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Limmud Festival 2023
Tuesday 26 December 2023

08:00
Deuteronomy and the environment	Rona Matlow	Red 2
The Shema: the original self-help manual	Anna Dyson	Red 3
The king is dead, long live the king	Rosella de Jong	Orange 10
Explore ethical volunteering opportunities across developing countries!	Miriam Scheier	Orange 13
Vayarotz vayomer: 'He ran and he talked' or 'Run and chat' (3 of 3)	Abigail Morris	Hotel Lobby

09:00
Making sense of the Book of Genesis: Growing the family (2 of 3)	David Berkley	Red 1
Mystic meditation (the Kabbalah of now)	Erez Safar	Orange 15
Women of worth: the Jewess who ruined The US (3 of 3)	Aviva Dautch	Red 2
The spiritual significance of brit milah ('bris')	Elihu Gevirtz	Red 3
Friendship, death or drawing	Jacqueline Nicholls	Red 4
What really happened to Tevye's daughters: the world of Yiddish literature	Martin Kaye	Red 5
Paper Prayer: The Cutting Edge of Shacharit - an artistic workshop as a spiritual act	Eli Kaplan-Wildmann	Red 7 - Brightsmith
HelpUp - the way to a better society!	Tal Adar Atias	Orange 10
Falling water	Michael Hattin	Orange 11
What do mental health professionals mean when they talk about trauma?	Talya Greene	Orange 12
Finding the heART	Chava Stone	Orange 13
Judaism unveiled: the complete blueprint of Jewish learning in 45 minutes	Sam Fromson	Orange 14
Creating an inclusive Judaism for the future	Sandra Lawson	Yellow 21

10:00
Jewish responses to Darwinism	Shai Cherry	Red 8
Open Space	Jessica Baker	Red Bar/Lounge
What AI means for Judaism, what Judaism means for AI	David Zvi Kalman	Orange 12
A Serious Man (2009): perhaps the greatest Jewish film ever	Rich Brownstein	Orange 13
Beit Midrash: Talmud for all (3 of 3)	Nechama Goldman Barash  Matthew Anisfeld  Azara  Laliv Clenman	Purple 31

10:00
From German war to Jewish peace	Clive Lawton  Yitzach von Schweitzer  Rivka von Schweitzer	Orange 15
Daddy, I ate the chicken nuggets: reflective practice in action	Helena Miller	Red 2
Charedinomics 101	Eve Sacks  Ben Crowne	Red 3
You shall make a parapet for your roof: halachic approaches to online trust and safety	Gabriel Turner  Robin Moss	Red 4
Cloudy with a chance of fishballs: lab-grown meat and food that fell from the sky	Gabriel Gendler Yom-Tov	Red 5
Her-Story: The untold lives of Judaism's seven prophetesses - Chulda	Hadassah Fromson	Red 7 - Brightsmith
The ILLEGAL Illegal Migration Act - exploring the consequences of the asylum ban	Ruvi Ziegler	Orange 10
'Tzedek tirdof': pursuing justice in global health	Emma Weleminsky  Sarit Baum  Lisette van Lieshout	Orange 11
Medit'all	Agnès Rothenberg	Blue 34
Jews reading TS Eliot	Jacqueline Nicholls  Aviva Dautch	Orange 14
Rape, prostitution and revenge: three interlinked stories (2 of 3)	Margaret Jacobi	Yellow 21
Wild cordage	Sydney Switzer	Hotel Lobby

11:10
Marriage masterclass: divine and psychological insights for a lasting relationship	Hadassah Fromson  Sam Fromson	Orange 15
The Impact of 7th October on Women	Alma Reisel  Ilana Hutchinson  Yael Yechieli	Red 2
Disabled people in Tanach	Rona Matlow	Red 3
Does Israel help refugees?	Abdelmonim Haroon	Red 4
Women in Yiddish folklore: magical rituals and incantations	Natan Meir	Red 5
Know your sh*t: Jewish stomach edition	Shawn Shafner	Red 7 - Brightsmith
A Theology of "Delulu" - Messianic Optimism for a Broken World	Lara Haft Yom-Tov	Orange 10
Empowering digital citizens	Dennis Snower	Orange 11
People of the Book: Jews of the Middle East and North Africa	Elhanan Miller	Orange 14
The Lion King: a metaphor of exile and redemption	Warren Sher	Yellow 21

12:20
Is this the right place for a healthy argument?	Robbie Gringras  Abi Dauber Sterne	Red 1
Settler violence in the West Bank	Noa Sattath  Tal Sagi	Orange 15
Don’t shoot the messenger: a gathering for prayer leaders	Yael Jaffe	Red 2
The maid of Rabbi Judah the Prince: knowledge, power and privilege in the Jewish community	Sarah Charak	Red 3
History and treasures of the LSJS Library	Samantha Reuben	Red 4
If you weren’t Jewish you'd probably be an antisemite	Jack Cohen	Red 5
Write a climate change song! Eco-Judaism education through creativity	Miki Shaw  Jessica Gold	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Converting for marriage? (2 of 2)	Beth Levy	Red 8
Myth-busting relationship abuse: let’s break the taboo	Barbie Goldfoot  Ilana Hutchinson	Orange 10
Listening for God in Torah and creation	Shoshana Gelfand	Orange 11
Interfaith harmony in the medieval Mediterranean	Robert Stone	Orange 12
Building earth-based, radical-diasporist Jewish community in the UK with Miknaf Ha'aretz (1 of 2)	Samson Hart  Sara Moon	Orange 13
Does the United Synagogue really care about the environment?	Naomi Verber	Orange 14
How to make Jewish babies	Nechama Goldman Barash	Yellow 21
Limmud fungus foray (Forest School for grown-ups) (2 of 2)	Michael Green  Tilla Crowne	Hotel Lobby

13:10
The Torah of the Blues - A songwriting workshop	Sandra Lawson	Red 1
Crossing Delancey	UK Jewish Film Festival	Orange 13

13:10
War in the shadow of Israel’s most right wing government.	Ruvi Ziegler  Yael Yechieli  Tal Sagi	Orange 15
How does Limmud change the world? (2 of 2)	Natalie Grazin  Joe Hyman	Red 2
Marc Chagall - painting dreams, capturing emotions	Jonathan Bergwerk	Red 3
What can Response-Based Practice teach the Jewish community about working with violence	Alma Reisel	Red 4
David and Jonathan: The textually explicit version	Elliot Glassenberg	Red 5
Daniel Cainer's Jewish chronicles	Daniel Cainer	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Speed dating (for 45+ year olds)	Limmud Social Programming	Red 8
The latest fascinating cases involving religion and law	Adam Wagner  Jason Braier  Naomi Munk	Orange 10
The Tower of Babel	Stuart Lewis	Orange 11
What happened to the Schools Bill?	Yehudis Fletcher  Eve Sacks	Orange 12
Life after death - do we believe in it?	Clive Lawton	Orange 14
When Shmuel met Rav - a bloody tale of indigestion and code switching	Benjamin Gerber	Yellow 21

14:20
Israel under attack	Michael Wegier	Orange 15
Preparing to present at Limmud Festival 2024 - because everyone can be a teacher	Marion Kinshuck  Alison Dollow  Clive Kennard  Aimee Birnbaum	Red 2
Sleep: how do we achieve it and what does the Torah have to say about it?	Jane Ansell	Red 3
Feminism, Judaism and Philosophy: What we can learn from RBG and others	Yael Yechieli	Red 4
Teaching the laws of niddah (Jewish menstrual purity) to modern couples	Miriam Lorie	Red 7 - Brightsmith
God's face hidden: the divine tallit and tefillin (3 of 3)	Yael Roberts	Red 8
Why are rabbis leaving the rabbinate? A rabbi and a union branch	David Mason	Orange 10
Knowledge is power	Nicole Gordon  Louise Hager	Orange 11
Almost normal: navigating the world as an undiagnosed autistic adult	Belinda Copitch	Orange 12
Essential oil making		Blue 34
Israel’s domestic politics: what next?	Toby Greene	Orange 14
What does Taylor Swift have to do with diversity?	Noah Katz	Yellow 21
Nature walk (4 of 5)	Limmud Social Programming	Hotel Lobby

15:30
The daily argument (3 of 4)	Robbie Gringras  Abi Dauber Sterne	Red 1
Holocaust films: the first 75 years	Rich Brownstein	Orange 15
Neurodivergence, LGBTQ+ and Judaism	Naomi Rowe	Red 2
Shylock - villain or victim?	Jonathan Bergwerk	Red 3
I'm a 3G! Will my family story be lost?	Helen Stone	Red 4
From Sheffield to sea: a journey with lead singer of an Israeli cruise ship, Mano Cruises	Rachael Shomer	Red 5
Barbie versus Golda	Julia Wagner	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Mindful Jewish caring - how to care for a loved one without losing your mind!	Marvin Shaw	Red 8
Knit and knatter (3 of 3)	Melanie Kelly  Limmud Social Programming	Red Bar/Lounge
Why are Jews special on a biological level?	Gidon Schwartz  Nicole Gordon	Orange 10
'And the fruit of the earth will not be destroyed': the anti-capitalist agenda of Tu B’Shvat	Noa Gendler	Orange 11
The Touros of Amsterdam and the Americas in the 18th/19th centuries	Arnold de Vries	Orange 12
Rabbi Sacks and the Renaissance	Raphael Zarum	Orange 13
Gematriart - colourscapes of the Torah	Simon Prais	Orange 14
'Is it kosher?' project history and future	Mihails Beškins	Yellow 21

16:40
Philanthropy and funding: any questions answered	Daniela Greiber  Amy Braier  Anna Josse	Red 1
Rina Wolfson, in her own words	Baruch Gilinsky  Rachel Creeger  Paul Harris	Orange 15
Neurodiversity the New Normal	Jeffrey Samuels	Red 2
Climate change: a guided tour	Gabriel Rozenberg	Red 3
Claude Cahun: anti-Nazi agitator, gender rebel, art provocateur	Nicole Jacobus	Red 5
From Azazel to lightness	Madeleine Fresko-Brown	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Days of Awe – explore the new machzor	Paul Freedman	Red 8
ROI meet-up	Patricia Eszter Margit	Red Bar/Lounge
More in common than divides us: Jewish and Muslim pre-burial practice	Jeff Berger	Orange 10
Interacting with the Charedi community as a secular nonprofit or foundation (3 of 3)	Asher Lovy  Yehudis Fletcher	Orange 11
Why I’m a reluctant imperialist (of the Austro-Hungarian Empire)!	Ben Vos	Orange 12
Family Lounge Play Time	Limmud Families Programming	Blue 33
LGBTQIA+ crafternoon	Gabi Parkham	Blue 34
Frankenfruit	Shawn Shafner	Green 27
#The perfect Blend	Jacqui Benson-Mabombo  Sixolile Mabombo-Benson	Orange 13
Families Softplay Exclusive Use	Limmud Families Programming	Yellow 23
Five-a-side football (2 of 2)	Limmud Social Programming	Yellow 24

17:50
Beyond Silicon Wadi: Israeli innovations in international development	Debra Slonim  Sarit Baum  Caroline Mendelsohn  Hannah Gaventa  Shahar Fuhrer	Red 1
Sing for Israel with Shir	Shir	Orange 15
We want more Limmud!	Joe Hyman	Red 2
A Job For A Good Jewish Girl: Working For The Church of England	Zoe Jacobs	Red 3
Navigating a Jewish response to the war	Elliot Glassenberg  Elhanan Miller  Lara Haft Yom-Tov	Red 4
What's your story? A storytelling workshop for LGBT+ people and allies	Dalia Fleming  Alex Foley	Red 5
Torah teaching from Turkiye (part 1), Rav Yaakov Arguetti (Responsa Yereh Yaakov in 1940)	Naftali Haleve Sason	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Hip hop turned 50 and heeb-hop had a bar mitzvah	Maurice Olsberg	Red 8
Pardes alumni and friends bar meet-up	Rachel Harris	Red Bar/Lounge
Nothing in return	Merri Ukraincik	Orange 10
Antisemitism, Bibi and the cost-of-living crisis: an ABC of Jewish public policy	Phil Rosenberg	Orange 11
Does God Cry? Three Theological Responses to Destruction	Shoshana Cohen	Orange 12
Family Story Time	Limmud Families Programming	Blue 33
Family Bibliodrama	Miriam Lorie  Limmud Families Programming	Green 27
War on Yom Kippur - a short film	David Cohen	Orange 13
The work of EcoJudaism	Jeff Berger  Mark Goldsmith  Naomi Verber	Orange 14
Who knows one? The great piyyut treasure hunt	Isaac Montagu	Purple 31
It’s never too early to think about Pesach: hacking your seder with the Unbound haggadah	Eli Kaplan-Wildmann	Yellow 21
Limmud's Got Talent - the Show!	Limmud Social Programming	Yellow 24

19:00
Caring for our carers!	Yvonne Richards	Red 2
Sacred intimacy: exploring Jewish wisdom on intimacy and love	Hadassah Fromson	Red 3
What's in a (Jewish) name?	Michie Yana-Berger	Red 4
Forgotten heroes: Vasily Grossman, star WWII journalist and author (3 of 3)	Howard Epstein	Red 5
"For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples"	Daniella Shaw	Red 8
Office hours: global Jewish travel and fellowships	Emma Weleminsky  Arielle Sokoloff  Mikael Stein  Allison Cohen	Red Bar/Lounge
A scribbler on the roof - Sheldon Harnick (1924-2023)	Mike Levy	Orange 10
Jewish healing through psychedelics	Madison Margolin	Orange 12
Queer eye for the Jerusalem guy: how Israel’s capital can save us all, one reclaimed urban creative space at a time	Eli Kaplan-Wildmann	Yellow 21
Lo Nafsik Lirkod (Don’t stop Dancing) - Am Yisrael Chai	Maurice Stone	Yellow 24

20:00
Limmud Festival Gala		Orange 15
40 years in the desert: why Jews can't navigate	Limmud Social Programming	Tan Brown 40

20:10
Physician-assisted dying - a Reform responsum (3 of 3)	Joan Friedman	Red 1
Royal family therapy for the Davidsons	Mark Goldsmith	Red 2
Why Jews should eat meat	Leon Pein	Red 3
Foot fetish: Jews and their shoes	Ellen Flax	Red 4
A Muslim, a Sikh and a Hindu in Auschwitz	Richard Verber	Red 5
T’chiya / regeneration: how Jewish tradition can guide us toward a sustainable future	Noah Fulton Beale	Red 7 - Brightsmith

21:20
Hamas and I	Elhanan Miller	Red 1
How to... apply the latest education theories to informal education	Madeleine Fresko-Brown	Red 2
Judaism and socially responsible investment: greenwash or mitzvah?	Mark Goldsmith	Red 4
Hebrew - the language of the Jewish people?	Daniel Needlestone  Tal Bassali	Red 5
Let my people sing, together!	Marques Hollie	Red 7 - Brightsmith

22:30
From the Shtetl to the Blues	Pini Brown	Red 1
Shir dance party	Shir	Orange 15
Speed dating (LGBTQIA+)	Limmud Social Programming	Red 2
Out of Eden: Barbie and Ken - a theological exploration	Harris Bor	Red 4
Balagan boogaloo	Erez Safar	Red 7 - Brightsmith
Board/card games (3 of 3)	Limmud Social Programming	Blue 34
Sing Lewandowski! (2 of 2)	Jonathan Weissbart	Yellow 21
Israeli dance party (3 of 3)	Slavyan Kanovski	Yellow 24

23:30
The Rebbetzin's disco	Jacqueline Nicholls	Red 7 - Brightsmith