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Limmud Festival 2018
Monday 24 December 2018

08:00
Morning news and brews! The Jewish Chronicle's Daniel Sugarman	Social Programming  Daniel Sugarman	Bar
V'yarutz v'yomer: and he ran and he talked, or "run and chat" (1 of 4)	Abigail Morris	Hilton Lobby
Walking club	Social Programming	Hilton Lobby

09:10
The burglar, the carpenter, the aboriculturalist and the dustbinmen	Steve Miller	Blue 33
Do you believe in God?	Naomi Goldman	Blue 34
How a mother-daughter duo is changing the concept of giving from their kitchen table	Lauren Gross	Green 25
Why do intelligent people study the Torah for 70 years and not get bored?	Graham Newman	Green 26
The Israeli constitution and the Nation-State Basic Law – a beginner’s guide: 1992-2011 (2 of 3)	Robin Moss	Green 27
The Joint and the arc of Jewish history over the last 100 years	Asher Ostrin	Orange 10
Becoming the parents/adults we want to be	Shulamit Ambalu	Orange 11
"For not making me a woman" Really? Is it great to be a (Jewish) man?	David Cassuto	Orange 12
Revisiting halacha: counting women in a minyan	Chaim Weiner	Orange 15
Who runs the country?	Hannah Weisfeld	Red 1
Re-Animating an Ancient Land and Family Relationship	Geoffrey Ben-Nathan	Red 2
Creativity and Good Health - Vision and Practice of an Artist	Myriam Tangi	Red 3
Homeopathy in Jewish life & sources (1 of 2)	Francis Treuherz	Red 4
Co-housing Communities - What are they and how to start one?	David Michael	Red 5
Tikkun olam - is it really our place to repair the world?	Sasha Gold	Red 6
Pointless? Hebrew dots for dummies (2 of 2)	Paul Freedman	Yellow 22
Pioneers of the Old Settlement in 19th-Century Jerusalem	Mordechai (Motti) Friedman	Yellow 23
The Israeli economy: are there two different economies?	Roi Kahlon	Yellow 24

09:20
Forgotten Soldier	UK Jewish Film Festival  Linda Berkowitz	Orange 13
Morning Seder (Advanced) - Transitions (1 of 4)	Ian Gamse  Eliot Cohen	Red 8
Morning Seder (Intermediate): the day and night identity of a rebel (1 of 4)	Avital Hochstein  Zahavit Shalev	Red 8
Morning Seder (Beginners) - Times to Pray: Traditionally Radical Talmud (1 of 4)	Yael Roberts  Laynie Soloman	Red 9

10:40
Free military press	Mor Sofer	Blue 33
Confusion, language and multiple meanings in the creation and collapse of the Tower of Babel (1 of 2)	Miriam Feldmann Kaye	Blue 34
Shabbat Musaf - The whole shebang (2 of 3)	Rebecca Blumenfeld	Green 25
Sweden, the immigration crisis and the fall of a liberal kingdom	Annika Hernroth-Rothstein	Orange 10
Intro to mussar - what does a patient person look like? (2 of 3)	Monique Mayer	Orange 11
The Prophet and the Griot	Mark Goldsmith	Orange 12
Borderline Israel I: beyond the Two State Solution: peace without borders (1 of 4)	David Newman	Orange 14
More than just mosaics: the ancient synagogue at Huqoq in Israel's Galilee	Jodi Magness	Orange 15
Explore the mystery between the lines: creative writing through Biblical stories and Talmudic tales (2 of 2)	Mei-Tal Shabtai	Purple 29
Gefiltefest: Is Bamba the only real Israeli food?	Sigalit Freeman  Gefiltefest at Limmud	Purple 31
Is Jewish theology dead?	Harry Freedman  Allan Nadler  Rahel Berkovits  Ivor Jacobs	Red 1
What is the climate crisis asking of Jews at this key moment in history?	Yonatan Neril	Red 2
At the crossroads of Sephardic, Mizrahi, and Russian-speaking: the Jewish communities of Central Asia and the Caucasus (pt. 1: Bukharian Jews) (1 of 2)	Ruben Shimonov	Red 3
Should we worry about antisemitism?	Clive Lawton	Red 4
Tikkun olam throughout the ages	Georgina Bye  Ariel Cohen	Red 5
Jews and Muslims - can we really stand together?	Laura Marks  Onjali Rauf	Red 6
Funny for Five at Festival (1 of 2)	Rachel Creeger	Red 7
Paper towels in Puerto Rico: humanitarian aid in a US territory	Hannah Gaventa	Yellow 22
Days of the fall: A reporter's journey in the Middle East wars	Jonathan Spyer	Yellow 23
Five approaches to help you pray regularly (even if you aren’t sure what you believe)	Raphael Zarum	Yellow 24

12:00
Learn how to create a more inclusive LGBT+ environment. What can you do to make your community better for LGBT+ people?	Dalia Fleming	Blue 33
Miracle? How do we celebrate Israel?	Jonah Geffen	Blue 34
How NOT to revise for exams: tips for students and parents	Juliet Landau-Pope	Green 25
Book-crashers : "The Periodic Table" by Primo Levi	Sandra Webber	Green 26
Occupiers in their own land	Jonathan Turner	Orange 10
Generation Z - how do we engage them with the Holocaust?	Yoni Berrous	Orange 11
Who owns Jewish heritage in the Middle East?	Lyn Julius	Orange 12
It's a wrap: a how and why of tichels	Mikayla Zagoria-Moffet	Orange 13
Limmud in the Third Century	Ilana Kurshan	Orange 14
Gefiltefest: Making bread shouldn't be a PITA	Gefiltefest at Limmud  Kevin Sefton	Purple 31
Jews and Christians: where are we going?	Jeremy Lawrence  Phil Rosenberg  Elizabeth Harris-Sawczenko  Richard Sudworth  Jessica Foster	Red 1
Anatomy of American Jewry	Dovid Efune	Red 2
Why are American Jews democratic voters? Will that change in the future?	Kenneth Bob	Red 3
Resurrection revisited: a closer look at the second Blessing of the Amidah	Elie Kaunfer	Red 4
Maccabees: four lost books for the price of one	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Red 5
Feldenkrais: finding better balance - the hips (2 of 4)	Emma Alter	Red 6
Morris dancing	Joseph Symons-Smyth	Red 7
Gefiltefest: Humous War - food at the frontier of conflict	Joel Salmon  Gefiltefest at Limmud	Red 9
How can your voluntary experience enhance your CV?	Claire Straus	Yellow 22
Israel - by and for women	Eve Harow  Hannah Weisfeld  Laura Marks	Yellow 23
Israel at 2019	Eldad Beck  Izchak Sonnenschein  Yigal Ravid  Shay Kerem	Yellow 24

13:20
The cantorial art	Robert Brody	Blue 33
Marrying in not out	Aaron Goldstein	Blue 34
Solomon and the baby: who WAS the mother?	Gabriel Kanter-Webber	Green 25
We don't eat bagels here: Turkey's Jewish community	Joey Leskin  Ela Cenudioğlu	Orange 10
The sex education (‘RSE’) edition! Who wants to be a millionaire?	Sarah Bronzite  Nathan Servi	Orange 11
Holy moly	Samuel Lebens	Orange 12
Sexuality and sanctity: the pleasure principle - sex acts and positions (2 of 3)	Rahel Berkovits	Orange 13
Mosul Jewish sites liberated from ISIS	Edwin Shuker	Orange 14
Jerusalem uncovered: the challenges and opportunities for the capital of the Jewish nation	Fleur Hassan Nahoum	Orange 15
Gefiltefest: How to have your kugel and eat it	Jacqueline Lewis  Gefiltefest at Limmud  Judi Rose	Purple 31
Creating inclusive shared societies in the face of seemingly vast divides	Jamal Alkirnawi	Red 1
Toddlers in a care home	Judith Ish-Horowicz	Red 2
An “op-pressed” people	Liat Collins	Red 3
A dummies guide to Yemen: past, present and future	Baraa Shaiban	Red 4
Festivals, seasons in Judaism and climate change	Steven Wilson	Red 5
What Jeremy Corbyn needs to know about Mizrahi Jews	Lyn Julius	Red 6
The spiritual humanism of Abraham Joshua Heschel	Peter Geffen	Red 7
Limmud Book Club: Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth (2 of 4)	Shoshi Ish-Horowicz  Aviva Dautch	Red 9
Being inspired by the religious geniuses of other faiths	Alon Goshen-Gottstein	Yellow 22
Tayelet - your introduction to Israeli dance	Sheila Eizensharf	Yellow 23
London Jewish Male Choir	London Male Jewish Choir	Yellow 24

13:30
Balancing solo and communal spiritual practice	Mike Moskowitz	Red 8

13:30
Just a quick fiddle	Debbie Young-Somers	Red 8

14:25
Shechting with a vegan (Daf Yomi - Chullin 27)	Yael Roberts	Red 8

14:40
Knit and natter	Melanie Kelly  Social Programming	Blue 32
LGBTQ+ Allyship in action	Arya Marvazy	Blue 33
Strange-ing the welcomer: a theory of Black and White and Jews all over	Miriam Libicki	Blue 34
Out of the bubble: interfaith at university	Jessica Spencer  Josephine Davidoff  Celia Gould  Clare Levy	Green 25
Building a family tree - how to trace your Jewish ancestors and living relatives	Laurence Harris	Green 26
Johann Sebastian Bach and the Jews	John Dunston	Green 27
Site Sat Nav	Participant Care Programming	Hilton Lobby
Am I enough? Women and impostor syndrome	Amy Decker  Annie Levy	Orange 10
The Israel Apartheid analogy: ground zero	Chaya Singer	Orange 11
Is Israel alienating the Diaspora?	Annika Hernroth-Rothstein  Jack Wertheimer  Liam Getreu  Lyn Julius  Simon Rocker	Orange 12
"He had a hat!": the history of Jewish mother jokes	Marjorie Ingall	Orange 14
The Nation State Law and Diaspora Jewry’s relationship with Israel	Anna Roiser  Esther Craven  Clive Sheldon	Orange 15
Gefiltefest: Itai Arik of Lev&Tine	Gefiltefest at Limmud  Itai Arik	Purple 31
Gaps in Israeli society - why do children in Ramle receive less than children in Tel Aviv?	Rotem Cohen Kahlon	Red 1
The life-saving tech set to improve Israel’s emergency services this year	Sharon Darwish	Red 2
Haredi cultures of reproductive health in Israel and the UK	Ben Kasstan  Lea Taragin-Zeller	Red 3
Spirituality and positive psychology (1 of 2)	Tamra Wright	Red 4
Hinay Zeh Bah! Here it comes on YouTube!	Lawrence Cohen	Red 5
Bialik's pious but secular children: Chaim Grade and A.M. Klein	Allan Nadler	Red 6
Bridge and Kaluki	Social Programming	Red 9
Mexico City and it's Jews: a gastronomical history	Alan Grabinsky	Yellow 22

16:00
Death Café: an open conversation around the end of life	Holly Blue Hawkins	Blue 32
Escaping the "Sunken Place"	Yehudah Webster	Blue 33
The Bagel Podcast - LAUNCH	Clive Lawton  Hayden Cohen  Ben Crowne  Debbie Young-Somers  Marjorie Ingall  Julia Gazdag	Blue 34
Telling Torah stories to children with spiritual intent	Michael Shire	Green 25
Selling values: how Israeli TV and online ads reflect what is really important for Israelis	Shelley Kedar	Green 26
What do the British public really think about Israel?	Luke Akehurst	Green 27
Jewish Bloomsbury: salons and schmoozing (1 of 3)	Aviva Dautch	Orange 10
Everybody is talking about antisemitism; how should we discuss it with our youth? What about non-Jewish young people?	Nathan Servi	Orange 11
Why do kids ask questions?	Hadassah Fromson  Sam Fromson	Orange 12
Antenna	Lesley Trenner  UK Jewish Film Festival  Linda Berkowitz	Orange 13
Donald Trump and the Jews	Dovid Efune	Orange 14
Dana International in conversation with Yigal Ravid	Yigal Ravid  Dana International	Orange 15
A short course in creativity - Kabbalah, colour and the creative soul (2 of 3)	Marvin Shaw	Purple 29
Gefiltefest: These are a few of my favourite Ottolenghi things	Shana Boltin  Gefiltefest at Limmud	Purple 31
The religious revolution - how the Catholic Church changes its teachings on the Jews	Martine Therese Andrevon Gottstein	Red 1
Alternatives to a two-state solution	Eve Harow	Red 2
Infidelity at Baal Peor – A taboo story (1 of 2)	Vered Hollander Goldfarb	Red 3
Start-up nation and the West: exploring cultural differences	Benji Lovitt	Red 4
Happily ever after?	Avital Hochstein  Zahavit Shalev	Red 5
Shifts in American Support for Israel: Causes, Consequences, and Strategic Options for Jerusalem	Sarah Feuer	Red 6
Funny for Five at Festival - the performance! (2 of 2)	Rachel Creeger	Red 7
It's never too early to start aging wisely! (1 of 2)	Susie Kessler	Red 8
Limmud Chavruta Project - Israel @ 70 - Freedom and Pilgrimage (1 of 3)	Limmud Chavruta Team	Red 9
What is your brand essence? A workshop for nonprofit organisations	Karen Radkowsky  Elements @ Festival Limmud	Yellow 21
Learn a Haftarah at Limmud (1 of 2)	Mark Creeger	Yellow 22
Let’s all sing (about Jewish things!)	Eliana Light	Yellow 24

17:30
Oy what a day...	Participant Care Programming	Blue 32
Who does my body belong to?	Yochai Maital	Blue 33
When Mossad searched for a child abducted by Haredim	Wojciech Tworek	Blue 34
Moving past happiness	Naftali Moses	Green 25
Meaningful, belonging, commitment: the stepping stones to build a strong community	Tal Cohen	Green 27
From 11 to 18 - changing Jewish lives	Helena Miller	Orange 10
The Book of Job according to Maureen Kendler, z"l	Daniel Reisel	Orange 11
Hair covering and the Jewish woman today	Joanne Greenaway	Orange 12
The seven loves of Isaac	Raphael Zarum	Orange 14
Antisemitism, Brexit, Corbyn: an ABC of UK Jewish public policy	Claudia Mendoza  Phil Rosenberg	Orange 15
Gefiltefest: Pickle and sauerkraut making: fun with (lacto)fermentation	David Krantz  Gefiltefest at Limmud	Purple 31
Is Campus a safe space for Jewish students?	Hannah Rose  Alina Bricman	Red 1
Cultural competence as part of bridge building in Israeli society - the museum example	Itamar Kremer	Red 2
Hayek, humility and halacha	Russ Roberts	Red 3
Help! The rabbi is coming for shabbat lunch	Sam Fromson	Red 4
The place for right-leaning pro-Israel Jews in the human rights world	Irina Tsukerman	Red 5
Jordan Peterson and Rabbi Sacks	Berlin Leiman	Red 6
Gefiltefest: All hail the Kosher cheeseburger?	Jeremy Lawrence  Gefiltefest at Limmud  Phil Peters  Dan Jacobs  Hannah Rosen	Yellow 21
Lullabies and love songs	Zöe Jacobs	Yellow 22
A Promised Land: those who dared to dream	David Finlay	Yellow 23
Why impact investing is inherently Jewish	Amira Aharonovich	Yellow 24

18:40
PJ Library Storytime (2 of 4)	Limmud Families Team	Families Lounge
Videogame depictions of the Holocaust	Max Donen	Blue 33
The halachah of psychiatric treatment	Daniel Allen	Green 25
Contrarian and counterintuitive thinking in secular society and Judaism	Jake Welford	Green 27
'Citizen of nowhere?' The Brexit fallout and (my) Jewish identity	Ruvi Ziegler	Orange 10
Exploring the worldview of a radical Haredi thinker	Mark Gottlieb	Orange 11
When ultra nationalists give all nationalism a bad name	Gil Troy	Orange 15
LGBT+ and Jewish: a discussion around what an inclusive Jewish community looks like for you	Dalia Fleming  Rachael Fried	Red 3
Eight things we learned building the refugee youth movement	Amos Schonfield	Red 4

19:10
Reading Biblical poetry (1 of 2)	Adele Berlin	Blue 34
The Golem, Frankenstein and our virtual self	Lucas Espinosa Menendez	Green 26
Stop doing tikkun olam!	Jonathan Neumann	Orange 12
How is maternal experience registered in our DNA	Moshe Szyf	Orange 13
“Fake news” or uncovering the truth? From Joseph, Hamilton and John Major to today - Mahloket Matters!	Daniel Roth	Orange 14
"I'm not White, I'm Jewish": (how) did the Jewish community negotiate their Whiteness in North America	Isaiah Rothstein	Red 1
Orot HaRav Kook - the prophetic utopian lights of Rav Kook	Itzchak Marmorstein (Even-Shayis)	Red 2
Why isn’t there peace in the Middle East? Personal perspectives	Eldad Beck	Red 5
Strictly Partner Dances	Maurice Stone	Red 7
Rockefeller, Carnegie, Eugenics and the Master Race - American big business and the Holocaust (2 of 2)	Mark Creeger	Yellow 22

20:30
Why care? The role for a Jewish healthcare chaplain in a secular NHS	Harrie Cedar	Blue 33
L'chaim santé! Cheers! 100 years of alcohol in Israel	Oded Gvaram	Blue 34
Talking about health and mental health: 'You don't want to worry me' (2 of 2)	Yoav Landau-Pope	Green 25
Social Media: dystopian future or current reality?	Josh Martin	Green 26
The disappearance of the INS Dakar. A 50 year mystery	Andrew Levine	Green 27
Please God by you: speed dating for 50 – 64	Rachel Creeger  Social Programming	Orange 10
Can there be a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?	Noru Tsalic	Orange 11
Eurovision's factory production and politics - stories from behind the scenes	Izchak Sonnenschein	Orange 12
Hidden in plain sight: forgotten Jewish architects and their famous creations	Jason Guberman	Orange 13
Rabbis* don't wear makeup, and God knows sign language	Haim Ovadia	Orange 14
Organ donation for transplantation in Judaism	Robby Berman  Anthony Warrens	Orange 15
Gefiltefest: The Jewish roots of Spaghetti Bolognese	Sarah Pinch  Gefiltefest at Limmud	Purple 31
Descending to the Chariot	Harry Freedman	Red 1
Jewish genes as time machines	Nadine Epstein	Red 2
Can we read Yuval Noah Harari's books as Jewish philosophy?	Gabor Balazs	Red 3
Bring the wisdom of kabbalah into your life (2 of 3)	Janet Berenson	Red 4
"Women are Frivolous" - What is it about all women?	Tirtsa Posklinsky Shehory	Red 5
Flamenco dance workshop	Leilah Broukhim	Red 6
Sing along with Dan Patterson and Simon Style	Dan Patterson  Simon Style	Red 7
The American Jewish experience through cinema (to 1947) (1 of 2)	Eric Goldman	Yellow 22
Girls in Trouble concert & 10th anniversary celebration!	Alicia Jo Rabins	Yellow 24

21:50
Board game café	Social Programming	Blue 32
In God's image #inclusion style (2 of 2)	Genna Barnett  Nikki Barnett	Blue 34
How do you recruit and maintain volunteer leadership?	Leah Golan	Green 25
Stamford Hell	Charlie Lewin	Green 26
Sleep in Talmudic times	Zahavit Shalev	Green 27
Please God by you: speed dating for 36 - 49, hosted by Benji Lovitt!	Benji Lovitt  Social Programming	Orange 10
Get inspired: Lightning talks by ROI	Elliot Jebreel  Adam Moscoe  Kevin Lieberman  Shoshana Bloom	Orange 11
Gefiltefest: The secret Jewish history of vodka - with tastings	Richard Verber  Gefiltefest at Limmud	Orange 12
Revelation of a hidden God: Connections between Shavuot and Purim	Shira Solomons	Orange 13
As You Are; an Open Mic	Shonna Levin	Orange 14
Family therapy for the Abrahamsons	Mark Goldsmith	Orange 15
Gefiltefest: Sadeh Farm	Gefiltefest at Limmud  Hannah Rosen	Purple 31
Creating a future in the shadow of a difficult past: reflections on living a year of Jewish life in Berlin	David Bilchitz	Red 1
Welcoming those on the fringes of Jewish Life	Michael Wise	Red 2
Why do we care about earthquakes and war?	Yonahton Bock	Red 3
"For not making me a woman": should I be offended that men are thanking God for not being a woman?	Aviva Goldschmidt Kaufmann	Red 4
Enough with the cherry tomatoes	Mor Sofer	Red 5
We are the ones we have been waiting for	Caroline Rothstein	Red 6
LGBT+ social space	Dalia Fleming	Yellow 21
You can't spell memes without emes	Rachel Rose  Yoni Stone	Yellow 22
Banot LIVE in concert!	Mikhal Weiner  Ella Joy Meir  Lihi Haruvi  Marian Gomez Villota  Yonit Spiegelman  Banot Band	Yellow 24

22:00
Video game arcade	Social Programming	Blue 33
EasternBeats presents: Yalla Habibi Disco Party - Live!	Joey Leskin	Red 7
Night Seder: Meaning at Midnight	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Red 8

23:00
Israel update	Omer Drori	Green 25
Death	Daniel Shine	Green 26
Please God by you: speed dating for 25 - 35, hosted by Hasadick!	Social Programming  Noga Yechieli Wind	Orange 10
Beatles Torah	David Benkof	Orange 13
Gefiltefest: Cocktail Making	Harry Lampert  Gefiltefest at Limmud	Purple 31
Up the ladder - on dreams and mystical ascensions	Mordechai Zeller	Red 4
Sing along with the Rubens	Ian Gold  Ivor Jacobs	Red 6
Mikva the Musical: Music and Monologues from the Deep – excerpts and discussion	Batsheva Frankel  Yael Valier  Rahel Berkovits	Yellow 23

00:10
Midnight Chavruta - Israel @ 70 - Freedom and Pilgrimage (1 of 3)	Limmud Chavruta Team	Red 8