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1A GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE TYPE VII JOUBERT SYNDROME 2 MAPLE SYRU in the interests of Covid safety. international cast.

Organisers had hoped to combine Among them is Rabbanit Shira Marili online sessions with in-person day programmes Mirvis, who made history earlier this DISEASE TYPE 1B MUCOLIPIDOSIS IV NEMALINE MYOPATHY 2 NIEMANN PICK D in London and Manchester. year as the first woman to become a

But the numbers of Covid cases in the spiritual leader of an Orthodox Israeli POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE, AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE PRIMARY CILIARY DYS country, along with warnings of a winter synagogue, Shirat Hatamar in Efrat, on flu outbreak, made a persuasive case the West Bank. for remaining virtual for a second year. She graduated from the Susi Bradfield SMITH-LEMLI-OPITZ SYNDROME TRYOSINEMIA TYPE 1 USHER SYNDROME TYPE IF Limmud deputy director Jon Freedman Women’s Institute of Halachic said: “We don’t want to bring Leadership at the Torah Ohr Stone Institute, SYNDROME TYPE IIIA WALKER-WARBURG SYNDROME ZELLWEGER SYNDROME SPE together a large number of people one of the institutions established who might be vulnerable in an indoor by Efrat founder Rabbi Shlomo Ruskin. (PEX2-RELATED) GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE TYPE II/POMPE DISEASE SPINAL MU space.” From the academic world, speakers Festival chair Ben Combe added: “We include Professor James Diamond want to build on what we did last year. It from Waterloo University, Ontario, ATROPHY TAY SACHS DISEASE USHER SYNDROME TYPE 2 FRAGILE X SYNDROME was something really special.” author of the recently published Jewish

In 2020, some 5,000 viewers, including Theology Unbound, and Professor INFANTILE LIVER FAILURE ASPARAGINE SYNTHETASE DEFICIENCY COSTEFF OPTIC A many from overseas, tuned into the Adam Sutcliffe of King’s College London, online lectures, workshops, discussions whose book What Are Jews For? was and cultural performances. And while it featured in the JC last year. SYNDROME CYSTINOSIS FANCONI ANEMIA, COMPLEMENTATION GROUP A GL might not have been possible to gather There is focus on those with a strong at the bar for a drink, participants continued social media profile like comedy writer STORAGE DISEASE TYPE III INFANTILE CEREBRAL CEREBELLAR ATROPHY MEGALENCE to talk virtually in chatrooms Sara Gibb and, from America, Rabbi after sessions had ended. Danya Ruttenberg, sometimes dubbed

For a number of years, the event — “the Twitter Rabbi”. LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY WITH SUBCORTICAL CYSTS METACHROMATIC LEUKODYS which will run in 2021 from December Another visitor from the US will be

24-28 — was held near the National Exhibition Rabbi Jill Jacobs, director of T’ruah — the MITOCHONDRIAL COMPLEX I DEFICIENCY OMENN SYNDROME PROGRESSIVE CERE Centre in Birmingham. Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. And

But going online last year had made Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge will CEREBRAL ATROPHY 1 PROGRESSIVE CEREBELLO-CEREBREAL ATROPHY 2 WOLMAN DI it more accessible for some people. “My be returning for a second year. mum had never been to an in-person Musicians include Joanie Leeds, festival but came last year,” Mr Combe who won a Grammy for best children’s CHOLESTERYL ESTER STORAGE DISEASE ZELLWEGER SYNDROME SPECTRUM (PEX6-RE said. music album in spring, and UK composer Another advantage is that whereas Ilan Eshkeri, whose film score in a physical venue, some of the smaller credits range from Young Victoria to rooms can quickly fill up, leaving some