Limmud Festival 2019
Saturday 21 December 2019

08:30
Stretch, bless, sing	Rachel Rose Reid	Green 26
Toys and chill in the families lounge	_ Families Programming Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Main Bar

11:00
Shabbat morning mindfulness	Alina Cohen	Green 26
Shabbat stroll	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Hilton Lobby
Spiritual exile and redemption - Within oneself and the world at large	Yiscah Smith Nechama Goldman Barash	Orange 10
Mystery panel: what does Shabbat mean today? (3 of 4)	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Orange 11
The Dalai Lama, an Imam and a Chief Rabbi walked into...The Golden Temple	Richard Marker	Orange 12
Silly Games for Kids	_ Families Programming	Red 1
Sholem Aleichem and Zionism	Mordechai (Motti) Friedman	Red 2
The house of Jacob: the true story of unrequited passion and sexual rivalry	Isaac Landes	Red 3
What does evolutionary biology tell us about encouraging peace and cooperation?	Joel Peck	Red 4
Getting to the Hebrew root of the matter	Ruti Roche	Red 8
Making dreams real with Psalms 126 and 137: poetry to punctuate your life	Benjamin Stanley	Red 9 (Boulevard)
“What is in my bag?” … A fun session with stories and songs	Caroline Hagard	Yellow 22

14:30
Imagining an earth-based Jewish diasporism	Samson Hart	Green 26
Shabbat stroll	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Hilton Lobby
Toys and chill in the families lounge	_ Families Programming Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Main Bar
Does God want blind faith? Akeidat Yitzchak reconsidered	Joel Haber	Orange 10
Mystery panel: the Jewish woman's place is... (4 of 4)	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Orange 11
Def Jam, Bill Adler and the Public Enemy controversy	Daniel Heller	Orange 12
Silly games for grown-ups	Emma Brand	Red 1
Tales to make the Rabbi's beard go white.	Zvi Solomons	Red 2
Between blasphemy and prayer - Paul Celan: the deconsecrated Shoah	Arnau Pons	Red 4
Shabbat stories with PJ libraries	Madeleine Fresko-Brown	Yellow 22

15:45
The spiritual practice of mindful eating	Yiscah Smith Rachel Rose Reid	Green 26
Board game seudah	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Main Bar
LGBT+ open seudah	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Purple 31 (Bar)
Musical seudah	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Red 1
Seudah and Song	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Red 6
Chavruta seudah	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Red 9 (Boulevard)
Families seudah	_ Families Programming	Yellow 22

17:45
Havdalah	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Yellow 24

18:45
Taharah – A journey of body and soul	Holly Blue Hawkins	Green 26
Shalom Aleichem's 'Tevye the Dairyman': the first Jewish stand-up comedian	Jan Schwarz	Orange 10
Summer camp rikud	Dani Rotstein	Red 1
Jehu ben Nimshi – a biblical Macbeth	Andrew Margolis	Red 2
We are a global, diverse Jewish people - introduction to Jews of Colour, a U.S.-er perspective	April Baskin	Red 4
Shabbat Studio	Linda White	Red 9 (Boulevard)

20:00
Empowerment, authority, and the Beit Midrash: lessons from Pirkei Avot	Elizabeth Dunoff	Orange 10
The greatest Jewish rescue since World War 2	Rami Sherman	Orange 11
Eat like a Kabbalist?	Janet Berenson	Orange 12
A Serious Man	Jake Herman _ UK Jewish Film	Orange 13
Sleep: how do we achieve it and what does the Torah have to say about it?	Jane Ansell	Red 2
The Jewish Nakba: Jewish refugees from Arab lands	Ben-Dror Yemini	Red 3
Rabbinic Judaism as paradigm for best practice in education	Daniel Rose	Red 4
S.Y. Agnon can't go home again	Jeffrey Saks	Red 5
Claiming your national narrative	Kedar Lawrence Deborah Eliezer	Red 9 (Boulevard)
They rededicated the Temple, so what?	Shira Solomons	Yellow 22

21:15
Songs from the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute	Rachel Rose Reid	Green 26
"But Aston Villa ARE my religion!" - when Judaism and sport collide	Lex Rofeberg	Orange 10
Love and fear, an introduction	Hanan Harchol	Orange 12
Music as travel	Joshua Mikutis	Red 2
Advanced psychology using the Tenach as text book: Forgiveness	Michael Capek	Red 3
“You, God, Who Live Next Door:” learning the mahzor through poetry	Anna Leah Bernstein Simpson	Red 4
What's cooking........on Shabbat? Evolution of the Shabbat hotplate	Gary Somers	Yellow 21
Chazanut in the movies	Mordechai (Motti) Friedman	Yellow 22

22:30
What ‘Orange is the New Black’ taught me about being Jewish	Ittay Flescher	Orange 10
Your (sense of) humour	Graham Newman	Purple 31 (Bar)
Sources of inspiration for Israeli teens	The Leo Baeck Education Center Haifa	Red 3
Confessions of a synagogue chairman	Daniel Allen	Red 5
HipHop from Jaffa	Neta Weiner	Red 7
The songs and poetry of Robert Hunter	Bill Shackman	Yellow 21