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Limmud Festival 2017
Sunday 24 December 2017

08:00
From the feet up: Feldenkrais @ Limmud (2 of 5)	Emma Alter	Red 7

09:20
Resiliency, flexibility and heart rate variability	Moshe Farchi	Blue 33
The interrelated structure of creation: its spiritual, environmental, and political messages	Michael M. Cohen	Green 25
Science, religion and personal experience: the conflicts	Michael Capek	Green 26
Mystic of Hebrew letters	Rachel Reichhardt	Green 27
Two very different fanatics for justice	Gabriel Kanter-Webber	Orange 10
By who, when, where and why were sections of the Talmud translated into Latin?	Chaim Hames	Orange 12
Judah and Tamar: the first renunciation of honour-killing in world literature	Richard Landes	Red 3
American Jewish legacy organisations and Israel	Steven Windmueller  Dan Brown	Red 4
Jewish mindfulness meditation	Sheila Weinberg	Red 7
Geonic custom and Islamic law	Gideon Libson	Yellow 21

09:30
Arts and crafts	Limmud Families Team	Families Lounge

10:30
Families Welcome (1 of 2)	Limmud Families Team	Families Lounge

10:40
The fight against BDS in Europe	Benjamin Weinthal	Blue 33
Film titles and the animated art of Saul Bass	Irene Wise	Blue 34
Protecting against cyber abuse - the bigger picture, stories of family relationships in conflict	Maureen Kendal	Green 25
Godess of Mastik and alternative culture in Haifa	Lilach Weber	Green 26
Rabbi Judah Halevi at Mount Sinai	Zev Warren Harvey	Green 27
Modern (Jewish) Family	Tamas Buchler	Orange 10
Wandering Jews: Judaism and travel	Ellen Flax	Orange 12
Living on “Quisling Street”	Cnaan Lipshiz	Orange 13
How to make change happen for LGBT Israel	Zehorit Sorek	Purple 31
Kibbutz - freedom for or freedom from?	Mary Azaria  Sadi Zinger  Liron Hoch  Amir Gazit	Red 1
From Hollywood to traditional Judaism: my journey	Selwyn Gerber	Red 2
Taharah in the 21st century - challenges and possibilities	Holly Blue Hawkins	Red 3
Lech Lecha - go to yourself: heeding the still small voice within.	Yiscah Smith	Red 4
The 21st century: age of identity? Reflecting on our sources	Neil Janes	Red 5
Stories of Chelm – the legendary “Village of Idiots” (Modern versions)	Eddie Bass	Red 6
Everyone needs recovery - only some are brave enough to admit it…	Ilan Glazer	Red 7

12:10
“You can’t wear that to shul!” :Tzni’ut, bat mitzvah dress codes and gender policing	Andrea Jacobs	Blue 33
The perfect guests?	Rachel Montagu	Blue 34
Around the world in 17 syllables – ChaiKu HaShavua	Daniel Goldfarb	Green 25
An exciting new treatment for dementia - invented in Israel	Daniel Allen	Green 26
Israel reaches for the moon	Shirley Fenster  Howard Feldman	Green 27
"Get to know you" walk	Social Programming Team	Hilton Lobby
Trop logic	Julian Gilbey	Orange 10
Hard times make the best entrepreneur.	Ran Sasson	Orange 12
Good-hearted murderers and antisemitic righteous among the nations – a humanistic journey to Poland	Eyal Yashfe	Orange 13
94 years young	Eric Fingerhut	Orange 15
Israel - three big questions: for what, if anything, should Israel and Israelis apologise? (1 of 3)	Robin Moss	Red 3
Create new traditions: the Jewish henna designs	Sandra Jerusalmi	Red 4
Bomb disposal in London - 1946 to 1948	Yitzach von Schweitzer	Red 5
A Promised Land: those who dared to dream	David Finlay	Red 6

13:20
A Jewish bestiary: Lichtenberg’s physiognomy of the Judensau (1 of 4)	Jay Geller	Blue 33
Goods For Good: how British industry is keeping Holocaust survivors in Moldova warm this winter	Mia Hamburger	Blue 34
Jewish River Cruising	Malcolm Ginsberg	Green 25
Dialogue and interfaith work	Reuben Ackerman  Mahbub Nazir  Keith Ackerman	Green 26
Analytics gold! Digital marketing for communal organisations (Part 1)	Philippa Gamse	Green 27
Inconvenient truths: when Jews in Britain and Arabs in Israel connect	Idit (Edie) Pick	Orange 10
Praying the Bible: the hidden meanings in prayer and why prayer is never boring or repetitious	Mark Levin	Orange 12
Genetically modified food and Kashrut	Lucas Espinosa Menendez	Orange 13
Jewish communities in Latin America (1 of 2)	Renato Huarte Cuéllar	Purple 31
One Jew, two Synagogues on a deserted island...	Lior Kaminetsky	Red 2
Chanting the Torah - Does it Make Sense?	Hirsh Cashdan	Red 3
With an outstretched arm... communicating with great (Makaton) signs and wonders: come learn some Makaton Signs!	Shoshana Bloom	Red 4
Rabbinic rebels and rebellious rabbis: understanding authority in the Talmud (1 of 3)	Yaffa Epstein	Red 5
Transparent jellyfish goes	Tirtsa Posklinsky Shehory	Red 6
The other (acher): Elisha ben Abuyah & heresy (1 of 2)	Leah Jordan	Red 9
Who are these guys, and what are they doing in the Tanach?	Stuart Lewis	Yellow 21
Limmud Book Club: All the Rivers (1 of 4)	Shoshi Ish-Horowicz  Aviva Dautch	Yellow 22

14:40
Families welcome session (2 of 2)	Limmud Families Team	Families Lounge

14:40
I'm a grown-up woman - shouldn't I know what job I want by now? Anytime of life is the right time to find the work you were born to do.	Penelope Toff	Blue 33
Remember Baghdad: screening and discussion	Edwin Shuker	Blue 34
INS Dakar - 3 decades of search for a lost Israeli submarine	Offer David	Green 25
Anti-occupation activism in the West Bank	Robert Abrams  Nina Morris-Evans  Anna Roiser	Green 26
Religion, schools and the law: an Antipodean view of an unholy alliance	Jacquie Seemann Charak	Green 27
Site sat nav	Social Programming Team	Hilton Lobby
Conscientious objection in medicine - right or wrong?	David Katz	Orange 10
Yellow candles - a Holocaust memorial phenomenon	Paul Harris  Nick Gendler	Orange 12
L’Dor vador: the reality of an intergenerational community where pre-schoolers and 3rd agers live, learn and play together	Judith Ish-Horowicz	Orange 13
How to enthuse the Jews in the pews? Making our synagogues flourish	Aaron Goldstein  Matt Plen  Laura Janner-Klausner  Keith Kahn-Harris  Richard Verber  Philip Rosenberg	Orange 15
Can I have Yom Kippur off? No, you're the Rabbi - when religion and employment clash	Jason Braier	Purple 31
Every and Enduring	Eric Fingerhut	Red 1
Holy war: the Jewish view (1 of 2)	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Red 3
Things my dog has taught me - about being a better human	Jonathan Wittenberg	Red 4
Introduction to Jewish peoplehood	Noa Metuki  Hadas Nir	Red 5
What’s the secret formula? The CEO/Chair relationship	Michelle Janes	Red 6
Tayelet	Maurice Stone	Red 7

16:00
Scrabble schmabble	Simon Rosenstone	Blue 32
Who wrote that?	Robert Brody	Green 26
An introduction to Feldenkrais (1 of 5)	Emma Alter	Green 27
“That’s no job for a nice Jewish…”: Jews in creative industries	Gabriel Wolff  Chari Pere  Sarah Klegman  Emma Brand  Ruth Jacobson	Orange 10
The Banker in the Bath: Jews in the Golden Age of British mystery writing	Shoshi Ish-Horowicz	Orange 11
Mao's China - propaganda and culture	Yael Farjun	Orange 12
Pears Short Film Fund and other shorts	Linda Berkowitz  UK Jewish Film Festival	Orange 13
‘Praying the gay away’ - experiences of conversion therapy for same sex attraction	Shulli Clinton-Davis  Joe Hyman  Mathew Shurka  Elliot Jebreel	Orange 15
Literary lives: Shakespeare and the Jews (1 of 3)	Aviva Dautch	Purple 31
RoboEthics and rabbis: being Jewish during the robot apocalypse	Michael Even David  Jonathan Pam  Deborah Blausten  Kevin Lieberman	Red 1
Pioneers in the New World: the Jews of the Caribbean and Panama	Dennis Sasso	Red 2
Nietzsche and Soloveitchik I: Morality	Michael Harris	Red 4
The Bull and the Ram	Mark Creeger	Red 6
Speed friending!	Social Programming Team	Red 7
Crafternoon tea: candle making!	Social Programming Team	Yellow 22
Songs of Israel: Mizrach and Ashkenaz	Yoav Oved	Yellow 24

16:15
Happy Hebrew songs	Raya Even David	Rhythm & Blues

16:15
Chain of tradition	Jessica Deutsch	Music Room

17:00
Arts and crafts	Limmud Families Team	Families Lounge
Cartoons	Limmud Families Team	Oasis 1

17:15
Aliyah of food	Nic Abery	Oasis 2

17:30
Daf yomi - Shevuot 26	Ian Gamse	Blue 32
Jerusalem dreams	Jacqueline Nicholls	Blue 33
The story behind the making of "Ben-Gurion, Epilogue"	Yariv Mozer	Blue 34
Spiritual resilience (1 of 3)	Jonathan Wittenberg	Green 25
Empowering Jewish leaders	Liat Cohen Raviv	Green 26
Al haNissim: on randomness, chaos and miracles	Bill Kunin	Green 27
Are you willing to be complicit?	Gary Webber	Orange 10
Was Benjamin Disraeli the first and the only Jewish prime minister?	Robert Baruch	Orange 11
Photography and the Holocaust: victims, perpetrators and the allies	Eli Gaventa	Orange 12
An Act of Defiance	Linda Berkowitz  David Bilchitz  Adam Schwarz  UK Jewish Film Festival	Orange 13
Will Israel ever join the Commonwealth? And why it should...	Howard Rosen  Clive Lawton	Red 1
Beyond Apikorsut: a Judaism for Secular Jews	Adam Chalom	Red 2
Creative approaches to fertility issues	Sargam Picker	Red 3
See the Divine through the eyes of Rav Kook (1 of 2)	Michael Feuer	Red 4
'Bored of Deputies'?	Richard Verber	Red 5
First steps in Jewish spirituality – the front door and backdoor to heaven	Steve Miller	Red 7
Meet a secret billionaire	Brian Teeman	Yellow 21

17:30
So, I'm not a kid anymore?	David-Yehuda Stern	Oasis 3

18:30
Mitzvah heroes: what kind of person do I want to be?	Danny Siegel	Oasis 3

18:45
When you wish upon a star	Shira Kline	Music Room
The princess and the moon	Andrea Kamens	Oasis 2

18:50
Navigate change with confidence (personal/family life) (1 of 2)	George Halfin  Matthew Halfin	Blue 33
Murder in the East End of London – the Lipski murder	John Angel	Blue 34
How to end the 100 year Middle East conflict, by a political insider	Ashley Perry	Green 25
The kids are all right	Daniel Katz	Green 26
An art display as a D’var Torah? Creating more meaningful Bar/Bat Mitzvah experiences	David Finkel  Kelly Finkel	Green 27
To be an Israeli orthodox lesbian	Zehorit Sorek	Orange 10
The Kotel crisis and the future of Israel-Diaspora relations	Avi Mayer	Orange 11
To the heart of America: Will Eisner and Jewish-American literature	Daniel Fingeroth	Orange 12
Arab-Jewish shared society – where is Israel going?	Roi Grufi  Michael M. Cohen  Yahya Mahamid  Lilach Weber  Idit (Edie) Pick	Orange 15
Great Jewish lyricists	Mike Levy	Purple 31
Jesus and Judaism: Christmas for Jews (1 of 4)	Amy-Jill Levine	Red 1
Shutfut: A "wedding" ceremony for all genders	Michael Even David	Red 2
What makes Hebrew holy? Maimonides versus Halevi	Daniel Anderson	Red 4
Stuck in the middle with Jew: understanding the old/new anti-semitism	Jill Jacobs	Red 5
Ahavat Hinam Live Concert	Max Jared Einsohn  Shannyn Gelbart	Red 6
Yes! And... - Improv 101	Michelle Citrin	Red 7
From the Shtetl to Ambridge - haimishing the Archers	Annette Margolis	Yellow 22

20:10
The Temple Mount: past, present and future	Lawrence Schiffman	Blue 33
Israel's story through a lens	Amir Levi	Blue 34
A brief introduction to Hebrew manuscripts	Yoel Finkelman	Green 26
The evolution of the Wandering Jew - visual and cultural interpretations	Richard Cohen	Green 27
Rock and ROLL – dancing on wheels	Vital Zinger	Orange 11
Who was David Ricardo and why should you care?	Simon Gordon	Orange 12
Muhi	Frima Bubis  Jessica Montell  Linda Berkowitz  UK Jewish Film Festival	Orange 13
Raymond Simonson in conversation with Joshua Harmon	Raymond Simonson  Joshua Harmon	Orange 15
Explore the Jewish world of Leonard Cohen through his life and songs	Peter Sevitt	Purple 31
Charedim and the Jewish future	Tali Farkash  Menachem Bombach  Benjamin Brown  Ben Crowne	Red 1
Between the Kingdom of G-d and the kingdom of Man	Tova Ganzel	Red 2
Overcoming moral dissonance through Midrashic interpretation: the disturbing case of the captive woman.	Mordechai Zeller	Red 3
Godness Grief	Benjamin Stanley	Red 4
Chanukah - a step back in time for LGBT+ inclusion?	Dalia Fleming  Benjamin Ellis	Red 5
"Girls I've Loved and Lost" - a poetic memoir in spoken verse	Marvin Shaw	Red 6
Positively parlour games!	Social Programming Team	Red 7
Shai Tsabari Trio	Nir Mantzur  Hod Moshonov  Shai Tsabari	Yellow 24

21:50
Braitah in the bar: a spirited session of Talmud	Laura Janner-Klausner  Yaffa Epstein	Blue 32
The IDF as a melting pot?	Omer Drori	Blue 33
My untold Jewish story: infertility and miscarriage (1 of 3)	Sarah Bronzite	Blue 34
In a Spiritual Bind? Zohar as Mystical Midrash (1 of 2)	Larry Tabick	Green 25
50 shades of great: exploring Jewish sexuality	Ariella Perry	Green 26
The West Bank rabbis who are making peace with Palestinians	Gideon Sylvester	Green 27
Jewish journalism’s eye in the sky	Cnaan Lipshiz	Orange 10
The nose knows!	Mark Oppenheimer	Orange 11
Papa Can You Hear Me - My Journey from Gemara to Gowns	Moshiel Newman Daphna	Orange 12
Ken, Ken, Len: antisemitism denial in Labour	Peter Mason  David Hirsh  Ella Rose	Orange 15
Is Bibi's time up?	Simon Spungin  Lahav Harkov  Arieh King  Simon Plosker	Red 1
Confessions of a Rabbi	Jonathan Romain	Red 3
What's so funny about Jewish humour?	Gary Rosenblatt	Red 4
Singalong with the Rubens	Ian Gold  Ivor Jacobs	Red 6
Israeli dance party (1 of 4)	Sheila Eizensharf	Red 7
Balfour, Sadat, Herzl and Allenby: a year of anniversaries	Michael Freeman	Yellow 21
"Thank G-d, for not making me a slave"	Sam Grant	Yellow 22

23:10
Song and speeches: how the psalms inspired rap, reggae, pop, the blues... and US Presidents	Daniel Heller	Green 25
Why do we love a TV show that is sexist, homophobic and lacking in diversity?	Lucy Prevezer	Green 26
Jewish Stock Exchange	Amos Schonfield  Daniel Fenster Simons	Orange 13
Another Limmud dating session? Sounds sketchy if you ask me...	Social Programming Team	Purple 29
Death	Daniel Shine	Purple 31
Late night kumsitz (sing-along)	Zöe Jacobs  Shira Kline  Michelle Citrin  Josh Nelson	Red 6
American Bar/Bat Mitzvah party games	Kevin Lieberman	Red 7
A complete history of Jewish music in seven Adon Olam tunes	Isaac Treuherz	Yellow 21
Midnight meaning metaphor and meandering	Samuel Barth	Yellow 22
Late night laughs at Limmud	Rachel Creeger	Yellow 23