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Limmud Festival 2024
Monday 23 December 2024

08:00
The Ultimate Jewish Story: A Jew is Never Alone	Peter Mond	Red 3
Assisted Dying - to be Welcomed or Opposed?	Jonathan Romain	Red 4
Morning dance party	Adam Rossano	Red 7
Learn Talmud Like a Pro – No Hebrew Required!	Leo Dee	Red 8
Mellow Morning Mindfulness (2 of 4)	Lisa Barrett	Orange 11
Rise and shine its yoga-time!	Participant Care	Blue 32 - Wellbeing hub
V'yarutz v'yomer: he ran and he talked or 'run and chat' (2 of 3)	Abigail Morris	Hotel Lobby
Prayers on the Run (2 of 2)	Billy Jonas	Hotel Lobby

08:30
Singing For A Change (2 of 4)	Robin Samson	Orange 10

09:15
Jewish Textual Perspectives on the Challenges Posed by Mental and Physical Disabilities	Jacqueline Tabick	Red 8

09:15
A Torah Response to the Climate Crisis	Jill Hammer  Elazar Symon  Yehoshua (Shuki) Zehavi  Meesh Hammer-Kossoy  Jonathan Wittenberg	Orange 10
UK Jewish Film Presents...the Pears Short Film Fund and Dangoor Short Doc Fund films	Irene Wise  UK Jewish Film	Orange 13
The Jewish Resilience Project	Rachel Dratch	Orange 14

09:15
An In Depth Encounter With a Modern Haggadah	David Moss	Red 1
Blood and Belief: Menstruation in Medieval Judaism and Christianity	Rosalie Bernheim	Red 2
The Desert Role in the Formation of Early Israel	Uzi Avner	Red 3
The Magical History of the Magen David	Yosef Rosen	Red 4
Ottó Komoly – Jewish Rescuer, Hero of the Hungarian Holocaust.	Tomi Komoly	Red 5
Heritage Season – What You Have Missed (1 of 3)	Robin Makin  Louise Ellman	Red 7
Psychedelic Preparation & Integration - Where can we find a Space for this in the Jewish Community?	Danny Newman  Micah Gold  Zac Kamenetz	Red Bar/Lounge
“Do not hate your kinsfolk in your heart” – A halachic approach to disagreement	Sarah-Beth Neville	Orange 11
Jewish Life in Belarus Today: History, Survival, and Discovery	Debra Brunner  Jack Baum	Orange 12
UK Antisemitism in 2024	Limmud Programming Team  Adam Wagner  John Mann  Keith Kahn-Harris  Michael Wegier  Sarah Sackman	Orange 15
Is the Value of Human Life Paramount? A Talmudic Debate	Ayelet Libson	Yellow 21
Freeing the Back: Feldenkrais Method (2 of 3)	Emma Alter	Yellow 23
How Bad is Israel?	Clive Lawton	Yellow 24

10:25
Panel - Human Rights from a Jewish prism.	Avi Dabush	Red 2
Threat or Comfort? Jews in Britain Running from the Left to the Right	Amos Schonfield  David Mason  Sybil Sheridan  John Mann  Phil Rosenberg	Red 3
Holy Names for Our Dybbuk Performance Art	Julie Weitz	Red 4
150+ Corrections in BBC Arabic Alone - CAMERA Corrects	Christina Harrison	Red 5
s*ngs ab-ut g?d: a Divine Musical Exploration	Eliana Light	Red 7
Single Parent Support group	Paul Harris	Red Bar/Lounge
Judging The Book of Ruth by its Cover	Deborah Kahn-Harris  Tilla Crowne	Orange 11
Surrogacy and Matrilineality in Halachah	Jamie Weisbach	Orange 12
Israel after October 7th: a Concert of Music and Stories	Raya Muskal  Tamar Rotstein	Orange 15
Our Sweetest War (a Hummus Demo)	Gil Hovav	Yellow 24
Walking on sunshine...or maybe pavement (2 of 5)	Participant Care	Hotel Lobby

11:35
The Football Question	John Mann	Red 1
Prayer Writing Workshop	Kaley Halperin	Red 2
Interfaith Relations - Avraham, Abraham and Ibrahim (1 of 2)	Clive Lawton	Red 3
From 1995 to 2023: Moments in Israeli Photography	Rotem Rozental	Red 4
There's a Rang Tan in My Bedroom - Getting Climate Education Right for Jewish Kids	Naomi Verber	Red 5
Knit and Knatter (2 of 3)	Melanie Kelly	Red Bar/Lounge
The Power of Lies: Disinformation's Role in Sparking Chaos and Conflict.	Tal Hagin	Orange 10
Art and Politics - The Uncut Version	Shirel Horovitz	Orange 11
Hebrew, Translation, and Meaning in Hebrew-English Siddurim	Sarah Grabiner	Orange 12
War on Yom Kippur- a Short Film	David Cohen	Orange 13
Head Down: The Prayer that Saves Me Every Day	Raphael Zarum	Orange 14
Representing hostages	Adam Wagner  Adam Rose  Sharone Lifschitz	Orange 15
Is Limmud a ‘Taste of the World to Come’?	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Yellow 21
Your Judaism, My Business? Private Choice vs. Public Standards	Samuel Millunchick	Yellow 24
Limmud Fungus Foray (1 of 2)	Michael Green  Tilla Crowne	Hotel Lobby
Friendship Bracelets in the Woods	Sydney Switzer	Hotel Lobby

11:35
Transitions! Transitions! A Peek Behind the Curtain of Prayer Leadership	Billy Jonas  Eliana Light	Red 7
Rabbi, Am I Cleared for Takeoff? Planespotting with a Jewish Twist	Eitan Okrent	Hotel Lobby

12:50
Strangers in Strange Lands -- Tales of Talmudic Travelers (3 of 4)	Gila Fine	Red 1
How to Make a Cup of Tea!	Toni Lewis  Talia Supran	Red 2
Accountability after Failure: The Agranat Commission 50 Years On (2 of 2)	Robin Moss	Red 3
Davening in the Dark - Creative Solutions to Prayer	Gabriel Botnick	Red 4
How to Fund the Next (Academic) Step on your Jewish Journey	Ruchama Johnston-Bloom	Red 5
Si vis pacem, para bellum: Some Unpleasant Fiscal Arithmetic for Global Security Crises	Michael Ben-Gad	Red 8
'Freedom From' and 'Freedom To'	Yehudis Fletcher	Orange 10
Antisemitism and Islamophobia: The Mirror Image	Josh Dubell  Ali Amla	Orange 11
Vibes & Vision: Advocating for Israel’s Culture and Creativity	Danielle Barta	Orange 12
The Mei Hashiloach on the Closeness of Torah to our Lives	Yael Roberts	Orange 13
In Conversation with an Israeli and a Palestinian Peace Activist	Yachad UK  Magen Inon  Hannah Weisfeld  Ibrahim Abu Ahmad	Orange 14
The Battle on Campus: University Challenges in a Post October 7th World	Christina Harrison	Yellow 21
Mussar for Hard Conversations using Savlanut/Patience (2 of 3)	Marcia Plumb  Anna Dyson	Yellow 23
Learn to Jam (1 of 2)	Nathan Finkel	Yellow 24

14:00
50 Years On: Where are We?	Jacqueline Tabick  Nicola Feuchtwang  Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Red 1
The Blue Note: The Jewish Influence on Jazz Music	Nick Gendler	Red 3
The Bodies in the Well	Peter Prinsley	Red 4
AI and the Fight Against Online Jew Hate	Jonathan Myers	Red 5
Is Psalm 104 a Copy of an Ancient Egyptian Prayer?	Michael Nicholls	Red 8
But it's a Tradition! Adapting Fiddler on the Roof in 2024	Rose Prevezer	Orange 11
Dear Diary	David Finlay	Orange 12
A Decade of KeshetUK – the Past, Present and Future of Jewish LGBT+ Inclusion	Robin Moss  Alma Reisel  Dave Shaw  Ariel Chapman  Kelly Waldorf	Orange 14
In Conversation: Sarah Sackman KC MP and Adrian Cohen	Sarah Sackman  Adrian Cohen  Joshua Garfield	Orange 15
Pluralism and Teaching in a Jewish School in 2024	Benajamin de Jong  Sara Levan	Yellow 21
Embodied Judaism (2 of 2)	Billy Jonas	Yellow 24
Walking on sunshine...or maybe pavement (3 of 5)	Participant Care	Hotel Lobby

14:00
Fat People are…People	Minna Bromberg	Red 7

14:00
The Story of Beitar Jerusalem and Nationalism in Israeli Football	Shaul Adar	Red 2
Mexican-Jewish Lotería: A Cultural Bingo Experience (2 of 2)	Sharyn Bistre Dabbah	Red Bar/Lounge
What Next for Israel, and What It Means for Us	Toby Greene	Orange 10
Survivor - The True Story of One Boy's Journey through the Holocaust	Zoom Rockman  Kate Lennard  Lucy Travis	Orange 13
The Challenges of the ‘New Normal’: Navigating Uncertain Times	Talya Greene	Blue 34

15:05
Moshe and Tzipporah Come to Couples Therapy	Alma Reisel	Red 1
ORAH HI | She is Light: a Pre-Chanukah Song Circle	Eliana Light  Billy Jonas	Red 3
Gesher, JWA, KeshetUK: supporting school children with invisible challenges	Sarah Bronzite  Helena Miller  Ilana Hutchinson  Danielle Petar	Red 4
The Jewish Projects Shaking up the UK Jewish Community	Joe Hyman  Nina Morris-Evans  Nicole Jacobus  Yoni Stone  Tami Pein	Red 5
Noah the Ploughman	Natan Levy	Red 8
Being a Progressive Jew on Campus	Yachad UK  Dalia Blass	Orange 11
Jews in Ethiopia	Sybil Sheridan	Orange 12
This Year’s Legal Cases about Religion	Adam Wagner  Naomi Munk	Orange 14
One Day in October	Avi Yudkowsky	Orange 15
Prayer in a Modern Age	Samuel Millunchick	Yellow 21
Chagim for Everyone – Jewish Festival Dances	Maurice Stone  Slavyan Kanovski	Yellow 24

16:15
What Does it Mean to Support Israel in the Diaspora Today?	Yachad UK  Hannah Weisfeld  Magen Inon  Carli Lessof  Phil Rosenberg	Red 1
The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic: Book Talk	Gila Fine  Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Red 2
Mass Mailing, Mass Murder	David Henkin	Red 3
The Unexpected Labour MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket	Peter Prinsley	Red 4
Let's Celebrate Sigd around the world! What is Sigd?	Beejhy Barhany	Red 5
Coffee and Conversation: An Open Space for LGBTQ+	Noah Colton	Red Bar/Lounge
Cantonists: Czar Nikolai’s Jewish Boy Soldiers	Michael Nicholls	Orange 10
Song Circle with Yelala and Beit Kohenet	Shoshana Jedwab	Orange 11
Holocaust Memorial Day 2025: For a Better Future	Olivia Marks-Woldman  Raymond Simonson  Dilwar Hussain	Orange 12
Uncovering Forgotten Crises and the Jewish Imperative to Act	Louis Trup  Ben Marks  Emma Weleminsky  David Mason	Orange 14
Shady business, this colouring thing... (2 of 4)	Participant Care	Blue 32 - Wellbeing hub
Navigating Family Conflicts with Compassion: Jewish Wisdom on Communication in Times of Disagreement	Karina Datashvili	Green 25 - Nursery
L’cha Dodi - Come my Beloved Friend	Rivka Gottlieb  Jonathan Wittenberg  Ayala Gottlieb Alter	Yellow 21
Can Spirituality be Reduced to Neuroscience?	Rob Rabinowitz	Yellow 23
Lo Nafsik Lirkod (Don’t Stop Dancing) - Am Yisrael Chai	Maurice Stone  Slavyan Kanovski	Yellow 24

16:15
Chaos Dragon and the Light	Steve Gough	Orange 13

16:15
Crafternoon (1 of 2)	Family Team	Red 8

17:25
Inflatables Time! - Exclusively for aged 8 and under!	Family Team	Yellow 23

17:25
Why Jews Need to Try to Be More Meh	Keith Kahn-Harris	Red 1
The Curious Case of the Smoking Cantor	Baruch Gilinsky	Red 2
Navigating the News: Cultivating Critical Thinking in the Digital Era	Ben Marks	Red 3
Talking about the War in Israel and Gaza in Schools and Youth Movements	Josh Dubell	Red 4
From Swifties to Shul: Redefining Jewish Peoplehood	Sammy Kanter  Emma Weleminsky	Red 5
Money Matters!	Michael Shire  Paul Silver-Myer	Red 7
Edible Israel: Create Your Candy Map!	Danielle Barta	Red 8
King Zog, Albania and the Jews	Steve Miller	Red Bar/Lounge
Four Reasons Why You Might Need the Reform Beit Din	Jonathan Romain	Orange 10
brat and it’s the same but it’s theology so it’s not	Lara Haft Yom-Tov	Orange 11
Rabbis For Human Rights	Avi Dabush	Orange 12
Young Leadership in the Community - For the Present and for the Future	Noah Katz  Phil Rosenberg	Orange 15
Jacqueline Du Pré: Disabled, Disbelieved and Saved by her Conversion to Judaism	Alan Silman	Green 25 - Nursery
Jews and Judaism through Art and Sculptures	Charles Landau	Yellow 21
What can the UK Government do to Promote a Long-term Political Resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?	Yachad UK  Ruvi Ziegler  Hannah Weisfeld  Toby Greene	Yellow 24

18:35
Can We Publish That? Dilemmas on The Times of Israel Blogs	Miriam Herschlag	Red 1
Lech Lecha - The Art of Packing	Nic Abery	Red 2
British Jewish Youth Movements and Their Changing Relationships to Israel-Palestine	Yachad UK	Red 3
The Sagacity and Wisdom of Pirkei Avot Through The Prism of Mills and Boon	Marilyn Berg	Red 4
The Torah of Love: An MLK Talmud	Lindsey Newman	Red 5
My Family Story: Exploring my Past to Understand my Future	Rachel Dratch	Red 8
‘And They All Lived Happily Ever After': Media Myths vs Reality	Ilana Hutchinson  Sam Clifford	Red Bar/Lounge
Kids, eh? Nachas or Tzores?	Larry Tabick	Orange 10
Stamford Hell	Charlie Lewin	Orange 11
Grief and Hope in Jewish Tradition	Shirley Idelson	Orange 12
Children of the Holocaust: A Film Created by Unique Testimony	Helen Stone	Orange 13
Joan Micklin Silver in the Spotlight	Julia Wagner	Orange 14
The Rough Guide to Jewish Resources	Vanessa Freedman	Green 25 - Nursery
Get ready with me: Drag and Torah edition	Noah Colton	Yellow 21
Inflatable Room Adventure	Family Team	Yellow 23
Are Jews an Ethnic Minority in British Law? Case Law from the 1980s	Joseph Finlay	Yellow 24

18:35
"I Remember" a Concert of Original Songs by Shoshana Jedwab	Shoshana Jedwab	Orange 15

19:45
The Akedah between Jews and Christians, Kierkegaard and Maimonides	Aaron Koller	Red 1
What Do We Actually Do About Amalek Today?	Aviva Goldschmidt Kaufmann	Red 2
Circumcision in Progressive Judaism	Howard Cohen	Red 3
Navigating Unity, Diversity and Constructive Conflict: Pardes as a Case Study	Meesh Hammer-Kossoy	Red 4
The Wartime Get	Joanne Greenaway	Red 5
Sing and Dance Your Way to Heaven	Neil Elton	Red 7
Gustav Mahler and the Jews	John Dunston	Red 8
Not a Jewish Singles Session! Let's Puzzle How to Find Deeper Connections	Hannah Azizollah	Red Bar/Lounge
Global Connections and Opportunities: OLAM meet-up for Global Development Practitioners	Louis Trup  Emma Weleminsky	Red Bar/Lounge
What is Diaspora Culture?	Benny Ross	Orange 10
Conflict, Transitional Justice & Memory - How to Rebuild a Society	Esther Offenberg	Orange 11
But Which Religion is Correct? 'Truth' in Interfaith Education	Shira Solomons  Patrick Morrow  Dilwar Hussain	Orange 12
Introduction to Ladino (2 of 3)	Martin Di Maggio	Orange 13
"Love the Stranger as Yourself" - How's That Working Out?	Amos Schonfield  Raymond Simonson	Orange 14
The Shoham Stones and the Breastplate of Judgement (2 of 2)	Richard Townsend	Green 25 - Nursery
Life Drawing	Anya Shire-Plumb  Ali Simmons	Yellow 21
Bound Up in the Bundle of Life	Yael Tischler	Yellow 23
The Inner Cave: A Space for Reflection and Expression	Sharyn Bistre Dabbah	Yellow 24

20:55
Jews in Hollywood: An Open Mic Cabaret Night	Noah Colton	Red 7
Pardes Alumni and Friends Bar Meet-Up	Meesh Hammer-Kossoy	Red Bar/Lounge
Surviving October 7th: We Will Dance Again + Q&A with Commissioning Editor	Raymond Simonson  Lucie Kon	Orange 13
Israeli Dance Party (2 of 3)	Maurice Stone	Yellow 24

20:55
Scottish Ceilidh Dancing	Melanie Goldberg	Red 1
Rededicating the Eliahu Hanavi Synagogue in Alexandria	Alec Nacamuli	Red 2
Careful the Things You Say: Broadway's Great Jewish Lyricists	David Benkof	Red 3
Academia after the 7th October 2023	Chaim (Harvey) Hames	Red 4
Choral Singing (1 of 2)	Jonathan Weissbart	Red 5
The Meneket Rivkah: Readings in the First Book of Torah Scholarship By a Jewish Woman	Leah Sarna	Red 8
Listening for God in Torah and Creation: Seeking Inspiration for our Troubled Time	Jonathan Wittenberg	Red 9
Challenging Israeli Policy as Jews: Experiences of Jewish Dissidents in a Time of Conflict	Benny Ross  Ali Coy	Orange 10
The Four Pioneers: The First Female Orthodox Rabbis	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Orange 11
Judah and the Technicolour Dreamcoat: Did Andrew Lloyd Webber Miss the Point of the Story?	Adam Berlin	Orange 12
How Rich They Are: The Life of Israeli Poet Yehuda Amichai	David Finlay	Orange 14
Billy Jonas, After Dark: Concert for Adult Audiences	Billy Jonas	Orange 15
Economics, Migration and the Jews	Michael Ben-Gad	Green 25 - Nursery
Professional or Hobbyist Yappers Unite! Meet other Neurodivergent Limmudniks and Kvel To Your Heart's Content	Georgina Daniels	Yellow 21
Psychedelic Integration Circle	Zac Kamenetz	Yellow 23

22:00
Assimilation or Extermination?	Luke Levine	Red 1
Fear? Or Awe? Or Both?	Elliott Karstadt	Red 2
All About Chava: The Representation of Queer Jewish Women in Film and Television	Shoshana Gottlieb	Red 3
The First Jewish Vegetarian?	Gabriel Kanter-Webber	Red 4
Sacrae: Singing 'a cappella' Christian Settings of Jewish Texts (2 of 2)	Sarah Bronzite  John Dunston	Red 5
The Dream Project: Blacklight UV Art Workshop	Elliott Leigh Tucker	Red 8
Share Your Story, Find Your Voice: Singing and Personal Growth	Kelly Erez	Red 9
Shiviti: The History of Jewish Meditation Art	Yosef Rosen	Orange 10
Undertorah: The Revelatory Power of Dreams	Jill Hammer	Orange 11
Whose Jewish History Month Is it Anyway?	Eva Frojmovic	Orange 12
The Year in Scandal	Ben Crowne  Jacqueline Nicholls  Abi Symons	Orange 14
Limmud does Drag! (1 of 2)	Naomi Rowe	Orange 15
An Egalitarian Sephardic Minyan	Isaac Montagu	Green 25 - Nursery
The Minimization of Sexual Violence as Sin	Asher Lovy	Yellow 21

23:00
Genesis: Music for the Soul	Rachel Creeger	Red 1
Improvish	Gary Ogin	Red 2
In Which Alphabet Were the Ten Commandments Written?	Michael Nicholls	Red 3
Comedy Improv Panel Discussion	Ariella Abramowski	Red 4
Silent Disco	Nicole Jacobus  Noa Gendler	Red 7
Charity and the welfare state	Samuel Millunchick	Red 9
Speed-Dating for 20-30	Zachary Igielman  Miriam Green	Orange 10
Getting Schickered: Jews and Booze	Ellen Flax	Orange 11
Meet the Oy!ditors	Ben Crowne  Tilla Crowne	Orange 12
House Band Shindig	Nathan Finkel	Orange 15
"Chalutz in Boots!". How Jewish Teens Worldwide Embrace the Spirit of the Chalutzim	Shoshana Becker	Green 25 - Nursery
2 Step Into Israel: Rikuday Am	Danielle Barta	Yellow 24