Limmud Festival 2021
Monday 27 December 2021

09:00
Should Jews get the jab?	Clive Lawton	Room 1
Youth voices and empowerment in the Romanies and Traveller communities	Sherrie Smith	Room 2
Growing up with Israel	Chaim Klein	Room 3
Going native: An anthropologist at Limmud	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Room 4
Strong from your sofa	Hannah Jacobi	Room 5
Staying human: A Jewish theology for the age of artificial intelligence	Harris Bor	Room 6

10:00
Stories from the archives	Dawn Waterman Carol Cambers Jill Hyams Hugh Petrie	Room 11
Angels and demons: Encounter with Jewish mythology	Michael Even David	Room 12
Putting the joy back in your Judaism: Spirituality, positive psychology and the pursuit of happiness	Tamra Wright	Room 13
Progressive Judaism in France	Iris Ferreira	Room 14
Leo Baeck Haifa: Points of view of Israeli teens	The Leo Baeck Education Center Haifa	Room 15
What does a Jew look like? A portrait of British Jews	Keith Kahn-Harris Robert Stothard	Room 16
The secret allure of Eric Zemmour, a Jewish far-right candidate in France's presidential elections	Cnaan Liphshiz	Room 17

11:00
Social media and Lashon Hara or what Jewish law teaches us about being responsible for one another	Nechama Goldman Barash	Room 1
Kazimierz unseen	Michael Rubenfeld	Room 2
Drive2Survive of Romanies and Travellers	Jonathan Samuel Sherrie Smith	Room 3
The Jolles Encyclopaedia of British Jewish cantors, chazanim, ministers and synagogue musicians: Their history and culture	David Prager	Room 4
Alf Dubs in conversation with Amos Schonfield	Amos Schonfield Alf Dubs	Room 5
Renewal - moving and growing	Jacqueline Waltz	Room 6
Chatty Cafe - Monday (2 of 3)	Jewish Care	Room 7

12:00
What next: How will you tell my story?	Agnes Kaposi Cassie Matus Anita Peleg Marc Cave	Room 11
Is being Jewish bad for your mental health?	Yonatan Rosensweig Miriam Rappaport Benjy Rickman Jonny Wineberg Shira Baram	Room 12
What you missed while you were talking about COVID	Kira Blumer Rebekah Quixano Henriques Leanne Baker	Room 13
Recipe for Love	Denise Phillips	Room 14
Jewish rainbow: Developing a working Jewish law for LGBTQ Jews	Michael Even David	Room 15
For the sceptics: Are the children the future?	Natasha Shaw Luke Levine	Room 16
Confronting antisemitism on the left	Daniel Randall	Room 17
Introducing 'Mum Thumb': A play with songs, by Judith Silver	Judith Silver	Room 18

13:00
When Shmuel met Rav - a bloody tale of indigestion and code switching	Benjamin Gerber	Room 1
Can I sell a synagogue? The curious case of Oslo's second synagogue	Jeremy Borovitz	Room 2
Education as a tool of emancipating women: the Bais Yakov schools in interwar Poland	Joanna Bakoń	Room 3
Wandering Arameans and other migrants	Rebecca Lillian	Room 4
From Vienna to Florence etc: a family history	Silvia Bemporad Servi	Room 6
The power of a couch: young adult Jewish leadership in Europe	Lauren Keiles Eva Srut Hana Siková Ben Shapiro	Room 7
The journey of a moping prophet – bibliodrama on the Book of Jonah	Zsuzsanna Fritz	Room 8
Ashkenazi Marranos? Reconnecting western Europeans with their Jewish roots.	David Weis	Room 9

14:00
In a changing Europe, where do Jews stand?	Konstanty Gebert	Room 11
Beyond transaction: Shemittah laws for Diaspora Jews	Josh Weiner	Room 12
Democracy: A Talmudic critique	Rebecca Blady	Room 13
The Jewish population of Italy in the modern era	Nardo Bonomi Braverman	Room 14
From blood libel to anti-vax: antisemitism and conspiracy thinking from a Dutch perspective	Albert Ringer	Room 15
The traditionalist, the activist, the outlier and the critic: Calming controversy	David Levin-Kruss	Room 16
Shabbat automated	Misha Beshkin	Room 17
The Amazing Possibilities of Yiddish in Sweden	Jan Schwarz Tomas Woodski	Room 18
The History of the Jews in Sweden	Carl Henrik Carlsson	Room 19

15:00
Comment écrire l'histoire que vous avez toujours rêver d'écrire? How to write the story you have always wanted to write?	Micha Wald	Room 1
TorahMaps - exploring the Torah as a network	Lucas Espinosa	Room 2
Doing good with dirty money?	Zachary Gallant	Room 3
You make plans and God laughs: building a community centre in the time of pandemics	Pavlina Schultz	Room 4
Jewish meditation and Feldenkrais	Martin Schubert	Room 5
Finding Jewish Florence	Giovanna Bossi	Room 6
Secrets of the Warsaw Ghetto Ringelblum archive	Monika Krawczyk	Room 7
Jewish humanitarians in Europe: Is there a need for a European Jewish humanitarian aid organization/response?	Agata Rakowiecka Sonia Feiger Uriel Perugia Ilan Cohn Lievnath Faber	Room 8
Stories of hidden Jews in Spain and Italy, their current situation in Mallorca	Moriah Ferrus Barbara Aiello Juan Caldes	Room 9
LIMMUD SPARKS JEWISH REVIVAL IN MAJORCA, SPAIN	Dani Rotstein	Room 10

16:00
David Lammy in conversation with Abi Symons	Abi Symons David Lammy	Room 11
Ideas about circumcision and sexual dysfunction in the 18th century	Noelle Duckmann Gallagher	Room 12
Re-reading Buber's 'I and Thou'	Tamra Wright	Room 13
What does an LGBTQ-inclusive Jewish community look like?	Hannah Wood	Room 14
Co-creating rituals for the transitions in our lives	Sara Luria	Room 15
Upstream/downstream: New trends in global Jewish responsibility	Graham Carpenter	Room 16
What is an artist? And where do ideas come from?	Michelle Charles	Room 17

17:00
The Eve and Adam Project	Julia Vogl Gabriella Willenz	Room 2
Hineini: The journey to being here	Yali Szulanski	Room 3
Ask the editor	Stephen Pollard	Room 4
A Sephardic journey through the 20th century	Sarah Abrevaya Stein	Room 5
Effective giving… the what, the how and the why	Carolyn Bogush	Room 6
Peer support group	Jami UK	Room 7
The UK Holocaust Map	Mike Levy Alex Maws	Room 8

18:00
Vaccine trials from malaria to COVID-19	Anna Goodman	Room 11
The history of the Jews of Barbados	Zeev Portner	Room 12
Are we heading for a post-denominational Jewish world?	Nechama Goldman Barash Harris Bor Simon Eder Miriam Feldmann Kaye	Room 13
Welfare support for Holocaust survivors and refugees	Michael Newman	Room 14
Storytelling: Generating your own material	Kayla Martell Feldman	Room 15
Chosen for hate (and love): A qualitative explanatory analysis of the NYPD’s data on anti-Jewish hate crimes	Israel Bitton	Room 16

19:00
The boundaries of Jewish culture: A JewThink panel	Keith Kahn-Harris Nathan Abrams Barbara Borts Loolwa Khazzoom	Room 1
Surrender to a slave society: Fighting the illegal slave trade in a former British colony	Aviva Ben-Ur	Room 2
Join our salon: Zikaron BaSalon taster	Manuela Rathaus-Alper	Room 3
The Pardes: A secret place between Bavli and Yerushalmi	Etienne Kerber	Room 4
Reset, renew, refresh: Catching up with Pardes	Ilana HaCohen	Room 5
Jewish comedians: Why we're neurotic!	Daniel Lobell Sara Gibbs Rachel Creeger	Room 6
Tour of the Jordan Valley	Atira Winchester Adi Tufik	Room 7
Yaakov, Yosef and liminal space: When ancient text meets postmodern consciousness	Tanya White	Room 8

20:00
Dance tours of Israel - learn about Israel and dance!	Maurice Stone	Room 11
Cops in clubs: Policing, violence and the rights of Jewish women	Rachel Vogler	Room 12
Rabbi Joseph Albo: The forgotten philosopher	Daniel Anderson	Room 13
Voices and images of the South Wales Jewish communities	John Minkes	Room 14
We share the same sky: From one generation to the next	Rachael Cerrotti	Room 15
Chava Mirel and Daniel Cainer in Concert	Daniel Cainer Chava Mirel	Room 16

21:00
Let music be the food... (Ashkenazi style)	Tony Zendle	Room 1
What would love do now?	Judith Silver Julie Barnes Cliff Braverman	Room 2
What are Jews for? The idea of Jewish purpose from the Bible to the present	Adam Sutcliffe	Room 3
Reducing the carbon footprint of your home	Adrian Sieff	Room 4
Limmud escape room	Ben Combe	Room 5
The Limmud Comedy Club	Limmud Programming	Room 6