Limmud Johannesburg 2019: Full Schedule

11:00am PDT

Jewish Responses to Maladies of the Soul

In this session, we ask three spiritual seekers to share their Jewish journeys. We ask them how their spiritual paths have overlapped with and possibly veered away from Judaism. We also ask them what they regard to be contemporary maladies of the soul and to share what Jewish practices can be harnessed as responses to the ailments of our time.

Speakers

Zemach Mendelow

Zemach is an attorney in Johannesburg specialising in family mediation and dispute resolution. He studied English Literature at Wits, after which he studied at a Chassidic Yeshiva and developed a lifelong passion for the study of Chassidic and Kabbalistic texts. He has practised and... Read More →

Elie Holzer

Rabbi, Professor of Jewish Education at Bar Ilan University, teacher, expert on Havruta text study and Hasidic Renewal and Post-critical Jewish religiosity and founding president of Shma Koleinu (https://www.shma-koleinu.com), a non-profit organisation which aims to inspire individuals... Read More →

Jessica Kate Meyer

Jessica strives to build community through song, and to lift song through community. Rabbi-hazzan at The Kitchen in San Francisco who served for 4 years as rabbi and musical leader at Romemu in New York City, she received rabbinic ordination from Hebrew College in 2014. She studies... Read More →

Adina Roth

Adina is a Jewish educator and clinical psychologist. She runs a cheder programme and a b'nei mitzvah course that takes tweens through a text-based, Jewish journey. She teaches Torah classes to adults using traditional commentaries, literature and psychoanalysis. Adina is a Melton... Read More →

Saturday August 17, 2019 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Room 6

Holistic Jew, Panel | Spirituality, Panel

2:15pm PDT

After the School Bubble - Choices, Challenges and Breaking Barriers

This is an interactive session with 6 Young Adults (20 something and young 30s). Join this dynamic group as they talk about life after school - their choices and challenges, their failures and successes, where they are today after much hard work, and their secret of fulfilment. Bring your questions and your own stories.

Speakers

Dan Stillerman

Dan believes in working smarter instead of harder. That’s why, in 2014, he founded Excel Academy which trains and inspires people to become more productive, successful and in-control of their work through a series of fun, “gamified blended” Excel workshops. The team has impacted... Read More →

Eden Plein

Eden is Deputy Secretary General, Habonim Dror. After matriculating from King David in 2014 and taking a gap year in Israel and the US, she returned to South Africa in 2016. She has held numerous leadership positions in the movement. She studied a PPE at Wits and is starting an Honours... Read More →

Danya Raquel

Danya matriculated from King David Linksfield in 2015 and proceeded to study a BA in Performing and Visual Arts at Wits. She launched her publishing company, BEP Publishing, a year later. Her debut novel, Escapist Techniques, was published in 2017. She is now working for a Yale-based... Read More →

Adam Blumenthal

Adam matriculated in 2017 and is studying Biomedical Engineering at Wits. He is currently the Rosh Ken for Johannesburg for Habonim.

Ryan Gordon

Ryan is a recently qualified CA (SA). He studied at Wits University and obtained a Bachelor of Accounting Science and a Higher Diploma in Accounting, completing his articles at Grant Thornton. He has since taken some time off to understand how different industries work, learning from... Read More →

Danielle Hertz

After attaining a PPE undergraduate degree, Dani worked in the financial sector in marketing and business development. She completed a teaching degree in Speech and Drama and then decided to pursue a career in law. She participated in two international moot competitions representing... Read More →

Sunday August 18, 2019 2:15pm - 3:15pm PDT
Room 14

Society, Panel | New Trends, Panel | Holistic Jew, Panel

4:45pm PDT

One Giant Leap: What’s the Next Disruptor?

Whether it was the writing down of the Mishnah around 200 CE or the emergence of Hasidism in the 17th century, Judaism has experienced landmark moments which have irrevocably transformed the Jewish people. In our 21st century dystopia, what aspects of Jewish life are ripe for disruption and what might that next, big disruptor be?

Speakers

Wendy Amsellem

A Rabba who teaches Talmud and Jewish Law at Yeshivat Maharat, the first seminary to ordain Orthodox Women, Wendy also teaches at Pardes and Drisha. An alumnus of Harvard University, she received semicha from Yeshivat Maharat. She edits Maharat's Keren Journal and was a founding editor... Read More →

Irwin Kula

President of Clal, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership which works at the intersection of religion and innovation and the science of human flourishing, disruptive spiritual innovator, rogue thinker and author of the award-winning book, “Yearnings’, Irwin is... Read More →

Daniel Taub

Israeli diplomat and international lawyer, Daniel served as the Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2011 until 2015 and is currently Director of Strategy and Planning of the Yad Hanadiv (Rothschild) foundation. A former member of Israel's negotiation teams in the Israeli-Syrian... Read More →

Brett Lockspeiser

Brett is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Sefaria, a non-profit organisation dedicated to creating the future of Torah. Sefaria makes Torah texts available to the world for free on its website and mobile apps in their original and in translation and creates tools and... Read More →

Eli Ovits

Eli is Chief Executive of Limmud. Representing Limmud in 42 countries, he supports the development of Limmud and its volunteers. He has lectured widely, working to combat extremism and strengthen our global Jewish community.

Sunday August 18, 2019 4:45pm - 5:45pm PDT
Room 8

New Trends, Panel | Society, Panel | Holistic Jew, Panel