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Limmud Festival 2017
Wednesday 27 December 2017

08:00
Morning news review! Gary Rosenblatt of the Jewish Week	Gary Rosenblatt  Social Programming Team	Blue 32
V'yarutz v'yomer: and he ran and he talked, or "run and chat" (3 of 4)	Abigail Morris	Hilton Lobby
Take the world off your shoulders: Feldenkrais @ Limmud (5 of 5)	Emma Alter	Red 7

09:00
Pride and Persecution – Jan Steen’s Old Testament scenes	Marion Kinshuck	Hilton Lobby

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

09:20
Kol yisrael arevim zeh bazeh? How do we co-produce LGBT+ inclusive Jewish communities and organisations?	Neil Levitan	Blue 33
Isaac and Rebecca attend family therapy	Alma Reisel	Blue 34
The distinctiveness of Reconstructionist Judaism	Dennis Sasso	Green 25
Tu B’Av; the holiday of love is reborn	Eve Harow	Green 26
Go green: ecological innovations in Israel	Oded Gvaram	Green 27
Where have all the Prophets gone?	Michael Feuer	Orange 10
Jewish heretics from Abraham to Amichai	Adam Chalom	Orange 11
Ketogenic and kosher - treating a Jewish person with epilepsy through diet	Sharon Ross	Orange 12
Landgericht	Linda Berkowitz  Ruth Barnett  Tania Barnett  UK Jewish Film Festival	Orange 13
Intermarriage - the state of the debate	Aryeh Klapper  Andrea Jacobs  Mark Levin  Adam Zagoria-Moffet	Orange 15
Providing a Kad Shemen for Jewish life - dance as food for the soul	Maurice Stone	Purple 31
Famous Jewish scientists (and some notorious ones…)	Karen Ettinger	Red 1
There's an atheist in the house: spanning religious differences in families	Suzanne Griffel  Saul Weiner	Red 2
Miracle workers or mischief makers? A journey through Tractate Taanit 2. Hanina ben Dosa’s Wife (Taanit 24b-25a). (2 of 3)	Margaret Jacobi	Red 3
Teshuva: encountering the Divine Presence within - for real!	Yiscah Smith	Red 4
Tomor or not tomor, that is the question!	Jacqueline Lewis	Red 5
Looking at the challenges that face British Jewry today and into the future	Sara Joy Leviten  Jo Nissim	Red 6
Hashkata: A face of Jewish meditation (2 of 2)	Mira Niculescu	Red 7
Contemporary Jewish dialogue in Oxford: things aren't quite what they seem	Wendy Fidler	Yellow 21
If you quill it, it is no dream	Hannah Myerson	Yellow 22
Charedi Startups	Menachem Bombach	Yellow 23

10:40
Meaningful melodies - what makes them memorable and how do I write them?	Michelle Citrin	Blue 33
Ford - American big business and the Holocaust (2 of 2)	Mark Creeger	Blue 34
Uprooted: how 3000 years of Jewish civilisation in the Arab world vanished overnight	Lyn Julius	Green 25
The campaign to outlaw conversion therapy in the USA	Mathew Shurka	Green 26
Balfour Accomplished	Beverley-Jane Stewart	Green 27
Jewish heritage from 400 feet - drones and Jewish heritage	Marcus Roberts	Orange 10
An introduction to Jewish genealogy	Jeanette Rosenberg	Orange 11
Transforming the mental health landscape	Tanya Harris  Louise Palmer	Orange 12
Has nationalism returned to Europe?	Benjamin Weinthal  Simon Gordon  Cnaan Lipshiz  Tamas Buchler  Gillian Merron	Orange 15
"I would never set foot in Poland!" A virtual walking tour of the Warsaw Ghetto	Gideon Sylvester	Purple 31
Labour of love: Stella Creasy MP	Stella Creasy	Red 1
Calling all activists: recharge and reconnect with your Neshama	Ilana Sumka	Red 3
Ask Hifsa (almost) everything you want to know about Islam and being a Muslim woman in Britain today	Laura Marks  Hifsa Haroon-Iqbal	Red 4
Reincarnation and the afterlife	Jonathan Romain	Red 5
Naya: creativity & change in the slums of Mumbai	Adit Goschalk  Lucy Cohen	Red 6
Songs of change	Happie Hoffman  Eric Hunker	Red 7
The use and abuse of power - Bet Midrash Beginners (3 of 4)	Roni Tabick	Red 9
“If the Torah is empty, it’s your fault!”: Rabbi Yishmael and Rabbi Akiva in conflict (3 of 4)	Jeremy Tabick	Red 9
"Come let us remove him" (Experience morning intensive) (3 of 4)	Benjamin Stanley  Joseph Israel	Red 9
Anyone can be a teacher: from source to source sheet	David Levin-Kruss  Elements @ Festival Limmud	Yellow 21
Limmud Book Club: The Power (4 of 4)	Shoshi Ish-Horowicz  Aviva Dautch	Yellow 22
"Out to find the boys, but discovered ourselves"	Racheli Fraenkel	Yellow 23
A Jewish bestiary: Art Spiegelman, Mausketeer (4 of 4)	Jay Geller	Yellow 24

12:10
Lunch and learn	David Cassuto  Social Programming Team	Blue 32
Science is #fakenews	Ben Lewis	Blue 33
Think positive, feel capable	Vital Zinger	Blue 34
The Conversation: a unique Jewish retreat	Gary Rosenblatt	Green 25
Effective media relations for charities	Dan Brown	Green 26
The emerging tech and startup scene in Jerusalem (2 of 2)	Rachel Rosenzweig	Green 27
Israel in the eyes of an Arab	Yahya Mahamid	Orange 10
How to be a human - pluralism (3 of 3)	Matt Plen	Orange 11
Rebbe Nachman: reconstruction or rejection?	David Bigman	Orange 12
What makes a great leader and believer a deviant?	Nathan Lopes Cardozo  Elie Jesner	Orange 15
Leo Baeck: not just teacher of Theresienstadt	Harry Jacobi	Purple 31
"Beyn Dam leDam" - budgeting for life	Racheli Fraenkel	Red 1
Is Judaism a religion? A very brief introduction to modern Jewish thought	Tamra Wright	Red 2
Jewish-Italian communities as a 'Laboratory of Modernity' in early modern period	Roni Weinstein	Red 3
Jews and Chinese food	Phil Peters	Red 4
Russian revolutionaries	Steve Miller	Red 5
Daniel Cainer - Even More Gefilte Fish & Chips	Daniel Cainer	Red 6
Jamming workshop	James Charles  Nathan Finkel  Dean Staker  Harry Style	Red 6
Mindful Judaism - a Jewish guide to beating stress and anxiety	Marvin Shaw	Red 7
Land of milk & honey? Bet you’ve never been to Yeruham…	Graham Carpenter	Yellow 21
Café ivrit	Raya Even David	Yellow 22
From helplessness to resilience and vice versa: the Manchester community	Moshe Farchi	Yellow 23
Can Labour win back the Jewish community?	Andrew Gilbert  Jon Lansman  Rhea Wolfson  Stella Creasy  Jeremy Newmark	Yellow 24

13:20
Genealogy consultation drop-in	Daniel Morgan-Thomas  Jeanette Rosenberg  Leigh Dworkin	Blue 32
Irena Sendler - resistance, rescue and righteousness	Antony Lishak	Blue 33
'One of us': A harrowing documentary on the journey of three ex-Hasidic Jews	Emily Green	Blue 34
Conversations in Germany	Yoav Landau-Pope	Green 25
Composing a spiritual will - a hands-on session (2 of 2)	Holly Blue Hawkins	Green 26
Should we be teaching the next generation to be zionists?	Anna Roiser  Nina Morris-Evans	Green 27
A Christian and a Jew walk into a bar....	Jeremy Stowe-Lindner  Patrick Moriarty	Orange 10
The (Jewish) art of design	Irene Wise	Orange 11
Campus is a good place for Jews! A chance to really understand the environment	Rob Young  Isabella Lenga  Rebecca Filer  Susy Goldstone	Orange 12
Misogynist Film Club: unashamedly queer	Jacqueline Nicholls  Alex Davidson  Mekella Broomberg	Orange 13
"Transparent" goes to Israel	Julia Wagner	Orange 14
Is the Torah really from heaven?	Nathan Lopes Cardozo	Orange 15
Write here, write now	Rachel Creeger	Purple 31
Women - still, seen and not heard!	Eve Sacks  Laura Marks  Hifsa Haroon-Iqbal  Carole Sterling	Red 1
Can a purely 'cultural Jew' exist? The possible horizons of secular Jewish identity.	Gabriel Wolff  Eli Philippe Fabrikant	Red 2
Rabbinic rebels and rebellious rabbis: understanding authority in the Talmud (3 of 3)	Yaffa Epstein	Red 3
How to grow your community in 150 funerals	Daniel Epstein	Red 4
Stress in our families and how to handle it	Tanya Harris  Louise Palmer	Red 5
For singing's sake	Zöe Jacobs  Mich Sampson	Red 6
Become a Dementia Friend for the Jewish Community	Gill Yentis	Red 7
Parshat Vayechi with the Hasidic masters (2 of 2)	Yael Roberts	Red 9
A positive sexual ethic in the Talmud - part II	Hadassah Fromson  Sam Fromson	Red 9
Henna for Jews	Harry Lampert	Yellow 22
Meet a Syrian refugee	Richard Verber	Yellow 23
Seven metaphors for God	Raphael Zarum	Yellow 24

14:40
Pride and prejudice: challenging attitudes towards Jewish identity and learning disabilities	Shoshana Bloom  Robyn Freeman	Blue 33
Why did Jesus and Rabbi Akiva have to meet Moses?	Chaim Hames	Green 25
The Jews of Canterbury	Marcus Roberts	Green 26
British plutocrats from Baghdad	Lyn Julius	Green 27
Knit and natter - knitting circle	Social Programming Team	Hilton Lobby
Israeli filmmaker Yariv Mozer presents: my films, my identity	Yariv Mozer	Orange 10
Shakespeare's Shylock - villain or victim?	Ilana Epstein	Orange 11
Why call it occupation? The political and legal reality of Israel's rule in the West Bank	Jessica Montell	Orange 12
Yazidi	Linda Berkowitz  UK Jewish Film Festival  David Evans	Orange 13
’We’re dancing with fascism': Totalitarian aesthetics in music	Keith Kahn-Harris	Purple 31
Jewish women taking on the patriarchy	Sarah Bronzite  Andrea Jacobs  Alma Reisel  Jacqueline Nicholls  Mekella Broomberg	Red 1
One billion Chinese, one American Jew: uncovering the blossoming of Jewish inquiry and study in the People's Republic of China; what it may mean for world Jewry and Israel	Steven Windmueller	Red 2
Unorthodox thinkers	Barry Kleinberg	Red 3
Praying the Bible: participating in God's history, power and holiness	Mark Levin	Red 4
"Whoever has a Torah mind can solve any problem": The Charedi doctrine of Daas Torah	Benjamin Brown	Red 5
Jess Gold in Concert	Jessica Gold  Jane Kelson  Dean Staker	Red 6
Kol Rina singing workshop	Julian Gilbey  Debbie Lee	Red 7
Shorthand in Hebrew: Gregg from aleph to tav	Gabriel Kanter-Webber	Yellow 22

16:00
Why do we need a Vagina Museum?	Florence Schechter	Blue 33
Queer, brown and Jewish: Mizrahi gays in Israel	Roi Grufi	Blue 34
Rediscovering Bar Kokhba: evidence from the Judean Desert	Lawrence Schiffman	Green 25
We're Ghana change the world - orthodox Judaism meets social action in West Africa	Genna Barnett  Daniel Epstein  Ilana Epstein	Green 26
God Loves the Stranger: Writing Workshop	Sheila Weinberg	Green 27
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.	Wendy Stolerman  Paula Plaskow  Jackie Kramer	Orange 10
A Bat Mitzvah with a difference	Yeva Robinson	Orange 11
What happens to survivors of modern day slavery in the UK?	Sam Grant  Lara Bundock	Orange 12
Jon Lansman of Momentum meets Jewish leaders one year on	Andrew Gilbert  Ella Rose  Jon Lansman  Alex Sobel  Adrian Cohen  Jeremy Newmark	Orange 15
Crafternoon tea: hamsa decorating!	Social Programming Team	Purple 31
The cruel cost of leaving the Charedi community	Emily Green  Ben Katz	Red 1
The social life of texts: towards an anthropology of Midrash (2 of 2)	Lea Taragin-Zeller	Red 2
How the Talmud saved my life	Janine Stein	Red 3
Choosing Judaism: narratives from the Reform Beit Din	Jacqueline Tabick	Red 4
Jesus the Shabbat breaker	Rob Rabinowitz	Red 5
Let the children first be fed	Patrick Moriarty	Red 6
More modern jive (2 of 2)	Dan Mackenzie  Jonathan Hunter	Red 7

16:15
Easy peasy mitzvah projects	Danny Siegel	Oasis 2

16:15
ShirLaLa family concert	Shira Kline	Rhythm & Blues

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

17:15
Act the Torah part!	Eva Frojmovic	Music Room

17:30
"What's wrong with you?" - live podcast taping	Sarah Klegman  Florence Schechter	Blue 33
Which side are you on, my people? Why polarisation is good for the Jews	Simone Zimmerman	Blue 34
A spiritual journey through the teenage years	Marcia Plumb	Green 25
The Nunes Ribeiros: 100 years under the Inquisition	Avigail Ben-Gad	Green 27
American Jewish History - the treyfe banquet	Barry Kleinberg	Orange 10
'Miscarried, The Comic': when procreating isn't as simple as 'Pru U'rvu' - a man's perspective (2 of 2)	Chari Pere	Orange 11
Changing narratives - from cooperation to coexistence, and beyond?	Hadar Galron  Nigel Goodrich	Orange 12
Is East Jerusalem a settlement?	Eve Harow  Arieh King  Ilana Sumka  Simon Gordon  Emily Hilton	Orange 15
Jewish communities in Latin America (2 of 2)	Renato Huarte Cuéllar	Purple 31
Hacking Judaism: A discussion with the tech community	Adam Overlander-Kaye  Charlotte Henry  Rachel Rosenzweig  Kevin Lieberman  Brian Teeman	Red 1
Shattering the Tablets: uncovering the meaning of Jewish life	Leon Morris	Red 2
Daf yomi - Shevuot 29	David Bigman	Red 3
Voicing love of God: prayer, history, intimacy	Michael Haruni	Red 4
Jesus and Judaism: fulfilling prophecy (4 of 4)	Amy-Jill Levine	Red 5
A voice in the woods	Shai Tsabari	Red 7

17:30
The very best Tikkun Olam for you	Danny Siegel	Oasis 3

18:30
Bubbelas love to boogie!	Raymond Simonson	Rhythm & Blues

18:45
Bedtime stories for sleepy kinderlach	David-Yehuda Stern	Oasis 2

18:50
What’s text got to do with it	Sam Grant  Georgina Bye	Blue 33
Through the Eyes of women: a look at filmmaking and distribution in Israel	Hedva Goldschmidt	Blue 34
Rabbi Akiva and his legends - the martyrdom (2 of 2)	Yarden Raber	Green 25
Write letters to refugees	Erin Zaikis	Green 26
Aleinu - not just an excuse for Kaddish	Andy Kaufmann	Green 27
Antisemitism - the original fake news	Charlotte Henry	Orange 10
Warts and all	Simon Spungin	Orange 11
My personal journey - a history of how March of the Living started	Scott Saunders	Orange 12
How did the Labour Party get into such a mess over Israel, Jews and antisemitism?	Luke Akehurst	Orange 13
Where’s the hedgehog? And 26 other things you never knew about Belarus	Debra Brunner  Jonathan Clingman	Orange 14
Judaism as rebellion: a plea for religious authenticity and halachic courage	Nathan Lopes Cardozo	Orange 15
The Beit Midrash tisch	Beit Midrash Hevra	Purple 31
Balfour at 100	Yahya Mahamid  Richard Landes  Simon Gordon  Lyn Julius  Michael Freeman	Red 1
“Return the man’s wife for he is a prophet”: a study in forgiveness	Ian Gamse	Red 2
Overeaters anonymous		Red 3
Who owns Jerusalem?	Natan Abenaim	Red 4
Three generations of the Kindertransport	Ruth Barnett  Tania Barnett	Red 5
Stories sung in harmony	Max Jared Einsohn  Shannyn Gelbart  Happie Hoffman  Eric Hunker	Red 6
Israeli dance party (4 of 4)	Sheila Eizensharf	Red 7
The first decade of the State of Israel through the camera lens	Karen Ettinger	Yellow 21

20:10
Not The Gala	The Not The Gala Team	Orange 14
Limmud Festival Gala		Yellow 24

21:50
Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber (73 mins) & Q&A	Patricia A. Kenner	Blue 33
Let's talk about sex	Elie Jesner	Blue 34
Virginity is f****d: deconstructing cultural views on sex and purity	Emily Hilton	Green 25
You can make a difference; motivation and perseverence	Adi Lustig	Green 26
The new volunteers - youth volunteering in the 21st century in Israel	Reut Mor	Orange 13
Bis Bas (Live)	Jonny Mosesson	Orange 14
Who is Torah? A beloved maiden concealed in her (ice?) palace (2 of 2)	Daniel Lichman	Purple 31
Language under siege	Michael Feuer	Red 3
Chant Circle with Nava Tehila	Ruth Gan Kagan  Ilan Glazer  Nava Tehila  Daphna Rosenberg  Yoel Sykes	Red 7
Hallelujah, it’s Leonard Cohen	Melinda Jones	Yellow 21

23:10
Late night chavruta – Encountering the Divine: Study (3 of 3)	Limmud Chavruta Team	Green 27
Limmud's Late Night Cabaret	Sarah Klegman  Lilach Weber  Moshiel Newman Daphna  Aviva Dautch  Dex Grodner  Emma Brand  Florence Schechter	Orange 14
Beatles tribute concert	James Charles  Nathan Finkel  Dean Staker  Harry Style  Josh Nelson	Red 6
The Rebbetzins' Disco	Raymond Simonson  Jacqueline Nicholls	Red 7