Limmud Together UK Summer
Sunday 2 August 2020

Links to virtual rooms can be found at events.limmud.org when sessions are in progress

10:00
Why art matters more than ever! Howard Jacobson  Anne Sebba  Nicholas Hytner  Room 1
The disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on BAME communities in the UK Edie Friedman  Room 3
Is God self-isolating? Larry Tabick  Room 5
Do we live in Matrix? Free will and predestination in Judaism Misha Kapustin  Room 7
My father was a wandering European – triple loyalties in Brexit Britain: British, Jewish, European? Ruvi Ziegler  Simon Albert  Room 9
Enrich your Jewish reading list David Benkof  Room 11
Online antisemitism – what can be done about it? Dave Rich  Room 13
A Feminist and a Mechitza Jew? What? Impossible? Melinda Jones  Room 15
11:00
Kate Green MP in conversation Kate Green  Peter Mason  Room 2
Fighting for Israel’s image – a paratrooper’s perspective Tamir Oren  Room 4
Identity in music – how my Black Jewish identity inspires my creativity Noah Shufuntinsky  Room 6
Kolot HaKeshet - voices of the rainbow Sahaf Hardouf  Scott Piczenik  Jonathan Tebble  Room 8
Tsidduq HaDin: reading the Jewish funeral service Elliott Karstadt  Room 10
Mental Health by Stealth Anna Colton  Miriam Berger  Room 12
Winning CVs, nailing interviews, and maximising LinkedIn Victoria Sterman  Laura Fox  Kim Maidment  Eric Salamon  Room 14
12:00
Of Tunnels and Bridges: a conversation on life, literature, war and peace with the Israeli novelist A. B. Yehoshua Ned Temko  A B Yehoshua  Room 1
Global Jewish responsibility 2020: the big questions Graham Carpenter  Leanne Baker  Yotam Politzer  Aliza Inbal  Room 3
A closer look at Hassidic teaching from a Liberal perspective Akiva Weingarten  Room 5
Odessa to Redbank, Kingston to Moss Side – do British Jews have a duty to support the BLM movement? Tal Feingold  Room 7
Curry Cookalong! Ossie Goldhill  Room 9
Rembrandt's Jewish subjects Julia Weiner  Room 11
Memorialising the Holocaust Ruth Deech  Justin Cohen  Ian Austin  Room 13
13:00
Is the EU good for the Jewish Community? Jonathan Braun  Mila Stojanovic  William Echikson  Avi Tawil  Alexander Bodin Saphir  Room 2
Black Jews Lives Matter: the experience of the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel in fighting racism Shula Mola  Room 4
The Jews from Egypt: Exodus, second Exodus and… return! Alec Nacamuli  Room 6
Nice Jewish Beasts: magical creatures of Jewish folklore Yael Tischler  Room 8
A Holy Community – can you bring together a Minyan online? Chaim Weiner  Room 10
The Great Big Limmud Family Quiz Noah Colton  Room 12
We listen to others all day - but do we really hear them? Assael Romanelli  Room 14
14:00
Saving the world through community lifesaving (and my experience with Covid-19) Eli Beer  Room 1
Harry Potter and the Yiddish Translation Arun Viswanath  Room 3
Why 'sin' is the right word for anti-Black racism Jason Rubenstein  Room 5
The Statue I Would Pull Down Joe Hyman  Clive Lawton  Madeline R Young  Aviva Dautch  Room 7
Haredi feminism – myth or reality? Pnina Pfeuffer  Room 9
Who was Menachem? Arthur Weiss  Room 11
Lord Pickles in Conversation Eric Pickles  Cassie Matus  Room 13
15:00
Moving Forward on Racial Justice – a transatlantic conversation Stephen Bush  Yavilah McCoy  Room 2
Inspirational initiatives in lockdown Stephanie Cantor  Eliyahu Freedman  Alex Jakubowski  Elisabeth Perlman  Room 4
Revisiting The Shining @ 40 Nathan Abrams  Room 6
Midrashic Heroine: Serach bat Asher Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz  Room 8
The Kindness of Strangers: a survivor speaks Ania Lichtarowicz  Janine Webber  Room 10
Curriculum building and pedagogy in Jewish educational settings Rivky Krestt  Room 12
From room to Zoom! Will Kintish  Room 14
16:00
Forty Under 40: Shaping the future of Anglo-Jewry Danny Stone  Rachel Riley  Jonny Benjamin  Luciana Berger  Room 1
Israel in 2020 Sharren Haskel  Room 3
The New Queer Conscience Adam Eli  Room 5
The Torah of Music Joey Weisenberg  Room 7
Are you nuts? Launching a nonprofit in the middle of COVID Erin Zaikis  Room 9
Haven't the Jews Zoomed enough? Lionel Mitelpunkt  Room 11
17:00
Peter Beinart in conversation with Jonathan Freedland Peter Beinart  Jonathan Freedland  Room 2
Living in Ukraine: where future and past collide Melinda Simmons  Room 4
Raise Your Voice - Raise Your Spirit! Zöe Jacobs  Mich Sampson  Judith Silver  Room 6
The Satanic Verses: evil in the Talmud Daniel Boyarin  Room 8
Black-Jewish Solidarity: challenges and opportunities against the tide of hate Nadine Batchelor-Hunt  Tema Smith  Lara Monroe  Mia Hasenson-Gross  Room 10
A Facilitation Intensive Intensive Leah Jones  Room 14
18:00
A Year at the Circus: Inside Trump's White House Jon Sopel  Room 1
Not Free to Desist: re-imagining our collective Jewish covenant Lindsey Newman  Aaron Samuels  Rachel Sumekh  Room 3
Four-Four-Jew: football and the Jews Daniel Geey  Phil Korklin  Dean Furman  Raymond Simonson  Samantha Miller  Room 5
Some very short stories about women in the Talmud Judith Hauptman  Room 7
"The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz" Yifat Meir  Room 9
Social Distancing and the Jews Robin Moss  Room 11
19:00
Beyond "the stranger" Mira Rivera  Room 2
#andfriends #andfriends  Room 4
Korach: fascist demagogue or community organiser? Gabriel Kanter-Webber  Room 6
The Petticoat Lane Fox-Trot Alan Dein  Room 8
Zoom-In on Arab society in Israel Shared Paths  Room 10
Panorama and Beyond John Ware  David Aaronovitch  Room 12
How the US Election will be won... or lost Aviva Rosman  Room 14
20:00
Pub Quiz Sassy  Room 1
A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff: The Film (a sneak preview of some choice bits!) Alicia Jo Rabins  Room 3
The Original Stories of the Bible Revealed Tzemah Yoreh  Room 5
How to translate the Bible Robert Alter  Room 7
Never Again: Why Jews Must Stand for Uyghur Freedom Jamie Fleishman  Rahima Mahmut  Room 9
21:00
Dan Nichols in Concert! Dan Nichols  Room 2

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