Limmud Festival 2021
Tuesday 28 December 2021

09:00
Jewish identity, sexuality and memory in the works of Andre Aciman	Samantha Reuben	Room 1
Mikveh as a tool for spiritual renewal	Naomi Marmon Grumet	Room 2
Fighting antisemitism: Challenges of responding to a mutating threat both online and offline	Amber Weinber	Room 3
The Song of Songs – Love in the time of tyranny: 3. A radical work (3 of 3)	Andrew Levy	Room 4
Tour of Jaffa with System Ali	David Davidi-Brown	Room 5
The most important work a Jew can do	Joseph Dweck	Room 6

10:00
In Conversation with Nachman Shai, Israel's Minister of Diaspora Affairs	Lauren Keiles Michael Wegier Nachman Shai	Room 10
Freeing up your shoulders: A Feldenkrais session on self care	Emma Alter	Room 11
Sanctuary: A virtual visit to the Second Temple in Jerusalem	Michael Even David	Room 12
Passing down testimony from generation to generation	Lesley Urbach Helen Stone	Room 13
Why the West End's 'Prince of Egypt' is so un-Jewish, it's basically antisemitic	Ezra Margulies	Room 14
Jewish-Arab shared learning in Israel: The Abraham Initiatives' ground-breaking initiative	Rania Laham-Graveb Yael Maayan	Room 15
What might an accessible and inclusive community look like?	Owen Power Lauren Keiles Elli Sarah Sarita Robinson Amy Montague Savannah Dable Jack Lubner Efraim Hazzan Ross Milnes	Room 16
The Russians are coming! (again)	Cnaan Liphshiz	Room 17

11:00
Get the children out!	Mike Levy	Room 1
Jewish values and disability rights	Ahmir Lerner	Room 2
Bad rabbis and what to do with them	Gabriel Kanter-Webber	Room 3
Screening of 'The Windemere Children' (88 minutes)	Limmud Social Programming	Room 4
Confederation: A new path to Jewish-Palestinian peace	Oren Yiftachel	Room 5
Finding a Jewish voice in European politics	Emile Ackermann Myriam Ackermann	Room 6
After the pandemic: continuity and change within the United Synagogue	Michael Goldstein	Room 7
Chatty Cafe - Tuesday (3 of 3)	Jewish Care	Room 8

12:00
Do Black lives still matter?	Edie Friedman	Room 11
Dictating the Holocaust: female administrators of the Holocaust	Rachel Century	Room 12
Dreaming against the current: A rabbi's soul journey	Haviva Ner-David	Room 13
A scream in the night: Isaiah and social justice	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Room 14
The Official Briefing – The Jewish Public Policy Issues that stood out in 2021	Lauren Keiles Michael Wegier Amanda Bowman	Room 15
The Search	Jennifer Langer	Room 17

13:00
How Holocaust memory has been hijacked	Ruth Deech	Room 1
The Commission on Racial Inclusivity: update	Richard Verber Lauren Keiles Marie van der Zyl Stephen Bush Natasha Mann Mark Goldsmith Rosy Akalawu-Ellman	Room 2
Achsah: What’s a bride worth?	Eleanor Davis	Room 3
Who will remember them?	Laurie Rosenberg	Room 4
Midrashirt/T-midrash: Can Torah be studied from t-shirt?	Dana Pulver	Room 5
Evolve: an uproarious journey through the book of Genesis in words and images	Jean-Pierre Weill	Room 6
Reach out for our rights: Why building solidarity serves us all	Esther Raffell	Room 7
What is the climate crisis, and what can World Jewish Relief do about it?	Laura Hendy	Room 8

14:00
'The synagogues were closing, what could we do as women?' British ritual adaptation under COVID-19	Katja Stuerzenhofecker	Room 11
Diversity or unity: Do we need to pray from the same siddur?	Shira Marili Mirvis	Room 12
Who do you think you are?	Liz Cashdan	Room 13
Antisemitism and the Jewish future in America and Europe	Dov Hikind	Room 14
Settler violence: a daily reality	Lior Amihai	Room 15
Beyond the M25; challenges for Jewish life in 2021	Sara Radivan Gary Mond Michael Black Sheila Gewolb Claudia Edelman Esty Bruck	Room 16
Keep kalm kvetch... already	Carole Shaw	Room 17

15:00
Queer Jewish Identity \| Past and Present	Joel Rosen	Room 1
Walking with your inner spirit: Cultivating the practice of integrating music into the expression of your faith, heart and soul	Yiscah Smith	Room 2
The Jerusalem tinderbox	Hannah Weisfeld Danny Seidemann	Room 3
Transatlantic antisemitism: Similarities and differences from across the Pond	Dave Rich Jemma Levene Andrew Baker David Mendoza-Wolfson	Room 4
Israel and the Diaspora: looking to the future	Efrat Perri Jake Wallis Simons	Room 5
Introduction to Rosh Chodesh	Sarah Waxman	Room 6
The Shema as a paradigm for education	Laurie Rosenberg	Room 7
CCJ Interfaith Dialogue: Theology & Practice in Jewish & Christian thought	Avigail Simmonds-Rosten	Room 8

16:00
The Jews of Roman Transdunabia	Zachary Esterson	Room 11
The siddur as our guidebook for succeeding in Jewish education in the Covid-technological era	Ofek Meir	Room 12
The morning blessings	Jonathan Samuel	Room 13
British Muslim antisemitism	Wasiq Wasiq	Room 14
Navigating the jungle of opinions	Menachem Bombach	Room 15
The Torah of Rabbi Sacks zt”l – renewal, wisdom and responsibility	Raphael Zarum	Room 16
Writing4All	Jami UK	Room 17

17:00
Why Na'amod is calling for actions not words on the Occupation	Naomi Magnus	Room 1
Ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease and Jewish migrations	Michael Goodman	Room 2
Jews 'in the margins' at the centre	Emily Cohen	Room 3
Hypocrisy and bias at the UN: In conversation with Hillel Neuer of UN Watch	David Mendoza-Wolfson	Room 4
Jephtha's daughter and other feminist reclamations	Lori Lefkovitz	Room 5
The Mad Hatter: David Shilling on how art, fashion design and being a workaholic has taken him from hats to Outer Space	David Shilling	Room 6
A kabbalistic deep dive into dreams, angels and prophecy	Chaya Lester	Room 7
What is the future of UK synagogue communities?	Ben Vos	Room 8
How to solve the Climate Emergency: Carla Denyer in Conversation with Charley Baginsky	Charley Baginsky Carla Denyer	Room 9

18:00
Design and teach a sparkling Limmud session	David Benkof	Room 11
The Macaroons live! (virtual)	Dan Saks	Room 12
I was misdiagnosed as Jewish: How my Jewish background masked my autistic traits	Sara Gibbs	Room 13
MoveMeant: Embodying self care	Yonatan Arnon Kobi Goodwin	Room 14
Exploring Hidden Voices	Shereen Hunt	Room 15
Theater and Theology presents: Bereishit (chapter and) verse	Yael Unterman Yael Valier Tobie Harris	Room 16
From philo-semitism to conversion in 21st century Africa	Edith Bruder	Room 17

19:00
Operation Warm Welcome: How warm is the welcome?	Edie Friedman	Room 1
Evil-ution: How organic and deliberate hate and genocide grew between Europe and America	Mark Creeger	Room 2
Digitizing the German Talmud translation	Igor Itkin	Room 3
Two hats: Combining the rabbinate and clinical psychology	Samuel Landau	Room 4
How we built and grew a grassroots community	Jane Myers Lydia Burman Sara Garfield	Room 5
Seven things they didn't teach you at Cheder!	Daniel Hirschfield	Room 6
Introduction to Limmud mentoring	Limmud Volunteers Team	Room 7
'Can we talk about Israel' or 'Israel: WTF': Daniel Sokatch in conversation	Daniel Sokatch	Room 8

20:00
Youth Movements, Religiosity, and Sustainability Ethics: Factors In How Jewish Zillenials Are Learning To Face The Climate Crisis	Chlo Spinks	Room 11
'ReConquistador!' Daniel Lobell performs comedy in Spain	Daniel Lobell	Room 12
An insider's view of a military regime: A virtual tour of Hebron (2 of 2)	Joel Carmel Benzion Sanders	Room 13
Hunger doesn’t wear club colours: Jews, football and the right to food	Rachel Vogler	Room 14
The Book of Ezra: Is this the most Jewish song in indie pop?	Daniel Heller Amos Schonfield	Room 15
Whose Torah is it anyway? Creativity in the public D#domain	Sara Wolkenfeld	Room 16
Feeling lucky? Jews and gambling	Ellen Flax	Room 17

21:00
Joanie Leeds performance: All the Ladies - Bible and beyond	Joanie Leeds	Room 1
'To keva or not to keva...': Exploring the possibility of balance in tefillah	Sonti R Ramirez	Room 2
Is there a rational case for God's existence?	Daniel Anderson	Room 3