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Limmud Festival 2025
Monday 29 December 2025

08:00
Writing the inner voice	Orli Krief	Red 5
Modeh Ani: Jewish practice as daily wellness and ritual	Aydin Mayers	Orange 10
"And Even Better" - on the theological meaning of Israel's most popular song in 2025	Channa Pinchasi	Orange 12
Morning family singalong (1 of 3)	Family Team Limmud	Blue 32
Check your own mezuzah	Avielah Barclay	Blue 34
Don’t mention the war? Outlining the future of Muslim-Jewish interfaith	Aaron Seitler	Yellow 24
V’yarotz v’yomar (he ran and he talked), or ‘run and chat’ (1 of 3)	Abigail Morris	Hotel Lobby

09:20
Coffee morning (2 of 4)	Participant Care Limmud	Red 1
Having children in dangerous times	Daniel Mackintosh	Red 2
Jesus in his Jewish context: prayer, piety, practice	AJ Levine	Red 3
Re: Place (Al Ha-makom)	Clara Ungar	Red 4
Our children - our future	Helena Miller	Red 5
Kehealing – community (kehillah) as a source of healing	Ofek Meir	Red 7
The story of the Ethiopian Jews	Roni Fantanesh Malkai	Orange 10
Lost Books: oh can't we please ... read Jubilees? (2 of 3)	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Orange 11
Turning back to trauma	Stephen Frosh	Orange 12
Who was and is a Jew?	Barry Kosmin	Orange 13
'Who Jew think you are' podcast – live at Limmud	Eylan Ezekiel	Orange 15
JW3 is turning 13 – and we want to hear from you!	Clare Aarons	Blue 32
Chai Cancer Care	Yvonne Richards	Blue 34
Person not concept: Rabbi Sacks on getting more God in your life	Raphael Zarum	Yellow 21
Jewish mindfulness meditation: an inner kindness	Marc Frank	Yellow 24
Wake and walk (3 of 5)	Participant Care Limmud	Hotel Lobby
Friendship bracelets in the woods	Sydney Switzer	Hotel Lobby

09:20
Limmud Beit Midrash - how big is our tent: can we share community with those who hold diametrically opposing views? (1 of 3)	Zvi Hirschfield  Beit Midrash Limmud	Purple 31

10:40
Back from the dead: what we talk about when we talk about techiyat hameitim	Yael Jaffe	Red 2
BRCA rabbi - genetic cancer, raising children and living life	Oliver Joseph	Red 3
Music at world's end: how three exiled musicians changed Iceland's music - Victor and Melitta Urbancic (3 of 4)	Arni Ingolfsson	Red 4
Shtick on stage: famous Jewish-American comedians	Rina Tillinger	Red 5
The forgotten army - Far East prisoners of war in Singapore and the 'Death Railway'	Jackie Passman	Orange 10
Sikh and Jewish Leadership Standing Together on the Collection of Ethnicity Data	Andrew Gilbert  Preet Gill	Orange 11
Guidelines on representing Jewish heritage in the UK: a consultation workshop	Yulia Egorova  Anoushka Alexander-Rose	Orange 12
Israeli Activism	Eliah Levin  Luiz Aberbuj  Inbal Morag  Angela Mattar  Atira Winchester	Orange 13
To Life! A Conversation with the Cast of Fiddler on the Roof	Rose Prevezer  Raphael Papo  Natasha Jules Bernard  Dan Turek	Orange 15
Crafting the layers of our Jewish identity	Emma Weleminsky  Deetza Elf	Blue 32
Sapphire Light: Explorations in mystical philosophy and Jewish meditation today	Roland Brandman  Daniel Gigi	Blue 34
New North London Synagogue: the stories and the storytellers	Elaine Grazin  Ivor Jacobs	Yellow 21
Holocaust Memorial Day 2026: Bridging Generations	Olivia Marks-Woldman  Helen Stone  Eli Sassoon  Dawn Waterman	Yellow 24
Take a break with the birds	Alan Stanton	Hotel Lobby

10:40
Paper Midrash: Make Your Own Golem	Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik  Shawna Brynjegard-Bialik	Red 7

12:00
Recovery circle: daily check-in (1 of 2)	Josh Brostoff	Red 1
Volunteering reimagined: what fires each generation up?	Ariel Chapman  Nicky Goldman	Red 3
Reflecting on the government National Resilience Strategy through local eyes	Andrew Gilbert  Luke Martin	Red 4
What Jewish values will guide your retirement life planning?	Dani Serlin	Red 5
The surprisingly unmodern history of Masorti Judaism	Adam Zagoria-Moffet	Orange 10
Race, racism and modern Judaism	Madeline R. Young-Touré	Orange 11
Where are you REALLY from? How to go about exploring your personal Jewish history	Miriam Marson  Aaron Godfrey  Anoushka Alexander-Rose  Eylan Ezekiel	Orange 12
UK Jewish Film presents: Pears Short Film Fund & Dangoor Short Film Fund films	Daniel Daniel  . UK Jewish Film	Orange 13
Israeli and Palestinian activism on university campuses	Dalia Blass  Inbal Morag  Eliah Levin  Angela Mattar	Orange 14
Sing-a-Long-a Fiddler on the Roof	Rose Prevezer  Carys McQueen  Maya Kristal Tenenbaum  Brady Isaacs Pearce  Raphael Papo  Dan Turek  House Band Limmud	Orange 15
What does it mean to celebrate Jewish Culture today?	Jeremy Michelson  Liat Rosenthal  Daniel Cainer  Rachel Creeger  William Galinsky	Blue 32
The forgotten Hebrew dialect kept alive amongst Yiddish speakers	Izzy Posen	Blue 34
Home, back and again - a personal identity journey in Jewish life and tradition, from a religious home to the leadership of a secular yeshiva and leading prayers at the hostages square in Israel.	Ayala Deckel	Purple 31
Dor l'dor - how has history impacted our DNA?	Josh Forman	Yellow 21
Heartbeats and hits: Israeli music in year two of war	Josh Hartuv	Yellow 24

13:20
Why we all need the Talmud	Anshel Pfeffer	Orange 14
The Endangered Majority - Speaking Up and Speaking Out	Mike Prashker  Michael Wegier  Charley Baginsky	Orange 15

13:20
Dice, dice baby (3 of 5)	Participant Care Limmud	Red 1
From ‘My Unorthodox Life’ to ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’: Orthodox Jews and Mormons in cultural conversation	Hannah Peterson	Red 2
What Are Rabbis For?	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz  Joshua Garroway  Lex Rofeberg  Oliver Joseph  Miriam Lorie	Red 3
Talmud drawing studio: face-to-face	Jacqueline Nicholls	Red 4
Queer Yeshiva: Get in-depth with Talmud	Lev Saul  Joanna Reuben	Red 5
Exploring Ladino songs	Renato Huarte Cuéllar	Red 7
'A letter to the publick': Anglo-Jewry in pamphlets	Vanessa Freedman	Orange 10
The Making of Yentl	Aviva Dautch  Robin Makin	Orange 11
The Anne Frank Gift Shop - comedy, memory and risk-taking in Jewish art	Noam Dromi	Orange 12
Jewish Birmingham beyond Limmud: reflections on interfaith	Tommer Spence  Mandy Ross  Benita Wishart	Orange 13
Beyond coal mines, football and Greggs: a Jewish history of the north east of England	Sophie Bellamy	Blue 32
Aliyah 101	Batsheva Haber  Vadim Blumin	Blue 34
Overpaid, oversexed, over here: GI Jews / Jewish Americans in World War II	Rina Tillinger	Purple 31
Holy chow! A menu of Rabbinic puns	Gabriel Botnick	Yellow 21
Kurt Hahn: the German-Jewish refugee who educated kings	Jan Levi	Yellow 24

14:40
Deep absorption from our roots	Daniel Gigi  Roland Brandman	Red 1
Q&A: understanding Christian Zionism	James Patrick  Roy Thurley  Andrew Kirk  Hayley Ace  Daphne Kirk	Red 2
From reclaiming stones to reclaiming history: the campaign for Brest's memorial and the future of Holocaust memory in Belarus	Debra Brunner	Red 3
From margins to meaning: reframing Jewish cemetery heritage	Miriam Marson	Red 4
The judicial 'reforms' in Israel: stock-taking	Ruvi Ziegler	Red 5
God/atheism/spirituality and everything in between	Daniel Cainer  Raphael Zarum	Red 7
The Start-up Nation decoded - Israel's tech ecosystem demystified	Keren Shurkin	Orange 10
Nigun circle	Ayala Gottlieb Alter  Yosef Goldman	Orange 11
How big is our tent? Can we share community with those who have radically opposing views?	Zvi Hirschfield	Orange 12
The art of finding me: how looking into Diaspora shaped my practice	Julia Holt	Orange 13
LGBT+ Social Space (1 of 2)	Ariel Chapman	Blue 32
Who is a (Charedi) Jew?	Yehudis Fletcher	Blue 34
Playing God: Jewish mysticism in the life and works of JL Moreno	Dovid Berisch	Purple 31
Living-while-circumcised: passing the trouser test	Jay Geller	Yellow 21
JWA Asks - What about the boys?	Ilana Hutchinson	Yellow 24

16:00
'Sound first and ask questions later' - Rabbinic leadership after the destruction	Roni Tabick	Orange 10
UK Jewish Film presents: Nina is an Athlete	. UK Jewish Film  Daniel Daniel	Orange 13

16:00
Knit and natter! (2 of 4)	Melanie Kelly	Red 1
Echoes of Judaic identity in Spain’s greatest cathedral (3 of 3)	Victoria Atlas	Red 2
Choosing to be chosen	Joe Buchanan	Red 3
Voice from the heart: A year of war: one women's perspective from the diaspora	Jayne Wynick	Red 4
Ledor va'dor: connecting the past with the present with technology	Aaron Godfrey	Red 5
From Trauma to a Viable Future	Magen Inon  Eliah Levin  Angela Mattar  Atira Winchester	Orange 11
Is Jewish life on campus REALLY that bad?	Louis Danker	Orange 12
Cultivating the spiritual practice of connecting with others	Yiscah Smith	Orange 14
Jewish Studies beyond the Ivory Tower	Anoushka Alexander-Rose  Stephen Frosh  Hannah Ewence  Sarah Lightman	Orange 15
Kids' Beit Midrash	Family Team Limmud	Blue 32
Family lounge open space and crafts	Family Team Limmud	Blue 32
The story of the Mourners' Kaddish	Chaim Weiner	Blue 34
Secular music for Jewish spaces	Elana Arian	Purple 31
Ethics without borders: solidarity in Jewish-Muslim dialogue in the UK	Yulia Egorova	Yellow 21
Revolutionary Yiddish singalong	Chaia .	Yellow 24

17:20
Mindful mandala: Creating sacred patterns	Alina Cohen	Red 1
The real* reason quinoa is kosher for Passover	Asher Lovy	Red 2
What do Chanukah and Passover have in common?	Kristine Garroway	Red 3
Talmudic tales of time setting	Aviva Goldschmidt Kaufmann	Red 4
Dualism in the Hebrew Bible	Tzemah Yoreh	Red 5
Daniel Cainer in concert!	Daniel Cainer  House Band Limmud	Red 7
Social drinks in Bar for singles in '50's and '60's	Katy Sayers Green  Danielle Tinero	Bar
What is Jewish ethnicity and why does it matter?	Josh Forman	Orange 11
Between communities: Queer Jewish belonging after October 7th	Hannah Brady  Noah Katz  Lucy Reuben  Ariel Chapman	Orange 12
Antisemitism: an historical analysis	Deborah Lipstadt  Raphael Zarum	Orange 14
What the world overlooks	Emma Weleminsky  Alex Wiesler  Ábel Keszler  James Silverman  Deetza Elf	Orange 15
Israeli dancing for all ages	Family Team Limmud  Maurice Stone	Blue 32
The 'London Jewish Mural' @ JW3: your questions answered	Leon Fenster	Blue 34
The Hebrew-English connection	Paul Arberman	Green 25
Trauma, resilience and post-traumatic growth in Israel	Caroline Ratner	Yellow 21
Kids-only bouncy castle time	Family Team Limmud	Yellow 23
On religious fundamentalism	Elie Jesner	Yellow 24

18:40
Tot Todah: a gratitude jam with Mayta	Mayta Cohen	Red 1
A celebration of Marc Chagall, 40 years after his death in 1985	Steve Miller	Red 2
A baby nursing from its mother's breast: Images of the divine feminine in Hassidic texts	Alex Braver	Red 3
Comedy Ju Jitsu	Nik Rabinowitz  Rachel Creeger	Red 4
The machinery of the West Bank occupation	Baron Frankal	Red 5
The big gay and Jewish singalong	Hannah Brady  House Band Limmud	Red 7
Small community meet-up	Melanie Goldberg	Bar
Are we a city or a field? Jewish voices on sexual consent	Aviva Richman	Orange 10
From golems to ChatGPT: how Jewish is artificial intelligence?	Carmel du Parc Braham	Orange 11
Jewish Voices Unveiled: Sephardi & Latin America	Sharyn Bistre Dabbah  Dani Rotstein  Renato Huarte Cuéllar  Victoria Atlas  Sara Terracina	Orange 13
The realities of crisis response: navigating challenges and inspiring support	Ben Marks  James Silverman	Orange 14
Inside Hamas's propaganda machine	Paula Slier	Orange 15
UNO challenge	Simon Rosenstone	Blue 32
Is cross-communalism a thing of the past?	Naomi Bernstein	Blue 34
Yiddish reading circle (2 of 2)	Ilan Pillemer	Green 25
Sacrae: singing 'a cappella' Christian settings of Jewish texts (2 of 2)	Sarah Bronzite	Yellow 21
An introduction to karate	Andrew Stone  Eliana Stone	Yellow 24

20:00
UK Jewish Film presents: Diane Warren - Relentless	. UK Jewish Film  Daniel Daniel	Orange 13
Scottish Ceilidh dancing	Melanie Goldberg	Yellow 24

20:00
Reflections on our Israel-Palestine trip: Hebron, the Gaza border, Masafer Yatta and East Jerusalem	Dalia Blass	Red 1
Even the dead aren't safe (1 of 2)	Daniel Lichman	Red 2
A masterclass in Jewish resilience: wisdom for the toughest times	Alex Wiesler	Red 3
I'm sorry I haven't A Jew	Noa Gendler	Red 4
Who's our top prophet?	Clive Lawton	Red 5
An intimate acoustic of songs and stories	Joe Buchanan	Red 7
Allies or foes? Palestine during the Second World War (2 of 3)	Geoffrey Charin	Red 8
Feast of strangers: a menu of meaningful conversations	Claire Straus  Micah Gold	Red 9
Limmud Microgrant Fund drinks	Jacob Smith  Joe Hyman	Bar
Trade unions: for the many, not the Jew - 2025 edition	Susy Goldstone-Brady	Orange 10
Hilchot Doctor Who	Isaac Kaufmann	Orange 11
Terrorism, espionage, propaganda and radicalisation: Iran's external operations in the UK	Daniel J Levy  Ahmed Khuzaie	Orange 12
What was it actually like for a Jew at Glastonbury?	Josh Dubell  Jessica Brandler  Justin Copitch	Orange 14
Did you see that blue plaque?	Dawn Waterman  Nat Kunin	Blue 34
The Big Jewish Arts Conversation - or do we need a Jewish Arts Council?	Alastair Falk	Green 25
For the sake of Shalom Bayit?	Naomi Russell  Sam Clifford	Yellow 21
Bridges of dialogue between Israeli and British youth	. The Leo Baeck Education Center Haifa	Yellow 22

21:20
The Limmud Pub Quiz 2025	Chlo Spinks	Red 9

21:20
Recite your poem - get it published!	Marvin Shaw	Red 1
Speed Dating Queer Edition - 30+	Social Programming Limmud	Red 2
Speed dating - Queer edition 20s - 30s	Social Programming Limmud	Red 2
3,000 years of Jewish continuity as seen through 3,000 years of Hebrew	Joel Hoffman	Red 3
Queer healing: AIDS, gay synagogues, lesbian feminists, and the origins of the American Jewish healing movement	Gregg Drinkwater	Red 4
'Jerusalem the Golden' and Zionism - reconsidered	Joe Millis	Red 7
(Still) A good job for a Jewish girl	Zoe Jacobs	Red 8
Civil Service JNet drinks!	Joel Salmon	Bar
The lashon hara/ shmirat halashon survival guide	Jane Ansell	Orange 10
Yiddish Audio Project- Exclusive Limmud Launch	Gary Ogin  Vivi Lachs	Orange 11
Royal family therapy for the Solomons	Mark Goldsmith	Orange 12
Cultivating the spiritual practice of finding favour in others	Yiscah Smith	Orange 14
Songs of love and light: a concert event with Elana Arian, Yosef Goldman, and Mayta Cohen	Yosef Goldman  House Band Limmud  Mayta Cohen  Elana Arian	Orange 15
Four entered the orchard: Talmudic wisdom on leadership in dark times	Vadim Blumin	Blue 34
Still alive	Abigail Morris  Joshua Dresner	Purple 31
Another national anthem: Sondheim and post-war American Jewish culture	David Benkof	Yellow 21

22:40
'Nobody Wants This': rabbi-ing while intermarried	Lex Rofeberg	Red 2
LGBTQ Jewish pop icons: from Dana International to Troye Sivan	Ruvi Ziegler  David Bilchitz	Red 3
From Sarah to today: fertility and infertility in in Jewish life	Sarah Sharman Moser	Red 5
Silent disco	Chlo Spinks	Red 7
Fiddling while Eastern Europe burns...	Eva Frojmovic	Orange 10
The 13 Principles of Faith updated - Israel 2025	Chaim Hames	Orange 11
Glial circuits	Nathan Finkel  Mark Claydon	Orange 12
Couplet: Honey Honey Moon Moon	Micah O'Konis  Marnina Schon Wirtschafter	Orange 15
Scan, keep, cull, recycle or bin - reflections from a year of clearing	Helen Lewis	Blue 34
Modern jive dancing	Jonathan Hunter	Yellow 21
Israeli dance party (2 of 3)	Maurice Stone  Slavyan Kanovski	Yellow 24