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Limmud Festival 2019
Wednesday 25 December 2019

07:45
Families Mindfulness	Jessica Overlander-kaye	Rhythm & Blues

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

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

09:30
Global Jewish responsibility: from Adam to Zionism	Joshua Mikutis	Blue 33
Vienna in the late 19th century	Mordechai (Motti) Friedman	Blue 34
The power and potential of volunteering to change the world....	Andrea Kelmanson	Green 25
Abraham Sutzkever's 'Ghetto Poems' and 'Green Aquarium': Poetic Survival in the Vilna Ghetto	Jan Schwarz	Green 26
How to read classical Greek for Hebrew readers	Michael Hilton	Green 27
What makes you angry? Mussar on managing anger	Marcia Plumb	Orange 10
If you are still a Socialist (Zionist) when you are thirty....	Tamar Levi	Orange 11
Mexican synagogues: ¿what do the buildings tell us?	Monica Unikel	Orange 12
Gay, Jewish, Israeli, conservative	Evan Gary Cohen  Omri Mordechai Rosenkrantz	Orange 13
Balkan chronicles: countries at war - Jewish communities at peace	Sonja Vilicic	Orange 14
Embroider a Jerusalem scene	Vivien Spevock	Purple 31 (Bar)
Yoga for all	Gabi Markham	Red 1
We're all doomed! The pessimistic predictions of the early Zionists	Robin Moss	Red 2
L’Dor va’dor: the miracle of intergenerational relationships	Judith Ish-Horowicz	Red 3
Can creativity replace or complement traditional therapy?	Marvin Shaw	Red 4
Shtisel: the passion and pain of a Haredi heartthrob	Julia Wagner	Red 5
Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Sabbath in Portugal": medieval persecution, modern angst	Aviva Ben-Ur	Red 7
Changing the world with TOM:Tikkun Olam Makers (3 of 3)	Shoshi Rushnevsky	Yellow 22
My father was a wandering European	Simon Albert	Yellow 23
I'm a Zachor Jew. How about you? (2 of 2)	Michael Wegier	Yellow 24

10:45
An enigma wrapped in a mystery: women and the recitation of Kaddish	Adena Berkowitz	Blue 33
If I told you I'd have to kill you (only joking!)	Zvi Solomons	Blue 34
Perceptions of Jews and money: responding from head and heart	Michael Shire  Paul Silver-Myer	Green 25
Cyber and you, a Judaic perspective	Maureen Kendal	Green 26
Arguing for arguments	Ben Winton	Green 27
Book dippers - a kind of literary speed dating	Sandra Webber	Main Bar
Faith in food: Ricette e Precetti, on food and religion(s)	Miriam Camerini	Orange 10
If not for God's Torah: socio-economic justice in the thought of Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch	Arik Ascherman	Orange 11
Is the Labour Party institutionally antisemitic? (2 of 2)	Adam Wagner	Orange 12
Re-annotated Alice	Peta Pellach  Abigail Morris  Jake Herman  _ UK Jewish Film	Orange 13
“Tikva Israelit” – “Hope for Israel” for shared existence	The Leo Baeck Education Center Haifa	Orange 15
HaMakom: a Jewish path to wellbeing, wisdom and awakening	Danny Newman	Red 1
Working women? Professional occupations of ancient Jewish women	Karen Stern	Red 2
Bar Kokhba: valiant hero or the greatest disaster in Jewish history	Vivian Wineman	Red 3
Performing Jewishness: the anxiety of influence (3 of 3)	Aviva Dautch	Red 4
The best Jewish racial justice / anti-oppression training you may ever attend in your life, seriously (2 of 2)	April Baskin	Red 5
But where was She in the Shoah?	Becky Tuck	Red 6
State of the Jewish transgender community	Abby Stein	Red 7
Refugees against refugees	Jonathan Berezovsky	Yellow 22
Og - the last giant	Raphael Zarum	Yellow 23
Polemics and Poetics: The tensions and intersections between art and activism.	Raymond Simonson  Neta Weiner  Moriel Rothman-Zecher  Rachel Rose Reid	Yellow 24

12:00
Pride or prejudice? The Y word in football	Toby Millis	Blue 33
Israel's history through music	Robert Brody	Blue 34
The Brighton & Hove Jewish Community 1910 - 1920: the effects of the Great War on a provincial community	Michael Crook	Green 25
Jews in Polish POPulture	Jan Gebert	Green 26
Does gender equality = empowering women? The cost of leaving men behind	Yael Boim-Fein	Green 27
What the HBO series ‘Our Boys’ teaches us about solidarity, grief and revenge	Ittay Flescher	Orange 10
Religion and state in Israel: the unholy connection	Shira Ben-Sasson Furstenberg	Orange 11
Jerusalem volunteers for the environment	Amanda Lind	Orange 12
Ethiopian-Israeli culture	Shai Fredo	Orange 13
An audience with... Rachel Creeger and Hayden Cohen	Hayden Cohen  Rachel Creeger	Orange 14
The future of Jewish social events	Jake Welford  Chloe Elton	Purple 31 (Bar)
Modern jive dancing (2 of 2)	Jonathan Hunter	Red 1
O brother, where art thou? The Jewish presence in Martin Gilbert's histories	Esther Gilbert	Red 2
Wilding and Judaism - does Tikkun Olam mean letting go and handing back to nature?	Jeremy Dable	Red 3
Numbers in the news	Daniel Bernstein Vulkan  Keith Kahn-Harris  Anthony Reuben	Red 4
Bar Kochba - the other failed messiah	Daniel Anderson	Red 5
Manifesting joy	Happie Hoffman  Nasya Miller	Red 6
Young, Jewish and beating up fascists - The amazing story of the 43 Group	Daniel Sonabend	Red 7
Uncovering nakedness (Talmud style)	Nechama Goldman Barash	Red 8
LGBTorah	Joe Hyman	Red 9 (Boulevard)
The dismemberment of Amnon – masculinity and the rabbis	Neil Janes	Yellow 22
My exodus from Aleppo	Ofra Bengio	Yellow 23
Intersectional anti-Zionism and antisemitism in the US	Gabriel Noah Brahm	Yellow 24

13:20
Hebrew education, Zionism and the experience of loss through the story of Ben-Zion Mossinson	Sivan Atzmon	Blue 33
The star-spangled swastika: how Nazi science and ideology shaped the American future	Mark Creeger	Blue 34
Peru, Serbia, Israel and the mud: in search of happiness	Andre Fremd	Green 25
Meet a young Catalan Jew who is innovating with London's Jewish events	Linda Cesana Benguigui	Green 26
American Jews, America and Israel - it'll never be as it was , and it's going to be a problem	Ivan Ciment	Green 27
Beadweaving: beads to bracelets	Micah Shire-Plumb	Main Bar
Alan Kurdi: the Syrian boy who woke up the world	Tamar Lazarus  Molly Bernstein	Orange 10
Who are the modern ovdei-avodah zarah (idol worshippers)?	Natasha Mann	Orange 11
Ezra Koenig: indie rock's biggest Jewish influence?	Daniel Heller	Orange 12
When we don’t respect our leaders	Jeremy Tabick	Orange 13
From the front line: negotiating with the German government for compensation for Holocaust survivors	Karen Heilig	Orange 14
House building and demolitions in the occupied territories	Shira Ben-Sasson Furstenberg  Arik Ascherman  Moriel Rothman-Zecher  Esther Craven	Orange 15
Art Kibbutz and The Typewriter Project	Patricia Eszter Margit	Purple 31 (Bar)
Brain and body percussion workshop	Juan Martínez Cortés  Doret Florentin	Red 1
Bialik, Jabotinsky and the national idea	Steve Miller	Red 2
21st century Jewish communities S.U.C.K!	Shoshana Jones-resnik	Red 3
A digital first synagogue	Brian Teeman	Red 4
Jewish masculinity project - empirical study of contemporary young Jews in Britain	Anthony Nicholls	Red 5
Educate and rock the planet with songs: a Shema@Limmud session	Jessica Gold	Red 6
Control and violence: Questioning equality in the Song of Songs	Deborah Kahn-Harris	Red 7
Making "Old Stock: a Refugee Love Story"	Ben Caplan	Yellow 21
The healing power of Hasidic principles	Hadassah Fromson	Yellow 22
Spirituality and superheroes	Jordan B Gorfinkel  Raphael Zarum	Yellow 23

14:40
My teacher, Nehama (Leibowitz) - empowered and empowering	Peta Pellach	Blue 32
Who owns the Holocaust?	Yoni Berrous	Blue 33
The state and the holy - the challenges of the Holy Place for Israel	Hana Bendcowsky	Blue 34
Limmud Book Club: Live a Little by Howard Jacobson (4 of 4)	Aviva Dautch	Green 25
Being an autistic adult in a neurotypical world	Sarah McCulloch	Green 26
Europe spotlight: engaging young adults in Jewish life - tips from practitioners	_ European Union of Jewish Students  Vlad Zaiko  Natalia Czarkowska  Balint Jobbagy	Green 27
Let's go for an afternoon stroll (4 of 4)	_ Limmud Social Programming Team	Hilton Lobby
Things of substance	Liz Cashdan	Main Bar
Opening of the heart: Embodying the story	Jane Shapiro	Orange 10
What happens when family stories are not known? The grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Holocaust survivors	Marshall Duke	Orange 11
Lessons from lunch	Libby Burkeman	Orange 12
Last stop Coney Island - life and photography of Harold Feinstein & panel discussion	David Benkof  Irene Wise  Jake Herman  _ UK Jewish Film	Orange 13
Lance Forman MEP - in conversation with Jonathan Neumann	Lance Forman  Jonathan Neumann	Orange 15
Knit and natter (4 of 4)	Melanie Kelly	Purple 31 (Bar)
I co-edited a Sephardi egal siddur and didn't even fail my degree (yet)	Isaac Treuherz	Red 2
The Chuetas of Majorca – hidden crypto-Jewish descendants	Dani Rotstein  Arnau Pons	Red 3
The complete rabbinic library in 60 minutes or less	Isaac Landes	Red 4
Antisemitism in America: what the far-left and far-right have (and don’t have) in common	Erielle Davidson	Red 5
Sondheim at 90: in concert	Adam Moscoe	Red 6
Becoming Eve: my life from a Chasidic rabbi to transgender woman	Abby Stein	Red 7
Providing a Kad Shemen for Jewish Life - dance as food for the soul	Natalie Assa  Aviva Schneider  Maurice Stone	Yellow 22

16:00
Jewish cartoon workshop	Jordan B Gorfinkel	Blue 32
Holy sewage: what happened to the Jordan River?	Gidon Bromberg	Blue 33
Hyper-fluid and hermetically sealed: the transnational life of Satmar Hasidism	Amos Schonfield	Blue 34
Paying poor people for their kidney	Robby Berman	Green 25
Poland's "Lucky Jew"	Michael Rubenfeld	Green 26
You shall vaccinate your children	Yszi Hawkings	Green 27
From Moses to Greta - leadership lessons for facing up to climate change: a Shema@Limmud session	Mirele Goldsmith	Orange 10
3,000 years of history in an hour	Ian Gamse	Orange 11
The Year in Scandal	Abigail Symons  Jacqueline Nicholls  Ben Crowne	Orange 12
The Covenant: Why I am a Traditional Jew in the 21st Century	Joseph Dweck	Orange 15
Day of the Dead in Mexico: Aztecs, skulls, colour, music, and a Jewish community in between!	Sharyn Bistre Dabbah	Purple 31 (Bar)
Young Limmudniks - hip-hop dance	Leanne Orenstein  Elisa Orenstein	Red 1
Rebels on the bimahs: rabbis who spoke against apartheid	Irwin Manoim	Red 2
Modesty manipulated - what's driving the obsession with skirt lengths?	Sally Berkovic	Red 3
Neo-Nazis who love Israel: Unpacking the alliance between the far right and the modern state of Israel	Yael Shafritz	Red 4
Judaism and tattoo culture - a chavruta session	Joanne Monica Kanarek	Red 5
Horrible (Jewish) histories!	Michie Yana-Berger	Red 6
"Coexistence My Ass": a work in progress	Noam Shuster	Red 7
Tzitzit? Why knot!	Paul Freedman	Red 8
A passage to Israel: E.M. Forster and the Jews	Roderick Young	Red 9 (Boulevard)
Mirror, mirror on the wall, what defines beauty after all?	Sara Kupfer	Yellow 22

16:15
Have you heard the news? There are Indian Jews!	Rahel Musleah	Families Lounge

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

17:20
Who are the Democrats?	Carol Greenwald	Blue 33
Does gender really matter?	Nechama Goldman Barash	Blue 34
Interfaith families - challenges and resources	Flora Petak	Green 25
Israel innovation: Why does Israel have so many Start-Ups?	Natasha Packter	Green 26
Chicken soup for the body - Jewish penicillin? Jewish vitamin C? Chlorinated schmalz? (2 of 2)	Jenny Goodman	Green 27
Non-violent civil disobedience - what is it? Jewish? Justified? A Shema@Limmud session	Jeffrey Newman	Orange 10
When it comes to students can Americans really teach the UK anything?	Mia Yellin	Orange 11
Social media, hate crime and online antisemitism; a young persons' perspective	_ Families Programming  Nathan Servi	Orange 12
"More Estonians Than Etonians" - the Tory party and the Jews	Nizza Fluss  Lance Forman  Gary Mond  Jonathan Neumann	Orange 13
Present and future challenges of Israeli society	Pnina Tamano-Shata	Orange 14
In conversation: the Israeli Prime Minister's international media adviser	Evan Gary Cohen  Jonathan Roland	Orange 15
Oy, what a day... (4 of 4)	_ Limmud Social Programming Team	Purple 31 (Bar)
Yoga and Kabbalah	Michael Picardie	Red 1
The inner life of Jewish art 3: "Appropriate" and "misplaced" mourning (3 of 3)	Marc Epstein	Red 2
Revelation of a hidden God: connections between Shavuot and Purim (on Chanukah)	Shira Solomons	Red 3
"That's why everyone hates moral philosophers": Jewish thought and "The Good Place"	Tamra Wright	Red 4
Music on the brink of destruction	Shirli Gilbert	Red 5
Navigating community in exile: critical race theory and constructions of Diasporic identity	Alona Weimer	Red 7
Sar-el: a unique volunteering experience in Israel	Yvonne Greene	Yellow 22

18:40
Community connections	Linda White	Blue 32
A Jewish perspective on covering trauma	Kelly Hartog	Blue 34
Do Jews do karma? The journey of the Jewish soul (2 of 2)	Philippa Gamse	Green 26
Psychological impact of current political drama - "Why do I take Brexit so personally?"	Yoav Landau-Pope	Orange 10
Yiddish poetics and prose in the Twenty-First Century	Moriel Rothman-Zecher	Orange 12
Esther in the court of Ahasuerus	Deborah Kahn-Harris	Orange 14
What is your dream? Listening to refugees around the globe	Tamar Lazarus  Molly Bernstein	Orange 15
Where is my beshert? Speed dating for 50-65	_ Limmud Social Programming Team	Purple 31 (Bar)
Introduction to bellydance	Lucy Cohen	Red 1
My cup runneth over: Jews and their drinking habit	Joel Haber	Red 2
Women, peace and security in Israel	Hamutal Gouri	Red 4
Building resilience in young people	Emma Dorman	Yellow 21

19:00
Families Kef: Chanukah Disco	_ Families Programming	Families Lounge

19:15
Beautiful Judaism	Rena Singer	Blue 33
The mysterious corpse - our responsibility?	Margaret Jacobi	Green 25
“Solombra menazada” (Shadow under threat). Poems in Ladino of Arnau Pons, translated into English by Sam Abrams.	Arnau Pons	Green 27
The secret life of Enoch	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Orange 11
It’s the Jewification game!	Ben Crowne  Abigail Symons  Hayden Cohen  Michael Wegier  Debbie Young-Somers  Keith Kahn-Harris	Orange 13
Self-driving cars and unavoidable collisions: who would you kill?	Naomi Cohen	Red 3
The wicked son in Philip Roth’s short fiction “Eli, the Fanatic” (3 of 4)	David Benkof	Red 5
Jewish vibes	Alexander Radziewski	Red 6
Strange worship: magic and bones in the early synagogue	Karen Stern	Red 7
A dip in the dark	Shira Solomons	Yellow 22

20:30
Not the Gala	The People's Democratic Republic of Not The Gala	Orange 14
The Gala		Yellow 24

21:50
Board game cafe (4 of 4)	_ Limmud Social Programming Team	Blue 32
Qohelet: human or posthuman	Elliott Karstadt	Blue 33
‘I will sing’: songs of redemption in midrash and liturgy	Miriam Kunin	Green 25
From outsider to insider to outsider to...	Richard Marker	Orange 10
Israel and the Eurovision - a love affair	Omri Mordechai Rosenkrantz	Orange 11
Psychological safe leadership - building communities where trust is real	Shoshana Jones-resnik	Orange 12
The alphabetic mind (2 of 2)	Joel Levy	Red 4
Famine, secrets, and lepers: the movie?	Bex Rosenblatt	Red 5
Rhoda - the funniest sitcom ever?	Irene Wise	Yellow 21
Israelis, Palestinians and ‘Love Island’	Noru Tsalic	Yellow 22
An Audience with Idan Raichel	Idan Raichel	Yellow 24

22:00
"Health at Every Size" the family way	Sara Kupfer	Families Lounge

22:30
The Rebbetzins' Disco	Raymond Simonson  Jacqueline Nicholls	Red 7

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

23:00
Israeli Dance Party (3 of 3)	Maurice Stone  Aviva Schneider  Natalie Assa	Red 1