The Limmud festival has officially begun today, with over 2,500 participants from 23 countries due to attend the five-day event in Birmingham.
Festival-goers will be able to choose from more than 1,000 sessions covering a wide variety of issues within Judaism, including feminism, LGBT rights, the relationship between the Orthodox and Progressive movements, Israel, the Holocaust and antisemitism.
Other choices for attendees include dance sessions, concerts, a Beit Midrash programme and talks on Jewish history and geography.
In an interview with the JC, Anna Lawton and Abigail Jacobi, the co-chairs of the team organising this year’s event, said: “There is definitely an academic conference element to it, and the learning is world-class and central to the programme, but there are some people who attend who won’t go to any sessions that could be called academic.
