Proving that New York isn't always the inventor of all good Jewish things, Limmud, the British Jewish educational event has inspired a second New York Limmud.
Yes, the British are coming, well at least the concept is...
Jewschool takes up the story:
A few highlights:
- Elliot Dorff, Gordon Tucker and Judith Hauptman discuss the future of the Conservative movement
- Ruth Gruber's eyewitness account of the voyage of the ship Exodus 1947
- Jewish and secular perspectives on adoption with Moshe Bleich
- Ben Dreyfus of Kol Zimrah, Musician Debbie Friedman, Pardes Rosh Yeshivah Danny Landes and Daniel Siegel on "The Difficulty of Davening"
- Jewish Week editor Gary Rosenblatt looks at the growing gap between American Jewry and Israel
- Loolwa Khazzoom on Women, Music and Sephardic Culture
- The kabbalah of money with Conservative Brazilian Rabbi Nilton Bonder, who is also president of the Institute for Religious Studies (the largest forum for civil rights in Latin America)
- Ruth Messinger on genocide in Darfur
- A Jewish songwriting and music making workshop with Basya Schechter of Pharaoh's Daughter
- Voices of Jewish Women of Color with Yolanda Shoshana
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