Kesher Talk

Limmud. Last week I ran into 6 different people (in 3 different venues) who had been to Limmud this year, a week-long Jewish learning-fest held between Christmas and New Year's every winter in England. It attracts several thousand attendees from the Continent, Israel, and the US as well as the UK.

Over four days in late December at Nottingham University?s campus ? which Limmudniks take over, dormitories, classrooms and all ? singles, couples and families were given the opportunity to explore diverse facets of Jewish life. The approach of ?learning for the people by the people? results in a dizzying array of sessions and speakers . . . . from thinkers such as Rabbi Norman Lamm, the Torah scholar and chancellor of New York?s Yeshiva University, and Rabbi Natan Lopes Cardozo, to Nimrod Barkan, the senior policy adviser of Israel?s Foreign Ministry, and Jennifer Bleyer, founder of the alternative Jewish magazine Heeb.

And Charming Hostess (who played Tonic Thursday night) and Judith Hauptmann (who came to see them).

posted by Judith @ 1/11/2004 09:58:00 PM