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Limmud Festival 2018
Tuesday 25 December 2018

08:00
Morning news and brews! BBC's Anthony Reuben	Anthony Reuben  Social Programming	Bar
Pilatkes	Tali Swart	Green 26
V'yarutz v'yomer: and he ran and he talked, or "run and chat" (2 of 4)	Abigail Morris	Hilton Lobby
Walking club	Social Programming	Hilton Lobby

09:10
Climbing Mt Scopus - a personal national Hadassah story	Tamar Elram	Blue 34
Homeopathy in Jewish life & sources (2 of 2)	Francis Treuherz	Green 25
From Chagall to Heine - stained glass inspirations	Ruth Jacobson	Green 26
Shabbat Musaf - The whole Shebang (3 of 3)	Rebecca Blumenfeld	Green 27
Philosophy of cherry picking	Hayden Cohen	Orange 10
Ashkenazi Jews – Who do we think we are?	Daniel Anderson	Orange 11
How 6500 children engaged with Israeli history, art and culture	Nic Abery	Orange 12
The continuing journey of Russian speaking Jewry	Chaim Chesler  Roman Kogan	Orange 13
Prayer in 90 seconds	Sherre Hirsch	Orange 14
Jewish Engagement in the 21st Century: A Moment or a Movement?	Isaiah Rothstein	Orange 15
The Making of Super Heroes and Heroines	Siona Benjamin	Purple 31
Family Matters, in Torah and in Life – The First Couple	Daniel Goldfarb	Red 1
Bring the wisdom of kabbalah into your life (3 of 3)	Janet Berenson	Red 2
The Art of Cynthia Pell – A Jewish Expressionist?	Irene Wise	Red 3
Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word	Ellen Flax	Red 4
The cultural impact of Jews in Mexico	Alan Grabinsky	Red 5
Everyday meditation	Susie Kessler	Red 7
Making Meaning in Ancient Alexandria	Joshua Garroway	Yellow 22
Maiden and Matronita: female Images of Jerusalem through the ages	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Yellow 23
Reinventing Chabad: Rosh Hashanah on 19th Kislev?	Wojciech Tworek	Yellow 24

09:20
Morning Seder (Advanced) - Purim (2 of 4)	Eliot Cohen  Ian Gamse	Red 8
Morning Seder (Intermediate): the day and night identity of a rebel (2 of 4)	Zahavit Shalev  Avital Hochstein	Red 8
Morning Seder (Beginners) - Times to Pray: Traditionally Radical Talmud (2 of 4)	Yael Roberts  Laynie Soloman	Red 9

10:40
Feminist and modern day perspectives on Jewish women’s bodies from biblical times until now	Aviva Braun-Finkler	Blue 33
Confusion, language and multiple meanings in the creation and collapse of the Tower of Babel (2 of 2)	Miriam Feldmann Kaye	Blue 34
Teacher Tell, Teacher Share	Melanie Kelly	Green 25
A taste of Wise Aging	Elaine R. S. Cohen	Green 26
Parenting perspectives: self worth and social media	Hadassah Fromson  Sam Fromson	Orange 10
Bringing a new woman to your Seder	Debbie Young-Somers	Orange 11
The Iraqi Jewish archives	Edwin Shuker	Orange 12
How Middle Eastern propaganda wars in the US affect American Jews	Irina Tsukerman	Orange 13
The need of the hour: revitalizing classic sephardic judaism	Jason Guberman	Orange 14
Five Jewish texts that inspire leadership	Ephraim Mirvis	Orange 15
Maktuv: an Arabic-Hebrew interfaith calligraphy workshop	Ruben Shimonov	Purple 29
Cartooning a split Jewish identity	Miriam Libicki	Purple 31
The Yad Vashem educational philosophy: Are we still relevant in the 21st century?	Yoni Berrous	Red 1
Living with the first Blood Libel	Roderick Young	Red 2
Consent is a Jewish value	Merissa Nathan Gerson	Red 3
Wartime Cooking in Jerusalem	Gil Hovav	Red 4
My Yiddishe Momma gets lonely at home sometimes...	Micah Gold  Judith Ish-Horowicz  Sam Brandman	Red 5
The Magrepha in 2018, Bringing the Temple Organ to the Synagogue	Paul Heller	Red 6
The spirituality of secular music	Jacob Kraus	Red 7
Tu B’Av- the Jewish woman's holiday of love	Eve Harow	Yellow 22
Feminist midrash through visual art, poetry and music	Jacqueline Nicholls  Alicia Jo Rabins	Yellow 23
American Jews and Zionism	George Berlin	Yellow 24

12:00
Crisis, what crisis?! How to cope with mid-life change	Lesley Trenner	Blue 33
What are your thoughts about Jewish student life on campus?	Kevin Lieberman	Blue 34
Deep sea cruising	Malcolm Ginsberg	Green 25
Jewish Meditation (1 of 2)	Michael Picardie	Orange 10
Local politics - is this a place for a young woman?	Rotem Cohen Kahlon	Orange 11
JQY Drop-in Center: The Fashions of Gender and Judaism	Rachael Fried	Orange 12
The personal is political - everyday lives of women in Israel/Palestine	Jessica Kosmin	Orange 13
Fear war or trust peace? From Jacob, Chamberlain and Menachem Begin to today - mahloket matters!	Daniel Roth	Orange 14
From the Zionist Idea to the Zionist Ideas	Gil Troy	Orange 15
#MeToo, #TimesUp and speaking your truth	Caroline Rothstein	Purple 31
Why it's good to raise geeks	Marjorie Ingall	Red 1
The Crowne: A forensic look at the royal accounts	Ben Crowne	Red 2
Where the Jordan meets the Thames - interfaith encounter in Israel and Britain	Ghassan Manasra  Michael Hilton	Red 3
Music and the military	Amir Ben Hur	Red 4
You/we make the rules: SpongeBob and the endangered Jewish banana	Haim Ovadia	Red 5
Philip Roth 101	David Benkof	Red 6
Divine right: Nahmanides’ debate against the Church – excerpts and discussion from Theater & Theology’s production	Yael Valier	Red 7
Rav Kook's "New Guide to the Perplexed" - Selected Readings	Itzchak Marmorstein (Even-Shayis)	Red 9
The American Jewish experience through cinema (1947 - present) (2 of 2)	Eric Goldman	Yellow 22
Singing with Banot	Banot Band  Lihi Haruvi  Ella Joy Meir  Yonit Spiegelman  Marian Gomez Villota  Mikhal Weiner	Yellow 24

13:20
The only Jew on the Caribbean island	Hannah Gaventa	Blue 33
Oscar Hammerstein III: Garnering American Acceptance Through Double-Couple Musicals	Stuart Hecht	Blue 34
Intro to mussar - developing an attitude (3 of 3)	Monique Mayer	Green 25
Borderline Israel II: the futility of borders - children encounter the Israel-Palestine divide (2 of 3)	David Newman	Orange 10
Scandals, vandals and angels – the sculptor Jacob Epstein	Steve Miller	Orange 11
The first (and forgotten) Messiah	Joshua Garroway	Orange 12
93 Queen	Linda Berkowitz  Shonna Levin  UK Jewish Film Festival	Orange 13
“The Middle East is Funny”: explore Israeli history through comedy	Benji Lovitt	Orange 14
Study an eye-opening passage of Talmud with the Chief Rabbi	Ephraim Mirvis	Orange 15
The Israeli constitution and the Nation-State Basic Law – a beginner’s guide: 2011-2018 (3 of 3)	Robin Moss	Purple 31
British Jews opposing the occupation	Robert Abrams  Nina Morris-Evans  Daniel Eisenberg	Red 1
The Nation of Islam and antisemitism in the US	Nadine Epstein	Red 2
The power of storytelling	Judith Stanton	Red 3
Who wrote the Zohar?	Harry Freedman	Red 4
Israel's dysfunctional asylum system	Ruvi Ziegler	Red 5
Is Hinduism avoda zara (idolatry)?	Alon Goshen-Gottstein	Red 6
Taking up the timbrel! Jewish women in the forefront of social organisations	Leah Golan  Amira Aharonovich  Sigalit Freeman  Shelley Kedar	Red 7
Limmud book club: Focus by Arthur Miller (3 of 4)	Shoshi Ish-Horowicz  Aviva Dautch	Red 9
Ethiopia: What makes this place and its Jews so special?	Rosalind Schogger	Yellow 22
Pontifical Palaces, Mud Huts and the Kingdom of Heaven	Jeremy Lawrence	Yellow 23
I am Bat-el - An inspirational comedy show	Bat-el Borenstein	Yellow 24

13:30
Aveirah lishma - sinning for the sake of heaven	Adam Ifield	Red 8

13:30
LGBT+ Families: a discussion around what an inclusive Jewish community looks like for you and your family	Alma Reisel  Dalia Fleming	Green 26
Lev Yodea Marat Nafsho: Trans identity and self-determination in halacha	Laynie Soloman	Red 8

14:25
Just blood and guts (Daf Yomi - Chullin 28)	Ian Gamse	Red 8

14:40
Knit and natter	Melanie Kelly  Social Programming	Blue 32
Two Sided Story: An Israeli/Palestinian Film	Sana Knaneh  Judith Elkan	Blue 33
Jewish opera composers - Nineteenth Century (1 of 2)	David Farbey	Blue 34
Meet the Chairs!	Daniel Heller  Ben Lewis  Jonathan Robinson  Hannah Brady	Green 25
A stranger with a camera: Photographing the Jewish world	Jono David	Green 26
Eurovision and Israel: we are on the map	Yigal Ravid	Orange 11
Masada: last stronghold of the Jewish resistance against Rome	Jodi Magness	Orange 12
The truth and the media - Fake News in Israel	Izchak Sonnenschein	Orange 14
I just met Pope Francis. Here's why I'm excited about interfaith ecological cooperation	Yonatan Neril  Jamal Alkirnawi	Orange 15
Tzitzit? Why knot!	Paul Freedman	Purple 31
A Christmas special - Are Catholics our Friends or Enemies?	Martine Therese Andrevon Gottstein	Red 1
A memory of Yemen: The Last Jews	Myriam Tangi	Red 2
Feldenkrais: finding better balance - a flexible chest (3 of 4)	Emma Alter	Red 3
Spirituality and positive psychology (2 of 2)	Tamra Wright	Red 4
Be fruitful and multiply: The contraception question	Joanne Greenaway	Red 5
Both sides now - Catholic and Jewish Music	Marian Gomez Villota  Mikhal Weiner	Red 6
It's No Job For A Nice Jewish Girl	Rachel Creeger	Red 7
Learn a Haftarah at Limmud (2 of 2)	Mark Creeger	Yellow 22
The year in scandal	Abi Symons  Uri Berkowitz  Jacqueline Nicholls  Ben Crowne	Yellow 23
Sephardic-Mizrahi and LGBTQ+: a Jewish community on the margins	Ruben Shimonov  Elliot Jebreel  Arya Marvazy	Yellow 24

16:00
What's got into you?	Jenny Goodman	Blue 33
Can career mothers have it all? Can we really lean in?	Fleur Hassan Nahoum	Blue 34
Otto Freundlich: The greatest artist you never heard of	Naomi Verber	Green 25
Jesus was a magic mushroom	Michael Green	Green 26
#Hashtag Israel	Sahar Sazgar	Green 27
Jewish Bloomsbury: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2 of 3)	Aviva Dautch	Orange 10
Israel and Diaspora stories: can this marriage be saved?	Shirah Hecht	Orange 11
How Muslim Spain from 8th century onwards has influenced Jewish food, art, music, culture, architecture and folklore	Hilary Pomeroy	Orange 12
Do Jews do karma? Reincarnation in Jewish thought (2 of 2)	Philippa Gamse	Orange 13
Herzl and Jerusalem	Mordechai (Motti) Friedman	Orange 14
Jews and Money - The Ultimate Taboo?	Raphael Zarum  Abigail Morris	Orange 15
Embroider a Hebrew letter	Vivien Spevock	Purple 29
Reading Biblical Poetry (2 of 2)	Adele Berlin	Purple 31
Forgetting the Torah We Learn	Ilana Kurshan	Red 1
Your city as you've never seen it before	Leon Fenster	Red 2
In the belly of the whale: a psychological and anthropological approach to the Book of Jonah.	Lea Taragin-Zeller  Mordechai Zeller	Red 3
How do you say Anne Frank in Tigrinya?	Yochai Maital	Red 4
Village of hope	Laurence Brass	Red 5
Student guide to being unstoppable!	Matthew Halfin	Red 7
Limmud Chavruta Project - Israel @ 70 - Independence (2 of 3)	Limmud Chavruta Team	Red 9
When Rebbe Nachman met Gal Gadot: From proto-to post-Feminism	Naftali Moses	Yellow 21
When two worlds meet: the impact of neo-Hasidism on Progressive Judaism	Naomi Goldman	Yellow 22

17:30
Oy what a day...	Participant Care Programming	Blue 32
The prophetess Deborah on masculinity	David Cassuto	Blue 33
Who is a Jew? The biblical version (2 of 2)	Vered Hollander Goldfarb	Blue 34
Highs and lows of being a TCK - a Third Culture Kid	Belinda Copitch	Green 25
The dyslexic advantage	Jo Landy	Green 26
On being an avatar	Maureen Kendal	Green 27
Israel70: Building Artistic Connections exhibition tour (1 of 3)	Nic Abery	Hilton Lobby
Orthodox women and saying kaddish	Jenny Cohen	Orange 10
A Hungarian Experience - Living Under Fascism and Communism	Tomi Komoly	Orange 11
Brave space not safe space	Yehudah Webster	Orange 12
Refuge Britain: Stories of Émigré Designers	Linda Berkowitz  UK Jewish Film Festival	Orange 13
Two Jewish philosophers walk into a bar	Miriam Feldmann Kaye  Samuel Lebens  Ezra Margulies	Orange 14
Is Trump's foreign policy good for Israel?	Kenneth Bob  Jonathan Neumann  Sarah Feuer  Dovid Efune  Liat Collins	Orange 15
Indian/Persian Miniature Painting Workshop	Siona Benjamin	Purple 31
Buying kidneys from poor people is illegal, but is it moral?	Anthony Warrens  Robby Berman	Red 1
Xenophobia or national security? From Pharaoh and WWII to today - mahloket matters!	Daniel Roth	Red 2
Djerba - Jewish life on the island of the Kohanim	Annika Hernroth-Rothstein	Red 3
Hair covering not obligatory for married women: an answer by Rav Yosef Massas in Morocco (1954)	Angy Cohen	Red 4
It's never too early to start aging wisely! (2 of 2)	Susie Kessler	Red 5
Flamenco and the influence of Sephardic culture	Leilah Broukhim	Red 6
Laughter yoga wellbeing (1 of 2)	Vanessa Abraham	Red 7
When not to keep your mouth shut	Shira Solomons	Yellow 22
Family concert with Ellen Allard and the Limmud House Band	Ellen Allard	Yellow 24

18:40
PJ Library Storytime (3 of 4)	Limmud Families Team	Families Lounge
The case against having children	Daniel Shine	Green 25
Biblical Bitcoins - the role of the shekel in Torah	Robert Stone	Green 26
God talk: in search of a useful theology	David-Yehuda Stern	Orange 10
Maimonides' irony: dogmatist and heretic	Allan Nadler	Orange 15
Did the Jews pray for Hitler?	Vivian Wineman	Red 1
Anarchy in the yeshiva and riots in Lublin	Wojciech Tworek	Red 3
The future of fundraising in the Jewish world	Emma Boyar	Red 4
Beyond the silver screen: cinema’s first sex symbol	Shoshi Ish-Horowicz	Red 5
Gender Exploration Through Performance	Noga Yechieli Wind	Red 7
A short course in creativity - discovering your unique creative vision (3 of 3)	Marvin Shaw	Yellow 22

19:10
Mussar for Managing Stress	Marcia Plumb	Blue 33
A history of Soviet Jewry in documents and pictures	Asher Ostrin	Blue 34
Old Wine in New Bottles	Mark Gottlieb	Green 27
Volunteering with confidence - charity governance, GDPR and all that	Jon Benjamin	Orange 11
The World Jewish Congress Diplomatic Corps Flagship Program	Ela Cenudioğlu	Orange 13
Why do we need rabbis anyway?	Zahavit Shalev  Debbie Young-Somers  Mordechai Zeller	Orange 14
The Jewish Whisky Appreciation Society	Zvi Solomons	Purple 31
Germany at Odds: where is Germany heading to?	Eldad Beck	Red 2
The Anatomy of De-Feet	Eve Harow	Red 6
Syria: Current situation and prospects	Jonathan Spyer	Yellow 24

20:30
What is Jewish philosophy?	Yehuda Efune	Blue 33
Jerusalem Startups: The Wave on the Horizon is Growing	Mark Goldfarb	Blue 34
The Jews of Lebanon - an exceptional community	Nathan Peres	Green 25
L'chatchila and Bedi'avad in the Laws of Shabbat	Jeremy Conway	Green 26
From Frankfurt to Los Angeles: the lost and found Rothschild Chumash	Eva Frojmovic	Green 27
Through the eyes of young Jewish women	Ella Rose  Dalia Fleming  Hannah Rose	Orange 10
Repairing Jewish Dialogue	Itamar Kremer	Orange 11
The future of Holocaust Education? Finding out more of our own family experience of the Shoah.	Andrew Gilbert	Orange 13
Are Synagogues Yesterday’s Institutions?	Jack Wertheimer	Orange 14
Eco-Zionism, Diaspora politics and Israel’s shadow government: how you can make a difference	David Krantz	Orange 15
A young Jew in the American Civil Rights Movement: a personal story from 1965-66	Peter Geffen	Red 1
Jacob's Sheep!	Peter Sevitt	Red 2
Catherine MacKinnon and Carol Gilligan Walk into the Beit Midrash	Avital Hochstein	Red 3
Advocating for Israel on Facebook - Best Practices	Jessica Kosmin	Red 4
Will we rise again? The question of bodily resurrection in the Talmud	Elliott Karstadt	Red 5
Pesach top five or 'It's only a ruach 'n' roll seder... but I like it!"	Gordon Kay	Red 6
The Wondrous Story of the Budapest Physicist Quartet	Ehud Landau	Yellow 21
Party all the time!	Aaron Benderski	Yellow 22
Dana International in performance	Dana International	Yellow 24

21:50
Volunteer drinks	David Hoffman	Bar
Board game café	Social Programming	Blue 32
Improv comedy jam!	Mia Ottman	Blue 34
Social justice – the basis of Jewish ethics	Steve Miller	Green 25
Mystical nostrils: the long and short of Jewish noses from Tanakh to Zohar	Daniel Eisenberg	Green 26
Jewish responsibility and tikkun olam	Tal Cohen	Green 27
Preserving the power of testimony	Helen Stone	Orange 10
What I Discovered in Uganda: Judaism, Identity and Ethics	Eli Wimpfheimer	Orange 11
Limmud Festival, First Century CE style! The Mishnah’s view on teachers, learners, and the power of diversity	Rahel Berkovits	Orange 12
Goodbye Columbus	Linda Berkowitz  Irene Wise  Shoshi Ish-Horowicz  Aviva Dautch  UK Jewish Film Festival	Orange 13
Volcanoes, hurricanes, and some unique Jewish experiences	Hannah Gaventa	Orange 14
Thresholds: Walking through the Hallways of our Lives	Sherre Hirsch	Orange 15
RSY-Netzer Shira	Amy Decker  Louis Graham	Purple 31
Rachel speaks, God and men listen!	Haim Ovadia	Red 1
How to curse a witch: a practical guide	Richard Verber	Red 2
Jewish ‘untouchables’: the plight of the mamzer in the 21st century	Emma Rozenberg	Red 4
Meditating with Breslav nigunim	Alon Goshen-Gottstein	Red 5
Sources of inspiration for Israeli teens	The Leo Baeck Education Center Haifa  Oded Mazor	Yellow 21
What does a village in Rwanda have to do with me?	Max Naar  Lauren Gross  Georgina Bye	Yellow 22
The Marriage of Hebrew Prayer & Persian Poetry	Chloe Pourmorady	Yellow 24

22:00
Video game arcade	Social Programming	Blue 33
Silent Disco: The Challah Back Girls and DJ Van Der Kleij	Louis Trup  Libby Burkeman  Shana Boltin	Red 6
Jerusalem Calling: the Euro/Israelvision Song Contest live from Birmingham!	Ben Gurion International  Angela Ripoff	Red 7
Night Seder: A Literary Exploration Into the Origins of the Amidah	Elie Kaunfer	Red 8

23:00
Social work, a good job for a nice Jewish boy or girl?	Naomi Soetendorp	Blue 34
Friends of Erik Weisz	Sam Severijnse	Green 25
From bourekas to Oscars	Sigalit Freeman	Green 26
The fire and the flesh: God, the body, and limitation	Eliot Cohen	Orange 10
An easy introduction to Gematria	Ruti Roche	Red 1
Why do we pray?	Sam Blustin	Red 2
Kapos arrive in Israel	Gabriel Kanter-Webber	Red 3
Divine contractions: giving birth to a dream	Samuel Lebens	Yellow 21
Jewish origami for big people	Shira Solomons	Yellow 22
Red and Boiling + Q&A	Noga Yechieli Wind	Yellow 24

00:10
Midnight pub quiz	Social Programming	Purple 29
Midnight Chavruta - Israel @ 70 - Independence (2 of 3)	Limmud Chavruta Team	Red 8