Orange 14
Led by a former spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces and current spokesman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, this is an opportunity to put whatever questions you have about telling Israel's story. Potential topics may include international media coverage of Israel, how best to engage journalists, and what messages do and do not work.
Bar
Don't pass go, don't collect £200, but do come and enjoy a carefully selected array of board games. Whether you're up for a casual game or some intense competition, there will be something sure to get you rolling.
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Purple 31
Are you going to be on team Maccabees or team Antiochus? Who cares? Come and throw balls at each other!
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Blue 32 (Millers)
Join us for a structured conversation. Jews and Christmas is something of a skeleton in the closet. Why do some Jewish people celebrate this holiday? What does it tell us about our community? Should it be frowned upon?
Marquee 3
Join the extravaganza as we share the light of Chanukah together and bask in the miracle of celebrating as one big Limmud community. We'll have a communal lighting of the chanukiah, words of wisdom and performances from some of conference's most exciting acts. Don't be left in the cold, come and join the biggest Chanukah celebration of the year!
Red 1
Get your spinning fingers at the ready and prepare to roll in the gelt at the Limmud Dreidel Casino. Challenge the rest of conference to match your skill (and/or luck) at the game that has rocked Judea since 168BCE!
Red 4
Sigmund Freud lived for most of his life in Vienna, but left there in 1938 to settle for the last year of his life in London, famously "to die in freedom". The story of how this happened will be sketched in this talk, but the focus will be on how it fits into Freud’s "late style" - in particular his reinvention of Jewish history.
Green 25
Interested in helping to make your community more LGBT+ inclusive? The aim of this workshop is to explore what it means to be a Jewish LGBT+ activist. It is open to both Jewish LGBT+ people and allies.
Marquee 1
A space to light candles individually or in small groups and to reflect on the joy and miracles of the festival in a more personal manner.
Red 3
From Mendellsohn to Mahler, for centuries composers have been influenced by their religious music. In this session, we will listen to excerpts from various classical pieces and look at the history of the composers and their sources of inspiration. We will explore the political and cultural impacts of these musicians over the years.
Orange 10
Come and consider why critics have described Shakespeare’s portrait as “having a decidedly Jewish physiognomy” and ask whether he shared our Jewish values. Why did he write about Venetian Jews and how are we meant to read Shylock in The Merchant of Venice? Is there any truth to the claim that the Dark Lady of the Sonnets was Jewish?
Orange 11
It hardly needs to be said that there are profound differences in the Labour Party and on the left generally about the nature and extent of antisemitism. But what is really at the heart of this controversy? This session will drill down to the bedrock of implicit assumptions that underpin the conflict. Spoiler alert: it’s (mostly) not about Jews.
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