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There is just over ONE MONTH to go before LIMMUD NZ 2025!
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We are excited to be welcoming a plethora of international presenters to Aotearoa shores, scroll down to meet some that will be heading our way…
The LIMMUD NZ Team
Introducing some of our 2025 international presenters…
Alex Sinclair
Alex Sinclair is Chief Content Officer at Educating for Impact, and an adjunct lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has written and spoken widely on Jewish education, Israel-Diaspora relations, and Israeli politics, in both academic and popular contexts.
He has worked or consulted for many of the finest Jewish educational and communal institutions in North America, Europe and Israel, including the Hartman Institute, Hebrew College, Hebrew Union College, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and the Schechter Institute.
His first book, published in 2013, Loving the Real Israel: An Educational Agenda for Liberal Zionism, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and his debut novel, Perfect Enemy, which Daniel Gordis called “A great, great story [which] raises profound issues about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, about the moral issues inherent in Zionism,” was published in 2023. He holds an M.A. (Oxon) and M.St. from Balliol College, Oxford, and a Ph.D. from Hebrew University. He and his wife run a hotel for their three children in Modi’in, Israel.
Dr Lindsay Simmonds
Dr Lindsay Simmonds is a Research Fellow at the London School of Jewish Studied (LSJS) where she has lectured for over 20 years, focusing on women in Biblical narrative, the Talmud, and Jewish Law.
From 2021 – 2024 she led a three year project at the London School of Economics (LSE), UK, researching Israeli and Palestinian women peacebuilders. Lindsay speaks regularly on peaceful shared society, interfaith relations and conflict negotiation. In 2024, she and Julie Siddiqi MBE were awarded a joint Honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University, UK in recognition of “contributions and commitment to promoting interfaith understanding and engagement”. Additionally, Lindsay is co-chair of her local Jewish-Moslem Women’s Network Nisa-Nashim, Vice-Chair of trustees for the Abraham Initiatives UK and Jewish Scholar-in-Residence for the Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ).
Lindsay studied for several years in Jerusalem at Nishmat Centre for Advanced Torah Study for Women and was a Bruria Scholar at Midreshet Lindenbaum; and is a graduate of LSJS Susi Bradfield Women Educators’ Fellowships. Her PhD (Department of Gender, LSE) is entitled, ‘Generating Piety: Agency in the Lives of British Orthodox Jewish Women,’ and she actively promotes orthodox Jewish women’s education, ritual participation and leadership.
Dina Kraft
Dina Kraft is a Tel Aviv based journalist. She is Israel Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor and co-author of the best-selling book, My Friend Anne Frank; The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds, a memoir she wrote with Hannah Pick-Goslar. She is a host and founder of Groundwork, a podcast about Jewish and Palestinian activists and previously the opinion editor at Haaretz English.She was also a foreign correspondent based in Jerusalem and then Johannesburg for The Associated Press and JTA’s Israel correspondent.
Dina has reported from over a dozen countries and was the recipient of a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard and an Ochberg fellowship at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, among others. She was a winner of the 2020 B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem Award for Journalism Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportage.
