Presenters - H

Caroline Hagard teaches Gan (kindergarten) at both LJS and EDRS religion schools. Caroline is a story teller, has written Jewish songs for young children and also writes and runs children's services for the high holy days and for the chagim. In her spare time she is a full-time medical secretary.

Sessions:

• Friday Night Delight
• Once-Upon-a-Shabbat
• Shanah Tovah Means Happy New Year!
• Tell Me a Story
• What's Yours Like?

Hillel Halkin is an author, journalist and translator of Hebrew and Yiddish literature. Born in New York City, he has lived in Israel since 1970. He has published three books, including 'Letters to an American Jewish Friend', writes a weekly column for The New York Sun and is a regular contributor to Commentary.

Sessions:

• The Future of Zionism - Two Perspectives

Website: http://www.djhandler.com

DJ Handler - Erez Safar - is founder and director of independent record labels Shemspeed and Modular Moods and of the Sephardic Music Festival. 2006 Jewish Music Award’s ‘Best DJ’ - 'one of New York's hottest Jewish musicians', Erez is a multicultural maestro, mixing everything from Funk and Afro to chazanut and Yemenite melodies.

Sessions:

• DJ Handler at the Decks
• How to Set Up a Jewish Record Label
• Last Night DJ Mash Up
• Y-Love - Behind the Rap
• Y-Love in Concert

Organisation: The Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS)
Website: http://www.izs.org.il/

Israel Harel is the founder of The Institute for Zionist Strategies, the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza and the Forum for National Responsibility and Nekuda. He chairs the Association of the Paratroopers Who Liberated Jerusalem, writes for Ha’aretz and is author of several books including The Lion's Gate.

Sessions:

• A Jewish-Zionist Constitution for the State of Israel
• A Regional Solution for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
• Does Israel Really Need a Protective Wall?
• Introduction to the Ideological and Security Roots of Jewish Settlement in Judea, Samaria and Gaza
• Panel Discussion: What Should Israel Learn from Nearly Two Years of Hamas Palestinian Government?
• The Non-Military Reasons for the IDF's Unsatisfactory Performance in Lebanon in 2006

Organisation: The Hampstead (United) Synagogue
Website: http://www.hampsteadshul.org.uk

Michael Harris is rabbi of Hampstead United Synagogue. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of London and is the author of 'Divine Command Ethics: Jewish and Christian Perspectives'. Michael is a Research Fellow at the London School of Jewish Studies and a frequent presenter at Limmud.

Sessions:

• Love, Learning and Laundry
• Panel Discussion: What Is the Jewish Response to Richard Dawkins' Charge that 'Faith Is Belief Despite the Lack of Evidence'?

Member of the JCC tribute troupe Daniel Hart plays songs and poems, from his self written E.P. just released on itunes - "Hart plays with stoic, disconsolate charm..." Evening Standard

Sessions:

• In Concert

Raz Hartman grew up between Israel and the United States, focusing in his early years on music. Early in his college years, he met Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, beginning a path combining Torah and music. He received ordination from Bat Ayin Yeshiva, and went on to co-found Yeshivat Simchat Shlomo in Jerusalem.

Sessions:

• Chassidic Music Learning Session
• Mashiach - What Does It Mean to Us
• Prayer as a Practical Pathway
• Rabbi Nachman's Pathway of Peace
• Raz Hartman in Concert

Organisation: Jewish Theological Seminary
Website: http://www.ohelayalah.org

Judith Hauptman is a professor of Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. She is the rabbi and founder of Ohel Ayalah, a free, walk-in High Holiday service in Manhattan. Author of three books and many articles on Talmud and women, this is her fourth appearance at Limmud in the UK.

Sessions:

• Great Passages from the Talmud
• Great Passages from the Talmud
• How Old Is the Haggadah?
• Women in the Rabbinic Kitchen

Caroline Hayim, co-author with her husband of 'The Will to Live', is active in community and charitable affairs and has travelled widely throughout India. She is the mother of Alex Hayim, who produced 'Shalom Bombay', a document on the Jews of Bombay which has been shown worldwide and was the last event at the Jewish Museum in Camden Town before its temporary close.

Sessions:

• Shalom Bombay

Organisation: Liberal Judaism
Website: http://www.liberaljudaism.org

Jordan Helfman is the Synagogue Youth Development Worker for Liberal Judaism. Last year he served as the oved chinuch (education worker) for LJY-Netzer, the youth movement of Liberal Judaism. Currently taking classes at Leo Baeck College, Jordan starts his rabbinical training at Hebrew Union College this July.

Sessions:

• Liberal Judaism

Peter Herlinger is a political assistant with his local council and a volunteer with a regional social history museum. He has a lifelong interest in history.

Sessions:

• Revolutions and the Jewish Community

Organisation: Tibetan Jewish Youth Exchange

Jess Herman was involved with LJY Netzer (Liberal Jewish Youth) for 15 years culminating in being Mazkira for a year. She has just come back from travelling around the globe for one year; the highlight of her trip was being a youth leader for a Tibetan summer camp in India.

Sessions:

• What Could Jews and Tibetans Possibly Have in Common?

Michael Hilton is a veteran Limmud participant and rabbi of Kol Chai Hatch End Jewish Community. He is the author of 'The Christian Effect on Jewish life' and he is currently studying for an MA at UCL London, researching the history of the celebration of bar mitzvah in Europe.

Sessions:

• How Bar Mitzvah Parties Began

Website: http://www.themagicif.co.uk

David Hoffman is a regular at Limmud where he has performed his set ‘Blues for Jews’ to an enthusiastic reception, and has run acoustic café (which he is helping run again this year), and a variety of sing-along and jam sessions. His come-uppance this year is to find himself co-chair of programming.

Sessions:

• Blues for Jews

Organisation: Swiss Assoc. for Gestalt and Integrative Therapy

Noëmi Holtz is a Gestalt therapist working mainly with people with diabetes. She is a passionate mother and writes 'Agadot' in a Swiss German close to Yiddish. She looks forward to sharing with you her fascination with Laura Perls' incorporation of Martin Buber's ideas into the therapeutic dialogue.

Sessions:

• Living Laura Perls

Organisation: Jewish Teachers Association
Website: http://jewishteachers.org.uk/

Flora Hoori is an activist and volunteer. In her spare time she is a full time Religious Education teacher of secondary school children. Flora is Rosh of the 5-7 age group for Young Limmud, so you may see her on site with small people, singing and doing the conga.

Sessions:

• I'm the Only Jew in the Staffroom
• The Social Staffroom: Jewish Teachers (and Wannabe Teachers) Get Together

Fahmia Huda was responsible for Jewish policy and Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) in the Home Office; she delivered HMD 2005 and set up the HMD Trust in the same year, later becoming a Trustee. She has promoted interfaith work between Muslim and Jew and is a past presenter at Limmud.

Sessions:

• Sadaqah and Tzedakah

Organisation: Oleh! Records (R.A.)
Website: http://www.olehrecords.com

Jeremy Hulsh is the creator of Oleh! Records, a non-traditional state-of-the-art NGO/Label incubator, launched in Israel February 2007. The concept behind Oleh! is extremely dynamic whereas the foundation beneath the model is multi-layered: combining free access and knowledge, diaspora youth, unaffiliated youth, Israel connection, mainstream youth, branding, hasbara, and of course indie-music.

Sessions:

• Dragons Den: So You Think You're an Entrepreneur?
• How to Set Up a Jewish Record Label
• Israeli Youth Culture
• Musical Activism / Alt Hasbara Workshop
• New Immigrant Makes Good