Here’s just a taste of what to expect from the Programme:
- Adina Hoffman, author of the Ben Hecht biography and Sacred Trash
- Ági Vetö, maharat, Talmud and Rabbinics professor
- Alex Israel, educator at Pardes
- Alisa Tzipi Zilbershtein, rabbi from Ukraine and Jewish Theological Seminary graduate
- Bess Welden, playwright, performer, and winner of America’s National Jewish Playwriting contest
- Carlos Yebra López, ladino teacher at Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages
- Claris Harbon, human rights lawyer for minorities & women in Israel
- Clémence Boulouque, writer on modern Mediterranean and Sefardi worlds
- Cynthia L. Cooper, playwright, journalist and author
- Dafna Michaelson Jenet, US politician
- Danny Adeno Abebe, Ethiopian Jewish journalist and award-winning author
- David Newman, educator on Israeli politics & borders
- David Tal, educator on the US-Israel relationship
- Debbie Lechtman, Roots Metals – artisan jeweller
- Ethan Marcus, Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America
- Gershon Baskin, secret back channel negotiator between Israel and Hamas
- Gila Beshari, Kehilot Sharot, piyut singing
- Gilla Rosen, founder of Yakar and halakhic adviser
- Hillel Norry, Conservative rabbi, black belt Tae Kwon Do teacher
- Ishay Rosen-Zvi, professor of rabbinic literature at Tel Aviv University
- Isaac and Shawna Brynjegard-Bialik, co-founders of Paper Midrash art workshops
- Ishay Rosen Zvi, Tel Aviv University: Second Temple & rabbinic history
- Jacky Comforty, filmmaker, oral historian; The Optimists: the survival of the Bulgarian Jews during WWII
- Janet Rotstein Yehudayya, Kehilot Sharot, piyut singing
- Jeffrey Fox, head of Yeshivat Maharat
- Joel Levy, director of the Conservative Yeshiva
- Jordan Siegel, photo journalist, covered Darfur, Israel, Iraq
- Joshua Shanes, scholar of Polish history and Orthodoxy
- Kenden Alfond, Jewish food hero
- Laura Elkeslassy, Judeo-Arab music singer with Moroccan and Israeli roots
- Lisa Goldstein, former Executive Director of Institute for Jewish Spirituality
- Loolwa Khazzoom, Iraqis in Pajamas, band combining Iraqi Jewish prayer & rock
- Maggie Anton, fiction author
- Marilena Colasuonno, Judeo-Italian teacher at Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages
- Marine Goldwaser, musician and artistic director for Mish-Mash et Compagnie (klezmer)
- Mark Gottlieb, director of Tikvah fund, supporting the leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish State
- Menachem Kellner, scholar of Medieval Jewish philosophy Michah Gottlieb, scholar of Modern Jewish philosophy
- Myriam Brand, scholar of archeology & antiquity Judaism
- Naomi Seidman, educator on Bais Yaakov and Hadidism
- Nava Meiersdorf, soferet stam – scribe of Jewish texts
- Netanel Zalevski, Kehilot Sharot, piyut singing
- Pammy Brenner, Yiddish literature
- Paul Mendes-Flohr, scholar of modern Judaism
- Pearl Gluck, director of documentary on the story of Bais Yaakov
- Peter Cole, poet
- Rachel Korazim, window to Israel through literature
- Rich Brownstein, lecturer on Holocaust film, Yad Vashem
- Ruben Shimonov, Sephardi/Mizrachi calligraphy and activism
- Russel Neiss, educator and software engineer at Sefaria
- Samer Abdelrazzak Sinijlawi, chairman of the Jerusalem Development Fund
- Sara Wolkenfeld, chief learning officer at Sefaria
- Sefi Kraut, director of education for Makhloket Matters and Pardes faculty member
- Shalom Carmy, teacher of Jewish Studies and Philosophy at Yeshiva University
- Shir Yifrah, Kehilot Sharot, piyut singing
- Shoshana Keats-Jaskoll, feminist activism, Chochmat Nashim
- Sibel Pinto, Turkish-Jewish culinary instructor, lecturer, researcher
- Susan Martha Kahn, Harvard anthropologist
- Susie Linfield, professor at New York University, writes about about the intersection of culture and politics
- Wendy Amsellem, teacher of Talmud and Halakha at Yeshivat Maharat
- Yael Jaffe, rabbinical student in Mechon Hadar
- Yaffa Epstein, teacher of Talmud & rabbinics
- Yehoshua Engelman, teacher of Torah & psychology
- Ze’ev Maghen, professor of Arabic and Islamic History at Bar-Ilan University, and author of ‘Reading the Iranian Revolution’
Can I present a session?
It is a core Limmud value that all presenters are participants and all participants can be presenters.
For this reason, any participant can choose to offer a session when booking their Festival place by simply checking the “I would like to present a session” box on the application form, and submitting the follow-up forms that will be automatically sent out when booking is completed. We will do our best to ensure that those who offer to present a session at Limmud Festival will be included in the programme.
The deadline for applying to present a session is 19 October 2022.