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Limmud Festival 2025
Tuesday 30 December 2025

08:00
Kabbalistic meditation: the secrets of the Shema (2 of 3)	Natan Abenaim	Red 4
Jews behaving badly. How could the Korach rebellion happen?	Adam Berlin	Orange 12
An enquiry into ‘Presence’: artist - subject - audience, emerging technologies	Maureen Kendal	Orange 14
Morning family singalong (2 of 3)	Family Team Limmud	Blue 32
V’yarotz v’yomar (he ran and he talked), or ‘run and chat’ (2 of 3)	Abigail Morris	Hotel Lobby
Wake and walk (4 of 5)	Participant Care Limmud	Hotel Lobby

08:00
Learn to lein the haftarah	Yolande Pieters	Red 9

09:20
Limmud Beit Midrash - The Torah of Argument: Between War and Love (2 of 3)	Aviva Richman  Beit Midrash Limmud	Purple 31

09:20
Coffee morning (3 of 4)	Participant Care Limmud	Red 1
I want to break free: decoding Sinai's blueprint for freedom	Sarah Sharman Moser	Red 2
What makes a true friend? Mussar on friendship	Marcia Plumb	Red 3
Sefer Yetzira, the book of creation/formation: a basic introduction	Albert Ringer	Red 4
Honouring parents: (kibbud horim) on things we didn't dare to ask	Channa Pinchasi	Red 5
From Barnet to Bristol to Bradford - how young people really see Israel and Palestine	Josh Dubell	Red 7
Oral histories 101: how to connect with aging relatives and safeguard their stories	Alex Wiesler	Orange 10
Routes/Smoots. Jewish journeys from cities to suburbs and beyond	Hannah Ewence	Orange 11
God, what?! Jonah’s surprising second prayer	Raphael Zarum	Orange 12
Łódź: a virtual tour of the ghetto	Gideon Sylvester	Orange 13
What the hell is going on in the West Bank?	Luiz Aberbuj  Inbal Morag  Ella Tirosh	Orange 14
A spectrum of investing – should Greenpeace be funded?	Nicholas Blain	Orange 15
How we discovered a righteous Nazi 80 years later	Izzy Posen  Jasmina Griffoul	Blue 32
Turning up and turning out for each other - a combo practical training and reflection through Jewish text	Charlotte Fischer	Blue 34
Parenting lessons from Bereishit (Genesis): children who have seen trauma (2 of 3)	Miriam Lorie	Yellow 21
Common errors about early Judaism, or how Christians sometimes promote antisemitic stereotypes	AJ Levine	Yellow 24

10:40
Jewish mindfulness meditation: finding trust in troubled times	Marc Frank	Red 1
Where Do You Stand (Up)?	Nik Rabinowitz  Rachel Creeger	Red 2
Turning a conversation in the pub into Israel's newest national holiday: how Yom Ha'Aliyah became law	Jonathan Javor	Red 3
Jewish +: celebrating intersectionality in the Diaspora	Noam Dromi	Red 4
Jewish representation in literature (BYObooks)	Toby Millis	Red 5
How to jam workshop	House Band Limmud	Red 7
Jewish flavours of Italy - cookery demo	Silvia Nacamulli	Red 8
Building a humanitarian mission	Ábel Keszler	Red 9
The king, warrior, lover and sinner and the Israeli artist who painted him	Michael Shire  Helena Miller	Orange 10
The mystery of Serach bat Asher	Annabel Ries	Orange 11
What does it mean to be a person of faith in Birmingham?	Ruth Jacobs  JIll Appleton  Andrew Smith	Orange 12
Israel's far-left human rights organisations: an insider's view.	Gideon Sylvester	Orange 13
God after Gaza: theological challenges of the war	Lev Saul	Orange 14
This year's legal cases about law and religion	Naomi Munk  Adam Wagner  Jason Braier	Orange 15
A Real Pain: questions about Jewish identity through a Hollywood lens	David Bilchitz	Blue 32
The cleverness trap	Sophie Duschinsky	Blue 34
Downward spiral	John Bowers	Yellow 21
Silent stones, urgent questions	Christina Hilsenrath  Dawn Waterman  Marsha Parker	Yellow 24
What can we eat on the grounds of the NEC?	Sydney Switzer	Hotel Lobby

12:00
Knit and natter! (3 of 4)	Melanie Kelly	Red 1
The Bagel Podcast presents 'Bagelpalooza'	Hayden Cohen	Red 2
Lost books: No Bible for Ben Sira (3 of 3)	Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Red 3
Raped by God	Yehudis Fletcher	Red 4
Magic at the cradle: overcoming infertility and infant death in the ancient world	Kristine Garroway	Red 5
The songwriter's table	Joe Buchanan	Red 7
Gaye Rimmer's Rosh Hashanah	Rose Prevezer	Red 8
The cost of living Jewishly	Michael Shire  Paul Silver-Myer	Red 9
Unknown and unrecognised Judaising communities around the world	Daniel Limor	Orange 10
A rabbi and a doctor discuss when life begins and ends	Lev Saul  Laurence Saul	Orange 11
Dyspraxia, neurodiversity and Jewish identity - 'Oy vey and hooray: embracing the joys and stumbles of dyspraxia'	Janet Taylor	Orange 12
The Re-Emerge Project – Latin American emerging Jewish communities - Puerto Rico Short Film Premiere	Dani Rotstein	Orange 13
Historicising the concept of genocide	Joseph Finlay	Orange 14
People of the Book	Aviva Dautch  Clive Lawton  AJ Levine  Deborah Lipstadt  Raphael Zarum	Orange 15
The gift of grief: Those who leave, live on through the living.	Gina Abramowitz	Blue 32
Barriers and opportunities for Orthodox environmental action	Tanhum Yoreh	Blue 34
Ve’ahavta – a beit midrash for family relationships	Ayala Deckel	Purple 31
Football and the Jewish community: how to set up a Jewish supporters group	Ze'ev Portner	Yellow 21
Minor megillot - the strange and beautiful world of small Purims	Isaac Gantwerk Mayer	Yellow 24

13:20
Paper Midrash: Art at Sinai	Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik  Shawna Brynjegard-Bialik	Blue 32

13:20
Recovery circle: daily check-in (2 of 2)	Josh Brostoff	Red 1
Psychedelic Judaism?!?!	Micah Gold  Aydin Mayers	Red 2
Zionism(s): From the Rivers of Babylon to the River Thames	Batsheva Haber  Vadim Blumin  Eliana Pushett  Yasmin Krutik	Red 3
The Kosher Kitchen Cabinet	Silvia Nacamulli  Linda Dangoor  Harry Lampert  Helen Graham  Eylan Ezekiel	Red 4
Back to the (Jewish) future: where might Judaism be headed in 10, 20 or 100 years?	Lex Rofeberg	Red 5
Vocal harmony 101	Mayta Cohen	Red 7
Far from the home I love: identity, Israel and the in-between	Sasha Gold	Red 8
Tech diplomacy - building bridges through innovation	Keren Shurkin	Red 9
Will the real Bible please stand up?	Joel Hoffman	Orange 10
Not your Bubbe's 'old country': modern Jewish life in the former Soviet Bloc	Alex Wiesler	Orange 11
Stanley Kubrick and 2001: how a Jewish outsider saw the universe	Jonathan Bergwerk	Orange 12
Productive conflict in heritage work: Jewish sources and embodied research practice	Jess Hooks	Orange 13
An update on the British hostage families	Adam Wagner  Adam Rose	Orange 14
Voices of women from Israel/Palestine	Eliah Levin  Angela Mattar  Ella Tirosh  Inbal Morag	Orange 15
Female artists in Israel	Naama Cohen Ashkenazy  Nurit Chitiat	Blue 34
Jewish presence in the south of Italy: a less known history of Apulia and Calabria	Sara Terracina	Purple 31
Future-proofing our community – progress update	Carolyn Bogush	Yellow 21
Barbra Streisand 101	David Benkof	Yellow 24

14:40
Pilates for all	Suzanne Franks	Red 1
Looking at Israel and Palestine from Taiwan and China	Ian Rowen	Red 2
Accounting for the appeal of secular Jewish culture in the 21st century (2 of 2)	Barry Kosmin	Red 3
My child - the lawyer!	Paul Harris  Ze'ev Portner  Viva Hammer  Roland Brandman  John Bowers	Red 4
Katan v'challah?! Modernising wedding rituals	Micah O'Konis  Marnina Schon Wirtschafter  Rose Prevezer	Red 5
Shir Chadash - sing a new song!	David Hoffman	Red 7
The Channel Islands, a New View: Jews and Jackboots	Aviva Dautch	Red 8
Stories within stories	Steve Miller	Red 9
From megabytes to mitzvas: using family history technology for tikkun olam	Aaron Godfrey	Orange 10
The rehabilitation of Jewish virility after WWII through 'Fiddler on the Roof'	Estee Stimler	Orange 11
W(h)ither zealotry? The contemporary dangers of believing you have access to the mind of God	Sheldon Stone	Orange 12
Mashhad - telling hidden Jewish histories through film	Noam Dromi	Orange 13
Cultivating the spiritual practice of jumping Into our own sea of mystery	Yiscah Smith  Zvi Hirschfield	Orange 14
Living-while-circumcised: cross dressing	Jay Geller	Blue 34
Write your Jewish story (2 of 2)	Lewis Warshauer	Purple 31
Israel-Palestine: the chat you never wanted… with your kids	Josh Dubell  Jessica Brandler	Yellow 21
Jews in Public Life	Robin Makin  Louise Ellman	Yellow 24

16:00
Dice, dice baby (4 of 5)	Participant Care Limmud	Red 1
Put on your veil and join them in their troubles: spiritual journeys in Chassidic texts	Alex Braver	Red 2
Voices of dissent: women, war and the future of Iran-Israel relations	Iram Ramzan	Red 3
Who really wrote that? AI solves rabbinic cold cases	Moshe Koppel	Red 4
Sheep to mishkan: hands-on wool processing	Sydney Switzer	Red 5
Sing Unto God: The music and legacy of Debbie Friedman z”l	Zoe Jacobs  Elana Arian	Red 7
Women of Valor and Other Super Heroes	Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik  Shawna Brynjegard-Bialik	Red 8
From the Tigris to the Thames, flavours of a journey	Linda Dangoor	Red 9
Between radical acceptance and tikkun olam: what does Rabbi Akiva ben Yosef have to teach us about confronting a broken world?	Zvi Hirschfield	Orange 10
The Yad Fellowship: from facing antisemitism at NUS to creating spaces to plug the dialogue gap	Noah Katz	Orange 11
Jewish peoplehood and Israel-Diaspora relations	Ofek Meir	Orange 12
The extraordinary story of ‘Hester Street’: celebrating the 50th anniversary of America’s greatest Jewish film	Julia Wagner	Orange 13
Dignity in your last days: The Assisted Dying Bill vs The Book of Life	Raphael Zarum	Orange 15
Family Karaoke Session	Social Programming Limmud  Family Team Limmud	Blue 32
Cockney Yiddish: the language of the Jewish East End	Vivi Lachs	Blue 34
I didn't know there were Jews in Norway	Daniel Needlestone  Yvonne Needlestone	Purple 31
Israel-Palestine: the chat you never wanted… with your parents	Josh Dubell  Jessica Brandler	Yellow 21
Musical mayhem: what happens if I play this?	Rivka Gottlieb  Ayala Gottlieb Alter	Yellow 24

17:20
UK Jewish Film presents: Never Alone	. UK Jewish Film  Daniel Daniel	Orange 13

17:20
The Latest Laughs at Limmud!	Rachel Creeger	Red 2
From salesman to scapegoat – Arthur Miller’s unflinching eye on American society	Jonathan Bergwerk	Red 3
The wandering Jew for the 21st century	Anoushka Alexander-Rose	Red 4
Panic and accessibility	Raisel Byrne	Red 5
Yiddish electronic: a deep listening session	Chaia .	Red 7
I waited half a century for this aliyah!	Elaine Bernstein	Red 8
The Torah of Argument: Between War and Love	Aviva Richman	Red 9
Israel Café and Conversations	Batsheva Haber  Vadim Blumin  Eliana Pushett	Bar
What does the AI27 paper mean for Jewish people?	Jeremy Dable  Daniel Dable	Orange 10
Forbidden music: Composers and performers in exile, 1933-1945 (4 of 4)	Arni Ingolfsson	Orange 11
My Einstein cousins - scandal in the family?!	Ernie Hunter	Orange 12
The war in Gaza: an invitation to a difficult conversation	Magen Inon  Inbal Morag  Luiz Aberbuj	Orange 15
Sing, jam, dance: Kabbalat Shabbat reimagined	Josh Hartuv	Blue 32
Birthing, bleeding and bras - Jewish women make comics about their bodies. Now make yours too!	Sarah Lightman	Blue 34
Dyslexia and ADHD: five take-aways to make life easier	Joanna Landy	Green 25
Together for a century – the World Union for Progressive Judaism	Mark Goldsmith  Michael Shire	Yellow 21
Open mic	Social Programming Limmud	Yellow 23
Cerebral Palsy- the long story	Miriam Hayes	Yellow 24

18:40
Limmud Mallorca: the ripple effect	Dani Rotstein	Red 1
People of the comic book	Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik  Shawna Brynjegard-Bialik	Red 2
A beginners guide to idol worship	Naomi Cohen	Red 3
“The ugliest story in the Bible”: new commentaries on the silences in Judges 19-21	Sarah Bronzite	Red 4
Further adventures in the Limmud archive	Martin Devereux  Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz	Red 5
A cave in the West Bank or a 'temporary autonomous zone' (2 of 2)	Daniel Lichman	Red 7
Zionism and Judaism after Gaza	Baron Frankal	Red 8
Jews do count (but who decides?). Ben-Gurion asks 'Who is a Jew?' (2 of 2)	Robin Moss	Red 9
Cryptic crosswords corner	Nicole Jacobus	Bar
BoD@Work: supporting Jews in the workplace	Noah Katz  Andrew Gilbert	Orange 10
A time of transition: menopause, meaning and reflection	Sarah Sharman Moser	Orange 11
4th Generation - do you care about your roots?	Helen Stone  Ernie Hunter	Orange 12
Pointless?	Paul Freedman	Blue 32
Allies or foes? Palestine during the Second World War (3 of 3)	Geoffrey Charin	Blue 34
A year in the life of a female orthodox rabbi	Miriam Lorie	Green 25
The messages hidden in the songs we love	Daniel Goldfarb	Yellow 21
Kids only bouncy castle time	Family Team Limmud	Yellow 23
Book panel discussion	Yiscah Smith  Yehudis Fletcher  Natalie Grazin  Vivi Lachs  Elaine Grazin	Yellow 24
Family friendly night time stroll	Family Team Limmud	Hotel Lobby

20:00
The Limmud MET Gala	House Band Limmud  Programming Team Limmud	Orange 15

20:00
Stamford Hell	Charlie Lewin	Red 3
Did Saint Augustine save Judaism?	Joshua Garroway	Red 4
Living waters, moving currents: creating new meaning in mikveh practice	Talia Rasiel	Red 5
Post Hanukkah Tish	Maayan Gani Symon	Red 7
Art and Soul: How Van Gogh Teaches Us Patience	Marcia Plumb  Anya Shire-Plumb	Orange 10
Adventures of a criminal lawyer with a Jewish link	Paul Harris	Orange 12
ADHD, Jewish identity and the art of not belonging	Phil Cohen	Blue 34
London City airport - the East End's own airport	Malcolm Ginsberg	Green 25
A poetry writing workshop inspired by the poetry of Yehuda Amichai	Yonatan Berg	Yellow 21
Dance is food for the soul!	Maurice Stone	Yellow 24

21:20
Faith and fear: Jewish tales of the supernatural	Daniel Daniel	Red 2

21:20
Robert Redford's 'Quiz Show' - superb movie of a scandal still relevant today	Irene Wise	Red 3
Is God king in Tanach?	Tzemah Yoreh	Red 4
The guilty secrets of an AI songwriter	Gary Ogin	Red 7
LGBT+ Social Space (2 of 2)	Ariel Chapman	Bar
Far-out Jews	Ian Rowen  Noah Wise	Orange 10
Margaret Thatcher, the Jews and Israel	Ze'ev Portner	Orange 11
Trauma and psychosis	Joanna Hahessy	Orange 12

22:40
The ultimate Jewish PowerPoint party	Chlo Spinks	Red 3
The rebbetzin's disco	Jacqueline Nicholls	Red 7
Lotería with a twist: Mexican-Jewish bingo and tequila reloaded	Sharyn Bistre Dabbah  Renato Huarte Cuéllar	Red 9
Discovering the Jewish catacombs in Italy	Sara Terracina	Orange 12
House Band hoedown	House Band Limmud	Orange 15
There Is a crack in everything – brokenness and destruction as a driving force for growth in Talmud thought and our own times	Ayala Deckel	Green 25
Limmud Zine		Yellow 21
Israeli dance party (3 of 3)	Maurice Stone  Slavyan Kanovski	Yellow 24