Brighton and Hove Day Limmud 2009 Schedule  

(Children's and Teen Programme below Main Programme) 

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.