Limmud Festival 2022
Saturday 24 December 2022

10:00
Shabbat morning family service	Caroline Hagard	Blue 33
Shabbat morning stroll	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Hotel Lobby
Gentle yoga – coming back home to the body and the breath	Barbara Cohen	Red 7

11:40
Shabbat morning delight	Caroline Hagard	Blue 33
Does kindness (really) matter?	David-Yehuda Stern	Blue 34
Feeding women of the Talmud, feeding ourselves	Kenden Alfond	Orange 11
Listen to your heart: a psychotherapist and a rabbi walk into a session	Yaffa Epstein Shimmy Feintuch	Orange 14
Working as a Jewish photojournalist in the Middle East	Jordan Siegel	Orange 15
Jewish-infused singing warm ups	Thea Jacob	Red 1
The shekel and the shofar: billion dollar fines and whistle-blowing lines - a Jewish view of ethics and compliance	Mark Creeger	Red 3
Praying for the royal family and adapting to change	David Newman	Red 4
Punches, prayers, chi and kavanah	Hillel Norry	Red 7
Learn to SIGN along to the Shema	Jonathan Samuel	Yellow 22

14:00
Torah of winter	Luz Toff	Blue 33
The Baruch Lanner sexual abuse scandal: two decades on	Gary Rosenblatt	Blue 34
A breath of fresh air (1 of 4)	Limmud Social Programming	Hotel Lobby
Chulent, hamin and more: many Shabbat stews, one Jewish home	Joel Haber	Orange 11
Bambi is Jewish	Rosella de Jong	Red 3
On the precipice of disaster: halakhot of the synagogue	Wendy Amsellem	Red 4
Limmud² – pair-powered learning (1 of 4)	Limmud² – pair-powered learning	Red 8

15:00
The uniqueness of Odessa (1 of 4)	Mordechai (Motti) Friedman	Blue 33
My relationship with Dog	Leonora Samuel	Blue 34
Shabbat afternoon stroll	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Hotel Lobby
Board games	Limmud Social Programming	Main Bar
Play the dreidel! (2 of 4)	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Main Bar
From Sinai to Sefaria: Torah and new media	Sara Wolkenfeld	Orange 13
Zoom seders and Netflix on Shabbat: how Covid made halakhah adapt	Asher Lovy	Orange 14
Surviving Hitler: my personal story	Yitchak von Schweitzer	Red 1
The legacy of Benjamin Disraeli	Zeev Portner	Red 4
Ezekiel: the legacy of the dry bones and individual agency	Miryam Brand	Yellow 22

16:00
Breathe – neshima/neshama	Edwin Chomer	Blue 33
The Midrash meditates on itself: reading Shir Hashirim Rabbah	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Blue 34
We are teaching Jewish history wrong	Debbie Lechtman	Orange 11
Limmud, learning and education – all the same?	Lewis Warshauer	Orange 13
Ruth versus Ezra: competing paradigms for the crisis of conversion and Jewish identity	Jeff Fox	Orange 14
Musical traditional seudah shlishit (third meal)	Shira Solomons Ora Solomons	Red 1
Psychotherapy, Jewish mysticism and the healing of society	William Dovid Berisch Secretan	Red 3
Havruta seudah	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Red 8
Board game seudah	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Red 9 (Boulevard)
LGBT+ open seudah	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Yellow 22

17:30
Havdalah and communal candle lighting	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Yellow 23

19:30
Science is #fakenews: perilous publications	Ben Lewis	Blue 33
The people of the comic book	Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik Shawna Brynjegard-Bialik	Orange 10
Inclusivity in Sephardic liturgy – excerpts from Siddur Or veShalom	Isaac Montagu	Orange 11
Inside out: through the (inside out) hasidic lens	Pearl Gluck	Orange 13
KUGELRONI – an evening of comedy with the UK's #1 [only] Italian-American Pro Comedian	Mike Capozzola	Orange 15
Joseph Ber Soloveitchik and 'deveikut' – partnership with God	Shalom Carmy	Red 1
Prayer-writing workshop	Nava B. Meiersdorf	Red 2
'It’s the economy stupid': how emerging economic trends, inflation and recession will impact Israel and the Jewish world	Efraim Chalamish	Red 4
Jews and food – Ashkenazi style	Tony Zendle	Red 5
Proclaiming the miraculous: the other 'She’asah nissim'	Yael Jaffe	Yellow 21
#Problematic: Attempting to redeem the most offensive talmudic stories: Gender (1 of 3)	Yaffa Epstein	Yellow 22

20:40
Acquire yourself a friend… (1 of 2)	Limmud Social Programming	Blue 32 (Millers)
Mindfulness? That’s meshuga!	Shimmy Feintuch	Blue 34
The mitzvot that earn you double miles	Daniel Goldfarb	Orange 10
Israel at 75: In Weizmann's Image – From the Pale of Settlement to the Balfour Declaration (1 of 3)	Howard Epstein	Orange 11
8-bit Judaism	Russel Neiss	Red 1
Economics, migration and the Jews	Michael Ben-Gad	Red 2
Biblical weights and measures	Anthony Reuben	Red 3
Girls can kiss now, let’s get rabbinic	Jessica Spencer	Red 4
The genesis of dance and story: perspectives from evolutionary anthropology	Joshua Silberstein-Bamford	Red 5
Modern jive dancing (1 of 2)	Jonathan Hunter	Red 7
Impostor syndrome in synagogue	Tim Motz	Yellow 21

21:50
How can we do good, better? Introducing effective altruism for Jews	Abe Tolley George Rosenfeld	Blue 33
The Torah of vegan sofrut (scribal calligraphy)	Allison Barclay	Blue 34
Torah and cocktails	Wendy Amsellem Michael Moskowitz	Main Bar
At the intersection of Sephardic, Mizrahi and LGBTQ+: lifting our stories out of the margins	Ruben Shimonov	Orange 10
Tsene-rene: the story of the Yiddish 'Women's Bible'	Pamela Brenner	Orange 11
Michelin stars, Kars and naked spas – tales of Jewish travel podcasting	Mark Gordon	Orange 12
Limmud House Band in concert	The Limmud House Band	Orange 15
Poetry slam – made by you! (1 of 4)	Rachel Creeger	Red 1
Creativity for busy people	Miki Shaw	Red 2
The Haggadah as you’ve never seen it before	Leon Fenster	Red 3
Holocaust education – is it working?	Ernie Hunter	Red 4
Couples' evening social session	Chloe Welford Jake Welford	Red 5
Let my people play Go!	Gabriel Rozenberg	Yellow 21
What do we need to know about the settlements in the occupied/disputed territories?	Stephen Ogin	Yellow 22

23:00
Sacred song circle	Nava B. Meiersdorf	Red 7