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Annette Charak

Annette has a longstanding love of community and Judaism. A founding team member of Generation Journal, Annette is vice-president of her partnership shul, Shira Melbourne, and is co-chairing Limmud Oz this year. Annette works as a barrister and trainer and is a co-editor of the Victorian Bar News.
Saturday, June 15
 

8:35pm

Rabbis behaving badly: the R-rated Talmud Room 5Rachel Rosenthal

9:35pm

Storytelling through images: over a century of Jewish life around the globe Room 2Romi Rutovitz
 
Sunday, June 16
 

9:30am

Morning news and brews: the latest from Israel Room 6Dan Feferman

10:45am

From other to brother: Jewish views of Jesus Room 5David Sandmel Memory wars: how Europe remembers, forgets, or revises the Holocaust Room 7Ruth Balint • Jan Lanicek • Yvonne Selecki Post #MeToo: what now? Room 6Miriam Zalkind • Kim Rubenstein

12:00pm

Jews, now presented in technicolour Room 7MaNishtana

1:15pm

From 1521 till now: the extraordinary history of Jews in the Philippines Room 8Karina Veal Why is antisemitism so hard to fight? What to do about our biggest threat Room 6Yair Rosenberg

1:45pm

EXCLUSIVE FILM PREMIERE: ‘Madam Prime Minister’ + JIFF Q&A Collaboration Space 1Eddie Tamir

2:45pm

Outsider, scoundrel, devil, or prophet? The Jew in 20th-century English literature Room 2Hilton Immerman NO SPIN ZONE | Settlements — ‘Obstacle to peace’ or ‘It’s all part of the plan’ Room 5Jeremy Leibler • Ron Weiser • Mandi Katz

4:00pm

Out of sight, out of mind: exclusion of women in Israel Room 4Miriam Zalkind Made in Vienna: a fashionable society before the Anschluss Room 2Jonathan Kaplan • Peter McNeil Can we really have it all? Talmudic reflections on work–life balance Room 3Rachel Rosenthal

5:15pm

Leonard Cohen: the voice, the light, and the flame Room 7Jeff Cohen Is the Chief Rabbinate obsolete? Religion and state in Israel Room 5Dan Feferman The Rorschach Rasha: Jewish perceptions of wickedness Club BarAvi Bart

6:00pm

Dinner available for purchase Limmud Forum
 
Monday, June 17
 

11:00am

ANZACs 101: reflections on the Jewish experience of WWI Room 3Peter Allen Trolling the trolls: turning the tables on online antisemitism Room 5Yair Rosenberg

12:15pm

Not as it seems: peeling back the layers of the biblical story Room 2Gili Kugler

1:00pm

Lunch available for purchase Bar Area

1:45pm

Swinging with Yiddish songs Club BarDi Yiddishe Mammes Two Jewish gentlemen from Egypt hop on a bus in 1930s Tel Aviv Room 2Carol Langley 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

Songs on the wild side: Jewish pop that changed the world Room 3Gary Holzman