Red 3
Understanding Jesus’s Jewish context not only helps us understand his teachings, but it also both prevents the antisemitism that often marks Church teaching and offers a new approach to Jewish/Christian relations. Our test cases include the 'Our Father' prayer, halachic (Jewish legal) development, epitomising Torah and commentary on the Temple.
Blue 34
This will be a review of the current inspiring work of Chai Cancer Care and how it helps cancer patients and their families deal with the challenges they face. Chai Cancer Care has a number of day centres around the UK offering a wide range of resources. This will be a discussion with a general introduction, followed by a Q and A session .
Red 1
Come to the Wellbeing hub for a chance to chat and reflect, meet fellow Limmudniks, and most importantly start your day with coffee!
Hotel Lobby
Come outside for some fresh air, a chance to chat and reflect, and to get your fingers busy creating beautiful friendship bracelets! Materials and instruction provided (or bring your own project) and dress for the weather. We will be walking on uneven ground and sitting on mats on the floor.
Red 2
Looking at a midrash about Miriam, we will explore the challenges of why our ancestors had children even when the world was a scary place.
Blue 32
As JW3, the London Jewish Community Centre, celebrates its Bar Mitzvah year, we want to hear from you! Bring your ideas, passions and curiosity to a fun, co-creation session. Meet the team and share what matters to you to help input into future programmes and events. No experience needed, just a desire to build the next chapter of a vibrant, inclusive JW3 together.
Yellow 24
We are taught that the world is built on kindness. Can we learn to extend the same spirit of compassion towards ourselves? Beginning with a short Jewish wisdom teaching, we will then sit together in silent guided meditation practice and learn to love ourselves back to life again. Suitable for absolute beginners and experienced meditators alike.
Red 7
Following the destruction of the Temple, the communal synagogue emerged as a central space for expressing Jewish belief, values and social action. This session explores how the community today fosters healing, restoration, belonging and meaning.
Ofek Meir - Kehealing Community (KEHILA) as a source of Healin.pdf
Orange 11
Back in the second century BCE, an adventurous Jew decided to rewrite the Bible and produced the Book of Jubilees, a fascinating read with all sorts of secret information on the calendar, the early life of Abraham, and God's plan for the Jewish people. Come and explore this amazing text!
Red 5
What Jewish responsibilities do we have towards our children? Towards our grandchildren? This session will explore those questions through a range of traditional and contemporary Jewish and non-Jewish texts, and lots of discussion. An interactive session about our Jewish relationships with the significant young people in our lives.
Yellow 21
This is God for grown-ups. What can we say and not say about the source of being? Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks was quite insistent about the nature of God and what this can mean for our lives. We will study his radical approach which moves beyond philosophy and into relationship. Helpful for atheists, agnostics, believers and all in-between.
Red 4
What are the components that constitute a place? How do humans animate mute landscapes? Is the Israeli place a unique category of place? How do myths and symbols inform mental maps? In this photographic journey between words and places in Israel-Palestine we will try to answer these questions and perhaps a few more.
Orange 10
The Ethiopian Jewry story is also about what it means for a country to bring home a people it had forgotten. Israel’s decision to rescue Ethiopian Jews was a moral act of historic proportions. My belief in Israel’s future lies in its ability to reflect, evolve and stay true to its founding promise: to be a home for every Jew.
Orange 12
How can we respond to trauma without either turning away too fast, or colonising the experience by making it our own? This talk takes up this question with some ‘mythical’ examples from Jewish texts. I examine the process of ‘turning back’, suggesting that this motion can be a loving, albeit risky, way to bear witness.
Hotel Lobby
Come and get your daily dose of fresh Brummie air and morning natter!
Orange 15
A live recording of the podcast that explores Jewish identity beyond the expected. Featuring a special guest (TBC) and audience Q&A. Come for the stories, stay for the argument - and be part of the podcast yourself.
Orange 13
How have Jewish demographers and government censuses approached this question? What of past controversies - Samaritans, Idumeans, Church of Jerusalem, Karaites, Khazars, Anusim/Conversos, Beta Israel of Ethiopia, B'nai Israel of India, Falash Mura, Lemba, Patrilineal Jews, Law of Return Jews, Messianic Jews? Ezra, Yehudah Halevi, Chabad criteria.
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