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Limmud Festival 2018
Wednesday 26 December 2018

08:00
Morning news and brews! With Canadian Jewish News' Yoni Goldstein	Yoni Goldstein  Social Programming	Bar
V'yarutz v'yomer: and he ran and he talked, or "run and chat" (3 of 4)	Abigail Morris	Hilton Lobby
Walking club	Social Programming	Hilton Lobby
Astanga Yoga	Lev Konstantinovskiy	Yellow 21

09:10
Improving the world, together	Ariel Cohen  Georgina Bye	Blue 33
Writing stories - it's simple, see!	Alexander Bodin Saphir	Blue 34
Social justice in a globalised world – doing it right	Tal Cohen	Green 25
Is the Other to be feared, made more like me/us, or simply welcomed? How Jewish ethics can inform how we think about contemporary problems	Stephen Innes	Green 26
IBM and Ford - American big businesses and the Holocaust (1 of 2)	Mark Creeger	Green 27
Can we really quit plastic and does Judaism care?	Debbie Young-Somers	Orange 10
Israel and the Information Age: How to Win in the Battleground of Ideas	Dovid Efune	Orange 11
HaTikva and Jerusalem of Gold: A Two-National-Anthem Solution?	Eli Gaventa	Orange 12
Dealing with a difficult case of Get refusal	Joanne Greenaway	Orange 13
Gaza strip and its challenges	Omer Drori	Orange 14
Jews telling Christians what to believe - then and now	Martine Therese Andrevon Gottstein	Orange 15
Israel AIDS Task Force - Bringing sexual health to the forefront of Israeli society	Saar Maoz	Red 1
Providing a Kad Shemen for Jewish life - dance as food for the soul	Maurice Stone	Red 3
Two Breslau Jews	Henry Cohn	Red 4
The weekday amidah as a guided meditation	Naomi Goldman	Red 5
The UK experience of rTMS-COG in Alzheimer's disease	Daniel Allen	Red 7
The Binding of Sarah	Haim Ovadia	Yellow 23
Holocaust denial in the post-truth era	Keith Kahn-Harris	Yellow 24

09:20
Morning Seder (Advanced) - Pesach (3 of 4)	Eliot Cohen  Ian Gamse	Red 8
Morning Seder (Intermediate): the day and night versions of Talmudic marriage (3 of 4)	Zahavit Shalev  Avital Hochstein	Red 8
Morning Seder (Beginners) - Times to Pray: Traditionally Radical Talmud (3 of 4)	Yael Roberts  Laynie Soloman	Red 9
Sexuality and sanctity: sex between women - a halakhic opening? (3 of 3)	Rahel Berkovits	Yellow 22

10:40
Genealogy Consultation Drop-in Session	Leigh Dworkin  Laurence Harris  Jeanette Rosenberg	Blue 32
Master your message, reach your goals	Fleur Hassan Nahoum	Blue 33
The Piaseczna Rebbe’s Progressive Educational Vision	Mark Gottlieb	Blue 34
Benjamin Franklin and the Musar movement	Michael Shire	Green 25
Luther was an antisemite - What does that mean for us?	Alon Goshen-Gottstein	Orange 10
Yoga and kabbalah (2 of 2)	Michael Picardie	Orange 11
Life before the Holocaust: Portaits of character	Jono David	Orange 12
Remember Baghdad	Linda Berkowitz  Edwin Shuker  UK Jewish Film Festival	Orange 13
Juliet's Balcony	Ilana Kurshan	Orange 14
When Jews Play Catholics for Jewish Audiences: Directing, Producing, and Theology	Yael Valier	Orange 15
Creativity of creation: a Jewish perspective	Judith Devons	Purple 29
Is Israel “a racist endeavour”?	Noru Tsalic	Red 1
Portuguese citizenship for Sephardic Jews	Ela Cenudioğlu	Red 2
Revisiting halacha: is vegetarian cheese kosher?	Chaim Weiner	Red 3
Body image with a Jewish lens: a poetry writing workshop	Caroline Rothstein	Red 4
Brain Death and Organ Donation in Halacha	Anthony Warrens  Robby Berman	Red 5
Music and spirituality	Chloe Pourmorady  Leilah Broukhim	Red 6
Intermarriage - good, bad or simply a reality?	Michael Wise	Red 7
How can I pray what I don't believe? - A Case Study	Elie Kaunfer	Yellow 23
Muslim Jewish relations in history: golden age or ghetto?	Vivian Wineman	Yellow 24

12:00
Poo and the philosophy of excrement	Samuel Lebens	Blue 33
The Middle East: a strategic overview	Jonathan Spyer	Blue 34
Chair Yoga	Estelle Eugene	Green 25
Sex and Judaism 101	Merissa Nathan Gerson	Orange 10
Translating the Bible: what do the words really mean?	Adele Berlin	Orange 11
Freedom of choice, genetics and epigenetics	Moshe Szyf	Orange 12
Steering clear from kabbalah	Joseph Dweck	Orange 14
How can you be LGBT+ and Jewish in an orthodox community?	Joe Hyman  Dave Shaw  Rachael Fried  Mike Moskowitz  Shonna Levin	Orange 15
Debate: This house believes that the Jewish left corrupts Judaism and endangers Israel	Tal Cohen  Eve Harow  Jonathan Neumann  Keith Kahn-Harris  Simon Gordon	Red 1
Jewish opera composers - Twentieth Century (2 of 2)	David Farbey	Red 2
Practical approaches to combatting antisemetism: a South African case study	Chaya Singer	Red 3
Can we live in a world without genetic disorders? How they impact the Jewish community and what we can do about it	Bianca Sakol  Talia Glantz  Joel Rosenberg	Red 4
Modern loss	Sherre Hirsch	Red 5
Startup Nation creates startups... but what does it get back?	Mark Goldfarb	Red 6
Daughters of Israel in the East: Flora Sasson, a Mizrachi talmidat chachamim	Angy Cohen	Red 7
How to write a play	Stephen Laughton	Red 8
Our sweetest war (a hummus demo)	Gil Hovav	Red 9
Arranging the coals and stoking the fire: whole hog barbecue and the true Jewish soul	Jonah Geffen	Yellow 22

13:20
D’Fina: Jewish Treasures of Southern Morocco	Jason Guberman	Blue 33
DIY choir: the joy of homemade music!	Zöe Jacobs	Blue 34
From pride to protest: reflections on Israel at 70	David Bilchitz	Green 25
How big givers are transforming American Jewish philanthropy	Jack Wertheimer	Orange 10
Brave new world: are alternative communities reshaping the Jewish landscape?	Elie Kaunfer  Frederick Powell	Orange 11
The closing of the progressive mind: Jeremy Corbyn and Zionism	Colin Shindler	Orange 12
Progressive Zionism in 2018: where do we go from here?	Kenneth Bob	Orange 15
Better Know a Jewish Charity - Zionism!	Ben Crowne	Red 1
Inside out: my Israeli Bedouin identity	Jamal Alkirnawi	Red 2
Does religion spoil your sex life?	Hadassah Fromson	Red 3
Charlotte Salomon: art and death, life or theatre?	Irene Wise	Red 4
The Talmud in poetry and art (Daf Yomi - Chullin 29)	Jacqueline Nicholls  Ilana Kurshan	Red 5
Mashav - The Israeli Agency for International Development Cooperation	Christine Owinyi  Vivian Aisen	Red 6
But apart from Mel Brooks, Bette Midler, Larry David, Joan Rivers, Jerry Seinfeld, David Baddiel, Sarah Silverman, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jackie Mason and Mrs Maisel….what have the Jews ever Done For Comedy	Benji Lovitt  Daphna Baram  Rachel Creeger  Raymond Simonson	Red 7
Limmud Book Club: The Dark Circle by Linda Grant (4 of 4)	Shoshi Ish-Horowicz  Aviva Dautch	Red 9
Limmud leadership - is this for you?	David Hoffman  Elements @ Festival Limmud	Yellow 21
Crying and dying	Zahavit Shalev	Yellow 22

13:30
Film screening: A Land Without Borders + Panel Discussion	Sana Knaneh  Ruvi Ziegler  Maya Ilany  Clive Sheldon	Orange 13
The Matrix and the Maharal: the new Jewish philosophy of Rav Shagar	Miriam Feldmann Kaye	Orange 14
Prayer laboratory	Naftali Moses	Red 8

14:25
Gender and clothing: concealing of expressing identity?	Mike Moskowitz	Red 8

14:40
Knit and natter	Social Programming  Melanie Kelly	Blue 32
Trump Station, Jerusalem: mind the gap!	Liat Collins	Blue 33
The strange story of Christian Kabbalah	Harry Freedman	Blue 34
Race in Judaism	Zvi Solomons	Green 25
Roman Vishniac rediscovered	Abigail Morris	Green 26
Einstein for the perplexed	Andres Gomberoff	Green 27
Orthodoxy, what's in the name?	Barry Kleinberg  Ezra Margulies	Orange 10
In conversation with Mala Tribich	Richard Verber  _ March of the Living	Orange 11
Paul, the Torah, and Modern Judaism	Joshua Garroway	Orange 12
Confidentiality, confession and cover-up in halacha	Jeremy Lawrence	Orange 15
Marilyn Monroe and Judaism: The Seventy Faces of Torah	David Levin-Kruss	Red 1
Queer Shulchan Aruch	Shonna Levin	Red 2
Jewish Bloomsbury: the remarkable Isaac Rosenberg (3 of 3)	Aviva Dautch	Red 3
At the crossroads of Sephardic, Mizrahi, and Russian-speaking: the Jewish communities of Central Asia and the Caucasus (pt. 2: Georgian and Mountain Jews) (2 of 2)	Ruben Shimonov	Red 4
Coexist or separate? From Isaac and Ishmael to Jews and Muslims Today- Mahloket Matters!	Daniel Roth	Red 5
Klezmer tunes learning session	Emma Alter	Red 7
The original 10-point plan: Kabbalah as a pedagogical model of leadership	Nicky Gluch	Red 9
Midrash and megillah painting workshop	Siona Benjamin	Yellow 21
MEHITZA. Seen by women - A photographic essay	Myriam Tangi	Yellow 22

16:00
Tea with Mala	Richard Verber  _ March of the Living	Blue 32
Family game-changer	Batsheva Frankel	Blue 33
Pop-Up podcast!	Stephen Laughton  Yochai Maital	Blue 34
American Jews: How they attained their civil and political rights	George Berlin	Green 25
Social judaism - what's that?	Sasha Gold	Green 26
What 20 years in a Chevra Kadisha has taught me about living	Holly Blue Hawkins	Green 27
Understanding Israeli politics - how do you run a country with 12 parties represented in the Parliament?	Kenneth Bob	Orange 11
Water in Israel: source of life and conflict, from then to now	Daniel Goldfarb	Orange 12
Who's Gonna Love me Now?	UK Jewish Film Festival  Alexander Bodin Saphir  Saar Maoz	Orange 13
One in every minyan: navigating intersectionality in the Jewish world	Elliot Jebreel  Yehudah Webster  Gabi Markham  Aviva Braun-Finkler  Hannah Brady	Orange 14
Letters Live at Limmud with Clive Lawton and friends	Aviva Dautch  Raymond Simonson  Caroline Rothstein  Samuel Lebens  Keith Kahn-Harris  Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz  Arya Marvazy  Helena Miller  Benji Lovitt  Clive Lawton  Joseph Dweck  Sarah Pinch	Orange 15
The good hatred - how the political left became a hotbed of antisemitism	Annika Hernroth-Rothstein	Red 1
Wrestling with divine and human beings	Steve Miller	Red 2
No laughing matter - Holocaust and humour	Yoni Berrous	Red 3
Save A Child’s Heart	Vivian Aisen  Sarah Derriey	Red 4
Yerushalayim El-Kuds - from the heart of the conflict: dreaming the future of Jerusalem	Mordechai Zeller  Ghassan Manasra	Red 5
New Jewish Voices: Concert & Conversation	Jacob Kraus  Ellen Allard  Eliana Light	Red 6
The most international Jewish melody	Chloe Pourmorady	Red 7
Limmud Chavruta Project - Israel @ 70 - Shelter and Unity (3 of 3)	Limmud Chavruta Team	Red 9
Which music came first - synagogue or church?	Jonathan Weissbart	Yellow 22

17:30
Oy what a day...	Participant Care Programming	Blue 32
Prayer for atheists	Tamra Wright	Blue 33
Elie Wiesel: An Extraordinary Life and Legacy Writings, Reflections, Photographs — Edited by Nadine Epstein, Foreword by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and Afterword by Ted Koppel.	Nadine Epstein	Blue 34
Humour in Jewish texts	Zvi Solomons	Green 25
Jewish values and healthcare - can two walk together?	Tamar Elram	Green 26
The music and myths of Yom Tov Simkhah Ehrlich	Wojciech Tworek	Green 27
Israel70: Building Artistic Connections exhibition tour (2 of 3)	Nic Abery	Hilton Lobby
Who was Jesus the Jew?	Danny Rich  Ann Conway-Jones	Orange 10
The archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls	Jodi Magness	Orange 11
Tales from the field: teaching, camping and the Torah of life	Shirah Hecht	Orange 12
Thanos, Noah and overpopulation: a Jewish reading of Marvel’s Infinity War	Raphael Zarum	Orange 14
Is the Israeli government doing enough to promote peace with the Palestinians?	Fleur Hassan Nahoum  Colin Shindler  Daphna Baram  Eve Harow  Liat Collins	Orange 15
Unsolved problems	Clive Lawton	Red 1
“The Wellbeing of LGBT+ pupils: A Guide for Orthodox Jewish Schools” – how KeshetUK worked with Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis to create this guide and what is next?	Benjamin Ellis  Alma Reisel  Dalia Fleming	Red 2
The importance of storytelling	Marjorie Ingall	Red 3
Radical inclusivity & religious diversity: is it possible?	Isaiah Rothstein	Red 4
Feldenkrais: finding better balance - freeing up the neck (4 of 4)	Emma Alter	Red 5
Around the world in 7 tales	Jake Berger  Max Naar  Lauren Gross  Hannah Gaventa  Joey Leskin  Georgina Bye	Red 6
More modern jive (2 of 2)	Dan Mackenzie  Jonathan Hunter	Red 7
Singing free	Ella Joy Meir  Mikhal Weiner	Yellow 22

18:40
PJ Library Storytime (4 of 4)	Limmud Families Team	Families Lounge
The Rav - Rav Soloveitchik on the State of Israel (1 of 2)	Barry Kleinberg	Blue 34
Human-centred design and your Jewish community	Kevin Lieberman	Green 25
Lifting up our eyes to the hills - the Golan Heights and international law	Jonathan Turner	Green 26
Graham Greene and the disappearing Jews	Roderick Young	Green 27
Do Jews have a future in the UK?	Marie van der Zyl	Orange 10
Jerome Robbins: Bridging Assimilation and Preserving an American Jewish Presence	Stuart Hecht	Orange 14
Why I’m a Maimonides addict	Joseph Dweck	Orange 15
Under attack: the defenders of Israel’s democracy	Clive Sheldon  Rachel Rose  Liam Getreu  Anna Roiser	Red 1
Litvaks and Galitsianers: Relgious, cultural and linguistic differences	Allan Nadler	Red 2
Sephardi Voices: first hand stories from MENA Jews	Elliot Jebreel	Red 3
Drag 101	Noga Yechieli Wind	Red 7
A tree of life: mapping the growth of the Jewish-environmental movement	David Krantz	Yellow 22

19:10
Peace-building in Israel and Palestine: what's new?	Judith Elkan  Sana Knaneh	Blue 33
Theatre and antisemitism	Stephen Laughton	Orange 11
From survival mode to a leadership mode!	Lior Kaminetsky	Orange 12
Israeli society through the lens of cinema	Eric Goldman	Orange 13
Limmud Beit Midrash Tisch	Beit Midrash Chevrah	Purple 31
The spy next door	Edwin Shuker	Red 4
Ideological trends in the Arab world and implications for Israel	Sarah Feuer	Red 5
Why laughter is the best medicine? (2 of 2)	Vanessa Abraham	Red 6

20:30
Not The Gala	The Not The Gala Directorate	Orange 14
Limmud Festival Gala		Yellow 23

21:50
Board game café	Social Programming	Blue 32
Tragedy and inspiration: Miklos Radnoti, a Hungarian Jewish poet in the 20th Century	Rachel Lazar	Blue 33
Baba Batra and the Communist Manifesto	Samuel Lebens	Blue 34
Images of Jewish women	Eva Frojmovic	Green 25
How Akiva could have changed 40 years of his life	Sara Bucciarelli Zanardo	Green 27
Hidden identities in popular comics	Miriam Libicki	Orange 10
Reconciliation with Canada’s Indigenous peoples: Jewish engagement and response	Adam Moscoe	Orange 11
"All existence whispers to me is secret": the poetry of Rav Kook	Itzchak Marmorstein (Even-Shayis)	Orange 12
Ally-Ship as Spiritual Practice	Mike Moskowitz	Orange 13
A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff and Chavruta: A Drummer's Bat Mitzvah	Alicia Jo Rabins	Orange 14
My great (and short) great grandfather, Eliezer Ben Yehuda, and the revival of the Hebrew language	Gil Hovav	Orange 15
Hot off the press! New elections in Israel- what does it mean? Who are the players? What will the result be?	Robin Moss  Annika Hernroth-Rothstein  Fleur Hassan Nahoum  David Newman  Kenneth Bob	Red 1
Birkat Haminim	Elliott Karstadt	Red 2
Universalism in Jewish thought?	Barry Kleinberg	Red 3
“But you’d be such a great mum…”: understanding the views of childfree women	Sarah Bronzite	Red 4
All Spanish and Portuguese aboard! Brainstorm for international event	David Cassuto	Red 5
Late Night Laughs at Limmud!	Rachel Creeger  Daphna Baram  Benji Lovitt  Aaron Simmonds	Red 6
Strictly Limmud Dancing	Celia Clyne  Daniel Sugarman  Jonathan Robinson  Rachel Rose  Sheila Gewolb  Ivor Jacobs  Hannah Rose  Maurice Stone	Yellow 24

22:00
The Rebbetzin's Disco	Raymond Simonson  Jacqueline Nicholls	Red 7
Night Seder: Shabbat on a Desert Island	Frederick Powell	Red 8

23:00
Late night sing along!	House Band Programming	Red 6

00:10
Midnight Chavruta - Israel @ 70 - Shelter and Unity (3 of 3)	Limmud Chavruta Team	Red 8