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Organisation: Limmud
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Adina Gamse
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Adina Gamse is studying mathematics at the University of Cambridge. She has been presenting at Limmud since she was fourteen. In her spare time she makes mathematical jewellery. |
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Ian Gamse
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Ian Gamse first taught at Limmud in the 1980s. He studied at Or Etzion yeshiva, gained a degree in Oriental Studies from Cambridge and is well-known among his students for his insistence on close textual reading as the path to enlightenment. Oh, and he's the proud father of Adina (see above). |
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Mark Garfield
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Mark Garfield is the Assistant Head teacher at Simon Marks Jewish Primary School. He is a qualified RE teacher and holds a Masters in Education. He is currently studying to be a head teacher and for rabbinic ordination - quite a challenge. Mark is also co-chair of Hackney Limmud. He loves football and surfing the web. |
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Peter A. Geffen
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Organisation: Kivunim Peter Geffen is the founder of The Abraham Joshua Heschel School in New York City and of KIVUNIM, an institute of experiential learning. In his youth he served as a civil rights worker for Martin Luther King and has been active in many social justice causes over the past 40 years. |
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Jay Geller
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Organisation: Vanderbilt University Jay Geller is Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Culture at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. He has just published 'On Freud's Jewish Body - Mitigating Circumcisions' and is completing a study of Marx's other Jewish question called 'From Rags to Riches'. |
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Benjamin Gerber
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Rabbi, cantor, schoolteacher, motivational speaker, camp director and cook - educated in none of the aforementioned - Benjamin Gerber has nevertheless done it all. He lives in Sweden, with his Italian-Israeli-Persian wife and daughter. He currently runs successful adult education programmes in the Jewish communities of Stockholm and Gothenburg. |
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Sue Gessler
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Organisation: UCLH/UCL Institute for Women's Health Sue Gessler has a longstanding interest in the relationship of Judaism and psychology. She learnt in Michlelet Bruria (Brovender's) immediately following completion of her PhD in Clinical Psychology, and since then has taught at Yakar and LSJS while working clinically. |
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Andrew Gilbert
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Organisation: Limmud Andrew Gilbert chaired five Limmud Conferences in a row between 1990 and 1997 and then spent three years chairing the organisation. After time off, he is now Chair of Limmud International which has grown from just one in 1999 to thirty five groups today. During the day he is a silk mercer. |
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Shirli Gilbert
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Organisation: University of Southampton Shirli Gilbert is Karten Lecturer in Jewish/ non-Jewish relations at the University of Southampton. She obtained her Masters in music and PhD in history from the University of Oxford and is the author of 'Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps' (Oxford University Press, 2005). |
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Michael Gluckman
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Organisation: Asembly of Masorti Synagogues Michael Gluckman is executive director of the Assembly of Masorti Synagogues. A UJIA Ashdown Fellow, his role includes the promotion of Jewish education to which he is passionately committed. A serial Limmudnik, who first attended Limmud in Portsmouth, he loves learning and teaching Torah with any age group |
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Robert Golbert
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Born and raised in the US, made aliyah in 1990, Robert Golbert worked as an Israeli tour guide and served in the IDF while completing an MA at Hebrew University. He was Jewish Agency shaliach to Sydney, Australia from 1997 to 2001 and has been living in London for the past five years, working for World ORT. |
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Jess Gold
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Organisation: Pilpel Jess Gold is a musician, aunt, educator, campaigner and lover of dance. Her band Pilpel performs contemporary Jewish music for private and communal events. Through Friends of the Earth, she helps initiate activities that focus her environmental interests. She is curious about where Jews and the environment match and mismatch. |
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Micah Gold
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Organisation: Limmud Micah Gold is an independent consultant working in neighbourhood working and local government modernisation. He has been involved in Limmud since 1991, chaired Conference and co-founded LimmudFest in 2004. He is currently a member of the Limmud Executive and supports the Limmud International work. |
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Alexander Goldberg
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Organisation: Board of Deputies of British Jews Alexander Goldberg is the community issues director of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and was formerly senior policy officer at the Commission for Racial Equality. He has an interest in human rights issues as international chair of CCJO–RenéCassin and advisor to the Center for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism. |
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David Goldberg
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Organisation: UJIA David Goldberg is the Fundraising Director of the UJIA. He was Director of the UJIA Israel Experience Department from 1998, and prior to this Director of the Zionist Federation. In 2005 he was awarded a unique prize and certificate by the President of the State of Israel for services to education. |
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Ellen Goldberg
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Organisation: New Israel Fund Ellen Goldberg has directed New Israel Fund (NIF) UK since February, after 27 years in Israel, the last five of which were as Associate Director of the NIF. She has worked with all population groups in Israel on human rights and social justice for everyone, activism, the environment and more. |
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Daniel Goldfarb
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Organisation: The Conservative Yeshiva Daniel Goldfarb, rabbi and lawyer, left Boston for Jerusalem in 1976. He left the law in 2000 to become Director of the Conservative Yeshiva, where people of all ages and stages experience the pleasure and excitement of studying classical Jewish texts. |
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Lawrence Goldman
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Organisation: University of Oxford Lawrence Goldman is Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at St Peter's College, Oxford where he teaches British and American History. |
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Mark Goldsmith
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Organisation: North Western Reform Synagogue Mark Goldsmith is principal rabbi of North Western Reform Synagogue in Alyth Gardens, Temple Fortune. He finds the intersection between Judaism and business and working life fascinating and also the challenges of being a good enough dad to his two daughters. |
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Elliott Goldstein
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Organisation: Limmud Elliott Goldstein is Chair of Limmud and was a strategy consultant for the Boston Consulting Group before becoming chief executive of a luxury consumer goods company. He is married to Gila Sacks and lives in London. |
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Adam Goodvach
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An orthodox Jew with a love of Islamic history, Adam Goodvach has lectured on the subject to adult audiences for more than four years - including at three previous Limmuds. Adam studied law, psychology and philosophy and is currently a director of a market research company. |
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Jelena Gorelika
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Organisation: Israeli Folk Dance Group "Eilat" Jelena Gorelika was born and lives in Riga, Latvia and was a civil engineer, now turned choreographer and dancer - she leads Israeli folk dance group 'Eilat', who are delighted to be performing at this year's Limmud Conference |
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Janie Grackin
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Janie Grackin uses the art of storytelling to inspire and educate. Co-chair of the CAJE (Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education) Storytelling Network and a family life educator, she creates programmes for intergenerational populations. Recipient of the 2005 Solomon Schechter Gold Award for Family Education and 1997 National Women’s Hall of Fame for commitment to the AIDS community. |
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Goldie Grahame
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Goldie Grahame is a rampant visual artist, sometime Hebrew calligrapher, alephologist and vegetarian foodie and is trained to run enlightenment intensive (mutant Zen/psychotherapeutic) retreats and dyad communication workshops. She has been known to give good massage, so be nice to her. |
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Hannah Grant
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Hannah Grant has been a Yiddish speaker since visiting Russian refuseniks, is a natural teacher and a survivor of the Battle of Cable Street. An archivist of Yiddish song and culture, she teaches Yiddish through conversation and song. She has given many people their first contact with mammaloshen. |
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Samuel Green
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Organisation: Kol Cambridge Samuel Green became Mazkir at the Federation of Zionist Youth for 2006/7 after reading Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge. Under the alias Antithesis, he produces Zionist hip-hop which is sold for charity, and presents Kol Cambridge, an internationally renowned Israeli music radio show. |
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Steven Greenberg
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Organisation: CLAL Steve Greenberg is director of the CLAL Diversity Project and a Senior Educator at CLAL, a think tank, leadership training institute. He appeared in 'Trembling Before G-d' and joined with the film maker to create a worldwide outreach project. Steve is the author of 'Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition'. |
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Joel Grishaver
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Organisation: Torah Aura Production Joel Grishaver is a Jewish writer, teacher, cartoonist, and storyteller. In 1981, he and two friends started Torah Aura Productions. Joel is a founding board member of the Coalition for Advanced Jewish Education, a consultant to the Consortium for the Jewish Family, and a winner of the Covenant Award. |
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Mitchell Griver
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Mitchell Griver is a qualified accountant, despite an inability to understand many lectures. He achieved entry into a top grammar school, yet floundered; despite an IQ of 158, he managed just three O levels/GCSEs. Ten years ago a diagnosis of ADD/ADHD was a blessing in disguise. Limmud’s regular roving photographer, Mitchell nervously debuts as a presenter. |
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Ruth Gruber
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At 20, Ruth Gruber was the world's youngest PhD. Sent on a secret mission to Europe by Roosevelt in 1944 to bring 1,000 refugees to America, her story was made into a mini-series by CBS. Amongst her 19 books, is 'Exodus 1947', detailing the British attack on a Jewish refugee boat. |
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Henry Grunwald
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Organisation: Board of Deputies of British Jews Henry Grunwald was called to the Bar in 1972, appointed Queen’s Counsel 1999, elected a Bencher at Gray's Inn in 2002. He's been a member of the Board of Deputies over 25 years and was re-elected President in 2006. He's the Chairman of the Jewish Leadership Council, a trustee and Vice Chairman of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, a Vice President of the European Jewish Congress, Honorary Patron of Yad Vashem UK and Chairman of Pikuach Board of Governors. |
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Lucien Gubbay
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Organisation: Montefiore Endowment Lucien Gubbay is current chairman of the Montefiore Endowment and writes and lectures on religious and historical topics. His published books include 'Quest for the Messiah', 'Ages of Man', 'The Jewish Book of Why and What', 'The Sephardim', 'Sunlight and Shadow - the Jewish Experience of Islam', and 'Our Glorious Tradition'. |
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