Presenters - Z

Golda Zafer-Smith is a psychologist, family therapist, teacher and writer.

Sessions:

• Andrzej Wajda's 'Korczak'

Organisation: London School of Jewish Studies
Website: http://www.lsjs.ac.uk

Raphael Zarum is Chief Executive and Senior Lecturer at the London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS), the centre of modern orthodox Jewish learning in the UK. He created the Torah L’Am Crash Course, is a Jerusalem Fellows graduate and holds degrees in both physics and education. Text study is his passion.

Sessions:

• Four Gemaras to Live By (1 of 4)
• Four Gemaras to Live By (2 of 4)
• Four Gemaras to Live By (3 of 4)
• Four Gemaras to Live By (4 of 4)
• Moses: the Early Years - a Live Chavruta Debate
• The Perfect Speech

Organisation: Yeshivat HaMivtar-Torat Yosef
Website: http://www.yhol.org.il

Joel Zeff is the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat HaMivtar-Torat Yosef. He holds a BA from UCLA in Hebrew and an MA in Jewish History and Rabbinic Ordination from Yeshiva University. His work is devoted to producing the next generation of Jewish leaders firmly rooted in a broad-minded orthodoxy.

Sessions:

• 'The Scepter Shall Not Depart from Judah: the Tragic Aftermath of the Chanukah Story'
• Death and the Afterlife in Jewish Tradition
• Tell me Text
• The Learning of Torah as Mystical Experience
• Torah as Self-Recognition - a Radical Rereading of a Talmudic Text
• We Will Be as Dreamers: the Significance of Dreams in Jewish Tradition
• Will the Real Messiah Please Stand Up
• Zionism, the Holiness of the Flesh and Rabbi Kook

Organisation: Simon Wiesenthal Center
Website: http://www.operationlastchance.org

Activist and Holocaust scholar Efraim Zuroff is Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center (Israel) and co-ordinator of its worldwide Nazi war crimes worldwide. He is author of several books, including 'Occupation: Nazi-Hunter' and, as the successor to Simon Wiesenthal, is the last active non-governmental Nazi-hunter in the world.

Sessions:

• 'Operation: Last Chance': a Final Worldwide Effort to Track Down Nazi War Criminals
• Can Nazi War Criminals Still Be Prosecuted in the 21st Century?
• Is the Blood of Rabbis and Yeshiva Students Redder Than that of 'Ordinary' Jews? (1 of 2)
• Is the Blood of Rabbis and Yeshiva Students Redder Than that of 'Ordinary' Jews? (2 of 2)
• The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal and How He Tried to Shape Holocaust Memory

Organisation: Jewish Agency For Israel
Website: http://www.jewishagency.org

Aviel Zwebner is the Jewish Agency For Israel's education representative to the UK. He heads the education shlichim delegation, coordinates activities and advises organisations and individuals on Israel related issues. He enjoyed bible and Jewish philosophy studies in both the yeshiva and academic worlds and tries to implement them in his educational endeavours.

Sessions:

• 'Could the Serpent Kill or Could the Serpent Revive?' Why Did the Baptist Teacher Teach this to the Jewish Nursery Children?
• Hagar - the First Foreign Worker in Israel - a Look at Foreign Workers in Israel