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Limmud Festival 2025

Former hostages Keith and Aviva Siegel speak to a packed audience at Limmud about captivity, survival and the aftermath of their release. Photo: Limmud
January 4, 2026, 10:00 am
My first Limmud: where British Jews argue, grieve and keep showing up
At my first Limmud, debate, grief and resilience collide, revealing a Jewish community refusing silence
By Annabel Sinclair
A slide showing British and British-connected hostages, shown during a Limmud session on legal efforts to secure their release.
January 2, 2026, 3:00 pm
Starmer gave ‘absolute’ pledge to widen Hamas-linked sanctions, lawyers reveal
At Limmud, hostage families’ lawyers detail PM pledge on wider sanctions and how pressure shaped policy
By Annabel Sinclair
Jasmina Griffoul presents archival photographs during a Limmud Festival session exploring the morally complex story of a Nazi occupation official who helped save a Jewish family.
January 2, 2026, 1:27 pm
Tracing a Nazi official who helped save a Jewish family
A Yiddish survivor testimony led two researchers to uncover a story of rescue, power and moral ambiguity
By Annabel Sinclair
Keith and Aviva Siegel speak at Limmud in conversation with Vadim Blumin about their captivity and fight to bring hostages home.
January 2, 2026, 12:15 pm
Former hostage Keith Siegel tells Limmud: ‘I’m alive but not truly free’
Keith and Aviva Siegel recount captivity, urging action as one deceased hostage remains
By Annabel Sinclair
Professor-Ambassador-Derborah-Lipstadt-was-the-keynote-speaker-on-the-night HET, Monday 15th September 2025
December 30, 2025, 9:50 pm
Lipstadt: Antisemitism shape-shifts to survive and now unites left and right
Former US antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt warned at Limmud that Jew-hatred adapts to every era and ideology
By Annabel Sinclair
Limmud Festival panel The Endangered Majority discusses the role of diaspora Jews in shaping Israel’s future.
December 30, 2025, 12:04 pm
Diaspora Jews urged to ‘speak up’ as Israel warned it is ‘on wrong track’
Limmud panel says Jewish communities in the Diaspora have a duty to challenge Israel’s direction and defend liberal democracy
By Annabel Sinclair
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