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Mich Sampson

Mich Sampson is Director of Music at Finchley Reform Synagogue, where she conducts the choirs and co-leads services. She also works with various Liberal and Reform communities, from Edinburgh to Wessex, to develop their confidence in using music to support and create prayer. She especially delights in working with new and nervous singers.

Sunday 14:00
Sunday 14:00 Nachamu ami: songs of hope and healing
 

Philippe Sands

Philippe Sands QC is Professor of Law at University College London and a practising barrister. He appears as counsel before international courts and tribunals. He is the author of legal books and the prizewinning East West Street. He will be speaking about his new book "The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive".

Sunday 14:00
Sunday 14:00 Why I wrote "The Ratline"
 

David Saperstein

David Saperstein is the President of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. For decades, he directed the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and later served as U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom from 2015 to 2017. He also taught seminars on church-state law and Jewish law for 35 years at Georgetown University.

Sunday 16:00
Sunday 16:00 Religious persecution and religious freedom around the world
 

Florence Schechter

Florence's background is in science communication and is the founder and director of the Vagina Museum. She came highly commended in the Women of the Future Awards 2017 in the arts and culture category for her work. She also sits on the Trajectory, Ideas and Ambassadors Board of Cheltenham Science Festival.

Sunday 19:00
Sunday 19:00 Secret vaginas of Judaism
 

Dahlia Scheindlin

Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin is an international public opinion expert and political consultant and has advised eight campaigns in Israel. Dahlia conducts research on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and other regions, foreign policy, democracy, and Israeli politics. She is a fellow at The Century Foundation and co-host of The Tel Aviv Review podcast.

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

Amos Schonfield

Amos is the founder and director of Our Second Home, a youth movement for refugees and migrants. He is involved in a number of communal organisations (including Limmud Together UK) and a board member of Yachad. Amos recently completed an MSc in Migration Studies, focusing on ideas of diaspora and transnationalism in the Jewish community.

Sunday 13:00
Sunday 13:00 Breaking point? Trends and challenges in the Jewish communal future
 

Moses Seitler

Moses works in the refugee education sector with Refugee Support Network, and within the Jewish community for René Cassin - the Jewish voice for Human Rights. He is an alumnus of the Chief Rabbi's Ben Azzai Programme and the Refugee Studies Centre in Oxford, where he wrote his thesis on the spiritual welfare of refugees from Nazism.

Sunday 16:00
Sunday 16:00 Refugees and COVID-19: where are we and what can we do?
 

Carole Shaw

Carole started performing aged 6 entertaining local children with her sister and has been doing solo comedy shows for 28 years. She appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe 2006, Brighton and Edinburgh Fringes 2019, debuted in Oz at the Perth and Adelaide Fringes 2020 and will be at Boulder Fringe USA this August. Carole is a teacher/translator/interpreter.

Sunday 15:00
Sunday 15:00 Keep Kalm & Kvetch
 

Edwin Shuker

Edwin Shuker is an international businessman and philanthropist with a wide range of educational, communal and charitable involvement, and is Vice President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

Sunday 17:00
Sunday 17:00 Buying a house in Iraq
 

Judith Silver

Judith is a familiar face and voice at Limmud, as a composer and performer, holding space facilitating the singing of others, sometimes solo and sometimes with dear friends and colleagues. She's always especially delighted to have the opportunity to co-present with Mich Sampson and Cantor Zöe Jacobs. www.judithsilver.com www.companionvoices.org

Sunday 14:00
Sunday 14:00 Nachamu ami: songs of hope and healing
 

Hannah Style

Hannah is an enthusiastic NHS Dietitian specialising in learning disabilities in clinical settings, and is the founder and chair of FEAST! in the public health realm. She cycles to greet her NHS and private patients, and smiles when asked 'What is the perfect diet?'

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

Ilai Szpiezak

Ilai Szpiezak is an award winning Creative Producer, Choreographer and Master of Ceremonies, with more than 15 years experience in the entertainment industry. He also works for the Israeli Dance Institute (www.idi.org.uk) a charity promoting Jewish education and cohesion between faiths through music and dance.

Sunday 15:00
Sunday 15:00 Israeli dance under lockdown
 

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