Limmud Festival 2025
Friday 26 December 2025

13:00
The art of Jewish symbolism	Tal Paley	Red 9
Global Jewish leadership: changemakers, identity and the power of connection	Naava Shafner	Orange 11
Pre-Shabbat activities for families (1 of 2)	The Limmud Family Team	Blue 32
RESCHEDULED - The real* reason quinoa is kosher for Passover - REARRANGED	Asher Lovy	Cancelled/Rearranged

14:30
Escape womb	The Limmud Social Programming Team	Red 2
Translating Natan Alterman’s poetry on stage	Renato Huarte Cuéllar	Red 4
Mel Brooks 101	David Benkof	Red 8
A beginner's guide to Limmud Festival (1 of 2)	The Limmud Participant Care Team	Orange 10
Ancient answers to good and evil that were cut from the Bible	Joel Hoffman	Orange 12
Pre-Shabbat activities for families (2 of 2)	The Limmud Family Team	Blue 32
Birdwatching fun for families	Alan Stanton	Hotel Lobby

15:15
Communal Candle Lighting	Programming Team Limmud	Orange 15

15:40
Kabbalat Shabbat - Women's Kabbalat Shabbat Service		Red 4
Kabbalat Shabbat - Progressive Service		Red 7
Kabbalat Shabbat - Egalitarian Service		Orange 12
Kabbalat Shabbat - Orthodox Service		Orange 14
Kabbalat Shabbat - Families' Service		Blue 32
Humanistic/Nontheistic Kabbalat Shabbat		Yellow 21

17:30
Friday Night Kiddush	Programming Team Limmud	Orange 15

17:50
Limmud book recommendation club	The Limmud Social Programming Team	Red 2
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…	Aviva Dautch	Red 3
Talmudic life hacks: healthy living rabbinic-style!	Luz Toff	Red 4
Must I love my non-Jewish neighbour as myself?	Daniel Goldfarb	Red 5
When light breaks forth: entering the arc of prayer through the Shabbat morning siddur	Yosef Goldman	Red 7
Is G-d a sandwich?	Matt Marks	Red 8
Second Day Yom Tov - an anachronism? Two day-long Jewish Holidays in the Diaspora	Michael Brochstein	Orange 11
A bastion against the tide of assimilation? Jewish sports in the Netherlands 1890-1940	Elisa Rodenburg	Orange 12

18:50
Dinner	Programming Team Limmud	Purple 30

21:10
Eilu v’eilu (but maybe not eilu?): pluralism in Jewish texts	Batsheva Haber	Red 2
Old (and young!) Jews telling jokes	Rachel Creeger	Red 4
Tisch (With Instruments)		Red 7
Purim, prostitutes and talmudic toilet humour	Miki Friend	Red 9
Esther and Vashti: two faces of beauty	Jacqueline Nicholls	Orange 11
Beyond Sefardim and Ashkenazim - it's much more complicated	Clive Lawton	Orange 12
Tisch (Without Instruments)	Aviva Richman Yosef Goldman	Purple 31