Presenters - Z

Ten years ago student rabbi Andrea Zanardo was among the "crazy founders" of the first Progressive Jewish Community in Italy, and was a lecturer in Jewish history at Milan University. Now he is busy studying at Leo Baeck College, married to Sara and father of a wonderful 18 months old son, Dov, who was born in Jerusalem.

Sessions:

• So You Want To Be A Rabbi?

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

Raphael is chief executive and head of faculty at the London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS), the UK centre of modern orthodox Jewish learning. 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:

• “Ain’t gonna work on Saturday”
• Before the Beginning: the first midrash on Creation
• King David: The One-Man Rock Opera (A tale of swords, slingshots, and other men's wives)
• When is a Jew Not a Jew?
• Radical Talmud: Non-Jewish bread, intermarriage and unkosher quotes (1 of 3)
• Radical Talmud: Non-Jewish bread, intermarriage and unkosher quotes (2 of 3)
• Value Judgements: British and Jewish Values – Can They Coexist?
• King David: The One-Man Rock Opera (A Tale of Swords, Slingshots and Other Men’s Wives)
• Radical Talmud: Non-Jewish bread, intermarriage and unkosher quotes (3 of 3)
• The God of Glass Wombs
• Solomon: King, Poet & Lover, A One-Man Biblical Comedy. 10th Anniversary Performance!!!

Attorney Ziegler is a doctoral candidate and tutor in public international law at Oxford University, specialising in international human rights law. Formerly a legal advising officer in the Military Advocate General unit's West Bank office. LLB, BA (Haifa University), LLM (Hebrew University), BCL(Oxon).

Sessions:

• 'Mission Impossible?' Balancing Security and Human Rights in the West Bank - an ex-IDF Legal Counselor's Perspective (1 of 3)
• 'Mission Impossible?' Balancing Security and Human Rights in the West Bank - an ex-IDF Legal Counselor's Perspective (2 of 3)
• 'Mission Impossible?' Balancing Security and Human Rights in the West Bank - an ex-IDF Legal Counselor's Perspective (3 of 3)

Kenneth spent many years as a barrister and then a Circuit Judge. He researched Jewish genealogy for twenty years and visited shtetls with family connections in Lithuania and Ukraine.

Sessions:

• Tracing your Jewish Roots and Beyond

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

Efraim was born in the USA 1948; made aliya 1970;gained his BA at Yeshiva University; MA, Phd. Hebrew University. He is Chief Nazi-hunter//Israel director, Simon Wiesenthal Center, and author of four books on the Holocaust,and Nazi-hunting. Most recent: Operation Last Chance; One Man's Quest to Bring Nazi Criminals to Justice (Palgrave,2009). He is currently a resident of Efrat, Gush Etzion

Sessions:

• The Polemic Over Orthodox Rescue Efforts During the Holocaust
• The Hunt for "Dr. Death"
• Operation Last Chance (2002-2009):A Final Worldwide Effort to Bring Nazi War Criminals to Justice
• Simon Wiesenthal and his Critics; A Look at his Life and Legacy
• My Life As a Nazi-hunter
• Why Holocaust Distortion is More Dangerous than Holocaust Denial; A Look at How Post-Communist Europe is Trying to Rewrite the History of World War II