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Limmud Festival 2017
Tuesday 26 December 2017

08:00
Morning news review! Simon Spungin from Haaretz	Simon Spungin  Social Programming Team	Blue 32
V'yarutz v'yomer: and he ran and he talked, or "run and chat" (2 of 4)	Abigail Morris	Hilton Lobby
Freeing up your back: Feldenkrais at Limmud (4 of 5)	Emma Alter	Red 7

09:10
Morning chavruta – Encountering the Divine: Partnership (2 of 3)	Limmud Chavruta Team	Yellow 24

09:20
The news media's contribution to the Middle East conflict	Richard Landes	Blue 33
Tefillin in Progressive synagogues	Anthony Lazarus	Blue 34
Bibliodrama: Book of Ruth	Raya Even David	Green 25
New frontiers in hadracha/experiential Jewish education	Sarah Mali	Green 26
Is every Torah scroll the same?	Michael Hilton	Green 27
Israeli economy: a short analysis	Leonid Okneanski	Orange 10
Coexistence between Jews and Muslims in Morocco	Laziza Dalil	Orange 11
The Labour Party 101: discipline, trigger ballots and your CLP (2 of 2)	Peter Mason	Orange 12
My Nazi Legacy	UK Jewish Film Festival  David Evans	Orange 13
Overeaters anonymous		Red 1
Maimonides' prize student: Joseph ben Judah	Zev Harvey	Red 2
The Rabbi who couldn't grow a beard	Jacqueline Tabick	Red 3
Miracle workers or mischief makers? A journey through Tractate Taanit Nachum of Gimzo and the challenge of evil (Taanit 21a) (1 of 3)	Margaret Jacobi	Red 4
The Chosen People? New perspectives on old philosophies	Eliza McCarroll	Red 5
Writing workshop - moral dilemmas	Lewis Warshauer	Red 6
Yoga and Kabbalah	Michael Picardie	Red 7
Crossword/Sudoku	Social Programming Team	Red 9
Science, religion and personal experience: the resolution	Michael Capek	Yellow 21

10:40
Shrink wrap or shrink proof? Tikkun olam for our NHS mental health services	Claire Hilton  Robin Powell	Blue 32
Hinech Yafa: text into song	Lawrence Cohen	Blue 34
Chaim Bermant, chronicler of Anglo-Jewry	Danny Bermant	Green 25
Mizrahi representation in Israel's culture, education and politics	Roi Grufi	Green 26
How to be a human - relationships and community (2 of 3)	Matt Plen	Orange 11
Women and tzitzit	Eve Sacks	Orange 12
Limmud book club: A Horse Walks Into A Bar (3 of 4)	Shoshi Ish-Horowicz  Aviva Dautch	Orange 14
Around the world in 7 tales	Abigail Symons  Georgina Bye  Adit Goschalk  Joey Leskin  Lucy Cohen  Hannah Gaventa	Orange 15
From piyyutim to yeshiva a capella: the evolution of Jewish music	Shai Tsabari  Roni Weinstein  Daphna Rosenberg  Josh Nelson	Red 1
Nietzsche and Soloveitchik III: Suffering	Michael Harris	Red 2
1917 - Balfour vs Bolsheviks: which event had the most lasting impact?	Steve Miller  Arieh Miller	Red 3
Torah from Heaven: progressive views	Dennis Sasso  Adam Chalom  Deborah Kahn-Harris  Daniel Lichman	Red 4
Finding meaning in a (possibly) meaningless world	Jeremy Tabick	Red 5
Emet veYatziv. A short Talmudic discourse.	David Bigman	Red 6
Cheshbon ha Nefesh: a face of Jewish meditation (1 of 2)	Mira Niculescu	Red 7
"A plastered well to a cracked oven..." (Experienced Morning Intensive) (2 of 4)	Benjamin Stanley  Joseph Israel	Red 9
Breaking the rules to keep the rules - Bet Midrash Beginners (2 of 4)	Roni Tabick	Red 9
Who is Rabbi Yishmael? Preacher and Priest (2 of 4)	Dena Weiss	Red 9
Anyone can be a teacher: DIY Dvar Torah	David Levin-Kruss  Elements @ Festival Limmud	Yellow 21
#MeToo in Hollywood: Will 2018 see the dawn of a new era?”	Julia Wagner	Yellow 23
The changing nature of Jewish museums	Richard Cohen	Yellow 24

12:10
Lunch and learn	Debra Brunner  Social Programming Team	Blue 32
Britain's eight Jewish "tribes"	Daniel Bernstein Vulkan	Blue 33
A land of milk and mufleta: at the crossroads of Israeli cuisine and culture	Joel Haber	Blue 34
Human-centred design and your Jewish community	Kevin Lieberman	Green 25
The emerging tech and startup scene in Jerusalem (1 of 2)	Rachel Rosenzweig	Green 26
Site sat nav	Social Programming Team	Hilton Lobby
Caliphaters and Jews: global Jihad as an apocalyptic millennial movement	Richard Landes	Orange 10
Jews: White (other)?	Clive Gabay	Orange 11
What you need to know for your children's online safety!	Nathan Servi	Orange 12
Three Jews, four problems: is it worth it to be part of a community?	David Levin-Kruss	Orange 13
Sephardi Voices: are Arab countries rediscovering their Jewish heritage?	Edwin Shuker  Alec Nacamuli	Orange 14
The High Holy Days - does Yom Kippur make any sense? (2 of 2)	Clive Lawton	Orange 15
Choosing the right Bible translation for you!	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Red 1
It ain't necessarily so	Zvi Solomons	Red 2
Should Torah scholars have authority?	Aryeh Klapper	Red 3
Smashing borders and binaries, or Tikkun Olam	Dex Grodner	Red 4
50 years of Occupation - where to now?	Frima Bubis  Atira Winchester  Jessica Montell	Red 5
The wondering Jew: how I survived the Holocaust, found G-d, love and kabbalah	Genine Gita Zohara Barel	Red 6
Salsa fiesta!	Yoav Oved  Joel Peck	Red 7
“Now we’re talking pedagogy!”: Levinasian ethics and Jewish education	Tamra Wright	Yellow 22
New horizons - Israeli art in the early years of the State of Israel	Helena Miller	Yellow 23
Who is a Jew? Do we agree with Hitler or Orthodoxy?	Jeremy Stowe-Lindner	Yellow 24

13:20
How informal is Informal Jewish Education?	Josh Martin	Blue 33
LGBT+ inclusion in schools workshop	Alma Reisel  Benjamin Ellis	Green 25
Letters to Sir Moses Montefiore from Jewish petitioners living in Israel in the 1830s and 1840s	Sally Style	Green 26
Immunity to change workshop	Sarah Mali	Green 27
How to stop a military coup using FaceTime: Turkey’s new reality	Joey Leskin	Orange 10
We can stop talking about periods when we've ended period poverty	Gabby Edlin	Orange 11
State of the nation: how segregated is Britain, and should Jews be worried?	Laura Janner-Klausner	Orange 12
'Living With The God[s]', the Jewish way	Eva Frojmovic	Orange 13
A Jewish bestiary: Kafka’s primatology (3 of 4)	Jay Geller	Orange 14
Noam Shalit in conversation with Michael Wegier	Noam Shalit  Michael Wegier	Orange 15
Better Know a Jewish Charity	Ben Crowne	Red 1
MBT-What-Am-I? Introversion & Extroversion in Jewish Leadership	Andrew Keene	Red 2
What I wish my Jewish day school had taught me about the Occupation.	Simone Zimmerman	Red 4
The Beit Midrashification of the world: can Torah study unite us?	Leon Morris  Michael Feuer  Yaffa Epstein	Red 5
My summer in 'Amish Country'	Daniella Shaw	Red 6
Chair yoga	Estelle Eugene	Red 7
Parshat Vayechi with the Hasidic masters (1 of 2)	Yael Roberts	Red 9
A positive sexual ethic in the Talmud - part I	Hadassah Fromson  Sam Fromson	Red 9
Volunteering at its best: what can we learn?	Georgina Bye  Genna Barnett  Jonathan Pam  Hannah Gaventa  Elements @ Festival Limmud	Yellow 21
Art Journaling	Ruth Borthwick	Yellow 22
How I learned to stop worrying and love Kohelet	Deborah Kahn-Harris	Yellow 23
What is really going on in the left of the Labour Party - should Jews be concerned?	Andrew Gilbert  Jon Lansman	Yellow 24

14:40
Board Games	Social Programming Team	Blue 32
Unorthodox Live!	Mark Oppenheimer  Anthony Mordechai Tsvi Russell  Gabby Edlin	Blue 33
Gaza strip - living the conflict	Omer Drori	Blue 34
Ethical wills - history and modern trends (1 of 2)	Holly Blue Hawkins	Green 25
Fighting hate with rights	Adam Wagner	Green 26
Jerusalem: from destruction to redemption	Tova Ganzel	Green 27
Knit and natter - knitting circle	Social Programming Team	Hilton Lobby
A story of an IDF paratrooper in Gaza – reflection and vision for the future in the UK	Tamir Oren	Orange 10
Martin Luther... good or bad for the Jews?	Sybil Sheridan	Orange 11
Jack Ruby’s Rabbi: A Graphic Novel in Progress	Daniel Fingeroth	Orange 12
'The Invisible Men' film screening followed by Q&A with director Yariv Mozer	Yariv Mozer	Orange 13
The Last Jedi – Luke leads from the Garden of Eden	Raphael Zarum	Orange 15
The greatest comeback: the story of Bela Guttmann	David Bolchover	Red 1
Secular versus Charedi - can they connect?	Menachem Bombach	Red 2
The secret journey of the high priest: Narnia and the Hekhalot	Mordechai Zeller	Red 3
Jesus and Judaism: getting the history right (-3 of 4)	Aj Levine	Red 4
Expulsion and culpability: a re-reading of Bemidbar 5:1-4	Ian Gamse	Red 5
Prayer as protest, melody as mutiny, anthem as appeal	Zöe Jacobs  Josh Nelson	Red 6
Ohavim lirkod	Maurice Stone	Red 7
How to write a poetic memoir	Marvin Shaw	Yellow 22
Jewish and Labour - under assault? A very narrow bridge (Gesher Tsar Meod)	Andrew Gilbert  Laura Marks  Ella Rose  Rebecca Filer  Adrian Cohen  Jeremy Newmark	Yellow 23

16:00
Bridge and Kaluki	Social Programming Team	Blue 32
Stand Up! Education against discrimination - teaching about antisemitism and anti-Muslim hate to students in mainstream schools	Roxana Jebreel  Nathan Servi	Blue 33
The Norwegian Shoah: the war's long shadows	Berit Reisel	Blue 34
Foraging, wild food and Jews	Michael Green	Green 26
Confessions of a siddur creator	Michael Haruni	Green 27
Would the London Beth Din have accepted biblical Ruth’s conversion?	Daniel Anderson	Orange 10
We have rights too! Using the law to beat BDS around the world	Jonathan Turner	Orange 11
Spiritual Resilience (3 of 3)	Jonathan Wittenberg	Orange 12
An audience with Jo Johnson MP	Jo Johnson	Orange 15
What is the responsibility of British Jews who support a 2-state solution to help secure the other state?	Robin Moss  Andrew Gilbert  Jessica Montell  Michael Wegier  Jon Lansman  Stephen Grabiner	Red 1
Israel's place in the modern media maelstrom	Richard Miron	Red 2
Literary Lives: Ted Hughes and the Jews (3 of 3)	Aviva Dautch	Red 3
Religion and State: Halacha and secular power	Jill Jacobs	Red 4
Exploring Hummus	Denise Phillips	Red 5
An introduction to modern jive (1 of 2)	Dan Mackenzie  Jonathan Hunter	Red 7

16:15
Come and learn Makaton!	Shoshana Bloom	Oasis 3

16:15
Family values story-sharing	Andrea Kamens	Oasis 2

16:30
Ahavat Hinam for kids!	Max Jared Einsohn  Shannyn Gelbart	Rhythm & Blues

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

17:15
The illustrated ethics of the Limmud Festival zine!	Jessica Deutsch	Oasis 2

17:30
Daf yomi - Shevuot 28	Aryeh Klapper	Blue 32
The SIX C's model: Psychological First Aid (PFA) for layman	Moshe Farchi	Blue 33
Sexuality and gender in the Ultra-Orthodox communities	Hadar Galron	Blue 34
Breaking the silence: military occupation through the eyes of the soldiers	Frima Bubis	Green 25
The Jewish community of Golders Green: some well-known people	Pam Fox	Green 26
The necessity of looking back	Sandy Sasso	Green 27
Poverty porn: where do we draw the line?	Hannah Myerson	Orange 10
'Miscarried, The Comic': when procreating isn't as simple as 'Pru U'rvu' - a woman's perspective (1 of 2)	Chari Pere	Orange 11
The rise of the Jewish saint in sixteenth century	Roni Weinstein	Orange 12
Go vegan you cow-sucking perverts!	Daniel Shine	Orange 13
The Balfour Declaration & Resolution 242: a dual narrative approach	Michael M. Cohen	Orange 14
Purim - reading the megillah with pink-tinted spectacles	Neil Levitan  Benjamin Ellis  Dave Shaw	Orange 15
“In the Eyes of God and Man": Orthodoxy, Torah min HaShamayim, and academic Bible studies	Tova Ganzel  David Bigman  Michael Harris	Red 1
The last taboo: considering Brit Milah	Jenny Goodman	Red 2
Holy war: the Muslim view (2 of 2)	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Red 3
Bar Mitzvah - an initiation?	David Bash	Red 4
The four corners of disability & inclusion in Jewish law	Melinda Jones	Red 5
Saffron and sapphire: Sephardic songs	Andrew Kay  Karen Kay	Red 6
Feldenkrais - the gentle way to improve your movement & posture	Orna Dale Eliashiv	Red 7
What does the future hold for religious LGBT Jews?	Yiscah Smith  Moshiel Newman Daphna  Joe Hyman	Yellow 23
Oral Torah or Written Torah: how God communicates with us, how we communicate with each other	Dena Weiss	Yellow 24

17:30
Jewish history through hairstyling	Nic Abery	Music Room

18:30
Hamishpacha shelanu: family dancing	Maurice Stone  Sheila Eizensharf	Rhythm & Blues

18:45
PJ party	Joanie Leeds	Music Room
The Sage of Pendigo Lake	Neil Janes	Oasis 3

18:50
Limmud Volunteering Happy Hour	Eli Ovits	Blue 32
Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Jewish Renewal & the Jewish Spiritual Path (2 of 2)	Danny Newman	Blue 33
Social leadership and activism	Vital Zinger	Blue 34
Finding a job outside the Jewish world	Oren Cohen	Green 25
The Tent of Secrets	Abigail Symons	Hilton Lobby
Seeing the tears of the halachically oppressed	Aryeh Klapper	Orange 10
Are Jews white?	Andrea Jacobs  Yael Shafritz	Orange 11
The Binding of Isaac - the real story	Adam Overlander-Kaye	Orange 12
Under the uniforms	Mor Sofer	Orange 13
American Jewish political behaviour: reflections on two competing ideologies: American Jewish liberalism vs. conservative Jewish political thought	Steven Windmueller	Orange 14
What does a Jew look like?	Daniel Fingeroth  Deborah Kahn-Harris  Keith Kahn-Harris  Gabriel Wolff  Luz Toff  Raymond Simonson  Eli Gaventa  Susan Reuben	Orange 15
The partitioning of India - one Jewish family’s story	Richard Jacobi  Harry Jacobi  Margaret Jacobi	Red 1
Maimonides' halachic writings against the background of Muslim law and jurisprudence of the period	Gideon Libson	Red 2
Jewticulate	Lucy Prevezer	Red 3
Would Abraham have used an app to host a tea party?	Sara Joy Leviten  Jo Nissim	Red 4
Israel - three big questions: is Israeli society coming together or tearing apart? (3 of 3)	Robin Moss	Red 5
Women - airing our dirty laundry (safely)	Laura Marks  Sally Patterson	Red 7
Practical first aid advice	Francis Treuherz	Yellow 21
Being Second or Third Generation, what does that mean to you?	Leah Burman  Barbara Dresner	Yellow 22

20:10
Gender and sexuality: introduction (for families)	Alma Reisel  Dalia Fleming	Oasis 1
Subversive services - why does shul last so long?	Samuel Barth	Blue 33
What's your brand essence? A workshop for nonprofit organisations	Karen Radkowsky	Blue 34
The travelling synagogue	Tamarah Benima	Green 25
Rabbi Akiva and his legends (1 of 2)	Yarden Raber	Green 26
From Bourekas to Oscars	Sigalit Freeman	Green 27
Kosher ink: Jews and tattoos	David-Yehuda Stern	Orange 10
Towards coexistence: can there be peace without it?	Eve Harow	Orange 11
Being LGBT in Trump’s America	Mathew Shurka	Orange 12
What’s really behind Spain and Portugal’s laws of return for Jews?	Cnaan Lipshiz	Orange 13
Rabbinic rebels and rebellious rabbis: understanding authority in the Talmud (2 of 3)	Yaffa Epstein	Orange 14
Asexuality, from the Talmud to the present day	Isabel Bard	Orange 15
The Comic Book and Me: Bob Dylan and Comics (Jewish Version)	Daniel Fingeroth	Red 1
Your space or mine?	Maya Skaarbrevik	Red 2
Ask an Israeli spokesman anything	Avi Mayer	Red 3
Evening chavruta – Miracles (2 of 2)	Limmud Chavruta Team	Red 4
Zakhar U'Nekevah Barah Otam: Towards a definition of gender in Jewish Law	Michael Even David	Red 5
Daniel Cainer - More Gefilte Fish & Chips	Daniel Cainer	Red 6
Israeli dance party (3 of 4)	Sheila Eizensharf	Red 7
IBM, American big business and the Holocaust (1 of 2)	Mark Creeger	Yellow 21
“Why don’t you have children...?” - a forum for women who are not mothers	Sarah Bronzite	Yellow 22
Nava Tehila in concert	Ruth Gan Kagan  Ilan Glazer  Nava Tehila  Daphna Rosenberg  Yoel Sykes	Yellow 24

21:50
What is the point of Jewish education?	Elie Jesner	Oasis 1
Adon Olam karaoke	Social Programming Team	Blue 33
My untold Jewish story: Jewish status (3 of 3)	Debbie Danon	Blue 34
Fighting anti-Israel media bias: time for some honest reporting (1 of 2)	Simon Plosker	Green 25
Sephardi voices: stories from our archive	Elliot Jebreel	Green 26
What can our synagogues do about air pollution?	Jessica Gold	Green 27
V is for vagina	Hannah Brady  Emily Hilton	Orange 10
Satirical history of Israel	Yuval Keren	Orange 11
The Akedah revisited – with Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and…	Daniel Goldfarb	Orange 12
Love is Thicker than Water	Linda Berkowitz  UK Jewish Film Festival	Orange 13
Confucius, Ezra and Socrates – how to rebuild…	Raphael Zarum	Orange 15
Articudate!	Social Programming Team	Purple 29
Judaism's minority within a minority	Graham Carpenter  Andrew Keene  Carole Sterling	Red 1
How not to date	Joey Leskin	Red 2
Midrash of Thrones: Game of Thrones and Jewish ethics!	Ilan Emanuel	Red 3
Trans and nonbinary organising space	Zohar Mendzelevski-Steinberg	Red 4
Funny/not funny	Rachel Creeger	Red 5
Late night singalong with Dan	Dan Patterson	Red 7
Folk tale and fractal: how Kafkaesque are the Seven Beggars?	Anthony Lazarus	Yellow 22
Michelle Citrin in concert	Michelle Citrin	Yellow 24

23:10
Late night chavruta – Encountering the Divine: Partnership (2 of 3)	Limmud Chavruta Team	Green 27
How well do you know Jewish jokes?	David Benkof	Red 5
Acoustic Cafe	Social Programming Team  Joey Leskin  Zoe Paskett  Michael Mendoza	Red 6
Challah Back Girls	Shana Boltin  Libby Burkeman	Red 7
Let's talk about sex	Amy Decker	Yellow 22