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Limmud Festival 2023
Monday 25 December 2023

08:00
Was my chemistry A Level a mitzvah?	Dania Mann-Wineberg	Red 2
How to build a Jew	Eitan Richards	Red 4
Morning dance party	Adam Rossano	Red 7 - Brightsmith
God's face hidden: Into the empty palace (2 of 3)	Yael Roberts	Orange 13
Vayarotz vayomer: 'He ran and he talked' or 'Run and chat' (2 of 3)	Abigail Morris	Hotel Lobby

09:00
Making sense of the Book of Genesis: In the beginning (1 of 3)	David Berkley	Red 1
Lilith and the Bible	Shai Cherry	Red 2
Torah tales	Marc Michaels  Allison Barclay	Red 3
Healing our planet: seasons of the soul	Michael Hattin	Red 4
The evolving four tribes of Israel	Elhanan Miller	Red 5
Robotics - workforce, home help, productive growth and much more...	Jake Welford	Red 7 - Brightsmith
…A merry Xmas? Text study	Edina Weber	Orange 10
Jewish living online	Anna Silver	Orange 11
What is a Jewish film? Have we lost our minds?	Rich Brownstein	Orange 12
Mothers in space	Merri Ukraincik	Blue 32 - Families Lounge
Music, mood manipulation, nusach	Robert Brody	Orange 13
What is an eiruv? How do you build one?	Warren Sher	Orange 14
Brothers, daughters, sinners, a wife and a goat	Steve Miller	Yellow 21
Five-a-side football (1 of 2)	Limmud Social Programming	Yellow 24

10:00
Mussar on faith: what is it and how do I get some? (1 of 2)	Marcia Plumb	Red 7 - Brightsmith
'My Father My Lord' - Hofshat Kaits (2007)	Rich Brownstein	Orange 13
Beit Midrash: Talmud for all (2 of 3)	Nechama Goldman Barash  Matthew Anisfeld  Azara  Laliv Clenman	Purple 31

10:00
Shaping the future: challenges and visions for European Jewish communities	Tal Bassali  Marika Guralik  Tori Egherman	Orange 15
Israeli art in 2023 - before and after October 7th	Shirel Horovitz	Red 2
An introduction to trans inclusion	Dalia Fleming  Alex Foley	Red 3
'How Rich They Are': the life story of Yehuda Amichai	David Finlay	Red 4
Celebrity soundbites - life in broadcasting	Simone Halfin	Red 5
The Jews, London docks, plus City Airport	Malcolm Ginsberg	Red 8
The 6th megillah: Israel’s Megillat Haatzmaut?	Elliot Glassenberg	Orange 10
No comparisons: the power of multi-model thinking	Haggai Elkayam Shalem	Orange 11
Five Torah intros, one rabbi	David Mason	Orange 12
The God quest: rethinking Jewish belief	Raphael Zarum	Orange 14
Niddah salon	Miriam-Simma Walfish	Yellow 21
The Torah of leaves	Sydney Switzer	Hotel Lobby

11:10
Identity vs knowledge: a no-holds barred debate about Jewish education	Robbie Gringras  Abi Dauber Sterne  Helena Miller  Raphael Zarum  Tal Bassali  Joanne Greenaway	Orange 15
150 years of Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation	Robin Makin  Louise Ellman	Red 2
The Jews who made the toys that made us	Maurice Olsberg	Red 3
While Mosley marched, the Board issued pamphlets: a novel set in a morbid age	Ben Vos	Red 4
Salonica: the rise and fall of a Jewish city	Hilary Pomeroy	Red 5
What’s wrong with ESG?	Michie Yana-Berger	Red 8
From 'The Jewish State' to the State of Israel	Mordechai (Motti) Friedman	Orange 10
On Tu B'Shvat, the four worlds and fruit-frugivore co-evolution	William Kunin	Orange 11
From Anger to Activism - the story of 5050, A Partnership for Gender Equality.	Yael Yechieli	Orange 12
Jewish, progressive and Zionist on campus? Let's talk!	Joan Friedman	Orange 14
Digital's rise and future	Jake Welford	Yellow 21

12:20
Consent and coercion: understanding the approach of Jewish law towards non-consensual sex	Scott Kahn  Talli Rosenbaum	Red 1
Ukraine: an eyewitness report	Vadim Blumin	Orange 15
Past is Present: Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Reinvention of Liberal Judaism	Shirley Idelson	Red 2
Women of worth: the ‘real’ Yentl? (2 of 3)	Aviva Dautch	Red 3
Kindertransport - the unsung heroes	Mike Levy	Red 4
What’s that on your head?	Yael Jaffe	Red 5
Dickens in a twist	Vanessa Freedman	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Skills session - how to create and deliver a Dvar Torah	Steve Miller	Red 8
Dobble kef	Nicole Jacobus  Nina Morris-Evans  Rosie Mercer	Red Bar/Lounge
Divorcing in the 1st century, and the 21st	Ben Crowne	Orange 10
LGBT+ and Jewish? Discussing what an inclusive Jewish community looks like for you	Dalia Fleming  Alex Foley	Orange 11
What we can and should learn from the Charedi community (2 of 3)	Asher Lovy	Orange 12
Is there hope? Can Jewish and Muslim women work toward peace?	Emma Weleminsky	Orange 13
Achieving environmental sustainability	Dennis Snower	Orange 14
Two racisms are better than one: tackling anti-Muslim hate and antisemitism in mainstream schools	Jodie Franks	Yellow 21

13:10
Limmud life drawing	Ali Simmons  Anya Shire-Plumb	Red 8
Gender is non-binary and always has been	Rona Matlow	Orange 11
Sports day tournament	Limmud Social Programming	Green 25
The greatest Holocaust film ever made: The Grey Zone	Rich Brownstein	Orange 13
Halachah: law, lore or bore?	Shai Cherry  Joan Friedman  Sandra Lawson  Matthew Anisfeld	Orange 14
Afternoon Beit Midrash: is there anyone to whom we shouldn’t be teaching Torah? (2 of 3)	Samuel Millunchick  Azara	Purple 31

13:10
Terrorism! Resistance! Colonialism! Nazis! How words shape our understanding of conflict	Alma Reisel  Toby Greene	Red 1
The textless Torah - using creativity to de-link study from text: A PechaKucha presentation and panel	Eli Kaplan-Wildmann  Jacqueline Nicholls  Aviva Dautch  David Zvi Kalman	Orange 15
We visited Hebron and the Gaza border three months ago: reflections on our Israel-Palestine trip	Dalia Blass  Tal Sagi	Red 2
Quishua and the question of a Jewish seed?	Shani Mink	Red 3
“I am for my beloved”: the challenges and solutions to maintaining sexual exclusivity	Talli Rosenbaum	Red 4
Dear diary	David Finlay	Red 5
Severe depression and the Jewish experience	Tony Frais	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Board/card games (2 of 3)	Limmud Social Programming	Red Bar/Lounge
From India to Ukraine: a sensory exploration of global Jewish cultures	Emma Weleminsky  Arielle Sokoloff  Mikael Stein  Allison Cohen	Orange 10
Israel, Gaza and the Law	Adam Wagner  Jonathan Turner  Ruvi Ziegler  Joanne Greenaway	Orange 12
Accessible chair yoga	Gabi Parkham	Blue 34
Escape from 1942 Paris! An interactive dramatic talk	Helen Frais	Yellow 21
Nature walk (3 of 5)	Limmud Social Programming	Hotel Lobby

14:20
Left antisemitism - from Labour under Jeremy Corbyn to Gaza	Louise Ellman	Red 1
What is the future of Holocaust education	Helen Stone  Michael Pollak  Rachel Century	Orange 15
A tale of two tribes: is Jewish unity in Israel achievable?	Michael Rainsbury	Red 2
Off the grid: how to reclaim your world	Michael Hattin	Red 3
War and Gender - The Current War Seen Through a Gender Lens	Yael Yechieli	Red 4
What your child wishes you knew about autism (also for friends, siblings or autistic individuals)	Ariella Boyd	Red 5
What starting a Jewish Festival Book Club taught me about Jewish festivals and book clubs	Yoni Stone	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Titanic and other ice breakers	Oli Davidson	Red Bar/Lounge
How the potty trained us	Shawn Shafner	Orange 10
A shtetl called Tel Aviv	Samuel Rosenberg	Orange 12
Zine and mask making		Blue 34
The problem of evil and the cost of the solution	Ben Fromson	Yellow 21

15:30
The daily argument (2 of 4)	Robbie Gringras  Abi Dauber Sterne	Red 1
Violence amidst the silence: Darfur in 2023	Abdelmonim Haroon	Orange 15
Jewish agricultural time	Shani Mink	Red 2
Try teaching about havdala in Helsinki!	Nic Abery	Red 3
Ecological dilemmas and tough choices of green energy	Elihu Gevirtz	Red 4
The principles of disaster response and how do we apply them?	Talya Greene	Red 5
A snapshot inside the Jewish psychedelic world	Madison Margolin	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Ritual transcendence (baseless love)	Erez Safar	Red 8
Knit and knatter (2 of 3)	Melanie Kelly  Limmud Social Programming	Red Bar/Lounge
Reflections from the Ben Azzai Programme.	The Ben Azzai Participants	Orange 10
Will not the Judge of all the earth do right? - Israel in the International Court of Justice	Jonathan Turner	Orange 11
LGBTQ+ inclusion in Jewish communities (round-table discussion and sharing experience)	Edina Weber	Orange 12
Seed of Doubt (short film + Q&A)	Daniel Daniel  UK Jewish Film Festival	Orange 13
From Anatevka to Zelensky: the Jews of Ukraine, past and present	Natan Meir	Orange 14
Seize the day! How to become the poetic hero of your own life story	Marvin Shaw	Yellow 21

16:40
Halachah hotseat: you be the judge in real family dilemmas	Sam Fromson	Red 1
How we fought in the Gaza Strip	Tal Sagi	Orange 15
The judicial coup in Israel	Ruvi Ziegler	Red 2
War in Jewish art and philosophy	Samuel Isaac	Red 3
Transforming mind and spirit: integrating Jewish wisdom for mental wellbeing (1 of 2)	Samuel Rosenberg	Red 4
Sex within marriage: what is allowed and what isn’t	Scott Kahn	Red 5
Generational trauma in Bereshit	Rona Matlow	Red 8
The power of the pen	Ilana Conway	Red Bar/Lounge
Judaism and American politics	Ilan Emanuel	Orange 10
'Prophecy never fails': what can the development of Chabad teach us about QAnon?	David Hochhauser	Orange 11
The cholera wedding: East European Jews’ magical ritual to end an epidemic	Natan Meir	Orange 12
Family Lounge Play Time	Limmud Families Programming	Blue 32 - Families Lounge
The Tale of Stingray Charles	Lynn Joffe	Green 27
Q&A with God - Philosophy for Families	Limmud Families Programming	Green 28
Moses, Midrash and the movies	Miriam Lorie	Orange 13
Jesus was a magic mushroom	Michael Green	Orange 14
We wish you a merry Christmas	Beth Levy	Purple 31
Acceptance and flexibility: re-engaging with mourning rules and rituals	Joanne Greenaway	Yellow 21
Families Softplay Exclusive Use	Limmud Families Programming	Yellow 23
Sacrae: singing 'a cappella' Christian settings of Jewish texts (2 of 2)	Sarah Bronzite	Yellow 24

17:50
Stories of war and peace	Robbie Gringras	Red 1
Do Jews have a future in the UK?	Sarah Sackman  Michael Wegier  David Mason	Orange 15
Gender identity, political teaching and sex education: challenges facing our schools	Dan Squires	Red 2
Human tragedy: God’s direct action or just bad luck?	Tony Frais	Red 3
Torah, chuppah and forced marriage	Yehudis Fletcher  Eve Sacks	Red 4
What's new in Jewish history (2 of 2)	Michael Pollak	Red 5
Social-Environmental Jewish Networking (SEJN)	Felipe Burman	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Time to reminisce	Ruti Roche	Red 8
Crossies and cordies	Baruch Gilinsky  Yoni Stone	Red Bar/Lounge
What did Abraham have to do with the Abraham Accords?	Toby Greene	Orange 10
From Crisis to Resilience: Unveiling the Modern-day Saga of Jewish Communities in Ukraine	Victoria Godik	Orange 11
Reading Eichah in Cheshvan - how an ancient text echoed my own experience	Shoshana Cohen	Orange 12
Family Story Time	Limmud Families Programming	Blue 32 - Families Lounge
The Jewish collage club	Joe Hyman	Blue 34
Family Beit Midrash: Toilet Talk in the Talmud	Lara Haft Yom-Tov  Yael Jaffe	Green 28
Consonant shifts - Grimm's adventures in how languages fade into each other	Frank Adam	Orange 13
1400 whys – Pirkei Avot at the Gaza border, October 7th	Daniel Goldfarb	Orange 14
Hug a tree or sing a song? How music can super charge your climate change education	Jessica Gold	Yellow 21
Families Softplay Exclusive Use	Limmud Families Programming	Yellow 23
Sing Lewandowski! (1 of 2)	Jonathan Weissbart	Yellow 24

19:00
The Camera of Doctor Morris	UK Jewish Film Festival	Orange 13
Evening Beit Midrash: Serach bat Asher, the (generational) boundary buster (2 of 3)	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz  Azara  Laliv Clenman	Purple 31

19:00
Israeli democracy post Oct 7th: How do we move forward from here?	Noa Sattath	Red 1
Torah for peaceniks: refugees, civilians and the Israel-Gaza war	Lara Haft Yom-Tov	Red 3
Black-Jewish relations beyond Farrakhan	Zeev Portner	Red 4
The Roma and the Jews - a love story?	Tamas Buchler	Red 5
Inspiring Jewish songs of prayer (2 of 2)	Alan Byers	Red 7 - Brightsmith
The 'R' word - exploring the prospect of retirement	Andrea Kelmanson	Red 8
Mistaken prayer times and the downfall of Rabban Gamliel	Nechama Goldman Barash	Orange 10
Limitless Judaism	Anna Dyson	Orange 11
The tale of Wanda B. Lazarus: a journey to publication	Lynn Joffe	Orange 12
A second Jewish state?	Nathan Sharp	Orange 14
The Gold Rush, Jewish cemeteries, and urban capitalism	Baruch Gilinsky	Yellow 21
Limmud's got talent! Heat 2: Miscellanous	Limmud Social Programming	Yellow 24

20:10
Funny for five at Festival - the show! (2 of 2)	Rachel Creeger	Orange 15
Turning back the clock - how the war may affect gender dynamics in Israel	Shoshana Cohen	Red 3
Torah teaching from Turkiye and other Sephardic rabbis	Naftali Haleve Sason	Red 4
My Stamford Hell	Charlie Lewin	Red 5
Sin, human nature and redemption: a Jewish view	Jeff Berger	Red 8
Global Jewish cocktails	Emma Weleminsky  Arielle Sokoloff  Mikael Stein  Allison Cohen	Red Bar/Lounge
What does Israel know about water, sanitation, and hygiene in African villages? Exploring expertise in African development	Sarit Baum  Caroline Mendelsohn	Orange 10
Forgotten heroes: Leo Szilard, father of the Manhattan Project (2 of 3)	Howard Epstein	Orange 11
Rabban Gamliel in the bath house of Aphrodite	Raphael Zarum	Orange 12
Limmud singalong	Naomi Rowe	Blue 34
Tour of Jewish Italy	Tal Bassali	Yellow 21
Israeli dance party (2 of 3)	Maurice Stone  Slavyan Kanovski	Yellow 24

21:20
Get refusal today - a global update on the issue that never goes away	Joanne Greenaway	Red 1
Finishing Hitler's work? A discussion of dating outside the faith	Daniel Susser	Red 2
Would you rather: lice or locusts? Dam or dever?	David Hochhauser  Yoni Stone	Red 3
Comedy night	Monica Selo	Red 4
Writing our Jewish LGBTQ history	Natalie Grazin  Gabi Parkham	Red 5
Acoustic café	Limmud Social Programming	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Keeping Shabbat with home automation	Mihails Beškins	Red 8
Kaleidoscope: tell us your Jewish story	Daniela Greiber	Red 9 - The Arbour
Mysticism and trauma – an historical and personal reflection	Harris Bor	Orange 10
Oscars and Holocaust films	Rich Brownstein	Orange 11
Beit Midrash for the study of Israel's relations with the Nations: Christianity	Yehuda Stolov	Orange 12
End of the day minyan	Marcia Plumb  Anna Dyson	Blue 34
'So what will you do when you graduate as a rabbi?'	Miriam Lorie	Orange 13
Israel-Palestine: What's the point of arguing?	Gary Ogin	Orange 14
Why I'm a halachic minimalist, and you should be too	Samuel Millunchick	Yellow 21
Modern jive dancing (2 of 2)	Jonathan Hunter	Yellow 24

22:30
Psychedelic soundbath	Nathan Finkel	Red 1
Bertie: concert and kumzitz	Bertie Green	Orange 15
Fall asleep in my sermon	Jack Cohen	Red 2
Leyenkrayz - Yiddish reading circle (3 of 3)	Ilan Pillemer	Red 3
Games night extravaganza	Limmud Social Programming	Red 4
The colour of Jews in a white Australia	Sarah Charak	Red 5
Betty Q Burlesque Live!	Anna Ciszewska (Betty Q)	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Global connections and opportunities: OLAM meet-up for global development practitioners	Emma Weleminsky  Allison Cohen	Red Bar/Lounge
In conversation with Madison Margolin	Micah Gold  Madison Margolin	Orange 10
Art in conflict: when words are not enough	Irene Wise	Orange 11
Speed dating (for 35-50 year olds)	Rachel Creeger  Limmud Social Programming	Orange 12
The paradox of piety: can observing Torah lead to chillul Hashem (desecration of God's name)?	Samuel Millunchick	Orange 13

23:30
House Band showcase	Limmud House Band	Orange 15
Silent disco	Nicole Jacobus  Noa Gendler	Red 7 - Brightsmith