and Chair of ‘New Europeans UK’. He specialises in refugee law, International Humanitarian Law, and the relations between citizenship and political rights.

Sunday 20:00
Sunday 20:00 Israel's constitutional crisis
 
Monday 14:40
Monday 14:40 The judicial 'reforms' in Israel: stock-taking
 
Monday 22:40
Monday 22:40 LGBTQ Jewish pop icons: from Dana International to Troye Sivan
 

Amir Ziv

Luiz Aberbuj, born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, was active in the Habonim Dror youth movement. In 2011, he joined a leadership gap year in Israel. He made Aliyah in 2014, served in the Kfir Brigade until 2016, then gave testimony to Breaking the Silence and became its Jewish Diaspora Education Coordinator.

Sunday 21:20
Sunday 21:20 Breaking the Silence
 
Monday 10:40
Monday 10:40 Israeli Activism
 
Monday 21:20
Monday 21:20 Lone Soldiers: From abroad to the territories
 
Tuesday 09:20
Tuesday 09:20 What the hell is going on in the West Bank?
 
Tuesday 17:20
Tuesday 17:20 The war in Gaza: an invitation to a difficult conversation
 

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