The worldwide global phenomenon known as Limmud that offers hundreds of sessions on Jewish life to thousands of participants began with a handful of volunteers back in 1980 in the United Kingdom.

Two weeks ago, I was honoured to participate in Limmud Scotland day, which took place for the 9th time and for the first year in Edinburgh. It was an amazing opportunity for me and for the over 200 ...

For the diaspora Jew, what to do over Christmas can be a taxing question. It's almost impossible to ignore the festival completely and it's a wonderful opportunity for rest and relaxation with family ...

Baron Mann of Holbeck Moor, the independent adviser to the UK government on antisemitism, spoke with Tracy-Ann Oberman about combating antisemitism. Handbook, check. Coffee, check. Sandwiches, check.

We should be able to go to Limmud like anyone else, and we should be able to teach people, too. It makes me happy to teach people.” Shoshana Bloom, an ardent advocate for those with special needs in ...

“You ask why have we made this Limmud in Germany,” writes a journalist who journeyed to the other side to help organize the big event. The simple answer: It feels like a great way to contribute to the ...

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Limmud Colorado, after several years of conferences, is shutting down. The announcement appeared last week in the Boulder Jewish News. “Unfortunately, we weren’t able to inspire a large enough and ...

The night bus to Limmud Moscow navigates the Friday-night gridlock of Mercedes’ and Range Rovers on Rublovskoye highway, the main thoroughfare to the chateaus of Russia’s oligarchs. Huddled in the ...

Barely 24 hours after the presidents of Israel and Ukraine solemnly inaugurated a memorial complex commemorating the 1941 massacre of 33,000 Jews by Nazis and local collaborators at Babyn Yar, in ...

Limmud FSU founder Chaim Chesler, right, Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi, center, and Roman Kogan attending a Limmud event at the Lviv opera house, November 6, 2016. (Boris Bukhman) Still, Jewish emigration ...

The retreat coincided with New York’s Celebrate Israel parade, which attracted 40,000 people to the streets of Manhattan, including many Limmudniks, in a massive show of solidarity. On Feb. 22, only ...