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Jonathan Halevy

Professor Jonathan Halevy is President of Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center. From 1988 until 2019 he was the hospital’s Director General. Professor Halevy graduated from Tel Aviv University Medical School and was a fellow at Yale University. He is a former Chairman of the National Committee updating the National Basket of Health Services.

Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 How Israel is coping with Corona – medical, ethical and organisational aspects
 

Michael Harris

Michael J. Harris is rabbi of The Hampstead Synagogue, London and Research Fellow at the London School of Jewish Studies. His most recent books are "Faith without Fear: Unresolved Issues in Modern Orthodoxy" (2016) and, with Daniel Rynhold, "Nietzsche, Soloveitchik and Contemporary Jewish Philosophy" (2018).

Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 Responding to suffering: guidance from Nietzsche and Joseph B. Soloveitchik
 

Shai Held

Shai Held is President and Dean of Hadar. His first book, "Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence", was published in 2013; "The Heart of Torah", a collection of essays in two volumes, was published in 2017. He is currently at work on a book reclaiming the centrality of love in Jewish theology, spirituality, and ethics.

Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 The triumph of creation: what are the Book of Exodus – and revelation – really about?
 

Daniel Heller

Dan Heller co-chaired Limmud Festival 2019 and has been volunteering on Limmud teams for over a decade. He is currently working on supporting the wider health and care system to respond to Covid-19 in London. He is also a somewhat lapsed volunteer for FEAST WITH US!

Sunday 18:00
Sunday 18:00 “All who are hungry, let them eat!”… and other challenges to supporting the vulnerable caused by COVID-19
 

Sara Yael Hirschhorn

Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn is Visiting Asst. Professor in Israel Studies at Northwestern University and author of the award-winning book "City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement" (Harvard, 2017). She is also a regular public speaker, media commentator, foreign policy consultant, and public educator on Jewish/Israel affairs.

Sunday 17:00
Sunday 17:00 Mamash balagan! A panel of experts on 18 months of Israeli political chaos
 

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