Limmud 2020 will reach record numbers

This year’s Limmud Festival will reach record numbers with 3,000 people signing up to participate for the first time.

The all-digital event, which marks the cross-communal organisation’s 40^th anniversary, runs from Sunday to Tuesday, offering a choice of eight sessions an hour from 9 in the morning till 9 at night and over 300 presenters from across the Jewish world taking part.

There is also a series of pre- and post-Shabbat activities today and tomorrow night.

While sessions will be run on Zoom, organisers are also using the Slack messenger platform to enable participants to connect with each other during the event.

As well as big-name speakers and internationally renowned lecturers, contributors range  from the former opera singer studying social bonding through ritual and dance at Oxford University to an Orthodox rabbi who set up a joint beit midrash-madrassa programme for faith leaders in Birmingham.

For coverage of this year's festival, see here.