Limmud Festival 2025
Sunday 28 December 2025

08:00
Morning mindfulness Lisa Barrett  Red 1
Anti-Judaism and anti-Zionism in fictional representations of the Holocaust Minh Vo  Red 3
What books on war and being in a warzone has taught me about war and diplomacy Toby Millis  Red 4
Theocracy in the priestly literature of the Hebrew Bible Tzemah Yoreh  Orange 11
Wake and walk (2 of 5) Participant Care Limmud  Hotel Lobby
09:20
UK Jewish Film presents: Halisa . UK Jewish Film  Daniel Daniel  Orange 13
09:20
Coffee morning (1 of 4) Participant Care Limmud  Red 1
Breathe, sing, exhale Aydin Mayers  Red 2
Jesus's parables as Jewish stories AJ Levine  Red 3
Spiky profiles and sacred callings Sophie Duschinsky  Red 4
Stephen Sondheim 101 David Benkof  Red 5
From crisis to solidarity: the global Jewish response following October 7th Eliana Pushett  Red 7
Of burrows and batei midrash: unexpected parallels between rabbis and rabbits Luz Toff  Red 8
Writing your Jewish story (1 of 2) Lewis Warshauer  Red 9
MST #1431: The Torah that took the long way round Marc Michaels  Orange 10
Torah saves lives? Rabbis meet the Angel of Death Roni Tabick  Orange 11
The first thing to do in a crisis is recognise that you’re in one – Israel has not done that Jonathan Javor  Orange 12
Views on Israel - tackling the generational gap Magen Inon  Orange 14
Book launch: discussion with Yiscah Smith and Clive Lawton Yiscah Smith  Clive Lawton  Orange 15
Boomer, Gen X, Gen Z … it’s time for Gen-All! Judith Ish-Horowicz  Blue 32
Non-Zionist listening and processing circle Benny Ross  Ali Coy  Yellow 21
'Little Paris': the Jewish jazz age in interwar Kovno Aimee Birnbaum  Yellow 24
10:40
Operation Brothers: the Ethiopian Jews clandestine immigration to Israel through Sudan Daniel Limor  Red 2
10:40
Sacrifice your story, save yourself Rossi Bennett  Red 3
The settlements in the West Bank/Judea and Samaria: what has changed over the past two years? Stephen Ogin  Red 4
A data science framework for quantifying environmental action in faith communities: A census of US synagogues Tanhum Yoreh  Red 5
Can we bring our school to your synagogue? Deborah Carpenter  Red 7
Journey to the wholeness of the soul for Jewish educators Evie Rotstein  Red 8
What's it like to grow up in a settlement? Yonatan Berg  Red 9
Is it Jewish to rejoice over fallen enemies? Zvi Hirschfield  Orange 10
King Solomon, where are you when we need you? Daniel Goldfarb  Orange 11
I lift up my eyes to the hills, From where my help will come? Matthew Pearlman  Orange 12
Music as midrash: finding meaning through melody Zoe Jacobs  Daniel Cainer  Orange 15
What Makes French Judaism Thrive? Paradoxes in Surprising Community Strength Daniel Aidan  Samuel Aidan  Blue 32
How to listen in triggering times? Amir Atsmon  Yellow 21
Four exiles and four spiritual revolutions Joel Hoffman  Yellow 24
A post-7/10 Jewish theology Daniel Lichman  Cancelled/Rearranged
12:00
Does Judaism have a race problem? A 'Who Jew think you are?' conversation Eylan Ezekiel  Red 3
Yes, there’s a Jewish school in Istanbul Nic Abery  Red 4
Round writing Mayta Cohen  Red 5
The Solomon Sisters Penelope Solomon  Madeline Solomon  Red 7
The 1000-year-old Jewish story revealed beneath the Barbican Gaby Morris  Howard Morris  Red 8
How faith groups and other organisations are addressing food poverty in today’s climate Amy Mendlesohn  Rachel Vogler  Red 9
A beginner's guide to Limmud Festival (2 of 2) Participant Care Limmud  Orange 10
Festival politics Ian Rowen  Orange 11
Visiting Refuseniks in the 1980s Robin Lansman  Orange 12
Find Your Chutzpah! Janine Stein  Yehudis Fletcher  Orange 13
Murder on the high seas - when should we speak up for our principles? Gideon Sylvester  Orange 15
Ancient mosaics, Judaism and collage Tal Paley  Blue 32
The earliest societies of the land of Israel Steve Miller  Yellow 21
Confessions of an Israeli university rector Chaim Hames  Yellow 24
13:20
What's it like to be young at the Board of Deputies? Noah Katz  Nat Kunin  Red 2
Complete after 7 years: Leon Fenster's Haggadah unlike any other Leon Fenster  Red 3
Allies or foes? Palestine during the Second World War (1 of 3) Geoffrey Charin  Red 4
From sacred to secular: How Spain became the first European nation to hear the Tanach in the vernacular (1 of 3) Victoria Atlas  Red 5
Life Is Rosi: finding my Jewish voice Jess Robinson  Rachel Creeger  Red 7
Parenting lessons from Bereishit: the world's first parents; Adam, Eve and the brothers who can't get along (1 of 3) Miriam Lorie  Red 8
Little green (Jewish) men? An exploration into exotheology Jeremy Rose  Red 9
Israel and Palestine Baron Frankal  Orange 10
My brother's keeper? From the Talmud to today, exploring Jewish mutual responsibility Alex Wiesler  Alex Braver  Orange 11
Real-Life dilemmas of Israeli youth . The Leo Baeck Education Center Haifa  Orange 12
Lost books: the secret life of Enoch (1 of 3) Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz  Orange 14
Belonging in Ritual Ariel Chapman  Luke Levine  Blue 32
Heartbeats and hits: Israeli music in the first year of war Josh Hartuv  Yellow 24
13:20
Film screening: Holding Liat . New Israel Fund  Orange 13
Contemporary antisemitism: how bad is it? Deborah Lipstadt  Raphael Zarum  Orange 15
God's Book of War: The Hebrew Bible as a Military Manual Lynette Nusbacher  Yellow 21
14:40
Dice, dice baby (2 of 5) Participant Care Limmud  Red 1
From shtetls to city streets - Yiddish is back Martin Kaye  Red 2
The upward spiral of time Mark Creeger  Red 3
British Jewish youth movements and their changing relationships to Israel-Palestine Dalia Blass  Red 4
Punch up your drash: Crafting concise divrei torah Gabriel Botnick  Red 5
Blues for Jews David Hoffman  Red 7
Israelis abroad: transformation of the Jewish Diaspora? Vadim Blumin  Red 8
Bridge and kaluki Social Programming Limmud  Red 9
Christmas for Jews AJ Levine  Orange 10
Why Israel’s political system desperately needs an upgrade Jonathan Javor  Orange 11
The history of a Jewish journalist at the BBC Tim Franks  Orange 12
What Nahamu did next Yehudis Fletcher  Orange 14
Synagogue songs with secret pasts Stuart Izon  Blue 32
My inner Litvak: A roots journey Ellen Flax  Blue 34
Jews do count (but who decides?). Ben-Gurion asks 'Who is a Jew?' (1 of 2) Robin Moss  Yellow 24
16:00
UK Jewish Film presents: Bee Movie Irene Wise  . UK Jewish Film  Orange 13
16:00
Knit and natter! (1 of 4) Melanie Kelly  Red 1
'Your podcast is my synagogue' - is digital Jewish community possible? Lex Rofeberg  Red 2
Clothes of betrayal, clothes of forgiveness: exploring the Joseph stories through fashion Sarah Sharman Moser  Red 3
Righteous idolaters? A history of Christianity through Jewish eyes Joshua Garroway  Red 4
Jewish secularism (1 of 2) Barry Kosmin  Red 5
The Future of Visual Art Aviva Dautch  Jacqueline Nicholls  Red 7
Your life, your story Diane Samuels  Red 8
Photography workshop Michael Brochstein  Red 9
Is the Board of Deputies fit for purpose? Robert Stone  Philip Goldenberg  Harriett Goldenberg  Orange 10
Do we need to talk about empire? Hannah Ewence  Orange 11
Kolot HaLev: voices of the heart Zoe Jacobs  Mayta Cohen  Elana Arian  Orange 12
Tangible tikkun olam: what is carbon capture, and why is it so important? Micah Shire-Plumb  Orange 14
After Gaza - lessons from the wars (in Ukraine as well) Anshel Pfeffer  Tim Franks  Orange 15
Silly musical storytelling Family Team Limmud  Blue 32
Life drawing Anya Shire-Plumb  Ali Simmons  Blue 34
Apples and oranges: exploring 'neuro-difference' in the Jewish community Grace Harris  Victoria Mattison  Yellow 21
Jewish spirituality: coming home to the heart of wholeness... Marc Frank  Yellow 24
17:20
Where tefillah begins and ends: why do we pray? Yael Jaffe  Red 2
Water is sacred in Judaism, yet the health of our ocean and rivers has never been worse - what can we do about it? Jessica Robinson  Red 3
Hooked online: How teens get caught - and how to stay safe Paula Slier  Red 4
Living-while-circumcised: to bris or not to bris? Jay Geller  Red 5
Hear, oh hear Diane Samuels  Maurice Chernick  Rivka Gottlieb  Ayala Gottlieb Alter  Red 7
Music at world's end: how three exiled musicians changed Iceland's music - Robert Abraham (2 of 4) Arni Ingolfsson  Red 8
"Only this fertile garden within can be the resting place for the thoughtful wanderer." On reading the art of Hilde Goldschmidt. Rebecca Harris  Red 9
Verdi, Deutsch, Evans and TH Rebecca Hames  Orange 10
Tackling the cost-of-living crisis as a Jewish community Rachel Vogler  Libi Sears  Orange 11
You won't succeed on Broadway (if you don't have any Jews)! Rachel Creeger  Estee Stimler  David Benkof  Jess Robinson  Daniel Cainer  Orange 12
Ethiopian-Israelis: the past, the present, and future - in conversation with Roni Fantanesh and Danny Limor Daniel J Levy  Daniel Limor  Roni Fantanesh Malkai  Orange 14
Family Lounge puppet making Family Team Limmud  Blue 32
Bitter women: gender and power at the medieval Passover table Ellie Lerman  Blue 34
From a black-and-white world to a world full of colours and possibility Racheli Ollech  Green 25
Introducing Limmud's new vision, mission and theory of change! Joe Hyman  Adam Rossano  Yellow 21
Kids-only bouncy castle time Family Team Limmud  Yellow 23
Social model of disability for your congregation Josh Hepple  Yellow 24
18:40
UK Jewish Film presents: A Letter to David . UK Jewish Film  Daniel Daniel  Orange 13
18:40
Women as agents of change – on maidservants and witches who managed to break through the glass ceiling Ayala Deckel  Red 1
Kaleidoscope - let's meet some fantastically real European young Jews Daniela Greiber  Red 2
All the king’s men: Jewish sages as royal educators in medieval Spain (2 of 3) Victoria Atlas  Red 3
Halachic environmental decision making Tanhum Yoreh  Red 4
Rabbis writing letters for sexual abusers & how victims are de-centred from their stories Asher Lovy  Red 5
From Lithuania with love Nik Rabinowitz  Red 7
The greatest Jewish buildings Zoe Silverman  Red 8
The subtle art of playback poetry Amir Atsmon  Red 9
Is magic Jewish? The history of ancient Jewish magic Kristine Garroway  Orange 10
Ask a Palestinian Eliah Levin  Angela Mattar  Atira Winchester  Orange 11
introduction to the Israel-Gulf Relations Ahmed Khuzaie  Orange 12
Light the darkness Olivia Marks-Woldman  Orange 14
Joe Buchanan in concert Joe Buchanan  House Band Limmud  Orange 15
Would you like to eat kosher meat and poultry that matches your principles? Leon Pein  Blue 32
Why the Satmar Rebbe is right about Zionism (kind of) Avi Grant  Blue 34
ADHD peer support group Paul Ginsberg  Green 25
Antisemitism and anti-Zionism: the root cause Geoffrey Ben-Nathan  Yellow 21
Sacrae: singing 'a cappella' Christian settings of Jewish texts (1 of 2) Sarah Bronzite  Yellow 24
Family-friendly night-time stroll Family Team Limmud  Hotel Lobby
20:00
Aliyah-tech hackathon - building the bridge home Keren Shurkin  Red 1
Showtune karaoke!!! Madeline R. Young-Touré  Red 7
20:00
The Jewish journey of George Eliot Edward Ben-Nathan  Red 2
Are British Jews white? An historical and academic response to a tedious debate Joseph Finlay  Red 3
Lo nafsik lirkod (don’t stop dancing)! Am Yisrael chai (also for Teen & Young Limmud) Maurice Stone  Slavyan Kanovski  Red 4
Italian encounters: what Jewish objects tell us about the Renaissance Eva Frojmovic  Emily Michelson  Red 5
Treasures, rabbis and robbers - the surprising history and treasures of the LSJS Library Samantha Reuben  Red 8
Scotland Night at the Limmud Bar Sydney Switzer  Bar
Israel's constitutional crisis Roni Fantanesh Malkai  Jonathan Javor  Ruvi Ziegler  Moshe Koppel  Orange 10
From Adam and Eve to You: a story in your DNA Aaron Godfrey  Orange 11
The invasion of law on the sports field John Dyson  Orange 12
Sexuality in Jewish society in early modern Eastern Europe Vadim Blumin  Orange 14
Traitors: Yeshiva Edition Social Programming Limmud  Blue 32
Q&A - academic freedom, free speech, boycotts and legitimate protest Chaim Hames  Blue 34
The 'R' word: retirement Andrea Kelmanson  Green 25
Open Mike Social Programming Limmud  Yellow 21
21:20
Xueta Island – A Hidden History - Documentary film screening about the secret Jews of Mallorca, Spain Dani Rotstein  Orange 13
21:20
Creative collective showcase Natalie Perman  Red 2
Religious fundamentalism and the boundaries of creativity in Israel: two years after October 7th Channa Pinchasi  Red 3
The yes and... mindset Amir Atsmon  Red 4
Putting the knives away Janine Stein  Red 5
Behavioural economics and the bible Bruce Rigal  Red 8
Leon Roth and Yeshayahu Leibowitz on the Qibya raid Zev Harvey  Red 9
Sapphic Shabbat meet-up Hannah Brady  Bar
Our Jewish timelines Annette Margolis  Orange 10
Jews and passports Neil Nerva  Orange 12
Breaking the Silence Luiz Aberbuj  Inbal Morag  Orange 14
Elana Arian in concert: 'If we loved like that' Elana Arian  House Band Limmud  Orange 15
Let my people roll! Social Programming Limmud  Blue 32
The poor shall not cease… A Jewish response to poverty in the UK Margaret Jacobi  Blue 34
Will AI kill religion or make it essential? Moshe Koppel  Green 25
Neurodivergent challenges: perfectionism and burnout Paul Ginsberg  Ali Coy  Yellow 21
Speed dating - 30+ Social Programming Limmud  Yellow 24
Speed dating - 20s-30s Social Programming Limmud  Yellow 24
22:40
Yalta: on Judaism, Women, Anger and Gender Channa Pinchasi  Red 2
Sleep: how do we achieve it and what does the Torah have to say about it? Jane Ansell  Red 3
Jews howling at the moon Isabel Bard  Miriam Kunin  Red 4
What it was like in Chelm 200 years ago, and what it's like today. Celebrating Yom Tovim, beating extreme cold and exchanging idiocies Eddie Bass  Red 5
Kleztronica: beatmaking as a form of Yiddish cultural practice Chaia .  Red 7
Queer Jewish pasts: a history of American LGBTQ Jewish activism 1950s-1970s Gregg Drinkwater  Orange 10
So You Think You’re a Chochem? Micah O'Konis  Marnina Schon Wirtschafter  Orange 11
A short guide to crossing a very narrow bridge David-Yehuda Stern  Orange 12
Alas, Cohen and Harris Paul Harris  Samantha Cohen  Orange 14
Israeli dance party Maurice Stone  Slavyan Kanovski  Yellow 24