Daniel Heller Hannah Style Simon Style
Yellow 21
This winter, whilst we are fortunate to be at Limmud Festival, many are struggling to 'heat or eat'. We will explore Jewish perspectives on supporting vulnerable people through this crisis, and learn about the work of FEAST With Us, a charity started in Moishe House in London, and now a leading lifeline for those unable to access nutritious meals.
Red 3
In my professional life I am asked to speak to thousands of children every year, as well as training teachers to teach about Judaism. This means that I am often confronted with what could be difficult moments in dealing with antisemitic ideas and tropes, as well as hatred of Israel. How can we deprogram antisemitic ideas in such encounters?
Orange 10
Are you fat or plus size? Do you find some community spaces (and chairs) make you feel too big? Welcome! Full Fat is your space! Join fat Jews to share and learn together. Regularly run at JW3, we will be delving into what being fat and Jewish means to you and studying body liberation texts together.
Full Fat Texts - Limmud.pdf
Yellow 22
Electricity brought many opportunities at the turn of the 20th century, but how did Jewish communities and religious authorities react to the first electrical lights and technologies? We'll explore historical sources, including The Jewish Chronicle archives, to examine who made decisions about what electricity was and how it should be used in Jewish contexts.
Red 2
Miriam spent her first year at orthodox rabbinical school learning the halakha of niddah - laws governing menstruation. Join for a tour of surprising, funny and sometimes shocking rabbinic stories and attitudes. Relic or relevant? Refreshing or revolting? Well consider how modern people can approach this body of law. Let the ideas flow!
Blue 33
Take a moment to consider your intersecting identities. How does your Jewish identity help and hinder your understanding of the situation of other minority populations? In what way do you want to show up to this conversation?
Shir Malka Ifrah Netanel Zalevsky Jeanette Rotstain
Purple 31
Kehilot Sharot invites you to learn and sing a selection of piyutim (Jewish liturgical poems) from diverse Jewish traditions - Iranian, Moroccan, hasidic and more. Our bards (paytanim) run regular activities across hundreds of communities throughout Israel to preserve and inculcate liturgical and musical traditions from Jewish diasporas worldwide.
Red 5
The amidah prayer lies at the heart of structured Jewish prayer. During the weekday services, each amidah is basically identical, but on Shabbat each of the four prayers explores a totally different aspect of the Sabbath. In this three-part series we aim to give participants a heightened understanding of the liturgy and a deeper capacity to engage with Shabbat prayer.
Red 1
Do the speakers in the book of Job represent philosophical arguments (e.g. Maimonides, Gersonides, Nahmanides, Malbim)? Or are they personality types that may undergo psychological development? We will look at chapter 3 as Job transitions from the so-called 'Patient Job' of chapters 1 and 2 to 'Impatient Job' of the dialogue. How does this approach combine the strengths of both outlooks?
Red 4
Many beautiful synagogues, most constructed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, have closed during the past 30 years. Some have been destroyed, while others have been transformed into churches, mosques, schools, offices or theatres. Hardly any have remained within the Jewish community. What can we do to preserve the heritage of these buildings and what are we prepared to invest in order to remember communities which no longer exist?
Orange 12
The Caucasus - an ethnically, linguistically and religiously diverse region at the crossroads of Asia and Europe - has been a millennia-old home to two distinct Jewish communities. Join us as we discover the deep-rooted histories and vibrant cultures of Georgian and Kavkazi/Mountain Jews.
Orange 11
When Theodore Herzl's book, 'Altneuland', was published, Ahad Ha'am wrote a venomous criticism of it. Herzl asked Nordau to respond and Nordau did so in a harsh and shameful article. The polemic that arose between Ahad Ha'am and Herzl's supporters threatened to split the Zionist movement. Why was Ahad Ha'am's criticism so harsh?
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