Vancouver’s Jewish Independent, in an editorial on February 14, praised LimmudVan ’14 as “a model of community” and described Ruth hess-Dolgin, z”l, as “the model of how a single individual, even when she was there only in spirit, could significantly enrich our community.” The editorial is reprinted in full below. The newspaper’s earlier coverage of LimmudVan ’14 included front-page reports …
Speakers’ notes and summaries available for some sessions
Zev Clementson • Robert Daum • Laura Duhan Kaplan The choices were difficult. LimmudVan ’14 had seven concurrent sessions. Every hour, Limmudniks had to pick one session to attend and six to skip. Presenter Zev Clementson saw the issue from both sides, as a presenter and a learner. “There were so many interesting presentations, it was frequently …
LimmudVan ’14 in the news
Presenter Ruth Messinger talks about the Jewish way to help people in developing countries in an interview in the Jewish Independent. • Avi Dolgin, chair of LimmudVan ’14, describes the festival of learning as “something strange and different” in an interview with Radio Vera, a Russian language radio station. (The interview begins at 1:22:00.) • The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre published a tribute to Gisi Levitt on page …