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Limmud Festival 2023
Saturday 23 December 2023

08:45
Shabbat Morning - Orthodox Service		Red 1
Shabbat Morning - Sephardi Service		Red 8
Shabbat Morning - Egalitarian Service		Orange 12
Shabbat Morning - Progressive Service		Yellow 24

09:00
The future of memory: green commemorations	Aleksander Schwarz  Aleksandra Janus	Red 2
Tikkun olam: genuinely Jewish or preposterous poppycock?	Elliot Glassenberg	Red 3

09:00
What on earth is Jewish meditation?	Zac Newman	Red 7 - Brightsmith

10:10
Gam Ki Elech – music for the moment	Miriam-Simma Walfish	Red 3
After the Flood: a novel interpretation of early Genesis	Greg Davidson	Red 5
Introducing QiGong: the art of balancing mind and body	Irene Fröhlich-Wiener	Orange 10
Shabbat Morning - Families Service		Blue 32 - Families Lounge

11:00
Shabbat Communal Kiddush		Orange 15

11:30
Changing beliefs: wartime reflection meets traditional and contemporary texts and songs	Abi Dauber Sterne	Red 1
Accessible chair yoga	Gabi Parkham	Orange 15
Lost artisans of the Holocaust: Max and Norbert Neiger	Annette Margolis	Red 2
Honoring the sabbath day, a love story	Merri Ukraincik	Red 3
Medicine and Halacha: Birth control and fertility treatments in Halacha (1 of 2)	Samuel Millunchick	Red 4
What Joseph is doing in the Yom Kippur service, or the real reason we don't wear (leather) shoes that day	Irwin Oppenheim	Red 5
We have to leave right after Shabbat - can we start packing?	Daniel Goldfarb	Orange 10
How to create a Jewish sexual ethic	Nechama Goldman Barash	Orange 11
Interfaith engagement on university campuses: a university-led approach (1 of 2)	Alavari Jeevathol	Orange 12
Building bridges: intersecting Jewish and technological worlds	Rina Barbut	Orange 13
Fate and destiny - Soloveitchik's surprising, radical and surprisingly radical response to the Shoah and the State of Israel (1 of 2)	Robin Moss	Orange 14
Shabbat morning delight	Caroline Hagard	Yellow 21
Five-a-side football	Limmud Shabbat	Yellow 24

11:30
Family Shabbat Lunch		Purple 29 - Families Dining

12:30
Shabbat Lunch		Purple 30 - Monarch

14:00
Medicine and Halacha: Jewish approaches to end-of-life care. (2 of 2)	Samuel Millunchick	Red 3
Into the depths of Jewish meditation	Zac Newman	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Shabbat board games	Miriam Hoffman	Orange 10
Walk and talk!		Blue 34
Family Shabbat Walk	Limmud Social Programming	Hotel Lobby

14:00
YTL Kids Club	Limmud Shabbat	Yellow 22 - YTL

14:00
Shabbat Mincha - Orthodox Service		Red 1
How to indoctrinate children for Humanism via Hebrew songs: a crash course	Elliot Glassenberg	Red 4
Shabbat Mincha - Sephardi Service		Red 8
Shabbat Mincha - Egalitarian Service		Orange 12
Shabbat Mincha - Progressive Service		Yellow 24

15:00
Uncomfortable brotherhood: Jewish views on Islam	Elhanan Miller	Red 1
Peace in the Holy Land - not what you thought (1 of 2)	Yehuda Stolov	Red 2
Unpacking hyper-consumerist Judaism	Amos Schonfield	Red 4
Chalk, cabbages and cheese: reviewing the latest Bible translations	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Red 5
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Breakdown: what do our autistic/ADHD young people need?	Natalie Grazin  Blu Cohen-Grazin  Holly Gibson	Red 8
Reform responsa - method or madness? (1 of 3)	Joan Friedman	Orange 11
The soul spa: unveiling the mysteries of mikvah	Hadassah Fromson	Orange 12
Stop Uyghur genocide	Rahima Mahmut  Sheldon Stone	Orange 13
Interfaith engagement on university campuses: a student-led approach (2 of 2)	Alavari Jeevathol	Orange 14

16:00
Seudah Shlishit		Orange 15

17:00
Motzei Shabbat Maariv - Orthodox Service		Red 1
Motzei Shabbat Maariv - Sephardi Service		Red 8
Motzei Shabbat Maariv - Egalitarian Service		Orange 12
Motzei Shabbat Maariv - Progressive Service		Yellow 24

18:00
Havdalah		Orange 15

19:10
To whom do these bones (and books) belong? Or who owns the Jewish past?	Benjamin Gampel	Red 1
To believe or not to believe? That is the question: the mystery of Shakespeare, and a Jewish connection	Hannah Hutchinson	Red 2
Jews in search of Jewishness	Eva de Haan	Red 3
'Reading' a magic carpet	Alison Dollow	Red 4
Judaism and global social justice - involving youth internationally	Rosa Mutchnick	Red 5
AI and the future of work, industry and business	Jake Welford	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Has Zionism become a dirty word? A discussion on rising antisemitism and anti-Zionism in academia	Christina Jones	Red 8
The possession! How An-Sky’s 'Dybbuk' captured Yiddish stage and screen	Stephen Ogin	Orange 12
Heritage policy and state-building: a possible future for Palestinian liberation?	Joel Stokes	Orange 13
What’s happening in the West Bank while the world’s eyes are on the Gaza Strip?	Tal Sagi	Orange 14
Mi-makom acher – from another place: finding God hidden in the megillah	Marc Michaels	Yellow 22 - YTL
Blood on the Clocktower	Miriam Hoffman	Yellow 24

20:20
Why are Polish Jews baptised?	Anna Ciszewska (Betty Q)	Red 1
'Jewface: making sense of the ethnic casting controversy	Rich Brownstein	Orange 15
Where humanism and Judaism meet	Alavari Jeevathol	Red 2
The Torah’s idea of living a good life: “For there is no righteous person on Earth that won’t sin”. (2 of 2)	Samuel Millunchick	Red 3
Everything you always wanted to know about converting to Judaism, but were afraid to ask	Marques Hollie	Red 4
Jewish Jesus in British art	Clive Kennard	Red 5
Jewish women and music in Vienna from the 18th to 20th century	Judith Valerie Engel	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Limmud Europe schmooze: cocktails, connections and conversations	Tamas Buchler  Jekaterina Erlich-Koren  Marika Guralik  Mihails Beškins	Red 9 - The Arbour
There must be a better world somewhere	Mark Creeger	Orange 10
What the Kaddish really means, or how Jewish prayer is structured	Irwin Oppenheim	Orange 11
The Narrow Bridge	UK Jewish Film Festival	Orange 13
Football and the Jewish community	Zeev Portner	Orange 14
Was the first mention of genetic counselling in the Talmud?	Alan Silman	Yellow 21

21:30
Limmud takes on 'Taskmaster'	Rachel Creeger	Red 1
Showtunes Karaoke	Rachael Shomer	Orange 15
Leyenkrayz- Yiddish reading circle (2 of 3)	Ilan Pillemer	Red 2
An honest overview of the Charedi community (1 of 3)	Asher Lovy	Red 3
Higher authorities: towards a Jewish philosophy of drug use in the 21st century	David Zvi Kalman	Red 4
Hollywood goes to Hendon – what’s to love and hate about Disobedience	Blu Cohen-Grazin	Red 5
Beyond contradictions: archeology and halachah	Aleksander Schwarz  Aleksandra Janus	Red 8
Chat-GPA: where AI meets education	Batsheva Haber	Orange 10
Rape, prostitution and revenge: three interlinked stories (1 of 3)	Margaret Jacobi	Orange 11
Panel with Pardes alumni	Sarah Biskowitz  Rachel Harris	Orange 12
Nature Israel - 70 years of protecting nature	Amanda Lind	Orange 13
L'chaim for the disillusioned: reclaiming Friday night dinner	Moses Seitler	Orange 14

22:30
The Midnight Specials @ Limmud	Midnight Specials	Red 7 - Brightsmith
How to turbocharge your organisation's growth	Jake Welford	Orange 10
Jewish jest fest: open-mic mitzvah corner	Sonti R Ramirez	Orange 14
Tayelet	Slavyan Kanovski	Yellow 24