Red 3
This session discusses the four most damaging social issues that Jewish communities have been experiencing. We explore the actions communities are adopting to counter the detrimental impact of them and how you in the audience can simply but powerfully change your community to be stronger.
Red 4
It's 2019 and synagogues still live in the dark ages. As the creator of software used by 4% of all websites in the world, Brian is in a unique position to share tips, advice and guidance. If people won't go to the synagogue then we can bring the synagogue to them. Engage with your community where they are if they won't, or can't, come to you!
Orange 10
The imagery from the Syrian civil war exposed us to horrifying imagery and, to some extent, inspired action. This session will delve into the world of communications, photography, and journalism, discussing the role of storytelling in social action.
Green 27
For reasons such as demographics, policy decisions, national politics, geopolitics, and changing attitudes, the relationships that sustained the past half century as we knew it are changing, no matter whether Trump stays. This reality is complex. Examine the gamut of elements at play and try to make sense of what will be hugely important for Jews.
Yellow 22
Join Hadassah (a psychologist and educator) in thinking about how core Jewish ideas shape therapeutic practices - drawing on clinical case studies and Hasidic parables. Based on the Israel Prize winning research of Mordechai Rotenberg.
Main Bar
Beadweaving is the art of weaving with beads. Come join us and learn how to make bracelets from beads and thread. Jewish-style patterns have been designed specially by the presenter for this session. It is unlikely that you finish the bracelet in the short amount of time, so links to the resources will be provided for finishing the bracelet.
Red 2
How does poetry create a nation? What is a national poet? We will look at a small selection of Chaim Nachman Bialik’s poems in translation, in particular his children’s poems, and conduct a laboratory in translation for anyone whether you speak Hebrew or not.
Doret Florentin Juan Martínez Cortés
Red 1
In this workshop, we set out the ideal rhythmic exercises to develop a working memory based on cognitive stimulation integrating music and movement through body percussion, where we will be able to control a rhythmic canon, move around and coordinate in 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, and, above all, develop sustained, divided, selective and alternating attention.
Red 7
In contemporary scholarship, the Song of Songs is often seen as the most egalitarian text in Tanach. But the Song also contains outbursts of violence and expressions of male control. How much has the risk to the female lover of the Song been underplayed in the quest for an egalitarian Tanach? What can these breakout texts teach us today?
Red 6
As a song-leader Jess taught Jewish concepts through songs and wondered whether you can teach eco ideas in the same way. Ten years after she began, Project Earth Rock has won awards, is in 200 primary schools and is the subject of international research. If you want to teach about the climate crisis in a child-friendly way then come to this session.
Orange 12
The songs of Vampire Weekend, one of the world's biggest bands, are littered with Jewish themes, thoughts and ideas. Could lead singer Ezra Koenig be the heir to great Jewish song-writers such as Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Simon & Garfunkel? Find out more and explore the Jewish influence that Koenig has had on the world of indie rock and roll!
Ezra Koenig - Vampire Weekend lyrics and links.pdf
Orange 14
For decades the Claims Conference has been negotiating with Germany for compensation for Holocaust survivors to provide a measure of justice for the greatest crime of humanity. Hear the insights and first hand experiences from the negotiating table on the successes, challenges, dilemmas and way forward in these unprecedented meetings.
Blue 33
Ben-Zion Mossinson, 1878-1942: what were the social, educational and religious conflicts with which he dealt? How did he conceptualise the events of his time? A look into a story in the ideological context of those days within the groups of Halutzim/pioneers. The thoughts, ideologies and debates of a hero told through encyclopedia and genuine post cards brought to you!
Arik Ascherman Moriel Rothman-Zecher Shira Ben-Sasson Furstenberg Esther Craven
Orange 15
In this panel, we'll be discussing the impact of Israeli policy in the occupied territories in regards to house building and house demolitions, both Israeli and Palestinian.
Red 5
Description of the Birkbeck Jewish Male Adolescent Project. How are young Jewish males balancing their Jewishness, their Britishness and their Masculinity in today's society?
Invitation Letter.pdf
Anglo-Jewry Historical Perspective.pdf
Yellow 21
Over the last two years, Ben Caplan's been touring with his hit music / theatre hybrid, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story. It's received critical acclaim across the UK, including top honours at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and accolades from the Guardian, Times and more. Caplan will discuss creating and touring such an inwardly and outwardly Jewish show.
Green 26
How is it to be a young Jew in Barcelona? How does that community compare to vibrant Jewish life in London? Come and learn the challenges and uniqueness of the Catalan Jewish community, and how Linda's experience in London inspired her to create a website for Jewish events: The Jewish Guest.
Green 25
Where does your heart vibrate and speed up? Where do you feel you affect and at the same time you rebuild yourself? Where did you get and fill yourself with magic and energy? I was looking for that, I found it and I looked for it again. You? Have you asked yourself? Do you dare? ... there is the way.
Raphael Zarum Jordan B Gorfinkel
Yellow 23
Comic books dominate the cinema. They make us laugh, fear and wonder, but do they make us better? Join a veteran DC comics creator and a fan-rabbi to explore the intersection between religion and pop culture. Are secret identities God's hidden face? Was the Kohen Gadol a caped crusader? Should our role models be (super)human or divine?
Blue 34
Who was responsible for those found guilty at Nuremburg receiving work contracts from the US government? How did Nazi scientists who performed horrendous experiments on Concentration Camp inmates become highly regarded scientists in America? Why did America pursue, achieve and exceed the same goals as the brightest minds of the Third Reich?
Purple 31 (Bar)
Come and hear all about Art Kibbutz, the volunteer-driven artist community which explores universal issues through a Jewish lens. And we'll be sharing the fruits of the Typewriter Project, which yesterday gave Limmudniks the opportunity to preserve the subconscious of Limmud. As Limmud draws to a close, we'll read out the collective poem our temporary community made together.
Orange 13
Who deserves our respect and how should we show it? The Torah tells us that we have to stand before an elder, but gives no guidance who is included in “elder”. Our rabbis in the Talmud Yerushalmi, the mysterious and older Talmud, discuss this question with regard to a live issue of their times: what they saw as their corrupt synagogue leadership.
LIM2019TabickRespectingLeaders.pdf
Orange 11
Our classical texts assume that non-Jewish religions are idol worship and must be avoided. We will be looking at how this was affected by the development of other Abrahamic religions, and exploring what this means halakhically (in Jewish law) for interacting with non-Jews today.
Who Are the Ovdei-Avodah Zarah.docx.pdf
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