Limmud Festival 2023
Friday 22 December 2023

14:00
Mincha - Orthodox Service		Red 1
Parashat hashavua - the weekly Torah portion: text study	Edina Weber	Red 3
South Africa then and now: an author's eye view	Lynn Joffe	Red 5
Mincha - Sephardi Service		Red 8
Friends of the world	Stephen Black	Orange 10
Hedgerows as a tool for species recovery in agricultural landscapes	Elihu Gevirtz	Orange 11
Mincha - Egalitarian Service		Orange 12
Bambi is Jewish	Rosella de Jong	Orange 13
Friday night delight	Caroline Hagard	Orange 14
Kultur-lige 2.0: unveiling Poland's network of Jewish artists	Aleksandra Janus	Yellow 21
Mincha - Progressive Service		Yellow 24
Friendship bracelets in the woods	Sydney Switzer	Hotel Lobby

15:15
Candle Lighting		Orange 15

15:30
Looking for love in all the wrong Jewish texts? We’re here to help	Elliot Glassenberg	Red 3
Get-together for autistic adults	Caroline Hearst	Red 4
Meet the Green Party	Zack Polanski	Orange 10
Shabbat Begins at 15:39		Hotel Lobby

15:30
Kabbalat Shabbat - Orthodox Service		Red 1
Kabbalat Shabbat - Sephardi Service		Red 8
Kabbalat Shabbat - Egalitarian Service		Orange 12
Kabbalat Shabbat - Families Service		Blue 32 - Families Lounge
Kabbalat Shabbat - Humanist Service	x Priority sessions	Orange 14
Kabbalat Shabbat - Progressive Service		Yellow 24
Mindful sunset walk	Limmud Shabbat	Hotel Lobby

16:45
Communal Kiddush and End of Fast		Orange 15

17:30
Family Shabbat Dinner		Purple 29 - Families Dining

17:40
“Created for life and not for pain”. What a sugya about breastfeeding can teach us about Talmud and feminism	Miriam-Simma Walfish	Red 3
The Torah’s idea of living a good life: Is the Torah moral? (1 of 2)	Samuel Millunchick	Red 4
Come and sing: Sephardic piyyutim and pizmonim	Isaac Montagu	Red 5
Welcome for Limmud global volunteers (1 of 2)	Clive Lawton Uri Berkowitz Carolyn Bogush	Red Bar/Lounge
The religious peace initiative - the example of Oz Veshalom	David Waimann	Orange 10
Living long on the land	Shai Cherry	Orange 11
Divrei Torah - 8 minutes and counting!	Limmud Shabbat	Orange 12
Jews in the Green Party	Zack Polanski	Orange 14

18:45
Friday Night Dinner		Purple 30 - Monarch

21:10
Niggunim of Jerusalem	Mordechai (Motti) Friedman	Red 2
Board games!	Limmud Shabbat	Red Bar/Lounge

21:10
Arguing as a creative act: the theology of argument	Abi Dauber Sterne	Red 1
Women and the obligation to light Shabbat candles - of rabbis, Karaites, Christians and original sin	Benjamin Gampel	Red 3
'Baseless hatred destroyed the Temple' – Is the solution 'baseless love'?	Samuel Millunchick	Red 4
Her-Story: The untold lives of Judaism's seven prophetesses - Sarah	Hadassah Fromson	Red 5
Harmonizing hearts: exploring the stories within Chassidic nigunim	Samuel Rosenberg	Red 7 - Brightsmith
No, it’s fine. Don’t come to this session. I’ll just sit alone in the dark.	Elliot Glassenberg	Orange 10
Shabbat Menucha – but do you ever get to rest? A peer support circle for parents of autistic/ADHD children	Natalie Grazin Blu Cohen-Grazin Holly Gibson	Orange 11
A crash course in Jinglish	Clive Lawton	Orange 12

22:30
Leyenkrayz - Yiddish reading circle (1 of 3)	Ilan Pillemer	Red 4
SHMantra - a spiritual singing session	Edina Weber	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Getting to the Hebrew root of the matter	Ruti Roche	Orange 10
Friday night is whisky night	Jonathan Robinson	Orange 11
Oneg (without instruments)		Yellow 21
Oneg (with instruments)		Yellow 24