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Adult LIMMUD
Programme

​LIMMUD offers a world of choices. With up to 6 sessions running simultaneously, select one that interests you during the time slots 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!

SESSIONS ARE THEMED BY COLOUR

Arts & Culture

Everything Israel

History & Memory

Society & Politics

Text & Tradition

Mind, Body & Soul

  Presenter's names are linked to bio and session info 

Saturday 14th June

2.00-3.00pm

A Little Bit of Arabic

Linda Gradstein

A Chair Lesson: Engaging with the Feldenkrais Method® 

Caryn Truppman

What do Adam and Eve, and Torah and Mitzvot have in common?

Elior Sterling

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Winter

Moshe Rube

3.00-3.45pm

​Seuda Shlishit & Shmooze

3.45 - 4.45pm

Parshat B’ha’alotcha: ‘Journeying at G-d’s Command’

Lindsay Simmonds

Difficult Discussions: Ageing, Illness and End of Life

- Dean Shapiro

- Rachel Korpus

Music in the Jewish Tradition: Functional or Aesthetic?

Mark Kligman

Anne Frank's Memory Keeper: Documenting the Story of Hannah Pick-Goslar

Dina Kraft

Arrive at 6.30pm for a 7pm Havdalah taking place at Limmud In Your Lounge

Limmud In Your Lounge

7.00 - 9.00pm

Perfect Enemy: Book talk 

Remuera

- Alex Sinclair

- Richard Parker

The Politics of Intimacy: Women of Faith and Peacebuilding in the Israel-Palestine Region

Royal Oak

Lindsay Simmonds

Jews and Musical Theatre

Glendowie

Mark Kligman

New Trends in Food and Wine in Israel 

Birkenhead

Linda Gradstein

Lucid Dreams form Jerusalem: An Intimate Conversation between Curators 

Remuera

- Kenneth Brummel

- Adina Kamien

A Conversation on Israel 

St Heliers

Michael Scott

Arts & Culture

Everything Israel

History & Memory

Society & Politics

Text & Tradition

Mind, Body & Soul

Sunday 15th June

9.00 - 10.00am

Outline of Jewish Lives: Web Site, Community Archives, and Jewish Heritage Walk

David Robinson

Lessons from Yesteryear

Jean Burnton

A Black Jewish Prince and His Quest to Save the Jews

Alan Verskin

The Inspiring Story of Israel’s Aid to Africa Started by Prime Minister Golda Meir

Alon Roth-Snir

The Legacies Project: Mapping Holocaust Survivors and Their Legacies in New Zealand

Kris Clancy

10.10 - 11.10am

Indigenous Embassy of Jerusalem​

Sheree Trotter

Arab Citizens of Israel, a Community in Crisis

Dina Kraft

Mothering Jewish Trauma: Transmuting Intergenerational Holocaust Trauma through Visual Art​

Marijke de Jong

Discussion about Combatting Antisemitism since October 7th​

- Linda Margolin Royal

Michael Scott

Crying in the Archives

Daniela Torsh

Engaging with Israel in the Era of Smotrich and Ben-Gvir: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Despairing, and the Petrified​​

Alex Sinclair

11.10 - 11.30am

Morning Tea

11.30 - 12.30pm

Book Talk ‘Eighteen for Life’: Surviving the Holocaust

Helen Schamroth

Brains, Brachot, and Being Different: A Jewish take on Neurodiversity

Tami Harris

Maimonides’ Response to Obadiah the Convert

Alan Verskin

The Stereotypical Jewish Humour of Max Davidson - A Schlemiel of Silent Films

Gene Sorkin

From Trauma to Tomorrow: A look at Jewish and Israeli identity post-October 7th

- Alex Sinclair

- Dina Kraft

- Linda Gradstein

What is Progressive Judaism?

Michelle Wise

12.30 - 1.30pm

Lunch

1.30 - 2.30pm

Educating for Pluralism in Israel

Peri Sinclair

The Significance of the “Star of David” in the Roman Villa of Ein Yael, Jerusalem

Liat Oz

Covering the War: Challenges and Opportunities

Linda Gradstein

Family Facts and Fiction: Writing The Star on the Grave

Linda Margolin Royal

Pirkei Avot: "If I Am Not for Myself, Who is for Me?”

Yaron Shavit

2.40 - 3.40pm

The Good Fight (or Fates Intertwined): Jewish and Palestinian Peace Activists Working for Change

Dina Kraft

'Kol Nidrei Controversy: A Millennium of Jewish Arguments about the Famous Yom Kippur Prayer'

Alan Verskin

Community work in Aotearoa Prisons and Restorative Justice in Auckland: Giving Back to the Community Through a Jewish Survival Perspective

Esther Haver

A Recent History of Hate Speech and Censorship, and What are our Alternatives?

Dane Giraud

Speaking Truth to Power: How Jewish Leaders are Encouraged to Hold Authority to Account

Lindsay Simmonds

Art, Origins and Judaism

Richard Penn

3.40 - 4.00pm

Afternoon Tea

4.00 - 5.00pm

Navigating the Digital Landscape: Finding Your Voice in the Jewish World Online

Kris Clancy

Small-Town Jews

Shmuel

Introduction to Sephardic Music

Mark Kligman

Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence. Why are Religion and Violence so Intertwined and (how) can they be Disentangled?

Lindsay Simmonds

A Safe Space for Conversation about Israel where no Questions or Issues are Off The Table

- Alex Sinclair

Peri Sinclair

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