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Limmud FSU - a 2017 Retrospective Limmud FSU - A 2017 Retrospective Now that Limmud FSU is well into its second decade, we are once again, proud to present this report on our activities in Into our Second 2017. Over 9,000 people attended our ten events. The first was in London (for the whole of Western Europe – a Limmud FSU festival that will change its venue to various locations in the Decade coming years); followed by Toronto, Moscow, New York, Chișinău (perhaps better known in Jewish history as Kishinev), Odessa, San Francisco, St. Petersburg, and Eilat. In addition we mounted a special event dedicated to the memory of the late Elie Wiesel in his birth place, Sighet in ש א Romania. Details of each of these festivals and celebrations will .be found in the following pages ח ד ,Limmud FSU has established itself as the leading educational ר cultural and social meeting place for young Jews with Russian- speaking origins from around the world and as such, each annual event in the various locations is a major and eagerly ח awaited event and celebration of Jewish life and identity. We ג ס look forward to its continued and growing success in the years א .to come ב Aaron G. Frenkel Sandra F. Cahn ככג mm President Chair, Fundraising Committee Chaim Chesler Matthew Bronfman Roman Kogan Chair, International Founder and Chair, Executive Executive Director Steering Committee Committee Limmud FSU 2017 Our Events in 2017 The growth of Limmud FSU, from the spark of an idea for a unique pro- gram of informal Jewish education for Russian-speaking Jewry, has evolved into a lively locally driven volunteer organization with individual events in ten locations in 2017. 2100 1000 725 700 Moscow London (Europe) Toronto (Canada) New York 300 Chișinău (Moldova) February March April May July 2000 1000 800 750 Eilat (Israel) Odessa (Ukraine) San Francisco (West Coast) St.Petersburg October November December Limmud FSU 2017 Limmud FSU in Numbers 2009 - 2017 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 EVENTS 4 5 7 6 6 9 9 11 9 COUNTRIES 3 4 4 5 5 7 7 8 7 PARTICIPANTS 1,790 4,271 2,900 3,684 4,025 5,300 6,500 9,600 9,375 PRESENTERS 390 680 630 700 750 993 1,200 1,250 1,130 VOLUNTEERS 185 290 260 330 340 435 960 790 625 STAFF 5 8 8 8 10 11 11 11 11 POSITIONS* TOTAL $1,104,250 $1,857,206 $1,291,646 $1,662,506 $1,991,620 $2,768,000 $2,372,000 $ 3,211,000 $ 3,874,000 * Permanent year-round staff including independent contractors (part-time and full-time) Limmud FSU 2017 LIMMUD 3-5 February FSU Limmud FSU Europe, London One hundred years after Great Britain declared its support for the Balfour Declaration, the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine, 725 Russian-speaking Jews from more than 20 European countries gathered in Windsor, near London, for the first- 2017 ever Limmud FSU Europe. This gathering marked the first time in its decade-long history that Limmud FSU was not geared toward Russian-speaking Jews of a specific region. More than 250,000 Russian-speaking Jews currently reside EVENT BY in Western Europe, making it one of the world’s largest Russian-speaking Jewish communities. The event was held in partnership with the Genesis Philanthropy Group and was organized by Limmud FSU Europe Chairman Semyon Dovzhik and Project Manager EVENT Tatiana Pashaeva. The Limmud FSU Europe volunteer team consisted of 30 UK based members and 20 “ambassadors” from European countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, and Switzerland. The conference featured more than 100 lectures, workshops, presentations and discussions by leading figures, including members of the British Parliament; members of Knesset; the Ambassador of Israel to the U.K. Mark Regev; former Ambassador of Israel to the United Nations, Ron Prosor; American historian Deborah Lipstadt, Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar; World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder; Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Executive Vice- Chairman Malcolm Hoenlein; Genesis Philanthropy Group President and CEO Ilia Salita; Matthew Bronfman, chairman of Limmud FSU’s international steering committee; Limmud FSU President Aaron Frenkel; Russian actor and playwright Veniamin Smekhov; French artist and co-founder of the Soviet Pop (Sots) Art movement Erik Bulatov; Russian TV presenter and journalist, Vladimir Pozner; Grigory Tshatrishvili, the Russian writer who uses the pseudonym Boris Akunin and based in France; and many others. Limmud FSU 2017 24-26 March Limmud FSU Canada, Toronto Some 700 people attended the fourth annual Limmud FSU conference to be held in Canada, Among the presenters were popular Canadian the biggest event geared towards the Russian- television host Adrienne Gold; Israel Bonds speaking community in the country. The event Canada CEO Raquel Benzacar Savatti; Chief took place at the Blue Mountain Resort, an alpine Scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Immigrant ski resort near Collingwood, Ontario, northwest Absorption Zeev Khanin; the Russian writer Victor of Toronto. There are an estimated 330,000 Jews Shenderovich; President of York Entrepreneurship presently living in Canada, of these some 137,500 Development Institute Marat Ressin; and principal are Russian speakers. Limmud FSU Canada is of Yeshivat Or Chaim Rabbi Yair Spitz. supported by the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and the Genesis Philanthropy Group. A special guest speaker was Israel’s Minister of Social Equality, Gila Gamliel, who opened The weekend program featured over 50 speakers a Limmud FSU exhibition on the life and and 80 panels, workshops and discussions on accomplishments of Nobel Prize laureate for subjects ranging from art, to Jewish culture and peace and noted Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel. tradition, history, politics, academia, business and “Although this is only the fourth year of lifestyles; on a diverse array of topics including Limmud FSU in Canada, we have seen it grown Jewish views of astrology and superstition, how to tremendously. The weekend was completely sold discuss Israel with Canadians, raising children in a out and there was a waiting list of more than 100!” diverse world, Israel in the era of Donald Trump, said Boris Varshavsky, Chair of the Limmud FSU demystifying Shabbat and religious Zionism. Canada organizing committee. Limmud FSU 2017 20-23 April Limmud FSU Moscow Moscow was the venue of the first Limmud Presenters at the conference included the Israeli FSU festival back in 2006 and is still the annual Ambassador to Russia, Gary Koren; and former flagship event. This year 2,100 members of Ambassador, Dorit Golender, who is currently vice Moscow’s Jewish community gathered for the president of the Genesis Philanthropy Group, a largest-ever festival for Russian-speaking Jews to major Limmud FSU supporter; American musician be held in the former Soviet Union. Joshua Nelson; film director Kirill Serebrennikov, artistic director of the Gogol Center in Moscow; Limmud FSU Moscow was made possible by its Kabbalah teacher Eliyahu Yardeni and Nazi hunter team of local leaders and volunteers, including and historian, Ephraim Zuroff. Limmud FSU Moscow Project Manager Anna Adamskaya, Mikhail Libkin, Alexandra Livergant, During the festival, the centennial of Habimah, Alexander Piatigorskiy, among many others. Israel’s national theater, which had its origins in Moscow in 1917, was celebrated. Participating in Keynote guest speakers included the Chief Rabbi the anniversary was director of the Israeli theater of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar and Israel’s Minister company Yiddishshpiel, Shmuel Atzmon-Wircer, of Justice, Ayelet Shaked. The event comprised theater and film composer Avi Benjamin, and the more than 250 workshops, debates, discussions, noted-Israeli Habimah actress, Evgenia Dodina, round-table panels and activities for children herself originally from Belarus. of different ages. Each hour there were no less than 12 lectures on a vast array of topics ranging from Jewish history, politics, literature, theater, language, cooking, and more. Limmud FSU 2017 12-14 May Limmud FSU New York The eighth Limmud FSU conference in the greater Lighter fare was provided by the celebrated New York area, took place at the Hilton Hotel, cookbook writer and journalist, Joan Nathan, Westchester, with the participation of 1,000 on King Solomon’s table: a culinary exploration people. Under the overall title “Legacy,” a team of Jewish cooking from around the world. of over 100 presenters from the US, Canada, Workshops were held on pickling dill beans Ukraine, Russia and Israel presented nearly 100 and sauerkraut, sculpting the human head, and sessions, with as many as eight taking place making a mezuzah. simultaneously, dealing with history meeting religion, science meeting innovation, mind A special exhibit on the life and work of Elie meeting soul and legacy encountering present- Wiesel was shown, with an introductory day counterparts. lecture by Dr. Joel Rappel, founder and former director of the Wiesel Archives at Boston Among prominent personalities were guest University. Anat Zalman Kuznetsov showed speakers, Dani Dayan, Israel’s Consul-General her film: “Operation Wedding” on the famous in New York and Yariv Levin Israel’s Minister but unsuccessful hijacking of a Soviet plane in of Tourism. A team of some 40 volunteers, led Leningrad in 1970, by a group of refuseniks, led by Chair Ilya Bratman and Co-chairs Valerie by her father, Edvard Kuznetsov. The highlight Khmelnitsky and Roman Sidler, organized and of Saturday evening was a gala musical carried out the program. performance featuring Israel superstar Ninet Tayeb. Among popular topics covered were; Modernizing Judaism: Rabbi Kook’s concepts and how they play out in reality; the Jewish family - love, sex and divorce; the Jews of Burma – a vanished tribe; the global refugee crisis seen through Jewish eyes; a panel discussion of the Israeli start-up nation; mystical roots of modern anti-Semitism; how does the media cover transgender and Hassidic issues; A Moslem’s journey to Judaism; feminism and redemption; the future of the Russian-speaking Jewish community in the USA.
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