Orange 12
Everyone knows Adon Olam and probably half a dozen tunes for it. But why does it have such a central place in our prayers and what is it about anyway? Come and learn about the power of this thousand year old poem and how its few short lines teach us about the uniqueness of God and how we relate to Him.
Blue 34
A session for teens which examines classic Talmudic cases — from the town’s well to the journey through the desert — to explore how Jewish law weighs self-preservation against moral duty. We will consider what these sources reveal about our obligations to others, and how far compassion should go.
Red 2
Want to talk to someone new but not sure how to start, or how to go deeper? Learn how to begin a conversation better and take it somewhere meaningful. Inspired by ‘The Power of Strangers’ and Trigger Conversation’s tools, this practical session offers tips, techniques and a chance to practice. Limmud can be your conversational playground.
Red 5
An overview of the manifold ways being circumcised impacted Jewish men’s—and women’s—life choices, experiences, feelings, gender- and self-identities during the Shoah and of why the wide-range of situations and responses when living-while-circumcised has been overlooked in Holocaust Studies.
Red 3
In Iceland in the 1930s, classical music was only beginning to be seriously practised, at the same time as musicians of Jewish heritage were fleeing Nazi Germany and Austria. This session will tell the story of the cellist Heinz Edelstein, his dramatic escape from the Nazi regime, and his career in a country in which Jews were virtually unknown.
Red 4
Based on my research as director of the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) Series 1990-2015. The Separation of Church and State preclude the US Government from researching this topic. Yet the religious composition of the nation and the religious profiles of the states are crucial to understanding its politics and foreign policy.
Orange 14
After years of suffering through that long Aramaic poem about the Temple service in Yom Kippur musaf, I decided to write a replacement piece for grassroots Jews. It’s been used there and elsewhere for about ten years. I’ll explain the creative process behind it, and we’ll discuss the finished product. Could it improve your Yom Kippur experience?
Orange 11
The original Hebrew of the Ten Commandments doesn't say 'don't covet' or 'don't kill'. The translation 'the Lord is my shepherd' is misleading, and the English phrase 'with all your heart and all your soul' is just wrong. Come learn how modern translation techniques expose what the words of the Bible originally meant.
Red 7
Nachmanides was thrown into the ring against a Dominican and converted Jew, Friar Paul, to dispute which religion, Judaism or Christianity, was the true one. Nachmanides' account of the event in Hebrew - along with a different, but contemporary, account of events in Latin - are extant. We will examine the sources and try and determine who won the debate!
Orange 10
Born in a converted barn, comedian and forest-farm-boy-Jew Nik Rabinowitz grew up climbing trees and commentating on his own rugby games in three of South Africa’s eleven official languages, later attending a Steiner school, where he learned to calculate the number of guardian angels in a ball of mohair. This is his stable-to-stand-up story.
Red 8
Modern Israeli prayerbooks refer to the State of Israel as 'the beginning of the flowering of our redemption', suggesting a messianic significance. This may sound radical, but to treat Israel’s emergence as mere happenstance risks seeming banal. How did Rabbi Sacks balance optimism for redemption with rigorous, thoughtful, theological perspective.
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