Presenters - H

Caroline teaches Gan (kindergarten) at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue and Edgware and District Reform Synagogue religion schools and does Early Years sessions/Storytelling at New London. Caroline is a Story Teller, writes Jewish songs for young children and also writes/runs children's services for the High Holy days/chagim. In her spare time she is a full-time medical secretary

Sessions:

• Friday Night Delight
• "Challenge the Storyteller"
• Shabbat Family Service

Organisation: University of Portsmouth

Yohai Hakak is an anthropologist and a documentary film maker. His dissertation is an ethnographic research on masculine identities among Jewish Israeli Ultra Orthodox youth. As part of his post-doctoral research Yohai co-directed and co-scripted a documentary series on the Israeli Jewish Haredi community.

Sessions:

• GEVALD!
• The Rabbi's Daughter and the Midwife

Organisation: Haaretz newspaper
Website: http://www.haaretz.com/

Charlotte Halle is editor of Haaretz English Edition. Prior to that she spent 8 years as a reporter for the newspaper. Before making aliyah 10 years ago she was an active member of North West Surrey Synagogue and RSY Netzer. She had previously worked with drug users and young offenders.

Sessions:

• My people Israel
• Read all about it: the Goldstone Report
• Feeding the Enemy: Israeli Newspapers in the Dock

Organisation: Jewish Genealogical Research
Website: http://www.LizLo.com/

Laurence is a professional genealogist and family historian, speciialising in Jewish family history.. He can research on your behalf, or can provide personal genealogy coaching and advice. He researched for the BBC Who Do You Think You Are? programme. Laurence is Immediate past Chairman of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain.

Sessions:

• Tracing Ancestors and Relatives

Organisation: City Circle
Website: http://www.thecitycircle.com/

Usama Hasan is the Imam of Al-Tawhid Mosque, Leyton, London. He is on the executive board of City Circle and responsible for theological engagement. Among other pursuits, he is a planetarium lecturer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich and a researcher for the Islamic Sharia Council, London.

Sessions:

• CANCELLED Bulding Grassroots Communites: Muslim and Jewish Perspectives
• The Effect of the Middle East Conflict on Faith Relations in the UK: A Muslim and Jewish Response

Organisation: Nishmat

Chana Henkin, founder and Dean of Nishmat, the Jerusalem Center for Advanced Torah Study for Women, is a pioneer in higher Torah learning and leadership for women. An acclaimed Jewish educator, her contagious love of learning has made her a sought-after lecturer in Jewish communities throughout the world.

Sessions:

• A Woman's Reading of Solomon's Judgment
• Fertility, Birth and Motherhood in the Bible
• Women's Halachic Issues: Kadish and Women's Megilla Readings
• The Evolution of Simchat Torah
• New Religious Roles for Women: Yoatzot Halacha.

Yehuda Henkin is an internationally recognized authority on Jewish law, who has authored trailblazing responsa on contemporary Jewish women’s issues. His publications include Hebrew responsa and books in English: Equality Lost, New Interpretations on the Parsha, Responsa on Contemporary Jewish Women’s Issues and Understanding Tzniut. He has an MA from Columbia University, and has lived in Israel since 1972.

Sessions:

• Women's Halachic Issues: Kadish and Women's Megilla Readings
• New Religious Roles for Women: Yoatzot Halacha.
• Overview of the Forefathers

Organisation: Tzedek
Website: http://www.tzedek.org.uk/

Katie Hill is the Volunteer Coordinator for Tzedek, working alongside a wide range of volunteers to combat global injustices, and raise awareness within the UK Jewish community. Previous to her role with Tzedek, she coordinated a development education Non-Government Organisation (NGO) Development in Action.

Sessions:

• Recycle & Re-use: Handicrafts with Tzedek
• Jews in the Wilderness: Volunteering Abroad
• Blood on your clothes?

Organisation: Policy Studies Institute
Website: http://www.mayerhillman.com/

Mayer joined the Policy Studies Institute in 1970 as head of its environment and quality of ife research programme and is now its Senior Fellow Emeritus. For the last 20 years, his studies have focused on the implications of climate change. Mayer is the author of How We Can Save the Planet, Penguin Books.

Sessions:

• The inescapable dilemma posed by climate change

Michael Hilton had a confirmation at Wembley Liberal Synagogue in 1966 and became a rabbi in 1987. He is currently with Kol Chai Hatch End Jewish community and has recently completed an MA on the history of bar mitzvah.

Sessions:

• The Origin of Jewish Confirmation

Victor is Emeritus Professor of Haematology, University College L ondon and Honorary Consultant , Royal Free Hospital. Author of undergraduate and postgraduate books and of research articles in the fields of leukaemia and other haematological malignant diseases. Victor is a trustee of Hadassah U.K.

Sessions:

• Genetics of Jewish inherited disorders

Website: http://www.myspace.com/themagicif

David is a Limmud regular as well as a performer with (occasional) band ‘The Magic If’, and will gleefully inflict his blend of jolly guitar-type pop-rock on any audience who will hang around for long enough. He was also co-chair of this year’s Limmud Fest and Manchester Day Limmud.

Sessions:

• Blues for Jews

Organisation: Jewish Agency & Habonim Dror
Website: http://www.habodror.org.uk/

Ido is the Habonim Dror shaliach. He comes from Beer-Sheva where he was a manager of Tor-Hamidbar, a small charity that works with youth at risk, and for social change, in the Negev. He’s a member of khila-kama, an urban-kibbutz/cooperative community where most its members work in welfare and education.

Sessions:

• The Israel Zionist-Left Dilemmas
• Urban kibbutz in Israel