Presenters - P

Organisation: jewButt
Website: http://www.jewbutt.com

Beverley Paris moved from New Zealand to Israel in 1991. She graduated from university and has worked for a succession of technology start-ups. Late one night, Bev decided to create jewButt, a range of underwear and lounge wear with Jewish themes. jewButt uses humour provocatively to both foster and question identity.

Sessions:

• jewButt What Else?

Organisation: Limmud

Sessions:

• Bone Marrow Donor Recruitment
• Campus Sat Nav
• Campus Sat Nav
• Campus Sat Nav
• Campus Sat Nav
• Campus Sat Nav
• Orientation Session
• Orientation Session
• Orientation Session
• Orientation Session
• Orientation Session

The Partnership 2000/Limmud Galil delegation includes sixteen residents of the Confrontation Line – the Galilee region partnered with the Jewish community in Great Britain. Delegates returning from Limmud in the UK remain active in Limmud Galil's year-round activities and the annual Limmud Galil Conference.

Sessions:

• Redeeming the Captive - a Personal Perspective
• The Quest for the Holy Trail: the Galilee

Organisation: Cardiff Reform Synagogue

Michael Picardie is a playwright, actor and director. His performed plays include: Shades of Brown, The Cape Orchard, Ancestors and Diamonds, Shaloma (International Jewish Theatre Festival, Leeds), The Zulu and The Zeide (Limmud). His four and forthcoming stories 'A Jo'burg Rabbi' appear in 'BIMAH - The Organ of Welsh Jewry'.

Sessions:

• Momik's Story

'Pilpel turned out to be the surprise highlight of Shemesh camp 5767. Their songs energised and enchanted campers and leaders alike'. Fresh, original, and guaranteed to get you singing.

Sessions:

• Pilpel in Concert

Eli Pine is a research student in philosophy at University College London. His area of research falls broadly in metaphysics, but he also likes to dabble in the philosophy of religion and epistemology.

Sessions:

• Three Proofs for God's Existence... and Their Refutations
• What Are Miracles and Should We Believe in Them?

Musician Harry Pitch is in great demand on recording sessions and concerts, both jazz and classical. His accolades include playing the theme and incidental music on harmonica for 'Last of the Summer Wine' since 1972. He also plays great klezmer trumpet.

Sessions:

• Music of George Gershwin

Judith Plaskow is a Jewish feminist theologian and professor of religious studies at Manhattan College in the Bronx, New York. She's the author of 'Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective' and a founding member of B’not Esh, a Jewish feminist spirituality collective that has been meeting since 1981.

Sessions:

• Pressing Issues in Jewish Feminism: How Shall We Speak of God? (4 of 4)
• Pressing Issues in Jewish Feminism: Texts We Love to Hate (3 of 4)
• Pressing Issues in Jewish Feminism: the Problem of Authority (2 of 4)
• Pressing Issues in Jewish Feminism: Where Are We Going? (1 of 4)
• Tell me Text

Organisation: Creative Alchemy
Website: http://www.creativealchemy.co.uk

Claudie Plen is a business coach, trainer and facilitator who specialises in working with creative businesses and the business of creativity. She also writes, paints, buys shoes (creatively) and has an unerring passion for storytelling, great art and jam doughnuts…

Sessions:

• Connect or Disconnect - Creativity and Jewish Identity
• Connect or Disconnect - Creativity and Jewish Identity
• Creative Alchemy Networking at Limmud.

Organisation: University College London

Hilary Pomeroy teaches the culture and the history of Sephardic Jews in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London. Her specialist field of research is the Judeo-Spanish (or Sephardic) ballad and she has published and lectured widely on this topic.

Sessions:

• The Last Marranos
• The Poetry and the Music of the Jews of Tangier, Morocco (2 of 3)

Organisation: Jewish agency for israel
Website: http://www.habodror.org.uk

Born and raised in Kibbutz Lahav, Yahal Porat is a graduate of Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Political Science and Media) and an MA from Ben-Gurion University (Media). He's a boger (an elder) of a youth movement and a political and social justice activist in Israel. Married with one child, he lives in Manchester and has served as Jewish Agency for Israel Habonim-Dror UK central shaliach for the past two years.

Sessions:

• Urban Kibbutzim - the New Chalutzim?

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

Pshutei Ha'am (Simple People) is the new band formed by Roi Levi and Gilad Vital, founder members of the leading Israeli band, Shotei Hanevua and composers of many of the most famous Shotei songs. Roi and Gilad represent the finest in contemporary Israeli music and are delighted to be able to bring their new project to the UK for Limmud Conference.

Sessions:

• Pshutei Ha'am in Concert
• Pshutei Ha'am Workshop