Presenters - L

Dan Landau is a creative traveller whose work spans film, theatre, writing, poetry and surfing. He is happiest on a beach or penning a story about his latest adventures. He has lived in Israel, Spain and the UK. Much of his work is influenced by his Jewish identity and search for belonging.

Sessions:

• Coming Back: a Film
• Coming Back: a Film

Organisation: Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies
Website: http://www.pardes.org.il

Daniel Landes is a rabbi and Director and Rosh HaYeshivah of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, where he teaches Talmud and theology. He has been described as a 'remarkable teacher who weaves the insights of his students together through a group process, discovering fascinating new meanings in age-old texts'.

Sessions:

• God!? (2 of 4)
• In Search of the Messiah and Tikkun Olam: Shimon Bar Yochai and Yehoshua Ben Levi (4 of 4)
• Outsiders, Insiders
• The Lonely Man: Eliezer Ben Hyrcanus and Yohanan Ben Zakkai (1 of 4)
• The Square and the Circle: Honi the Circle-maker and Shimon Ben Shetach (2 of 4)
• Who Sets the Calendar for the Jewish People? Hananiah and the Court of Jerusalem (3 of 4)

Organisation: Tzedek
Website: http://www.tzedek.org.uk

Vikki Lawrence is Education Projects Director for Tzedek. She graduated from Liverpool John Moores University with a degree in Youth and Community Studies and previously worked for Maccabi GB developing their National Leadership Programme and Jewish education activities.

Sessions:

• I'm Interested in Volunteering Abroad...
• Volunteering Abroad: More Harm Than Good?

Organisation: limmud

Clive Lawton is a Limmud founder and now its Senior Consultant. He's no. 18 in the Jewish Chronicle's 'Power 100', was awarded the Prize for Diaspora Education by the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, is a faculty member of the European Centre for Leadership, the London Jewish Cultural Centre and Melton and a Trustee of Jewish Cultural Centre for London and Chair of Tzedek.

Sessions:

• Developing Dialogue Within the UK Jewish Community
• Jewish Ideas that Have Changed the World (1 of 3)
• Jewish Ideas that Have Changed the World (2 of 3)
• Jewish Ideas that Have Changed the World (3 of 3)
• Limmud International - from 1 to 35 in Eight Years
• Who Is A Jew?
• Why Volunteer?

Organisation: RIKMA
Website: http://www.rikma.org.il

David Lazar was born in Los Angeles and has lived in Israel since 1975. He's been a soldier, a farmer, a student and a musician. Now he's just a rabbi. He directs RIKMA: Spiritual Community Leadership Training program and is the spiritual leader of Kehilat Tiferet Shalom (Masorti) in Tel Aviv.

Sessions:

• Lord, I Was Born a Ramblin' Man
• Music, Monks and Mizmorim
• Tell me Text
• Toasting the Shabbat Queen
• Who Is A Jew?

Anne Leach has been married for 32 years and has two daughters. She's a member of Kenton United Synagogue and works as a Reading Recovery Teacher in Hackney. Her younger daughter became religious while a student at Leeds, subsequently studied at a seminary in Jerusalem and married in 2006. Anne has written a book about her experiences, called 'Weddingweddingwedding'.

Sessions:

• Has Your Life Changed Since Your Child Went Frum?

Organisation: Hebrew College Rabbinical School

Ebn Leader is a rabbi and Director of the Bet Midrash at the Rabbinical School at Hebrew College in Newton. He is a student of Rabbi Arthur Green, from whom he has received S’micha. He is co-editor of 'God in All Moments: Mystical & Practical Wisdom from Hasidic Masters'.

Sessions:

• Humility and Environmentalism - a New Application of Mussar Teachings
• Tell me Text
• Tending the Soul - the Challenge and Opportunity of Honour
• The Jewish Mysticism of Rav Kook and Deep Ecology
• The Values of the Talmudic Debate - a Case Study from Kiddushin - Bet Midrash
• The Values of the Talmudic Debate - a Case Study from Kiddushin - Shiur (2 of 2)
• The View from the Trans-Denominational Bet Midrash

Having attended the Jews' Free School, Daniel Lee is currently working on his doctoral thesis at St Hugh’s College Oxford. He wanted to investigate a subject that appealed to his interests both in France and modern Jewish history and is studying the wartime French Jewish scout movement.

Sessions:

• Rural Jewish Youth Under Vichy France: Les Éclaireurs Israélites de France and the Chantiers Ruraux

Organisation: Institute for Jewish Policy Research
Website: http://www.jpr.org.uk

Antony Lerman is Executive Director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) and was Chief Executive of the Hanadiv Charitable Foundation, supporting Jewish life in Europe, between 1999-2006.

Sessions:

• Jewish Self-Hatred: Myth or Reality?
• Panel Discussion: 'What Will Anglo-Jewry Look Like in Twenty Years Time?'
• The Elephant in the Room: What Do British Jews Not Talk About?

Organisation: University of Southampton

Mark Levene is a member of the Parkes Centre for Jewish/non-Jewish relations at the University of Southampton. He is also co-founder of the Forum of the Study of Crisis in the 21st century (Crisis Forum).

Sessions:

• Armenia, Jews and Genocide
• Jews and Climate Change

Organisation: Pshutei Ha'am, Ahavat Ha'aretz
Website: http://www.myspace.com/simplepeopleband

Roi Levi is one of the founding members of Shotei Hanevuah - one of Israel's hottest bands in the last ten years. Following the recent break-up of Shotei, Roi, along with fellow Shotei founder Gilad Vital, have created Pshutei Ha'am.

Sessions:

• Musical Journey Through Your Soul - After Hours Soul Connection
• Shira B'tzibur

Organisation: Vanderbilt University

Amy-Jill Levine is a Yankee Jewish feminist and E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School in Nashville Tennessee. Her most recent publications are 'The Misunderstood Jew: the Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus' and 'The Historical Jesus in Context', which she co-edited.

Sessions:

• How Jews and Christians Read Scripture Differently (3 of 4)
• Jesus and Judaism: Why the Connection Matters (1 of 4)
• The Anglican Church and the Jewish Community
• The New Testament and Anti-Judaism (2 of 4)
• The Present and Future of Jewish/Christian Relations (4 of 4)

Organisation: BACI Solicitors
Website: http://www.gettingyourget.co.uk/

Deanna Levine is a Scottish and an English Solicitor and consultant to Barnett Alexander Conway Ingram, a London solicitors' practice. She represents B’nai B’rith UK on the Board of Deputies, is a member of the Board’s Family Law Group and co-author of 'Getting your Get', which provides information about Jewish and civil divorce laws. She regularly speaks to appreciative audiences.

Sessions:

• Getting a Get (a Jewish Divorce)

Organisation: Council of Young Israel Rabbis + Jewish Agency
Website: http://www.youngisraelrabbis.org.il

Rachel Levmore is a Rabbinical Court Advocate, is Coordinator of the Get-Refusal Prevention Project of the Council of Young Israel Rabbis in Israel and of the Jewish Agency, is the only woman in the 'Agunot Unit' of the Directorate of the Israeli Rabbinical Courts and is a composer of 'The Agreement for Mutual Respect'. She is a Bar Ilan Doctoral candidate in Talmud.

Sessions:

• Jewish Attitudes to Divorce: A Thoughtful Interpretation of the Sources
• Prenuptial Agreements for the Prevention of Get-Refusal—a Comparison
• Solutions to the Agunah Problem - an Analytical Blueprint
• The Prenuptial Agreement vs Romance in the Post-Modern World
• Women in a Man's World: Agunot Released with the Help of a Female Rabbinical Court Advocate

Organisation: Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation

Abraham Levy was born in Gibraltar in 1939 and was educated in England, where he received his rabbinical ordination. He has been a rabbi for over 40 years and is the spiritual head of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation in England. He was awarded the OBE in 2004 for services to interfaith co-operation.

Sessions:

• Are Sephardim Different?

Organisation: Office for Small Communities

Elkan Levy is currently Director of the Office of Small Communities and also served as President of the United Synagogue from 1996 to 1999. Educated in London, Israel and New York, he is well-known as a dynamic lecturer deeply interested in British Jewry, its past and its future.

Sessions:

• Anglo-Jewry's Best-kept Secrets - Pictures of the Communities that Nobody Knows.
• Jews and Freemasonry
• Small Communities - Problems and Solutions
• They Got Off the Boat Too Soon

Bea Lewkowicz is a social anthropologist and oral historian. She studied in Cologne, Cambridge, and London, and received her PhD from the LSE. Her book ‘The Jewish Community of Salonika: History, Memory, Identity’ was published in 2006. She currently co-directs ‘Refugees Voices', the AJR Audio-Visual Testimony Archive.

Sessions:

• 'We All Came from Spain': Identity and Memory Among the Jews of Salonika
• Refugee Voices: Filming Interviews with German-Jewish Refugees in the UK

Organisation: Dept for the Rights of Jews from Arab Countries

Jean-Marc Liling is originally from France and has lived in Israel since the age of 12 where he works as a lawyer. Worked at Israel's Justice Ministry and for Minister for Diaspora Affairs Melchior, specialising on Jewish refugees and reparations issues. For two years he worked as a protection officer at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' Israel office, and now works for UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Israel office).

Sessions:

• Israel as a Refuge for (Non-Jewish) Refugees?

Organisation: Limmud

The Limmud Chavruta Project Team have studied and argued together to bring you the Limmud Chavruta Project - a very special experience at Conference for guided learning in pairs, based on a source book, with this year's theme of 'Creativity' as the topic. Suitable for everyone - to stimulate those with little experience of Jewish learning, and challenge those with a greater depth of knowledge.

Sessions:

• Chavruta - Creativity: In the Beginning... (1 of 4)
• Chavruta - From the Sublime to the Mundane (2 of 4)
• Chavruta - Painting Pictures (3 of 4)
• Chavruta - The Powers of Imagination (4 of 4)
• Evening Chavruta 1
• Evening Chavruta 2
• Evening Chavruta 3

Organisation: Limmud

Limmud is known as 'one of British Jewry's greatest ever success stories'. Many hundreds of volunteers are now bringing Limmud home to their communities all over the UK and across the Jewish world. The Limmud International and Regional Support teams are volunteers with extensive experience of organising hugely successful, inspirational Limmud events.

Sessions:

• It's a Small World If You're a Limmud Volunteer
• Taking Limmud Home - Enriching the Programme
• Taking Limmud Home - Getting the Best Out of Your Site
• Taking Limmud Home - Managing Shabbat at Limmud Events
• Taking Limmud Home - Marketing Your Event
• Taking Limmud Home - Participant Care
• Taking Limmud Home - the Essential Pack

Maureen is in her 40th year of performing this year. She studied at LAMDA and has acclaimed success in films, books, plays and television. She is most famous for the Pianist and BT adverts as well as Rejoice. Her upcoming radio play "Tourtoise" has been adapted by her daughter Amy.

Sessions:

• Maureen's Medley
• Question and Answer