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Limmud Festival 2023
Sunday 24 December 2023

08:00
The Tkhines Project: creating poetry and prayer rituals in response to trauma	Sonti R Ramirez	Red 3
My poor, your poor: what is our obligation outside of the Jewish community	Nechama Goldman Barash	Red 4
If you're going to be early, be very early: premature birth in Judaism	Rebecca Posner	Red 8
'Prayerbook Hebrew the easy way'	Ruti Roche	Orange 10

09:00
What do Jews in the Netherlands want? Initial findings of The Jewish Manifesto	Tori Egherman	Red 1
How to worship your body?	Anna Ciszewska (Betty Q)	Red 3
Participatory commemorations: co-creative design and traditional crafts in the service of memory	Aleksander Schwarz  Aleksandra Janus	Red 5
Politics in everyday life	Haggai Elkayam Shalem	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Drawing hands and portraits - connecting us to our history	Michelle Charles	Red 8
Earthly bodies: what we share with our planet	Yael Jaffe	Orange 10
Jews with tattoos: expressing Jewish identity through (consented) tattoos	Marloes Schoonheim	Orange 11
The Gazelle Valley urban nature park - an environmental success story	Amanda Lind	Orange 12
The Jewish year in poetry	Marvin Shaw	Orange 13
What Yiddish can do for you! A feminist introduction to Yiddish culture	Sarah Biskowitz	Orange 14

10:00
How does Limmud change the world? (1 of 2)	Natalie Grazin  Joe Hyman	Red 1
Live Performance	Pini Brown	Orange 15
Why you need to understand autism and neurodiversity	Caroline Hearst	Red 3
The Turkish Jewish community, past and present	Naftali Haleve Sason	Red 4
Diary of an IDF lone soldier	Barry Radivan	Red 5
Jewish procrastinators welcome!	Marcia Plumb	Red 7 - Brightsmith
m3Ditation: mindfulness in three dimensions	Shawn Shafner	Orange 10
The settlements in the West Bank/Judea and Samaria: what do we need to know?	Stephen Ogin	Orange 11
Unlock your inner storyteller	Lynn Joffe	Orange 12
Mental health first aid taster	Saul Gaunt  Eli Rotenberg	Blue 34
From boardroom to bimah: entrepreneurial lessons in rabbinic ethics	Sam Fromson	Orange 14
All you ever wanted to know about perinatal mental health but were afraid to ask	Louise Howard	Yellow 21

10:00
'Bloods of purity' - a reconsideration of meanings relative to menstruation and giving birth	Elihu Gevirtz	Red 2
Beit Midrash: Talmud for all (1 of 3)	Nechama Goldman Barash  Matthew Anisfeld  Azara  Laliv Clenman	Red 8
My Father’s Secrets	UK Jewish Film Festival	Orange 13

11:10
Grand Designs: 21st century shuls on a shoestring	Naomi Verber	Red 1
The political psychology of the 2023 protests in Israel	Haggai Elkayam Shalem	Orange 15
That time I mistook the Canadian ambassador to the UAE as a cloakroom attendant...and other stories from my first year as a 20-something CEO	Tal Arrowsmith	Red 3
'It is perfect, you are loved, all is clear, and I am holy...'	Marc Frank	Red 4
One crazy idea	Benjamin Gerber	Red 5
Agile coaching for community organising	Daniel Susser	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Board/card games (1 of 3)	Limmud Social Programming	Red Bar/Lounge
The stories of our belongings	Merri Ukraincik	Orange 10
Sustainable tikkun olam: how we can help to reduce the social-environmental impact of transportation and industry.	Felipe Burman	Orange 11
The current challenge of interpreting and memorialising the Holocaust in the UK	Marcus Roberts	Orange 12
Her-Story: The untold lives of Judaism's seven prophetesses - Miriam	Hadassah Fromson	Orange 14
Cruising for newcomers	Malcolm Ginsberg	Yellow 21
Limmud fungus foray (Forest School for grown-ups) (1 of 2)	Michael Green  Tilla Crowne	Hotel Lobby

12:20
Look to the future: meet the next generation of politicians in the community	Sarah Sackman  David Pinto-Duschinsky	Red 1
The officer, the spy and the judge	Adam Wagner	Orange 15
God's face hidden: in art and mysticism (1 of 3)	Yael Roberts	Red 2
What's new in Jewish philosophy? (1 of 2)	Michael Pollak	Red 3
I lived in a concentration camp (KL Warschau)	Anna Ciszewska (Betty Q)	Red 4
Jewish love languages	Neil Elton	Red 5
Funny for five at Festival! (1 of 2)	Rachel Creeger	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Campus Israel update	Daniel Marcus	Red 8
Embroidery extravaganza	Jessica Baker	Red Bar/Lounge
Robot Rabbis and the Future of Judaism	Harris Bor	Orange 10
The mental health impact of the war in Israel – what can we expect?	Talya Greene	Orange 11
The making of a Second World War graphic novel	Jonathan Sandler	Orange 12
What's in a thesis? A documentary of unspoken voices	Chava Stone	Orange 13
How does the Jewish community engage the younger generation, and how should it?	Nicole Jacobus  Nina Morris-Evans  Rosie Mercer	Orange 14
Nonviolent communication - how to transform conflict one compassionate word at a time	Janine Shalev	Yellow 21

13:10
Is this the right place for a healthy argument?	Robbie Gringras  Abi Dauber Sterne	Red 1
Is God still around?	Clive Lawton	Orange 15
Embracing tangents: micro-lessons in the Jewish studies classroom	Helen Ressler	Red 2
Autism, ADHD and the Wandering Jew	Jenny Sandler	Red 4
Legal cases that made modern Britain	Zeev Portner	Red 5
Why does that song make my chest hurt? and other questions. 2: The return	Chlo Spinks	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Cryptic crosswords at Limmud	Marion Kinshuck	Red Bar/Lounge
The next 3000 years: the case for Jewish futurism	David Zvi Kalman	Orange 10
Kauft nicht bei Juden! Are boycotts targeting Israel antisemitic and should they be banned?	Jonathan Turner	Orange 11
What can we learn from our Canaanite ancestors as we respond to climate change?	Sam Greene	Orange 12
Pears Short Film Fund winners and short doc winners	UK Jewish Film Festival	Orange 13
The third pillar? Forging a new European Jewish identity	Aleksandra Janus  Eva de Haan  Mihails Beškins	Orange 14

13:10
Antisemitism in sport	Benjamin Sweiry	Red 3
Afternoon Beit Midrash: Jesus in the Talmud (1 of 3)	Michael Pollak  Azara	Red 8
Dreams and nightmares: past, present, future	Jeffrey Newman	Yellow 21

14:20
Sexual abuse in the UK Jewish community: professional support, and stories of hope	Sarah Bronzite  Erica Marks	Red 1
The climate crisis is real and you are completely unprepared...	Sam Greene	Orange 15
Family therapy for Moses, Miriam and Aaron	Alma Reisel	Red 2
Post-Holocaust literature: Spiegelman, Nabokov, Arendt and Sontag	Anoushka Alexander-Rose	Red 4
I didn't know there were Jews in Norway	Daniel Needlestone	Red 5
Imagining a Jewish 'Little Paris'	Aimee Birnbaum	Red 7 - Brightsmith
How to mark Holocaust Memorial Day in a meaningful way	Rachel Century	Orange 10
Baby loss, infertility and childlessness in our community – silent suffering	Amy Braier  Michelle Bauernfreund	Orange 11
Human rights in a time of war	Noa Sattath	Orange 12
Supporting autistic young people: why neuroception and regulation are the key concepts you need to know	Natalie Grazin  Blu Cohen-Grazin  Holly Gibson	Blue 32 - Families Lounge
Unlock your creativity - mindful colouring and wellbeing tips		Blue 34
Mission Hebron: Film screening and discussion	Tal Sagi	Orange 13
Recreating Megilat B'ney Chashmonay - the missing Chanukah megillah	Marc Michaels	Orange 14
First aid taster session	Saul Gaunt  Eli Rotenberg	Yellow 24
Nature walk (2 of 5)	Limmud Social Programming	Hotel Lobby

15:30
The daily argument (1 of 4)	Robbie Gringras  Abi Dauber Sterne	Red 1
Blessed are You for not making me a gentile... slave... woman. Really?	Raphael Zarum	Orange 15
Peace in the Holy Land - not what you thought (2 of 2)	Yehuda Stolov	Red 2
Practical steps in protecting our climate	Gabriel Rozenberg  Sharona Shnayder  Felipe Burman	Red 3
Modern (Jewish) family	Tamas Buchler	Red 4
'Nobody lives here' - a lone boy's incredible survival in World War II Amsterdam	Babette Lichtenstein	Red 5
The biblical and rabbinic origins of Nittel Nacht	Gabriel Gendler Yom-Tov	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Our cheder didn’t prepare us for the Israel-Hamas war	Dalia Blass	Red 8
Knit and knatter (1 of 3)	Melanie Kelly  Limmud Social Programming	Red Bar/Lounge
R-rated Torah - things we don't talk about in shul	Rona Matlow	Orange 10
Jewish music in the world of American cinema	Mordechai (Motti) Friedman	Orange 11
Safe haven: how the UK offered refuge to Nazi collaborators and denied justice to their victims	Jon Silverman	Orange 12
Video presentation of the early traditional songs of Israel	David Cohen	Orange 13
On being a female Jewish education entrepreneur	Tal Bassali	Orange 14
Torah on one foot	Miriam-Simma Walfish	Yellow 21
Rikud chadash	Slavyan Kanovski	Yellow 24

16:40
Women of worth: Shakespeare’s 'Dark Lady' (1 of 3)	Aviva Dautch	Red 1
Rabbinic panel on grief, trauma and loss in our time	Marcia Plumb  Noa Sattath	Orange 15
The art of strategic problem-solving	Sharon Jason	Red 2
I (over) think, therefore I suffer	Danielle Landau	Red 3
Who is an autist? Diagnosis vs. identity	Sarah McCulloch	Red 4
Converting for marriage? (1 of 2)	Beth Levy	Red 5
To believe or not to believe? Nothing Can Come From Nothing (2 of 2)	Hannah Hutchinson	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Learn how to help refugees through laptop refurbishment	Moses Seitler	Red 8
Having kinder conversations: A KeshetUK mini-session for parents, carers and family members of Jewish LGBT+ people	Dalia Fleming  Alex Foley	Orange 10
Fate and Destiny - Soloveitchik's surprising, radical and surprisingly-radical response to the Shoah and the State of Israel (2 of 2)	Robin Moss	Orange 11
Maimonides and the Messiah	Benjamin Gampel	Orange 12
Family Lounge Play Time	Limmud Families Programming	Blue 32 - Families Lounge
How to... revive your shul's youngest children's service	Madeleine Fresko-Brown	Green 27
There's no such thing as a documentary	Gary Ogin	Orange 13
Is Judaism ‘Britannica’ or ‘Wikipedia’?	Daniel Goldfarb	Orange 14
A modern-day Bayeux tapestry about MAGA-fuelled politics	Leon Fenster	Yellow 21
First aid taster session	Saul Gaunt  Eli Rotenberg	Yellow 24

17:50
Humanity, war and the climate crisis	Sharona Shnayder  Sarah Sackman	Red 1
The war in Israel: trauma, relationships and Jewish practice	Scott Kahn  Talli Rosenbaum  Nechama Goldman Barash	Orange 15
Female administrators of the Third Reich	Rachel Century	Red 2
The life, times and people of the Bedford Jewish community	Marcus Roberts	Red 3
Can anyone predict anything?	Jake Welford	Red 4
Kabbalah for rationalists - how to appreciate Jewish mysticism when you're not a mystic	Ilan Emanuel	Red 5
Queer midrash watercolor workshop	Lara Haft Yom-Tov	Red 7 - Brightsmith
The Torah of vegan sofrut (scribal calligraphy)	Allison Barclay	Red 8
Israel in the world after the war	Toby Greene	Orange 10
Hasdai Crescas, Royal Courtier: towards a history of Jews and power	Benjamin Gampel	Orange 11
Deviant davenners	Matthew Anisfeld	Orange 12
Family Story Time	Limmud Families Programming	Blue 32 - Families Lounge
Let's make Joseph's coat	Nic Abery	Green 27
Building a Jewish movement supporting refugees and fighting racism	David Mason	Orange 13
Midrash theatre: Torah on two feet	Shawn Shafner	Orange 14
Dance is food for the soul!	Maurice Stone	Yellow 21
Families Softplay Exclusive Use	Limmud Families Programming	Yellow 23
Limmud's got talent! Heat 1: Musical talent and dance	Limmud Social Programming	Yellow 24

19:00
Representing extremists, a useful idiot? (1 of 2)	Michael Wolkind	Red 2
Evening Beit Midrash: Crossing the line: marriage and transgression	Azara	Red 8
The Devil’s Confession: the lost Eichmann tapes	UK Jewish Film Festival	Orange 13

19:00
Forgotten heroes: Chaim Weizman, first President of Israel (1 of 3)	Howard Epstein	Red 3
German refugee rabbis and the Progressive movements	Steve Miller	Red 4
Pointless! (It SO isn't)	Paul Freedman	Red 5
Inspiring Jewish songs of prayer (1 of 2)	Alan Byers	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Networking for Limmud global volunteers (2 of 2)	Clive Lawton  Uri Berkowitz  Carolyn Bogush	Red Bar/Lounge
How in Chelm? Yom Tovim, beating extreme cold and exchanging idiocies	Eddie Bass	Orange 10
Antisemitism in literature	Lynn Joffe	Orange 11
Mantua 1550 - the world's first play in Hebrew	Mike Levy	Orange 12
European Jews 3.0: envisioning the future through young voices	Tamas Buchler  Noah Fulton Beale	Orange 14
From trash to change	Sharona Shnayder	Yellow 21
Would you like a cuppa?	Sophie Levy	Yellow 24

20:10
Psychedelic Moods	Nathan Finkel	Orange 15
How to do deliberative engagement	Michelle Kay	Red 3
Discussing Israel: beyond dispute and controversy	Batsheva Haber	Red 4
But I'm alright now	Eden Ottman	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Drink and Draw	Ali Simmons  Anya Shire-Plumb	Red Bar/Lounge
Close shaves with Shabbat and Kashrut	Jeremy Rose	Orange 10
Jewish and queer? The intertwining of religious and sexual identities in ‘Call Me by Your Name’	David Bilchitz	Orange 11
The difference between a cinema and a shul, and why it's crucial to community success	Ben Vos	Orange 12
'Patrilineal' descent (2 of 3)	Joan Friedman	Orange 14
Jewish Stock Exchange	Amos Schonfield	Yellow 21
Scottish Ceilidh dancing	Melanie Goldberg	Yellow 24

21:20
Assassins	Limmud Social Programming	Red 1
Ma-S-Ka Duo Evening of Songs	Jekaterina Erlich-Koren  Marika Guralik	Orange 15
Climate technology quiz	David Waimann	Red 2
How to curse a witch: a practical guide	Richard Verber	Red 3
Her-Story: The untold lives of Judaism's seven prophetesses - Chana	Hadassah Fromson	Red 4
The Jewish Autonomous Oblast: Zionism or chaos?	Daniel Grabinar	Red 5
'Rachel Creeger: Ultimate Jewish Mother' - greatest hits plus brand new bits!	Rachel Creeger	Red 7 - Brightsmith
It’s not just you: A peer support circle for parents of autistic/ADHD children	Natalie Grazin  Blu Cohen-Grazin  Holly Gibson	Red 8
Wine? For me, I prefer beer!	Sarah Marcus	Orange 10
How ethical start-ups are practicing tikkun olam	Jake Welford	Orange 11
Harold and Maude (1971): the most surprising Holocaust film ever made	Rich Brownstein	Orange 13
Pop goes the Flood: how Noah inspired Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel, Sting and The Divine Comedy	Raphael Zarum	Orange 14
LGBT+ social space	Dalia Fleming  Gabi Parkham	Yellow 21
Modern jive dancing (1 of 2)	Jonathan Hunter	Yellow 24

22:30
Sacrae: singing 'a cappella' Christian settings of Jewish texts (1 of 2)	Sarah Bronzite	Red 1
Speed dating (for 22-35 year olds)	Limmud Social Programming	Red 2
The Philip Guston exhibition at Tate Modern	Irene Wise	Red 3
"Is Anybody Home?"	Michael Hattin	Red 4
Psychedelics and Jewish spiritual practice	Madison Margolin	Red 5
I have invited Corbyn to Limmud	Adam Wagner  Gary Sinyor	Orange 10
Israeli art as a window to Israeli collective memory and new reality	Shirel Horovitz	Orange 11
Ask us anything: Q&A with Intimate Judaism hosts Talli Rosenbaum and Scott Kahn	Scott Kahn  Talli Rosenbaum	Orange 12
Israeli dance party (1 of 2)	Slavyan Kanovski	Yellow 24

23:30
Fantasma	Erez Safar	Red 7 - Brightsmith