Presenters - A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
Back to the Schedule front page
Presenters - S
Brian Sacks
|
Website: www.briansacks.com Having retired from a career in Information Technology Brian has contributed athletics news and features to the Jewish Chronicle for several years. He has also set up the Daniel Sacks Memorial Award for Young Athletic Achievement. |
Sessions:
|
Daniella Saffer
|
Organisation: GIFT Daniella is the Informal Educator for GIFT. Having graduated with a First Honours degree in Media and Performing Arts, she uses film, text and discussion to inspire, educate and encourage young people from schools, cheders and youth movements around the country to volunteer and give their time. |
Sessions:
|
Gary Sakol
|
Gary is Deputy Director of the Zionist Federation, former Mazkir (Director) of Habonim Dror, on the steering committee for Mitzvah Day - and Scottish! |
Sessions:
|
Tony Samuel
|
Organisation: World Jewish Relief Tony has recently joined World Jewish Relief to lead their fundraising programme from individual donors. Tony has just returned from Ukraine, seeing WJR’s extraordinary work in detail. |
Sessions:
|
Marc Saperstein
|
Organisation: Leo Baeck College Marc Saperstein is Professor of Jewish History and Homiletics at Leo Baeck College. Previously he taught at George Washington University in Washington D.C. (1997-2006), Washington University in St. Louis (1986-1997), and Harvard (1977-1986). He is author of six books and more than 60 articles on Jewish history, literature, and thought. |
Sessions:
|
Adva Sapir
|
Organisation: Jewish Agency for Israel Adva was born in Nazaret Illit, served at the Israeli Air Force as an operation officer. Adva holds a B.A at International Relations and Public Policy from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Adva is the Jewish Agency's shlicha to the Liberal Judaism movement in London. |
Sessions:
|
Elizabeth Sarah
|
Organisation: Liberal Judaism Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah has been rabbi at Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue since December 2000. She also teaches part time at Leo Baeck College. Elli has written a number of articles and publications. Her new book, ‘Trouble-Making Judaism’ will be published Jan 2012. |
Sessions:
|
Rob Sassoon
|
Rob ‘Sassy’ Sassoon is the Registration Chair of Conference 2011, this being his eighth Limmud. In his spare time, he is a final year Business Management student at the University of Birmingham, and has managed to convince his lecturers to write a dissertation on his favourite pastime, Limmud! |
Sessions:
|
Gavin Schaffer
|
Organisation: University of Birmingham Gavin Schaffer is Senior Lecturer in British History at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of ‘Racial Science and British Society: Britain 1930-62’. |
Sessions:
|
Janet Schatten
|
Organisation: The Epstein School Janet Schatten’s 25 years in Jewish education includes consultation and supervision in informal educational settings, afternoon schools and day schools. She leads school initiatives and has extensive experience at a day school. She has a Masters degree in Jewish education and a lifetime degree of raising four sons. |
Sessions:
|
Michael Schudrich
|
Organisation: Jewish Community of Poland Michael Schudrich was rabbi of Japan from 1983-1989. In the 1970s, Schudrich travelled to Eastern Europe, and in 1990, began working for the Lauder Foundation, residing in Warsaw, from 1992-1998. He returned to Poland in 2000 as Rabbi of Warsaw and Lodz, and in December 2004 was appointed Chief Rabbi. |
Sessions:
|
Tracey Schueler
|
Currently Marketing Campaigns Manager at The Barbican, Tracey has worked for a variety of flagship arts organisations. She studied leadership and history in Israel and is driven by the additional meaning and depth that Judaism provides for our everyday lives. Tracey has recently discovered her hidden talent for cholent making! |
Sessions:
|
Shuly Schwartz
|
Organisation: Jewish Theological Seminary Shuly Rubin Schwartz is the Irving Lehrman Research Associate Professor of American Jewish History and Walter and Sarah Schlesinger Dean of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies at The Jewish Theological Seminary. Schwartz's book, 'The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life', won the 2006 National Jewish Book Award. |
Sessions:
|
Simcha Schwartz
|
Organisation: Jewish Farm School Simcha is Co-Founder of the Jewish Farm School (JFS). Since 2007, he has built the organization while leading the Alternative Break department and Jewish Farm School's educational programs at the new Eden Village Camp. He is an organizer, a farmer and grateful to be at his first UK Limmud event. |
Sessions:
|
Glyn Secker
|
Organisation: Jews For Justice For Palestinians Glyn is Jews for Justice for Palestinians EC, and captain of the Jewish Boat To Gaza 2010. He lives in London with Vanessa - who lost family in the Holocaust. He is a lifetime justice/human rights campaigner: printing presses to Greece under Military Junta, Charter 77 courier, Anti-Nazi League/Rock Against Racism organizer, 1982 courier to Turkey under the military. |
Sessions: |
Hagai Segal
|
Website: www.hagaisegal.com Hagai is an award-winning academic, consultant and analyst specialising in terrorism and Middle-East affairs. A frequent expert contributor on radio and TV, Hagai advises counter-terror and security agencies across the globe, and serves on the London First Security & Policing Advisory Board and the Global Risk Network Executive Advisory Committee. |
Sessions:
|
Barak Segel
|
Organisation: Jewish Agency for Israel Barak was born in 1983 and lives in Holon, Israel. During his time in the army he was in military intelligence, and has a degree in sociology. He also studied cinema. Recently Barak worked as a teacher for underprivileged children. Has been a part of the Israeli Tent movement (J14) from day one. |
Sessions:
|
Simon Selmon
|
Organisation: London Swing Dance Society Award-winning dancer, teacher, judge and choreographer, Simon specialises in dances from the 1900s to the 1960s, particularly Charleston, Lindy Hop, Balboa and Jive. He founded the London Swing Dance Society, the UK's longest running swing dance club, in 1986 and is often found appearing on stage, TV or screen. |
Sessions:
|
James Sevitt
|
Website: www.youtube.com/user/AwakeningIsrael James is an activist, educator and academic who has been involved in Israeli-Palestinian conflict resolution for over 10 years. For five weeks this past summer James filmed the Israeli social protest movement that swept the country. He is in the midst of making a documentary about this. |
Sessions:
|
Peter Sevitt
|
Peter is a Brummie who emigrated with his wife Lesley to Canada several years ago. Their two children Emma and James are also presenting at Conference. He founded Limmud Toronto in 2004 and is presenting this year on Jewish marriage ceremonies in honour of Emma’s wedding in 2011 and his own in 1972! |
Sessions:
|
Avigail Shapira
|
Organisation: Jewish Agency for Israel Avigail is the Jewish Agency Shlicha to the Masorti Movement and Noam, in her second year in the UK. Avigail was born and raised in Jerusalem. She holds an M.A. in Geography and has spent many years working in the field of informal education in Israel and abroad. |
Sessions:
|
Marc Shapiro
|
Marc B. Shapiro holds the Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Scranton. Among his books are ‘Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy: The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg’ and ‘The Limits of Orthodox Theology’, both of which were National Jewish Book Award Finalists. |
Sessions:
|
Stephen Shashoua
|
Organisation: Three Faiths Forum Stephen Shashoua joined the Three Faiths Forum in 2004 and has been Director since 2008. He has led its development into one of the UK’s largest and most active interfaith/inter-communal organisations. He continues to promote interaction, cooperation and learning across cultural backgrounds through work on the ground, his writing and speaking. |
Sessions:
|
Gil Shefler
|
Organisation: The Jerusalem Post Gil is a reporter for The Jerusalem Post covering foreign news and Diaspora affairs. His writing has also appeared in Haaretz, Yedioth Aharonoth, Forward and others. Despite having made aliyah as a child many years ago, he is still hopelessly addicted to Monster Munch's Pickled Onion crisps. |
Sessions:
|
Daniel Sheldon
|
Organisation: Union of Jewish Students Daniel is Campaigns Director for the Union of Jewish Students. He is former Vice-President Communications at LSE Students' Union, and Governor of the London School of Economics. |
Sessions:
|
Polina Sheperd
|
Organisation: Klezfest Caravan Born in Siberia, Polina Shepherd-Skovoroda learned music in a Russian Jewish home. Whilst living in Kazan (capital of Tatarstan) and studying at the State Academy, she joined the first klezmer band in new Russia, Simcha and soon became the principal Yiddish choir leader of the FSU. She performs and teaches internationally. |
Sessions:
|
Sybil Sheridan
|
Sybil is a long time participant and presenter at Limmud events. Her passions include text study, music, interfaith and her family. She is a Rabbi at Wimbledon and District Synagogue and Jewish chaplain at Roehampton University. |
Sessions:
|
Danny Shine
|
Organisation: Spiritual Entertainment Ltd Danny loves Limmud. As he gets older, he is being rudely awakened to the idea that he knows very little about anything. Some of his presentations are intentionally unprepared so be prepared for the unknown! His main intention is to make a real difference to himself. |
Sessions:
|
Corinne Shmuel
|
Corinne is from Leicester, has been in London for a few years, and plans to move to Israel. She completed her Masters in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, specialising in photography by German women exiles. She plans to work in gallery education, whilst dabbling in cooking and food-writing. |
Sessions:
|
David Shneer
|
Organisation: University of Colorado, Boulder David Shneer is professor of history and directs Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Called ‘path-breaking’ by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, his books include ‘Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, & the Holocaust’, ‘Queer Jews’, and ‘New Jews’. He has written for publications including the Huff Post and the Forward. |
Sessions:
|
Marc Shoffren
|
Marc is the Director of Studies at North London Collegiate school. He is an Ashdown MBA graduate and survived the Senior Educators Programme, Jerusalem. He writes stories and plays for children and created the Kivunim Curriculum. Marc is inspired by his wife Shelley Marsh and children Jordan and Eden. |
Sessions:
|
Hagai Shoham
|
Organisation: Jewish Agency for Israel Born in Netanya, Israel, Hagai served the army as a combat medic, and has spent the last 14 years working with all ages in informal education. Hagai has a BA in Emergency Medicine from Ben-Gurion University, and is the Aliyah shaliach for the Jewish Agency and Bnei Akiva UK. Hagai is married and has 3 daughters. |
Sessions:
|
Eliezer Shore
|
Website: www.eliezershore.com Eliezer Shore is a teacher and writer on topics of Jewish thought and spirituality. He studied under various Kabbalistic and Hasidic masters, and has an M.A. in Jewish education (Yeshiva U.), and a Ph.D. in Jewish Philosophy (Bar-Ilan). He teaches at the Rothberg School of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and other institutions. |
Sessions:
|
Gershon Silins
|
Gershon Silins is cantor at Liberal Judaism and Adjunct Professor of Cantorial Arts at the Abraham Geiger College. He served as cantor of Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto. His essay, "The Discussion of Music in Lawrence A. Hoffman's The Art of Public Prayer" appeared in The CCAR Journal. |
Sessions:
|
Paul Silk
|
Organisation: Limmud Fest Paul Silk is co-chairing Limmud Fest 2012. |
Sessions:
|
Lindsay Simmonds
|
Lindsay has an MSc in Gender Studies and is working towards her PhD at the London School of Economics. She studied at Nishmat and Midreshet Lindenbaum, and is a Bradfield graduate. On the London School of Jewish Studies adjunct faculty, she also lectures at national and international conferences on gender-related topics. |
Sessions:
|
Raymond Simonson
|
Organisation: Limmud Raymond serves the Limmud community as Executive Director. He has a Jewish History BA; a Masters in Applied Anthropology and Community & Youth Work; twenty years experience in informal Jewish education, leadership development, mentoring and educational consultancy; two wonderful young children; an enviable record collection; and a very patient wife. |
Sessions:
|
Jamie Slavin
|
Organisation: The Board of Deputies of British Jews Jamie Slavin is Public Affairs Officer at the Board of Deputies of British Jews. Previously he was National Director at the Federation of Zionist Youth. In his spare time he enjoys theatre, following Arsenal home and away and managing Norstar FC in the Maccabi Football League. |
Sessions:
|
Lara Smallman
|
Website: www.larasmallman.com Lara is a self-taught filmmaker, award-winning blogger and campaigner. Things she gets particularly excited about include human rights, interfaith dialogue and the environment. This is her first time at Limmud Conference. |
Sessions:
|
Alma Smith
|
Alma has been a Limmudnik since birth. Alma was a RSY-Netzer movement worker and since outgrowing youth movements, continues to be active in the Reform Movement. Alma studied English in Cambridge University and Judaism in the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. She is a huge supporter of René Cassin. |
Sessions:
|
Amnon Daniel Smith
|
Organisation: Edgware & District Reform Synagogue Daniel Smith is Senior Minister of Edgware Reform Synagogue. He trained in Counselling and Psychotherapy, and was founding chair of the ‘Raphael Centre - a Jewish Counselling Service’. Daniel has studied prayer with leading rabbis, Catholic priests and Buddhist monks, and has taken Mindfulness Meditation leadership courses in Elat Chayyim Jewish Retreat Centre USA. |
Sessions:
|
Chani Smith
|
Organisation: Leo Baeck College Chani Smith teaches Biblical Cantillation at Leo Baeck College. She is a musician and the author of ‘Tuning the Soul: Music as a Spiritual Process in the Teachings of Rabbi Nahman of Bratzlav’. She also published ‘Learn to Leyn: The Cantillation of the Hebrew Bible’, containing the British Ashkenazi tradition. |
Sessions:
|
Sarah Snyder
|
Organisation: Cambridge Inter-faith Programme Sarah Snyder works with the Cambridge Interfaith Programme and co-ordinates scriptural reasoning groups around the UK. She lectures in Abrahamic faiths and Biblical hermeneutics, and is currently producing an 'Understanding Faiths' multimedia series for the Coexist Foundation. |
Sessions:
|
David Soetendorp
|
David was born in Amsterdam and is married with two grown up children. He spent over 30 years in the full time non-orthodox rabbinate from which he retired to concentrate on a career in psychotherapy and freelance rabbinics. |
Sessions:
|
Naomi Soetendorp
|
Website: www.naomichanna.tumblr.com Social worker, sometime ‘wandering Jew’ and creative writer, Naomi is currently undertaking her PhD in Social Work at the Tavistock Institute one day a week. She continues to work with Looked After Children in West London. |
Sessions:
|
Ruth Soetendorp
|
Ruth is Harrow Day Limmud co-chair. She is a (semi) retired academic, still involved with intellectual property education. |
Sessions:
|
Shira Solomons
|
Organisation: Reading Hebrew Congregation Shira has been a Jewish educator and events organiser in England since 2000. She runs the exciting new cheder at Reading Hebrew Congregation, where she works as Rebbetzin. She is passionate about practical spirituality and Jewish education that enables children, women and men to expand their intellectual and spiritual horizons. |
Sessions:
|
Zvi Solomons
|
Organisation: Reading Hebrew Congregation/Jewish Spark With semicha (ordination) from Jews College, this former archaeologist trained as a surveyor at Reading 23 years ago. Now Rabbi of that town, married to Shira with three fine squeakers, he can be found sampling whisky, admiring fountain pens, or looking after his garden when not tending his flock. |
Sessions:
|
Etty Someck
|
Organisation: Jewish Agency for Israel Etty has been teaching Hebrew for the past 18 years at the Jewish Agency. She taught diplomats from the Ministry of Defence: Military, Air and Naval Attaches. She also taught at Spiro Ark. Etty currently teaches groups of lawyers in London, and also special ulpanim for new Olim through the Aliyah Department. |
Sessions:
|
Barbara Spectre
|
Organisation: Paideia, the European Institute for Jewish Studies Barbara is the Founding Director of Paideia Institute that serves to reinvigorate European Jewish culture. She taught at the Hartman Institute, with Noam Zion authored: ‘A Different Light: The Hanukkah Book of Celebration’, received the Max Fisher Prize for Jewish Education, and the ICRF ‘2008 Women in Action’ award. |
Sessions:
|
Benji Stanley
|
Organisation: Leo Baeck College and Yeshivat Hadar Benji Stanley is training to be a Rabbi at the Leo-Baeck-College. He has also studied at New York's Yeshivat Hadar, and Jerusalem's Conservative Yeshivah. He read English Literature at Oxford University, and is passionate about a Judaism deeply rooted in text and determinedly engaged in the world. |
Sessions:
|
Joel Stanley
|
Organisation: Moishe House and Streetwise Joel is a Jewish community organiser, educator and theatre practitioner, who shares his current professional life between Moishe House and Streetwise GB. He is also a passionate 5Rhythms dancer and is slowly working his way towards full teacher training. |
Sessions:
|
Avra Stein
|
Avra is the recently announced co-chair for Limmud Fest 2012. |
Sessions:
|
Natasha Steinberg
|
Natasha Steinberg trained at The International School of Corporeal Mime, London and is a Pilates Method and Gyrokinesis Instructor. |
Sessions:
|
Rebecca Steinfeld
|
Organisation: University of Birmingham Rebecca Steinfeld is a Teaching Fellow and Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. She recently completed her doctoral thesis on the history and politics of fertility policies in Israel at the University of Oxford. |
Sessions:
|
Sebastian Steinfeld
|
With a Masters in Physics and a Masters in Financial Mathematics, Sebastian is a great believer in the scientific method and therefore objective reason over irrational belief. He also has spent significant time getting to know all the rhetoric and hidden agendas of all sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. |
Sessions:
|
Devora Steinmetz
|
Devora Steinmetz has authored articles and books about Bible, rabbinic literature, and Jewish education. She has taught at JTS, Drisha, Havruta, and Yeshivat Hadar. She is the founder of Beit Rabban, a day school that is profiled in Daniel Pekarsky’s book, ‘Vision at Work: A Portrait of Beit Rabban’. |
Sessions:
|
David Yehuda Stern
|
Organisation: CartoonKippah David Yehuda Stern is a social media innovator, writer and podcaster from England. Having worked and collaborated with a wide spectrum of the Jewish community, he is also the founder and editor of CartoonKippah.com - an independent commentary site bringing fresh perspectives to issues of interest to British Jews. |
Sessions:
|
Michael Sternberg
|
Organisation: Shatil - New Israel Fund Michael Sternberg founded Shatil’s Conflict Transformation and Management Center (CTMC) for which he currently acts as Director. The CTMC functions as a think and do tank on issues of societal conflict in Israel, it's focus is on conflict transformation strategies relevant to the work of activists, leadership and practitioners. |
Sessions:
|
Maurice Stone
|
Organisation: Israeli Dance Institute & UJIA Maurice is Chairman of the Israeli Dance Institute (IDI) and works for UJIA. He has been teaching dance for many years at Limmud events in the UK, Russia and Ukraine. He believes that Israeli dance is a fundamental educational tool promoting Jewish identity and a connection with Israel. So let’s dance! |
Sessions:
|
Jeremy Stowe-Lindner
|
Organisation: JCoSS - Jewish Community Secondary School Jeremy is Headteacher of JCoSS. A History teacher by training and temperament, Jeremy has an MBA and has held leadership positions in three London schools. Jeremy has held lay positions in Jewish charities, UJIA and a primary school. His biggest achievements are his tolerant wife and two little boys. |
Sessions:
|
Alla Stremovskaya
|
Alla has been working for Lomonosov Moscow State University as a Researcher (Sociologist) for 15 years. Among her research interests are ethnic studies, ethnic tolerance, negotiation culture and conflict resolution. For nine years, she also taught English at Moscow School for Social and Economic Sciences. |
Sessions:
|
Judith Suissa
|
Organisation: Institute of Education, London Judith is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Education at the Institute of Education, London. She researches political philosophy, libertarian and anarchist education, the educational rights of parents, children's well-being and philosophical perspectives on the parent-child relationship. She is the author of ‘Anarchism and Education’ (Routledge, 2006) and (with Stefan Ramakers) ‘The Claims of Parenting’ (Springer, 2011). |
Sessions:
|
Raphael Sylvester
|
Raphael has a degree in Hebrew Studies, studied at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem and has finally got round to training to teach History. He is particularly interested in the relationship between Jewish and Western texts and ideas and how Jews should relate to both, especially as teachers. |
Sessions:
|
Ilai Szpiezak
|
Organisation: Israeli Dance Institute Ilai studied ballet and taught Israeli dance in Buenos Aires before coming to the UK where he is the IDI Dance Shaliach. He is a young, gifted and talented dancer and teacher who also does stage choreography. His enthusiasm and energy will have everyone smiling while they dance! |
Sessions:
|
