Limmud opened its first-ever Jewish identity conference in Macedonia, drawing participants from other former Yugoslavian countries. The Nov. 1 opening brought together a crowd of 500 Jews, twice Macedonia’s estimated Jewish population of 250, according to Dina Sosberger, who organized the four-day conference for Limmud Keshet-XU, which holds conferences in the former Yugoslavia as part…
After experiences in Argentina and Brazil, a Limmud experience will arrive in Mexico. More than 60 presenters from across the Jewish spectrum – including, a secular rabbi with Orthodox and Conservative colleagues from the Ashkenazi and Sefardi communities, will engage an expected 300 Jews of diverse affiliations at the first-ever “Limmud Mexico.” The program is…
Limmud, the international network of Jewish learning conferences, has appointed a new director and a new chairperson. Shelley Marsh, currently director of informal education for the United Kingdom’s United Jewish Israel Appeal, will become Limmud’s executive director after Sukkot, according to a Limmud press release. She replaces Raymond Simonson, who will become CEO designate of…
Recently, I had the pleasure of teaching at Limmud FSU (Former Soviet Union), the version of the wildly successful international learning conference geared toward Russian-speaking Jews. Held at a hotel outside Princeton University, the conference’s theme was science, with an emphasis on Albert Einstein, and the cultural and political sessions reflected the generally rational, secular…
With much fuss and fanfare, this week’s NYU 2012 university commencement marked the conclusion of my undergraduate career. But instead of rushing forth and celebrating recklessly, determinedly, as is perhaps appropriate, that evening was a decidedly low-key affair. In this post-graduation haze, the only thing I’m inclined to do is sit and self-reflect by the…
More than 500 young Russian-American Jews from across the United States will gather at Princeton University for a conference designed to bring them closer to Jewish history and culture. The Limmud FSU conference will take place at Princeton May 11-13. Limmud FSU is a festival of Jewish learning featuring a program of lectures, workshops, round-table…
Where will we go once the synagogues are gone? In a Jewish religious landscape dominated by denominations struggling to compete for dollars and daveners, the idea that the three big faith streams might fade into irrelevance, supplanted by a robust “just Jewish” identity, sounds like a fantasy. But what if it turned out that the…
Spacing out was encouraged at this year’s Limmud FSU, an annual cultural and education festival for Russian speakers in Israel. That’s because the history-making guest speaker was Alexei Leonov, the first man to walk in space when he exited the Voshod 2 ship for 12 minutes in 1965. According to eJewishPhilanthropy, Leonov’s visit to the…
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