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Limmud Festival 2022
Sunday 25 December 2022

08:00
Vayarutz vayomer: he ran and he talked – or 'Run and chat'	Abigail Morris	Hotel Lobby
Gentle yoga – coming back home to the body and the breath	Barbara Cohen	Red 7

09:10
Addiction, the golden calf and us	Shimmy Feintuch	Blue 33
The life and times of Albert Ballin	Tony Zendle	Blue 34
Rebecca and Hagar: two biblical women through the lens of ancient law	Miryam Brand	Orange 10
Seize the day! A poem to enhance every day of the Jewish year	Marvin Shaw	Orange 11
Is self-defense a mitzvah?	Hillel Norry	Orange 12
From 50 state traveller to US lawmaker, the journey	Dafna Michaelson Jenet	Orange 13
From the historic Israel-Lebanon agreement to the European crisis: Israel's changing role in global energy politics	Efraim Chalamish	Orange 14
Sephardic? Mizrahi? Exploring terminology that will deepen our understanding of Jewish diversity	Ruben Shimonov	Orange 15
The Song of Songs – love in the time of tyranny: 1. What has Solomon got to do with it? (1 of 3)	Andrew Levy	Red 2
Moses, Simba and the search for self	Edwin Chomer	Red 3
Schleppers no more: the Torah of packing light	Ellen Flax	Red 4
What is Moishe House?	Harry Kelly	Red 5
Losing Eden: the beginning of inequality (1 of 3)	Michah Gottlieb	Yellow 21

10:00
Limmud² – pair-powered learning (2 of 4)	Limmud² – pair-powered learning	Red 9 (Boulevard)

10:20
Torah study with knives	Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik  Shawna Brynjegard-Bialik	Blue 33
What do pupils actually know about the Jews?	Daniel Grabinar	Orange 10
Holding the light/moments in time - the work of Michelle Charles and her relationship to art and time	Michelle Charles	Orange 12

11:30
Debbie Friedman and I	Bat Ella	Blue 34
The battle for the yeshivot - Stamford Hill vs the Schools Bill	Simon Rocker	Orange 11
Health and wellbeing have become more important for the London Jewish community post-pandemic - why?	Andrew Gilbert  Neil Nerva	Orange 13
What can you learn from French Judaism? A counter-intuitive approach to community management	Daniel Aidan	Red 1
Klezmer and kugel and kvelling, oh my! An introduction to Yiddish	Pamela Brenner	Yellow 21

13:00
The Jewish music of Leonard Bernstein	Stuart Lewis	Blue 33
Israel75: a celebration in objects	Nic Abery	Blue 34
A breath of fresh air (2 of 4)	Limmud Social Programming	Hotel Lobby
Limmud fungus foray (Forest School for grown-ups)	Michael Green  Tilla Crowne	Hotel Lobby
Points of view of Israeli teens - Leo Baeck, Haifa	The Leo Baeck Education Center Haifa	Orange 10
Shabbat ma'ariv – the Friday night amidah (1 of 3)	Joel Levy	Orange 11
#Problematic: Attempting to redeem the most offensive talmudic stories – #Problematic tales about non-Jews in the Talmud (2 of 3)	Yaffa Epstein	Orange 12
Does anyone still care about the invasion of Ukraine?	Emma Weleminsky  Hannah Sharron  Marcus Dysch	Orange 13
The diaspora within - homeless in their home/land: Mizrahis, gender and law in Israel/Palestine	Claris Harbon	Orange 14
Why I'm a Wyschogrod fan	Joe Dweck	Orange 15
The original culinary movers and shakers: Jews as transporters of food	Joel Haber	Red 1
My experience learning Yiddish	Ilan Pillemer	Red 2
Isaac and Rebecca attend family therapy	Alma Reisel	Red 3
Kashkarikas: a wasteless Sephardi kitchen story	Sibel Pinto	Red 5
So you fancy a cruise? It's a complex question	Malcolm Ginsberg	Yellow 21

13:10
Regulating in the face of meltdown!	Natalie Grazin	Blue 32 (Millers)
'What's mine is mine; what's yours is yours" - or is it? Elijah versus the hasid	Gilla Rosen	Red 4
Embroider a mizrah (1 of 2)	Vivien Spevock	Red 7

14:10
Power and protest in the Bible	Benjamin Ellis	Blue 33
Judaism facing the challenge of multiculturalism	Paul Mendes-Flohr	Blue 34
Who needs a Christmas tree? Build a family sukkah!	Jonathan Samuel	Main Bar
Interfaith dialogue: is it worth it?	Mark Fox	Orange 10
'Why does that song make my chest hurt?' and other questions	Chlo Spinks	Orange 11
Sympathy for Cain: the Netziv and (other?) 19th century romantics	Shalom Carmy	Orange 12
Jews on screen: Jewish actors for Jewish roles?	Julia Wagner	Orange 13
Educating the next Sephardic generation: an international approach to advancing Ladino language and culture	Ethan Marcus	Orange 14
Five elections in three years – why don't we reform the electoral system? (1 of 3)	David Newman	Orange 15
Secrets of the Hebrew letters (1 of 2)	Nava B. Meiersdorf	Purple 31
Royal garments and ground of shame: body and soul in rabbinic literature	Ishay Rosen-Zvi	Red 1
On the spectrum: is there a Jewish connection?	Belinda Copitch	Red 2
What became of the 'common good'?	Richard Jacobi	Red 3
How Jewish is Crohn's disease?	Alan Silman	Red 5
The Song of Songs – love in the time of tyranny: 2. The Song of Songs – wonderful, numerous or both? (2 of 3)	Andrew Levy	Yellow 21

15:20
Is there more? Hidden symbolism in the choreography of Jewish artists	Asya Zlatina	Blue 33
Zionism: ancient dream or modern revolution?	Joshua Shanes	Blue 34
Love thy stranger: seeking asylum in Israel	Jess Bricker	Orange 11
Four Hanukah stories? The books of the Maccabees	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Orange 12
Get refusal – a waiting game?	Joanne Greenaway  Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll	Orange 13
What is Jerusalem to me and how is it part of my narrative or national story? (1 of 3)	Gershon Baskin  Samer Sinijlawi	Orange 14
We don't care enough about sexual violence (1 of 2)	Asher Lovy	Orange 15
Bimei Matitiyahu: Hanukah Moroccan singing workshop (1 of 3)	Laura Elkeslassy	Purple 31
Ethical investing: how we can heal our world £20 at a time	Jake Welford	Red 1
What halakhic and American constitutional debates have in common	David Frisch	Red 2
London City Airport	Malcolm Ginsberg	Red 3
Pre-Raphaelite depictions of Saul and David. Part 1: Saul (1 of 2)	Clive Kennard	Red 4
Jews and unionism	Moshe Ariel Abel	Red 5
Lo nafsik lirkod! (We won’t stop dancing)	Maurice Stone  Aviva Rozenwald	Red 7
Power of Jewish connections in business by JConnect	Rina Barbut	Red 8
Hanukah: poetry of miracles and meditation	Lisa Goldstein	Yellow 21
If a secular Jew prays, does it make a sound?	Elliot Glassenberg	Yellow 22

16:10
A session in memory of Abraham Levy z"l	Joe Dweck	Blue 34
Communal candle lighting	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Hotel Lobby
Assassins	Limmud Social Programming	Red 2
Play the dreidel! (3 of 4)	Shabbat and Hanukah Programming	Red 9 (Boulevard)
Five-a-side football (1 of 3)	Limmud Social Programming	Yellow 23

17:10
Hanukah candles as a paradigm of spiritual growth in the writings of Natan of Nemirov	Zvi Leshem	Blue 33
Ben Hecht: fighting words, moving pictures	Adina Hoffman	Blue 34
Acquire yourself another friend… (2 of 2)	Limmud Social Programming	Main Bar
Zionist youth movements and the Israel-Palestine conversation	Dalia Blass	Orange 10
The deck of Esther	Jacqueline Nicholls  Tilla Crowne	Orange 11
What's new in... modern Jewish history?	Ezra Margulies  Naomi Seidman  Michah Gottlieb	Orange 12
Where is Anne Frank	UK Jewish Film Festival  Daniel Daniel  Irene Wise	Orange 13
Jewish diplomacy and advocacy: advancing Jewish interests on the political world stage	WJC Diplomatic Corps	Orange 14
Visualizing Torah	Russel Neiss  Sara Wolkenfeld	Orange 15
Solitude: a springboard for growth	Joe Dweck	Red 1
Redemption in bondage - the struggles of women in pre-state Israel	Bat-Sheva Margalit Stern  Hagit Peer	Red 2
How they celebrated Yom tov, beat extreme cold and exchanged idiocies in Chelm	Eddie Bass	Red 3
Israel at 75: In Weizmann's image – the birth of the Jewish state and its future hi-tech miracle (2 of 3)	Howard Epstein	Red 4
Maccabees and other Jewish super-heroes	Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik  Shawna Brynjegard-Bialik	Red 5
A spiritual response to an emotional struggle	Samuel Rosenberg	Red 8
Autistic Jews	Sarah McCulloch	Yellow 21
Responding with kindness: a series of rabbinic case studies	David-Yehuda Stern	Yellow 22

18:20
The First Zionist Congress (2 of 4)	Mordechai (Motti) Friedman	Blue 33
Rabbinic interpretation of women's roles from ancient to modern times: the good, bad and ugly	Maggie Anton	Blue 34
Board games	Limmud Social Programming	Main Bar
Can there be Judaism without mysticism?	Yehoshua Engelman	Orange 10
Passover, the holiday of freedom - and other such poppycock	Ze'ev Maghen	Orange 11
The multifaceted history and culture of Bukharian Jews (1 of 2)	Ruben Shimonov	Orange 12
When 'ghost soldiers' threaten Israeli security	Jordan Siegel	Orange 14
Maureen's Torah	Raphael Zarum  Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz  Helena Miller  Adam Taub	Orange 15
The oys and joys of Jewish journalism	Gary Rosenblatt	Purple 31
Haredim – contending with the Jewish future	Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll  Asher Lovy  Ben Crowne  Pearl Gluck	Red 1
Merchants, minimalism and media: the visual codification of online antisemitism hiding in plain sight	David Hochhauser	Red 2
Women and the mourner's kaddish	Chana Luntz	Red 3
Flexitarianism: a Jewish way of eating meat?	Harris Lorie	Red 4
Almost three years in – reflections on the Daf Yomi journey	Luz Toff	Red 5
Scribal calligraphy (sofrut) (2 of 2)	Nava B. Meiersdorf	Red 8
Jews on social media	Isaac Reuben	Yellow 21
Putting a spin on It: Hanukah storytelling workshop	Olga Lempert	Yellow 22

19:30
Spiritual first aid for humans who lead	Sarah Robinson	Blue 34
Limmud Festival buddying	Limmud Social Programming	Main Bar
Zionism and anti-Zionism deconstructed	Avi Mayer	Orange 10
God is an Arab	Ze'ev Maghen	Orange 11
The Mediterranean – a Medieval melting pot	Robert Stone	Orange 12
'Hasidic big bang' – 13.7 billion years in seven days?	Igal Harmelin	Orange 14
The UK Jewish community in the age of Covid: What changed and what didn't?	Keith Kahn-Harris  Helena Miller  Katja Stuerzenhofecker	Orange 15
How poetry can improve our mental health	Marvin Shaw	Purple 31
What is Midrash?	Ishay Rosen-Zvi	Red 1
Of iPhones, key cards and microphones - the great Shabbat electricity debate	Joanne Greenaway	Red 2
Digital pictograms encoded in the Torah	Adam Woolfe	Red 3
Shabbat by the sea	Joel Brahams	Red 4
Check your own mezuzah	Allison Barclay	Red 5
Reincarnation of a melody: nigunim workshop	Marine Goldwaser	Yellow 22

19:50
Mahloket matters: the value of constructive disagreement	Sefi Kraut	Blue 33
The optimists: the survival of Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust (1 of 3)	Jacky Comforty	Orange 13
Jewish spirituality isn't what you thought it was!	Yerach B. Meiersdorf	Yellow 21

20:40
Sacrae: singing 'a cappella' Christian settings of Jewish texts	Sarah Bronzite  John Dunston	Blue 34
L'haim for European Jewish professionals	David Levin-Kruss	Main Bar
From Auschwitz to Accra: exploring the reinvention of high-profile Nazis in post-colonial Africa	Sonti Ramirez	Orange 10
The story of an antisemitically named houseplant	Daniel Heller	Orange 12
The heretic in the house	Naomi Seidman	Orange 14
Jewish responses to the loneliness epidemic	Denise Handlarski	Purple 31
The thickness of a prison wall: what is the Jewish view on tax planning?	Russell Cohen	Red 2
‘All existence whispers to me its secret’: the illuminated poetry of Abraham Isaac Kook	Itzchak Evan-Shayish (Marmorstein)	Red 3
Conceptualizing community	Ezra Margulies	Red 4
What is neo-hasidism and why is it coming to your synagogue?	Michael Shire	Red 5
Iranian Jewish piyutim	Jeanette Rotstain	Yellow 22

21:50
Jewish activism on social media	Debbie Lechtman	Blue 33
Gender in halakhah: a feminist perspective on the challenge of compassionate, inclusive realism in orthodox Judaism	Shira Solomons	Blue 34
Queerness and otherness in the Book of Ruth	Elliot Glassenberg	Orange 10
Sin city: how not to slaughter an entire town	Gabriel Kanter-Webber	Orange 11
Israel by comparison: some ways Israel is and some ways Israel is not extraordinary (1 of 2)	Robin Moss	Orange 12
Daniel Cainer in concert!	Daniel Cainer	Orange 15
Comedy slam – made by you! (2 of 4)	Rachel Creeger	Purple 31
Halakhah is the solution. Halakhah is the problem! (A 2500-year journey of spiritual evolution)	Alex Israel	Red 1
Tall tales and pale ales: a late-night Talmud event at the Limmud Bar	Yaffa Epstein  Wendy Amsellem  Sara Wolkenfeld  Jacqueline Nicholls	Red 2
Kinky toffs and their Jewish doms	Clive Kennard	Red 4
Jewish jokes	Yehoshua Engelman	Red 5
Modern jive dancing (2 of 2)	Jonathan Hunter	Red 7
Pub quiz	Limmud Social Programming	Red 9 (Boulevard)
American big business and the Holocaust: IBM, Ford, Rockefeller and Carnegie	Mark Creeger	Yellow 21
The hasidic tradition and its music	Netanel Zalevsky	Yellow 22

23:00
Psychedelic sounds	Nathan Finkel	Blue 34
Queer collage dreams of the future	Joe Hyman	Orange 10
The penultimate psalm	Raphael Zarum	Red 1
What does the wicked son mean to you anyway?	Yoni Stone  David Hochhauser	Red 4
Israeli dance party! (1 of 2)	Maurice Stone  Aviva Rozenwald	Red 7
Artscroll or porn? And other classic Yeshivish games	Noa Gendler	Red 8