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Limmud Conference 2016
Wednesday 28 December 2016

08:00
Birkot ha'shachar: cultivating gratitude with our morning blessings	Danny Newman	Red 6
Interfaith tour in Birmingham: discover the stories of four diaspora communities	Ruth Jacobs  Khalid Mahmood	Lobby
V’yarutz v’yomer: he ran and he talked, or "run and chat (3 of 4)	Limmud Social Programming Team	Lobby

09:10
Limmud Chavruta Project - Tzedakah (4 of 4)	Limmud Chavruta Project	Red 7

09:15
As clay in the hands of the potter	Maureen Kendler  Abigail Morris	Red 1
The Last Goodbye - Chevra Kadisha and the Tahara mitzvah	David Soetendorp  Ruth Soetendorp	Red 2
The imagery of Jerusalem in early Israeli films	Oshra Schwartz Reim	Red 3
Rescuers and the righteous - the courage and choices of the glorious few	Antony Lishak	Red 4
Lights, Chutzpah, Action! Jews in British Cinema	UK Jewish Film  Rachel Kolsky	Red 5
Trends and challenges in Israel-Diaspora relations	Michael Wegier  Elan Ezrachi	Red 6
Jewish journeys: Sicily	Chaim Weiner	Red 8 (Boulevard Back)
‘The world was created for my sake’	Margaret Jacobi	Red 9 (Boulevard Front)
What can you do for the future of Israel/Palestine?	Wejdan Abd  Raghad Bahar  Rutie Atsmon	Orange 10
Israel and Pakistan: where do they stand today?	Sohail Raza	Orange 11
Jewish life in Greece today	Maria Kavala	Orange 12
Saving Religious Liberty in America: the Jewish Angle	Aylana Meisel	Orange 13
Does the New York Times hate Israel? (No.)	Jodi Rudoren	Orange 14
Re-discovering a Hasidic Master: a Shi'ur in the Me'or 'Eynayim	Arthur Green	Orange 15
Beer Sheva - a microcosm of Israel society	Dagan Livny	Yellow 21
Bestiary of fears	Jacqueline Nicholls	Yellow 22
Will our community exist 20 years from now?	Jonathan Arkush	Yellow 23
Infiltrating Europe: how Jihadists exploited the migrant crisis	Annika Hernroth-Rothstein  Tom Wilson	Yellow 24
A Jewish view of extra-terrestrial life	Mark Creeger	Green 25
Forgotten or Sidelined? Historical female leadership in Orthodoxy 1500-1900	Arthur Weiss	Green 26
Sex, food and the Lush Garden of Sepharad: religious piety confronts sensual pleasure	Benjamin Gampel	Green 27
Governments NGOs and the BDS wars: public opposition, private support?	Shaun Sacks	Purple 31
Solomon's proverbs: the sexiest piece of the Bible you've never read	Naftali Moses	Blue 32 (Millers)
Cultural policy and the Israeli art world	Diti Ronen	Blue 33
Nepal earthquake aftermath: Jewish approach to disaster response	Eliran Douenias	Blue 34
Chair yoga	Maxine Levy	Marquee 1
Zionism in the Diaspora	Joshua Weinberg	Marquee 3
Healthcare - spiritual needs and spiritual distress	Jason Demant	Marquee 2

10:30
Charedi schools and children's rights	Naomi Webber	Red 1
Great openings to Talmudic tractates: Ta'anit: rethinking Jewish environmentalism (2 of 2)	Julian Sinclair	Red 2
Peeking Beyond the Wall: Screening and Q&A	David Newman	Red 3
Does my tuchus look big in this? Jews and the fashion industry	Dave Shaw  Lara Smallman	Red 4
Out of the shadows: the return of the Bnei Anousim ("Marranos")	Michael Freund	Red 5
Islamic and Greek philosophy in the Guide for the Perplexed	Barry Kleinberg	Red 6
Sephardi Voices: stories from our archive	Elliot Jebreel	Red 7
Beit Midrash Group A: Modern Halachic Perspective (3 of 4)	Limmud Beit Midrash Group A  Michael Pollak	Red 8 (Boulevard Back)
Beit Midrash Group C: the pursuer (3 of 3)	Limmud Beit Midrash Group C  Shlomo Zuckier	Red 8 (Boulevard Back)
Beit Midrash group B: be killed rather than transgress (3 of 4)	Limmud Beit Midrash Group B  Joel Levy	Red 8 (Boulevard Back)
Subversive texts in the Torah: legalised rape and enslaved wives	Ariel Abel  Shira Solomons	Orange 10
Commanding voices – Talmud in a new light (3 of 3)	Neil Janes	Orange 11
Should Jewish schools be forced to be inclusive?	Rachel Cohen  Helena Miller  Clive Lawton  Neil Levitan	Orange 12
Defiant Requiem: Screening and Q&A (120 minutes)	Deborah Lipstadt  Murry Sidlin	Orange 13
Applied Halakhah: Category Shifts in Jewish Law (3 of 3)	Ethan Tucker	Orange 14
The creation of the Palestinian refugee problem, 1948	Benny Morris	Orange 15
Rescue in the Philippines: an open door policy	Hannah Gaventa  Karina Veal	Yellow 21
Jewish teachings and experiences of the criminal justice system: trial and error (2 of 3)	Danny Rich  Rob Prager	Yellow 22
Should Jews be living in Hebron?	Ethan Schwartz  Lisa Saffron  Abraham Bell  Gilad Halpern  Yishai Fleisher	Yellow 23
The Syrian chaos: What happened, and what are the options for the future?	Miri Eisin	Yellow 24
Shmattes: an intimate history of Jewish origins in the modern rag trade	Adam Mendelsohn	Green 25
A world of Jewish Philanthropy	Tamar Remz	Green 26
Collecting life stories - everyone has a story to tell!	Eve Cowan	Green 27
Mind the connection gap	Nora Ghodsian	Purple 29 (Monarch Overflow)
Paper midrash: Text study with knives	Shawna Brynjegard-Bialik  Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik	Purple 31
Community festival organisation and management	Nathan Finkel	Blue 32 (Millers)
Impact investing as a mitzvah and new paradigm	Mark Goldsmith  Yosef Abramowitz	Blue 33
Your own triptych: three questions that map the journey to your soul	Shep Rosenman	Blue 34
Dynamic yoga: it’s all in the breath. Movement as a meditation	Maxine Levy	Marquee 3
Crimes, misdemeanours and other infractions by biblical leaders: The Lion King: leader or predator? (3 of 3)	Judy Klitsner	Marquee 2

12:00
Strategic threats to Israel - what does the future hold?	Peter Lerner	Red 1
The Zionist rise to power: the Jewish community of Bulgaria before Second World War	Angel Chorapchiev	Red 2
Transgender Jewish Voices	Shaan Knan  Isabella Segal  Neil Levitan	Red 3
The Holocaust from a Jewish feminist theological perspective	Melissa Raphael	Red 4
Welcome to Yesod: professional development and Jewish learning initiatives for Jewish communal professionals, educators and activists in Europe	Dani Serlin	Red 5
Songleading within worship	Noah Aronson	Red 6
Limmud choir: The choral hits of Stephen Glass (3 of 3)	Cantor Jason Green	Red 7
Mutasim Ali: Sudanese refugee and social justice leader in Israel	Mutasim Ali	Orange 10
Positive policy reform vs. negative public opinion: analysis of Arab-Jewish relations in Israel	Alex Brummer  Thabet Abu Ras  Amnon Be'eri-Sulitzeanu	Orange 11
'Let me see that good land.' The story of a human life	Avivah Zornberg	Orange 12
Seeding controversy: did Israel "invent" the cherry tomato?	Anna Wexler	Orange 14
The frontline against anti-Semitism	Luciana Berger	Orange 15
No swimming on Shabbes!	Roni Tabick	Yellow 21
Justice and mercy – Hindu and Jewish parallels	Robert Stone	Yellow 22
In conversation with Shyam Bhatia, diplomatic journalist	Richard Verber  Shyam Bhatia	Yellow 23
Tell Me Texts: The weird and the wonderful	Oliver Joseph  Yehoshua Engelman  Zev Farber  Maureen Kendler	Yellow 24
Holocaust looted art: Egon Schiele's Jewish portraits and patrons	Ian Vellins	Green 25
Mental health in Jewish scripture and history	Daniel Heller	Green 26
The Babylonian Exile: Is That Why the Prophets "Won"?	Robert Goldenberg	Green 27
The prophet margin: translator’s notes on the Book of Isaiah.	Jessica Sacks	Green 28
Holocaust and humor in Israeli theatre	Eran Kraus  Gur Koren	Purple 31
FEAST!	Hannah Style	Blue 32 (Millers)
Breaking the ice: addressing tough questions about Israel	Michael Freeman	Blue 33
Pluralism, diversity & Jewish evolution	Zohar Raviv	Blue 34
A meeting of styles: Zoe Jacobs with Shir in concert	Ronen Kozokaro  Piotr Jordan  Maurice Chernick  Zöe Jacobs  Ivor Goldberg	Marquee 3
The Hillel sandwich generation: caring for our children, grandchildren and aging parents	Naamah Kelman	Marquee 2
Meet the Conference chairs!	Abigail Jacobi  Anna Lawton	Bar

13:15
Law vs equity: an examination of Jewish legal ethics	Shmuel Klitsner	Red 1
The Palestinian high-tech sector and Israel’s role in it (2 of 3)	Jesse Divon	Red 2
Human shields, the laws of war and the Arab-Israeli conflict	Abraham Bell	Red 3
Growing Up in Complex Times: Exploring Young Jewish Lives	Helena Miller	Red 4
Eli Wiesel: where are my Jews? - an exhibition opening	Roman Kogan  Chaim Chesler	Red 5
Dance as food for the soul	Samuel Garas  Maurice Stone	Red 6
The house of Julius Jacobs - a play-reading	Jonathan Gillis	Red 7
Women's rights issues and discourse in the U.S. and Israel	Ariela Migdal	Red 8 (Boulevard Back)
Free choice: when God was over-ruled (3 of 3)	Nahum Gordon	Orange 10
Stanley Cavell: the problem of knowledge and the problem of love	Robbie Duschinsky	Orange 11
The Jedi, the rabbi and the Dark Side: Elisha ben Abuyah Skywalker a.k.a. Darth Vader Acher	Paul Freedman	Orange 12
It Always Rains on Sunday (92 mins)	UK Jewish Film  Rachel Kolsky  Nizza Fluss	Orange 13
Looking for God - or why do we pray anyway?	Lawrence Hoffman	Orange 14
A new look at the 1948 war	Benny Morris	Orange 15
Redeeming the Captives: Multilingualism in Hasidic Music	Simon Parizhsky  Alexandra Skvortsova	Yellow 21
From massacre to ministry: the remarkable rise of Levi	Yaacov Finn	Yellow 22
The heart and the spring: Religious yearning and a taste of Rav Nahman	Chani Smith	Green 25
Abrahamic Interfaith: Perspectives from campus	Louise Cohen  James Graham	Green 26
Not a job for a nice Jewish girl	Rachel Creeger	Green 27
Kaddish throughout the year	Jaclyn Chernett	Purple 31
Inclusive Jewish leadership	Dani Serlin  Hannah Brady  Neil Levitan	Blue 32 (Millers)
What have Methodists done for interfaith relations?	Rob Thompson  Katharine Crew  Elliot Steinberg	Blue 33
Does your rabbi know you’re here?	Anthony Clavane	Blue 34
Modern Jive at Limmud (3 of 3)	Jonathan Hunter  Dan Mackenzie	Marquee 3
Animals in the Qur'an and Tanach	Halima Krausen  Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Marquee 2
Open space	Limmud Social Programming Team	Bar
Dreidel making!	Limmud Social Programming Team	Bar

14:30
Who run the world?	Sarah Waxman  Laura Janner-Klausner  Judy Klitsner  Karina Veal  Ruth Messinger	Red 1
But I intended to commit a sin!	Zahavit Shalev	Red 2
From the front line: negotiating with the German government for compensation for Holocaust survivors.	Karen Heilig	Red 3
Shame on you	Rose Prevezer	Red 4
The trauma of the refugees: A story untold	Yotam Politzer	Red 5
Left side of the page: music for the soul	Noah Aronson	Red 6
Shir interactive	Ronen Kozokaro  Maurice Chernick  Ivor Goldberg	Red 7
British values?	Clive Lawton  Patrick Moriarty	Red 8 (Boulevard Back)
It’s a wonderful world: Greece		Red 9 (Boulevard Front)
Four questions, four personalities	Aaron Henne	Orange 10
Is Brexit good for the Jews?	Annika Hernroth-Rothstein  Ruvi Ziegler  Simon Gordon  Peter Mason  Jonathan Neumann	Orange 11
Ask the Rabbi: through the lens of Google analytics. Part 2: Jewish Observance (2 of 2)	Chaim Weiner	Orange 12
Art-similation: does Jewish art outside of Israel have a future?	Oshra Schwartz Reim  Emma Brand  Elkan Spiller  Mishka (Moshe) Ben-David  Aviva Dautch	Orange 14
The Making of "Denial": Behind the Scenes	Joe Oppenheimer  Deborah Lipstadt	Orange 15
Jewish genes: What do they mean?	Joey Ziff	Yellow 21
Tikkun olam - encountering the divine sparks we're meant to redeem	Lisa Saffron	Yellow 22
The persecution of the Jews in WW2, a wholly European Affair? The Jews of North Africa, 1939-1945	Daniel Lee	Green 25
Three generations of the Kindertransport	Ruth Barnett	Green 26
Community-based theatre: Addressing tensions surrounding diversity on campus.	Peter Harris	Green 27
Am I my brother's keeper? Levinas on the question of freedom versus responsibility	Stephen Innes	Purple 29 (Monarch Overflow)
Chanukah customs from around the world	Raya Even David	Purple 31
The Tel Aviv Review podcast - live recording (3 of 4)	Gilad Halpern  Simon Parizhsky  Maggie Anton  Robert Goldenberg	Blue 32 (Millers)
Do shul differently	Yaacov Finn	Blue 33
Babi Yar: how was the 75th anniversary of the tragedy marked in Ukraine?	Igor Shchupak	Blue 34
Humous wars: food at the frontier of conflict	Marlena Spieler  Joel Salmon	Marquee 1
Partnership Minyanim: Here to stay?	Miriam Lorie  Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz  Shmuel Klitsner  Ben Crowne	Marquee 2
Conversation café	Anna Braybrooke	Bar

15:50
The State of the Jewish People: A conversation	Avi Mayer	Red 1
The Jews of South America	Michael Even David	Red 3
Life of a comedian	Candy Markham	Red 6
It’s a wonderful world: Greece!		Red 9 (Boulevard Front)
How did a non-Jew end up working as Director of We Believe in Israel and how can we get more non-Jews involved in campaigning for Israel?	Luke Akehurst	Orange 11
Chanukah hour: drama games	Limmud Social Programming Team	Purple 31
Chanukah nour: nosh and natter about divine intervention	Oliver Joseph	Blue 32 (Millers)
Personal Chanukah candle lighting (Weds)	Limmud Chanukah Team	Marquee 1
Communal Chanukah candle lighting (Weds)	Limmud Chanukah Team	Marquee 3
Board Game Bonanza (Weds)	Limmud Chanukah Team	Bar

16:00
Chanukah Candelighting for Kids	Siv Andersen  Limmud Families Team	Family Lounge

16:00
Families Crafternoon	Mark Greenfield	Family Lounge

16:30
Rockin' Ladino: Ora de Despertar!	Sarah Aroeste	Rhythm & Blues

16:40
"Live" shechitah demonstration	Gabriel Botnick	Red 1
Jewish values investing	Perry Teicher	Red 2
Development banks and NGOs: the architecture of development financing	Karina Veal	Red 3
LGBT rights: a global perspective	Ruth Messinger	Red 4
When the female golem demanded a soul	Melissa Raphael	Red 5
Narrative warfare: the fight for Israel's narrative, from Hadrian to campus	Yishai Fleisher	Red 6
Gefilte Fish & Chips: more stories, more songs, some questions, some answers	Daniel Cainer	Red 7
Jews don't do football? You must be joking.	Anthony Clavane	Orange 10
Rav Shagar and modernity's shattered vessels	Julian Sinclair	Orange 11
Stopping the traffic together	Ruth Dearnley  Alex Goldberg  Elliot Steinberg	Orange 12
"L'chaim!: To Life!": Screening and Q&A (120 minutes)	Elkan Spiller	Orange 13
Responsa Radio Live!	Andrew Belinfante  Ethan Tucker	Orange 14
Is too much expected of the Israeli Defense Force?	Lynette Nusbacher  Avner Bernheimer  Miri Eisin  Abraham Bell  Joshua Weinberg	Orange 15
Jews of color: Being a black, professional Jew	Ilana Kaufman	Yellow 21
A Jewish woman for a Jewish project	Clelia Piperno	Yellow 22
Volunteering vs VolunTourism: Jewish volunteering abroad	Ethan Herman	Green 26
Zionist leaders' speeches	Deborah Steinmetz	Green 27
Arguing in the face of injustice - Hannah and Abraham challenge God (3 of 3)	Shoshana Cohen	Purple 29 (Monarch Overflow)
A discussion with the Jews behind the world's largest Arabic book gifting program	Tamar Remz	Purple 31
Limmud Book Club: The Marriage of Opposites (4 of 4)	Shoshi Ish-Horowicz  Aviva Dautch	Blue 32 (Millers)
When Jews, Armenians and Roma work together	Benjamin Fischer	Blue 33
Stuck like an Egyptian	Susan Silverman	Blue 34
An embodied mindful movement and dance workshop	Nikki Levitan	Marquee 3
Does martyrdom have meaning?	Raphael Zarum	Marquee 2
The Ashatones	Harry Style	Bar
Scrabble schmabble	Simon Rosenstone	Bar

17:00
Families drums 'n tales	Janie Grackin	Music Room

17:30
Prophets, pranksters, werewolves and bubbes	Gerald Fierst	Rhythm & Blues

18:10
Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein and the holistic integrity of religious life	Shlomo Zuckier	Red 2
Fighting racism and antisemitism on the web	Benjamin Fischer  Sacha Reingewirtz	Red 4
Candy Gigi: If I had a rich man	Candy Markham	Red 7
Heresy and community: the case of Baruch/Benedictus Spinoza	Benjamin Gampel	Orange 10
Doctor, Doctor, we need to work on our mental health services	Luciana Berger	Orange 11
20 years of learning at Limmud - celebrating the Chavruta Project	Limmud Chavruta Project  Robin Moss  Hannah Skolnick  Steve Miller  Chani Smith	Orange 12
The two Islamic fundamentalist threats	Benny Morris	Orange 14
Antisemitism: defining it and identifying it	Deborah Lipstadt	Orange 15
Are Christians basically antisemitic?	Jane Clements	Turquoise 16
Much Ado About Nothing? Homeopathy in Jewish life	Francis Treuherz	Turquoise 20
Cruising around the shules	Malcolm Ginsberg	Yellow 21
Books, men and women in medieval Europe (2 of 2)	Eva Frojmovic	Yellow 22
Jews in arctic Alaska	Jonathan Reisman	Green 26
The Sermon on the Mount and the Ten Commandments	Barry Kleinberg	Green 27
JW3 art salon: art and politics	Claire Berliner  Alex Davidson  Jacqueline Nicholls	Blue 32 (Millers)
Niddah and finding a spiritual connection with menstruation	Sarah Waxman	Blue 34
Love triangles in Genesis: a psychological literary comparison of Genesis 25 and Genesis 30	Shmuel Klitsner	Marquee 2

18:45
Bubbelehs Love to Boogie	Raymond Simonson  Limmud Families Team	Music Room

18:50
Brain death and organ donation in halachah	Zev Farber	Red 1
Waking the dead	Hester Abrams  Alex Goldberg	Red 3
Antisemitism, Jews and the Labour Party	David Feldman	Red 5
Comedy beit midrash	Eran Kraus	Red 6
The Venice Ghetto, 500 years of life (55 mins)	Clelia Piperno  UK Jewish Film  Shaul Bassi	Orange 13
Podcasting: a beginner's guide to a powerful storytelling medium	Graham Carpenter	Turquoise 19
So who wanted to be a Jew? From the beginning of modenity up to the Shoah?? (2 of 3)	Jacqueline Tabick	Purple 31
#LabelFree	David Davidi-Brown	Blue 33
Moving through the middot: Mussar and music	Monique Mayer  Judith Silver	Marquee 1
Rikud Chadash (2 of 2)	Samuel Garas  Maurice Stone	Marquee 3
Cocktails for home and festivals	Limmud Social Programming Team	Bar

20:20
Closing Gala		Yellow 24

21:50
Building resilience and bringing hope to the Jews of France	Sacha Reingewirtz	Red 1
V is for vagina	Hannah Brady  Emily Hilton	Red 2
Shattering the borders: life on the edge	Maayan Zweig	Red 3
Sing-along with The Rubens	Ian Gold  Ivor Jacobs	Red 6
Acoustic cafe	Limmud Social Programming Team	Red 7
Light and dark at Chanukah – tales, teachings and creative responses	David Bash	Orange 10
Enemy of the Reich: the Noor Inayat Khan story	Sohail Raza  Raheel Raza	Orange 12
My journey from ignorance and indifference about the Holocaust to deep empathy	Ruta Vanagaite	Yellow 21
Shir In Concert	Ronen Kozokaro  Piotr Jordan  Steve Rose  Maurice Chernick  Ivor Goldberg	Yellow 23
Daf Yomi (4 of 4)	Michael Pollak	Purple 31
Pardes bar meetup: alumni and friends	Judy Klitsner  Samuel Lebens  Miriam Lorie	Blue 32 (Millers)
Reggae Zion	Mark Goldsmith	Blue 34
Klezmer dance! Shtetl dance! With live band!	JewSalsa  David el Shatran	Marquee 3
Big Jewish soundtracks at the bar	Mark Greenfield	Bar

23:20
Does God have a sense of humour?	Danny Bermant	Red 4
2016 in Memoriam; a musical tribute	Nathan Finkel	Red 6
Midnight Chavruta - Tzedakah (4 of 4)	Limmud Chavruta Project	Red 7
Israeli dance party (4 of 4)	Samuel Garas  Maurice Stone	Marquee 1
The rebbetzins’ disco	Raymond Simonson  Jacqueline Nicholls	Marquee 3