Presenters - P

Organisation: University of Hartford, USA
Website: http://www.hartford.edu/greenberg

Avinoam Patt is the Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Hartford. Previously, he worked as the Lerman Scholar for Jewish Life and Culture at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He has published two books on Jewish Displaced Persons (DP's) and is currently writing Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1939-1940.

Sessions:

• From Destruction to Rebirth: The Holocaust and the Creation of the State of Israel
• Obama one year on - is he good for the Jews?
• Jewish Identity in the Age of Facebook: The Past, Present, and Future of American Jewry
• Return to Sobibor: The Holocaust and Jewish Memory
• Zionism: Origins, Evolution, Ending?
• 'We Are Here': New Research on Jewish DPs (Displaced Persons) in Post-War Europe

Website: http://eprhyme.com/

Eden Pearlstein, aka Eprhyme, is a Radical Jewish Renaissance Rapper. He has just released a solo album with NY based Modular Moods/Shemspeed. He can be found performing/presenting all over the U.S. on topics ranging from Hip Hop history to Esoteric Judaism. He is here with the Darshan project.

Sessions:

• Darshan - Fabrengen
• Maleva Malka with Darshan
• Darshan Live
• Pardes in Practice
• That's a Rap!

Amy Philip is the deputy director of The Pears Foundation and a long-time Limmud volunteer.

Sessions:

• CANCELLED Bulding Grassroots Communites: Muslim and Jewish Perspectives

Organisation: Denises Kitchen
Website: www.jewishcookery.com

Denise Phillips is a professional chef and cookery writer. She trained with renowned restaurateur Prue Leith before setting up a successful catering business. She runs 'hands-on' cookery demonstrations, teaches cookery skills and styles in her popular classes, and has written four books, including Modern Jewish cooking with Style and Jewish Mamas Kitchen.

Sessions:

• Sephardi Favourites
• Cooking For Yom Tov

Organisation: Cardiff Reform Synagogue

Michael is a director with Everyman Theatre Cardiff and has just finished an M.Phil. in Theatre Studies at Aberystwyth University. Michael says that at 73 he still feels surreally Jewish and unWelsh and ex-South African: thus he is presenting a session enacting some of the stories of Etgar Keret, Israel's answer to alienation.

Sessions:

• Uterus and Cocked and Locked

Winston Pickett is a UK-based writer and analyst. A Jerusalem Fellows graduate, he is former director of the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, communications director at the Board of Deputies of British Jews and external relations director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research.

Sessions:

• CANCELLED Talking About Anti-semitism
• Overcoming the Jewish Discount Factor

Dina Pinner grew up in Palmers Green (N13) and made aliya in 2000. She lives in Jerusalem teaching Bible and other Jewish topics as well as communication skills and community building. (She is very excited to be returning to Limmud Conference to present!) Dina is also a counsellor, graphologist and poet.

Sessions:

• Single life and Jewish Community: who are we now?
• A practical guide to effective communal communication.
• Dine 'n' Discuss: I Hate Synagogue – A Guide to Making Yom Kippur Meaningful Without Stepping into a Synagogue
• ‘I didn’t know what to say’; a guide to dealing with your friend’s bereavement
• Yiphtach: Bullied child. Heroic general. Terrible father.

Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, president of the International Political Science Association’s Research Committee on political finance and political corruption, was lead witness (2006) before the Committee on Standards in Public Life. He spent his academic career at Pembroke College, Oxford, and Brunel University.

Sessions:

• Scandals in Jewish Public Life

Organisation: Assembly of Masorti Synagogues
Website: http://www.lishma.org.uk/

Matt Plen is the movement director of the Assembly of Masorti Synagogues and founding director of Lishma - Jewish Study Centres. He is a doctoral student in Jewish education at the Hebrew University where his research topic is critical pedagogy and Israeli ideologies of social justice.

Sessions:

• Yeshivat Limmud: modern Jewish philosophy (Martin Buber) (1 of 3)
• Yeshivat Limmud (2 of 3)
• Yeshivat Limmud (3 of 3)
• Community Building for Social Action

Organisation: Southgate Reform Synagogue

Marcia Plumb directs spiritual formation at Leo Baeck College and is a Jewish spiritual counsellor. She works with individuals and groups. She is rabbi at Akiva School and Southgate Reform Synagogue. She co-directs HeartsMatter, which trains for spirituality in children. She has published widely on prayer, health, and women.

Sessions:

• How Can We Forgive When We Can't Forgive?
• Jewish Prayers for Strength and Healing

Organisation: UJIA JLEC

Born and educated in London, Michael went to Jerusalem and studied at Yeshivat Chevron . That was followed by philosophy at the London School of Economics. A brief respite of 30 years from intellectual life followed . Michael now works for UJIA in Jewish Life Education Centre (JLEC) and helps run academic programmes for teachers.

Sessions:

• Burning Books - other routes in education (1 of 3)
• Protest - Preserving the minority opinion (3 of 3)
• Burning Books: Talking about Tricky Topics (2 of 3)
• Burning Books - Israel (3 of 3)

Antony is Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and a leading authority on East European Jewish history, specifically Polish-Jewish relations. He is a founder of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, Vice-President of the American Association for Polish-Jewish Studies, former member of the International Auschwitz Council, and editor-in-chief of the Polin journal.

Sessions:

• Polska Year - Polish-Jewish Relations since 1984: Reflections of a Participant.

Organisation: University of Cincinnati

On the faculty of the University of Cincinnati and the Wexner Heritage Foundation, Arna Poupko Fisher has lectured in over 130 Jewish communities. Teaching medieval Jewish philosophy, Tanakh, Jewish thought, Jewish history and leadership, Ms. Poupko Fisher is the recipient of the Avi Chai Award for Initiatives Enhancing Jewish Identity.

Sessions:

• My people Israel
• The Jewish People - What Are We?
• Am Ehad B’Lev Ehad – One People With One Heart?
• Limmud Town Hall: 2020 Vision – What Next for the Jewish People?
• In pursuit of Passion, Pride, Truths and Uncertainty in the Jewish Search (1 of 2)
• In pursuit of Passion, Pride, Truths and Uncertainty in the Jewish Search (2 of 2)