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Limmud Conference 2016
Sunday 25 December 2016

09:20
No Torah, do Haftarah! Really?	Albert Ringer	Red 2
1988: the last ever Limmud?	Neil Turner Nash	Red 3
Two Jews, three opinions: conducting meaningful surveys	Margueritte Cox	Red 4
Why were the Maccabees so upset?	Robert Goldenberg	Red 5

10:00
Family sculpture park	Clive Lawton	Rhythm & Blues

10:40
Challenges of Halacha in a rapidly changing world: Where do we draw the lines?	Ronen Neuwirth z"l	Red 1
Jewish renaissance in the white city: Jewish religious life blooms in the "secular" city of Tel Aviv	Ariela Migdal	Red 2
Challenging the concept that the Dreyfus affair was Herzl's inspiration toward Zionism	Mordechai (Motti) Friedman	Red 3
Archaeology and the great kings of the Bible: David, Solomon and Israel's United Monarchy	Avraham Faust	Red 4
Journalism, disrupted	Jodi Rudoren	Red 6
Why are Jewish women in war films moral degenerates?	Ben Vos	Red 7
Politics from the pulpit: religious leaders, electioneering and the law	Gabriel Kanter-Webber	Orange 10
What the hell is wrong with our family? - For siblings of transgender adults	Miriam Schacter	Orange 11
Israel, a feminine people	Natan Abenaim	Orange 12
The Perfect Guests?	Rachel Montagu	Orange 13
The Way We Weren’t: Jewish art as a “mirror of Jewish life”?	Marc Epstein	Orange 14
Limmud MarCom Master Class: What you Need to Know About Marketing and Media	Limmud Development and Connection Team  Sara Averick  Karen Radkowsky	Yellow 21
Spin like a dreidel: ecstatic dance	Limmud Social Programming Team	Marquee 3

11:00
Crafts and arts drop in and help make our space look beautiful	Limmud Families Team	Family Lounge

11:00
ChaNUkah, HaNUka, HaNEWkkah	Niki Jackson	Rhythm & Blues

12:00
The interim rabbi: an innovation in synagogue life to support congregations as they say farewell to a serving rabbi and welcome the new rabbi	Darryl Crystal	Red 3
Meet the IDF spokesperson	Peter Lerner	Red 4
Psyche in the Sugya: Do we ever understand the other? (1 of 2)	Yehoshua Engelman	Red 8 (Boulevard Back)
Ars Poetica - culture, politics and poetry	Adi Keissar	Orange 10
Chiyuv vs. chesed - why inclusion of people with disabilities is not a kindness	Shelley Cohen	Orange 11
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (120 minutes)	Sara Moon  Deana Gershuny  Roxana Jebreel	Orange 13
Is the Commonwealth still really a thing? (1 of 2)	Clive Lawton	Orange 14
A Muslim reads the Bible: migration (2 of 2)	Halima Krausen	Yellow 21
Developing a vision for Jewish learning	David-Yehuda Stern	Yellow 22
All you need is Biblical Hebrew!	Daniel Hirschfield	Yellow 24

13:15
Gender issues in the Talmud	Tirtsa Posklinsky Shehory	Red 4
Shanda: Judaism and mental illness	David Benkof	Red 5
Biblio-hypnosis: the crossing of the Reed Sea. (1 of 2)	Michael Capek	Red 6
The evolution of Jewish cantorial music (chazanut) from the shtetl to its golden age in America	Mordechai (Motti) Friedman	Red 7
Where are the Jews in the great Russian novels?	Shoshi Ish-Horowicz	Red 8 (Boulevard Back)
The Nazi sponsored exodus of Jews from the Free City of Danzig	Leslie Michaels	Orange 10
How to scale your venture while keeping its culture	Rachel Sumekh	Orange 11
Messianism and mercantilism: The readmission of Anglo-Jewry (1 of 2)	Shalom Morris	Orange 12
Jesus in the Talmud	Gabriel Botnick	Orange 14
Worriers to warriors: how to gain executive presence and confidence to speak up, be heard, and achieve your potential	Annette Kurer	Yellow 22
Dire straits makes the best entrepreneur	Ran Sasson	Blue 33
Undateable or Superhuman? Perceptions of disability in Jewish community	Hannah Brady	Blue 34

14:30
Israel 2020: geopolitical self images - where is Israel located? (1 of 3)	David Newman	Red 1
Can we save Europe from nationalism?	Benjamin Gerber	Red 2
Documentary film screening: The True Cost (120 min)	Dave Shaw  Lara Smallman	Red 3
Everything you wanted to know about Israel but were afraid to ask	Michael Freeman	Red 4
Drama and identity workshop: mitigating suspicion between Arabs and Jews	Peter Harris	Red 6
"...teach a man to fish and you feed him for life": why this isn't the answer for global poverty relief	Steve Miller	Red 7
How can we encourage kindness? A perspective from evolutionary biology	Joel Peck	Red 8 (Boulevard Back)
Traces of the Holocaust in Lithuania: How the Shoah is being presented in contemporary Lithuania	Ruta Vanagaite	Red 9 (Boulevard Front)
The story of the Zionist movement in Iraq	Mor Sofer	Orange 10
Growing Up - What is it like at 20, at 40, at 60? 'Ad 120' - Twenties (1 of 3)	Yoav Landau-Pope	Orange 11
The book of Daniel: an insurrectionary text	Shira Solomons	Orange 12
Keep Quiet (97 mins)	Jonathan Wittenberg  UK Jewish Film	Orange 13
What do you stand for? The never-ending conflict between Greek and Jewish culture	Raphael Zarum	Orange 15
Anxiety - antidotes and anecdotes	Benjamin Stanley  Laura Janner-Klausner	Yellow 21
Where is Jewish feminism now?	Gail Chester	Yellow 22
Halacha for the terminally disinclined (1 of 2)	Joel Levy	Yellow 23
Jewish women in Rashi's community were way ahead of their time	Maggie Anton	Yellow 24
Innocents in Gaza	Noru Tsalic	Green 25
Quieting the soul: why meditation isn't prayer but is still worth trying!	Sara Jo Ben Zvi	Green 27
Limmud book club: Auto-da-Fé (1 of 4)	Shoshi Ish-Horowicz  Aviva Dautch	Blue 32 (Millers)
Women and mitzvot: what’s time got to do with it?	Valérie Rhein	Blue 33

15:50
Dreidel casino (Sun)	Limmud Chanukah Team	Red 1
Just William and the Jews	Gabriel Kanter-Webber	Red 4
Chanukah hour: stuck in the mud	Limmud Social Programming Team	Red 7
Shtetl shmooze		Red 9 (Boulevard Front)
Jewtopias: from Ararat to Birobidzhan: the search for a Jewish homeland beyond Zionism	Alastair Falk	Orange 10
Is Donald Trump an antisemite?	Aylana Meisel  Jonathan Neumann	Orange 14
Creating LGBT+ inclusive curricula	Neil Levitan  Dalia Fleming	Green 27
Chanukah hour: dreidel making	Limmud Social Programming Team	Purple 29 (Monarch Overflow)
Chanukah hour: nosh and natter - everyday heroes	Oliver Joseph	Blue 32 (Millers)
Personal Chanukah candle lighting (Sun)	Limmud Chanukah Team	Marquee 1
Communal Chanukah candle-lighting (Sun)	Limmud Chanukah Team	Marquee 3
Board game bonanza (Sun)	Limmud Chanukah Team	Bar

16:00
Chanukah Candelighting for Kids	Laura Janner-Klausner  Limmud Families Team  Sarah Aroeste	Family Lounge

16:30
Happy Hebrew Songs with Raya Even-David	Raya Even David	Rhythm & Blues

16:40
Lighting a Candle, Becoming a Menorah	Mordechai Zeller	Red 1
Why don’t the frum write love songs?	Jessica Sacks	Red 2
How the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community supported its poor during the 18th and 19th centuries	Rachel Montagu	Red 3
Attracting, selecting, and transitioning to a new congregational rabbi	Jeffrey Ward  Greg Davidson	Red 4
Honored and Venerable Sir...	Vanessa Freedman	Red 6
A still-small voice: finding God after the melody	Zöe Jacobs	Red 7
Dilemmas and ethics in Jewish international development (tikkun olam)	Yarden Zornberg	Orange 10
The Nuremberg Trials and human rights: the hidden link	Sam Grant  Adam Wagner	Orange 11
The hard man of Chasidism	Larry Tabick	Orange 12
Yossi and Jagger: Screening and Q&A (110 minutes)	Avner Bernheimer	Orange 13
Jewish animal ethics from Torah to today	Aaron Gross	Orange 14
From the ends of the earth: lost tribes and hidden Jewish communities	Michael Freund	Yellow 21
An American Tale: the story of Jews in Eastern Europe from Fievel Mousekevitz to now	Richard Verber	Yellow 22
Trumpus interruptus: Democrats, Republicans and the fractures of American Jewry	Andrew Silow-Carroll	Yellow 23
Being and being Jewish: an exploration of Jewish ethics and spirituality	Arthur Green  Jonathan Wittenberg  Shoshana Boyd Gelfand	Yellow 24
A short visit to the Mexican Jewish community (1 of 2)	Renato Huarte Cuéllar	Green 25
How important are the settlements, really?	Ethan Schwartz	Green 26
With an outstretched arm... communicating with great (Makaton) signs and wonders	Shoshana Bloom	Green 27
Four Entered Parodies	Stuart Lewis	Purple 31
Under the uniforms	Mor Sofer	Blue 33
“Who shall live and who shall die?” The High Holiday prayer we love and hate, and the fascinating secrets behind it	Lawrence Hoffman	Blue 34
Bag Storage		Marquee 1
Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan – seekers of faith; finders of different fates	Daniel Goldfarb	Marquee 3
Crafternoon Tea: Make Your Own Mosaic	Limmud Social Programming Team	Bar

17:00
Make your own jar of pickles!	Roxana Jebreel  Deana Gershuny  Sara Moon	Music Room

17:15
Maccabees Conquer Jerusalem	Janie Grackin	Rhythm & Blues

18:10
The genealogy of redemption or a case against Jewish "text-tosterone"	Naamah Kelman	Red 2
The place of Israel within British Jewry (4 of 4)	Helena Miller	Red 3
Songs of protest, inspiration and prayer: If It Be Your Will	Maureen Kendler	Red 7
Dangerous Developments: Jewish Art and the Politics of Motion	Marc Epstein	Orange 11
Rethinking the Place of Torah from Sinai in Orthodoxy in the Light of Biblical Criticism	Zev Farber	Orange 12
To conquer one's journey (1 of 2)	Maayan Zweig	Yellow 21
How bad is it? What’s really going on with antisemitism in Europe	Jonathan Boyd	Yellow 24
Rebbe Nachman and the time machine	Naftali Moses	Green 26
The motivations of the killers: why did so many Lithuanians participate in Holocaust crimes?	Ruta Vanagaite	Purple 31
The Jewish philosophy of dreaming and why it matters today	Bonnie Buckner	Marquee 2

18:30
Bedtime Lullaby Concert with Noah Aronson	Noah Aronson	Rhythm & Blues

18:45
Storytime 5s to 8s with PJ Library's Lauren Hamburger	Limmud Families Team	Music Room

18:50
It's a scorcher! 2016, the world's warmest year ever	Julian Sinclair  Deana Gershuny  Yosef Abramowitz  Perry Teicher	Red 1
Including the Excluded: The Need for Involving Arab Voices at Every Level of Israeli Society	Elizabeth Harris-Sawczenko  Thabet Abu Ras  Amnon Be'eri-Sulitzeanu	Red 4
Between life and death: Jews in Bulgaria during the Second World War	Angel Chorapchiev	Red 5
Five lessons in leadership: what not to do!	Simon Appleman	Red 6
“True as only fiction can be”: Emmanuel Levinas and Russian literature	Tamra Wright  Joe Gamse	Orange 14
A portrait of a spy as a young liberal, humanist and Zionist artist: the protagonist in three of my spy novels	Mishka (Moshe) Ben-David	Orange 15
Yael: pinning down her man	Eleanor Davis	Turquoise 16
What's your brand essence? A workshop for non-profit organisations	Karen Radkowsky	Turquoise 20
Refugees: Jews and the art of exile	Irene Wise	Yellow 22
British, Orthodox and gay: where do I fit in?	Joe Hyman	Green 25
The ten online habits of highly effective Israel advocates	Avi Mayer	Green 27
What’s the point of prayer? (1 of 2)	Jonathan Wittenberg	Blue 33
Authentic Jewish spirituality: even for sceptics who think there isn’t any	Lawrence Hoffman	Blue 34
Textformance	Akiko Yonekawa  Rivka Gottlieb  Samuel Lebens	Marquee 1
Around the world in 10 Years: Celebrating a decade of Limmud International	Limmud Development and Connection Team  David Bilchitz  Chaim Chesler  Andrew Gilbert	Marquee 3

20:10
Halachic anecdotes in the Talmud: the rules of the Rabbis and the practice of the people	Judith Hauptman	Red 1
Congregational Social Justice	Miriam Edelman	Red 2
The refugee crisis: a call for action	Yotam Politzer	Red 3
“Loving the Torah more than God”: the ethical philosophy and Jewish writings of Emmanuel Levinas (1 of 3)	Tamra Wright	Red 4
Speaking walls: Israeli street art	Amir Levi	Red 5
Art and activism	Adi Keissar	Red 6
Limmud Chavruta Project Launch Party (1 of 4)	Limmud Chavruta Project	Red 7
Mystical cross-gendered practices: where did all the women go?	Mimi Feigelson	Orange 10
Choose your own adventure: egalitarianism	Libby Burkeman	Orange 11
Reform controversies in the 1840s	Steve Miller	Orange 12
Deli Man (92 mins)	UK Jewish Film  Aaron Gross	Orange 13
Finding partners to peace – supporting Palestinian non-violence	Amos Schonfield	Orange 14
Striking a rock instead of a conversation	Judy Klitsner  Maureen Kendler  Samuel Lebens	Orange 15
Song-writing workshop	Jessica Gold	Turquoise 19
Why Does the Talmud Look so Odd? How Jewish Scribes and a Venetian Christian Printer Created the Page of Talmud	Yoel Finkelman	Yellow 21
Invisibilty and chronic illness: how we learn and understand our bodies through sickness	Andrew Belinfante	Yellow 22
Gimpel the Fool	Beatriz Rypp  Howard Rypp	Yellow 23
Talking tachlis: why have Jews been so economically successful?	Adam Mendelsohn	Yellow 24
What is a Jewish farm and why are they important? Come and hear about Sadeh, UK's first Jewish farm!	Sara Moon  Deana Gershuny  Roxana Jebreel	Green 25
Land of Promise	Deborah Steinmetz	Green 26
The Temple was destroyed: did this save Judaism?	Robert Goldenberg	Green 27
What if there were double the amount of Jews in the world than previously thought?	Ashley Perry	Blue 33
Jewish identity. Jewish values. Black lives. They all matter.	Ilana Kaufman	Blue 34
Rikud chadash (1 of 2)	Samuel Garas  Maurice Stone	Marquee 1
The Rabbi's concert	Lior Kaminetsky	Marquee 3

21:40
Online collaborative genealogy - a growing community	Laurence Harris  Andrew Gilbert	Red 1
Build Your Own Jewish State	Joshua Weinberg	Red 2
Herring: a pickled history	Naomi Verber	Red 3
Our personal exodus narratives: leadership and the art of storytelling	Aaron Henne	Red 4
The rise of political correctness in Israeli theatre	Eran Kraus  Gur Koren	Red 5
Chazanut as reflected in movies	Mordechai (Motti) Friedman	Red 7
Cannabis 101: medicalising and monetising	Saul Kaye	Orange 10
Kitchen sink confessionals: a moveable feast	Tilla Crowne	Orange 11
The talmudic roots of Sherlock Holmes	Daniel Anderson	Orange 12
Letters Live	Jews throughout the ages	Orange 15
For Jewish Educators - How a Community of Practice Can Support You	Miriam Rosalyn Diamond	Yellow 21
Concert: Discovering Israeli Identity	Yoav Oved	Yellow 23
Transforming nightmares via a kabbalistic approach	Bonnie Buckner	Green 25
Daf Yomi (1 of 4)	Michael Pollak	Green 27
Speed friending	Limmud Social Programming Team	Blue 32 (Millers)
Do we want the Messiah now?	Margaret Jacobi	Blue 33
Israeli Dance Party (1 of 4)	Samuel Garas  Maurice Stone	Marquee 1
Home Affairs Select Committe Report: the whole Megillah	Emma Brand	Bar

23:20
Not so board games	Limmud Social Programming Team	Red 2
The nature of dreams	Nadia Jacobson	Red 3
I’ve already heard it - Jewish jokes and their meanings	Yehoshua Engelman	Red 6
Karaoke	Limmud Social Programming Team	Red 7
The Philosopher's Disco	Limmud Social Programming Team	Marquee 3