The Power of An Idea; The Power of Limmud New York
January 25, 2010 by eJP
Filed under The Limmud Experience
Limmud New York, the first child of Limmud International, recently concluded their 6th annual conference.
Launched in 2005 by six volunteers, and assistance from UJA Federation of New York, The Picower Foundation and Bikkurim, last weekend’s conference featured over 300»
Limmud’s Global Chavruta Project
January 25, 2010 by eJP
Filed under The Limmud Experience, Web 2.0
Combine globalization and technology and what do you get? Limmud Conference’s first worldwide, 100% virtual team!
The Co-Chairs of Limmud’s 2009 Chavruta Project span four continents across fourteen time zones – from New York to Sydney who joined together for»
The Phenomenon Called Limmud
January 11, 2010 by Dan Brown
Filed under The Limmud Experience
55,000 meals served; 900 sessions; 320 presenters, a 380 page program book and 2500 participants from 40 countries. Those attending ranged from eight weeks to 90 years; 1000 were first-timers and 300 were between 5 and 18. Such were some»
Limmud UK: The Mother of All Conferences
December 28, 2009 by eJP
Filed under Education, New on eJP, The Limmud Experience, The World
by Adam Rattner
Some 2,000 people checked into the halls of residence at Warwick University, West Midlands, yesterday morning, joining the 500 participants who had already spent the Christmas weekend away from festivities and in a Shabbat atmosphere instead. Long»
Why Should We Care?
October 12, 2009 by PresenTense Group
Filed under PresenTense Philanthropy Issue
Over the past year or so, we’ve often written about the projects and the people, connected to the PresenTense network. Most of the stories have centered around their flagship fellowship program that takes place here in Jerusalem each summer.»
In Israel for Sukkot? Come Join in The Future of the Jewish People
October 2, 2009 by eJP
Filed under Events, Local Israel
Visit the PresenTense Open House to experience first hand the future of Israel and meet the social entrepreneurs who are lunching and managing ventures that take on social challenges facing Israel and the Jewish People.
Located in the»
From WestHampton, New York to Russia’s Far East, Limmud FSU Makes Inroads
September 21, 2009 by Dan Brown
Filed under The Limmud Experience, The World
Seven time-zones from Moscow, about as far east as one can travel in Russia, lies the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, or Region. Established in 1934 “for the Jewish population of the Soviet Union to receive a territory in which to pursue»
Two Generations of Leaders
July 12, 2009 by eJP
Filed under In the Media
from the Jewish Chronicle:
Our ‘future leaders’ set out their visions
What are young Jewish “leaders” and “thinkers” interested in?
If the 120 participants in the fourth annual Return On Investment (ROI) Summit last week in Israel are anything to»
Who Said Jewish Boys Can’t Rap?
June 4, 2009 by Monica Rozenfeld
Filed under Cool People, Education
Meet Matt Bar: Bible Raps
Learn Torah, bit by bit, from alphabet, to sentences, to pages, with phrases from sages oh baby…
Rapper and educator Matt Bar infects his students with Torah. He’ll take a lesson plan, spin»
Networks of Collaboration
May 24, 2009 by eJP
Filed under Fellowship Opportunities, Summer of Innovation
The Jerusalem offices of both PresenTense and ROI are in full swing finalizing preparations for their summer fellowship programs. Two weeks ago, we introduced the PresenTense Institute 2009 Fellows. Today, the (mostly complete) list of those who will be»
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