This is the programme for Brighton & Hove Day Limmud 2009.
Brighton & Hove Limmud is now Sussex Limmud!
For this year's event, taking place on 22 May, click here.
Main Programme
First Session
10.00 to 11.00
ROOM 1 PETER JAMES ~ Our Criminally Good City
ROOM 2 DAVID SOLOMON ~ The Whole of The Bible in One Hour
ROOM 3 GODFREY GOULD ~ Sixteen Jewish Buses
ROOM 4 OLIVER KAMM ~ The Bankers, the Jews and Conspiracy Theory
ROOM 5 ROB STEEN ~ My Life as a Yiddisher Hack
ROOM 6 ROCHELLE OBERMAN ~ Create your own fabulous Passover Seder Plate
ROOM 7 WINSTON PICKETT & DAVID SEIDEL~ The Future of Jewish Education in small communities
ROOM 8 CHARLES WALLACH ~ Ma Nishtana. Creative Insights to add to your Seder
ROOM 9 JOACHIM HEMMERLE ~ Puppets which enchanted Chagall
ROOM 10 GUEST SPEAKER – The Heart of Chassidut
Second Session
11.15 to 12.15
ROOM 1 ALEX BRUMMER ~ Press Freedom and bias in the British media
ROOM 2 ANTHONY JULIUS ~ The New Anti-Semitism
ROOM 3 BRIAN NATHAN ~ Jewish contribution to Popular Music of the 20th Century
ROOM 4 ERIC MOONMAN ~ After the Parades
ROOM 5 WILLY WOLFF ~ Can you revive a Jewish culture once it has been destroyed or abandoned?
ROOM 6 ELENA MARKHAM ~ Physical Theatre Workshop
ROOM 7 SYLVIE SCHAPIRA ~ with ADRIAN LOCHER
Working for peaceful co-existence with Israeli & Palestinian Teenagers
ROOM 8 MIRI RUBIN ~ Church and Synagogue. The History of a medieval image
ROOM 9 STEWART MACINTOSH ~ ‘’Talking to a Mop’
ROOM 10 VIVIAN SILVERMAN ~The Parting of the Ways. Nazarene Christianity. Rabbinic Judaism.
Third Session
12.30 to 13.30
ROOM 1 GUEST SPEAKER ~ Israel. The situation at the moment.
ROOM 2 TONY MACAULAY ~ British Academy-Award-Winning-Songwriter,in conversation with DAVID SEIDEL
ROOM 3 JEREMY GORDON ~ In Search of a Useable Revelation
ROOM 4 GERRY GABLE ~ Facing the Enemies of Democracy
ROOM 5 MICHAEL J.FLEXER ~Funny because it’s true. The last two Jews of Afghanistan
ROOM 6 PAUL BASS ~ Judaism, Medicine & Pathology
ROOM 7 MARGARET BREARLEY ~ Nazism and Nature: some roots of the Holocaust
ROOM 8 DENA COLEMAN ~ Jewish Schools: Desirable or divisive?
ROOM 9 SHIVAUN WOOLFSON ~ Lithuanian Jewry
Fourth Session
13.45 to 14.45
ROOM 1 Is it too late for a two state solution?
OLIVER KAMM, FIYAZ MUGHAL, STEPHEN POLLARD, moderator ALEX BRUMMER
ROOM 2 JULIE BURCHILL ~ In conversation with WINSTON PICKETT
ROOM 3 MAUREEN KENDLER ~ Why are these four sons different from those other four sons?
ROOM 4 MARC SAPERSTEIN ~ British Rabbis Facing Catastrophe ( 1939 – 1945 )
ROOM 5 DAVID LAWSON ~ Steel & Schnapps. Sausages & Soldiers. Scrolls & Survival. The Story of Ostrava
ROOM 6 LINDSAY WITTENBERG ~ How high is your EQ?
Raise your Emotional Intelligence Quotient in 60 minutes
ROOM 7 EVA SCHLOSS ~ Living with the aftermath of The Holocaust
ROOM 8 POLINA SHEPHERD ~ The Phoenix of Jewish Music
ROOM 9 ALISTAIR FALK ~ Whose ritual is it anyway? Changing religious practices in 19th Century Germany.
Fifth Session
15.00 to 16.00
ROOM 1 ‘Can Judaism survive modernity?’
MAUREEN KENDLER, CLIVE LAWTON, ERIC MOONMAN, MARC SAPERSTEIN
and moderator HUGH LEVINSON,
ROOM 2 DAVID SOLOMON ~ The Whole of Jewish History in One Hour
ROOM 3 CLIVE COLEMAN ~ Jews are like everyone else … only more so
ROOM 4 FIYAZ MUGHAL ~ Where to After the Middle East?
ROOM 5 DIANA LIPTON ~ What’s in a name? The Biblical Background of a Talmudic Martyrdom
ROOM 6 GORDON CHARATAN ~ Quill, Reed, Pen
ROOM 7 DAVID HIRSH ~ The Relationship between hostility to Israel and anti-Semitism
ROOM 8 MERLIN SHEPHERD ~ Identity through Music. Klezmer as a ‘way back in’ for secular Jews.
ROOM 9 IVAN LAWRENCE ~ Being a Jewish M.P.
ROOM 10 DANIEL CAINER ~ Jewish Chronicles
Sixth Session
16.15 to 17.15
DINING ROOM Antisemitism: not so much a threat from the Right, but rather from the Left?
JULIE BURCHILL, GERRY GABLE, DAVID HIRSH, ANTHONY JULIUS,
and moderator WINSTON PICKETT.
ROOM 3 DANNY SCHEINMANN ~ Random Acts of Heroic Love, from inspiration to publication
ROOM 4 STEPHEN POLLARD ~ Editor of the JC, will outline his plans and take your questions
ROOM 5 JONATHAN HOFFMAN ~ Do they really hate us ?
ROOM 6 ANN ROTH ~ Janusz Korczak. Champion of the Child
ROOM 7 CLIVE LAWTON ~ Seder Miracles. Strange things you never thought about before
ROOM 8 JUDY IRONSIDE ~ Three film shorts from The UK Jewish Film Festival
ROOM 9 JESS WOOD-SARAH ~ Jewish Painting. A contradiction in terms?
ROOM 10 ALISTAIR FALK ~ ‘Two Jews on a train ‘
Finale
17.30-18.30
ROOM 1 DANIEL CAINER, RUSSELL LEVINSON, POLINA and MERLIN SHEPHERD
Children's Programme
10.00-10.10 Welcome to Limmud by Janet Smith and Sharon Granville
10.10-11.10 Matzo Baking (Key Stage 1)
Calligraphy with Gordon Charatan (Key Stage 2)
11.10-11.20 Drinks and fruit
11.20-12.00 Storytelling & Puppets with Alison Williams (Key Stage 1)
11.20-12.15 Matzo Baking (Key Stage 2)
12.00-12.15 Pesach Party Games with Janet and Sharon
12.15-12.45 Lunch and video/DVD
12.45-1.20 Painting Pesach Plates with Rochelle Oberman (Key Stage 1)
Making the Tower of Babel with Charlotte Rustin & Daniel Bernstein (Key Stage 2)
1.20-1.30 Games Table
1.30-2.05 Making the Tower of Babel with Charlotte & Daniel (Key Stage 1)
Boys: Football story with author Dan Freedman (Key Stage 2)
Girls: Matzo box covers (Key Stage 2)
2.05-2.15 Drinks and biscuits
2.15-2.45 Magic with magician Russell Levinson
2.45-2.55 Games table
2.55-3.30 Pesach Party Games (Key Stage 1)
TV vet Marc Abrahams (Key Stage 2)
3.30-3.40 Drinks and crisps
3.40-4.15 TV vet Marc Abrahams (Key Stage 1)
Drama with Elena Markham (Key Stage 2)
4.15-4.45 Evaluation session
4.25-4.50 Song and dance
4.50-5.15 Rewards presentation
Teen Programme
10.00-11.00 am
a) Miri Rubin – Prepare to enter a Medieval world!
b) Rochelle Oberman – A sculptor and artist. Come and get creatively inspired
11.15-12.15
Eva Schloss – A rare opportunity to meet a Holocaust survivor who knew Anne Frank’s father
12.30-1.30
Clive Lawton – One of Limmud’s founders always interesting with a great sense of humour. You will want to listen and talk to him all day.
1.45-2.45
Sylvie Schapira – An expert in her field, bringing together teenagers from Israeli and Palestinian backgrounds. Hear about the importance of building bridges in a conflicting world.
3.00-4.00
a) Gabi Markham – A self-confessed Limmudnik who loves drama and anything to do with the stage
b) Gordon Charatan – Illuminated manuscripts. Need we say more?
4.15-4.45
a) Russell Levinson – A prize-winning member of the Zodiac Magical Society. Come and learn some secrets to impress your friends!
b) Alastair Falk – One of the originators of Limmud. You will be sure to be inspired by his tales!
5.30
Finale
PLUS:
Check out the chill-out room which is open all day for you to hang out, play some games and enjoy some time out with your friends!! And, of course, there is food, drink and nosh.
