Date

6 March 2011

Time

9am - 5.30pm

Venue

Weetwood Hall
Lawnswood
North Leeds
LS16 5PS

Programme

The session details for the day are:

Session 1

10:00-11:10

Chavruta - led by Simon Myerson

Susan Cohen - Eleanor Rathbone: The MP for Refugees 

Jackie Colman - Hurricane Katrina and the Jews of New Orleans

Lawrence Goldman - "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Gunef": Anglo-Jewish Lives in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Ed Kessler - Isaac and Ishmael: what's next? 

Jason Kleiman - Is it Impudent to Challenge G-d? 

Vivi Lachs - Singing in Yiddish about the stetl of London 1880-195

Denis MacShane - The Politics of the New Anti-Semitism

Ruvi Ziegler - The JFS case: questioning the permissibility of ethnic and religious schools' admission criteria

Session 2

11:25-12:35

Nathan Abrams - "Almost the Same but not Quite": The Jew in British Cinema

Nina Collins - Looking at the New Testament with Neutral Eyes 

Sue Gessler - Dreams and their interpretation in Judaism and psychoanalysis

David Hakak - Children of War

Julia Kay - Dance of Prayer

Monty Losowsky - Zei Gesunt: Strictly History of Medicine 

Judy Plaut - The Biggest Jewish Community?

David Prager - The World of the Yiddish Cantorial Ballad 

Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz - A Tour of Tehillim (Psalms)

Session 3

13:30-14:40

Jonathan Arkush - Does the British Jewish Comunity have a future?

Cecil Bloom - Shostakovich and Jews 

Naftali Brawer - Angels & Demons: Real or Imaginary

Neil Jameson - Organising for a Change

Michael Krom - Is building a canal from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea to solve the shrinking feasible? 

Miriam Lorie - Bibliodrama!: Rivka moves tent

Rowena Mattan - Hillel during Second Temple Times 

John Minnion - Ox on the Rooftop

Dolf Mogendorff - War Lessons: World War Two and the Holocaust in Secondary Schools - findings of an international research project  

Noga Zivan - Escape: The Extraordinary Story of the ORT Leeds Boys

Session 4

14:55-16:05

Asher Brawer - I Need a Hero from Samson to Hercules: Heroes in Antiquity

Margaret Brearley - Why Hitler adored Wagner 

Ben Crowne - Yom Kippur in the Bible and Modern Biblical Interpretation

Hilary Curwen - Creative Reflection 

Louise Ellman MP - The Challenges of being a Jewish MP

Sarah Rees-Jones -  The City of York in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries and its Jewish community

Ruth Rogoff - Shoah: Is it now history?

Michael Swerdlow - From Bimah to Broadway

Joe Woolfson - The Upside Down Nature of Purim in Classical Texts

Session 5

16:20-17:30

Gilad Amit - Gush Emunim: History and Present

Layla Bloom - The Story of the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery

Eva Frojmovic - A ganze Megilla: Purim art then (and why not now?) 

Clive Lawton - Who commanded us to read the Megilla?

Harris Lorie - Describing the Indescribable in Anim Zemirot

Jeremy Stowe-Lindner - JCoss: The Jewish Community Secondary School

Malcolm Taylor - Jews in Khaki

Malcolm Yaffe - Jews and Magical Entertainment

There will be a full Young Limmud programme for 5-16 year olds. There will be displays from British ORT, Sar-el and LJ150 and a shuk featuring jewellery, cards and second-hand books.

Refreshments included (fully kosher).

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