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Limmud OZ + NZ Online 2020

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Deborah Stone

Deborah is a writer, speaker and communications consultant. An award-winning journalist, she is a former feature writer on The Age, former Editor of ArtsHub, and former Editor of the Australian Jewish News. She has worked in communications and as an executive in the arts, community, and higher education sectors.

7:15pm AEST

Havdallah ROOM 1

8:00pm AEST

Coronavirus Comfort Reading: Books to Make You Feel Better During a Pandemic ROOM 6Tali Lavi • Elissa Goldstein

9:00pm AEST

Once upon a time In Yavneh ROOM 7Thomas Sterling

10:00am AEST

From the Mountain to the Sea: The Transmission of Oral Torah ROOM 7Simon Holloway

11:00am AEST

Rediscovering a forgotten chapter of Jewish history ROOM 4Raphael Dascalu

12:00pm AEST

Israeli humour: the (funny) story of the country ROOM 5Sefi Shalam

10:00am AEST

2020 in the United States: how the Jewish vote is changing and why it matters ROOM 3Ron Kampeas

11:00am AEST

European Orientalist arts and the Jews ROOM 12Helen Webberley

12:00pm AEST

An arrow in the eye of Satan! Judaism, disgust and morality: Qiddushin 81a-b ROOM 1Jeffrey Rubenstein

6:30pm AEST

Israel’s Inexplicably Robust Democracy: Its Strengths, Weaknesses and Surprising Origins ROOM 13Haviv Rettig Gur

7:30pm AEST

60 minutes - Iron Lion Zion - songs of Zion ROOM 6Gary Holzman

8:30pm AEST

Why Bibi wins and why you don't get it ROOM 11Zachary Gomo

8:00pm AEST

Krakow. New York. Melbourne: new cultural organisations ruffling feathers and reconnecting communities ROOM 10Lior Albeck-Ripka • Michael Rubenfeld • Magda Rubenfeld Koralewska • Molly Tolsky

9:00pm AEST

The demise of liberal democracy as seen through “The West Wing” ROOM 5Liam Getreu

11:00am AEST

A tour of Jewish medieval Spain ROOM 16Paul Forgasz

12:00pm AEST

Text and the City: a Hebrew lesson through the walls of Tel Aviv ROOM 9Guy Sharett

6:30pm AEST

Why the Jews abandoned the ancient Hebrew alphabet ROOM 7Ari Lobel

7:30pm AEST

Oy, how we laughed ROOM 6Rachel Creeger “Complicated Times”: How to talk (and think) about Israel through a pandemic, three elections, a prime minister on trial, and other quandaries ROOM 4Allison Kaplan Sommer • Noah Efron

8:30pm AEST

Moses: Muslim and Jewish Perspectives ROOM 13Calisha Bennett • Farhan Khalil • Zalman Kastel

10:00am AEST

RESCHEDULED - Jews and the Irish: Why was Leopold Bloom central to James Joyce's Ulysses? ROOM 1Bryan Cheyette