Limmud Festival 2021
Sunday 26 December 2021

09:00
Music in Jewish worship	Paul Heller	Room 1
From cotton to couture	Ed Horwich	Room 2
The Song of Songs: Love in the time of tyranny. 1. What has Solomon to do with the Song of Songs? (1 of 3)	Andrew Levy	Room 3
The Jews of Taiwan	Leon Fenster	Room 4
Walking on a tightrope	Anna Kislanski	Room 5
An introduction to Hopin	Limmud Programming	Room 6

10:00
Anti-Palestinian racism in the Jewish community	Tommer Spence	Room 11
20 Jewish personalities, of whom you might be blissfully unaware	Martin Kaye	Room 12
Mah Nishmah Neshamah? How is your soul today?	Eliora Peretz	Room 13
“The word of our G-d stands firm”? Hidden challenges in translating Tanakh	Jessica Sacks	Room 14
The Jewish voice on stage and screen	Freya Jarman	Room 15
How Zionism failed and Israel is a great success!	Noru Tsalic	Room 16

11:00
Chatty Cafe - Sunday (1 of 3)	Jewish Care	Room 1
Space, place and identity: Emmanuel Litvinoff and Yiddisher psychogeography	David Balsamo	Room 2
Jewish Pride: The Jewish future	Ben Freeman	Room 3
Ilan Eshkeri's score for 'The Exception'	Ian Sapiro	Room 4
The man who was	Rachel Montagu	Room 5
What should the capital of Israel be?	Michael Rainsbury	Room 6

12:00
An insider's view of a military regime: The bureaucracy of occupation (1 of 2)	Joel Carmel Benzion Sanders	Room 11
Chalutzim not wanted: What it means to be a Zionist today	Michael Even David	Room 12
The Beijing Haggadah	Leon Fenster	Room 13
Literary interpretation of the Bible in ancient, medieval and modern times	Yitzchak Blau	Room 14
Bad dating stories	Penina Shtauber	Room 15
The Middle East In 2022 and beyond	Hagai M. Segal	Room 16

13:00
Developing inner composure: A Feldenkrais session on self-care	Emma Alter	Room 1
Death duties: Lessons from the Chevra Kadisha	Sally Berkovic	Room 2
The Wolf of Baghdad: Memoir of a lost homeland (1 of 2)	Carol Isaacs Lyn Julius	Room 3
The impact of 'Everyone's Invited' and the Jewish community: Tackling sexual harassment in our schools and youth organisations	Ilana Hutchinson	Room 4
Exciting Vegan Cooking	Denise Phillips	Room 5
'It will soon blow over'	Ernie Hunter	Room 6
Evolution, atheism and the return of prophecy	Daniel Silverstein	Room 7

14:00
Shulgoing: 2500 years of visitors' impressions	Charles Heller	Room 11
Jewish Lives Interrupted: A study of 1400 Jewish UK teens through the pandemic	Helena Miller	Room 12
Psychoanalytic Judaism, Judaic psychoanalysis	Stephen Frosh	Room 13
Camino to COP26: The only Jew in the pilgrimage	Stephen Marcus	Room 14
The Song of Songs – Love in the time of tyranny 2. The Song of Songs – wonderful or numerous or both? (2 of 3)	Andrew Levy	Room 15
London Yiddishtown: East End tales from the 30s and 40s	Vivi Lachs	Room 16
In the footsteps of Moise Katumbi, the Congolese presidential hopeful born to a Holocaust refugee	Cnaan Liphshiz	Room 17

15:00
Why is it so important to solve problems at the intersection between halacha and mental health?	Yonatan Rosensweig	Room 1
'Jewish Mean Time' and other time management myths	Juliet Landau-Pope	Room 2
Unorthodox: The fight for Jewish pluralism in Israel	Michael Even David	Room 3
Irving Berlin - The greatest American songwriter	Jonathan Bergwerk	Room 4
Faith, Spirituality, Ecology & the Future of our Planet: Jonathan Wittenberg in conversation with Karenna Gore	Jonathan Wittenberg Krish Raval Karenna Gore Lauren Keiles	Room 5
Buber: Bible and dialogue	Itai Green	Room 6
Zemmour and French Jews: A love-hate relationship	Joshua Margulies	Room 7

16:00
Jews just jamming	Jon Freedman	Room 11
From Stolpersteine to Konigsberger Klopse: Connecting to my grandfather's story and an unlikely friendship	Johanna Marx Larissa Schmitz Kurt Marx	Room 12
Get men talking: A conversation about men's wellbeing	Samuel Landau	Room 13
Tikva: Poems of hope	Kayla Martell Feldman	Room 14
The mussar mitzvah of telling people off	Marcia Plumb	Room 15
Liberal and conservative views clash in a battle in the Book of Joshua	Aharoni Carmel	Room 16
The Wolf of Baghdad: Memoir of a lost homeland (2 of 2)	Lyn Julius Carol Isaacs	Room 17
Tefillah to go: Stories of and as portable prayer	Andrea Kamens	Room 18

17:00
Yotzim without borders: meet the people leaving the Charedi world	Mindi Yeger Amir Stein Nick Gendler	Room 1
The illuminated poetry of Rav Kook: ‘All existence whispers to me its secret’	Itzchak Evan-Shayish (Marmorstein)	Room 2
Arguments for the sake of a pint: Betting on Israel's coalition	Robin Moss Mikhael Kesher	Room 3
The last exorcist of Baghdad: Ḥakham Yehuda Fetayya	Adam Zagoria-Moffet	Room 4
Insights into Leah and Yehuda: Tools for emotional wellbeing	Chaya Parkoff	Room 5
There's more to RNA than the covid-19 vaccine...	Ben Lewis	Room 6
"Tell wisdom, you are my sister:" A theology of divine sisterhood	Yael Jaffe	Room 7
The University of Bristol - The Jewish Student Leaders Who Said Enough to David Miller	Nina Freedman Marie van der Zyl Edward Isaacs	Room 8

18:00
Feminist readings in the Book of Leviticus	Tamar Kamionkowski	Room 11
Jewish-Arab relations in Israel's mixed cities	Ruth Lewin-Chen Thabet Abu Ras Elizabeth Harris-Sawczenko	Room 12
Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish intellectual	Nathan Abrams	Room 13
Where history meets geography: Travels with an historian	Esther Gilbert	Room 14
One collection or two? My short stories and my Jewish identity	Deborah Freeman	Room 15
Memory and the case for Jewish survivability: How cultural history, collective memory and group identity contribute to transgenerational continuity	Israel Bitton	Room 16

19:00
Talmudic Ballads - new genre in Jewish music	Dana Pulver	Room 1
A light unto the nations?	Carolyn Landry	Room 2
Virtual tour: The story of unrecognised Bedouin villages	Atira Winchester Adi Tufik	Room 3
Olam Haba: What happens next?	Alina Cohen	Room 4
A taste of the Yiddish Open Mic Café	Barbara Borts Philip Tomlinson Stephen Ogin Michael Heiser Vivi Lachs	Room 5
Numerous Clausus: Limiting Jewish admission to medical schools	Alan Silman	Room 6
The Jewish-Israeli conflict	Aliza Lavie	Room 7

20:00
Herbert Morrison: A friend of the Jews, xenophobic or antisemitic?	Lesley Urbach	Room 11
The buried raging sermons of the Warsaw Ghetto Rebbe	Jim Diamond	Room 12
'Doubly exceptional': Being Jewish and disabled	Leonora Samuel	Room 13
Limmud's Annual Pub Quiz	Limmud Social Programming Sassy	Room 14
History of the Jewish hotels and guesthouses of Bournemouth	Pam Fox	Room 15
Daniel Cainer in Virtual Concert	Daniel Cainer	Room 16

21:00
Making football a force for good	Zeev Portner	Room 1
Jesus - what sort of Jew was he?	Jonathan Bergwerk	Room 2
The pain of others: compassion and understanding in the thought of the Sefat Emet	Dena Weiss	Room 3
What is psychosexual therapy?	Miriam Rappaport	Room 4
Lo nafsik lirkod (Don’t stop dancing)	Maurice Stone	Room 5