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 R 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