Limmud
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| Founded | 1980 |
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| Founders | Clive Lawton, Alastair Falk, Michael May, Jonathan Benjamin |
| Type | Jewish educational charity |
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| Slogan | Wherever you find yourself, Limmud will take you one step further on your Jewish journey |
| Website | www |
Limmud is an Anglo-Jewish educational charity which, in the UK produces a large annual winter conference and several other regional events throughout the year on the theme of Jewish learning. Limmud is not affiliated to any strand of Judaism and markets itself as open to "anyone interested in Jewish learning".
Limmud (from the Hebrew word meaning "to learn") was originally a conference for "educators", basing itself on CAJE, the Conference on Alternatives in Jewish Education of North America, formed in 1976. From CAJE, it took a volunteer ethos, not paying presenters, and not using people's titles. During the 1990s there was the significant change as Limmud reinvented itself as a community gathering, giving rise to a significant increase in the number of attendees and leading it to be described as "British Jewry's greatest export". The Limmud model has now spread to many other countries.
A distinctive feature of Limmud is that the events are organised by volunteers, also take part as equals in the conference. Limmud's largest group of volunteers are in their 20s and 30s. Around half of the UK "Forty under 40" (a community-wide initiative to identify the future leaders of British Jewry, published by The Jewish News) have volunteered for Limmud and a former Chair of Limmud, Elliott Goldstein, topped the list.
Limmud is a company and a charity. It is run by a board of directors and trustees, all of whom are volunteers. Initially, there was no difference between Limmud the organisation and Limmud Conference, the annual event, so the chairs of the Conference team were the chairs of the organisation. In 1990, a chair for the organisation who was separate from the Conference chairs was appointed for the first time. In 2006, Limmud International was created, as a separate unit within Limmud to manage relationships with other Limmud groups around the world.
Chairs of Limmud Conference
1980 – 1981 Alistair Falk, Michael May, Jonathan Benjamin, Clive Lawton
1982 – 1984 Steve Miller
1985 Tina Elliott
1986 Jonathan Benjamin
1987 Alan Wilkinson
1988 Madeline Ismach
1989 Alistair Falk
1990 – 1994 Andrew Gilbert
1995 Natan Tiefenbrun
1996 Yvonne Krasner, Marc Soloway, Judy Trotter
1997 Micah Gold, Jonny Persey, Marc Soloway
1998 Micah Gold
1999 Jacqueline Nicholls, Claire Straus
2000 Andrew Levy, Abe Sterne
2001 Claire Mandel, Carolyn Bogush
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