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Limmud Festival 2020
Monday 28 December 2020

Links to virtual rooms can be found at events.limmud.org when sessions are in progress

09:00
Daughters of Jerusalem: Talmudic Retellings	Jessica Spencer	Room 1
Jewish meditation and breathwork	Martin Schubert	Room 3
Listening to the Angels - Exploring 11th-12th Century Sephardi Piyutim	Jeff Berger	Room 5
Jewish ‘untouchables’: the plight of the mamzer in the 21st century	Emma Rozenberg	Room 7
Upper-class antisemitism in Britain 1917-21	Howard Webber	Room 9
Concepts & Misconceptions about Israel, Zionism, and Jews	Charlotte Korchak	Room 11
Transforming trauma into tolerance	Helen Stone	Room 13
In my enemy's tent: Dance Midrash	Jacqueline Waltz	Room 15
Chavruta - Monday	Limmud Chavruta  Pete Tobias	Chavruta

10:00
In conversation with Keir Starmer, Leader of the Labour Party	Keir Starmer  Carolyn Bogush	Room 2
Focusing as a doorway into Jewish spirituality - an introduction to the life and work of Eugene Gendlin	Ruth Friedman	Room 4
A comparative perspective of the memorialization of Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust	Sivan Gaides	Room 6
The new siddur of the Israeli Reform Movement	Dalia Marx  Alona Lisitsa	Room 8
Alphabets and Judaism	Michael Marmur	Room 10
Red herring or elephant in the room? The role of antisemitism in the Arab-Israeli conflict	David Stone	Room 12
Can Backgammon Bring Peace to the Middle East?	Zaki Djemal	Room 14
Engineering vascularized tissue for medical and food applications	Shulamit Levenberg	Room 16
Chatty Cafe - Monday	_ Jewish Care	Welfare Hub
Chavruta - Monday (continued)	Limmud Chavruta	Chavruta

11:00
"Invisible City" A landscape of sound at Willesden Jewish Cemetery	Hester Abrams  Vicki Harris  Nataliya Kharina  Isla Kaufmann  Derek Bloom	Room 1
Commission on Racial Inclusivity in the Jewish Community	Stephen Bush	Room 3
Unity and division: the tower of Babel	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Room 5
Deep listening - a chance to learn and practice	Emily Kasriel	Room 7
LE@F - Putting the Limmud values into Limmud	Limmud Elements @ Festival (LE@F)  Clive Lawton	Room 9
Making a billion dollars prepared me for lockdown	Brian Teeman	Room 11
Connecting the commonwealth - through faith, friendship and feminism (short session)	Lauren Keiles	Room 13
The socio-economic effect of COVID-19 in Israel: what can be done, and why it matters	Maskit Bendel	Room 15
The best of Limmud South Africa: RBG tzedek tzedek tirdof	A Spotlight on Limmud South Africa  Dennis Davis	International Hub

11:30
Don’t fence me in! (short session)	Naomi Cohen	Room 13
Creative Writing Group (start)	_ JAMI	Welfare Hub

12:00
Women of valour: Dame Margaret Hodge and Dame Louise Ellman, on Antisemitism, Labour and Israel	Marie van der Zyl  Margaret Hodge  Louise Ellman	Room 2
Building temples in time: the science of synchrony and social bonding	Joshua Bamford	Room 4
"Hello Kitchen": a guide to the culinary novice	Nic Abery	Room 6
From surviving to thriving: empowering young Rwandans and South Africans, one conversation at a time.	Brent Davidoff	Room 8
Points of view from Israeli teens - Leo Baeck Haifa	The Leo Baeck Education Center Haifa	Room 10
How to be less busy and get more done: 10 top tips to manage time more effectively	Juliet Landau-Pope	Room 12
Atheism’s Black Box: Godless morality - or just arbitrary ethics?	Daniel Anderson	Room 14
Medical Robotics, Smart Devices, IoT- Are We Ready For That Next Revolution	Alon Wolf	Room 16
Creative Writing Group	_ JAMI	Welfare Hub

13:00
“Is Existentialism a Jewish Idea?"	Joseph Dweck	Room 1
Forgotten Heroes of the Kindertransport	Mike Levy	Room 3
Liberal, Progressive, Zionist: Reclaiming Intersectionality	Hen Mazzig	Room 5
One Step Further: The Impact of Limmud	Limmud @40 Programming  Raymond Simonson  Clive Lawton  Zahavit Shalev  Helena Miller  Keith Kahn-Harris	Room 7
Live Walking Tour: Visit Jewish Barcelona - past and present!	Victor Sorenssen	Room 9
Educational Inclusivity	Maxim Delchev	Room 11
Where is Jewish feminism today?	Gail Chester	Room 13
Spiritual Care of the Dying	Alexandra Wright	Room 15
Spotlight on: Limmud FSU Belarus!	A Spotlight on Limmud FSU Belarus  Irina Belskaia  Michael Kemerov  Grisha Abramovich	International Hub

14:00
Who is a (Charedi) Jew?	Yehudis Fletcher	Room 2
Journeys, Wells and Marriages: Patterns in Biblical Stories	Yael Ziegler	Room 4
The use and abuse of reflective practice	Naomi Soetendorp	Room 6
Vaccination against CoVid-19: an individual or societal responsibility?	Alan Silman	Room 8
The State of Israel V Benjamin Netanyahu	Ittay Flescher	Room 10
Getting beyond the foodbank: lots of practical ideas on how to step up	Sam Cowan	Room 12
When Judaism meets Digital (short session)	Tony Uzan	Room 14
Introduction: How to read from the Torah in S&P trop	Nachshon Rodrigues Pereira	Room 16
LEV o'clock: Creating a Limmud Talmud page	_ LEV	House Of...
Managing bereavement during challenging times	_ Jewish Bereavement Counselling Service	Welfare Hub
Escape R(z)oom!	Limmud Social Programming	Social Programming

14:30
The Fruit of Her Hands: making a COVID-19 Torah mantle (short session)	Tzipporah Johnston	Room 14

15:00
Sustainable fundraising during COVID-19 and beyond	Simi Bennett  Amy Braier  Daniel Carmel-Brown  Michelle Janes	Room 1
Left out: the inside story of Labour under Corbyn	Gabriel Pogrund	Room 3
The Lily's Legacy Project: Exploring the voices and visions of Liberal Judaism	Shaan Knan  Charley Baginsky  Mike Beral	Room 5
Briefing on the status of East Jerusalem with Silwan residents	Hagit Ofran	Room 7
Plague in the promised land	Levi Cooper	Room 9
Ideology and ritual: An Exploration of the tefillot of Shabbat	Adam Mintz	Room 11
Black British history: remembering rightly as Jews and Christians	Nathan Eddy  Richard Reddie  Robert Bieber	Room 13
“Translating the Bible into Greek”: Ethics and Wisdom in the thought of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt’l and Emmanuel Levinas	Tamra Wright  Tanya White  Ephraim Meir  Hanoch Ben Pazi	Room 15
Peer support group (Mon)	_ JAMI	Welfare Hub
Afternoon Chavruta with Hadar's Project Zug	Limmud Chavruta  Aliza Abolafia	Chavruta

16:00
2020: the year that changed the Middle East?	Ian Black  Nimrod Goren  Tal Schneider  Calev Ben-Dor	Room 2
Castaway Stories: A Desert Island Discs for the Jewish community	Jessica Munk Shepherd	Room 4
Iraqi Jews: between legal policies of exploitation and today's future	Khairuldeen Makhzoomi  Linda Menuhin	Room 6
Our House, in the Middle of the Street	Dina Brawer	Room 8
Seeking my daughter's killer	Arnold Roth	Room 10
"The Tattooed Torah" screening with Q&A	Brett Kopin  Beth G Kopin  Marc Bennett	Room 12
Building Better Brains: A Jewish View of the Emergence of Neuroethics	Paul Wolpe	Room 14
What do you have in mind when you say Messiah / Mashiach?	Lior Kaminetsky  Muhammed Amin Evans  Jessica Foster  Paul Salahuddin Armstrong	Room 16
Deputies Limmud Social!	House of Board of Deputies	House Of...
LE@F - Mingle Mingle Mingle! Networking with other international volunteers	Limmud Elements @ Festival (LE@F)	International Hub

17:00
How do we keep having 'arguments for the sake of heaven'?	Limmud @40 Programming  Laura Marks  Michael Wegier  Leon Morris  Keith Kahn-Harris  Hannah Rose	Room 1
Filling the half empty bookcase: Otti Berger; master teacher at the Bauhaus	Michael Shire	Room 3
Neve Tzedek to Nightingale, Beit Cholim to Bearsted: care and medicine in Jewish London	Rachel Kolsky	Room 5
Veils and twins	Simi Peters	Room 7
Intro to Ashkenazi musical modes	Eitan Kantor	Room 9
I Can't Believe It's Not Milchig	Harry Lampert	Room 11
Twenty Jewish books that everyone should read (short session)	Martin Kaye	Room 13
Can antisemitism mean different things to different people?	Eve Barlow  Anthony Julius  Ian Austin  Joey Leskin	Room 15
EFI get together!	House of EFI Educating for Impact	House Of...
Spotlight on: Limmud FSU Labs!	A Spotlight on Limmud FSU  Natasha Chechik  Merilin Kernitzman  Menashe Khaimov  Svetlana Muller  Lea Volynsky	International Hub
Fast friends!	Limmud Social Programming  Aimee Belchak	Social Programming

17:30
Useful similarities in Jewish and psychological thinking in Covid times (short session)	Rivka Mennesson	Room 13

18:00
The modern-day Return to Zion in the Negev as mirrored in the endeavours and vision of Yeruham in light of the Jewish sources	Michael Biton	Room 2
The pen pal perspective: How the Global Jewish Pen Pal Program has brought world Jewry together	Madison Jackson	Room 4
Never heard of her! Rediscovering the American modernist artist, Theresa Bernstein	Elizabeth Diament	Room 6
When the computer becomes your boss - working under artificial intelligence	Lior Zalmanson	Room 8
Adam, Eve, & the Snake: Look What Happens When You Don’t Include Women!	Bradley Shavit Artson	Room 10
Is there still space for progressive Jews in the Zionist Movement?	Lea Muhlstein  Joshua Weinberg	Room 12
To life! New year, new you - an interactive cook-along, demo and Q&A	Judi Rose  Jackie Rose	Room 14
The IHRA working definition of antisemitism - what is it good for?	David Feldman  John Mann	Room 16

19:00
Tandu - A musical journey to the Jewish world - LIVE!	Shani Lachmish	Room 1
Disqualifying Hate: IRAC's Work Against Jewish Supremacists and Hate Groups -	Noa Sattath	Room 3
"Boredom is so interesting: a Jewish perspective on monotony during COVID"	Erica Brown	Room 5
As young British Jews, what are our responsibilities towards vulnerable global communities during the post COVID-19 era?	George Rosenfeld  Sarah Kass  Moses Seitler  Sarit Baum	Room 7
Directed being and Jewish time	Josh Weiner	Room 9
Climate Change Emergency! Green Party Co-Leader, Siân Berry, in conversation with Liberal Judaism’s Rabbi Charley Baginsky	Sian Berry  Charley Baginsky	Room 11
Understanding antisemitism in theoretical and practical terms	Deborah Lipstadt	Room 13
Owning our cultural inheritance	Beverley-Jane Stewart  Laura Birnbaum	Room 15
Pardes get together - all welcome!	House of Pardes	House Of...
Spotlight on: Limmud FSU Canada! A unique Limmud for a unique Community	A Spotlight on Limmud FSU Canada  Alex Katz	International Hub
Oy! What a day... (2/3)	Limmud Social Programming  Ben Crowne	Social Programming

20:00
The evolution of Limmud - 40 years in 40 minutes	Limmud @40 Programming	Room 2
Soul singing ceremony	Netanel Goldberg	Room 4
Safe Haven: the UK and Nazi war crimes inquiries	Jon Silverman	Room 6
What does a Biden Presidency mean for US foreign policy and Israel?	Hannah Weisfeld  Jeremy Ben-Ami	Room 8
Joseph and His Brothers: When is it right to lie?	Elliott Karstadt	Room 10
Embracing the Future of Israel with Muslims and Christians	Warren Elf	Room 12
Open Mic Night	Limmud Social Programming	Room 14
On Turning 40: It's never too late to become Moshe, or Rabbi Akiva, or YOU!	Yaffa Epstein	Room 16
The best of Limmud Chile: What’s going on in Chile? From the end of the Pinochet dictatorship to its current crisis of democracy.	A Spotlight on Limmud Chile  Daniel Chernilo	The Bar
Limmud UK's day events volunteers meetup!	House of Tour of Britain	House Of...

21:00
Late night laughs at Limmud!	Rachel Creeger	Room 1
Challah Back Girls	Shana Boltin	Room 3
What's new in Jewish Philosophy 2020	Michael Pollak	Room 5
Reliving the origins of Limmud	Limmud @40 Programming  Clive Lawton  Alastair Falk  Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz  Sally Goodis  Michael May	Room 7
The best of Limmud Mexico! Mariachis and Klezmer: Musical expression of two cultures	A Spotlight on Mexico  Shulamit Goldsmit	Room 9
Tayelet: Israeli dance for Zoom at home	Maurice Stone	Room 11
The best of Limmud Buenos Aires: UNHRC’s anti-Israel problem and why we should fight it	A Spotlight on Limmud Buenos Aires  Ezequiel Podjarny	International Hub

Links to virtual rooms can be found at events.limmud.org when sessions are in progress