 It was inspired by the CAJE conference in the United States and now attracts more than 2,000 participants annually; in 2015 the numbers rose to 2,750.A typical day at Limmud Festival includes around 200 sessions spanning religious, cultural and political aspects of Jewish life.After the first conferences at Carmel College (Oxfordshire), Limmud Conference has been held at Portsmouth Polytechnic (1984), Oxford Brookes University (1986–1994), Worcester (1995–96), Manchester (1997), the University of Nottingham (1998–2006) and Warwick University (2007–14).