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07:30 GMT

Breakfast Rootes First Floor

08:00 GMT

'We must save the children' Soc 2 King Herod - Jewish hero or villain? Soc 3 Rabbinic archaeology: what we now know from texts and artefacts Soc 6 V'yarutz v'yomer: he ran and he talked - or run and chat Rootes Main Entrance

09:10 GMT

Limmud Chavruta - Prayer: Thanks and Praise (1 of 4) Rootes Panorama 3

09:20 GMT

All Israel is accountable one to another Ram 5 Being in the mind and body Soc 8 (HaMakom) Campus SatNav Rootes Main Entrance Challenges of being a Jewish MP Soc 1 Clowning around Ram 4 Entrepreneurial challenges in the Negev/ Israel Soc 4 Israel: one land many narratives (1 of 3) Hum 1 Jewish life in Europe: imminent catastrophe or impending renaissance? Ram 1 Marketing Limmud to a diverse community Lib 2 May your memory be love - the story of Ovadia Baruch Hum 2 Prisoners, the hot currency of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Soc 6 Psychoanalysis, trauma, possession (2 of 2) Sci 4 School, play, sexuality in Russian Jewish life Sci 5 Shabbes in Somalia: adventures of an (un)orthodox journalist Sci 3 Spiritual approaches to the dying person Ram 8 Using Twitter, Facebook and blogs for Israel advocacy and debate - without making a twit of yourself Ram 7 What is Jewish about World Jewish Relief? Soc 2 Welfare or community development in Eastern Europe? Ram 2

10:40 GMT

'The Story of the Jews' - revisited (2 of 4) Sci 8 A journalist under apartheid: what it was like Ram 1 A time for everything: how the Jewish calendar can help you to declutter your life Rootes Chancellors 1 Alphabet meditation from the Kabbalah (2 of 2) Soc 8 (HaMakom) Elephant in the room, children in the Shul Ram 8 Everything you didn't know you wanted to know about medieval Jewish philosophy: the nature of God (2 of 4) Sci 4 Flaschenbriefe - letters from the Berlin Post 1941-44 Sci 1 God's Voice everywhere: a serious conversation about the efficacy of prayer and whether or not God is listening Ram 2 Guns in the classroom: the curse of Yoav Sci 3 Limmud-Paideia cafe of Ideas: which ideas in Judaism do you find most problematic? (2 of 3) Ram 3 Making a home in two places (or more) at once: the joys and oys of transnational family life Ram 7 Poetry to delight the senses - a special Limmud reading Ram 5 Revolutionising adult Jewish education one click at a time: Jewish Food For Thought, the animated series - gratitude and envy Sci 2 Texts on ageing Sci 5 The audacity and beauty of multi-cultural education Soc 4 The children's service survival guide Sci 7 The neuroscience of teshuva: neuroplasticity & personal change (2 of 4) Ram 4 The official Limmud treasure hunt SU Copper Rooms 2 The road to now: musical stepping stones Arts - Ensemble The shrew, femme fatale, prima donna, and whore: four Talmudic heroines (1 of 4) Soc 1 The sustainability question for tiny Jewish communities across Europe Soc 3 The war on women in Israel (1 of 4) Soc 2 Policing the borders of Judaism: idolatry (2 of 4) (Double Session) Soc 5 (Beit Midrash) Teshuva in thought and law: the comparative innovations of Rabbis Kook and Soloveitchik (Double Session) Soc 5 (Beit Midrash) UK Jewish Film: 'Shtisel' (Double Session) Arts - Cinema

11:40 GMT

Lunch Rootes Ground Floor and Library Building

12:00 GMT

Acoustic lunch Rootes Bar Rectangle An overview of contemporary Jewish identities Sci 3 Bikini-clad shiksas or feminists of Zion? A look at the dichotomous, polarized attitudes towards 'Women of the Wall' Sci 4 Commemorating the wartime exodus of Jews from a French alpine village (2 of 2) Sci 5 Duct tape tallit! (2 of 3) Soc 9 In or out : My other career was as a management consultant (YAD session) Ram 2 Jewish identity in British history: Anglo-Jewish lives in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Soc 7 Jewish spiritual approaches to infertility Ram 7 Jews and US politics Arts - Conference Language, power and spiritual healing Ram 4 Novel Talmud - A new kind of book group (1 of 2) Soc 4 Open choir for all and advanced choir (2 of 4) Arts - Ensemble Palace thieves: when Jews and Muslims steal each other's stories Ram 3 Parents of Jewish gays and lesbians Ram 8 Scripture on the silver screen (1 of 4) Soc 2 Shalom mind Soc 8 (HaMakom) Tell me text Sci 8 That is the question(s) (2 of 3) Sci 1 The fifty Jewish words every Jew should know (1 of 4) Ram 1 The Golden Proportion and the Fibonacci series Ram 5 The role of women in Judaism: a modern orthodox perspective Soc 3 The Sounds of Sinai Rootes Chancellors 1 Thinking about the rabbinate? Sci 7 How to be averagely successful at comedy Arts - Studio Jewish identity in Europe today: a coat of many colours Sci 2

13:30 GMT

A year in craft Soc 9 All the King's women - Michal Sci 8 Are monks and nuns human? Ram 2 Community, conversation and marketing Ram 3 Film screening: Israel Inside SU Limmud Central HaMakom Open Space Sessions: a Sanctuary at Limmud Soc 8 (HaMakom) How Jews from Arab lands can reframe the Israel debate Soc 3 How the Jews created finance Ram 5 Is antisemitism overwhelming Europe ? Soc 2 Just Vision presents Budrus: Nonviolent resistance and youth activism Soc 4 Keshet UK inclusivity training (1 of 3) Ram 7 Limmud succession, continuity and innovation (1 of 3) Sci 2 Lying beggars, magical wives, and other rabbinic stories of giving to the poor Soc 5 (Beit Midrash) Post-rabbinic Jewish leadership: do Jews still need rabbis? Arts - Conference Prayer, text and music - What's hidden in the prayers we thought we knew? Arts - Ensemble Rise of antisemitism in the social media and what we can do about it Soc 6 Short day's journey into light Ram 4 Speaking out for change Ram 8 Studying Genesis 38 in four ways (2 of 4) Soc 5 (Beit Midrash) Tachles - conversational Hebrew course (1 of 4) Rootes Chancellors 1 The future of our present Ram 6 The social and political implications of the Shema Sci 1 Woven threads and torn fabric - Yosef and Zulaikha - a storytelling performance Arts - Studio Parshat Shemot: lessons for our times Ram 1 Joint UK Jewish Film & Yachad screening event: 'The Gatekeepers' (101 mins) (Double Session) Arts - Cinema

14:50 GMT

Look what you made me do! (Family Session) Radcliffe Family Lounge 'The Jazz Singer'/'Reel Jews' - Jewish identity through the lens of Hollywood (1 of 4) Soc 3 Are we too preoccupied with Jewish schools? Arts - Conference Charity begins at home.....but where is home? Ram 7 Community boundaries Soc 5 (Beit Midrash) Crafternoon tea Soc 9 Dancing the tango with Jewish identity - who are the Jews of today in Romania? Sci 1 Epic Sardines Rootes Main Entrance Faith in the press: how are faith issues covered in the UK press Sci 3 Four 19th century German rabbis Soc 6 Genesis 19: priorities of mind and double-mindedness (2 of 4) Ram 2 Grassroots leadership and communal establishment - a marriage made in heaven?! Sci 2 How an English housewife became secretary to the Peace Process Sci 5 JDOV Talks Ram 1 Jewish music ensemble workshop Arts - Ensemble Learning disabilities: taking control of your destiny Ram 5 My neighbour the Jew Ram 8 Rescuing Rebecca's reputation: rereading Genesis 27 Soc 5 (Beit Midrash) The magic of songwriting Rootes Chancellors 1 The new British Jewish songbook Arts - Studio The Spanish Inquisition, secret Jews, and what has happened to their modern day descendants Soc 4 The struggle of leaving the ultra-orthodox community Sci 8 The women we become Soc 8 (HaMakom) Turning the text inside out: modern Jewish thinkers read the Bible (1 of 3) Ram 3 What you never noticed at a Jewish wedding Soc 2 The one I love? Three perspectives on the Sacrifice of Isaac Sci 4

16:10 GMT

Noah's Promise - Rainbow Animal Mobile (Family Session) Radcliffe Annexe

16:20 GMT

'Modern Orthodox' Judaism in Biblical times Ram 1 A Jewish Tour de France Soc 7 Being in the heart Soc 8 (HaMakom) Chess Ram 4 Contemporary art and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict Soc 1 Daf Yomi: radical reading (1 of 2) Soc 5 (Beit Midrash) Full cycle giving circle: from creation to allocation (2 of 3) Sci 1 How Jewish South Africans are effecting social change today Soc 4 Israelis in the UK and their relationship with the local Jewish community Sci 2 Limmud Book Club: Isaac Bashevis Singer's 'Enemies, A Love Story' (2 of 4) Ram 8 Limmud L'Am - have your say, part 2! Ram 5 Limmud's oral tradition Ram 7 Lirkod beshira Rootes Chancellors 1 ShalhevetYah: the Holy Flame of the AlefBet Soc 9 Spirituality and mussar through music Arts - Ensemble The 'Auswandererlehrgut' Gross Breesen - the only non-Zionist Jewish emigration training farm in 1930s Germany Ram 3 The Israeli Supreme Court: the 'Second Palestinian Intifada' (1 of 3) Sci 5 The Jewish musician in Middle Eastern music Arts - Studio The life and legacy of David Hartman Sci 8 The two main trends of neo-Hasidism and their inherent tension with halacha (2 of 4) Soc 3 UK Jewish Film: a good (Jewish) film Arts - Cinema Minorities of the Middle East - multifaith perspectives Sci 7 The future of Jewish philanthropy Ram 2 Do we still have 'Reason to Believe'? (Double Session) Arts - Conference Open Beit Midrash (1 of 3) (Double Session) Soc 5 (Beit Midrash)

16:25 GMT

Horrible Histories - Infamous Israelites (Family Session) Radcliffe MR2

16:35 GMT

Let's write a new Jewish song! (Family Session) Radcliffe MR10

17:30 GMT

Dinner Rootes Ground Floor

17:40 GMT

Concern or persecution? Legitimate vs illegitimate criticism of Israel Sci 1 Digging through history: from Atlantis to the Holocaust Soc 1 Farbrengen: singing to the depths Soc 8 (HaMakom) Football, racism and Israel - an update Soc 6 Israel education: should we present the land of milk and honey or the more complex picture? Ram 4 Judith Silver and Zoe Jacobs in concert Arts - Studio Limmud participant experiences Lib 2 Married to the job Hum 3 Men on the Mount, Women of the Wall, Muslims on Top: is there enough space? Sci 3 More than marriage: queering our communities Sci 7 Politics in the Beit Midrash (2 of 2) Sci 8 The Beit Project - a Jewish educational experience in the urban space Soc 4 The Jewish community's uncivil war - and what to do about it Sci 4 The Jewish superwoman: a medieval model Hum 1 The Song at the Sea: uncovering an unusual ancient form in song Ram 7 What counts as charity? Soc 2 Who is behind the boycotting and delegitimisation of Israel, and how can we combat them? Sci 6 Who owns Iraq's looted Jewish treasure? Soc 3 Why visit Poland? Ram 5

18:20 GMT

'Enemies: A Love Story' - a discussion of the film directed by Paul Mazursky Hum 2 An analysis of Jewish humour in terms of its helping Jewish communities to survive Ram 8 Flexigidity 2 - inclusive growth and vibrant communities (2 of 4) Sci 5 Four Four Jew: football, fans & faith Ram 6 Kohelet: the first heretic Soc 5 (Beit Midrash) Levitical insights about self-care for the caregiver Ram 2 My European Jewish journey Sci 2 Rabbinate, religion and state in Israel - a conversation Ram 1 Torah from Heaven: a Modern Orthodox perspective Soc 7 Turning baseless hatred into mutual respect: lessons from the Rabin assassination Ram 3 Hebrew sing-along (Double Session) Rootes Chancellors 1

18:30 GMT

Pyjama time (Family Session) Scarman Bridge Room Meet your sub-Saharan family (Family Session) Radcliffe MR10

19:00 GMT

'Der Nayer Klang': niggunim meditation workshop (2 of 3) Arts - Studio Berlin 1936. Hitler's Olympics: how Hitler stole the Olympic dream Ram 5 Does a Dalek have a soul? Soc 1 Eating ethically; eating Jewishly Soc 6 Ethical wills and last wishes Soc 2 Goldstone, the UN, academics and human rights NGOs / international Law and the Arab-Israeli conflict (2 of 2) Soc 4 HaMakom Open Space Sessions: a Sanctuary at Limmud Soc 8 (HaMakom) Must Israel be boycotted? Sci 8 Naomi Less - live and intimate in concert SU Copper Rooms 1 Oh, what a day!! SU Limmud Central The alt-neu kibbutz movement - how old values find new forms in Israel's changing reality (1 of 2) Sci 4 The myth of Hitler's Jewish museum Sci 6

19:05 GMT

The Quiltmaker's Story (Family Session) Scarman Bridge Room

19:50 GMT

Ballroom and Latin dancing (2 of 2) Arts - Butterworth Bound to keep shabbat Hum 2 Do Jews believe in magic? Soc 3 Educators in the web era Sci 7 Embracing the wicked child Soc 9 Frankenstein and the Golem: the wisdom of two approaches to the power of technology Ram 1 Jewish anger and angst Sci 1 Nusach, modes and mood manipulation Lib 2 Permission to be… playful! Soc 8 (HaMakom) Pirkei avot: an intensive investigation Soc 5 (Beit Midrash) Should charity begin at home? The Talmudic concept of 'ani'i irech kodmim' in the framework of Israel-Diaspora relations Ram 8 Sotah and suspicion Soc 5 (Beit Midrash) The art of the song: contemporary piyutim and kavannot Arts - Ensemble The current demonisation process of Israel and the Jews Sci 5 Those Kohelet movie moments .... Sci 3 Twisting our texts: viewing the other in Jewish and Muslim tradition Sci 2 UK Jewish Film: Winners of Pears Short Film Fund Hum 1 Becoming a global Jewish citizen: what does it mean? What does it look like? How can I become one? Ram 7

21:10 GMT

A nursery rhyme: Not just for children Sci 1 AN Stencl - a Yiddish poet in Berlin and Whitechapel Ram 5 Chavruta speed dating Soc 5 (Beit Midrash) Community and communities: Is a multicultural Israel viable?: Soc 6 Conversations on Israel - Pinchas, the new Hebrew & the use of force (2 of 4) Soc 3 Cosmopolitanism and antisemitism Sci 2 Dr Wellhausen or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bible Soc 7 From Baghdad to Andalusia SU Copper Rooms 1 God's Voice everywhere: encounters with God Sci 8 Going all the way up the Temple Mount: when a Jewish right meets a Muslim rock Sci 4 Government policy and British Jews Hum 1 How I became an Orthodox feminist and what I hope my daughters (and son) will do next Sci 3 Living with HIV: a Jewish journey Soc 1 Now I'm 64! Ram 4 Shir in Concert - Unplugged Arts - Studio Teaching through stories Ram 3 The stranger in your midst: Jewish values in a Jewish state Soc 2 The women who saved baby Moses: a male tyrant, the power of sisterhood and the first righteous gentiles Sci 5 Who is God? Ram 1 Who owns Europe's Jewish heritage? Soc 4 Silent Hebrew disco (Double Session) Rootes Chancellors 1

22:40 GMT

Honesty Ram 4 Mikey Pauker 'Extraordinary Love' live in concert! SU Copper Rooms 1 Providence, coincidence, signs - and the stories they don't tell you Ram 3 Strictly ethiopian dancing! Ram 2 Talmud and tequila Rootes Panorama 3 Transatlantic poetry jam Arts - Studio Think and drink (2 of 3) Rootes First Floor

23:55 GMT

Acoustic Café Rootes Bar Rectangle Israeli dance party (1 of 2) Rootes Chancellors 1 Limmud Chavruta - Prayer: Request and repentance (2 of 4) Rootes First Floor Psychedelic Funk concert SU Copper Rooms 1