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Limmud Festival 2022
Monday 26 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
How to make your first impression count and be memorable!	Annette Kurer	Blue 33
Spies, giants and prostitutes – Moses' spies; Joshua's spies	Alex Israel	Blue 34
In the Miriam tradition (1 of 2)	Asya Zlatina	Orange 10
The Israel-Rwanda refugee fiasco: a cautionary tale	Elliot Glassenberg	Orange 11
How odd of God to choose the Jews - a survey of chosenness in Jewish sources	Miriam Lorie	Orange 12
Who's afraid of Jewish humour?	Daniel Daniel  UK Jewish Film Festival  Irene Wise	Orange 13
125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress – what can we learn from Herzl the politician?	Yizhar Hess	Orange 14
The slide to extremism: can we stop it?	Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll	Orange 15
Desayuno: Sephardi-style breakfast	Sibel Pinto	Purple 31
Emergency state: freedom, democracy and the pandemic	Adam Wagner	Red 2
Feeding women of the Talmud, feeding ourselves	Kenden Alfond	Red 3
How the Glorious Revolution, with key Jewish help, created the liberal democratic world	Edward Ben-Nathan	Red 4
Shmerke Kaczerginski: Vilna author and songwriter of Jewish resistance to the Nazis	Stephen Ogin	Red 5
The calf with the broken neck	Gabriel Kanter-Webber	Yellow 21
'Ein od milvado' – we are all connected	Marc Frank	Yellow 22

10:00
Limmud² – pair-powered learning (3 of 4)	Limmud² – pair-powered learning	Red 9 (Boulevard)

10:20
Gematriart® – chromatic art of the Torah (1 of 2)	Simon Prais	Blue 33
Maktoub/katuv: An exploration of Arabic and Hebrew calligraphy	Ruben Shimonov	Purple 31
Unravelling 'Shtisel' season 3: doubles, dreams and death	Julia Wagner	Red 1
Chagim for everyone: Jewish festival dances	Maurice Stone  Aviva Rozenwald	Red 7

11:30
Strengthening parent-child connection: SCERTS and attachment theory	Natalie Grazin	Blue 32 (Millers)
Gematriart® – Torah through the spectroscope (2 of 2)	Simon Prais	Blue 33
How rich they are: the life story of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai	David Finlay	Blue 34
Two-way street: the Greater Manchester community's strengths and assets	Micah Gold	Orange 10
To be human is to lie!	Richard Jacobi	Orange 11
A window into Hebron: a virtual tour	Stav Salpeter  Benzion Sanders	Orange 13

12:20
The Queue	Limmud Social Programming	Monarch

13:00
Animals and the afterlife in Orthodox Jewish thought	Barry Kleinberg	Blue 33
Coping with antisemitism online	Debbie Lechtman	Blue 34
A breath of fresh air (3 of 4)	Limmud Social Programming	Hotel Lobby
Kallah v'kallah: our traditional lesbian Jewish wedding(s)	Liora Baram  Oli Davidson	Orange 10
The invention of the 'goy'	Ishay Rosen-Zvi	Orange 11
Looking at solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – beyond the failed two-state solution paradigm (2 of 3)	Gershon Baskin  Samer Sinijlawi	Orange 12
Reckonings	Daniel Daniel  UK Jewish Film Festival  Irene Wise	Orange 13
The future of Jewish education in the UK	Robin Moss  Helena Miller  Joanne Greenaway  Carolyn Bogush	Orange 14
The most important verse in the Torah? Our Jewish obligation to a life of social responsibility	Ephraim Mirvis	Orange 15
Country houses, Jewish homes	Jaclyn Granick  Marcus Roberts  Abigail Green	Red 1
The naked rabbi	Jonathan Romain	Red 2
Who needs a women’s organisation in Israel in 2022?	Bat-Sheva Margalit Stern  Hagit Peer  Gali Etzion	Red 3
Psalms for the artist	Jacqueline Nicholls	Red 5

13:10
How to make our communities safer (2 of 2)	Asher Lovy	Red 4
Bringing 'Madeleines' to life: an exploration of Bess Welden's play about a family of Jewish women	Bess Welden	Yellow 21

14:10
What is Moishe House?	Harry Kelly	Blue 33
Let’s observe some Judeo-Italian manuscripts with a 'magnifying glass': I bet you are able to read several words! (1 of 2)	Marilena Colasuonno	Blue 34
State and religion in Israel – the challenge of a Jewish and democratic state	Yizhar Hess	Orange 10
The multifaceted history and culture of Bukharian Jews (2 of 2)	Ruben Shimonov	Orange 11
The awakenings (2 of 3)	Michah Gottlieb	Orange 12
The seven prophetesses (1 of 2)	Sybil Sheridan	Orange 14
Jews in the USA at a crossroads	Gary Rosenblatt  Dafna Michaelson Jenet  Mark Gottlieb  Efraim Chalamish	Orange 15
TikTok, media and misogyny: talking to our teens about consent	Jewish Women's Aid  Ilana Hutchinson	Purple 31
Revealed: the only SS concentration camp for Jews on British territory and the shameful British denial of Holocaust justice for victims	Marcus Roberts	Red 1
The Martin Bashir/Diana Princess of Wales 'Panorama' interview: the Dyson Report	John Dyson	Red 2
Worship beyond language: mind, body and spirit	Hillel Norry	Red 3
Covid stories – an oral history project	Steve Miller	Red 5
The bloodthirsty vegan, or, How I stopped worrying and learned to love korbanot	Isabel Bard	Red 8
Approaches to Leviticus 18:22	Alma Reisel	Yellow 22

15:20
Religious music goes mainstream in Israel	Bat Ella	Blue 33
Draw me after: a poetry reading and conversation	Peter Cole	Blue 34
You never call! You never visit!	Rosella de Jong	Orange 10
Jewish diversity in pictures: something to celebrate?	Keith Kahn-Harris	Orange 11
Back in Berlin	Daniel Daniel  UK Jewish Film Festival  Irene Wise	Orange 13
#Problematic: Attempting to redeem the most offensive talmudic stories: Problematic power dynamics (3 of 3)	Yaffa Epstein	Orange 14
Book talk: international Jewish humanitarianism in the age of the Great War	Jaclyn Granick	Orange 15
Singing and lyric therapy	Kelly Erez	Purple 31
How to crown your alef-bet	Allison Barclay	Red 1
The mitzvah of heresy – learning through hasidic tales	Yehoshua Engelman	Red 2
The fall and fall of anti-Zionism	Vivian Wineman	Red 3
Affirmative squatting – Mizrahi women in Israel correct past and lingering injustices	Claris Harbon	Red 4
In space no-one can hear you kvetch - Jews in space	Tony Zendle	Red 5
What is a poetic autobiography? And how can I write one?	Marvin Shaw	Red 8
Child sexual abuse in the UK Jewish community: improving outcomes for our young people	Sarah Bronzite  Erica Marks	Yellow 21
Shabbat shaharit (morning service) amidah (2 of 3)	Joel Levy	Yellow 22

16:10
Meditation – coming back home to the body and the breath, giving the mind a rest	Barbara Cohen	Blue 33
Wide game	Limmud Social Programming	Hotel Lobby
Board games	Limmud Social Programming	Main Bar
Preparing to present at Limmud Festival 2023 - because everyone can be a teacher	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz  Limmud Executive	Orange 10
Musical slam – made by you! (4 of 4)	Rachel Creeger	Orange 14
LGBT+ and Jewish? A discussion around what an inclusive Jewish community looks like for you	Dalia Fleming  Sarah Bronzite	Red 4
Memory lane singalong	David Becker	Red 5
Let's pickle!	Pamela Brenner	Red 8
Babka making	Limmud Social Programming	Red 9 (Boulevard)
Dobble kef!	Georgie Friend  Nina Morris-Evans  Hannah Arnaud  Nicole Jacobus	Yellow 21
Limmud knitting circle	Sydney Switzer	Yellow 22
Five-a-side football (2 of 3)	Limmud Social Programming	Yellow 23

17:10
Noah on the Earth: songs and discussion inspired by Noah's ark	Aaron Goldstein  Ethan Kelly	Blue 33
The making of an alliance: the origins and development of US-Israel relationship	David Tal	Blue 34
Agunot and coercive control – how helpful are developments in UK law?	Joanne Greenaway	Orange 10
The state of antisemitism in America	Avi Mayer	Orange 11
PR-ing your synagogue, charity or business: tricks of the trade from the PR Office	Phil Rosenberg	Orange 12
J'Accuse! A cry from the killing pits of Lithuania	Nigel Canin  Michael Kretzmer	Orange 13
Lick your teeth - the paradox of Khomeinist Iran	Ze'ev Maghen	Orange 14
Daniel Cainer and Raphael Zarum - new psalms for old ceremonies?	Daniel Cainer  Raphael Zarum	Purple 31
The impact of antisemitism and the Holocaust on English Jewish aristocracy and the UK Jewish country house	Marcus Roberts	Red 1
Israel by comparison: some ways Israel is and some ways Israel is not extraordinary (2 of 2)	Robin Moss	Red 2
What makes Reform rabbis angry?	Jonathan Romain	Red 3
God as mother	Gilla Rosen	Red 4
How do you say this in Jewish? Translating our way through the ages	Olga Lempert	Red 5
If God is dead – what's next? Nietzsche and Judeo-Christian morality	Barry Kleinberg	Red 8
Dear Diary	David Finlay	Yellow 21
Yehuda Halevi – physician, poet, philosopher, mystic	Robert Stone	Yellow 22

18:20
Meditation, distraction and connection	Lisa Goldstein	Blue 33
20 Jewish characters in non-Jewish fiction	Martin Kaye	Blue 34
Haredim and the future of Israel: a social and demographic challenge (2 of 3)	David Newman	Orange 10
Why Jews love money	Ze'ev Maghen	Orange 11
The stolen narrative of Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust (2 of 3)	Jacky Comforty	Orange 12
Unknown Sephardim: exploring the philosophies, language and culture of Ladino-speaking Jewry	Ethan Marcus	Orange 15
Find your Adam or Eve (for 35-45 year olds)	Rachel Creeger  Limmud Social Programming	Purple 31
Vayehi erev, vayehi voker – And there was evening and there was morning: words of Torah to help us rediscover the light in moments of personal darkness	Ephraim Mirvis	Red 1
What's new in... ancient Judaism?	Ezra Margulies  Miryam Brand  Ishay Rosen-Zvi	Red 2
The pig-faced lady: kashrut and anti-Jewish sentiment in 18th-century England	Noelle Dückmann Gallagher	Red 3
'So how's the Limmud research going?' An update	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Red 4
Punishment or prevention - how to best deal with crime?	Sefi Kraut	Red 5
DJ workshop with DJ Tamboi	Limmud Social Programming	Red 7
Leadership crisis? What leadership crisis? (Talmud with the backstory left in)	Ben Crowne	Red 8
Flip the script: intermarriage is good for the Jews	Denise Handlarski	Yellow 21
The Fifth Zionist Congress (3 of 4)	Mordechai (Motti) Friedman	Yellow 22

19:30
Prayer for our country	David Frisch	Blue 33
Kindling the Shabbat lights: a new mitzvah with a new blessing	Maggie Anton	Blue 34
Moishe House community/alumni social	Harry Kelly	Main Bar
2econd chance	Nigel Canin  Isobel Aptaker  Adam Goodman	Orange 11
Post-election panel: whither the Israeli left?	David Newman  Stav Salpeter  Gershon Baskin	Orange 12
The hasidic tale: mysterious guests and supernatural flights: Rebbe Nahman of Breslov's haunting Hanukah tale	Zvi Leshem	Orange 14
Heschel's 'Passover Eve' – a riveting solo performance portraying Abraham Joshua Heschel		Orange 15
Find your Adam or Eve (for 25-35 year olds)	Samantha Royston  Limmud Social Programming	Purple 31
Talmud for all: the case for democratizing Jewish texts	Yaffa Epstein  Sara Wolkenfeld	Red 1
How to find your perfect volunteer role	Nicky Goldman	Red 2
Pre-Raphaelite depictions of Saul and David. Part 2: David (2 of 2)	Clive Kennard	Red 3
What goes around... Justice, mercy and time in the philosophical tradition	Yael Maghen	Red 5
Today's Israelite Samaritans – ancient Hebrew and Torah customs still retained	Geoffrey Ben-Nathan	Yellow 21
My Stamford Hell	Charlie Lewin	Yellow 22

19:50
So you want to give a TEDx talk?	Dafna Michaelson Jenet	Orange 10
Filming the history of Bais Yaakov	Naomi Seidman  Pearl Gluck	Orange 13
The status of the foetus and the mother in halakhah: understanding the rhetoric around abortion	Jeff Fox	Red 4
Israeli dance party! (2 of 2)	Maurice Stone  Aviva Rozenwald	Red 7

20:40
Orthodox, conservative, reform and... Israeli: on the Israeli secular Jewish renaissance	Yuval Linden	Blue 33
What makes a Holocaust film great?	Rich Brownstein	Blue 34
Jewish theatre-makers schmooze	Bess Welden	Main Bar
Acoustic café	Limmud Social Programming	Orange 11
Stand-up comedy	Monica Selo	Purple 31
Everyone is invited: A guide to tackling gender-based violence within the Jewish community	Jewish Women's Aid  Ilana Hutchinson	Red 1
Panel on kiddushin (traditional Jewish marriage rites) in the here and now	Nava B. Meiersdorf  Joel Levy	Red 2
Britain, the USA and Israel: political shenanigans - which is saner?	Clive Lawton	Red 3
How Israel is stepping on the wrong side of history	Jordan Siegel	Red 5
Debt – poor countries (and rich countries as well), poor people, whose responsibility?	Steve Miller	Yellow 21
Great psalms of Iranian Jews	Jeanette Rotstain	Yellow 22

21:50
Ibn Gabirol was gayer than you think – excerpts from Siddur Or veShalom	Isaac Montagu	Blue 33
The four (and many more!) who entered Pardes: alumni and friends meetup	Sefi Kraut  Alex Israel	Main Bar
LGBT+ social space	Dalia Fleming	Orange 10
Free synagogue membership for under 30s	Aaron Goldstein	Orange 11
Cohesion and antisemitism in London	Andrew Gilbert  Adrian Cohen	Orange 12
Laura Elkeslassy: Ya Ghorbati - divas in exile (3 of 3)	Laura Elkeslassy	Orange 15
Sufi meditation session	Moshe Ariel Abel	Purple 31
The seven prophetesses (2 of 2)	Sybil Sheridan	Red 1
Promoting a positive view of Jewish communities to combat antisemitism	WJC Diplomatic Corps	Red 2
Reflections on human and divine sovereignty in a democratic age	Mark Gottlieb	Red 3
Prison or refuge: rethinking the exile from Eden	Yael Jaffe	Red 4
The star-spangled swastika: how Nazi science and ideology shaped the American future	Mark Creeger	Red 5
Silent disco	Noa Gendler  Limmud Social Programming  Nicole Jacobus	Red 7
Cocktail making	Limmud Social Programming	Red 8

23:00
The city that never sleeps and the activists who wish they slept more	Jess Bricker	Blue 33
Musical piyut workshop from Moroccan and North African traditions	Shir Malka Ifrah	Blue 34
Regret – learning through hasidic tales	Yehoshua Engelman	Orange 11
They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat! Jewish food conquers antisemitism	Joel Haber	Orange 12
The year in scandal	Ben Crowne	Orange 14
And here's to me, Jonathan Robinson!	Jonathan Robinson	Red 2
Synagogue and state in Israel, 2022 edition	Elliot Glassenberg	Red 5
Purim, prostitutes and talmudic toilet humour	Limmud Social Programming	Red 8