Presenters - F

Organisation: UJIA
Website: http://www.ujia.org

Alastair Falk is Director of Educational Leadership at UJIA. He has been a head teacher of three schools, two Jewish and one Academy. He is Secretary to the Jewish Leadership Council's Commission on Jewish Schools. His association with Limmud goes back literally to its very beginnings.

Sessions:

• Panel Discussion: 'What Will Anglo-Jewry Look Like in Twenty Years Time?'
• The Commission on Jewish Schools; What, Why and How You Can Make Your Voice Heard.
• The Elephant in the Room: What Do British Jews Not Talk About?
• The Jewish School of Your Dreams - a DIY Session

Organisation: Limmud

Sessions:

• Auschwitz and the Allies
• The Gathering

Website: http://www.finchleycatholic.org.uk/music2.asp

Pupils from Finchley Catholic High School in North Finchley - working with pupils of St Michael's Grammar School for Girls and advised by Roman Halter - researched, wrote and have been performing a play about the Holocaust at the site of some of its worst cruelty. The staff and pupils at FCHS are extremely proud and honoured to have toured REMEMBER to Poland’s Groteska Theatre, Krakow, to the site of Auschwitz and especially to have Roman Halter as the patron of the play.

Sessions:

• 'Remember'

Organisation: BICOM
Website: http://www.bicom.org.uk

Lorna Fitzsimons became CEO of the Britain Israel Communication and Research Centre in October 2006. A former National Union of Students president and Labour Member of Parliament for Rochdale (1997-2005), Lorna proudly describes herself as an 'atheist gentile Zionist'. She is widely considered a leading voice in international Israel advocacy.

Sessions:

• Israel Advocacy in Britain Today - the Views of an 'Atheist Gentile Zionist'

Fiona Frank works at Lancaster University in adult education and is also taking a part time PhD at Strathclyde University looking at transmission of Jewish culture over five generations. She has also organised an international tour of the art of her aunt, Hannah Frank, a veteran Glasgow artist.

Sessions:

• Doing Oral History to Research British Jewry

Adam Frankenberg was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme where he still lives. After studying natural sciences at Keele, he then took an MA in Jewish Studies at Manchester. He is an experienced and innovative Jewish educator. He is currently a research student at Manchester.

Sessions:

• A Bat-Kol Sounded

Sharonah Fredrick is a multilingual anthropologist, working on a doctorate in Hispanic and Ladino literature. She has taught in the USA, Spain, Israel and Mexico, and has published on historical and cultural themes - her play about the Inquisition is in production in New York. She adores Dylan and the Beatles.

Sessions:

• Gems from Judeo-Spanish-Arabic Song
• Jews and Pirates in the Caribbean
• King Arthur and King David: Literary Parallels
• Robin Hood and the Jews
• Tell me Text
• The Beatles & the Jews
• Understanding the Armenian Genocide

Organisation: The Bibliyoga Foundation

Marcus J. Freed is a performer, writer and Biblioyogi. Frustrated with uninspiring synagogues, Marcus devised Bibliyoga™ as a technique for accessing spirituality through the body. His gurus/training include: Yeshivat Hamivtar (formerly Brovender’s), Tripsichore Yoga (Edward Clarke), Webber Douglas Academy, Universities of Birmingham/London/Life, and the School of Hard Knocks & Natural Perms.

Sessions:

• Bibliyoga™: Shabbat Soulglow Sequence
• Bibliyoga™: The Superfly Disco Sequence
• Introducing Bibliyoga™: The Kosher Sutras
• Seven Steps to Natural Healing (or, Why the Rabbi Likes Bran Flakes)
• The Biblioyoga™ Energy Retreat (2 of 3)
• The Bibliyoga™ Energy Retreat (1 of 3)
• The Bibliyoga™ Energy Retreat (3 of 3)

Organisation: Radlett & Bushey Reform Synagogue
Website: http://www.rbrs.org.uk

Paul Freedman studied Physics at Bristol, Education at Cambridge and for the rabbinate at Leo Baeck College. He is married to Vanessa, father of Katie and Joshua, rabbi of Radlett and Bushey Reform Synagogue and Vice-chair of the Assembly of Rabbis. He has missed one Limmud in the last thirteen.

Sessions:

• Mishna with Your Mishpacha
• The God of Mathematics and the Mathematics of God
• Tzitzit? Why Knot!

Organisation: University College London
Website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk

Vanessa Freedman is Hebrew and Jewish Studies Librarian, University College London; studied Classics at Cambridge and Judaism in various places, including the Liberal Yeshivah in Jerusalem; mother of Katie and Joshua, she is married to Paul Freedman, a rabbi, and a member of Radlett and Bushey Reform Synagogue in her own right!

Sessions:

• Married to the Job
• Mishna with Your Mishpacha

Organisation: Jewish Council for Racial Equality
Website: http://www.jcore.org.uk

Edie Friedman is founder and director of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality (JCORE). She was a trustee of the Refugee Council for seven years and is a co-chair of Coalition for Religious and Cultural Freedom and a member of the advisory board of a newly formed organisation, ResponsAbility.

Sessions:

• Refugee Stories: Extracts from the Forthcoming Book 'Reluctant Refuge: the Story of Asylum in Britain'

Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi grew up in Jerusalem, studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and did her doctorate in Renaissance Studies. She has been living in Florence, Italy with her husband and two daughters for the past eleven years where her husband is the rabbi of the Jewish community.

Sessions:

• 'Did the Jews Have a Renaissance?' - a Glance into the History of the Jews During the Renaissance (1 of 4)
• 'Did the Jews Have a Renaissance?' - the Ghetto: Between Oppression and Liberation (3 of 4)
• 'Did the Jews Have a Renaissance?' - the Italian Jewish Community from the Renaissance Until Today (4 of 4)
• 'Did the Jews Have a Renaissance?' - What Can We Learn from the Sermons of Italian Rabbis During the Renaissance? (2 of 4)