Hackney Mini-Limmud

The Hackney Limmud Team warmly invite you to join us again for this half-day event, with the usual vibrant mix and that very special Hackney something. We are excited that we will be part of the unique "Global Day of Jewish Learning" along with many thousands of others across the Jewish world from Albuquerque to Amsterdam, Kazakhstan to Kiev, Madrid to Montevideo, Tel Aviv to Toronto, and Warsaw to Washington! This Mini Limmud will be a great taste of what Hackney Limmud has to offer - http://limmud.org/day/hackney/ Packed programme with over a dozen sessions to chose from including: *Jewish Humour with Michael Freedland – journalist, broadcaster, biographer and former presenter of the long-running programme You Don’t Have to be Jewish. *The Sephardi liturgy with Eliot Alderman – Chazan and Director of Music of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation *Ken Worpole – award-winning writer and author, on The Life and Works of Hackney Jewish writer, Alexander Baron *History of Jewish Cooking with Jane Gerson – lecturer in modern Jewish history and culture *Edinburgh Festival favourites @Penelope Solomon, @Josh Howie, Tim Hibberd, and @Ivor Baddiel – rehearsed reading of new comedy *UK Premiere of Starting Over: The Legacy of Leslie and Clara Reitman The story of Holocaust survivors, parents of film director Ivan Reitman *Popular Jewish educator Michael Pollack from the London School of Jewish Studies and JLEC as part of the Steinsaltz-inspired "Global Day of Jewish Learning" *What is Jewish environmentalism? *JPR on British Jews’ Attitudes to Israel *Panel of Jewish Hackney Council Members Plus film, hands-on sessions, photography exhibition and more. Watch this space for programme updates. There will be a full Young Limmud programme for 5-12s and a fully supervised crèche for under-5s. Light refreshments included (fully kosher). See http://tinyurl.com/33mwn4z for more information