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
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
7.00 - 9.00pm
The Politics of Intimacy: Women of Faith and Peacebuilding in the Israel-Palestine Region
Royal Oak
Lucid Dreams form Jerusalem: An Intimate Conversation between Curators
Remuera
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
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
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
Discussion about Combatting Antisemitism since October 7th
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
The Stereotypical Jewish Humour of Max Davidson - 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
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