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Limmud Festival 2024
Tuesday 24 December 2024

08:00
Zhineng Qigong	Ida Kochane	Red 1
Jewish East End memories and diversity	Elliott Leigh Tucker	Red 3
Halachah Out of the Box - and in Space	Jeremy Rose	Red 4
rise&shine: A Sacred Morning Dance Party	Eliana Light	Red 7
How To Teach Poetry - As A Tool To Enhance Well-Being and Mental Health	Marvin Shaw	Red 9
Mellow Morning Mindfulness (3 of 4)	Lisa Barrett	Blue 32 - Wellbeing hub
V'yarutz v'yomer: he ran and he talked or 'run and chat' (1 of 3)	Abigail Morris	Hotel Lobby

08:30
Singing For A Change (3 of 4)	Robin Samson	Orange 10

09:15
Are We the Owners of our Body?	Elazar Symon	Red 9

09:15
The Campus Landscape: Students in Their Own Words	Dalia Blass  Zack Colton  Sami Berkoff  Jacob Goldwater	Red 1
An Ongoing Gift of Jewish Creation	David Moss	Red 2
Inside Out: Finding Our True Selves	Leo Dee	Red 3
The Haggadah As You’ve Never Seen It Before	Leon Fenster	Red 4
Human Innate Affiliation with Nature	Uzi Avner	Red 5
Fat?	Minna Bromberg	Red 7
Between the Margins: Examining Complexities of Jewish Staff Belonging in English & Welsh Higher Education	Noah Katz	Red 8
Israel Café and Conversations	Batsheva Haber  Linoy Barokas  Rotem Perlberger	Red Bar/Lounge
Jewish-Muslim Symbioses in Algeria and Their Limits	Eliaou Balouka	Orange 10
Religion vs. Spirituality: Were Our Ancestors Similarly Divided?	Yehoshua (Shuki) Zehavi	Orange 11
Opening the Doors of the Beit Midrash	Elliott Karstadt	Orange 12
West Bank Settler, Peacemaker, Comedian	Ben Greenfield	Orange 14
Have Things Changed Forever?	Clive Lawton	Orange 15
Nonviolent Communication – How to Transform Conflict One Empathic Word at a Time	Janine Shalev  Emma Buggy	Blue 32 - Wellbeing hub
What to Say When You Dont Know What to Say!	Carole Spiers	Yellow 21
The Egla Arufa : What Communal Care Entails	Sofia Freudenstein	Yellow 23

09:15
6 Inches of Soil - Presented by EcoJudaism	Naomi Verber  Jonathan Wittenberg	Orange 13

10:25
Protest and Punishment in Jewish and English Law	Natalie Grazin  Paul Harris  Raphael Zarum  Yael Jaffe  Adam Wagner	Red 1
The Hebrew Priestess: Exploring the Evidence for Jewish Priestesses in the Ancient World	Jill Hammer	Red 2
What Have We Learned? The Impact of October 7 and the War on the Relationship between Israel and British Jews	Carli Lessof	Red 3
Heartbeats & Hits: Israeli Pop in Times of Turmoil	Josh Hartuv	Red 4
Kosher Slaughter and the Ethics of Eating Meat	Gabriel Botnick	Red 5
Celebrity Soundbites - Life in Broadcasting	Simone Halfin	Red 7
Transgender Inclusion and Wellbeing with KeshetUK	Luke Levine	Red 8
Leyenkrayz - Yiddish Reading Circle (3 of 3)	Ilan Pillemer	Red Bar/Lounge
The Rebbe and Carl Rogers: Person-Centered Therapy and the quest for Moshiach	Nick Gendler  Lara Haft Yom-Tov	Orange 10
Forced Marriage, Marital Rape, and Reproductive Abuse in a Charedi Context	Yehudis Fletcher  Eve Sacks	Orange 11
Evil-lution: Europe, the USA and the Holocaust	Mark Creeger	Orange 12
Antisemitism, Bibi and the Cost-of-living crisis: an ABC of Jewish public policy	Phil Rosenberg	Orange 15
Mindful Mandala	Alina Cohen	Blue 32 - Wellbeing hub
The Revolution in Jewish Status: Equilineality	Jonathan Romain	Yellow 21
Walking on sunshine...or maybe pavement (4 of 5)	Participant Care	Hotel Lobby

11:35
UK Jewish Fim Presents...Golda's War Diaries	Irene Wise	Orange 13
Israel Processing Space	Alma Reisel	Blue 34

11:35
October 7th: Battling for Control of the Narrative.	Tal Hagin	Red 1
A Journey to Recovery: Supporting Survivors of Sexual Abuse in our UK Jewish Community	Sarah Bronzite  Erica Marks	Red 2
Rewiring Jewish Identity for Gen Z - Shaping a Jewish Identity in the Digital Age	Shoshana Becker	Red 4
The ‘London Jewish Mural’	Raymond Simonson  Leon Fenster	Red 5
Film Noir or/ou Film Noir?– Cherchez la différence… et la femme	Alec Nacamuli	Red 7
Can an Artist be a Torah Commentator?	Ben Greenfield	Red 8
Knit and Knatter (3 of 3)	Melanie Kelly	Red Bar/Lounge
Torah and Telenovelas: Drama, Betrayal, Redemption	Sharyn Bistre Dabbah  Noah Colton	Orange 10
Not only IKEA - 250 Years of Jewish Life in Sweden	Szilvi Somlai	Orange 11
No Niggun, No Party: the music of haredi election campaigns	Gabriel Gendler Yom-Tov	Orange 12
Strangers in Strange Lands -- Tales of Talmudic Travelers (4 of 4)	Gila Fine	Orange 15
ADHD Secrets to Calm the Chaos	Michael Ross	Blue 32 - Wellbeing hub
The David Miller case: Thoughts and Reflections	Gareth Brahams	Yellow 21
Release Your Dybbuk	Julie Weitz	Yellow 24

12:50
Limmud's Unique Approach to Changing the Jewish World	Joe Hyman  Natalie Grazin	Red 1
Brachot and Medicines of the Future	Sara Garfield	Red 2
Just do it: When It's Okay for Jews to Have No Vision	Keith Kahn-Harris	Red 3
Echoes of the Jewish Salon	Judith Valerie Engel	Red 4
Rabbis Who Kill with their Eyes	Elliott Karstadt	Red 5
Why We Pray – From the Emotional to the Mystical	Ayala Gottlieb Alter  Rivka Gottlieb  Jonathan Wittenberg	Red 7
The Number 10 in Pirkei Avot	Daniel Goldfarb	Red 8
Binders in the Mikveh: Subjectivity of the Body in Halachah	Jamie Weisbach	Red 9
This Too is Torah and I Must Learn it!	Shoshana Jakobovits	Red Bar/Lounge
“In a word, go third class!” The Railroad Stories of Sholem Aleichem (in English translation)	Stephen Ogin	Orange 10
"If You Could See Cabaret Through My Eyes"	David Benkof	Orange 11
How to Solve the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict - Right of Return (3 of 4)	Josh Dubell  Ibrahim Abu Ahmad	Orange 12
Mussar for Hard Conversations using Shticka (when and how to speak) (3 of 3)	Marcia Plumb  Anna Dyson	Orange 14
Heritage Season – What To Look Forward To (3 of 3)	Clive Lawton  Robin Makin  Louise Ellman	Orange 15
Israel - Everything You Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask	Batsheva Haber  Linoy Barokas  Rotem Perlberger	Blue 32 - Wellbeing hub
This is my Bible – Exploring the World of Blogs	Rachel Creeger	Yellow 21
Join the House Band (2 of 2)	Nathan Finkel	Yellow 24
What Can We Eat on the Grounds of the NEC?	Sydney Switzer	Hotel Lobby

14:00
Catastrophic Miracles & Miraculous Catastrophes: The Torah of Pregnancy	Leah Sarna	Red 9

14:00
The Real History of “All of Israel are Guarantors for One Another”	Ayelet Libson	Red 1
What Will It Take to Cancel Carlebach?	Asher Lovy	Red 2
Michael Phelps' Dad Had It Right: The Parental Obligation to Teach Swimming	Brett Wigdortz	Red 3
When There Were Rival Chief Rabbis	Andrew Margolis	Red 4
Conversion and Commandments: Saying “I do” to Mitzvot?	Yael Jaffe	Red 5
Tzlila: Israeli spiritual submersion	Tamar Rotstein  Raya Muskal	Red 7
Considering a Career in Jewish Communal Leadership?	Shirley Idelson	Red 8
The Curious Case of the Smoking Cantor	Baruch Gilinsky	Orange 10
Climactic Climatic Events in the Torah	Syd Braham	Orange 11
Telling the Stories of our Heritage - Limmud Microgrant Project	Nicole Jacobus  Thomas Cohen	Orange 12
From Cable Street to Free Palestine	Adam Wagner	Orange 13
Dance Break	Adam Rossano	Orange 14
More than a Stale Wafer: Community Engagement for the 0-5s	Julia Wagner  Nicki Tiefenbrun	Orange 15
A Journey into Late Diagnosis of ADHD	Paul Ginsberg	Blue 32 - Wellbeing hub
Introduction to Ladino - session 3 (3 of 3)	Martin Di Maggio	Yellow 21
Non-, Anti- and Post-Zionist Processing Space		Yellow 24
Walking on sunshine...or maybe pavement (5 of 5)	Participant Care	Hotel Lobby

15:05
Interfaith Relations - The Hindus and the Jews (2 of 2)	Clive Lawton	Red 1
How to Build a Grassroots Yeshiva	Joanna Phillips	Red 2
Genocide: The Origins and Meaning of the Term	Robert Stone	Red 3
The Religious Turn - Israeli Art and Judaism	Shirel Horovitz	Red 4
Sculpting Sacred Spaces: Family, Art, and Jewish Values	Shoshana Stern	Red 5
Choral Singing (2 of 2)	Jonathan Weissbart	Red 7
Dance is Food for the Soul!	Maurice Stone  Slavyan Kanovski	Orange 10
Bridging “Creation vs Evolution”	Jacobo Viskin	Orange 11
Can I be Radical and Moderate?	David Mason	Orange 12
Jewish Poetry for the Instagram Age	Shoshana Gottlieb	Orange 13
King David’s Retaliation: God, Gaza and the Ethics of Collective Punishment	Raphael Zarum	Orange 14
Dealing with Challenges in Our Lives	Leo Dee	Blue 32 - Wellbeing hub
What Does Shabbat Mean in 2024 and Beyond?	Georgie Friend  Louis Trup  Nina Morris-Evans	Yellow 21
One Day in October	Avi Yudkowsky	Yellow 24

16:15
UK Jewish Film Presents...Home	Irene Wise  UK Jewish Film  Daniel Daniel	Orange 13

16:15
New Kinot	Kaley Halperin	Red 1
Child Sacrifice in the Torah – Yiftach’s Daughter	Steve Miller	Red 2
Scripture Exposes Her: Solving the Mystery of Shelomit bat Dibri	Yael Tischler	Red 3
The Jewish Future in Israel, the UK and the wider Diaspora.	Phil Rosenberg  Leo Dee	Red 4
LGBTQ+ Jewish Identities - Shifting Sands over Time and Space	Clive Kennard  David Bilchitz  Ruvi Ziegler  Luke Levine	Red 5
My Great (and Short) Great Grandfather, Eliezer Ben Yehuda, and the Revival of the Hebrew Language	Gil Hovav	Red 7
Is Leeds Leading?	Anna Dyson	Red Bar/Lounge
Everyday Plastic, Everyday. Discover some of the impacts on Health, Lifestyle & The Environment	Jake Welford	Orange 10
The Jewish Learning Collaborative: Why is Personalized Jewish Learning Important?	Avidan Halivni	Orange 11
Ben-Gurion's Dream - The Negev in the Wake of October 7th	Chaim Hames	Orange 12
Leave the Carbs for the Goyim	Minna Bromberg	Orange 14
Shady business, this colouring thing... (3 of 4)	Participant Care	Blue 32 - Wellbeing hub
Menopause: A Life Transition Worth Celebrating	Vivian Schmitt	Green 25 - Nursery
3-Minute Jewish Thesis: Share Your Thought (2 of 2)	Sharyn Bistre Dabbah	Yellow 21
Rikud Chadash	Maurice Stone  Slavyan Kanovski	Yellow 24

16:15
Sing Around the Calendar! A Family Concert for Everyone	Eliana Light	Orange 15

17:25
From German Concentration Camps to the Dutch Resistance	Jakob de Jonge	Red 1
Making Peace – At Home, On The Streets and in Global Hotspots	Steve Miller	Red 2
Are We Living in a Simulation?	Barry Kleinberg	Red 3
Gold: How it Shaped our History	Alan Ereira	Red 4
Jewish Europe Uncovered: Exploring 21st-century Realities through Journalism	Esther Offenberg	Red 5
Marc Blitzstein: Composer and Lyricist	Robin Samson	Red 7
Crafternoon	Family Team	Red 8
The Teaspoon that Fell in the Chicken Soup and Other Kitchen Accidents	Joanne Greenaway	Red 9
An American and a Brit Walk into a Hotel Lobby in LA....	Anna Dyson  Shirley Idelson	Red Bar/Lounge
Sing and Dance Your Way to Heaven	Neil Elton	Orange 10
Jewish Superheroes: Legends, Powers, and Mitzvot	Noah Colton	Orange 11
Jewish Architects and Their Greatest Works.	Zoe Silverman	Orange 12
LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture Presents… a Journey into NIGHT	Rose Prevezer	Orange 14
Jewish Lives and Jewish Education in Europe	Helena Miller  Tal Bassali	Orange 15
LGBT+ Inclusion in Jewish Youth Movements	Luke Levine	Blue 32 - Wellbeing hub
After October 7th - Creative And Therapeutic Ways To Transform 'A Time To Weep' Into 'A Time To Laugh'	Marvin Shaw	Green 25 - Nursery
Listen!	Jonathan Wittenberg	Yellow 21
Inflatables Time! - Exclusively for aged 8 and under!	Family Team	Yellow 23
Intro to Afro-Latin Dance for All	Madeline R Young	Yellow 24

18:35
Kaddish, Beyond Mourning	Ayala Gottlieb Alter  Rivka Gottlieb  Roni Tabick	Red 1
The Synagogue Music of the 19th Century	Paul Heller	Red 2
Plague and the Jews - A Medical Perspective	Robin Howard	Red 3
Design and Promote a Sparkling Limmud Session	David Benkof	Red 4
Connecting with Our Ancestors in Prayer	Tim Motz	Red 5
Flights to Israel	Malcolm Ginsberg	Red 7
With This Ring...I'm Buying You From Your Father?!	Gabriel Botnick	Red 9
Understanding Your Canine Companion: Dog Behaviour in the Jewish Household	Sharyn Bistre Dabbah	Orange 10
Praying on a Chariot of Fire	Yehoshua (Shuki) Zehavi	Orange 11
‘Schmutter!’: Jewish Women, Fast Fashion and Climate Crisis	Leah Thorn	Orange 12
Limmud's Challah Bake	Harry Lampert	Blue 32 - Wellbeing hub
Ibn Gabirol Was Gayer than You Think	Isaac Montagu	Green 25 - Nursery
The Constitutional Court of South Africa at 30: Perspectives of a Jewish Judge	David Bilchitz	Yellow 21
Inflatable Room Adventure	Family Team	Yellow 23
Esther Without Borders	David Moss	Yellow 24

18:35
Cryptic Crossword Solving: Jew-civerbalism	Baruch Gilinsky	Red Bar/Lounge

19:45
I Didn't Know There Were Jews in Norway	Daniel Needlestone	Red 2
'Israel in Song' - a video presentation	David Cohen	Red 3
Social Impact Projects by MitSip (1 of 2)	Eli Goldsobel  Elliott Leigh Tucker	Red 4
From Backpacking in India to Working with Wartime Evacuees	Rotem Perlberger	Red 5
West Bank Palestinians Analagous to Japanese Americans After Pearl Harbor-Defending Human Rights During Wartime	Arik Ascherman	Red 7
The Unfathomable Oops: Sefat Emet, Midrash and the post-Revelation Sin	Meesh Hammer-Kossoy	Red 8
Rabbis vs. Witches: Who Would Win in a Fight?	Yael Tischler	Red 9
There are No Winners in War	Chai-Yoel Korn	Orange 11
The 'R' Word: Exploring the prospect of retirement	Andrea Kelmanson	Yellow 21
Jacob's Red Lentils: Stew and Ethiopian Spice blend	Beejhy Barhany	Yellow 24

19:45
Not The Gala: The Next Generation	The People's Democratic Republic of Not The Gala	Red 1
GALA	Limmud Programming Team	Orange 15

20:55
War, Ethics and Aesthetics	Shirel Horovitz	Red 2
Joke Writing For Rabbis	Antonia Lassar	Red 3
The Poetry Of Leonard Cohen - Interpreted By A Fellow Poet	Marvin Shaw	Red 4
Out of the Ashes: The Jewish Phoenix	Roni Tabick	Red 7
Limmud takes on 'Taskmaster'	Rachel Creeger	Red 8
The Zone of Disinterest - Eclipsing The Jewish Victims	Irene Wise	Orange 10
The ADHD Secret Life of Money: Where Does It All Go?	Michael Ross	Orange 11
A Snapshot of 20th Century Jewish Composers	Michael Aarons	Green 25 - Nursery
Jewish Dating to Start a Family	Neil Elton	Yellow 21

20:55
Israeli Dance Party (3 of 3)	Maurice Stone	Yellow 24

22:00
The Jewish Stock Exchange...the awards (2 of 2)	Dan Fenster-Simons	Red 2
Only Connect: Live Show and Q&A	Chlo Spinks	Red 3
Genesis: Art for Art's Sake	Rachel Creeger	Red 5
Mitzvahs, Mensches and Mosquitoes: American Jewish Summer Camps	Isaac Reuben	Red 7
Lotería with a Twist: Mexican-Jewish Bingo and Tequila	Sharyn Bistre Dabbah	Red Bar/Lounge
Psychedelic Sound Journey	Nathan Finkel	Orange 15
Re-visiting Jacob Epstein’s artistic legacy	Steve Miller	Green 25 - Nursery

23:00
Limmud does Drag! (2 of 2)	Naomi Rowe	Red 1
The Rebbetzin’s Disco	Jacqueline Nicholls	Red 7
Christmas at Limmud!	Luke Levine	Red 9
House Band Shindig	Nathan Finkel	Red Bar/Lounge
Old and Young Jews Telling Jokes	Rachel Creeger	Orange 12
Yarchei Kallah: Torah and Democratization	Sofia Freudenstein	Green 25 - Nursery