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Sessions for Tuesday, 22:15 - 23:30 (Limmud Late)
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- 'The Office' ('Hamisrad')
- Everyday Dance of the Barefoot Mystic
- Free Will? It's All in Your Head
- Jewish American Dad
- Jews Line Is It Anyway? - Improv for Jews
- Limmud Fest Launch Party
- Limmud Unplugged … hosted by Rebecca Joy Fletcher
- Live Slam Poetry with Jonathan B Tucker
- Mr Darcy Meets Rabbi Akiva: Love and Longing in Jane Austen and the Talmud
- Much Ado About Noshing (repeated)
- Should Youth Movements Represent the Anglo-Jewish Community or Challenge It?
- The Best Story Wins
- Understanding 'The Arab Spring' - Why It's Happening, and Why that Matters
- What Is the Future Relationship Between Israel and the Diaspora?
'The Office' ('Hamisrad')
Linda Berkowitz,
UK Jewish Film Festival,
Lindsay Wittenberg
Location: Arts - Cinema
Tracks: Environment, Israel
Type: Film
Enjoy another session of ground-breaking Israeli television with UK Jewish Film as Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's comedy series gets the Israeli makeover. Meet Avi Meshulam, regional manager of an office supplies company in Yehud, an industrial backwater near Tel Aviv. He's also the Israeli incarnation of the infamous David Brent. Consider the question: What does a comedy of embarrassment look like in a country that prides itself on not being embarrassed? (Director Eitan Tzur, 2010 Israel. 78 minutes. Hebrew, Arabic with English subtitles.)
Everyday Dance of the Barefoot Mystic
Joel Stanley
Location: SU Copper Rooms 1
Tracks: Dance, Kaballah, Meditation
Type: Dance
Let go and follow your feet through the four worlds of Kabbalah. Awaken, through dance and movement, to your body, heart, mind and spirit. No experience or ability to dance is necessary - just a willingness to open to the moment.
Free Will? It's All in Your Head
Natan Levy,
Daniel Reisel
Location: Ram 4
Tracks: Modernity
Type: Discussion, Text Study
Jews have no choice but to believe in free will. Yet, ever since Benjamin Libet's studies on volition, neuroscience has been chipping away at the idea that you really control you. This session joins a scientist of the brain and a rabbi of the text in dialogue. Can our tradition survive without free will? Come and find out, or rather your brain decides to move your feet, whilst convincing you that there was any choice.
Jewish American Dad
Nathan Abrams
Location: Sci 3
Tracks: Film/Theatre, Modernity, Visual Arts
Type: Lecture
We all know about the Yiddische Mama and the Jewish Mother on film but what about the fathers? In this session we'll explore changing cinematic representations of the Jewish American Dad.
Jews Line Is It Anyway? - Improv for Jews
Esther Kustanowitz
Location: Arts - Conference
Tracks: Comedy, Communities
Type: Creative, Workshop / Practical
What's so Jewish about basic improv comedy? When you've been exiled from as many countries as Jews have, adapting to our environment is a key skill: we take whatever resources we have and we improvise! This informal, participatory workshop introduces the basics of improvisational comedy within a Jewish community context - suitable for Jews and Judeophiles of all ages, and no comedy experience required.
Limmud Fest Launch Party
Paul Silk,
Avra Stein
Location: Rootes Chancellors 2
Tracks: Dance
Type: Social / Informal, Dance
Come join in on the fun for our Limmud Fest 2012 launch party! Festastic tunes will fill the air while we dance the night away! Bring your magic wands and tutus!
Limmud Unplugged … hosted by Rebecca Joy Fletcher
Rebecca Joy Fletcher
Location: Rootes Bar
Tracks: Comedy, Music
Type: Performance
With special guest stars, Limmud Unplugged is the newest place to showcase established and emerging talent. This is an intimate way to see presenters at their best, lyrically waxing the night away.
Live Slam Poetry with Jonathan B Tucker
Jonathan Tucker
Location: Arts - Studio
Tracks: Poetry, Social Justice, Storytelling
Type: Performance
Award-winning Jewish performance poet from Washington, DC, Jonathan B. Tucker will speak on issues of social justice, love, and noodles (among other things) in this featured performance. He will talk about his use of spoken word poetry to organise and inspire high school students and will perform pieces from his book 'I Got The Matches.'
Mr Darcy Meets Rabbi Akiva: Love and Longing in Jane Austen and the Talmud
Yaffa Epstein,
Rose Prevezer
Location: Ram 5
Tracks: Literature, Tanach/Text
Type: Text Study
The themes of longing and unrequited love abound in Jane Austen's works. Interestingly, The Talmud has its share of unrequited love stories as well. This session will take a look at the similarities (and differences!) between these two different literary collections.
Much Ado About Noshing (repeated)
Alastair Falk,
Toni Rickenback
Location: Arts - Ensemble
Tracks: Comedy, Food, Literature
Type: Performance
Chopped & Fried present a tasty menu of literature, limericks and laughs on Jews and food. This fun show (which is definitely not under rabbinical supervision) contains adult themes (sex, guilt, taxes, and what do you mean you don't want seconds...)
Should Youth Movements Represent the Anglo-Jewish Community or Challenge It?
Ilana Fenster
Location: Sci 4
Tracks: Anglo Jewish Politics, Communities, Leadership
Type: Panel Debate, Discussion
Do young people have the power to change the community and do they want to? Do parents have a responsibility to youth movements, or youth movements to parents? Representatives of youth movements that form the Zionist Youth Council will be debating and taking questions on what role youth movements do and should be playing in our community.
The Best Story Wins
Wayne L Firestone
Location: Rootes Sutherland
Tracks: History
Type: Lecture, Discussion
A survey of Jewish stories and books that have captured the attention and imagination of the world. From the Biblical story of Exodus to Leon Uris' Exodus. From Job to the Legend of the Golem. A look at stories as a strategic asset of the Jewish people.
Understanding 'The Arab Spring' - Why It's Happening, and Why that Matters
Hagai Segal
Location: Ram 1
Tracks: Current affairs, Israel, Politics
Type: Lecture
The word 'historic' is overused, but is certainly apposite when applied to the events that have swept the Arab world since late 2010, the so-called 'Arab Spring'. Hagai will assess what these events really mean, and why they matter. Has there been real change, and if so will this be for the better or for the worse? And what will it all mean for the region, the West, Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
What Is the Future Relationship Between Israel and the Diaspora?
Henry Grunwald,
Anat Hoffman,
Jonathan Rynhold,
Michael Schudrich,
Hannah Weisfeld
Location: Ram 2
Tracks: Diaspora, Israel, Politics
Type: Panel Debate
Is the Diaspora polarising on the same general lines as Israel? Is the Diaspora increasingly irrelevant to Israel? Where is this relationship going? Are we really listening to one another?
