Limmud line-up covers all bases
IF you haven’t been invited to the Queen’s birthday party next month, you’re in good company, or at least you will be if you head to the other major function arranged for the Queen’s Birthday weekend, Limmud Oz.
IF you haven’t been invited to the Queen’s birthday party next month, you’re in good company, or at least you will be if you head to the other major function arranged for the Queen’s Birthday weekend, Limmud Oz.
Boasting a host of top speakers from Australia and overseas, the three-day educational conference held at Monash University’s Caulfield campus from June 9-11 will offer panels and presentations on a range of religious, political and cultural topics.
The guest line-up from overseas includes director of the Conservative Yeshivah at the Fuchsberg Centre in Jerusalem Daniel Goldfarb; Colorado-based rabbi, counsellor, therapist and teacher Henoch Hoffman; actor Roy Horovitz; and musical educator Shira Kline, whose interactive sessions for children – on all aspects of Jewish life – will form the centrepiece of a new program, Little Limmud. Aimed at under-10s, it features music and circus skills workshops, as well as a session using innovative building materials. Parents are not required to attend.
Top speakers from Israel include Uri Dromi, former spokesperson for the Rabin and Peres governments; Jerusalem Post columnist Jonathan Spyer; Knesset member Orit Zuaretz and former IDF international relations liaison officer in the West Bank Asaf Romirowsky.
With at least six sessions every hour, the schedule is sure to offer subjects suited to everyone, with some specifically geared towards younger participants, according to head of the Limmud Oz organising committee Dr Miriam Munz.
“It is gratifying to see how many young people have put panels together on things that matter to them – a more inclusive community, tikkun olam, Jewish identity and activism,” she told The AJN.
“The panels also represent an incredibly diverse range of political views on Israel and also on issues like religious practice, business and consumer ethics, community activism and social justice,” she added.
Other presenters at the event include Holocaust studies researcher Beth Cohen, expert on Jewish Berlin Thorsten Wagner, acclaimed television writer Shuki Ben Naim and Yiddish expert Ken Frieden.
Early-bird tickets are $185, with reductions for under-30s willing to volunteer. For more information, visit www.limmudoz.com.au.
TIMNA JACKS
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