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Limmud Festival 2019
Monday 23 December 2019

07:45
Families yoga	_ Families Programming	Rhythm & Blues

08:00
Open Hearth	The Hearth	Green 26
V'yarutz v'yomer: he ran and he talked, or "run and chat"	Abigail Morris	Hilton Lobby
Let's go for a morning stroll (3 of 6)	_ Limmud Social Programming Team	Main Bar
Morning news and brews (2 of 5)	_ Limmud Social Programming Team	Purple 31 (Bar)

09:30
Morning Seder - Advanced Level (1 of 4)	Jeremy Tabick  _ Beit Midrash	Red 8
Morning Seder - Intermediate Level (1 of 3)	Joel Levy  _ Beit Midrash	Red 8
Morning Seder - Beginner Level (1 of 4)	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz  _ Beit Midrash	Red 9 (Boulevard)

09:30
Graffiti and the forgotten Jews of antiquity	Karen Stern	Blue 34
Jews can run!	Ivan Lyons	Green 25
Jewish meditation	Michael Picardie	Green 26
I don't know if I can do this - approaching challenge...	Michelle Janes	Green 27
Everything old is new again: Pre-Raphaelite field trip	Marc Epstein  Bill Shackman	Hilton Lobby
Kaddish and the woman mourner	Aviva Goldschmidt Kaufmann	Orange 10
Earth Judaism: a Shema@Limmud session (2 of 3)	Jonathan Wittenberg	Orange 11
Doing Jewish around the world	Sydney Switzer	Orange 12
The Accidental Spy & panel discussion	Jake Herman  _ UK Jewish Film	Orange 13
Does Jewish law allow for religious pluralism?	David Stav	Orange 15
Strudel, schnitzel and sanctuary at the Cosmo	Etan Smallman	Purple 31 (Bar)
Israelis and the Jewish-Christian dialogue: old problems, new challenges	Hana Bendcowsky	Red 2
Why Na'amod is talking about the elephant in the room	Matan Rosenstrauch  Anna Roiser  Leah Jordan  Naomi Magnus  Lauren Chaplin  Nina Morris-Evans  Marco Schneebalg	Red 3
The hand and handwriting in Jewish artefacts	Jacqueline Nicholls	Red 4
Jews at the court of the king: a Purim tale from fourteenth-century Spain	Cecil Reid	Red 5
Building a Jewish future in Europe	Nic Abery  Daniel Shaul  Iakovos Atoun	Red 6
Tales from the archives	Dawn Waterman	Red 7
Responding to the Clive Lawton challenge	Lewis Warshauer	Yellow 22
The desert as an educational inspiration	Yael Sapir	Yellow 23

10:45
Limpets, martyrs, and other difficult volunteers	Miriam Edelman	Blue 32
Gideon Klein: the musician the Nazis tried to silence	David Fligg	Blue 33
Confessions of a kochlefel	Yehudis Fletcher	Blue 34
The amazing and engimatic Dr. G.W. Leitner	Marcus Roberts	Green 25
Useful sources and resources for tracing your Jewish family history	Daniel Morgan-Thomas  Jeanette Rosenberg	Green 27
The conversation every parent dreads... how to talk to your kids about sex	Hadassah Fromson	Orange 10
Chanukah: was everything they taught you wrong?	Andrew Margolis	Orange 11
Update from the government independent advisor on antisemitism	John Mann	Orange 15
"Becoming Electra: a queer mitzvah" - discussion	Isla van Tricht  Guy Woolf  Tash Hyman	Purple 31 (Bar)
Lo nafsik lirkod (don’t stop dancing)	Maurice Stone  Aviva Schneider  Natalie Assa	Red 1
Can Jewish education really change the world?	Matt Plen	Red 2
The First World War: a personal odyssey - part one (1 of 2)	Robin Moss	Red 3
Introducing the Kiverstein Institute - proudly feminist in Israel	Peta Pellach  Hamutal Gouri  Shoshana Jones-resnik	Red 4
Rugelach or rugel-yuck	Harry Lampert	Red 5
Mrs Maisel and friends: the Jewish women behind the TV revolution	Julia Wagner	Red 6
"And the new..." is Jewish boxing making a comeback?	Josh Gaventa	Red 7
Progressive Jewish networks	Alissa Symon	Yellow 22
Why did Jews leave Arab countries? The case of Morocco	Lyn Julius	Yellow 23
A rabbi and a minister walk into a bar - stories, faith & fun	Bruce Thompson  Debbie Young-Somers	Yellow 24

12:00
Jewish values, human rights and Palestinians	Marion Hersh	Blue 33
What do the statistics say about antisemitism?	Mark Gardner  Dave Rich	Blue 34
I wish I'd had that place to go	Miriam Berger  Sam Clifford	Green 25
Death Café: an open conversation around the end of life	Holly Blue Hawkins	Green 26
Go green: ecological innovations in Israel	Oded Gvaram	Green 27
"Refugees Welcome"? What is our responsibility to newcomers?	Molly Bernstein  Amos Schonfield  Jonathan Berezovsky  Adam Moscoe	Orange 10
Is the Labour Party institutionally antisemitic? (1 of 2)	Adam Wagner	Orange 11
Jews, now presented in technicolor	Shais Rishon	Orange 12
An audience with... Daniel Cainer and Rachel Creeger	Rachel Creeger  Daniel Cainer	Orange 13
Always be my Bibi: will the new Israeli government differ from the last - and should it?	Avi Shilon  Omri Mordechai Rosenkrantz  Jonathan Roland  Maya Ilany  Ben-Dror Yemini	Orange 14
The media: antisemitism, transgender, and the Women's March	Abby Stein	Orange 15
Barista lounge panel: What’s on the menu	Clive Lawton  Raymond Simonson  Hannah Brady  Deborah Kahn-Harris  Sharyn Bistre Dabbah	Purple 31 (Bar)
The body and mind self defence programme (for adults)	_ Community Security Trust	Red 1
A rabbinic view of human rights In Israel	Arik Ascherman	Red 2
Harnessing the immense power of humility!	Hanan Harchol	Red 3
A Jewish-run newspaper which took on apartheid	Irwin Manoim	Red 4
Jerusalem, a love story	Sarah Tuttle-Singer	Red 5
How rich they are: the life story of Yehuda Amichai	David Finlay	Red 6
Why do Christians care about Israel/Palestine and what are they doing to support Christians in the wider Middle East	Elizabeth Harris-Sawczenko  Richard Sudworth  Tim Livesey  _ Council of Christians and Jews  Hana Bendcowsky	Red 7
To learn the Torah of the world	Eryn London	Red 8
Food, politics, Judaism and us – how to navigate an ethical life and help save the globe: a Shema@Limmud session	Steve Miller	Red 9 (Boulevard)
Swedish death cleaning: Jewish perspectives	Juliet Landau-Pope	Yellow 22
The Lib Dems and the Jews - from the party of Jenny Tonge to the party of Luciana Berger	Charlotte Henry	Yellow 23
Yellow star, red star	_ March of the Living  Agnes Kaposi	Yellow 24

13:20
Flick the switch: changing behaviour to change the climate: a Shema@Limmud session	Mirele Goldsmith	Blue 33
Building social cohesion through interfaith camping	Jeff Berger  Rivka David  Kashif Merchant	Blue 34
Changing the world with TOM:Tikkun Olam Makers (2 of 3)	Shoshi Rushnevsky	Green 25
Fertility journeys: Supporting self, family, friends, & those in our communities who struggle with fertility	Lisa Berman	Green 26
Opening of the heart: becoming a Jewish grandparent	Jane Shapiro	Green 27
The power of water… in the water	Abigail Morris  Rachel Heilbron	Hilton Lobby
Genealogy consultation drop-in	Daniel Morgan-Thomas  Jeanette Rosenberg  Leigh Dworkin	Main Bar
Mapping segregation: from San Francisco's Chinatown to the Jewish East End and beyond	Laura Vaughan	Orange 10
Orthodox women rabbis? The state of play and how we got here	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Orange 11
Tour! What is it good for?	Robin Ashleigh	Orange 12
From elections to etrogs: life at the Board of Deputies	Marie van der Zyl  Amanda Bowman  Sheila Gewolb	Orange 13
Sefaria tutorial: how to learn and create on Sefaria	Brett Lockspeiser	Orange 14
Journey to the moon and beyond	Kfir Damari	Orange 15
Arts salon	Jacqueline Nicholls  Mekella Broomberg	Purple 31 (Bar)
Religious discrimination and the Jews	John Bowers	Red 2
The shekel and the shofar: billion dollar fines and whistle-blowing lines	Mark Creeger	Red 3
The 7 habits of highly effective Jews	Simon Rickman	Red 4
Jewish living as the cultivation of a spiritual practice (1 of 3)	Yiscah Smith	Red 5
Giving dilemma - what causes should I support?	Adam Overlander-Kaye  Robin Nobel  Libby Burkeman  Amy Braier	Red 6
Inclusive Judaism	Jonathan Romain  David Mitchell	Red 7
1391: How the anti-jewish riots in Spain led to Inquisition and expulsion	Michael Schraer	Yellow 22
How football can tackle antisemitism?	Marc Sugarman  John Mann	Yellow 23
Knowledge, feeling or fun – what’s the most important thing for young people in a Jewish school?	Helena Miller  Tamra Wright  Raphael Zarum  Joanne Greenaway	Yellow 24

14:40
The carefulness and wildness of writing a novel: workshop with author Moriel Rothman-Zecher	Moriel Rothman-Zecher	Blue 32
Are we transmitting on the same frequency as everyone else? How the media reports on Jews and Israel	Zev Brenner	Blue 33
Jews of Kaifeng, Harbin and Shanghai	Nicholas Zhang	Blue 34
Limmud Book Club: The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy (2 of 4)	Aviva Dautch  Shoshi Ish-Horowicz	Green 25
"Ein od milvado" - we are all connected!	Marc Frank	Green 26
Creating connections and bringing people together in post-war Bosnia	Ruth Waterman	Green 27
Let's go for an afternoon stroll (2 of 4)	_ Limmud Social Programming Team	Hilton Lobby
"Your Podcast is my synagogue" - why we should embrace digital Judaism	Dan Libenson  Lex Rofeberg	Orange 10
It's all about yes: bringing radical inclusivity into our spaces and organisations	Lisa Berman	Orange 11
A Jewish judge's journey	John Dyson	Orange 12
Shorts including Gefilte, Black Hat, Home and On the Beaches	_ UK Jewish Film	Orange 13
Should the Jewish community (still) be worried about the Labour Party?	Andrew Gilbert  Jess Phillips  Wes Streeting	Orange 15
Coffee & cake with Agnes Kaposi	_ March of the Living  Agnes Kaposi	Purple 31 (Bar)
Sacrae: singing 'a cappella' Christian settings of Jewish texts (2 of 2)	John Dunston  Sarah Bronzite	Red 1
R. Soloveitchik's lonely men, halakhic men (and women)	Jeffrey Saks	Red 2
The alphabetic mind (part 1) (1 of 2)	Joel Levy	Red 3
Mir blaybn do! We stay here: The messianic revolution of the Bund	Miriam Camerini	Red 4
The couscous experience: from a Masterchef Mexico finalist	Reyna Roditi	Red 5
Piyyutim workshop with Maureen Nehedar	Maureen Nehedar	Red 6
For goodness' sake: a new chapter in Jewish-Christian dialogue	Rob Thompson  Nathan Eddy  _ Council of Christians and Jews  Ann Conway-Jones  Debbie Young-Somers	Red 7
Irving Berlin, Chagall, M&S and Phoebe (from Friends): the Jewish world of Belarus	Debra Brunner  Vlad Zaiko	Yellow 22

16:00
Come study with us: intergenerational Jewish learning	Luz Toff	Blue 32
The online “gamification” of far-right terrorism	Mark Gardner  Dave Rich	Blue 33
The Church response to the Holocaust: British Christian army chaplains and the liberation of Bergen-Belsen	Rob Thompson  _ Council of Christians and Jews	Blue 34
Tackling sexual violence at universities	Rachel Vogler  Ilana Hutchinson	Green 25
Meditation 2: float like a butterfly; don't sting like a bee	Janet Berenson	Green 26
Hurricane Dorian, 72 hours later: a category 5 case study in the Bahamas	Tamar Lazarus	Green 27
Chulent and hamin: the stew with 1000 flavours	Joel Haber	Orange 10
The problem with Easter	Bernard Cohen	Orange 11
The unschoolables? Explore how the JW3 Gateways programme tackles the issue of young people unable to cope within mainstream education	Aviva Goldschmidt Kaufmann  Ali Kosiner  Sarah Mendelsohn  Laurence Field	Orange 13
Contemporary Yiddish culture and life	Michael Wegier  Jan Schwarz  Kobi Luria  Vivi Lachs	Orange 14
(Re-)imagining Jewish: what should our people look like in the future?	Isaac Herzog  Sarah Tuttle-Singer	Orange 15
Knit and natter (2 of 4)	Melanie Kelly	Purple 31 (Bar)
Modern jive dancing (1 of 2)	Jonathan Hunter	Red 1
The new Israel, the new cultural gatekeepers	Akin Ajayi	Red 2
Climate change and national security in the Middle East	Gidon Bromberg	Red 3
Jews, colonialism and Israel	Lyn Julius	Red 4
Disruption, deconstruction, transformation - are we there yet?	Richard Marker	Red 5
Shira Britannia: David Hoffman showcase	David Hoffman  Shira Britannia	Red 6
Circus Jews under National Socialism: a hybrid talk/performance	Stav Meishar	Red 7
Getting out the pit through Psalm 30: Poetry to punctuate your life	Benjamin Stanley	Red 8
In defence of "eye for an eye"	Jeremy Tabick	Red 9 (Boulevard)
Antisemitism - the original fake news	Charlotte Henry	Yellow 21
Midnight in Paris, travels in time, Woody Allen and Talmud philosophy	Uriel Aiskovich	Yellow 22
The revival of Jewish life in Kraków	Mateusz Lagosz	Yellow 23
London Jewish Male Choir	_ London Jewish Male Choir	Yellow 24

16:15
Echoes from Sepharad for children	Doret Florentin  Sarah Ridy  Juan Martínez Cortés  Esteban Roberto Manzano  Tulio Rondon  _ Me Le Amargates Tu	Families Lounge

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

17:20
Safer Dating	Adina Katz  Rachel Vogler	Blue 32
Intro to Mussar: how can I honour someone when they’re wrong?	Monique Mayer	Green 26
In conversation with...?	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Main Bar
The rebbe of Montreal: Jewish themes in the songs of Leonard Cohen	Sonja Vilicic	Orange 10
Is AI the new improved Golem or a Golden Calf?	Laura Janner-Klausner	Orange 11
Who really won on Chanukah? Hellenization and the Jewish future	Raphael Zarum	Orange 14
Oy, what a day... (2 of 4)	_ Limmud Social Programming Team	Purple 31 (Bar)
Chagim for everyone - Jewish festival dances	Maurice Stone  Aviva Schneider  Natalie Assa	Red 1
Gaza: preparing for dawn - or permanent darkness?	Donald Macintyre	Red 4
Lighting the darkness: Chanukah, the visual, and Jewish learning	Marc Epstein	Red 5
Concert and book reading with Grammy-winner Mister G	Ben Gundersheimer  Katherine Jamieson	Red 6
“A goal without a plan is just a wish!” (quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupery)	Jackie Kramer  Iris Orenstein	Red 7
Begin’s eye patch and other misapprehensions about Israel	Akin Ajayi	Yellow 21
The God of mathematics and the mathematics of God	Paul Freedman	Yellow 22
Communal candle-lighting	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Yellow 24

18:40
70 tongues	Neta Weiner	Blue 32
It’s hard to be a saint in the city	Joshua Mikutis	Blue 33
Gentle yoga, coming back home to the body and the breath	Barbara Cohen	Green 26
"Hath not a Jew eyes?": writing Jews for non-Jewish audiences	Amitai Landau-Pope	Orange 10
Limmud North America: a new frontier	David Singer  Faye Rosenberg-Cohen	Orange 12
Europe spotlight: diversity not division - designing inclusive communities	Sonja Vilicic  Dariya Melamed  Michael Göcken  Rebecca Lillian	Orange 14
Asenath Barzani: A woman rabbi in 17th century Kurdistan	Ofra Bengio	Red 2
Can water heal?	Lisa Berman  Dalia Fleming  Miriam Berger	Red 3
The struggle for citizenship: Ottoman Jewish immigrants in inter-war Britain	Aviva Ben-Ur	Red 4
The Jewish future of the State of Israel	David Stav	Red 7
Jewish masculinity project - models of Biblical masculinity	Anthony Nicholls	Yellow 22

19:00
Families Kef: The domino challenge	Madeleine Fresko-Brown	Families Lounge
Lyla Tov with PJ library: Chanukah Bear	Emma Bergen	Rhythm & Blues

19:15
The Industry of Lies: Myths & facts about the Israeli-Arab conflict	Ben-Dror Yemini	Blue 34
Kabbalah and the philosophy of Henri Bergson	Bill Shackman	Green 25
The lost Jews and synagogue, of Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales	Marcus Roberts	Green 27
Antisemitism, Brexit, Corbyn: an ABC of UK Jewish public policy	Phil Rosenberg	Orange 11
The Humorist	Jake Herman  _ UK Jewish Film	Orange 13
Desert island discs	Laura Janner-Klausner  Abby Stein	Orange 15
Launching Jcal - the new Jewish digital events platform	Chloe Elton  Jake Welford	Purple 31 (Bar)
Where is my beshert? Speed dating for 35-50	_ Limmud Social Programming Team  Rachel Creeger	Red 1
Israel’s uneasy status quo: a textual deep dive	Shira Ben-Sasson Furstenberg	Red 5
Miriam's Sister in concert	_ Miriam's Sister	Red 6
Yiddishspiel in performance	_ Yiddishspiel  Kobi Luria  Irma Stefanov	Yellow 24

19:45
Open Hearth	The Hearth	Green 26

20:30
Learn to leyn High Holy Day trope (1 of 3)	Rebecca Blumenfeld	Blue 32
Sex education ('RSE') in UK Jewish secondary schools	Sarah Bronzite	Blue 33
Say "No to racism", say maybe to antisemitism!	Dan Marks	Green 25
Becoming a powerful bridge-builder	Nasya Miller	Green 26
Instagram Judaism: vapid or invaluable?	Rena Singer	Orange 10
Who and what is an elder? A Shema@Limmud session	Jeffrey Newman	Orange 11
Yiddish poetry and the collective memory of the shtetl	Joanne Monica Kanarek	Orange 12
Israel's challenges in the international arena of 2020	Ben-Dror Yemini  Pnina Tamano-Shata  Shai Fredo  Izchak Sonnenshein	Orange 15
Mazel Tov and cocktails: an hour of treif comedy!	Elie Kraft  Katie Price	Purple 31 (Bar)
Orthodox women writing their lives	Sally Berkovic  Adena Berkowitz	Red 2
Performing Jewishness: the queerly radical Claude Cahun (2 of 3)	Aviva Dautch	Red 3
Career mothers and religious feminism	Roni Hazon Weiss	Red 4
How can we teach the next generation to love being Jewish?	Raymond Simonson  Robin Moss  Adi Rothman Berman  Shifra Morris-Evans  Yvette Zinger	Red 5
The time of singing is come	Judith Silver	Red 6
Visions, Lenses, Perspectives - Texts and Interpretations	Michelle Janes  Jeffrey Saks  Madeline R Young  Joel Peck  Jordan B Gorfinkel	Red 7
Do our genes make us Jewish? They f*** you up your Mum and Dad! (2 of 3)	Alan Silman	Yellow 21
The Shunammite woman	Bex Rosenblatt	Yellow 22
Daniel Cainer: Jewish Chronicles	Daniel Cainer	Yellow 24

21:45
LGBT+ social space	Dalia Fleming	Blue 32
The little drop that holds the plentitude of the ocean: on poetry and political agency	Hamutal Gouri	Blue 33
If you could see Cabaret through my eyes…	David Benkof	Blue 34
Wanted: Jewish educators	Neil Janes  Michael Wegier	Green 25
The Tea Salon: a delicious space for reflection	Deborah Eliezer	Green 26
Jewish Calcutta through music and memory	Rahel Musleah	Green 27
Brain dead with a beating heart: are you alive or dead?	Robby Berman	Orange 10
The role of the Society for the Protection of Nature - educate, love, protect	Amanda Lind	Orange 11
Never again means Jewish struggle and solidarity in the era of Trump	Yael Shafritz	Orange 12
Avoidable deaths: the cell phone as a tool	Andre Fremd	Orange 13
Not in front of the goyim	Moriel Rothman-Zecher  Sarah Tuttle-Singer  Maya Ilany  Phil Rosenberg	Orange 14
Is Limmud the template for the future of Judaism? Panel discussion and podcast recording	Clive Lawton  Shoshana Bloom  Dan Libenson  Keith Kahn-Harris  Lex Rofeberg	Orange 15
Late night Jewish comedy	Lynn Ruth Miller	Purple 31 (Bar)
Israeli dance party (1 of 3)	Maurice Stone  Aviva Schneider  Natalie Assa	Red 1
Does God sleep?	Elazar Symon	Red 2
What making Zionist Top Trumps taught me about Zionists and Top Trumps	Yoni Stone	Red 3
The borders issue in David Ben Gurion's perception	Avi Shilon	Red 4
The inner life of Jewish art 1: Zipporah's pout (1 of 3)	Marc Epstein	Red 5
Veranenu song session	Adi Rothman Berman  Charley Katan	Red 6
Reconceptualising autism - building the Autistic Empire	Sarah McCulloch	Red 8
When to follow and not follow after your heart	Joshua Black	Red 9 (Boulevard)
Passover with a Hitler fan	Jonathan Berezovsky	Yellow 21
Fighting (our) demons: Toward a theology of evil in Torah & Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Leah Jordan	Yellow 22
Chava Mirel in concert!	Chava Mirel	Yellow 24

22:00
Challah Back Girls	Shana Boltin  Libby Burkeman	Red 7

22:00
Strictly come parenting	Corrine Westwood Servi  Nathan Servi	Families Lounge

23:00
Board game cafe (2 of 4)	_ Limmud Social Programming Team	Blue 32
The Jewish stock exchange	Amos Schonfield  Daniel Fenster Simons	Orange 10
Late night laughs at Limmud!	Joel Haber  Lynn Ruth Miller  Hayden Cohen  Elie Kraft  Rachel Creeger  Noam Shuster  Katie Price	Purple 31 (Bar)
Sing-a-long-a-Simon	Simon Style	Red 1
No laughing matter - Holocaust and humour	Yoni Berrous	Yellow 21
Shira Britannia: Dean Staker showcase	Shira Britannia  Dean Staker	Yellow 24

23:00
Karaoke and Open Mic at the Crowne Plaza (2 of 4)	_ Families Programming	Families Lounge