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Limmud Festival 2024
Sunday 22 December 2024

08:00
Mellow Morning Mindfulness (1 of 4)	Lisa Barrett	Blue 32 - Wellbeing hub
Yoga for Beginners	Maxine Elias	Yellow 23
Prayers on the Run (1 of 2)	Billy Jonas	Hotel Lobby

08:30
Singing For A Change (1 of 4)	Robin Samson	Orange 10

09:15
Cancel Culture and the Talmud	Meesh Hammer-Kossoy	Red 1
Antisemitism in Norway since October 7th	Daniel Needlestone	Red 2
How Jewish Architects contributed to the Bauhaus Movement	Zoe Silverman	Red 3
Is There Torah We Cannot Learn?	Sofia Freudenstein	Red 4
A Siddur without G-d: Humanistic Judaism	Martin Di Maggio	Red 5
The Evolution of Jewish Dating: From Traditional Shidduchim to Modern Methods	Karina Datashvili	Red 7
Smell in the Bible and Rabbinic Literature	Nicola Feuchtwang	Red 8
Leyenkrayz - Yiddish Reading Circle (2 of 3)	Ilan Pillemer	Red Bar/Lounge
Neurodiversity and Inclusivity in Progressive Judaism	Anna Smoliar	Orange 10
Flip into Israeli Art: the Agamograph	Danielle Barta	Orange 11
Saints or Role Models?	Amir Morris	Orange 12
Mussar for Hard Conversations: A curriculum to rebuild civility (1 of 3)	Marcia Plumb  Anna Dyson	Orange 14
Israel in 2025...and Beyond	Efraim Chalamish  Noah Efron  Miriam Herschlag	Orange 15
Mind over Mood: How can we communicate effectively when emotions over Israel-Palestine are so high?	Sharon Booth	Blue 32 - Wellbeing hub
Russia and the Oligarchs	Simon Colton	Yellow 21
The Impact of Deficient Societal Acceptance following Carceral Experiences within Closed UK Communities	Claire Silverstone-Bright	Yellow 24

09:15
Counting Bodies - Gender and Minyan	Chaim Weiner	Red 9

10:25
Mobilise & Amplify: Campaigning through Social Media	Matty Fisher	Red 2
Are Jews Really a Special People?	Jonathan Bergwerk	Red 3
Leon’s Dream Worlds	Leon Fenster	Red 4
Introduction to Ladino (1 of 3)	Martin Di Maggio	Red 5
Shtetlers of Catan? Ethical Questions in Designing a Jewish-Themed Board Game	Max Bentovim	Red 7
Adam Ve’Adama [Human and Land]	Shirel Horovitz	Red 8
Coffee and Conversations: A Limmud Barista Dialogue	Sharyn Bistre Dabbah	Red Bar/Lounge
How to Solve the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict - Jerusalem & Security (1 of 4)	Josh Dubell  Ibrahim Abu Ahmad	Orange 10
Beyond Foodbanks – Poverty in the UK and What We Can Do	Margaret Jacobi	Orange 11
Harmony and Hope: Rabbi Sacks on the Spiritual Resonance of Contemporary Music	Rebecca Posner	Orange 12
Finding Work You Love at Any Age	Penelope Toff	Orange 13
Uniting through Stories	Magen Inon  Yachad UK	Orange 14
Kindness Confetti: Tiny Acts, Huge Impact	Rachelle Lazarus	Blue 32 - Wellbeing hub
How to be a pro-Palestinian Zionist	Gary Ogin	Yellow 21
Practical Mystics Sharing Circle	Shoshana Jedwab	Yellow 24

11:35
Birkayim ve'brachot (knees and blessings): Yoga Poses and Movements in Jewish Prayer	Tamar Rotstein	Red 7
UK Jewish Film Presents...Kid with Two Farthings	Irene Wise  UK Jewish Film  Daniel Daniel	Orange 13
Return to the Place: Sefer Yetzirah and the Practice of Finding Home in the Cosmos	Jill Hammer	Orange 14

11:35
7th October testimony	Avi Dabush	Red 1
Behavioural Economics and the Bible	Bruce Rigal	Red 2
Sharp Elbows? Or Shoulders to Lean On: Narratives of High Control Communities	Yehudis Fletcher	Red 3
Being Jewish with Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Panel Discussion and Q&A	Matty Fisher	Red 4
Understanding the Diversity in Palestinian Society	Ibrahim Abu Ahmad	Red 5
Strangers in Strange Lands -- Tales of Talmudic Travelers (2 of 4)	Gila Fine	Red 8
Knit and Knatter (1 of 3)	Melanie Kelly	Red Bar/Lounge
Raising an LGBT+ Child in an Uncertain World	Sarah Bronzite  Ariel Chapman	Orange 10
The Labour Party's Attitude towards Israel - From Attlee to Starmer	Zeev Portner	Orange 11
Making a Meal of it: Birkat Ha-mazon Reform	Paul Freedman	Orange 12
Discussion space with a Palestinian Peace Activist and Yachad’s Youth and Student Worker	Dalia Blass  Yachad UK	Orange 15
Looking Inside the Lessons of the Piazcensko Rebbe	Paul Heller	Blue 32 - Wellbeing hub
Reimagining Mikveh, Reimagining Time	Rose Prevezer	Yellow 21
Embodied Judaism (1 of 2)	Billy Jonas	Yellow 24
Walking on sunshine...or maybe pavement (1 of 5)	Participant Care	Hotel Lobby

12:50
Jewlogies	Michael Wegier	Red 1
It Takes a Village - Growing up Jewish in the UK	Helena Miller	Red 2
Jewish Journeys through Consciousness	Zac Kamenetz	Red 3
A Jew on the Loo: The Asher Yatzar Blessing	Yael Tischler	Red 4
Preserving what Couldn't be Killed	Gabriel Botnick	Red 5
Can the Sanhedrin be Wrong in Interpreting the Torah?	Elazar Symon	Red 8
Leonard Bernstein: Weaving Jewish Identity into Musical Mastery	Jonathan Bergwerk	Red 9
I’m Israeli! Ask me Anything!	Batsheva Haber  Linoy Barokas  Rotem Perlberger	Red Bar/Lounge
The Geo-economic Trends that Change the World and Jewish Life	Efraim Chalamish	Orange 10
Miracle Worker for Hire - the Baal Shem of London	Roni Tabick	Orange 11
"Matzah Balls or Meditation? Jewish Health at the Crossroads of Traditional and Functional Medicine"	Denis Mayer  Mohsin Choudry	Orange 12
Panel discussion: the Israeli and diaspora peace camp	Magen Inon  Amos Schonfield  Avi Dabush	Orange 15
Wait you don't stop being AuDHD as an Adult? - Autistic and ADHD people in work	Gideon Sassoon	Blue 32 - Wellbeing hub
80 Candles for 80 Years: Your Contribution to Holocaust Memorial Day 2025	Olivia Marks-Woldman	Yellow 21
Sitting In Your Jewish Skin	Rachel Creeger	Yellow 24

14:00
Mexican-Jewish Lotería: A Cultural Bingo Experience (1 of 2)	Sharyn Bistre Dabbah	Red Bar/Lounge
Israel - Birth of a Nation on film	David Cohen	Orange 13
Israel Processing Space	Adam Rossano	Blue 34

14:00
A Life of Jewish Creation	David Moss	Red 1
Muslim Communities in Britain: Beyond the Headlines	Ali Amla	Red 3
From Jed to Job: Learning Sefer Iyov through the West Wing	Josh Cohen	Red 4
How To Weaponise Typhus (And Get Away With It)	Harry Lampert	Red 5
Sacrae: Singing 'a cappella' Christian settings of Jewish Texts (1 of 2)	Sarah Bronzite  John Dunston	Red 7
Future-proofing our Community	Claire Mandel  Carolyn Bogush	Red 8
Prehistoric Desert Cult of Masseboth (Standing Stones) in Relation to the Bible	Uzi Avner	Orange 10
Human Rights, Jewish Roots	Gabriel Kanter-Webber	Orange 11
‘Refugees Welcome’? How to Stop the "Stop the Boats" Rhetoric	Ruvi Ziegler	Orange 12
Do Your Own Research? How to Find Your Way in a Sea of Unverified Information.	Tal Hagin	Orange 14
The Importance of Preserving the Testimonies of the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa	Ciara Shalome	Orange 15
Judaism Unlimited	Anna Dyson	Yellow 21
Jew Talkin' To You?	Rachel Creeger  Philip Simon	Yellow 24
Celebrating Yule	Sydney Switzer	Hotel Lobby

14:00
The Garden of Eden in the Modern World: Sexuality, Mortality, and the Meaning of Life	Aaron Koller	Red 9

15:05
How to Put out Wildfires with Challah: A History of Ashkenazi Fire-Magic	Yosef Rosen	Red 2
How To Be Funny On The Internet: Jewish Humour In A World Of Memes	Shoshana Gottlieb	Red 3
What Have We Learned? How Jews voted in the 2024 UK Elections	Carli Lessof	Red 4
Accountability after Failure: The Agranat Commission 50 Years On (1 of 2)	Robin Moss	Red 5
Keep Kalm and Kvetch ... Already	Carole Shaw	Red 7
Disabling Attitudes: Dr Guttmann, the Paralympics, and Antisemitism.	Sam Goldstone-Brady	Red 8
Israel at War: How has Tourism changed for Israel, Israelis and Jews?	Mark Gordon	Orange 10
Conflict Resolution 101	Sharon Booth	Orange 11
A Performance Review of the Jewish Nation	Leo Dee	Orange 12
Israel Education During War - Panel	Batsheva Haber  Linoy Barokas  Rotem Perlberger	Orange 14
Genesis: More Than Words	Rachel Creeger	Orange 15
You Have the Right to Remain Silent	Participant Care	Blue 32 - Wellbeing hub
Who Are Na'amod and What Do We Want?	Benny Ross	Yellow 21
Cruising	Malcolm Ginsberg	Yellow 24

16:15
What the Bloody Hell is this? Frameworks for Understanding the Laws of Niddah	Yael Jaffe	Red 2
What Even is Nusach?! An Introduction to Synagogue Music	Ayala Gottlieb Alter  Tim Motz  Rivka Gottlieb	Red 3
Reflections from a Year of Torah Learning in a War Zone	Elazar Symon	Red 4
How my Latvian Family Survived the Holocaust	Janine Stein	Red 5
The Power of Group Singing - for all!	Eliana Light	Red 7
“Here Comes the Rabbi!”: the stories of Jewish International Cricketers	Daniel Lightman  Zaki Cooper	Red Bar/Lounge
"Unbound Judaism": Distilling Your Own System of Jewish Thought	Rena Yehuda Newman	Orange 10
Seek to Drive Change in your Organization? Adaptive Leadership in Uncertain Times	Shirley Idelson	Orange 11
The People of the Body	Ali Simmons  David Hochhauser	Orange 12
Holding together/Pulling Apart: Phil Rosenberg and Clive Lawton in conversation	Clive Lawton  Phil Rosenberg	Orange 15
Shady business, this colouring thing.. (1 of 4)	Participant Care	Blue 32 - Wellbeing hub
Next stop, Finchleystrasse!	Etan Smallman	Blue 32 - Wellbeing hub
Lily Montagu: A history	Rachel Montagu	Yellow 21
Tayelet	Maurice Stone  Slavyan Kanovski	Yellow 24

16:15
Singing Chanukah Extravaganza!!!	Family Team	Red 8

16:15
Halachah: A Project that Builds Worlds	Leah Sarna  Gabriel Botnick  Sofia Freudenstein  Jamie Weisbach	Red 1
UK Jewish Film Presents...Real Estate	UK Jewish Film  Daniel Daniel	Orange 13
Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement	Rotem Rozental	Orange 14

17:25
Kids story time	Family Team	Red 8
“Will Your Brothers Fight a War, While You Stay Here?”	Meesh Hammer-Kossoy	Orange 12
Inflatables Time! - Exclusively for aged 8 and under!	Family Team	Yellow 23

17:25
Jews of Colour Affinity Space	Lindsey Newman  Ciara Shalome	Red 2
Responsa from the Depths: Can Jewish Law Accommodate the End of the World?	Gabriel Gendler Yom-Tov	Red 3
Yiddish is Alive and Well and Living at?	Carole Shaw	Red 4
The Post Office Scandal	Paul Harris	Red 5
Billy Jonas’ Bucket Brigade: Concert for all ages	Billy Jonas	Red 7
For These I Weep: the Art of Crying	Jacqueline Nicholls	Red 9
The Story of Kitniyot	Chaim Weiner	Orange 10
Jews in India	Sybil Sheridan	Orange 11
Relax...it's time for Meditative Ma'ariv	Marcia Plumb  Anna Dyson	Blue 32 - Wellbeing hub
Don’t Quote Me – Renewing Your Liturgical Licence	Paul Freedman	Green 25 - Nursery
Rethinking the Wandering Jew	Anoushka Alexander-Rose	Yellow 21
Surrealist Improv and Comedy Writing	Elliott Leigh Tucker	Yellow 24

18:35
How does Israel Recover from October 7th?	Einat Halevy Levin  Rachel Dratch  Magen Inon  Chaim Hames	Red 1
Making Jewish Comix	Rena Yehuda Newman	Orange 10
Living the Shema	Billy Jonas	Orange 12
"Eretz" (Land)	Kaley Halperin	Orange 15

18:35
An Introduction to Trans Inclusion	Ariel Chapman  Luke Levine	Red 2
The Birth and Rise of Tel Aviv - A Virtual Tour	Rachel Lazar	Red 3
Ashrei - Happy are Those who Dwell in Your House	Steve Miller	Red 4
The Bible and Thomas Hardy	Syd Braham	Red 5
Nathan Finkel & Edge of Chaos	Nathan Finkel	Red 7
Hip Hop Dance for children	Elise Orenstein	Red 8
The Stickers of October 7th - Every Sticker Tells a Story	Linoy Barokas	Red 9
Sapphic Shabbat meet up	Hannah Brady	Red Bar/Lounge
What makes a decent young professionals event anyway?	Adam Corre	Orange 11
What is the Future in a Hollow Community?	Amos Schonfield	Orange 13
Jewish-Arab partnership in a shared society in Israel in the face of conflict & war	Laurie Kaye	Orange 14
Concept to Community: Honest Lessons from myJcon and beyond	Alex Golub	Green 25 - Nursery
Netflix-Bound: Meditative Musings on My Drama-Rich Life	Maxine Elias	Yellow 21
Inflatable Room Adventure	Family Team	Yellow 23

19:45
Improving your Jewish Travel Experience	Warren Posner	Red 2
15 Recommendations: What Nahamu wants to see in the Children's Wellbeing Bill	Yehudis Fletcher  Eve Sacks	Red 3
From Data to AI: How the Jewish Narrative is Being Rewritten	Melanie Rozencwajg	Red 4
Judith Kerr and the Journalist who Came to Tea	Etan Smallman	Red 5
A Job for a Nice Jewish Girl? 50 years as the First Female Rabbi in the UK	Jacqueline Tabick  Roni Tabick	Red 7
The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk and other songs	David Finlay	Red 8
Thinking about Aliyah? I Did It - Ask Me Anything!	Rachel Harris	Red Bar/Lounge
Hilchot Doctor Who	Isaac Kaufmann	Orange 11
Show Stress Who's Boss!	Carole Spiers	Orange 13
Inclusivity in Sephardic liturgy	Isaac Montagu	Green 25 - Nursery
Volunteering in Israel after the 7 October 2023 Massacre	Jakob de Jonge	Yellow 21
Queering asylum: a "double whammy"	Ruvi Ziegler	Yellow 23
Israeli Dance party (1 of 3)	Maurice Stone  Slavyan Kanovski	Yellow 24

19:45
Surrogacy and Matrilineality in Halachah	Jamie Weisbach	Red 9

20:55
How to Create Jewish Family Culture?	Nic Abery  Tal Bassali	Red 1
Kohelet: A Time for Overthinking*	Tova Kamioner	Red 2
The Rapture: Setting aside International Law	David Goldberg	Red 3
The Beavers are Back!	Naomi Verber	Red 5
Ring the Bell that Still Can Ring	Minna Bromberg	Red 7
What Retired Judges Do Really Matters	John Dyson	Red 8
Hang out with JDC Entwine: Global Jewish travel and fellowships	Sammy Kanter  Emma Weleminsky	Red Bar/Lounge
When did Judaism Begin?	Chaim Hames	Orange 10
Trade Unions: For the Many, Not the Jew	Susy Goldstone-Brady	Orange 11
Paul Klee	Alan Silman	Orange 12
The Limmud Pub Quiz 2024	Chlo Spinks	Orange 14
3-Minute Jewish Thesis: Share Your Thought	Sharyn Bistre Dabbah	Orange 15
So You Want to be a Jewish Farmer?	Verity Steele	Green 25 - Nursery
LGBT+ Social Space	Ariel Chapman  Gabi Parkham	Purple 31 - Families Dining
Has God Forced Us to Kill or Be Killed, and What Does It Mean to Be Both Victim and Victimizer	Arik Ascherman	Yellow 23
Civic Spectacular (2 of 3)	Robin Makin  Louise Ellman	Yellow 24

20:55
Kol Lev: Listening as a Revolutionary Practice	Leah Thorn  Robin Samson	Red 4
"But it’s a swastika”: Media Spin and Political Football	Jocelin Weiss	Orange 13

22:00
Antonia Lassar: The Best Jew - A Standup Comedy Spectacular	Antonia Lassar	Red 1
Israel Ed. 3.0: Can We Have Solidarity Without Simplicity?	Yehoshua (Shuki) Zehavi	Red 2
Mamzerut: A Tool of Stigma and Oppression	Asher Lovy	Red 3
“Queer” Biblical Characters in Jewish Tradition: A Feminist Analysis	Shira Solomons	Red 5
Queer Jewish Dance Party: A Night of Music, Fun, and Celebration!	Noah Colton	Red 7
The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Princess - It's Time for the Grown-Ups to Step Aside	Noah Katz	Red 8
Poker Tournament	Brett Wigdortz	Red Bar/Lounge
The Wit and Wisdom of Max Bacon	Andrew Margolis	Orange 10
A Jew for All Seasons	Carole Shaw	Orange 11
How to Have Fair Media Coverage of Israel? The Case for Adversarial Impartiality	Joseph Mazor	Orange 12
Stage Door Vador: Broadway and Jewish Values	David Benkof	Orange 14
Unapologetic - The Third Narrative with Ibrahim Abu Ahmad	Gary Ogin  Stephen Ogin  Ibrahim Abu Ahmad	Orange 15
Sacred song and prayer circle	Kaley Halperin  Sarah-Beth Neville	Yellow 21
Show Tune Karaoke	Madeline R Young	Yellow 24

23:00
How to Solve the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict - Borders and Resources (2 of 4)	Josh Dubell  Ibrahim Abu Ahmad	Red 4
Chopped Liveries of the City of London	David Saunders	Red 5
A Shtetl Rave	Yosef Rosen	Red 7
Does our Planet Need More Religion?	Rob Rabinowitz	Orange 13
Female Sexuality as a Source of Resilience	Eden Kosman	Orange 14
Ukulele Singalong	Neil Abrahams	Yellow 21
In My Body I See You – a Jewish Ecstatic Dance Journey	Zac Kamenetz	Yellow 24