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AJU Alum David Singer Becomes Limmud North America’s First National Director
Sermons slammed to celebrate Sinai
Becoming ourselves is a process. We learn what our family or friends find funny or valuable, and shape our identities accordingly, either to conform to, or in opposition to those norms and expectations.
At Tel Aviv’s first Limmud, participants confront Israel’s raucous politics
The debate over Jewish law’s role in Israel’s government has raged for 70 years. Should the state, above all, be Jewish, or should it put its democracy first?
Postcards on an American-Jewish identity in Israel
Andrew Lustig, a Jewish spoken word artist, wrote this piece intending it to be performed — to be spoken. It was first performed on stage at a ChaiPowered storytelling event at LimmudUK. Illustrator Lon Levin created the artwork in collaboration with Lustig.
Limmud comes to L.A.
LimmudLA will hold its second annual summer Fest — a celebration of Jewish culture and learning — Aug. 15- 17. The retreat, run entirely by volunteers, will be held at the American Jewish University’s Brandeis-Bardin Campus in Simi Valley and is open to Jews of all ages and backgrounds.
The Limmud way: My journey to the future of Judaism
Two distinct visions of Judaism played in my head at the 33rd annual Limmud Conference in England, which I attended during Christmas week. The first vision was alive and kicking at the conference itself, where, under cold and gray skies, 2,600 Jews gathered on a university campus to sample the world’s greatest Jewish buffet.
A Jewish wish list for 2014
In no special order, here are 10 wishes for our community for the coming year:
Danish, Swedish Jews hold first joint Limmud conference
About 160 Swedes and Danes attended the first inter-Scandinavian Limmud Jewish learning event.
LimmudLA reboots — minus staff, 2013 conference
This year, for the first time since 2008, February came and went without a LimmudLA conference.