Limmud FSU
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| Founded | 2006 |
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| Founders | Chaim Chesler, founder (Israel); Sandra F. Cahn, co-founder (United States) |
| Type | 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization |
| Focus | To restore the traditions of lifelong Jewish learning and strengthen Jewish identity among Jews of Russian origin through informal Jewish education |
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| Method | Limmud FSU raises funds among its partners and donors to create relevant programming and underwrite participation for low-income Russian-Jewish youngsters and adults, so everyone can attend their local Limmud FSU conference. |
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Key people
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Matthew Bronfman, chair of the Limmud FSU International Steering Committee; Aaron Frenkel (Monaco), President |
| Website | www.limmudfsu.org |
Limmud FSU (former Soviet Union) is an international Jewish education organization that focuses on giving young Russian-Jewish adults the opportunity to revitalize and restore Jewish learning and to strengthen Jewish identity in their communities. It was developed in 2006 by Chaim Chesler, founder (Israel); Sandra F. Cahn, co-founder (United States). Limmud (from the Hebrew word meaning "to learn") was originally a British-Jewish educational charity, which produces a large annual winter conference at Warwick University and several other events around the year in the UK on the theme of Jewish learning.
The Limmud model, first developed in the UK, has now spread to many other countries. According to the Charity Commission, Limmud operates throughout England and Wales and also in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Macedonia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine and the United States of America. Nearly 70 communities in 34 countries on six continents have hosted Limmud events including, in 2013 for the first time, Hong Kong, Peru, India and Montenegro. There are 18 Limmud communities in the United States and eight in Israel.
Limmud FSU, which celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2016, holds educational conferences, which have attracted more than 27,000 participants in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Israel, and the United States, with forthcoming events in Canada and Australia. Limmud FSU engages with young Russian-speaking Jewish adults and Jewish people of Russian backgrounds, offering them the tools to gain a better understanding of their Jewish identity and if they wish, to assume leadership roles in their local communities.
Limmud FSU events present Jewish learning and culture in its broadest sense through pluralistic, egalitarian volunteer-run conferences covering traditional subjects like the Bible and Talmud, to history, politics, Israel, the Middle-East conflict, theater, music and dance, the arts, literature and poetry, to Jewish cuisine, humor and folklore and much more.
Limmud ("study" in Hebrew), the volunteer-driven Jewish learning experience, started in the United Kingdom in 1980 and since then has spread to over 80 Jewish communities across the world, awakening inspiration in tens of thousands of participants. In the words of The Jerusalem Post, "Every place that has Jews should have its own Limmud."
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