Daniel Shaul Iakovos Atoun Nic Abery
Red 6
Educating for Impact is an initiative to strengthen and secure small to medium sized European Jewish communities for the future. Come and hear how we intend to do this and about our successes to date.
Orange 15
Modern society increasingly suggests new approaches to religious practice. Often promoting new customs and practices, this raises questions of how these trends conform with traditional Jewish practice. This session will discuss that apparent tension and how and when it can be resolved.
Orange 12
Sydney has spent the past several years working with Jewish communities all around the world, from India to Scotland, Israel to Hungary, Canada to Poland. Come hear some highlights, insights and anecdotes about the diversity of Jewish communities around the world.
Limmud 2019_ Doing Jewish Around the World _ Sefaria Source Sheet Builder.pdf
Orange 11
What moral status do animals have in Judaism? To how much 'domination' do humans have the right? How does halachah require us to treat animals? Why kashrut without eco-kashrut is ethically inadequate, why vegetarianism and veganism matter and why the issue is urgent. Texts, debates and practicalities.
Hilton Lobby
Does the relationship the Pre-Raphaelites had to tradition and innovation resemble that of Ultra-Orthodoxy? A visit to Birmingham would not be complete without seeing the Pre-Raphaelite collection. Come analyse the paintings through a Jewish lens. This session is a guided tour of an exhibition at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Participants will need to buy a return train ticket or arrange a taxi. You will likely be out all morning.
Rosetti's Sonnet to Lillith.docx
Blue 34
This session will consider how attention to neglected media, such as ancient graffiti, reveals rare and otherwise forgotten information about the daily lives of their Jewish creators. Graffiti embed information about how Jews once prayed, remembered the dead, and participated in civic life throughout Egypt, Arabia, Europe, Judea, and North Africa.
Green 27
How can we best equip ourselves and those around us to identify and approach challenge? How can we lead at times of challenge? Join this leadership development taster session with an open mind and participative attitude. Using frameworks and tools we will workshop your challenges together in a supportive space.
Red 2
It is over 70 years since first initiatives were taken towards a Jewish-Christian dialogue in the West but a corresponding dialogue in the local Israeli context is only just developing. Come and learn how the Israeli Jewish-Christian dialogue differs from that in the West and how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict influences the West’s encounter.
Green 26
This session will take the form of guided visualisation based on Aryeh Kaplan's exercises in his book 'Jewish Meditation'.
KABBALAH AND YOGA AS IN WORD-4 (002).pdf
Red 5
Many Jews found positions at court in Christian Spain. The careers of two such men were well documented in both the Christian and Hebrew records. Their rise and spectacular fall from grace were not unique, but it is fascinating to compare the ‘official’ record with Jewish sources which portrayed events in the context of the Biblical Esther story.
Green 25
This session will inspire you to run a 5k, half marathon or even a marathon... Or are you intrigued to start a running regime but don't know where to start? Or do you want some tips? Or just inquisitive to know that there are Jews that run? If so - this is the session for you. No physical exercise required.
Orange 10
This session will take you on a whistle-stop journey through the history and halachah (Jewish law) of women saying mourners' kaddish and will give you some insight into some of the experiences of Orthodox women kaddish reciters in the modern day.
Women and Kaddish - Limmud source sheet.pdf
Purple 31 (Bar)
For more than 60 years, the Cosmo on London's Finchley Road served as a hub for Jewish émigré intellectuals and eccentrics from Berlin and Vienna – and a memorial to a vanished world. It has even inspired a musical, which premiered last month. Etan is a journalist who has written about the cafe – and whose grandfather was its manager in the 1940s.
Yellow 22
At Limmud Festival 2018, Clive challenged us to think and talk about some of the hard issues for a sincere Jew in the 21st Century. We'll explore some modern thinkers on the not-obvious questions of why be and do Jewish today.
limmud presentation 2019.pdf
Red 7
2020 is the Year of Jewish Archives. Institutions throughout the country will be revealing the stories that documents and artefacts tell about the lives of Jews in Britain. Come and hear some of these tales. How, for example, does the Board of Deputies come to have a manuscript so unsavoury that the public must be protected from it?
Orange 13
It is only now, at the age of 98, that French Jewish Marthe Cohn can talk freely about her experience as a spy during the war. Known at the time as Chichinette, she was recruited as a young woman by the French army and sent to gather intelligence from inside Germany. The Accidental Spy is as dynamic as the woman whose extraordinary story it tells.
Yellow 23
“What makes the desert beautiful... is that somewhere it hides a wellspring...” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince. The connection between the desert (midbar), discussion (dibur), and education. The desert as a place that evokes feelings of thirst and the desire to search. A place of silence and speech, solitude and encounter.
Red 4
As part of the Centre for Jewish Studies at Manchester University's 50 Jewish objects project, Jacqueline spent time in their archive, focusing on artefacts that feature handwriting, and created an artistic response. If we can understand the audacity that these previous generations had to leave their mark, then perhaps we can assert our own voices.
Nina Morris-Evans Marco Schneebalg Naomi Magnus Leah Jordan Lauren Chaplin Matan Rosenstrauch Anna Roiser
Red 3
Na'amod is a movement of British Jews seeking to end our community’s support for the occupation and mobilise it in the struggle for freedom, equality and justice for Palestinians and Israelis. Na’amodniks will explain who we are, why opposing the occupation matters to us, and why our community needs to talk about the elephant in its room.
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