Limmud

Limmud is a British-Jewish educational charity which produces a large annual winter conference and several other events around the year on the theme of Jewish learning. Unusually for an organisation within the British Jewish community, it is not affiliated to any strand of Judaism and markets itself as open to "anyone interested in Jewish learning". Founded in 1981, it has a very small staff and is largely run by volunteers. Limmud comes from the Hebrew word meaning "to learn," and is a name meant to reflect the goal of the organisation.

Limmud Conference, the organisation's flagship event, regularly attracts more than 2,000 participants, and was inspired by the CAJE conference in the United States. Other events include LimmudFest, held in August, and a series of one-off day-long conferences. Typical of Limmud's events is that they regularly offer between 100 and 200 sessions on any one day, spanning religious, cultural and political aspects of Jewish life.

The model has spread to several other countries and there are now locally-run Limmud events in the United States(New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Colorado), Israel, Australia, [http://www.keset.hu Hungary] , Russia, South Africa and elsewhere.

Clive Lawton, its co-founder and former executive director, is the figure best associated with Limmud.

Articles

* [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1198517257169 A whole new, wikified Jewish world?] "Jerusalem Post" December 31, 2007

External links

* [http://www.limmud.org] Limmud (UK parent organisation)
* [http://www.limmudLA.org] LimmudLA (Los Angeles)
* [http://www.keset.hu] Limmud-Keset (Hungary)