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10-12 JUNE (QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY LONG WEEKEND) SUPPORTED BY Oz FESTIVAL OF SUPPORTED BY JEWISHSUPPORTED IDEAS BY Oz Oz A three-day festival featuring talks, workshops, ShalomLimmudSydney interviews, performances and more, delivered by presenters from around the world and Australia. @limmudoz FULL PROGRAM INSIDE Concession, under-30, family and volunteer tickets available. FEATURING A DYNAMIC KIDS & TEENS PROGRAM Saturday (SEE PAGE 4) 10 June 7:30-8 pm 8-9 pm n Limmud-Oz 2017 opening session + n A Jewish response to Syria 9.15-10.15 pm Havdalah with a beat Ittay Flescher Anna Stern, Hinda Young n Jewish languages n Goldilocks and the three Orthodoxies Alexander Beider, Ghil'ad Zuckermann — traditional responses to same-sex n Jews of Europe n SOCIETY TODAY relationships Alex Ryvchin, Edyta Gawron, Cnaan Liphshiz, n MEMORY & HISTORY Steve Greenberg Arsen Ostrovsky n ARTS & CULTURE n Trump and the Jews n Desert island discs n ISRAEL & MIDDLE EAST Vic Alhadeff, Lahav Harkov, Sigal Samuel, Benjamin Elton, Jacqueline Ninio, Yali Sobol, n JEWISH THOUGHT Hagai Segal Uri Zaki Note: Program subject to change BOOK AT shalom.edu.au or 9381 4000 9.30-10.30 am 10.45-11.45 am n 'Degenerate Music' n Exploring Jerusalem— a divided city Andy Bromberger Shahar Burla n The ISIS/Daesh threat n Forty years since Begin—what's left? Hagai Segal Nerya Meir n Jewish insights into reaching and n What can we do to 'give peace a keeping your ideal weight chance'? Geoffrey Tofler Sunday Gael Kennedy, Jim Mein, Uri Windt 11 June n Antisemitism after Auschwitz n Six queer heroes and scoundrels Edyta Gawron Steve Greenberg n How my Montreal novel led me to n Women in Judaism Mumbai Sharon Berger, Melinda Jones, Shimona Sigal Samuel Tzuckernick n 'We Are All Sydney'—the most n My enemy’s enemy—Europe’s Jews diverse community leadership program and Muslims and the far right the Jewish community has ever run Cnaan Liphshiz Lynda Ben-Menashe, Ruth Fesseha, Sonia 10.45-12.45 pm Hakim, Zehava Heinrich n Can Jewish civilisation save the West? n 'Roads'— film screening and Q&A 12-12.45 pm Chuck Volpe Jessica Jacoby n Reaching for an inner voice—the influence of chazzanut on Jewish jazz musicians 1-1.45 pm 2-2.30 pm Mark Ginsburg n From pioneers to pop n Digital diplomacy—how to be an n A movable feast Yali Sobol effective Israel advocate online Sarai Sahar-Polk Arsen Ostrovsky n Building fences or bridges? Efrat as n Israeli women in the IDF n Chavruta study—'The Meaning of a Case Study Naama Louria Life' Shmil Atlas Gary Robuck n World Vision blindsided in Gaza— n Moving moments n 'The Protocols of the Elders of regulating Australian charities to deter Benjamin Ezzes Zion'—antisemitic fake news funding of political violence n eBirds and iBees—the 'Talk' in the Lisa Sarzin Gregory Rose 21st century n Behind the scenes with a Knesset n Broadening the discourse—an Matt Friedman reporter Orthodox and a Masorti rabbi in conversation n Hidden histories—our LGBTIQ Lahav Harkov Lynda Ben-Menashe, Jeffrey Kamins, Gad Orthodox Australian stories n Parenting from the inside out Krebs Gávi Ansara Shimona Tzuckernick n From William Cooper to Ron n What do we mean when we talk n The Feuerstein Instrumental about Biblical Criticism? Castan—Jewish–Aboriginal Enrichment Program Gili Kugler partnerships for justice Ittay Flescher Helen Meyer n A brief history of Jewish–Christian relations Fred Morgan 2.45-3.45 pm 5-6 pm n Intermarriage—the parents' n In conversation with the perspective n Can you be a rational person and Israeli Embassy Debbie Scholem also feel God in the 21st century? Dorit Herscovich Danny Eisenberg n Our brothers' keepers? n One state, two states Uri Zaki 4-4.45 pm Nerya Meir, Uri Zaki n Smart and tough—Jewish identity in n Where should money go—Australia n Are bar and bat mitzvahs working? the works of David Mamet: Part I or Israel? Sharon Berger, Deborah Huber, Steven Goldstein Rafi Kaiserblueth Peter Phillipson, Gad Krebs, Yigal Nisell n 120 years since the First Zionist n Rereading Parashat Emor—thinking n Shehecheyanu—coming to presence Congress differently about Judaism and disability with wholeness and holiness Ron Weiser Sue Beecher, Toni Whitmont Melinda Jones n The BDS movement—goals and impact n Beyond Nebuchadnezzar—the n The racialised classroom in Nazi Oren Thaler 3,000-year-old Assyrian–Jewish Germany—from humiliation, to relationship segregation, to annihilation n Censorship and sensitivity Lynda Ben-Menashe, 'Azadoota', Ninos Michael Abrahams-Sprod Tommy Sterling Aaron, Yael Zirwanda n Resilience, happiness and n 1290: The destruction of English Jewry perspective—what modern psychology n Campus Jewry—fresh perspectives Benjamin Elton and Judaism have to say Benjamin Ezzes, Noam Hayman Neer Korn, Jacqueline Ninio, Rachel Setti n Surviving, thriving and parenting n Biblical films in the 21st century: after abuse What do they tell us about popular Dassi Erlich images of Jews? n The human genome and stem cells Don Perlgut n SOCIETY TODAY Yvonne Selecki, Elizabeth Finkel, n MEMORY & HISTORY Bernie Tuch n ARTS & CULTURE n Jewish yoga and meditation n ISRAEL & MIDDLE EAST Alla Melman, Orna Triguboff n JEWISH THOUGHT BOOK AT shalom.edu.au or 9381 4000 6.15-9 pm 8.15-9.15 pm n 'One of a Kind'—an exotic musical n Seeing Israel by Jewish Australians through different lenses Judy Campbell, Emma Cooperthwaite, Chris Sunday Liam Getreu, Shahar Burla, Yuli Dar, Joanna Fields, Mark Ginsburg, Stuart Van der Graaf, Kalowski, Mandi Katz Naomi Jandausch, Pauline Lazarus, Clare n Judaism is not a religion McCallum, Aaron Robuck, Michele Sadler, After Dark Jeffrey Kamins Sally Schinkel-Brown, Temujin Tera, Brendan Xavier n A short history of Jewish crime in Australia—from Ikey Solomon to Abe Saffron 6.15-7 pm 7.15-8 pm Robert M Kaplan n Brain bar: Is truth dead? n Jewish jokes n Leonard Cohen— Lahav Harkov, Cnaan Liphshiz, Sigal Samuel Rodney Marks Shades of Darkness, and light Melinda Jones n What ‘Orange Is the New Black’ n Australia and Israel—102 years of taught me about being Jewish intersections n Jews and the Nobel Prize Ittay Flescher Ron Weiser Yvonne Selecki n Business bar–biggest f*ups n Kabbalah of the bedroom Shternie Althaus 9.30-10.30 pm n Porn, young people and why it's all n Traditional Ashkenazi given names like dodge-em cars n Yali Sobol performs live Alexander Beider Matt Friedman Yali Sobol n Property prices—the most talked about topic in our community? Shirli Kirschner, Justin Doobov, Peter 7.15-9.15 pm Philippsohn n 'Roads to Reconnection'—film n The Limmud Design Lab Experiment: screening and Q&A change, challenge and collaborate— Jessica Jacoby redesign Limmud in 45 minutes! Angela Zinn 10.45-11.45 am n The new Middle East and why it matters—the dramatic geopolitical changes that are redefining the Middle Monday East 12 June Hagai Segal 9.30-10.30 am n Coming through the tunnel of loss and grief 12-12.45 pm n The presentation of Jews Amanda Gordon, Shua Solomon by three great English novelists n Smart and tough—Jewish identity Hilton Immerman n The God Who hates lies in the works of David Mamet: Part II Steve Greenberg Steven Goldstein n Rough neighbourhood— uncertain future for minorities in n The great escape—nine Jews who n The freedom to upset the Middle East fled Hitler and changed the world Yali Sobol Shirli Kirschner, Jihad Dib, Venus Khalessi, Brian Levitan John Langdale, Philip Ruddock n Israel’s position in the world—turn n Traces of the past, message to the your thinking upside down! n The Jubilee that tears us apart future—Jewish heritage in Poland today Yair Miller Uri Zaki Edyta Gawron n Modernity and Chassidism—conflict n Interfaith as mitzvah—the successes n Living harmoniously in a time of or complement? and pitfalls of dialogue with other terror? A schools' perspective Danny Yaffe religions Zalman Kastel, Taha Allam, Fred Morgan Samir Halbouni, Donna Jacobs Sife n A woman with a camera—Soviet espionage in interwar France n 'The Missing Mezzuzot of n Lost tribe—the re-emerging Jews of Ludmila Stern Zdunska Wola' Indonesia Estelle Rozinski David Kunin n Life stories Alice Nelson n How should we commemorate the n Politics 101: Interactive discussion Holocaust when there are no survivors on politics, the political landscape and n Romanian Jewry's arduous journey left? why Jews should be involved to civil recognition Anthony Levin, Rachel Flitman, Danny William Nemesh, Natalee Pozniak Otto Waldmann Hochberg, Ari Lander n What is our role as Jewish n B'nai B'rith game changers—past, n The contested origins of Ashkenazi Australians for asylum seekers today? present and into the future Jews Creative solutions for building empathy Etty Ayalon, Steven Ligoff, Teneille Murray, Alexander Beider Adrienne O'Dell, Gary Samowitz Gary Samowitz, Lucy Steigrad n Demography, intermarriage and the n Hate, experience and text Australian Jewish future? Zalman Kastel, Taha Allam, Wesam David Graham Charkawi, Patrick McInerney, Matt Quinn BOOK AT shalom.edu.au or 9381 4000 1-1.45 pm 2-2.30 pm n Answering the tough questions on n Wake up, shake up! Israel Dean Kaplan Arsen Ostrovsky n Gush Etzion 50 Years Later: The true n Zionism and feminism Zionist dream or an obstacle to peace? Lahav Harkov Shmil Atlas n Speed Chavruta—'Life and Death' n Jewish-studies teaching with a Monday Gary Robuck difference: What do Moshe and the Angels have in common with 21st- 12 June n Globalised, industrialised kosher century Instructional Design? Moshe Gutnick Royce Isacowitz n Seeding Jewish life beyond the hub n Meditation workshop George Foster, Tzuri Avila, Roni Cohavi, Shimona Tzuckernick 2.45-3.45 pm Leanne Shelton, Sarit Vandegraaff n The practice of Jewish psychotherapy n Express yourself n Catherine Rachel Mendes da Costa— Gávi Ansara Liron Cohen the amazing story of the first-ever n Gesher - A new way to engage female Jewish painter n The multicultural world of Israeli Henry R.