Limmud Festival 2022
Tuesday 27 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 much is Parkinson's a Jewish disease?	Alan Silman	Blue 33
The power of oral histories and documentation (3 of 3)	Jacky Comforty	Blue 34
Different ways to say 'I do': interfaith wedding ceremonies that bring everyone together	Esther Aronsfeld	Orange 10
Does the book of Exodus say the Israelites were slaves in Egypt?	Shalom Carmy	Orange 11
African Jewish lives	Sybil Sheridan	Orange 12
Antisemitism, Bibi and the cost-of-living crisis: an ABC of Jewish public policy	Philip Rosenberg	Orange 13
'Acher' (the rebel) and Abraham	Gilla Rosen	Orange 14
People of the Book – what gets us reading?	Laun Ruttenberg	Purple 31
Gesher School, from an idea to 'Outstanding' – the importance of a blueprint	Sarah Sultman Alison Durban	Red 1
An introduction to trans inclusion	Dalia Fleming	Red 2
Foraging, wild food and Jews	Michael Green	Red 3
Gershom Scholem: book collector and librarian	Zvi Leshem	Red 4
The tale of a plate and the evolution of Israel's borders (3 of 3)	David Newman	Red 5
Write your own Torah (no scribal arts required)	Sara Wolkenfeld	Red 8
Ladino 101 – An Introduction to Judeo-Spanish	Ethan Marcus	Yellow 22

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

10:20
Meditation, silence and the self in prayer	Igal Harmelin	Blue 33
Making 3D Jewish art pieces - our very own pieces of Judaica!	David Bash	Purple 31
Stephen Sondheim – a lot of night music!	Mike Levy	Red 1
Rikud chadash – New dance!	Maurice Stone Aviva Rozenwald	Red 7

11:30
Am I just being a pushy Jewish parent? How to advocate for your SEN child with schools, shuls, youth movements and your Jewish family	Natalie Grazin	Blue 32 (Millers)
Generation 2 Generation asks: where to now for Holocaust education?	Helen Stone Michael Newman	Blue 34
You've never heard of this emergency	Hannah Sharron Juliana Peña	Orange 10
A Jew is the biggest star in professional wrestling and not enough people are talking about it	Ben Combe	Orange 11
Jewish existentialist cinema	Daniel Daniel UK Jewish Film Festival Irene Wise	Orange 13
The man who was	Rachel Montagu	Red 2
Jonathan Sacks: a radical traditionalist	Raphael Zarum	Red 4

13:00
Olam haba: learning through tales of hasidim	Yehoshua Engelman	Blue 33
Bridging the digital divide: how the Jewish community is empowering refugees in the UK	Moses Seitler	Blue 34
Why the claim 'Jews Don’t Count' risks alienating Jews of colour and other ethnic minorities	Nadine Batchelor-Hunt	Blue 34
A breath of fresh air (4 of 4)	Limmud Social Programming	Hotel Lobby
A world shattered and rebuilt: the crisis of Jewish education after the Shoah	Mark Gottlieb	Orange 10
Jewish LGBT+ people and spaces	Daniella Shaw Oli Davidson Dalia Fleming Dave Shaw Natalie Grazin	Orange 11
Why did Jethro leave? The search for personal truth and the challenge of commitment	Alex Israel	Orange 14
A united Jerusalem? Unpacking a British Embassy move	Stav Salpeter Gershon Baskin Samer Sinijlawi	Orange 15
Feldenkrais Method, the Jewish way of moving and feeling better - learning through movement	Emma Alter	Purple 31
How to change your life – dealing with guilt	Elie Jesner	Red 1
In search of a home - one Jewish-Moroccan woman’s quest for her identity through language	Claris Harbon	Red 2
The London Recovery Plan and the Jewish community post-pandemic: what is needed?	Andrew Gilbert Anne Clarke Adrian Cohen	Red 3
Sibling rivalry: early Jewish-Christian relations and their legacy	Ann Conway-Jones	Red 4
Behold the power of our killing machine: heavy metal and the spectre of the Holocaust	Keith Kahn-Harris	Red 5
Future of me and you, robotics and AI	Jake Welford	Yellow 21
Get the children out! Unsung heroes of the Kindertransport	Mike Levy	Yellow 22

13:10
Abortion in halakhah	Chana Luntz	Orange 12
'Mum Thumb', a play with music by Judith Silver	Judith Silver	Orange 13

14:10
Navigating the UK SEN system: from diagnosis to funding	Sarah Sultman Alison Durban	Blue 33
Gender in the imagery of God	Raphael Zarum	Blue 34
'Nice women don’t make history' – an in-depth look at one of the spiritual mothers of Jewish feminism in Israel	Hagit Peer Bat-Sheva Margalit Stern	Orange 10
We've been to Hebron: reflections on our trip to Israel and the West Bank	Dalia Blass	Orange 11
Who shall recite God’s praises: Torah, leadership and power	Wendy Amsellem	Orange 14
Torah and the struggle with sin in the Talmud and Second Temple texts	Miryam Brand	Orange 15
Isabel Velez's chard and cheese casserole	Sibel Pinto	Purple 31
The Jewish community versus the BBC	Marie van der Zyl	Red 1
Jewish chaplaincy in the British Armed Forces 1892-2022	Jonathan Lewis	Red 2
100 million journeys of displacement	Jess Bricker Hannah Sharron Juliana Peña	Red 3
How to craft your message when lobbying a law maker or anyone else	Dafna Michaelson Jenet	Red 4
What does 'equal Jewish marriage' mean today?	Aaron Goldstein	Red 5
The roundtable – religious, secular, seeker?	Yuval Linden Alex Israel Sara Wolkenfeld Sybil Sheridan Denise Handlarski Marcia Plumb Adam Rossano	Red 8
'I don't think she cares very much to admit her origins': Nabokov's Jewesses in life and art	Anoushka Alexander-Rose	Yellow 21
Bringing readings alive – including your own words in a sermon or d'var Torah	Judi Herman	Yellow 22

15:20
Migrations of a melody: a musical journey about klezmer	Marine Goldwaser	Blue 33
I was a stranger too: writing a Jewish response to the refugee crisis	Cynthia Cooper	Blue 34
Free Torah	Russel Neiss	Orange 10
Why we need intersectionality to understand antisemitism and discrimination in Europe	Nadia Beider Mie Astrup Jensen	Orange 11
Limmud Live! @ Festival	Ben Lewis Shaul Robinson Nicky Goldman Robin Moss	Orange 12
Short film winners	UK Jewish Film Festival Daniel Daniel Irene Wise	Orange 13
What's so funny about Jewish humour?	Gary Rosenblatt	Orange 14
Freud in the popular Yiddish press	Naomi Seidman	Orange 15
Halakhic responsa as Holocaust resistance? The teshuvot of Rabbi Oshry	Pamela Brenner	Purple 31
Dow Marmur z'l – a giant of Progressive Jewish thought and action	Steve Miller	Red 1
Sephardi sung poetry through history: excerpts from Siddur Or veShalom	Isaac Montagu	Red 2
Israel at 75: In Weizmann's image – the forgotten hero: Ben-Gurion buries Weizmann’s reputation (3 of 3)	Howard Epstein	Red 3
Jewish voices beyond the food bank	Rachel Vogler	Red 4
Domestic abuse: barriers for Jewish women	Jewish Women's Aid Ziona Handler	Red 5
The roundtable – under one tent?	Michael Moskowitz Nava B. Meiersdorf Joel Levy Sefi Kraut Liora Baram Jeff Fox Clive Lawton	Red 8
Designing Jewish education for the 21st century	Edwin Chomer	Yellow 21
Muslim-Jewish encounters in urban Europe	Daniella Shaw Alyaa Ebbiary	Yellow 22

16:10
Have your say! A discussion forum for parents and family of LGBT+ people	Dalia Fleming Sarah Bronzite	Blue 33
Curly haired Q&A and other stories - meet Limmud's new staff	Joe Hyman Adam Rossano	Blue 34
Tea and take part	Limmud Social Programming	Main Bar
Share your recipe with the Jewish Food Hero community	Kenden Alfond	Orange 10
Srugim and discussion	Nina Morris-Evans Hannah Arnaud Georgie Friend Nicole Jacobus	Orange 13
Monologue slam – made by you! (3 of 4)	Rachel Creeger	Orange 14
Burlesque 101: body confidence and boldness	Lucy Cohen	Red 7
Board games	Limmud Social Programming	Red 9 (Boulevard)
Make your own golem	Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik Shawna Brynjegard-Bialik	Yellow 21
Limmud knitting circle	Sydney Switzer	Yellow 22
Five-a-side football (3 of 3)	Limmud Social Programming	Yellow 23

17:10
Whose Zion is it anyway?	Robin Ashleigh	Blue 33
Would you like to learn the meaning and pronunciation of some funny words and curses in Judeo-Italian?	Marilena Colasuonno	Blue 34
Death duties: loss, mourning and the Hevra Kadisha	Sally Berkovic	Orange 10
The state of Jewish education around the world – and why it matters	Helena Miller Joanne Greenaway Yaffa Epstein Sophie Bigot Goldblum	Orange 11
The chosen people?	Wendy Amsellem	Orange 12
‘Muna’ screening: Mira Awad on art, politics and Palestinian-Israeli identity	Stav Salpeter	Orange 13
A different kind of romance: Naomi - Ruth - Boaz	Deborah Kahn-Harris	Orange 14
Anti-Semitism in Labour – rewriting history	John Ware	Orange 15
In the Miriam tradition - Part Tutu (2 of 2)	Asya Zlatina	Purple 31
Regaining equality, restoring Eden (3 of 3)	Michah Gottlieb	Red 1
Cutting the cost and carbon of your home energy	Adrian Sieff	Red 2
Modern Jewish philosophy and the politics of divine violence	Daniel Weiss	Red 3
From Bowie to Blondie: what is the power of a musician’s persona?	Chlo Spinks	Red 4
Religion, belief and the law: an update on the most fascinating recent cases	Adam Wagner Naomi Munk	Red 5
Tayelet	Maurice Stone Aviva Rozenwald	Red 7
What exactly is a Jewish short story?	Deborah Freeman	Red 8
How can we learn to live a life less serious?	George Halfin	Yellow 22

18:20
Jewish recipes for writing: on-the-page experiments about family, food and memory	Bess Welden	Blue 33
Canine pioneer: the extraordinary life of Rudolphina Menzel	Susan Kahn	Blue 34
A shtetl called Tel Aviv	Samuel Rosenberg	Orange 10
'Love your neighbour as yourself' (Leviticus 19:18) = 'Choose them an easy death' (Talmud)	Daniel Goldfarb	Orange 11
A taste of the Queer Yeshiva	Hava Carvajal Joanna Phillips	Orange 12
What is the future for Jewish Barnet?	Andrew Gilbert Ella Rose Anne Clarke	Orange 14
'Eshet Chayil' from scratch, a new setting by Judith Silver	Judith Silver	Purple 31
The international community and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (3 of 3)	Gershon Baskin Samer Sinijlawi	Red 1
How to change your life – approaching forgiveness	Elie Jesner	Red 2
The first rule of halakhic change...	Shaul Robinson	Red 3
In with the new: renewal in Jewish culture	Olga Lempert	Red 4
Judaism for Arabs	Elhanan Miller	Red 5
Calm is a body state: unwinding the body patterns of fear, anxiety and stress, using the Feldenkrais method	Emma Alter	Red 7
The Song of Songs – love in the time of tyranny: 3. A radical work (3 of 3)	Andrew Levy	Yellow 21
'Stolpersteine' (stumbling stones): memorials to Europe’s murdered Jews	John Dunston	Yellow 22

19:30
Jewish anti-racism conversation	Sarah Robinson	Blue 33
Full fat	Lucy Cohen	Orange 10
Altneuland (4 of 4)	Mordechai (Motti) Friedman	Orange 11
The rich history of Jewish communities of the Caucasus	Ruben Shimonov	Orange 12
Kehilot Sharot ('Singing Communities')	Netanel Zalevsky Shir Malka Ifrah Jeanette Rotstain	Purple 31
Should Job be read as philosophy, narrative poetry or both? The case of Job's curse (chapter 3)	Shalom Carmy	Red 1
I Niddah Hero; a tour through the Jewish menstrual purity laws	Miriam Lorie	Red 2
Deprogramming antisemitism	Zvi Solomons	Red 3
The lost heritage of the UK's synagogues	David Newman	Red 4
Shabbat musaf and minhah (additional and afternoon services) amidah (3 of 3)	Joel Levy	Red 5
Cost of living crisis: our responsibility towards those struggling to eat	Daniel Heller Hannah Style Simon Style	Yellow 21
How many Jews does it take to install a lightbulb? Early Jewish responses to electricity	Michael Kay	Yellow 22

20:40
Limmud Festival Gala		Orange 15
Not The Gala	The People's Democratic Republic of Not The Gala	Red 1

22:30
Bat Ella in concert: an Israeli-Jewish hagigah!	Bat Ella	Orange 15
YOU are my audience!	Rachel Creeger	Red 1
The rebbetzins' disco	Jacqueline Nicholls	Red 7
Israeli dance party! (3 of 3)	Maurice Stone Aviva Rozenwald	Yellow 23