Presenters - T

Organisation: Israeli Dance Institute
Website: http://www.idi.org.uk/

23 year-old Yuval, a graduate of the ‘Cathedra of Choreography and Israeli Dancing’ in Jerusalem, is already an accomplished stage choreographer and teacher. Currently dance development manager of the Israeli Dance Institute, he is eager to encourage young people at Limmud Conference to join him in learning about Israel through dance.

Sessions:

• Any fiddle will do! (1 of 3)
• Israeli Dance Party (1 of 4)
• Any fiddle will do! (2 of 3)
• Israeli Dance Party (2 of 4)
• How to Teach Israeli dancing
• Any fiddle will do! (3 of 3)
• Food for the Soul: Israeli culture & Jewish identity
• How to do Israeli dancing
• Israeli Dance Party (3 of 4)
• Bereshit - Teach Creation in dance
• Israeli Dance Party (4 of 4)

Organisation: University of Sussex

Naomi Tadmor teaches history at the University of Sussex. She was brought up in Jerusalem, and studied in Jerusalem and Cambridge. Her next book, on English biblical translation from Tyndale to the King James Bible, will be published by Cambridge University Press this spring.

Sessions:

• When is a Wife a Concubine? Translating the Hebrew Bible with the Tudors and Stuarts

Organisation: Hindu Forum of Britain
Website: http://hfb.org.uk/

Secretary General of Hindu Forum of Britain Bharti was born in Kenya of Indian origin and has lived in the UK for the last 40 years. She has served as Hindu chaplain in prisons, college and university. She runs her own diversity consultancy RG Enterprises, specialising in race relations,religious literacy, and cultural competency.

Sessions:

• Hinduism and Rakshabandhan

Organisation: London School of Jewish Studies

Lindsey studied archaeology at Cambridge and the Hebrew University and lived in Israel for 17 years. A graduate of the Susi Bradfield Women Educators Fellowships, she is a Teaching Fellow of London School of Jewish Studies, and is wildly excited at having just started a PhD at University College London.

Sessions:

• Pure Superstition or Holy Tradition?
• Chavruta (1 of 4)
• Bad Sects: Alternative Positions in Judaism (1 of 3)
• Bad Sects: Alternative Positions in Judaism (2 of 3)
• Bad Sects: Alternative Positions in Judaism (3 of 3)
• Spin Your Own Tale
• Poetry in the Bible and the Bible in Poetry

Organisation: JMI (Jewish Music Institute)
Website: http://www.jmi.org/

Francesca has studied klezmer music around the world. She enjoys trying out new ideas with old traditions and is involved in several Jewish music projects as well as other world music genres, and with film makers and composers. Francesca works for the Jewish Music Institute as an outreach officer, based in London.

Sessions:

• Creative Klezmer Ensemble

Evelyn has been involved with Limmud Scotland since 'taking it home' some 10 years ago. She is now enjoying her new role of coordinating regional events around the UK and of helping support and nurture the dozen or so volunteer teams who organise these events.

Sessions:

• Taking Limmud Back Home - Love Your Budget

Website: http://www.homeopathyhelpline.com/

Francis Treuherz is Registered with (and Fellow of) the Society of Homeopaths. He has been in private and National Health Service practice since 1984. Former honorary secretary of the Society of Homeopaths, he edits their professional journal, teaches, and works on the homeopathic helpline. He sees patients in London NW2 and Letchworth.

Sessions:

• Homeopathy: Jewish Roots (1 of 2)
• Medical Ethics Panel
• Homeopathy: Life Cycle and First Aid (2 of 2)

Organisation: Dignity In Dying

Edward Turner is a trustee of Dignity in Dying, an organisation which campaigns to legalise safeguarded medically-assisted dying in the UK. He joined the campaign after witnessing the peaceful, medically-assisted death of his own mother at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland in 2006.

Sessions:

• A Good Death

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

Frances is incoming Chair of Jewish Women's Aid, having been a trustee for 2 years. Professionally, a counsellor working in the National Health Service and an MSC in continuing education and training. Frances is particularly interested in women's issues.

Sessions:

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

Organisation: Tzedakah

Sessions:

• The Annual Limmud Pub Quiz