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Limmud Festival 2017
Monday 25 December 2017

08:00
Morning news review! YNet's Tali Farkash	Tali Farkash  Social Programming Team	Blue 32
V'yarutz v'yomer: and he ran and he talked, or "run and chat" (1 of 4)	Abigail Morris	Hilton Lobby
Are You Sitting Comfortably? Feldenkrais @ Limmud (3 of 5)	Emma Alter	Red 7

09:10
Morning chavruta – Encountering the Divine: Creation (1 of 3)	Limmud Chavruta Team	Yellow 24

09:20
Tell me a story: nurturing the spiritual imagination of children through narrative	Michael Shire  Sandy Sasso	Blue 33
Who was the Pharaoh of the Exodus?	Colin Jaque	Blue 34
Law and legality – the modernising turning point of the Shulchan Aruch	Roni Weinstein	Green 25
Shmirat HaGuf - a spiritual and practical take on physical fitness	Yuval Keren	Green 26
Martin Luther and the Jews	Henry Cohn	Green 27
"Get to know you" walk	Social Programming Team	Hilton Lobby
Will there always be Jews in Ethiopia?	Sybil Sheridan	Orange 10
The Labour Party 101: the NEC, Trade Unions & Party Conference (1 of 2)	Peter Mason	Orange 11
Israel is not pizza: why is the diversity approach not enough?	Idit (Edie) Pick	Orange 12
Israel70: building artistic connections	Nic Abery	Orange 13
Living in Israel: perception versus reality – through the eyes of an Anglo-Israeli couple	Ariella Perry  Ashley Perry	Orange 14
What's law got to do with it? The Jewish obsession with law, from creation to child protection, and why it makes contemporary Jews who we are	Jacquie Seemann Charak	Purple 31
Judaism and American politics: Trump edition!	Ilan Emanuel	Red 1
50 years since 1967: the effects on Israeli society and Jews globally	Jessica Montell	Red 2
“Like a rising moon on a starry night”: Martin Buber’s philosophy of religion	Tamra Wright	Red 3
Dybbuks and Maggids: subversive female voices in 16th Century Safed	Mordechai Zeller	Red 4
Narrative and law – the strange case of "shaming"	Ian Gamse	Red 5
How does oppression - institutional and religious - determine the status of women in Israel?	Lara Glantz	Red 6
Jewish Meditation	Michael Picardie	Red 7
Marc Chagall - painter, poet	Ruth Jacobson	Yellow 21
Identity and empowerment - Judaism, Mental Health and the Creative Arts	Marvin Shaw	Yellow 23

10:30
Bogdan's Journey	Linda Berkowitz  UK Jewish Film Festival	Orange 13

10:40
Funny for Five at Festival	Rachel Creeger	Blue 32
Under the heel of Hirohito	Jackie Passman	Blue 33
Where is Kovno? The journey back	Yda Walt	Blue 34
Creating a visual pantheon of Jewish figures in modern times	Richard Cohen	Green 25
The Dead Sea Scrolls, Judaism and Christianity	Lawrence Schiffman	Green 26
Build me a Sanctuary	Michael Even David	Green 27
Degenerate: the most infamous art exhibition ever held	Naomi Verber	Orange 10
How to be a human - social action (1 of 3)	Matt Plen	Orange 11
My grandfather: refugee, anti-apartheid leader, Mandela’s top diplomat.	Adam Schwarz	Orange 12
Noam Shalit in conversation with Leah Golan	Leah Golan  Noam Shalit	Orange 15
KeshetUK diversity and LGBT inclusion training	Alma Reisel  Dalia Fleming	Purple 31
Israel and antisemitism	David Hirsh  Simon Plosker  Avi Mayer  Lahav Harkov	Red 1
Judaism in the science classroom	Josh Martin	Red 2
Beyond the binary: gender diversity in the Jewish community	Dex Grodner  Zohar Mendzelevski-Steinberg	Red 3
Jesus and Judaism: Jesus the Jewish storyteller (2 of 4)	Amy-Jill Levine	Red 4
Noah and righteousness: have our values changed in 3000 years?	Joshua G Townsend	Red 6
Jewish spiritual direction practicum	Sheila Weinberg	Red 7
Give me Yavneh and her Sages (Experienced Morning Intensive) (1 of 4)	Joseph Israel  Benjamin Stanley	Red 9
Four Jewish new years - Beit Midrash beginners (1 of 4)	Roni Tabick	Red 9
Who is Rabbi Akiva? Legend and law (1 of 4)	Dena Weiss	Red 9
Limmud Book Club: Chess (2 of 4)	Shoshi Ish-Horowicz  Aviva Dautch	Yellow 22
Lebanon or Bust - tales from north of the border	Richard Miron	Yellow 23
Nimrod – the first dictator	Raphael Zarum	Yellow 24

12:10
Lunch and learn	Social Programming Team	Blue 32
Archiving Jewish China - personal project	Yael Farjun	Blue 33
How one font changed the (Jewish) world	Aryeh Grossman	Blue 34
Is life impossible?	Joel Peck	Green 25
When religion and law collide	Naomi Webber  Adam Wagner	Green 26
Man plans and G-d laughs: when plan D is the new plan A	Chari Pere	Green 27
Fighting for your rights	Vital Zinger	Orange 10
The development of the concept of secular Judaism in the last century	Eyal Yashfe	Orange 11
The last Jew in the tower	Ian Bloom	Orange 12
Great artists paint the Bible	Gideon Sylvester	Orange 13
How a guide dog gave me back my independence	Dennis Allon  Lili Goldwein	Orange 14
The Charedi media as a reflection of religious challenges in a modern world	Tali Farkash	Orange 15
Human rights under fire: maintaining our commitments under hostile governments	Simone Zimmerman  Frima Bubis  Jill Jacobs	Red 1
Human nature – lofty or lowly? The debate in the Lithuanian Musar movement	Benjamin Brown	Red 3
Others and otherness in rabbinic literature: was idolatry a source of ritual defilement? (2 of 2)	Yarden Raber	Red 4
In vitro fertilisation, intrauterine insemination, egg donation and surrogacy – a halachic view	Joanne Greenaway	Red 5
Living on a knife edge; the significant impact of recent changes in disability benefits	Jessica Saffer	Red 6
Sacred chant and higher consciousness	Michelle Citrin	Red 7
Desert Island Discs: Anthony Mordechai Tsvi Russell	Anthony Mordechai Tsvi Russell  Laura Janner-Klausner	Yellow 23
Israel and the UK media - does Israel get a fair hearing?	Michael Freeman	Yellow 24

13:20
Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Jewish Renewal & the Jewish spiritual path (1 of 2)	Danny Newman	Blue 33
From Hate to Shalom	Nigel Goodrich  Judy Weleminsky	Blue 34
Rescuing the children: Basques and Jews.	Mike Levy	Green 25
Emotional self-defence tools for first responders	Moshe Farchi	Green 26
A new educational model – Torah academy for Hasidim	Menachem Bombach	Green 27
Life's a Drag, Queen!	Moshiel Newman Daphna	Orange 10
Why did the Pope die? What happened in Rome in 1280?	Chaim Hames	Orange 12
Wall and Rhoda	Laura Marks  Abigail Morris  Linda Berkowitz  UK Jewish Film Festival	Orange 13
What will be your legacy?	Clive Lawton  Dan Brown  Melissa Rosen  Eli Ovits  Harvey Bratt	Orange 15
Authentic Judaism?	Eve Sacks	Purple 31
Celebrating Jewish culture in Morocco	Janet Levin	Red 1
Hallowed & holy	Sam Taylor	Red 2
Words worth hearing: ‘No Time for Tears: Childhood in a Rabbi’s Family’ by Sidney Bloch	Jonathan Wittenberg	Red 3
Israel - three big questions: is the Palestinian refugee problem soluble? (2 of 3)	Robin Moss	Red 4
The revolution in Jewish status: equilineality	Jonathan Romain	Red 5
Death Cafe	Holly Blue Hawkins	Red 6
Vocal projection workshop	Yoav Oved	Red 7
The other (acher): Elisha ben Abuyah & heresy (2 of 2)	Leah Jordan	Red 9
See the Divine through the eyes of Rav Kook (2 of 2)	Michael Feuer	Red 9
Does the apple fall far from the tree? Parents vs. Children	Larry Tabick  Roni Tabick  Jacqueline Tabick  Jeremy Tabick	Yellow 23
Jerusalem, united capital?	Arieh King	Yellow 24

14:40
Knit and natter - knitting circle	Social Programming Team	Blue 32
Jewish Magic, or how to create a Golem in three easy steps	Yoel Finkelman	Blue 33
Whitewashed - antisemitism in the Labour Party	Ged Ornstein  David Hirsh  Judith Ornstein	Blue 34
Who is Torah? She is Wisdom/Chochmah (1 of 2)	Daniel Lichman	Green 25
Money, money, money	Pam Mackenzie	Green 26
Lost in Translation	Simon Spungin	Green 27
Is Europe safe for Jews?	Benjamin Weinthal	Orange 10
Israel, Israel, Israel... time for another view through poetry	Adam Overlander-Kaye	Orange 11
Playwriting 101	Joshua Harmon	Orange 12
In Russia, a Jewish paradise the colour of hell-flames	Cnaan Lipshiz	Orange 15
Is life coaching an essentially Jewish journey?	Daniella Shaw	Purple 31
There is no reverse “birthright "	Tali Farkash	Red 1
Why did Cain kill Abel? Sibling rivalry and how to avoid it	Hadassah Fromson  Sam Fromson	Red 2
Habakkuk - does his fear from God precede his wisdom?	Tova Ganzel	Red 3
Unity of variety of Jewish halachah – the Sephardi versus the Ashkenazi viewpoint	Roni Weinstein	Red 4
The social life of texts: towards an anthropology of Midrash (1 of 2)	Lea Taragin-Zeller	Red 5
Better done than perfect: how to overcome procrastination	Juliet Landau-Pope	Red 6
Rikud Hadash	Sheila Eizensharf	Red 7
Henna Judaica	Sandra Jerusalmi	Yellow 22
Jewish pupils speak out	Keith Kahn-Harris	Yellow 23
The High Holy Days - No-one knows what Rosh Hashanah is all about (1 of 2)	Clive Lawton	Yellow 24

16:00
Crafternoon tea: Jewish origami! How to make an origami Magen David	Social Programming Team	Blue 32
A Jewish bestiary: Heine’s Dog Days and Siodmak’s Wolf Man Nights (2 of 4)	Jay Geller	Blue 33
The Holocaust & Social Action	Samuel Neumann	Blue 34
Facing South	Emma Sevitt	Green 25
Markus Jastrow: more than just a dictionary author	Maciej Kirschenbaum	Green 26
Jews in Victorian England in 10 objects	Vanessa Freedman	Green 27
Kidnapped! The mysterious case of the captive baby	Roderick Young	Orange 10
Nietzsche and Soloveitchik II: life-affirmation, asceticism and the passions (2 of 3)	Michael Harris	Orange 11
How serious is the terrorist threat to Jews?	Michael Whine	Orange 12
The Frisco Kid	Irene Wise  Linda Berkowitz  UK Jewish Film Festival	Orange 13
Superheroes/Hebrews: The role of Jews in film and comics	Jonathan Pam  Dalia Fleming  Daniel Fingeroth  Mark Oppenheimer	Orange 15
Literary lives: T.S. Eliot and the Jews (2 of 3)	Aviva Dautch	Purple 31
Behind the scenes at the Knesset	Lahav Harkov	Red 1
Lessons in leadership	Sam Taylor	Red 2
How to understand (and teach) Talmud	Aryeh Klapper	Red 3
The relationship between Jewish and Islamic law	Gideon Libson	Red 4
Challah braiding workshop with Challah Hub	Sarah Klegman	Red 5
Written in Breath: Yiddish song as commentary	Anthony Mordechai Tsvi Russell	Red 6
Introduction to belly dancing	Lucy Cohen	Red 7

16:15
Whose fault is it anyway? Mishnah for kids	Daniel Oppenheimer	Oasis 2

16:15
Joanie Leeds in Concert	Joanie Leeds	Music Room

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

17:15
Expressing ourselves with clay	David Bash	Rhythm & Blues

17:30
A Jewish view of extraterrestrial life	Mark Creeger	Oasis 3

17:30
Daf yomi - Shevuot 27	Dena Weiss	Blue 32
Wrestling with grammar, gender and identity in Hebrew prayer	Yael Shafritz  Andrea Jacobs	Blue 33
Of money and morals	Paul Silver-Myer  Michael Shire	Blue 34
Spiritual Resilience (2 of 3)	Jonathan Wittenberg	Green 25
What the Quakers did for the Jews of Nazi Europe	Peter Kurer	Green 26
Share your story - for children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors	Rachel Green	Green 27
Are Mizrachi and Sephardi Jews ignored in our “ashkenormative” Jewish world?	Roxana Jebreel  Elliot Jebreel	Orange 10
Damascus - the Jewish legacy (2017)	Adam Blitz	Orange 11
Dreaming with Jacob through art and poetry	Sandy Sasso	Orange 12
Creating Culture: Jewish Arts for Wider Audiences	Adam Overlander-Kaye  Jacqueline Nicholls  Abigail Morris  Joshua Harmon  Aviva Dautch	Orange 15
Backgammon/Shesh Besh	Social Programming Team	Purple 31
Researching antisemitism: who, what, why and how many?	Marie van der Zyl  Helena Miller  Michael Whine  David Hirsh  Keith Kahn-Harris	Red 1
A Jewish approach to intimacy – what lessons does the Torah provide for healthy relationships?	Joanne Greenaway	Red 2
The parable of the castle: Maimonides vs. Crescas	Zev Harvey	Red 4
Remembering the Romani genocide: how and when	Andrea Zanardo	Red 5
Radical ritual: elevating life's smaller moments	Zöe Jacobs	Red 7

18:30
Comic Mishnah making	Jessica Deutsch	Music Room

18:45
Bedtime Stories with PJ Library	Lauren Hamburger	Oasis 2
Laila tov stories	Atira Winchester	Oasis 3

18:50
PaJeS teacher cluster at Limmud Festival	Nic Abery	Blue 32
How to be a mensch - all you need to know about being a charity trustee	Jon Benjamin	Blue 34
Archaeology and the Bible: friends or foes	Lawrence Schiffman	Green 25
Traffic magnets or myths? Digital marketing for communal organisations (Part 2)	Philippa Gamse	Green 26
G-d and goodness: an examination of Mordechai Kaplan’s conception of G-d	David Bilchitz	Green 27
Longing to hear again: second naivete and post-modern Judaism	Leon Morris	Orange 10
Digital Apamea - reconfiguring the ancient synagogue mosaics from 4th century Syria	Adam Blitz	Orange 11
Is Judaism handicapped when it comes to the differently abled?	David Levin-Kruss	Orange 12
Is the left right or is the right right? A discussion of political positions in the modern world, in Israel and in the Middle East	Noru Tsalic	Orange 13
The kidnapped Yemenite children affair	Roi Grufi	Orange 14
Is campus a safe space for Jews?	Daniel Katz  Marie van der Zyl  Sally Patterson  David Hirsh	Orange 15
Designs on Britain	Abigail Morris	Red 1
I’m not a number, I’m a free man! But is individuality compatible with Judaism?	Daniel Anderson	Red 2
Single woman and birth	David Bigman	Red 3
50 Years of liberation or occupation?	Eve Harow	Red 4
The Bill of Rights: why do Americans tolerate hate speech and guns?	David Benkof	Red 5
Shine - the concert	Yoni Shine  Adina Shine  Daniel Shine	Red 6
The Art of Chant Leading: workshop for singers, musicians, cantors, rabbis, and lay leaders	Nava Tehila  Ilan Glazer  Daphna Rosenberg  Yoel Sykes  Ruth Gan Kagan	Red 7

20:10
Funny for Five at Festival: the performance!	Rachel Creeger	Blue 32
Rogues, thugs and ‘The King’: the Jewish heroes of Soviet literature	Shoshi Ish-Horowicz	Blue 34
Yerushalayim shel zahav	Yuval Keren	Green 25
Orthodox Judaism - a concept and its history	Ezra Margulies	Green 26
Building successful programmes	Liat Cohen Raviv	Green 27
God save us from your opinion or a Beit Midrash of the internet age?	Isabel Bard	Orange 10
#MeToo: sexual assault in the Tanach	Sarah Bronzite	Orange 11
Elisheva; the forgotten midwife	Raphael Zarum	Orange 12
"Ben-Gurion, Epilogue" followed by Q&A with Director, Yariv Mozer	Michael Wegier  Yariv Mozer	Orange 13
The Donald and the Jews	Ellen Flax  Richard Landes  Gary Rosenblatt  Steven Windmueller  Mark Oppenheimer	Orange 15
The story of the five year-long campaign to free Gilad Shalit	Noam Shalit	Red 1
The Fish Position: feminist Hebrew poems	Atira Winchester	Red 2
Mah nomar lefanecha - in the face of terror and tragedy can we still speak to G-d?	Neil Janes	Red 3
Evening chavruta – Peoplehood (1 of 2)	Limmud Chavruta Team	Red 4
Judaism is important, but is G-d optional?	Harold Zwier	Red 5
Passion Killer	Hadar Galron	Red 6
Israeli dance party (2 of 4)	Sheila Eizensharf	Red 7
On the Kindertransports. Four boys from hell to Hull.	Ian Vellins	Yellow 21
Being a Lone Soldier in the IDF	Rachel Rosenzweig	Yellow 22
Josh Nelson in Concert	Josh Nelson	Yellow 24

21:50
My untold Jewish story: circumcision (2 of 3)	Alma Reisel	Blue 34
That daft old man: Zohar as fantasy novel (2 of 2)	Larry Tabick	Green 25
Conspiracy theories	Jonathan Jacobson	Green 26
Hakhamemes - Sephardic Hashkafah through quotable sages	Adam Zagoria-Moffet	Green 27
Young Jews chatting s***	Rebecca Heller  Daniel Fenster Simons  Josh Martin  Daniel Heller	Orange 10
Love and acceptance through conversion therapy	Mathew Shurka	Orange 11
Jews Have Celebrated Christmas!	Michael Hilton	Orange 12
Opportunities in artificial intelligence (1 of 2)	Zac Kenton	Orange 13
Documentary photography: visual stories of communities in crisis	Eli Gaventa	Orange 14
Is the Kotel an Orthodox synagogue?	Benjamin Brown  Avi Mayer  Jill Jacobs  Yoel Finkelman  Arieh King	Orange 15
The secret Jewish history of vodka – with tastings!	Richard Verber	Purple 29
Wait, did my boss just call me a Princess? A candid discussion on gender bias and our roles in perpetuating and preventing it.	Laura Janner-Klausner  Sally Patterson  Sarah Mali	Red 1
Two Jews, five opinions	Noa Metuki  Hadas Nir	Red 2
Mea Shearim to Harvard	Menachem Bombach	Red 3
A Complicated Love Triangle: rabbis, their wives, and Torah	Sarah Charak	Red 4
Can you hire a hitman? Talmud with the backstory left in	Ben Crowne	Red 5
From shatnez to Brexit - what can mixed fibres can tell us about being "citizens of nowhere"?	Benjamin Ellis	Red 6
Late night singalong with Dan and Simon	Simon Style  Dan Patterson	Red 7
Speed debating!	Social Programming Team	Yellow 21
Jewnetic engineering - a look at the Jewish views on genetic modification	Joel Rosenberg	Yellow 22
Eric and Happie in concert	Happie Hoffman  Eric Hunker	Yellow 24

23:10
Stamford Hell - escaping the cult	Charlie Lewin	Green 25
Danish Jewish community	Lucas Espinosa Menendez	Green 26
Late night chavruta – Encountering the Divine: Creation (1 of 3)	Limmud Chavruta Team	Green 27
Curly Girl collective	Shoshana Bloom  Hannah Brady	Orange 10
It says what?! In the Talmud?	Jacqueline Nicholls  Yaffa Epstein	Red 1
DIY or YID humour	Graham Newman	Red 4
Strange sounds	James Charles  Nathan Finkel	Red 6
Hypothetical dating!	Social Programming Team	Red 7
Fire, water, darker: Leonard Cohen, Yair Rosenblum; subversive prayer	Samuel Barth	Yellow 21
BEMET live	Hod Moshonov	Yellow 24

00:00
Midnight pub quiz	Social Programming Team	Purple 29