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Ian Gamse
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Organisation: London School of Jewish Studies / Yakar Yerushalayim Ian was the first full-time Union of Jewish Students education worker, having studied at Yeshivat Or Etzion before reading mathematics and hebrew at Cambridge University. He then met R. Micky Rosen z'l and helped him, just a little, in changing the world. Ian has also learned about banking at SG Warburg. |
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Yiftach A Gavish
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Organisation: Jewish Agency for Israel Yiftach is the Jewish Agency shaliach to the Habonim-Dror youth movement. In Israel he was a leader for ‘Israeli Experience' programmes and has been a survival course instructor and worked with soon-to-be discharged soldiers. Yiftach holds a BA in European History and Philosophy, and an MA in European History from Ben-Gurion University. |
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Jay Geller
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Jay Geller is associate professor of Modern Jewish Culture at Vanderbilt University. He has published 'On Freud's Jewish Body: Mitigating Circumcisions' (2007) and 'The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity' (2011). His sessions draw from his new project: 'Pictures at an Exhibition: An (Un)Natural History of the Jews'. |
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Anna Gerrard
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Organisation: Liberal Judaism Anna Gerrard was ordained as rabbi in 2011 by Leo Baeck College, having spent half her studies in Jerusalem at Hebrew Union College, Conservative Yeshiva, and Machon Schechter. Anna is Liberal Judaism's Outreach Director and rabbi to Gloucestershire Liberal Jewish Community. She's committed to dynamic, progressive Judaism and loves wild swimming. |
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Janet Gershlick
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Website: www.janettalks.com Janet is from a traditional Jewish Essex background and as a journalist and broadcaster has worked in Hong Kong, Cyprus, the Falkland Islands and more recently loved living in New York City. She is passionate about performing, writing and talking often about her faith: 'divorced and female I will always have plenty to say!' |
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Andrew Gilbert
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Organisation: UJIA Andrew is chair of the UK programme at UJIA and a trustee of the London Jewish Forum. He has chaired Limmund International, 5 Limmud Conferences and Limmud for 7 years... and still here. |
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Nikki Glantz
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Organisation: Clutter Clear Nikki loves to organise events, individuals, and their houses. She also loves more than anything to dance and to this end has compiled her favourite tunes to launch 'djDevotion' here at Limmud this year. |
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Paul Glantz
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Website: www.theweddingrabbi.co.uk Paul is a teacher specialising in 'A' level philosophy and is the wedding rabbi. He has been practising and teaching meditation for 7 years. Paul is married to Nikki and they have two children. |
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Dorit Glasser
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Dorit was born and grew up in Jerusalem. She has a BA in community theatre from Tel Aviv University and an MA in theatre from the Hebrew University, has studied Torah at Lindenbaum, Matan and the Yemima Center and is currently participating in a leadership program for school directors. Dorit is a veteran teacher and the director of the extra-curricular program of the Hartman Boys High School in Jerusalem. She is 'Mother of three wonderfuls!' |
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Fivel Yedidya Glasser
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Organisation: P'tach Libi Fivel studied at the top Ivy-League universities and Israel's leading Anglo yeshivot. He grew up in rural New York and loves the outdoors, exploring Judaism and the inner and outer landscapes of both people and the world. His own journey from the reform movement to Israel and orthodoxy informs his teaching to diverse groups. |
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Shimon Glick
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Organisation: Ben-Gurion University Shimon Glick qualified as MD in 1955 then served as internist, endocrinologist and now professor (emeritus) of medicine at Ben Gurion University (BGU), Beer Sheva. He has been founding chairman of medicine, dean and head of the Center for Medical Education, head of the Lord Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits Center for Jewish Medical Ethics, all at BGU. Shimon is also a former ombudsman for the Israel National Health Service. He is married to Brenda - they have 6 children, 46 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren. |
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Jess Gold
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Organisation: Big Green Machine Jess recorded an album of original Jewish songs with Red Sea Blue with whom she toured in the USA. Since 2009 she has focussed her music on environmental issues working through Big Green Machine. Jess launched her album of original eco songs on a UK concert tour in September. |
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Sheryl Gold
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Organisation: Union of Jewish Students Sheryl Gold is currently the Membership Services Officer at the Union of Jewish Students (UJS). She recently graduated from the University of Nottingham having read Management Studies. She has been involved in the Jewish community planning events for BBYO, Nottingham Jewish Society and World Jewish Relief Nottingham. |
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Trudy Gold
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Organisation: London Jewish Cultural Centre Trudy is Executive Director of Education and Holocaust Studies at the London Jewish Cultural Centre. As senior lecturer in Jewish history she has taught for 30+ years. She is editor in chief of the teaching resource pack 'Lessons of the Holocaust' and academic advisor on www.theholocaustexplained.org. |
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Daniel Goldfarb
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Organisation: Conservative Yeshiva, Jerusalem Daniel Goldfarb is a lawyer and rabbi, left Boston for Israel in 1976. He abandoned the law in 2000 to become director of the Conservative Yeshiva, and he leaves Jerusalem each year in late December to share the warmth of Talmud Torah in cool, rainy England. |
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Nicky Goldman
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Organisation: Lead (JLC) Nicky is executive director of Lead: Inspiring Jewish Leaders, a division of the Jewish Leadership Council. She has worked in the UK Jewish community for over 25 years in leadership and community development. Nicky has an MA in Jewish Communal Service from Brandeis University, Boston and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. |
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Anat Goodman
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Organisation: Jewish Agency for Israel Anat is an education technologist, entrepreneur and owner of an English as a Second Language web portal facilitating professional development for teachers and students around the world focusing on the use of technology for education. She is a national advisor for the implementation of technology in education at the Israel Ministry of Education. |
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Rael Goodman
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Organisation: Jewish Agency for Israel Rael is the head of the Jewish Agency in the UK region. He is a former CEO of Keren-Shemesh Fund for Young Entrepeneurs, an initiative of the Edmond J Safra Foundation. Rael has held marketing, sales and CEO positions in the Israeli food industry. He has a BA from the Israel Business College and a MBA from the IDC College. |
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Simon Goulden
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Organisation: Tribe Simon is a freelance education consultant with many years of experience in Jewish education and publishing. A writer and international lecturer, he led the team publishing the latest 'Sacks' Singer's Prayer Book' and most recently, the new 'Tribe' children's siddur. His links with Limmud stretch back over 25 years. |
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Sarah Grabiner
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Hannah Graham
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Organisation: Yadaim Academy of Applied Academics Hannah Graham, MSEd, AM, specialises in curriculum writing and consultation, with expertise in organising curriculum structure, adolescent literacy instruction, project-based learning experiences and creating classroom communities. She has had experience writing, implementing and assessing curricula for multiple organisations in the United States and Israel. |
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Michael Grant
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Website: lethargic-man.dreamwidth.org Despite lacking any formal training in the subjects he will be speaking on - Semitic languages and the Samaritan Torah - Michael Grant was once commissioned or at least asked to write a book of ancient Carthaginian baby names; and created the cuneiform texts in a recently published novel. |
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Colin Grazin
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Colin Grazin is a solicitor by profession and a retired (but now part-time) Employment Judge.He has had an involvement in Limmud in various capacities for 18 years |
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Alex Green
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Organisation: Union of Jewish Students Alex Green is the current president of the Union of Jewish Students (UJS), a voluntary membership organisation which represents 8500 Jewish students studying in the UK and Ireland. UJS is a confederation of Jewish Societies (J-Socs) but also provides further opportunities for student engagement through its national programming. |
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Liat N Greenberg
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Organisation: Jewish Agency for Israel Liat is the Jewish Agency shlicha to the UJIA in Manchester. She has just finished four years service in the IDF as a tank corps officer at the officers training school. Liat grew up in the Noam youth movement in Israel where she was also a leader. |
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Toby Greene
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Organisation: BICOM Toby Greene is Director of Research for the British Israel Communications and Research Centre, living in Israel. His book 'Blair, Labour and Palestine: Conflicting Views on Middle East Peace After 9/11', based on his PhD will be published by Continuum in 2013. He has worked for international political consultants GCS and Labour Friends of Israel. |
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Charlotte Gringras
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Website: www.purplecharlotte.net Charlotte Gringras is a teacher, mature Jewish Studies post-graduate student, wife and grandma, also a writer. Her radio play, numerous published poems published and her feminist tendencies were nurtured in Manchester, where her novel 'The Purple Rose' is set. Charlotte speaks to interfaith groups on topics from her MA. |
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Robbie Gringras
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Organisation: Makom Robbie is a British-born Israeli writer, performer, and educator. He is artist-in-residence with Makom and Habonim, Oxford University, and Jerusalem Fellows survivor. He still remembers fondly when he performed with 'Besht Tellers' at Limmud 1994 in Oxford... |
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Mariette Groenenboom
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Website: www.zivaya.nl Mariette's 'Zivaya Playshops', educational projects with storytelling, music and play integrate a professional background in social work, information management and youth education with a passion for music, kabbalah and other sources on human consciousness. Currently she is studying humanist ethical and worldview education. |
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Tal Grunspan
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Tal was born and grew up in Tel-Aviv. The assassination of Prime Minister Yikzhak Rabin started his journey in social change and political involvement. He has worked at the Knesset as an advisor and was among the leaders of the 'Tent Protest' in the summer of 2011. Tal has recently completed a bicycle tour from Berlin to Barcelona. |
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