Limmud Festival 2019
Thursday 26 December 2019

07:45
Wake up, pack up! _ Families Programming  Rhythm & Blues
08:00
Let's go for a morning stroll (6 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 (5 of 5) _ Limmud Social Programming Team  Purple 31 (Bar)
09:30
Learn to leyn High Holy Day trope (3 of 3) Rebecca Blumenfeld  Blue 32
Memory objects in our archives (and attics): why Cecil Roth collected things that few others were interested in, and what we can learn from him about our own family archives (2 of 2) Eva Frojmovic  Blue 33
Building and constructing Biblical Hebrew verbs (2 of 2) Rachel Montagu  Blue 34
Churchill and the Movie Mogul Irene Wise  Jake Herman  _ UK Jewish Film  Orange 13
The Jews of Asia Clive Lawton  Red 2
Jewish life in Germany Laura Cazes  Red 3
Poles and Jews in Poland after the Holocaust Jan Gebert  Red 4
Be nice to people. But why? Ian Gamse  Red 5
Must a Jew believe in God? Daniel Anderson  Yellow 21
Was Binyamin a werewolf? Gabriel Kanter-Webber  Yellow 22
09:30
Morning Seder - Advanced Level (4 of 4) Jeremy Tabick  _ Beit Midrash  Red 8
Morning Seder - Beginner Level (4 of 4) Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz  _ Beit Midrash  Red 9 (Boulevard)
10:45
Thinking backwards - the untold power of contrarian and counter intuitive thinking Jake Welford  Blue 32
Heading for extinction and what to do about it: a Shema@Limmud session Shulamit Morris-Evans  Blue 33
The death bed, the orchard, the lift and the oven Steve Miller  Blue 34
Lost in the upside-down: was Will Byers possessed by a dybbuk? Raphael Zarum  Orange 10
Productivity 101: study skills and life lessons for today’s teens Juliet Landau-Pope  Orange 11
Why do Zionist speakers lose debates? Noru Tsalic  Orange 12
Homeopathy in Jewish life & sources (2 of 2) Francis Treuherz  Purple 31 (Bar)
Hands off our headscarves! Judy Silkoff  Julie Siddiqi  Red 2
Struggling with antisemitism and BDS - with muscle, mind and everything in between Izchak Sonnenshein  Red 3
Churchill and the Jews Richard Cohen  Red 4
Responsa across the denominations: interdenominational relationships Eryn London  Red 5
Shema - A call to Jewish action on the climate and ecological crisis: a Shema@Limmud session Jeffrey Newman  Stephen Herman  Red 6
Israeli (re)elections: an insider/outsider perspective on what it means to us Eli Ovits  Yellow 21
Top ten Jewish tips Zvi Solomons  Yellow 22
12:00
Without disappearing completely in Psalm 27: poetry to punctuate your life Benjamin Stanley  Blue 32
Jack Cohen and one hundred years of Tesco Richard Cohen  Orange 10
How to be a Zionist without saying sorry? (2 of 2) Harry Markham  Orange 11
Of all places! Reflections on Jews who returned to Germany after the Shoah Sandra Lustig  Orange 12
Antisemitism and anti-Muslim hate; similarities, differences and impact on British society Julie Siddiqi  Nathan Servi  Orange 14
What makes our Jewish values… Jewish? Graham Carpenter  Red 2
What would Mrs Maisel say about Corbyn? Can UK Jews laugh at themselves? Amitai Landau-Pope  Red 3
God & Shir Hakavod (sublime blasphemy) Paul Freedman  Red 4
The past didn't go anywhere: a text study to fight antisemitism Yael Shafritz  Red 5
What's in a ritual? Come build yours Happie Hoffman  Nasya Miller  Red 6
The wise son in Philip Roth’s short fiction “Goodbye, Columbus” (4 of 4) David Benkof  Yellow 21