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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