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Vivi Lachs has been a teacher in Hackney, London for over 20 years. The singer with Klezmer Klub for 10 years, she has been researching and recently recorded a CD of Yiddish songs of London, called Whitechapel, mayn Vaytshepl.

Sessions:

• Whitechapel, mayn Vaytshepl: Yiddish songs of London.
• Sing Yiddish London

Juliet Landau-Pope is a lecturer, writer and coach, based in London. She teaches social sciences at the Open University where she also promotes study skills and runs staff development workshops for educators. A CTI-trained and certified co-active coach, Juliet is passionate about motivating people to achieve personal and professional goals.

Sessions:

• I'll Do It Tomorrow: A Coaching Workshop for Procrastinators
• I'll Do It Tomorrow: A Coaching Workshop for Procrastinators

Born in Jerusalem, Yoav Landau-Pope grew up in Israel, Switzerland and Holland, and moved to the UK in 2002. A certified clinical psychologist, he works as Director ofCclinical Services at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. Yoav belongs to a Hebrew-speaking book club in London.

Sessions:

• The Experiences of Israeli's Living in the UK (in Hebrew) (1 of 3)
• The Experiences of Israeli's Living in the UK (in Hebrew) (2 of 3)
• The Experiences of Israelis Living in the UK (in Hebrew) (3 of 3)

Organisation: ATZUM - Justice Works
Website: http://ATZUM.org/

Levi Lauer is the founding executive director of ATZUM-Justice Works; seeking to synthesize activist humanism with halachic discipline and Zionist devotion by engaging Israel's urgent social needs (Survivors of Terror and Righteous among the Nations) and evils (sex slave trafficking). Formerly he was executive director of the Pardes Institute, Yerushalayim; Hillel Director in the States and Dean of Brandeis-Bardin Camp Institute.

Sessions:

• Liberalism, Orthodoxy and Their Discontents
• 'When you come to a fork in the road …. take it': diverging paths of Jewish humanism and Zionist realpolitik
• Engaging the face of the 'Other' with uncertain faith
• Sex Slaves in Israel

Clive Lawton was co-Founder of Limmud and is now its Senior Consultant. scholar-in-residence at London's Jewish Cultural Centre, member of Metropolitan Police Authority, magistrate, chair of Tzedek and the Shap Working Party on World Religions Education, Clive has been a secondary school Head, a hospital Chair and Deputy Director of Liverpool Local Education Authority (LEA).

Sessions:

• Taking Limmud Back Home - Interactions with the Wider Community
• The Reduced Jewish Year Company (1 of 3)
• Taking Limmud Back Home - Love Your Budget
• Limmud Town Hall: 2020 Vision – What Next for the Jewish People?
• The Reduced Jewish Year Company (2 of 3)
• One People, Many Nationalities – A Global Conversation
• The Reduced Jewish Year Company (3 of 3)

Organisation: Israel Broadcasting Authority

Steve is chief editor of Israel Broadcasting Authority News and head of the English desk at the Israel Broadcasting Authority. He is also president of American Football in Israel and former deputy director of the Government Press Office. Steve was once a features and sports writer at the the Jerusalem Post.

Sessions:

• Challenges facing the State of Israel (1 of 3)
• Challenges facing Israeli Society (2 of 3)
• Dine 'n' Discuss: The Role of Sports in Israeli Life
• Has Israel Lost its Way? (3 of 3)

Website: http://www.squarefeetarchitects.co.uk/

Daniel Leon is an architect, and founder of Constructive Dialogue, a group set up to counter the boycott of Israeli architects and to positively promote a greater understanding regarding the Middle East. He is director at Square Feet Architects working from residential through to large commercial, education and community projects.

Sessions:

• Tel Aviv and the Bauhaus

Organisation: Jewish Chicks Rock and Storahtelling
Website: http://www.naomiless.com/

“The definitive Jewish Chick who Rocks” (PresenTense Magazine). Naomi delivers estro-powered-rock and tribal lyrics with a strong character and unique voice. Naomi is a role model for teens and adults, with honest, participatory training sessions which demonstrate that learning is a life-long process. Pick up her 1st solo endeavor: “Meshuga’at”!

Sessions:

• Collaborative Songwriting
• That Reminds Me of a Story – Together and Apart
• Storahtelling's Maven Showcase: Parshat Vayechi
• Jewish Chicks Rock Presents: Naomi Less
• Women's Songwriting Circle

Organisation: Jewish Renaissance
Website: http://www.jewishrenaissance.org.uk/

Janet has been the editor of Jewish Renaissance, a quarterly magazine of Jewish culture, since it was founded in 2001. Before that she was a market research consultant.

Sessions:

• CANCELLED Kaifeng to Kingston, Jamaica - small communities and why they thrive

A.-J. Levine is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, Graduate Department of Religion, and Program in Jewish Studies (Nashville, Tennessee, USA).

Sessions:

• The New Testament and the New Anti-Judaism: Legalism and Xenophobia (1 of 4)
• The New Testament and the New Anti-Judaism: Misogyny (2 of 4)
• Polemical Texts in Christian-Jewish Relations: Their Context, Evolution and Contemporary Understanding
• The New Testament and the New Anti-Judaism: Bad Theology (3 of 4)
• The New Testament and the New Anti-Judaism: The “Temple Domination System” (4 of 4)

Organisation: JWA (Jewish Women's Aid)
Website: http://www.jwa.org.uk/

Honorary Vice President and Chair of Jewish Women's Aid. Since retiring from local government housing she has served as a trustee of JWA for several years and has helped to develop the essential services JWA provides for Jewish women and their children who experience domestic violence.

Sessions:

• Home Truths; Domestic Violence in the Jewish Community - What can we do?

Organisation: Leo Baeck College

Judith Levitt took an unconventional path to the rabbinate and learnt a tremendous amount at Leo Baeck College. She lived in Canada and taught non-denominational Jewish education. Writing and painting keep her sane. Judith is Rabbinic Recruitment Advisor at Leo Baeck College and works in a number of other communities.

Sessions:

• Remembering and Forgetting: Responses to Psalm 137 by Israeli Poets
• So You Want To Be A Rabbi?
• Rabbinical School: A Day In An Hour

Organisation: New America Foundation

Director of the New America Foundation’s Middle East Task Force, Daniel Levy was a member of Israel's official delegation at the Oslo ‘B’ and Taba negotiations with the Palestinians and lead drafter of the Geneva Initiative. He was a senior adviser in the Israeli Prime Minister's office. Previously he served as World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) chairperson. i

Sessions:

• Pro-Israel Advocacy in the Era of Urgent De-Occupation

Organisation: Kol Nefesh Masorti Synagogue, The Conservative Yes

Joel is the part-time rabbi of Kol Nefesh Masorti Synagogue in Edgware. He lives in Jerusalem where he teaches Talmud and Halacha at the Conservative Yeshiva and co-ordinates Melitz/Ta Shma's cross-denominational programme for rabbinical students. He received his rabbinic ordination from Rabbi David Hartman.

Sessions:

• Is Limmud Just for Christmas? Can we live together after New Year's?
• Yeshivat Limmud: Talmud 1 (B'rachot) (1 of 3)
• Yeshivat Limmud (2 of 3)
• Are Denominations Dead? Should Movements Move On?
• Why almost nobody is really married
• Yeshivat Limmud (3 of 3)

Organisation: London School of Jewish Studies

Natan Levy is the rabbi of Shenley United Synagogue and head of the Jewish Responsibility Unit at the London School for Jewish Studies. He received ordination at Yeshivat Hamivtar. Because he once asked Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks about recycling, he has been appointed environmental liaison to his Cabinet.

Sessions:

• Should Jews stop flying to Israel?
• The Rabbi Who Died for Cutting Down Trees: Exploring the Razor's Edge of Jewish Ecology

Organisation: Taube Center for Jewish Cultural Renewal

Helise is program director for the Taube Center for Jewish Cultural Renewal and Poland Heritage Tours, previously Arachim conference coordinator and a consultant to Polish and pan-European foundations and institutions. Founding director of Warsaw’s Lauder-Morasha School, has lived in Warsaw with her family since 1994, and worked in Jewish education since 1979.

Sessions:

• Polska Year: Poland and the Jews - Past, Present and Future
• Polska Year - Back to the Future: A Personal Jewish Journey
• Polska Year - Morasha: Reclaiming Jewish Heritage in Poland through Jewish Education
• Polska Year - How can Jewish educational tours encounter contemporary Poland?
• Polska Year - How Do We Remember?

Organisation: Limmud

Sessions:

• Break-fast
• Yeshivat Limmud (2 of 3)
• Limmud's Got Talent!
• Yeshivat Limmud (3 of 3)

Organisation: Limmud Chavruta Team

An international team, spread over four continents, have produced this year’s Chavruta. More locally, a team of experienced facilitators will lead Chavruta sessions at Conference. They will be there to answer any questions and to help you get the most out of the amazing experience that is Limmud Chavruta.

Sessions:

• Chavruta With a Twist
• Chavruta (1 of 4)
• Midnight Chavruta (1 of 3)
• Chavruta (2 of 4)
• Midnight Chavruta (2 of 3)
• Chavruta (3 of 4)
• Midnight Chavruta (3 of 3)
• Chavruta (4 of 4)

Organisation: Limmud Galil / Partnership 2000 Delegation
Website: http://www.limmudgalil.com/

The Limmud Galil/Partnership 2000 Delegation includes eleven residents of the Confrontation Line - the Galilee region partnered with the Jewish community in Great Britain. Their experience at Limmud UK prepares them to become active volunteers in Limmud Galil's year-round activities and the annual Limmud Galil Conference.

Sessions:

• Israeli Voices: Through a Glass of Wine

Organisation: Limmud International Team
Website: http://www.limmudinternational.org/

Limmud is proud of inspiring over 40 communities around the world with its unique cross-communal volunteer-led approach. The Limmud International Team (which includes some of Limmud’s most experienced activists) nurtures the growth and development of Limmud across the globe, and provides training, mentoring, support and advice for all international groups.

Sessions:

• Taking Limmud Back Home - Interactions with the Wider Community
• Taking Limmud Back Home - Should Limmud be Mainstream or Alternative?
• Taking Limmud Back Home - Love Your Budget
• Taking Limmud Back Home - Fund Raising in a Global Economic Crisis
• Taking Limmud Back Home - Don‘t Curb Their Enthusiasm: Motivation, From Theory to Practice
• The Limmud Phenomenon: a Jewish Peoplehood Experience
• Taking Limmud Back Home: Building a Team – Who Should You Look For?

Organisation: Limmud Recreation Team

Sessions:

• Welcome to your First Conference!
• Campus SatNav
• Welcome to your First Conference!
• Campus SatNav
• Unfire

Organisation: Limmud Shabbat Team

Sessions:

• Candlelighting and Welcome
• Kabbalat Shabbat - Masorti
• Kabbalat Shabbat - Orthodox
• Kabbalat Shabbat - Progressive
• Oneg
• Shabbat Morning - Masorti
• Shabbat Morning - Orthodox
• Shabbat Morning - Progressive
• Seuda Shlishit Followed by Havdalah

Organisation: London Jewish Male Choir
Website: http://www.ljmc.org.uk/

Leading the way in Jewish music, the London Jewish Male Choir perform a wide variety of music to audiences all over the world (recently in the USA, Poland, Norway, Gibraltar, Holland and Belgium). Under musical director Michael Etherton's dynamic leadership, the choir is continually innovating, performing music both old and new.

Sessions:

• London Jewish Male Choir in concert

Website: http://www.asbi.org/

Asher Lopatin is the rabbi of Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel Congregation, a modern Orthodox synagogue in Chicago, and is a founding rabbi of the multi-denominational Chicago Jewish Day School. With his wife and kids, he plans to make aliya in 2011 to Carmit, a new, pluralistic town in the Negev.

Sessions:

• Carmit: Creating a New, Pluralistic Community in the Northern Negev
• Synagogue becomes a Home
• Replacing Replacement Theology in Christianity and Islam
• Can Pluralistic Education Work for Orthodox Jews?
• Temple Mt. and Al-Aqtza: Sustainable Traditions
• The Federation of the Holy Land: A Zionist One State Solution

Organisation: Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme

Miriam works at the University of Cambridge inter-faith programme, handling external work. She has a degree in theology from Cambridge and has also studied at Jerusalem’s Midreshet Harova. Miriam is a graduate of the Susi Bradfield Women’s Educational Leadership Programme. She is married to Harris and enjoys travelling and cooking.

Sessions:

• Polemical Texts in Christian-Jewish Relations: Their Context, Evolution and Contemporary Understanding
• Scriptural Reasoning; a ‘Jewish’ kind of interfaith?.

Kobi has written songs and plays and collaborated with top Israeli composers and entertainers. His academic background is in Oriental and Islamic culture studies. Eventually he combined history and music into a series of “lecture-shows” entitled: The Tales behind Yiddish Songs, Jewish History in Songs, The story of Zionism through Songs, etc.

Sessions:

• Oyfn Pripetchik
• Kinderyorn
• Es Brent
• Jewish History Through Songs