Presenters - F

Organisation: WRERU, University of Warwick
Website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wie/research/wreru

Nigel is an Associate Fellow at the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit, at the University of Warwick. His research is particularly on policy, pedagogy and practice in religious education in secondary schools, in the UK and internationally. He also continues to work part-time as a secondary teacher.

Sessions:

• Faith in Schools

Elaine Feinstein has published 14 books of poetry, the most recent Talking to the Dead (2007); translations of Marina Tsvetaeva , Bride of Ice ( 2009) ; 14 novels ; a memoir/novel , The Russian Jerusalem (2008); and six biographies, including those of Ted Hughes and Anna Akhmatova

Sessions:

• Confessions of a Literary Jew

Website: http://shiryaakov.com/

Shir Yaakov: musician and teacher creating a spiritual/cultural Judaism that is contemporary, alive, and innovative. Born and educated in Manhattan, Shir has spent time in yeshivas/intentional communities around the world. Projects include weekly musical compositions based on Torah portions; 7 original albums; collaboration with Neo-Hasidic rapper Eprhyme, called Darshan.

Sessions:

• Darshan - Fabrengen
• Darshan Live
• Pardes in Practice
• That's a Rap!

Organisation: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Eran Feitelson is the past chair of the Federmann School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a former chair of the geography department. He is also the past chair of the Israeli National Parks and Nature Reserves Commission. Currently he is on sabbatical at Oxford.

Sessions:

• The Netanyahu Land and Planning Reforms
• Sustainabilty: what is it all about?

Organisation: Rene Cassin High School

Rachel Feitelson is the vice principal of the Rene Cassin High School in Jerusalem. She has also been a tutor in the Revivim program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a highly experienced teacher of Biblical studies.

Sessions:

• Lesser Known Biblical Heroins - Wise Women who Saved lives
• Lesser known biblical heroines - a bereaved mother challenges a powerful king,

Jonathan Fine's areas of research expertise include political military studies, terrorism, guerilla warfare, arms control, and the policy of the European Union and United States in the Middle East. He lectures at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism and the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. He also lectures at the Israel Defense Forces college for tactical command and on the academic programme for Israeli Air Force cadets.

Sessions:

• The Secular Agenda: From Rural Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare to Urban Terror (1 of 3)
• The Religious Agenda: the Rise of Fundamental Religious Violence (2 of 3)
• The Palestinian Case: From Secular Agenda Terror to Religious Agenda Terror (3 of 3)
• The Iranian question
• The Counterterrorist Dilemma: How Should Democracies Deal with Terror?

Organisation: University of Warwick
Website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/academicstaff/robert

Robert Fine is Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick. He writes in the area of social theory and co-convenes the European Sociological Association Network on Racism and Antisemitism. His recent book is Cosmopolitanism (Routledge). His current research addresses debates on European antisemitism (appearing in Patterns of Prejudice).

Sessions:

• The debate on antisemitism in Europe

Andy is a Dublin-born solicitor, now living in west London, a member of Holland Park Sephardi synagogue. He has previously presented at Conference and Limmudfest, and appeared in Scratch Joseph at conference 2006. He is presenting some of his songs and poems from his recent compilation Sheer Hadash Balderdash.

Sessions:

• Sheer Hadash Balderdash

Yoel Finkelman is a lecturer in the graduate program in contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University. He also teaches Talmud and Jewish Thought at Midreshet Lindenbaum, and is director of projects and research at ATID, a Jerusalem foundation that provides resources and training for Jewsh educational leadership.

Sessions:

• Moses and the Angels in a Celestial Battle
• A Talmudic Response to Tyranny
• Religious-Secular Relations in Israel: A Personal and Public Perspective
• Judaism and the future of Israeli Democracy
• In Praise of Stupidity: Repentance and Renewal in the Book of Jonah

Organisation: Yeshiva Shel Malah
Website: http://www.josephfinlay.com/

Joseph Finlay is a musician and grassroots Jewish activist. He studied with Yossele Rosenblatt, Molly Picon, and Shabbetai Zvi.

Sessions:

• Aliyah 2009: time to move on?

Ellen Flax is a New York City-based consultant to nonprofits and foundations, most recently to STAR (Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal.) She was ordained at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Sessions:

• If Bridget Jones, the Shopaholic, were Jewish…

Pauline Frankenberg trained as sociologist and artist. She has taught in the Jewish community in the Manchester area for a long time.

Sessions:

• Jacob and Rachel; wrestling favour

Organisation: Stony Brook University

Sharonah Fredrick is a multi-lingual lecturer working on her Phd thesis in Latin American literature. She taught in Hebrew University and Touro College; and at the University of Anahuac, Mexico. She is also a playwright, whose first work, The Pirate's Lady, was presented at the Burgos Cultural Center in NY.

Sessions:

• What Should the 614th Commandment Be?
• Lilit & the Shekhinah
• Satre, Foucault & The Jews
• Limmud Town Hall: 2020 Vision – What Next for the Jewish People?
• That Reminds Me of a Story – Together and Apart
• Medieval Jewish Fascinations
• Fictional Jews of Ancient Peru
• Mythological Wanderings: Eldad HaDani

Organisation: Bibliyoga
Website: http://www.bibliyoga.com/

Marcus is the secret lovechild of Limmud and the UJIA. Cloned with DNA from Clive Lawton and Cameron Diaz, he’s the world’s only actor-dramatist-broadcaster-columnist-Bibliyogi-salsero who is yeshiva-trained, yogi-qualified & university-educated. Armed with nothing but a Tanach, yoga mat and loincloth, he’ll take you on outrageous adventures that you’ll never forget.

Sessions:

• Biblioyoga
• King David: The One-Man Rock Opera (A tale of swords, slingshots, and other men's wives)
• Yoga for Ecstatic Living - Bibliyoga for the Body and Soul (1 of 3)
• Yoga for Ecstatic Living - Bibliyoga for the Body and Soul (2 of 3)
• King David: The One-Man Rock Opera (A Tale of Swords, Slingshots and Other Men’s Wives)
• Yoga for Ecstatic Living - Bibliyoga for the Body and Soul (3 of 3)
• Solomon: King, Poet & Lover, A One-Man Biblical Comedy. 10th Anniversary Performance!!!

Website: http://www.jessefreedman.com/

Jesse Freedman is a director, solo performance artist, Maven, magician and teaching artist based on the east cost of the USA. He is Co-Artistic Director of 24/6 Jewish Theater Company, has trained with the SITI Company, Storahtelling and is a graduate of Eugene Lang College at The New School.

Sessions:

• Wham, Whack Parsha Plays
• Theatre in pursuit of GOD: Divine service
• The Biblio Files - an open rehearsal and scratch performance
• Storahtelling's Maven Showcase: Parshat Vayechi
• Kiddush and the Japanese tea ceremony: Ritual as Performance
• Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities

Organisation: Radlett & Bushey Refrom Synagogue

Paul 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, principal Rabbi of Radlett & Bushey Reform Synagogue and vice-chair of the Assembly of Rabbis. He has missed one Limmud Conference in the last fifteen.

Sessions:

• Pointless? (1 of 3)
• Pointless? (2 of 3)
• Pointless? (3 of 3)
• Dine 'n' Discuss: Plagued by Sourcery

Organisation: Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies/ Unive

Miri Freud-Kandel is lecturer in Modern Judaism at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford. Her research interests focus on the development of Orthodox Judaism in the modern and contemporary period, particularly in Britain.

Sessions:

• Louis Jacobs and the construction of a modern theology of Judaism

Organisation: LJY-Netzer Shlicha

Dana is 28, born in Kfar Bnei Zion, Israel. She was a member of the Agriculture Union youth movement. She was an educational officer in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) before travelling for a year. Last year she finished her B.Sc in BioTech. Today she is the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) shlicha for Liberal Judaism.

Sessions:

• 'Out of the box'

Organisation: Hiddur: The Center for Aging and Judaism of RRC

Dayle A. Friedman, MSW, MAJCS, BCC, directs Hiddur: The Center for Aging and Judaism of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, which works to foster a spiritually alive, engaged approach to the second half of life. She recently published Jewish Visions for Aging and edited Jewish Pastoral Care.

Sessions:

• Looking Backward to Find Meaning Ahead: A Midrashic Approach to Healing Our Life Stories (1 of 4)
• The 2nd Half of Life: Moses Our Teacher Points the Way (2 of 4)
• With Our Youth and Our Elders We’ll Go: Creating Jewish Communities for All Ages (3 of 4)
• A Good Death
• You, Too, Can Give Blessings: The Art of the Spontaneous Mi-sheberach (4 of 4)

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

Edie Friedman is the founder of JCORE, the Jewish Council of Racial Equality and author of Reluctant Refuge which tell the story of how refugees have fared in Britain. JCORE campaigns on issues of race and asylum and educates 2500 people on these subjects each year.

Sessions:

• After Question Time: The BNP, The Election and Us