Adult LIMMUD
Programme
LIMMUD offers a world of choices. With up to 6 sessions running simultaneously, select one that interests you during each time slot below. Explore a diverse range of topics presented by both local and international experts. Simply turn up to the session that takes your fancy - no booking. The hard part will be choosing just one!
Presenter name linked to their bio and session info
Saturday 14th June
2-3pm
A little bit of Arabic
A chair lesson: Engaging with the Feldenkrais Method®
What do Adam and Eve, and Torah and Mitzvot have in common?
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Winter
3.00-3.45pm
Seuda Shlishit & Shmooze
3.45 - 4.45pm
Parshat B’ha’alotcha: ‘Journeying at G-d’s Command’
Music in the Jewish tradition: Functional or Aesthetic?
Anne Frank's Memory Keeper: Documenting the story of Hannah Pick-Goslar
Arrive at 6.30pm for a 7pm Havdalah taking place at Limmud In Your Lounge
Limmud In Your Lounge
7-9pm
The Politics of Intimacy: Women of Faith and Peacebuilding in the Israel-Palestine Region (Royal Oak)
Jews and Musical Theatre (Glendowie)
New trends in food and wine in Israel (Birkenhead)
Artistic Updates from Jerusalem: An Intimate Conversation between Curators (Remuera)
A conversation on Israel (St Heliers)
Sunday 15th June
9 - 10am
Outline of Jewish Lives: Web site, community archives, and Jewish heritage walk
Lessons from Yesteryear
A Black Jewish Prince and His Quest to Save the Jews
The inspiring story of Israel’s aid to Africa started by Prime Minister Golda Meir
The Legacies Project: Mapping Holocaust Survivors and Their Legacies in New Zealand
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10.10 - 11.10am
Indigenous Embassy of Jerusalem
Arab citizens of Israel, a community in crisis
Mothering Jewish Trauma: Transmuting intergenerational Holocaust trauma through visual art
Crying in the Archives
Engaging with Israel in the era of Smotrich and Ben-Gvir: A guide for the perplexed, the despairing, and the petrified
11.10 - 11.30am
Morning Tea
11.30 - 12.30pm
Book talk ‘Eighteen for life’: Surviving the Holocaust
Brains, Brachot, and Being Different: A Jewish take on Neurodiversity
Maimonides’ Response to Obadiah the Convert
A Schlemiel of Silent Films
From Trauma to Tomorrow: A look at Jewish and Israeli identity post-October 7th
What is Progressive Judaism?
12.30 - 1.30pm
Lunch
1.30 - 2.30pm
Christian Seders
Educating for Pluralism in Israel
The Significance of the “Star of David” in the Roman Villa of Ein Yael, Jerusalem
Covering the War: Challenges and Opportunities
Family facts and fiction: Writing The Star on the Grave
Pirkei Avot: "If I am not for myself, who is for me?”
2.40 - 3.40pm
The Good Fight (or Fates Intertwined): Jewish and Palestinian peace activists working for change
'Kol Nidrei Controversy: A Millennium of Jewish Arguments about the Famous Yom Kippur Prayer'
Community work in Aotearoa prisons and Restorative Justice in Auckland: Giving back to the community through a Jewish survival perspective
A recent history of hate speech and censorship, and what are our alternatives?
Speaking Truth to Power: How Jewish leaders are encouraged to hold authority to account
Art, Origins and Judaism
3.40 - 4.00pm
Afternoon Tea
4.00 - 5.00pm
Navigating the Digital Landscape: Finding Your Voice in the Jewish World Online
Small-Town Jews
Introduction to Sephardic Music
Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence. Why are religion and violence so intertwined and (how) can they be disentangled?
A safe space for conversation about Israel where no questions or issues are off the table