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15 – 17 June | Roundhouse UNSW

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10:30am PDT

Doors open – registration & coffee Limmud Forum

11:00am PDT

Ditch the plastic: DIY beeswax wraps Club BarRebecca Solomon You, me, and Martin Buber—is this the new Jewish threesome? Room 7Janine Zimbler ANZACs 101: reflections on the Jewish experience of WWI Room 3Peter Allen CANCELLED - Loss of faith: religious institutions and child protection Room 6Bettina Cass • Dassi Erlich • Mendel Kastel • Jodi Lee Trolling the trolls: turning the tables on online antisemitism Room 5Yair Rosenberg Karaite Judaism: same, same but different Room 2Norman Green

12:15pm PDT

Jews and meditation: the Jewish roots of the secular mindfulness movement Room 7Stiofan Mac Suibhne The future of the past: Holocaust commemoration in 2019 and beyond Room 4Jacqueline Wasilewsky • Roslyn Sugarman • Jared Engelman • Yoav Yaron • Daniel Hochberg Culture and argument: does being Jewish affect your negotiation style? Room 8Noa Sheer TABOO TALK | How to stop your child having (bad) sex Room 5Matt Friedman Not as it seems: peeling back the layers of the biblical story Room 2Gili Kugler

1:00pm PDT

Lunch available for purchase Bar Area

1:45pm PDT

Swinging with Yiddish songs Club BarDi Yiddishe Mammes Israeli politics and feminism—a tango Room 7Miriam Zalkind "Arigato gozaimasu Sugihara-san!" (Thank you, Mr Sugihara!) Room 8Konrad Kwiet • Marcel Weyland Two Jewish gentlemen from Egypt hop on a bus in 1930s Tel Aviv Room 2Carol Langley Did you just shush me? Collaboration Space 1Ariel Mekler-Peled • Yoav Yaron Visionaries, reformers, and agitators: the prophets of Israel Room 4David Solomon Would the rabbis have tweeted? Rabbinic thoughts for a social media age Room 6Rachel Rosenthal

3:00pm PDT

Songs on the wild side: Jewish pop that changed the world Room 3Gary Holzman Being lost and found in the Negev desert Room 2Claire Jankelson The synagogues Israelis don't attend: shifting religious identities in Israel Room 5Dan Feferman Waking up the body Collaboration Space 1Yoel Sykes CANCELLED - Napoleon and the Jews Room 7CANCELLED - Lisa Leff From exclusion to hope: a changing LGBTQI+ experience Club BarLiora Baram • Benjamin Huggins Strum • Alex Linker • Bruria Hammer • Rebecca Forgasz Sex, lies, and Talmudic rabbis Room 4Tommy Sterling

4:15pm PDT

Poetry as empowerment Room 2Yvonne Green David and Goliath: Israel at the UN Room 7Vic Alhadeff Why the Left needs the IDF Room 4Adiel Cohney How music saved 1000 lives: the birth of an orchestra Room 8Andy Bromberger What makes this Jew different from all other Jews? Race, difference, and safety in Jewish spaces Room 5MaNishtana Your people, your politics Room 6Joshua Kirsh • Lorin Muhlmann • Will Nemesh • Miriam Guttman-Jones Why do the Jews get blamed for everything? A Christian Zionist's response Club BarJohn Hall

5:30pm PDT

'The Marvelous Mrs Maisel': an alternative history of stand-up comedy Room 5Debra Aarons Jews, Christians, and Israel Room 2David Sandmel Teaching Israel: four paths to shape meaning Room 8Talya Wiseman Life and love in Nazi Prague Room 6Jan Lanicek Judaism as a meme: planning for 2050 Room 4Justine Saidman • Donny Janks • Rafael Kaiserblueth • Daphna Levin-Kahn CANCELLED - ‘Alone in the crowd’: a short history of the Talmudic herem Room 7Simon Holloway Modern Judaism and materialism Club BarAvi Bart

6:00pm PDT

Dinner available for purchase Bar Area

7:00pm PDT

Is it time to say goodbye to the two-state solution? Room 6Oren Thaler 30 years at the back of the shul: a physio’s observations Room 7Larry Cohen CANCELLED - ‘The Archive Thief’ — the man who salvaged French Jewish history in the wake of the Holocaust Club BarCANCELLED - Lisa Leff 'Israel created ISIS’: inciting violence and kindling conspiracies against Israel Room 5Ran Porat Jewish texts we love to hate Room 8Alon Meltzer • Rachel Rosenthal • MaNishtana • Gili Kugler When Jewish law and Australian law clash – Contempt? Fines? Lack of fairness? What’s up with the Rabbis and why do they keep getting smashed by the courts? Room 4Marcus Solomon

8:15pm PDT

From Andalusia to Jerusalem and beyond: poetry + music Limmud ForumShirley Politzer • Yvonne Green • Dahlia Dior • Marilyn Schock Israel in a shifting Middle East: security challenges and opportunities in 2019 Room 6Dan Feferman Right in our midst: the threat of white supremacy Room 5Shirli Kirschner • Andre Oboler • Yair Rosenberg • David Sandmel • Julie Nathan