Presenters - D

Steve Dalachinsky is a non-academic outsider poet born in Brooklyn New York whose book 'The Final Nite' has recently won an Oakland Pen Literary award. He has many CDs with musicians and has read his work throughout the world. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, painter and poet Yuko Otomo.

Sessions:

• Free Jazz, Free Jew
• Identity and the Secular Jew (1 of 4)
• Steve Dalachinsky in Peformance
• Tell Me Text
• That Reminds Me of A Story
• To See A World: A View of Identity and Art Through the Eyes of "The Wrong Jew"

Yair is an award-winning composer, violinist, oud player and singer, a prolific Israeli ethnic recording artist and musician, who helps shape the global world music scene. His music authentically represents a musical fusion of Israel’s cultures, especially Jewish Arabic music. Yair is also a peace activist in Israel.

Sessions:

• Baghdad Yerushalayim - The Sacred Songs of the Babylonian Jews
• Got No Jeep and My Camel Died
• Songs from the Desert
• The Talk Show With … (2 of 4)
• Yair Dalal in Concert

Organisation: Three Faiths Forum
Website: http://www.3ff.org.uk/

A theology graduate from Cambridge University, Debbie is now Three Faiths Forum's Jewish education officer. She was president of the Cambridge University Jewish Society, and an active member of the Federation of Zionist Youth. She co-presented radio show 'Kol Cambridge' under pseudonym Idanon Raichel. Recently Debbie presented at Limmud Turkey.

Sessions:

• Intro to Trialogue: 3ff's Introduction to Interfaith for Teenagers
• Is CoCo Kosher? - Does Community Cohesion Get the Hescher in Jewish schools?
• Tools 4 Trialogue: 3ff's Interfaith Workshop for Teenagers

Organisation: Board of Deputies of British Jews
Website: http://www.bod.org.uk/

Aviva Dautch was formerly Senior Interfaith and Education Policy Officer for the Board of Deputies and continues to consult on their interfaith research. She works as a creative educator for the British Library and as a freelance researcher and writer. Her poems have been published in several magazines and anthologies.

Sessions:

• Jewish Involvement in Interfaith in the UK
• Sacred and Profane: The X-Factor of Jewish Culture
• Shared Futures?
• Ted Hughes and the Jews

Website: http://projectbendavid.com/

Arnie Davidson is an American songwriter/musician located just outside of New York City. His contemporary melodies and prayer-based music is used in worship services throughout the US. His recent CD (Project ben David) of Shabbat music includes world class musicians and Jewish performers.

Sessions:

• Finding Meaning in Music and Prayer
• Hinei Ma Tov - A Community Open to All
• Leaving the Work-Week World Behind – Welcoming Shabbat through Music

Organisation: Judith Lady Montefiore College
Website: http://www.eirandavies.co.uk/

Eiran, an accomplished goldsmith and enameller, is training to be a rabbi with the London Semicha Programme as a Montefiore Scholar. He is currently developing a system for teaching Torah that he calls 'Spiritual Personal Trainer' and constructing an accurate scale model of the Mishcan using all the correct materials.

Sessions:

• Hallel? Oh Lord! Save us Now!
• Kaddish - More Sacred Science
• Kiddush - The Science of Sanctification
• Og

Marion Davies is a prizewinning photographer and author of 'Absence and Loss'.

Sessions:

• Faces in the Void

Organisation: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Howard Deitcher is a lecturer at the Melton Centre for Jewish education at the Hebrew University and its former director. Howard is a faculty member at the Mandel Leadership Institute and former director of the Jerusalem Fellows. His key areas of research include Bible Education and Philosophy for Children.

Sessions:

• Exploring Children's Theological Questions in the Bible
• Learning Leadership in a Jewish Day School: A Case Study Conversation
• The Birth of a Jewish Child: Anticipation, Celebration and Responsibility
• The Role of the Binding of Isaac in the Zionist Narrative

Organisation: Jewish Mosaic
Website: http://www.jewishmosaic.org/

Gregg Drinkwater is the executive director of Jewish Mosaic: The National Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, a U.S.-based organization dedicated to helping Jewish institutions become more welcoming of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Jews and their families. He is the co-editor of the book 'Torah Queeries' (NYU Press, forthcoming).

Sessions:

• Gender Trouble: Thinking Beyond Binaries
• Judaism and Homosexuality: An Orthodox Conversation
• Torah Commentary as a Vehicle for Social Change
• Twice Blessed: 100 Years of LGBT Jewish History
• Visions of LGBT Jewish Life: What Can we Learn from the US?

Organisation: Freelance Photographer
Website: http://www.hampsteadphotosoc.org.uk/

Jeremy Duke-Cohan spent 15 years living in Israel, working with photographer Moshe Taub in Tel Aviv. He joined the International Freelance Photographers Organization and has held exhibitions in England and Israel and published in Israel, UK and USA. Jeremy is currently involved with the Hampstead Photographic Society as editor of its newsletter.

Sessions:

• Modern Life In An Ancient Land