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Limmud Festival 2019
Tuesday 24 December 2019

07:45
Early risers: Families shacharit	_ Families Programming	Rhythm & Blues

08:00
Open Hearth	The Hearth	Green 26
Let's go for a morning stroll (4 of 6)	_ Limmud Social Programming Team	Hilton Lobby
V'yarutz v'yomer: he ran and he talked, or "run and chat"	Abigail Morris	Main Bar
Morning news and brews (3 of 5)	_ Limmud Social Programming Team	Purple 31 (Bar)

09:30
Morning Seder - Advanced Level (2 of 4)	Jeremy Tabick  _ Beit Midrash	Red 8
Morning Seder - Intermediate Level (2 of 3)	Joel Levy  _ Beit Midrash	Red 8
Morning Seder - Beginner Level (2 of 4)	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz  _ Beit Midrash	Red 9 (Boulevard)

09:30
Chicken soup for the brain (1 of 2)	Jenny Goodman	Blue 32
How UJIA can bring Israel to your shul	Jonathan Roland	Blue 33
The best Jewish "anti-oppression 101" training you may ever attend in your life. Seriously. (1 of 2)	April Baskin	Blue 34
Orthodox versus Progressive integration in Britain: the debate isn't new	Mark Fox	Green 25
Morning gratitude: visioning, music, and intention-setting	Happie Hoffman  Nasya Miller	Green 26
American big business and the Holocaust: IBM, Ford, Rockefeller and Carnegie	Mark Creeger	Green 27
The inner life of Jewish art 2: discomfiting Pharaoh (2 of 3)	Marc Epstein	Orange 10
The biblical description of Solomon's palace	Yosef Garfinkel	Orange 11
The simple son in Philip Roth’s short fiction “The Conversion of the Jews” (2 of 4)	David Benkof	Orange 12
Why Jews and non-Jews should learn 'Jewish stuff' together	Sonja Vilicic	Orange 13
Extinction Rebellion Jews: this balagan needs our tikkun olam: a Shema@Limmud session	Shulamit Morris-Evans	Orange 14
Vladimir Nabokov: Jewishness in life and work	Anoushka Alexander-Rose	Purple 31 (Bar)
The Jews of Kurdistan: a bridge between two homelands	Ofra Bengio	Red 2
Menachem Begin's attitude toward the Jewish religion	Avi Shilon	Red 3
The lashon hara/ shmirat halashon survival guide	Jane Ansell	Red 4
Trump: making America great again	Carol Greenwald	Red 5
What’s a “normal” Jewish family, anyway?	Jon Freedman  Rebecca Freedman  Rachel Heilbron  Louise Heilbron  Michael Heilbron	Red 6
Everything I learned about Passover I learned from Batman	Jordan B Gorfinkel	Red 7
“Can you spare some change?” – ethical dilemmas and how to solve them	Mia Gray	Yellow 22

10:45
Tsadi is for Tsooras!	Lawrence Cohen	Blue 32
The Bagel Podcast presents Bagel Broigus: Gender & Judaism - what does the future hold?	Hayden Cohen  Michelle Janes  Sally Berkovic	Blue 33
Letting go of the screens - from apathy to empathy	Yael Sapir	Green 25
Intro to Mussar: what if my “get up and go” got up and went?	Monique Mayer	Green 26
Do our genes make us Jewish? But they don’t look like us! (3 of 3)	Alan Silman	Green 27
Teaching Christianity in a Jewish state	Hana Bendcowsky	Orange 10
What IS a rabbi? Is the (Orthodox) world ready for female rabbis?	Miriam Camerini	Orange 11
'Jerusalem on the Riverside?': a Jewish village in a slave society	Aviva Ben-Ur	Orange 12
Eurovision's factory – to be an Israeli participant in the Eurovision song contest, eyewitness	Izchak Sonnenshein	Orange 13
Yiddishspiel: The story so far	Zeilig Rabinovitz  Lihi Shapira	Orange 14
God she’s hot: where’s the mechitza?	Abby Stein  Debbie Young-Somers  Gabi Markham  Esther Craven  _ Laviot Programming	Orange 15
Judaic embroidery	Louise Heilbron	Purple 31 (Bar)
The body and mind self defence programme (for adults)	_ Community Security Trust	Red 1
Soviet Yiddish poetry	Joanne Monica Kanarek	Red 2
Future-proofing the Jewish people: how should we prepare for the worst (and the best)?	Keith Kahn-Harris	Red 3
Family therapy for the Levysons	Mark Goldsmith	Red 4
Rosquitas	Reyna Roditi	Red 5
Storytelling for social change: why and how we tell stories	Hamutal Gouri	Red 6
Optimistic ageing	Lynn Ruth Miller	Red 7
Trust and power in 2 Kings 5	Bex Rosenblatt	Yellow 22
On foot to Jerusalem	Shai Fredo	Yellow 23

12:00
Disability: a concept in motion	Andre Fremd	Blue 33
Zikaron BaSalon in your community	Manuela Alper	Blue 34
Putting your best breast forward	Sonia Sassoon  Annette Margolis	Green 25
Meditation 3: Let it be (Lu y'hi)	Janet Berenson	Green 26
Idolatry for Dummies	Guy Hall	Green 27
Heritage activism in a time of crisis: the unknown British Jewish “Monuments Man” Cecil Roth (1 of 2)	Eva Frojmovic	Orange 10
Shema: hear, listen, understand - and act! The new Jewish environmental network: a Shema@Limmud session	Jeffrey Newman	Orange 11
Nazis and the Jews in the Free City of Danzig	Leslie Michaels	Orange 12
Unsettling	Arik Ascherman  Michael Wegier  Esther Craven  Noam Shuster  _ UK Jewish Film  Atira Winchester	Orange 13
The Panorama whistleblowers in conversation with Luke Akehurst	Luke Akehurst	Orange 15
Volunteering - it's not just for Festival	Georgina Bye  Nicky Goldman	Purple 31 (Bar)
The Mexican “Jesus Mary” Jewry (Are you kidding me?!)	Monica Unikel	Red 2
The challenge of working towards a practical path for advancing gender equality in education	Yael Boim-Fein	Red 3
Jewish student activism in Europe	_ European Union of Jewish Students  Esther Offenberg	Red 4
The world is still our precious oyster, and it needs you	Graham Carpenter	Red 5
Why be an unapologetic Zionist? (1 of 2)	Harry Markham	Red 7
'He set his eyes upon him, and turned him into a pile of bones': rabbinic power and self-criticism	Elliott Karstadt	Red 8
Learn to leyn High Holy Day trope (2 of 3)	Rebecca Blumenfeld	Red 9 (Boulevard)
A coppa in a kippa	Daniel Morris	Yellow 22
"Jewface": is Falsettogate cultural sensitivity towards Jews in the arts, or just the oversensitivity of artistic Jews?	Julia Wagner  Ben Caplan  Raymond Simonson  Adam Lenson	Yellow 23

13:20
Burnt dinners and rebellious wives: who has the right to divorce in Jewish law and how does it work?	Joanne Greenaway	Blue 33
The diaspora’s greatest soldier	Peter Brady	Blue 34
Lord George Gordon (of The Gordon Riots fame (!)) was Jewish!!!	Ian Bloom	Green 25
I wish I’d known about mikveh when...	Lisa Berman  Debbie Young-Somers	Green 26
Uncovering buried histories	Emma Weleminsky-Smith	Green 27
Homeopathy in Jewish life & sources (1 of 2)	Francis Treuherz	Orange 10
Klezmer and weddings: a marriage made in heaven	Nic Abery	Orange 11
LGBT+ and Jewish?: a discussion around what an inclusive Jewish community looks like for you.	Dalia Fleming	Orange 12
Jews, democracy, Israel: Are we too complacent?	Adam Ognall	Orange 15
Everything you wanted to know about Iran’s nuclear programme (short of asking Khamenei himself!)	Noru Tsalic	Red 2
Halacha and organ donation: what are the issues?	Robby Berman	Red 3
The Second World War and Leeds Jews	Ian Vellins	Red 4
Sister suffragette	Sybil Sheridan	Red 5
From the Yiddish of Yitzhak Katznelson to the Ladino of Joseph Nehama: a literary tikkun	Arnau Pons	Red 6
Arguments for the sake of Heaven and/or Twitter	Rena Singer	Red 7
The what, the why and the how - crafting a vision...	Michelle Janes	Yellow 22

14:40
Writing the past: fact or fiction	Liz Cashdan	Blue 32
Seven ponies, one old cinema and a council estate in Toxteth: an interactive workshop on the creative ways you can support your local refugee community.	Esther Sills  _ Council of Christians and Jews	Blue 33
'A Land Without Borders': New Israel Fund film screening and discussion	Atira Winchester	Blue 34
Limmud Book Club: The Cut Out Girl by Bart Van Es (3 of 4)	Aviva Dautch	Green 25
First steps in Mussar	Mark Goldsmith	Green 26
Death, doubt and identity: the Jewish dilemma in Spain before the Expulsion	Cecil Reid	Green 27
Let's go for an afternoon stroll (3 of 4)	_ Limmud Social Programming Team	Hilton Lobby
Picturing Jewish life in ancient Syria	Karen Stern	Orange 10
Disaster strikes: what's next? A simulation in humanitarian aid	Tamar Lazarus	Orange 11
Civil marriage in Israel: an un-holy mess	Nechama Goldman Barash	Orange 12
Two rabbis, 613 questions	Laura Janner-Klausner  Jonathan Romain	Orange 13
An audience with... Lynn Ruth Miller and Rachel Creeger	Lynn Ruth Miller  Rachel Creeger	Orange 14
Election 2020: should Jews back Trump?	Kelly Hartog  Carol Greenwald  Dan Libenson  Zev Brenner  Erielle Davidson	Orange 15
Knit and natter (3 of 4)	Melanie Kelly	Purple 31 (Bar)
Tayelet - Israeli dance for newcomers and returnees!	Maurice Stone  Aviva Schneider  Natalie Assa	Red 1
Robot-ic Judaism: do we count WALL-E in the minyan?	Ellen Flax	Red 2
Israel’s election limbo: why is the country going to the polls (AGAIN)?	Maya Ilany	Red 3
I am a zachor Jew. How about you? (1 of 2)	Michael Wegier	Red 4
Live from our global creative community network: unspoken stories, and food!	Uriel Aiskovich  Deborah Fishman Shelby	Red 5
Daniel Cainer: more Jewish Chronicles	Daniel Cainer	Red 6
The Jews of Africa	Clive Lawton	Red 7
S. O. S. in the classroom: How to prepare ourselves for an unplanned session at school or at the shul	Anita Kantor	Yellow 21
Androginos: a case study from the 'Six Genders of Ancient Israel'	Miriam Kunin	Yellow 22

16:00
Volunteering - it's fun for all the family!	Georgina Bye  Nicky Goldman	Blue 32
Community gardening in Jerusalem - a quiet green revolution	Amanda Lind	Blue 33
The use and abuse of power - Israel's ultimate challenge	Arik Ascherman	Green 25
Companion Voices: six years of singing for people at the end of life	Judith Silver	Green 26
Hamas: paradoxes and unlikely survival	Daniel J Levy	Green 27
Truth, justice, and the American (oy) vey: the significance of the Jewish influence on comic book superheroes	Shais Rishon	Orange 10
Art and activism: a necessary relationship?	Michael Rubenfeld  Joe Hyman  Noam Shuster  Patricia Eszter Margit	Orange 11
Only in Odessa	Mordechai (Motti) Friedman	Orange 12
Humanitarian aid and its challenges, but why IsraAID does it anyway	Tamar Lazarus  Molly Bernstein	Orange 13
Do Jews have a place in identity politics?	Abby Stein  Gabriel Noah Brahm  Omri Mordechai Rosenkrantz  Simon Gordon  Erielle Davidson	Orange 14
The epic journey from Ethiopia to the Knesset	Pnina Tamano-Shata	Orange 15
Bridge and kaluki	Sassy  _ Limmud Social Programming Team	Purple 31 (Bar)
Pilatkes	Tali Swart	Red 1
Exodus 1947 - did my father turn the ship back?	Roderick Young	Red 2
Jewish living as the cultivation of a spiritual pracitice (2 of 3)	Yiscah Smith	Red 3
How to celebrate drawing the Talmud	Jacqueline Nicholls	Red 4
Gay cake and other fascinating recent legal cases about religion	Adam Wagner  Naomi Webber  Jason Braier	Red 5
“Be a Good Girl,” a multimedia theatre piece created to inspire social change	Adina Katz	Red 6
Earth Judaism: a Shema@Limmud session (3 of 3)	Jonathan Wittenberg	Red 7
Limmud Forum	Shoshana Bloom	Red 8
Mystical and spiritual policing	Daniel Morris	Yellow 22
Chanukah concert with Grammy award-winner Mister G and Missus G	Ben Gundersheimer  Katherine Jamieson	Yellow 24

16:15
Chanukah sing and play	Stav Meishar	Families Lounge

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

17:20
Language of light	Linda White	Blue 32
A free nation in the land? Freedom of speech in Israel today	Esther Craven  Jake Goldman	Blue 33
Jewish identity: stage vs. screen	Daniel Daniel	Blue 34
Meditation, coming back home to the body and the breath.	Barbara Cohen	Green 26
Ech korim lecha? ("What's your name?")	Evan Gary Cohen	Green 27
Play the dreidel!	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Main Bar
The unsavoury story behind latkes	Michie Yana-Berger	Orange 10
Building and constructing Biblical Hebrew verbs (1 of 2)	Rachel Montagu	Orange 11
The spiritual journey from Chanukah to Purim: Awakening the dormant within us	Jane Shapiro	Orange 12
How does it feel to be Jewish today in Europe's last dictatorship?	Vlad Zaiko	Orange 13
Red threads, amulets, and chewing buttons: are modern Jewish women practising magic?	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Orange 14
Oy, what a day... (3 of 4)	_ Limmud Social Programming Team	Purple 31 (Bar)
Chair Yoga	Estelle Eugene	Red 1
The core texts for a desert generation: the Jewish tradition of radical innovation	Dan Libenson	Red 2
The secret Jews of Majorca	Dani Rotstein	Red 3
The evolution of human dance	Yosef Garfinkel	Red 4
Who won at Chanukah - the Greeks or the Jews?	Clive Lawton	Red 5
Classical guitar concert	David Frankel	Red 6
Fighting Left Antisemitism, from the left	Dan Jacobs  Keith Kahn-Harris  Barnaby Marder	Red 7
Cruising is a complicated business - an explanation	Malcolm Ginsberg	Yellow 22
Communal candle-lighting	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Yellow 24

18:40
Let's make things	Sydney Switzer	Blue 32
Elections and referendums: To vote or not to vote - what does Torah say?	Anne Clark	Blue 34
What 20 years in a chevrah kadisha has taught me about living	Holly Blue Hawkins	Green 26
No Kaddish for Judeo-Spanish - a meditation on a dying language	Elias Fasja-Cohen	Orange 10
What does Jewish tradition teach us about red string bracelets (roita bendels), amulets (kamayas) & (schlissel) challah baking?	Adena Berkowitz	Orange 11
Post-truth, alternative facts and the Torah of Truth?	Jonathan Wittenberg	Orange 14
Jew-niversity application tips	Sassy	Purple 31 (Bar)
Aeroplane accidents, complex system failures, and teshuva	Kevin Lieberman	Red 2
Can the environment be an avenue for peacebuilding?	Gidon Bromberg	Red 7
Sh'ema: listening as a Jewish practice	Karen Engel	Yellow 21

19:00
Families Kef: Quiz time!	Daniel Fenster Simons	Families Lounge
Lyla tov with PJ library: Little Red Ruthie	Madeleine Fresko-Brown	Rhythm & Blues

19:15
The Jewish art of Jesus and the Crucifixion	Irene Wise	Blue 33
Advanced psychology using the tanach as text book: religious observance, is it CBT or OCD?	Michael Capek	Green 25
Jewish grandparenting today: findings from the U.S. National Study of Jewish Grandparents	Karen Radkowsky	Green 27
Limmud at 40 - help us mark this landmark anniversary	Steve Miller  Helena Miller  Shoshana Bloom	Orange 13
Where is my beshert? Speed dating for 25-35	Adina Katz  _ Limmud Social Programming Team	Red 1
Can trees go before a beit din?	Gabriel Kanter-Webber	Red 3
Points of view from Israeli teens	The Leo Baeck Education Center Haifa	Red 4
Informal exclusion of Jews from social movements - who and why?	Harry Kelly	Red 5
The right of return	Neta Weiner	Red 6
Ensemble Me La Amargates Tú - the story from inside	Doret Florentin  Juan Martínez Cortés  Esteban Roberto Manzano	Yellow 22
(dis)Place[d]: a true story of an Iraqi Jew, a play written and performed by Debórah Eliezer	Deborah Eliezer	Yellow 24

19:45
Open hearth	The Hearth	Green 26

20:30
Dealing with "founders syndrome"	Naomi Soetendorp	Blue 32
Judith Kerr and the journalist who came to tea	Etan Smallman	Blue 33
The argument sketch: Abraham, Moses, and the meaning of life	Michael Kay	Blue 34
How a Jewish girl fell in love with Christian Renaissance Art (how art can change our minds)	Anya Shire-Plumb	Green 25
The power of closing our day with intention and ritual	Happie Hoffman  Nasya Miller	Green 26
The First World War: a personal odyssey - part two (2 of 2)	Robin Moss	Green 27
The chazzan who wrote Hava Nagila ... and invented multimedia	Irwin Manoim	Orange 10
Women in inter-religious dialogue: achievements and challenges	Peta Pellach	Orange 11
The New Israel Fund: democracy, social justice and society	Shira Ben-Sasson Furstenberg	Orange 12
Leona	Jake Herman  _ UK Jewish Film	Orange 13
Those who can... teach: Celebrating teachers who make a difference	Clive Lawton  Helena Miller  Ben Crowne  Tamra Wright  Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz  Aviva Dautch  Rachel Creeger  Miriam Camerini  Raphael Zarum  Joanne Greenaway  Daniel Cainer	Orange 15
Drink 'n' draw ft. Art Kibbutz and the House Band	Patricia Eszter Margit	Purple 31 (Bar)
Stand up - embodied change	Chava Mirel	Red 1
Kids these days	Isaac Landes	Red 2
Does ADHD stop at 18?	Daniel Allen	Red 3
Empowering our future leaders	_ European Union of Jewish Students  Yoni Stone  Esther Offenberg  Lauren Keiles	Red 4
Torah in colour - complicating the commentary & honouring our own "Torah"	April Baskin	Red 5
Sadness Is a White Bird. A reading and conversation with author Moriel Rothman-Zecher	Moriel Rothman-Zecher	Red 6
Choose your Jew: the rise of selective ‘anti/semitism’	Keith Kahn-Harris	Red 7
Courting controversy: activist art in Poland (2 of 2)	Magda Koralewska  Michael Rubenfeld  Natalia Czarkowska	Yellow 21
Heresy! The audacious Jewish power of subversion	David Singer	Yellow 22
Ben Caplan in Concert!	Ben Caplan	Yellow 24

21:45
Long winter nights: a creative exploration	Joe Hyman  David Hochhauser  Rachel Winton	Blue 32
Syrians and Israelis - but not at war: the refugee crisis	Molly Bernstein	Blue 33
Teach to Lead - a career surgery	Joanne Greenaway  Brett Wigdortz	Blue 34
Hearing God’s voice today	Jeremy Tabick	Green 25
Space clearing and closing ritual	Rachel Rose Reid	Green 26
Stamford Hell	Charlie Lewin	Green 27
Marie Kondo, non-linear innovation, and the hidden ten commandments of Jewish transformations	Dan Libenson	Orange 10
Jerusalem and Belfast: two divided cities yearning for peace	Ittay Flescher	Orange 11
Wandering Jews and changing labels: The fluidity of modern Jewish identification	Adam Overlander-Kaye  Raymond Simonson	Orange 12
Camp Mazel: where every day you get lucky	Hayden Cohen	Purple 31 (Bar)
Israeli Dance Party (2 of 3)	Maurice Stone  Aviva Schneider  Natalie Assa	Red 1
100% that bitch (yasher ko'ach)	Hannah Brady	Red 2
Jewish living as the cultivation of a spiritual practice (3 of 3)	Yiscah Smith	Red 3
Confessions of a Jewish broadcaster - musings on Gere, Sharpton, Carlebach, Dershowitz and others	Zev Brenner	Red 4
Blume Lempel's 'Oedipus in Brooklyn': Yiddish short fiction after the Holocaust	Jan Schwarz	Red 5
Ontological loneliness - a psychological guide to faith	Jemma Silvert	Red 6
Creative starts, creative sparks - how to liberate your creativity and bring joy to the world (Session 2 - Mental Creativity) (2 of 3)	Marvin Shaw	Turquoise 16
Writing your life story. You know you have to!	Sue Krisman	Turquoise 20
"When Nobody is Acting With Human Decency, You Must" - spiritual lessons learned protecting Bedouin shepherds	Arik Ascherman	Yellow 21
Blood and vampires - the peshat of Dracula	Andrew Margolis	Yellow 22
Maureen Nehedar in concert: asleep In the bosom of childhood	Maureen Nehedar	Yellow 24

22:00
EasternBeats presents: Yalla Habibi disco party live #2	Gal Farhi	Red 7

22:00
What you need to know to support your children's online life!	Nathan Servi	Families Lounge

23:00
Board game cafe (3 of 4)	_ Limmud Social Programming Team	Blue 32
Tell my bubba, shut up - why UK rap culture is taking over, and why Jews should know about it	Josh Gaventa	Blue 33
Laughter is the best medicine	Vanessa Abraham	Orange 10
'Artscroll or erotica?' and other very holy games	Noa Gendler	Orange 12
Square peg in a black hole - psychedelia for the curious	Nathan Finkel	Purple 31 (Bar)
Secret Screening of Majorca Documentary	Dani Rotstein	Red 2
Amy Winehouse: a Jewish gay icon for the 21st century?	Ethan Axelrod	Red 3
Shrug - what do you mean Jewish comedy?	Abigail Symons	Red 4
A jamming session by the soulful Shine siblings	Uri Shine  Yoni Shine	Red 6

23:00
Karaoke and open mic at the Crowne Plaza (3 of 4)	_ Families Programming	Families Lounge

00:10
Midnight pub quiz	Sassy  _ Limmud Social Programming Team	Monarch