Limmud Conference 2016
Saturday 24 December 2016

07:00
Families Hangout Space	Limmud Families Team	Red 1

08:30
Masorti shacharit		Red 6
Partnership Minyan shacharit		Orange 14
Progressive Shacharit		Yellow 23
Orthodox Shacharit		Purple 31

10:00
Shabbat Morning Delight	Caroline Hagard	Red 1
Morning miracle walk	Limmud Shabbat Team	Lobby

11:00
Saturday morning kiddush	Limmud Shabbat Team	Purple 30 (Monarch)

11:30
"Old Mac Donald had a.....Rabbi" The Jewish side of nursery rhymes	Caroline Hagard	Red 1
The Multifaceted Society of Israel	ELAL Ambassadors	Red 2
The simple meaning, a complex task	Natan Abenaim	Red 3
The Joseph narrative: Resolving sibling rivalry	Sara Jo Ben Zvi	Red 4
You be the Judge!	Limmud Families Team	Red 6
Yoga class: Vijnana Yoga	Tal Grunspan	Red 7
From parent to partner: Reimagining the Israel-Diaspora relationship	Avi Mayer	Orange 10
Miracle makers in the modern world	Dan Brown Rachel Sumekh Sarah Chandler Daniella Kolodny	Orange 11
Women and Sabbath candle-lighting: a new (kinder and gentler) interpretation of Mishnah Shabbat 2:6	Judith Hauptman	Orange 12
Unleash your inner actor: participate in reading a new Jewish themed play	Miriam Rosalyn Diamond	Yellow 24
Darwinian evolution and human social behaviour: what’s it all about and why does it matter?	Joel Peck	Green 25
Classical Jewish texts and the gender binary	Anna Lawton	Green 26
A Muslim Reads the Bible - Creation (1 of 2)	Halima Krausen	Green 27
Jewish magic from Talmudic times: what it is and how it is still with us today?	Maggie Anton	Blue 33

14:15
Masorti Mincha		Red 6
Partnership Minyan Mincha		Orange 14
Progressive Mincha		Yellow 23
Orthodox Mincha		Purple 31

14:45
Shabbat Open Board Games	Limmud Families Team	Red 1
Maoz Tzur: the first rock song	Daniel Goldfarb	Red 2
Creating Eve: rabbinic and contemporary perspectives on the first woman in the Torah	Daniella Kolodny	Red 3
The Sefer Torah connection: forging new Israel-Diaspora links	David Newman	Red 4
Sex, drugs and Torah scrolls: being Jewish and 20-something	Deborah Blausten Nadine Fresko Kevin Lieberman Benji Rosen	Red 7
Chanukah and Purim: why the rabbis felt the need to add more Jewish holidays	Ruvan Cohen	Orange 10
Conversion crisis and civil marriage in Israel: crises, challenges and opportunities	Ronen Neuwirth z"l	Orange 11
Yoga, kabbalah and meditation	Michael Picardie	Orange 12
Transforming Biblical stories to theatre	Howard Rypp Beatriz Rypp	Yellow 24
Or l'goyim or Or l'yehudim? What the Jewish community needs to learn from the non-Jewish world on how to be inclusive of people with disabilities	Shelley Cohen	Green 25
From "Vayeshev" to the Tibetan Book of the Dead - Can we learn from experience?	Zehavit Kalif	Green 27
You've Got Attitude: How Screaming, Crying, Singing, and Talking Can Improve Your Prayer Experience	Shep Rosenman	Blue 33
Everyone has an address but not everyone has a home	Mimi Feigelson	Blue 34
Afternoon Miracle Walk	Limmud Shabbat Team	Lobby

16:00
Families Seudah Shlishit	Limmud Families Team	Red 1
Seudah - celebrating the Chavruta Project	Limmud Shabbat Team	Purple 30 (Monarch)
Speed dating seudah	Limmud Shabbat Team	Blue 32 (Millers)

17:00
Masorti Ma'ariv		Red 6
Partnership minyan ma'ariv		Orange 14
Progressive Ma'ariv		Yellow 23
Orthodox Ma'ariv		Purple 31

17:30
Havdalah and Chanukah candle lighting	Limmud Shabbat Team	Marquee 1

20:30
Israel’s ethnogenesis: how Biblical Israel became a people	Avraham Faust	Red 2
What Wuthering Heights can teach us about love	Shoshi Ish-Horowicz	Red 3
Kabbalah and Taoism	Bill Shackman	Red 4
Who are the Palestinians and what do they want?	Noru Tsalic	Orange 10
The Tower of Babel	Stuart Lewis	Orange 11
The other Jewish therapy	Sophie Duschinsky	Orange 12
The Limmud bag packing party!	Limmud Volunteers Team	Orange 14
Fake hechshers, spielers and GBH: the ethics and halacha of writing Jewish historical crime fiction	Ben Vos	Yellow 21
How "Musiskiai" changed the way many Lithuanians relate to the Holocaust	Ruta Vanagaite Efraim Zuroff	Yellow 23
"…Meshaneh HaBriyot" – Disability Inclusion in the Tension of Tzedek and Tzedakah	Chana Karmann-Lente	Green 26
Tikkun olam for Tories	Miriam Edelman	Green 27
Islamofascism or Islamophobia: A quantitative look	Greg Davidson	Blue 34

21:45
(More than) Twelve angry men (and women)	Ellen Flax	Red 4
Yehoshua in concert: songs of love from King David to David Avidan	Lior Kaminetsky Yehoshua Engelman	Red 7
Make the Israel-Diaspora relationship great again	Aylana Meisel	Orange 11
High Priest of the broken Temple: the Religious Humanism of Leonard Cohen	Daniel Reisel	Orange 12
Gene Wilder: pure imagination	Irene Wise	Orange 13
The Limmud bag packing party	Limmud Volunteers Team	Orange 14
Tales (of the wagging shaggy doggy stories) from Chelm	Eddie Bass	Yellow 21
Jewish secrets of the Galilee	Mary Azaria	Green 25
Word for word: verbatim storytelling	Kayla Feldman	Blue 33
Praying with four feet: animals in prayer and Jewish ritual	Sarah Chandler	Blue 34

23:00
Scrabble Schmabble	Simon Rosenstone	Red 2
Quiz night	Limmud Shabbat Team	Yellow 24
Saturday Night Fever Disco	Limmud Shabbat Team	Marquee 3