If you’ve never been to Conference

Limmud Conference is a learning community bringing together Jews of all backgrounds, ages and all levels of knowledge. On the face of it – three hundred presenters giving eight hundred sessions to two thousand eager learners from right across the religious spectrum and all over the world, on every subject under the sun of interest to Jews – from Torah study to music, from literature to politics, from history to the future, with performance, art and theatre thrown in for good measure.

But that’s just the statistics. Conference is so much more. Someone described it last year as a ‘vast, whirling kiddush, leaping up and pinching you with an unmistakeable feeling, a groundhog week of conviviality and learning, a long, deep drink at the wells of spiritual refreshment’. That comes closer to capturing what it feels like. But there’s only one way to find out how it really feels – and that’s to be part of it.

Conference is unique. It’s a place where Jews of very different backgrounds and levels of knowledge unite as a community. It’s a community where people move from being participants who volunteer to being volunteers who participate.

All together now
Conference attracts an amazing variety of people.


Conference attracts an amazing variety of people from across the globe; from all points of the Jewish compass; from the very young to the not-so-young; from experts to the merely perplexed. Young Limmud Conference for those between 4 and 17 – runs in parallel.

There are sessions to delight and engage, whether you want to study Torah, meet writers, argue with politicians or stay up into the small hours in the company of some of the best performers in the Jewish world.

 

It’s your Conference
Volunteers are the backbone of Limmud.


Volunteers are the backbone of Limmud: Conference simply wouldn’t happen without them. Last year, over 300 people – more than one in every ten participants – offered some of their time to make Conference the success it was. Limmud Conference is a warm and welcoming community because so many volunteers invest so much effort into making it just that.

Volunteering gives you the chance to take part in a unique way, enriching your experience and giving you the chance to develop skills you can use in your own community.

 

Learning power
We believe everyone can be a teacher and everyone should be a student.


Limmud participants themselves are the presenters. Limmud presenters are also participants.

Many of the presenters are leaders in their field – scholars, artists, musicians, writers politicians, activists, teachers, journalists. And many simply love their subject and have something engaging to say. Limmud is imbued with the belief that we all have something to teach each other and we all have something to learn from each other.   

 

Where are you?
We make no assumptions about your Jewish knowledge.


Our starting point? There are as many Jewish journeys as there are participants.

The Conference programme is both varied and balanced, reflecting the colourful diversity of participants, with sessions aimed at every level of Jewish learning and conducted in a lively range of styles – not simply text or lecture based.

 

Community values
Be part of a warm, friendly and inviting Jewish family.


Limmud Conference is an annual get-together where you can be part of a warm, friendly and inviting Jewish family, two thousand strong.

But it’s not only a once-a-year event. It’s one part of a huge, world-wide community dedicated to Jewish learning in the broadest sense, a community with traditions and values, ways of doing things and a real existence outside its formal events.

 

Never been before? Coming alone?
There’s a warm welcome waiting for you.


We’re running a series of events focused on your needs and designed to help make sure that you get the most out of your Limmud experience.