LIMMUD 2010 PROGRAMME

Contents:
Saturday Night - Limmud After Dark
Sunday General Programme
Sunday Children’s Programme
Sunday Night – Limmud After Dark
Monday General Programme

LIMMUD AFTER DARK

Saturday Night Programme
(Sunday programme follows)

Registration – 7.00pm
Comedian Rick Sahar - out and about at Limmud After Dark
‘World in a Bowl’ Dinner bowls available from the Greys Ave Deli - $10 a TENT
bowl

7.15pm
Music/café Shesh Besh Café
Shesh Besh
Italian Inspired Food!
TENT
Plate from $10 Licensed Bar
7.15 – 8.15
Live music CARVIN

7.45 – 8.45
‘Yiddish at bedtime’ Stories and Songs Schmooze, nosh and zmiros TENT

8.00 – 9.45
Feature FILM Sweet Mud (Adama Meshugaat). 90mins.
While the Israeli kibbutz has been idealized as a paragon of utopian
movements, Sweet Mud tells a darker, more nuanced tale of a community
ill equipped to cope with individuality and deviations from a rigidly defined
norm, and of an adolescent boy stretching to compensate for what the
collective cannot provide. Israel Academy 2006 Award for Best Picture.
World Cinema Jury Prize for dramatic films at the Sundance Festival, 2007.
The Crystal Bear for the Best Feature Film at the 57th Berlin International
Cinema
Film Festival, 2007.

9.45pm – 10 15
Short Film: ‘Cheftzi on Air’, Director: Dalit Eliraz 22mins.
A radio broadcaster who offers romantic advice to her single, female callers
decides to take her own advice, and proposes marriage on live radio to her
boyfriend Yonatan. To Cheftzi's surprise, her theories don't work in practice
and her world begins to collapse.

8.30 – 9.30

The Feldenkrais Method®

with Caryn Truppman
An uncommon way of sensing yourself and improving stability,
flexibility and reducing pain. Based on the work of the Israeli scientist.

9:30

Film: Tackling Peace – documentary film

Small Shul
Director//Producer: Marc Radomsky. 55 minutes

On a poorly lit rundown soccer field at the edge of the Gaza strip, a group
of Israelis and Palestinians are engaged in combat. They battle, not with
gun, rocket or bomb, but with the Sherrin - a torpedo shaped red leather
football. This film takes us on an amazing journey – from Israel to Australia,
from hopelessness to hopefulness, from hostility to harmony! Must see!!

8.45
English Book Club
Gather round for a dynamic session where great books, lively discussion meets
coffee, mulled wine and herbal tea! Bring a book to swap or share. Greys Ave Deli

9.00 – 9.45
TENT
Live music CARVIN
8.00 – 8.30
Short Film: ‘Ido’ Director: Gilad Goldschmidt,. : 29 mins
Ido is a talented 19 year old musician, the Charismatic leader of a
punk rock band, who becomes devoutly religious. The film follows
him over a year, and those around him, as all reconcile with the
emerging Ido who is a vastly different from the boy he was.

9.00 – 10.20 Communal room

Feature FILM: “Genghis Cohn”.79mins (opposite cinema)
Black comedy in which a former Nazi concentration camp commandant,
living incognito in a quiet village after the war, finds his sins coming back to
haunt him as the ghost of a Jewish comedian he put to death lures him into an
ingenious trap. Based on the novel "The Dance of Genghis Cohn" by Romain
Gary

9.45
TENT
Jam session for musicians – bring your instruments!

Stream A Stream B Stream C Stream D Stream E Stream F

Start
SUNDAY
22
8.30 -
9.00 AUGUST
REGISTRA
 TION AND
WELCOME  Chris Milton
Scott Copeland Dov Bing
An Approach Gary Samowitz Carvin Knowles
Jeffrey Cohen Why is Jerusalem Anti-semitism
to Child Changing the The Man who
Is Spirituality always two? in Academic
9.00 - Development World: where Saved Klezmer
medicine's 4th through the Institutions -
10.00 - Jewish & do we start?
Dimension? poetry of Yehuda Past, present and
Other Cultural
MR Amihai future
Influences R3 R5
R7 R6
R4
Tony Stroobant Beth Shalom JoEllen Duckor Colin Bolka
Lesley Max Ittay Flescher
10.15 Did the Jews kill Winter Book - workshop More important
The Great 42 Shules 6
- Jesus? Removing Club The People for Educators than the Peace
Potential of Streams 1 God
11.15 Anti-Semitism of the Book (closed session) Process - the
Tikkun Olam
- from Christian Jewishness of the
MR R6
Text R3 AA Hall SR Jewish State   R4
Moshe Naor Jeffrey Cohen What's Cooking? Marti
Linda Kaye - Scott Copeland
11.30 Studying 10 things your Rosh HaShanah Friedlander
Psalms as path to Zionism: A fiery
- together: Parents neighbour should Sephardi deserts with Len Bell
personal prayer Collection of
12.30 and Children know about with Meir Alfassi a Life in Photos
R3 Arguments
R4 Judaism R6 UK AAHall
12.30
- 1.15
LUNCH
JoEllen Duckor
Melanie Landau Tal Zmiri
& Linda Kaye Daniel Pipes - Dean Shapiro
An Irresistible A study of Israeli
Developing The Threat to We were as
Force meets a Film & Society:
Spiritual Israel’s existence Dreamers -
1.15 - Movable Object: You & Me -
Direction - Why It’s Back, reading the Jewish
2.15 how feminism We Change the
How to Deal with unconscious in
transformed World
It Torah
Judaism (Hebrew session)
R6 AA Hall R4
R5 R7
R3
Gavin Beinart-
Bronwen
Justine Smollan/Sam
Klippel & Philip Paul Turner Ittay Flescher
Hitchcock & Bookman/
Gluckman Why we should Turning Baseless
Meital Asher - Jo Goldstein
Through my Worship Idols - Hatred into
Naor & Daniel Donna Jacobs
2.30 - Grandmother's A Jewish Mutual Respect
Talking to Meyrowitz Sife - Moses &
3.30 Eyes: Ann Approach? - Lessons
kids about the Confronting the Burning Bush
Gluckman's from the Rabin
Holocaust - Modernity: - a text/drama
Postcards from Assassination
how and when? Four Historical experience
Tukums (Latvia) R3 MR
R7 Perspectives R5
R6
R4
Boruch Zaichyk,
Melanie Landau JoEllen Duckor Sam Bookman,
Gefilte Fish Gary Samowitz
Bruria - What the & Wally Hirsh Leon Goldwater
for Dummies: Engaging Gen
3.45 - Rabbis thought of with Deb Levy & Linda Kaye   
Cooking with Y: Challenges &
4.45 the First Woman Looking Back, The Shechita
Ronit Netzer Opportunities
Talmudic Scholar Looking Forward Debate
UK R4
R5 R3
AA Hall
Dean Shapiro &
Shmuel Kopel CAFÉ CAFÉ CAFÉ CAFÉ
Two Rabbis: CAFÉ
5.00 - Sharing & DILEMMA DILEMMA DILEMMA DILEMMA DILEMMA
6.00 Comparing
Inspirational AA Hall AA Hall AA Hall AA Hall
AA Hall
Jewish texts
R4
Farewell Farewell Farewell Farewell Farewell
Farewell Function for Function for Function for Function for Function for
Function for
Dudi and Maya Dudi and Maya Dudi and Maya Dudi and Maya Dudi and Maya
6.00- Dudi and
7.30 Maya Schmidt  Schmidt  Schmidt  Schmidt  Schmidt  Schmidt 
 AA Hall AA Hall AA Hall AA Hall AA Hall AA Hall

7:30 - LIMMUD
late AFTER DARK

Sunday 22 August
Children’s Programme
Start &
Children 9-12 Children 5-8
Registration
Dean Shapiro Carmella Rose
Rashi - who was he and Welcome to Jacob
9.00 - 10 how do we read him? & Rachel’s wedding!
Bibliodrama for Kids
ICT Library
Tefilah with Dean Shapiro
10 -10.15 Tefilah with Dean Shapiro
Gymnasium Gymnasium
10.15 - 10.30 Morning Tea
Donna Jacobs Sife Music with Meital Asher-
10.30 - 11.30 Text Stories Naor
Library Gymnasium
Gary Samowitz
Carmella Rose
Tikkun Olam - where do we
11.30 -12.30 Jewish Jeopardy
start?
Gymnasium
Library
12.30-1.30 LUNCH
Israeli dancing - Jenny
Movie
1.30 - 2.30 Gottschalk
Cinema
Gymnasium

2.30 - 3.30 Café Ivrit - Malindy Rosin Café Ivrit - Malindy Rosin
Gymnasium Gymnasium
End
3.30. End

LIMMUD AFTER DARK

Sunday Night Programme
(Monday programme follows)

Registration – 7.30pm
‘World in a Bowl’ Dinner bowls available from the Greys Ave Deli - $10 a bowl TENT

7.30pm
Music/café Shesh Besh Café
Shesh Besh
Morrocan Inspired Food!
Plate from $10 Licensed Bar TENT

7.30 – 8.30
Live music Jonathan Besser and The Truppman Brothers
7.45 – 8.45
Coins: History of Civilization in the palm of your hand – explore some old coins connected
TENT
to ancient Jerusalem and beyond’ – Donald MacCulloch

8.00 – 9.45 Feature FILM: What a Wonderful Place: Director - Eyal Halfon 1hr45mins.
In the dead of night somewhere along the Israeli border near the Dead Sea, ex-cop Franco
rounds up a group of female illegal immigrants to be sold as hookers and domestics by
his unscrupulous current employer, local gangster Boss; and so begins the web of many Cinema
relationships. Inevitably, the paths of these human chess pieces cross, illustrating the pitfalls
of a changing world and its deceptive surface of beauty.

8.00 – 8.40
Short Films:
A Maisseh. 18 mins. Director:Yoad Biran.
The warm relationship between elderly holocaust survivor, Mendel, and Jose his Filipino
Communal room
caretaker is tested when the police begin searching the neighbourhood for illegal immigrants.
(opposite cinema)
Evacuation Orders.. 16 mins. Director: Shoshi Greenfield.
A light film about the painful subject of evacuation and how much Israelis have in common
in even the hardest of circumstances.

8.30 – 9.30
Experience a Feldenkrais® Class
with Caryn Truppman
A series of gentle exploratory movements that create real changes.
For all ages. Bring a mat.

9:30

Film: Tackling Peace – documentary film

Small Shul
Director//Producer: Marc Radomsky. 55 minutes

On a poorly lit rundown soccer field at the edge of the Gaza strip, a group of Israelis and
Palestinians are engaged in combat. They battle, not with gun, rocket or bomb, but with the
Sherrin - a torpedo shaped red leather football. This film takes us on an amazing journey –
from Israel to Australia, from hopelessness to hopefulness, from hostility to harmony! Must
see!!

8.45 – 10.15
Feature FILM: The Cemetery Club - 90mins. Director: Tali Shemesh.
At times wickedly funny, at others poignantly human, "the film is a low-key chronicle of a
group of Jerusalem oldsters who every week carry plastic lawn chairs to the Mount Herzl
Chumash room
cemetery to discuss poetry, philosophy, the world situation and eat lunch. Against this
(opposite cinema)
humorous backdrop, the director candidly explores the close ties between two elderly ladies
who survived the Polish ghetto and Auschwitz. This audience enchanter has enjoyed success
at screenings worldwide.

8.45 – 9.45
Israeli Book Club. Join us and find out what other community members are reading, share
or swap books with friends and other Limmud conference goers, enrol to join a book club.
Please bring a book (Jewish themed or not) and be prepared to either lend it out or swap it Greys Ave Deli
permanently. Come and join the open forum discussion or simply grab a nosh and stay to
listen to a potpouri of different bookworms share their reviews.

9.15 – 10.00
Live music Jonathan Besser and The Truppman Brothers
10.00 on… TENT
Jam Session for musicians – bring your instruments…

10.00 – 10.25
Short Film - Director: Ilan Eshkoli. The Orthodox Way: 25 mins. A romantic comedy
about dating the orthodox way. Eli, who is single, goes out on a blind date to please his aunt. Cinema
But everything that could possibly go wrong, does

Monday 23 August

Start Stream A Stream B Film

Ittay Flescher
Luca Quaglia Marti - a passionate eye
Music as midrash:
Secrets & Mysteries: (documentary by
9.00 - 10.00 Jacob's Ladder meets
The Jewish Calendar Shirley Horrocks)
Bob Dylan
JS cinema
MR
Evelyn Jaffe with
Moshe Naor
Sue Berman Chris Milton
4 Things I
No way to Say Spiritual
10.15 - 11.15 learned from
goodbye - the Development of the
Luke (Skywalker)
community of Bolivia Child
SL
JS MR
Debbie Miller Meital Asher-Naor
What compels What's love got to do Paul Turner
us to Tikkun with it? Love & the One God: A Limmud
11.30 - 12.30
Olam? Imperatives Jewish world. Chavruta Experience
from the text SL JS
MR
12.30 - 1.15 LUNCH
Melanie Landau Scott Copeland Donna Jacobs Sife
Returning to your Prophets, priests & Jacob & the Angel
1.15 - 2.15 True Self - Rav Kook iPads: What makes - Bringing text alive
on Teshuvah a visionary leader? through Performance
SL MR JS
Boruch Zaichyk
Taghi Derhamy/
The Here and
Bruce Keeley/
Carvin Knowles the Hereafter -
Melanie Landau
How Jews invented An analysis of
Exploring Identity:
2.30 - 3.30 the Halachic and
Movie Music One Muslim, One
Kabbalistic view
JS Christian, One Jew,
One Room
MR
SL
No way to say Goodbye
Shmuel Kopel Scott Copeland
(documentary about
Love your Fellow Zionism: A fiery
Bolivian Jewish
3.45 - 4.45 as Yourself: Collection of
community) with
is it Possible? Arguments
Evelyn Jaffe
JS MR
cinema