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Limmud Festival 2019
Sunday 22 December 2019

08:00
Let's go for a morning stroll (2 of 6)	_ Limmud Social Programming Team	Hilton Lobby

09:30
Race in Judaism	Zvi Solomons	Blue 33
Open Hearth	The Hearth	Green 26
Morning news and brews (1 of 5)	Sarah Tuttle-Singer  _ Limmud Social Programming Team	Purple 31 (Bar)
BDS: The victory of ignorance	Ben-Dror Yemini	Red 2

10:45
My Story is a Bridge: The making of a new play	Kedar Lawrence  Deborah Eliezer	Blue 33
The rise of antisemitism in America	Kelly Hartog	Blue 34
Is the Torah zionist?	Isaac Landes	Green 25
Meditation 1: Keep your feet on the ground and look towards the stars	Janet Berenson	Green 26
Exposing the anti-Israel Hasidic group Neturei Karta. Should we put them out of business?	Zev Brenner	Green 27
Stone skimming's cool	Noah Frankel	Hilton Lobby
From house of worship to cultural centre: how Nidche Israel Synagogue in Mexico City became the “Historic Synagogue of Justo Sierra”	Monica Unikel	Orange 10
(Trans)Gender In Judaism: from the creation story to Kabbalah and Hasidism	Abby Stein	Red 2
"The 1 in 4": empowering Jews who are in interfaith relationships (and their loved ones)	Lex Rofeberg	Red 4
Radical Jewish Poland (1 of 2)	Natalia Czarkowska  Magda Koralewska  Michael Rubenfeld	Red 5
Food and resistance - the Vilna vegetarian cookbook in the wake of antisemitism in Lithuania	Joanne Monica Kanarek	Red 8

12:00
Creativity, text and what next?	Elizabeth Dunoff  Luz Toff	Blue 33
The son who does not know how to ask in Philip Roth’s short fiction “Defender of the Faith” (1 of 4)	David Benkof	Blue 34
Believe in yourself - unlock the 3 keys to empowering your life	Pauline Newman	Green 25
Stories from a Jewish Diasporist in Israel-Palestine	Samson Hart	Green 26
May a non-Jew cook for you - bishul akum?	Nahum Twersky	Green 27
Have you ever noticed that anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, while anyone driving faster than you is a maniac?	Hanan Harchol	Orange 10
"Who does not put themself in danger, will perish in it" - Wolf Biermann	Noëmi Holtz	Orange 11
EU-Israel relations	Jonas Markowitz  Sheila Gewolb	Orange 12
A Song of Peace (Episode 1)	Jake Herman  _ UK Jewish Film	Orange 13
How the Glorious Revolution of 1688, with key Jewish help, created the liberal democratic world	Edward Ben-Nathan	Red 2
Aramaic, a second Jewish language	Einat Ben Josef Lavi	Red 3
How to be a philanthropist on 5 Pounds/Dollars/Euros a week	Richard Marker	Red 4
The theory of antisemitism: BDS and the discourse of the academy	Gabriel Noah Brahm	Red 5
Bringing my Jewish values to work	Naomi Soetendorp	Red 8
God versus humankind: whose works are more beautiful?	David-Yehuda Stern	Red 9 (Boulevard)
Do Jews do karma? The journey of the Jewish soul (1 of 2)	Philippa Gamse	Yellow 21

13:20
How to write Jewish satire	Dan Jacobs	Blue 32
Democracy on the edge	Laura Janner-Klausner	Blue 33
Agnon at the Movies	Jeffrey Saks	Blue 34
Stuck in the middle? Finding work you love at any age	Penelope Toff	Green 25
Opening ritual: landing at Limmud	Rachel Rose Reid	Green 26
What questions are raised about gender identity and judaism in Jill Soloway's hit TV show 'Transparent'?	Tash Hyman	Green 27
Site Sat Nav (2 of 3)	_ Limmud Social Programming Team	Hilton Lobby
Artificial intelligence for Jewish genealogy	Olga Savchuk	Orange 10
Becoming more of the person you wish to be	Caroline Stanley	Orange 11
Trump: best president for Jews ever	Carol Greenwald	Orange 12
Jewish Britain on Film	Mekella Broomberg  Julia Wagner  _ UK Jewish Film	Orange 13
What I learnt about Israelis and Palestinians from working at an interfaith youth movement in East Jerusalem	Ittay Flescher	Red 2
Pivoting towards Asia? Jews and Asia - past, present and future	Zaki Cooper	Red 3
Filling the bucket: mobilising your Jewish community to stop climate change: a Shema@Limmud session	Mirele Goldsmith	Red 4
Changing the world with TOM: Tikkun Olam Makers (1 of 3)	Shoshi Rushnevsky	Red 5
Sacrae: singing 'a cappella' Christian settings of Jewish texts (1 of 2)	John Dunston  Sarah Bronzite	Red 6
Seven berachot	Albert Ringer	Red 9 (Boulevard)
Being a secular humanistic rabbi in Israel	Iris Yaniv	Yellow 22
Operation Yonathan - a personal story	Rami Sherman	Yellow 23

14:40
What is your brand essence? A workshop for nonprofit organisations	Karen Radkowsky	Blue 33
Artists’ responses to the Dreyfus Affair	Irene Wise	Blue 34
Limmud Book Club: Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (1 of 4)	Shoshi Ish-Horowicz  Aviva Dautch	Green 25
Building resilient communities: creativity, diversity and the power of listening	Daniel Neis	Green 26
Wandering Jews: How young Jews are exploring their Judaism through travel	Mia Yellin	Green 27
Let's go for an afternoon stroll (1 of 4)	_ Limmud Social Programming Team	Hilton Lobby
From Adam to AI: what does the Torah say about artificial intelligence?	Raphael Zarum	Orange 10
A Jewish abuela takes on Masterchef Mexico	Reyna Roditi	Orange 11
Money or meaning? Making the most of your 80,000 hours	Sam Fromson  Brett Wigdortz  Tamra Wright  Joanne Greenaway  Helena Miller	Orange 12
Knit and natter (1 of 4)	Melanie Kelly	Purple 31 (Bar)
Israeli national security: a new approach	Daniel J. Levy	Red 2
Not just "Fiddler" - Jews in musicals	Stuart Lewis	Red 3
Do our genes make us Jewish? Lessons from history and geography (1 of 3)	Alan Silman	Red 4
Mikveh 101	Nechama Goldman Barash  Debbie Young-Somers	Red 5
Humorous stories of Chelm, ancient and modern, updated	Eddie Bass	Red 6
The Arabic alphabet for Hebrew readers	Claire Hilton  Michael Hilton	Red 7
Passport to Europe	_ European Union of Jewish Students	Red 8
Introduction to gematria	Ruti Roche	Red 9 (Boulevard)
Singing for body and soul in later life	Thea Jacob	Yellow 22

16:00
Chanukah origami	Shira Solomons	Blue 32
Tikva: poems of hope	Kayla Feldman	Blue 33
Roma: a Mexican neighbourhood with the aroma of Turkish coffee	Monica Unikel	Blue 34
Mark Gertler: "inside out - an ecstasy of destruction"	Frank Vigon	Green 25
The art of the singing circle	Chava Mirel	Green 26
Tindering in Tel Aviv	Lior Diklshpan	Green 27
The Jews of Jamaica	Henry Cohn	Orange 10
Let my people know: Limmud FSU - the story of the first decade - book presentation	Chaim Chesler  Roman Kogan	Orange 11
True trope or trap?	_ Laviot Programming  Mekella Broomberg  Liora Baram  Oli Davidson	Orange 12
Who are the Christians in Israel today?	Hana Bendcowsky	Orange 13
Technology and Torah: the story of Sefaria	Brett Lockspeiser	Orange 14
Innovation on both sides of the Pond: a panel discussion and live podcast recording	Yael Shafritz  Ben Crowne  Jacqueline Nicholls  Lex Rofeberg  Dan Libenson	Orange 15
Textiles as ritual practice	Sydney Switzer	Purple 31 (Bar)
Bring me to Light: Our journey with bipolar disorder	Mike Segall  Eleanor Segall Mandelstam.	Red 2
Fundraising: be the shadchan!	Ilana Jackman	Red 3
Is there anything that can be done to help Alzheimer's?	Daniel Allen	Red 4
The future of American Jewish legacy organisations	Dan Brown	Red 5
Shema!	Ruth Waterman	Red 6
The relationship between Israel and the Disapora	David Stav	Red 7
Succession: Elisha takes the stage	Bex Rosenblatt	Red 8
Caring with presence: the laws of bikur cholim (visiting the sick)	Eryn London	Red 9 (Boulevard)
Rabbi Sabato Morais and 19th century American Jewry	Jeff Berger	Yellow 22

16:15
Stories and Songs	Ben Gundersheimer  Katherine Jamieson	Families Lounge

17:15
Families communal candle lighting	_ Families Programming	Families Lounge

17:20
Chanukah crafts	Ruti Roche	Blue 32
Resistance and accommodation to tyranny	Neil Janes	Blue 33
Chanukah - what does it mean?	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Blue 34
Jewish ways with winter solstice	Rachel Rose Reid	Green 26
The myth and the true miracle of Chanukah	Daniel Anderson	Green 27
The fundamental theorem of Chanukah	Ian Gamse	Orange 10
LGBT+ Open Space – Chanuk-queer making	_ Limmud Social Programming Team	Purple 31 (Bar)
Lighting up our streets	Elazar Symon	Red 3
Communal candle-lighting	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Yellow 24

18:40
Creative starts, creative sparks - how to liberate your creativity and bring joy to the world	Marvin Shaw	Blue 32
Misogynist Film Club: She Rules!	April Baskin  Mekella Broomberg  Jacqueline Nicholls	Blue 33
Richard Wagner and the Jews	John Dunston	Green 25
"Wise Aging" - our bodies, ourselves	Marcia Plumb	Green 26
My body, my choice? Mom, can I get a tattoo?	Adena Berkowitz	Orange 10
Performing Jewishness: The Divine (and Political) Sarah Bernhardt (1 of 3)	Aviva Dautch	Orange 14
Judaism and theatre	Adam Lenson	Red 2
Were the Spartans Jews - or vice versa?	Paul Cartledge	Red 4
Isaac Bashevis Singer's 'The Family Moskat': A chronicle of destruction and hope	Jan Schwarz	Red 7
Israeli education system: centralized autonomy	Omri Mordechai Rosenkrantz	Yellow 22

19:00
Families Kef: The curse of the Chanukah pirates	Corrine Westwood Servi	Families Lounge
Lyla tov: Musical storytime	Gary Somers  Debbie Young-Somers	Rhythm & Blues

19:15
The Bagel Podcast presents: Talmud for Schmeryls	Neil Janes  Deborah Kahn-Harris  Margaret Jacobi  Benjamin Stanley  Leah Jordan  Hayden Cohen	Blue 34
Women writing (Hebrew) poetry: four of my favourites	Peta Pellach	Green 27
Youth movements: past, present, future	Harry Kelly  Georgie Friend	Orange 11
Solidarity forming: how Jews and progressive allies are uniting to fight antisemitism	Yael Shafritz	Orange 12
Torah lishmah - the most radical Jewish concept of all	Matt Plen	Orange 13
Oy, what a day... (1 of 4)	_ Limmud Social Programming Team	Purple 31 (Bar)
Rikud chadash	Natalie Assa  Aviva Schneider  Maurice Stone	Red 1
Redemption or recognition? The relationship between parents and their firstborn	Jeremy Tabick	Red 3
The Yad Vashem educational philosophy: are we still relevant in the 21st century?	Yoni Berrous	Red 5
Stories, songs & memories of the Jewish East End of London	Derek Reid  Pippa Reid	Red 6
Shira Britannia in concert	Shira Britannia	Yellow 24

19:45
Open Hearth	The Hearth	Green 26

20:30
Authentic singles connections	Vanessa Abraham	Blue 32
Crowdsourcing the Jewish Future	Miri Benchetrit	Blue 33
"Lucky Jews" from Poland?	Jan Gebert	Blue 34
Diving deep into devotional chant	Rachel Rose Reid  Yael Tischler	Green 26
Promoting peace in Israel-Palestine with Jews in South Africa: This is what I’ve learned from starting the Jewish Democratic Initiative	Matan Rosenstrauch	Green 27
Help! What’s a Congregationalist?	_ Council of Christians and Jews  Nathan Eddy	Orange 10
Is a tree a human? Is a human a tree?	Margaret Jacobi	Orange 11
Never too old for friendship (for 65+)	Sonia Sassoon  _ Limmud Social Programming Team	Orange 12
Over their dead bodies: on praying at the graves of the righteous	Joel Haber	Orange 13
A 21st century purpose for Jewish education	Helena Miller  Jane Shapiro  Michael Shire	Orange 14
Bar Purple Opening Night Shindig	Kayla Feldman  Neta Weiner  Guy Woolf  Hamutal Gouri  Chava Mirel  Adina Katz	Purple 31 (Bar)
Latin dance for absolute beginners	Joel Peck  Madeline R Young	Red 1
"But we had a female prime minister": The myth of gender equality in Israel	Yael Boim-Fein	Red 2
Israel: on the road	Sarah Tuttle-Singer	Red 3
Palestinians or Jews: Whose land is it?	Geoffrey Ben-Nathan	Red 4
Jews, Finns and Nazis: a controversial situation during the Second World War	Daniel Shaul  Simon Livson  Nic Abery	Red 5
Bach, Mombach, Carlebach! Does synagogue music have to be traditional?	Jonathan Weissbart	Red 6
"Hadran", or theatre and the Rabbis: story of a complicated relationship	Miriam Camerini	Red 7
Desisting violent extremism	Naomi Henkel-Guembel	Yellow 21
Footsteps of King David in the Valley of Elah	Yosef Garfinkel	Yellow 22
Echoes from Sepharad	_ Me Le Amargates Tu  Esteban Roberto Manzano  Doret Florentin  Tulio Rondon  Sarah Ridy  Juan Martínez Cortés	Yellow 24

21:45
So you want to be a rabbi!!! Is that really a job for a Jewish girl or boy?	Danny Newman	Blue 32
Working toward unemployment: when is long-term long enough in international development?	Tamar Lazarus	Blue 33
Barbra Streisand in 'The Way We Were' (1973) - watch and discuss!	Irene Wise	Blue 34
Freedom of pulpit: are there limits on what a rabbi can say?	Gabriel Kanter-Webber	Green 25
Moshiach! Now!	Daniel Lichman	Green 27
Two fires, one burning house	Shais Rishon	Orange 10
Earth Judaism: a Shema@Limmud session (1 of 3)	Jonathan Wittenberg	Orange 11
Can the Torah REALLY be that exciting?	Graham Newman	Orange 12
Populism, Brexit and the future for European Jews	Sheila Gewolb	Orange 13
Is "Stay and Fight" dead? Is there any case for Jews and their allies to stay in the Labour Party?	Luke Akehurst	Orange 14
Why eat when you could drink?	Harry Lampert	Purple 31 (Bar)
Israeli party	Oded Gvaram	Red 1
Small Islands: Big Challenges - why this is a Jewish concern	Clive Lawton	Red 2
Purity, kashrut and sustainability	Deborah Williger	Red 3
Don't mess with the Israelis	Aaron Benderski	Red 4
What now for the Jews of Ethiopia?	Sybil Sheridan	Red 5
Love Island, R. Kelly and the art of being relevant	Ilana Hutchinson  Rachel Vogler	Red 6
Moses and superman: what superheroes teach us about Judaism and what Judaism teaches us about superheroes	Jordan B Gorfinkel	Red 7
"It's just a pin prick!" The law and experience of Hatafat Dam Brit	Roderick Young	Yellow 21
Immigration and disability: two postgraduate theses from the University of Leeds	Susy Goldstone  Sam Brady	Yellow 22
Becoming Electra: a queer mitzvah	Isla van Tricht  Guy Woolf	Yellow 24

22:00
Does G-d have a bellybutton? How to answer perplexing kids' questions about Judaism	Hadassah Fromson  Sam Fromson	Families Lounge

23:00
Karaoke and Open Mic at the Crowne Plaza (1 of 4)	_ Families Programming	Families Lounge

23:00
Board game cafe (1 of 4)	_ Limmud Social Programming Team	Blue 32
Show tune karaoke	Rachael Chomer  Madeline R Young	Purple 31 (Bar)
Where is my beshert? Speed-dating for 20-30	_ Limmud Social Programming Team	Red 1
RIDE - a new musical about one woman and her bicycle	Gal Farhi  Michal Ish-Horowicz	Red 6