Limmud Festival 2025
Saturday 27 December 2025

08:40
Pilates-inspired mat class	Kristine Garroway	Red 1
Wake and walk (1 of 5)	Participant Care Limmud	Hotel Lobby

08:45
Shabbat Morning - Progressive Service		Red 7
Shabbat Morning - Egalitarian Service		Orange 12
Shabbat Morning - Orthodox Service		Orange 14
Shabbat Morning - Families' Service	Family Team Limmud	Blue 32

11:00
Shabbat Kiddush	Programming Team Limmud	Orange 15

11:25
Shabbat mindfulness	Alina Cohen	Red 1
Machloket matters: The art of disagreement in Jewish tradition	David-Yehuda Stern	Red 3
Blood rhythms - sex in an Orthodox marriage	Viva Hammer	Red 4
The snail and the shell: creative images of God, world and self in Chassidic texts	Alex Braver	Red 5
Is antisemitism rife?	Clive Lawton	Orange 10
Remember, replace, reinforce: a positive perspective on 'Zachor'	Mark Creeger	Orange 11
Jewish music: how old is it, what do we know about it?	Irwin Oppenheim	Orange 12
Family Shabbat morning part 2 - Parshah choose your own adventure	Family Team Limmud	Blue 32
The narrow bridge: stories of R' Nachman of Breslov	Aydin Mayers	Blue 34
Parasha b’Ivrit: stories and games for kids	Sheerelle Marks Family Team Limmud	Green 25

12:30
Lunch	Programming Team Limmud	Purple 30

14:15
Shabbat Mincha - Egalitarian Service		Orange 12
Shabbat Mincha - Orthodox Service		Orange 14

14:15
How can intelligent people study Torah for 70 years and not get bored	Graham Newman	Red 3
Make a joyful noise? Musical instruments on Shabbat	Yael Jaffe	Red 4
Pivotal moments in the development of the Jewish prohibition against wastefulness	Tanhum Yoreh	Red 5
Libertarianism in the Hebrew bible	Tzemah Yoreh	Orange 11
Kabbalistic meditation: exploring our soul (1 of 3)	Natan Abenaim	Blue 34

14:45
Seuda Shilshit		Bar

15:25
Coffee afternoon	Participant Care Limmud	Red 1
The Israeli right: looking ahead to 2026	Jonathan Javor Daniel J Levy	Red 5
Circle singing	Mayta Cohen	Red 7
12 years as a mohel(orthodox); Stories, new era changes and (ethical) dilemmas	Lester Max van Ravenswade	Orange 10
Tending to the holiness within: spiritual self-care for those who care for others	Yosef Goldman	Orange 11
Jews and tattoos	Viva Hammer	Orange 12
Vayigash: the perfect speech	Raphael Zarum	Orange 13
Yiddish reading circle (1 of 2)	Ilan Pillemer	Green 25
Shabbat Olympics	Social Programming Limmud	Yellow 21

15:25
The audacity of prayer: between piety and protest	Aviva Richman	Red 3

16:35
Dice, dice baby (1 of 5)	Participant Care Limmud	Red 1
Pitfalls and risks of 'cultural sensitivity' in dealing with sexual abuse in insular Jewish communities	Asher Lovy Shana Rose Aaronson	Red 4
The art of unaccompanied Yiddish folksong	Chaia .	Red 7
ScavengAI hunt	Social Programming Limmud	Bar
Does the Torah root for vegans?	Natan Abenaim	Orange 10
Is everything really for the good?	Gideon Sylvester	Orange 11
Family-friendly Shabbat afternoon tisch	Family Team Limmud	Blue 32

17:00
Ma'ariv - Progressive Service		Red 5
Ma'ariv - Egalitarian Service		Orange 12
Ma'ariv - Orthodox Service		Orange 14

17:30
Havdallah	Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik Shawna Brynjegard-Bialik Programming Team Limmud	Orange 15

19:00
Lone Soldiers: From abroad to the territories	Luiz Aberbuj Inbal Morag	Red 1
UK Jewish Film presents: Mazel Tov	Daniel Daniel . UK Jewish Film	Orange 13
Intro to playback theatre	Amir Atsmon	Yellow 21

19:00
How to Talk to Strangers (and Why You Should)	Claire Straus Micah Gold	Red 2
Music at world's end: how three exiled musicians changed Iceland's music - Heinz Edelstein (1 of 4)	Arni Ingolfsson	Red 3
One nation under God: US, religion and electoral politics, Jews, Israel and Christian Zionism	Barry Kosmin	Red 4
Living-while-circumcised: circumcision and Jewish survival during the Shoah	Jay Geller	Red 5
The rumble in Barcelona 1263 - Nachmanides vs Friar Paul: And the winner is…	Chaim Hames	Red 7
Did Rabbi Sacks see Israel as the dawn of Messianic times?	Gideon Sylvester	Red 8
Hunter-gatherer-forest-Jew	Nik Rabinowitz	Orange 10
The Bible doesn't say that	Joel Hoffman	Orange 11
Adon Olam - why is it so popular?	Matthew Pearlman	Orange 12
Rewriting the machzor: a new avodah service for Yom Kippur	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Orange 14
Ethics at the well: Jewish law and the limits of responsibility - a session for teenagers	Matt Marks	Blue 34

20:15
Glikl's gilgulim: the lives and afterlives of the first early modern Jewish autobiographer	Dalia Wolfson	Red 2
Like Genesis…but rewritten? The Book of Jubilees and why it matters	Lex Rofeberg	Red 3
The Sabbath wars: the untold story of a 1920s culture clash	Martin Kaye	Red 4
What makes a contemporary dance Jewish?	Renato Huarte Cuéllar	Red 5
How to achieve 'bitachon' (trust in God) through poetry and Psalms	Marvin Shaw	Red 7
Frontline minds: coping with anxiety after October 7th	Sarah Sharman Moser	Red 8
Introduction to Hebrew poetry from Bialik to the present day	Yonatan Berg	Orange 10
The future of Jewish storytelling: incubation and impact	Noam Dromi	Orange 11
'A time for war and a time for peace': Is pursuing peace a naïve dream for Israel today?	Raphael Zarum	Orange 12
Beginner's Ladino	Martin Hasan Di Maggio	Orange 14
Who are Na’amod and what do we want?	Benny Ross Ali Coy	Blue 32
Kedushah: the terrifying encounter of two prophets with the sublime	Irwin Oppenheim	Blue 34
Pageant of the mensches	Social Programming Limmud	Yellow 23
From Sinai to Silicon: democratising Torah knowledge with AI	Moshe Koppel	Yellow 24

21:30
UK Jewish Film presents: The Producers	Irene Wise . UK Jewish Film	Orange 13

21:30
Can Jewish/non-Jewish care homes do better?	Marvin Shaw	Red 1
Behind those shiny happy eyes	Dale Resnick	Red 2
Is the BBC really biased? A source criticism of the October 7th war	Daniel Dable	Red 3
Sacred song, shared spirit: inspiring a singing community	Zoe Jacobs Sarah Grabiner	Red 4
Jewish funk? Exploring the Jewishness of Vulfpeck	Sam Goldstone-Brady	Red 5
Musical approach to Talmudic pluralism: an acoustic essay	Wolfgang Wieshaider	Red 7
Limmud takes on 'Taskmaster' 3	Rachel Creeger	Orange 10
Black and Jewish: a complicated friendship in cinema and culture	Daniel Daniel	Orange 11
What’s your story? A storytelling workshop open to everyone	Ariel Chapman Luke Levine	Orange 12
From crisis to creation: the healing power of music and faith	Ofek Meir	Orange 14
Aydin Mayers in concert	Aydin Mayers House Band Limmud	Orange 15
Secrets of Sefer Tagin	Marc Michaels	Blue 34
Roman Jews: a unique story of resistance	Sara Terracina	Purple 31
Should you tell the truth to the bride?	Josh Brostoff	Yellow 21
Latin dance for absolute beginners	Madeline R. Young-Touré	Yellow 24

22:45
Contemporary composer as modern midrashist	Elana Arian	Red 3
Having productive arguments about Israel (and other topics)	Batsheva Haber	Red 5
Is Grok Jewish? How Grok has added Jewish meaning to my life	Jeremy Dable	Orange 11
"The hair in the milk": Portrayals of Lilith in Jewish folktales and modern horror	Carmel du Parc Braham	Orange 12