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Limmud OZ + NZ Online 2020

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Dr Saif Azzawi

Australia Plastic Surgery
London then Melbourne, now Sydney and Next week Adelaide!

British- Iraqi, born in Baghdad to a medical family, studied Medicine in Scotland. Specialised in London, Graduated The Royal Military Academy joined the Army as a medical officer Arabic Linguist and cultural expert on Iraq and the Gulf region, re-learning Hebrew as been out of practice since age 13!

Now doing a fellowship in Plasic surgery in Australia. Father of two boys, loving being in Australia.
Interests include interfaith dialogue, the Talmudic origins of Islam, study of Jewish practices jewellery and beliefs that made their way to the wider Iraqi society.

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 5 things you should know about the Israeli economy and cheese ROOM 4Raph Managem

9:00pm AEST

Shabbes in Mecca: teaching Judaism to Muslims ROOM 3Elhanan Miller

10:00am AEST

Virtually a Jewish education ROOM 1Kobi Bloom • Daphna Levin-Kahn Controversies in Judaism: how the face of Judaism changed in Second Temple Era ROOM 13Ariel Tal Jews from Islamic lands ROOM 5Shannon Biederman From the Mountain to the Sea: The Transmission of Oral Torah ROOM 7Simon Holloway

10:45am AEST

Story time Kids roomPJ Library

11:00am AEST

Belonging: an exploration of self and home ROOM 16Carmella Grynberg • Shoshanna Jordan Rediscovering a forgotten chapter of Jewish history ROOM 4Raphael Dascalu

11:45am AEST

Story time Kids roomPJ Library

12:00pm AEST

Israeli humour: the (funny) story of the country ROOM 5Sefi Shalam Jewish contribution to climate science ROOM 3Brian Levitan

6:30pm AEST

Israel that you don't know ROOM 3Hen Mazzig How to convert the Pope: successful and failed attempts to bring the messiah ROOM 5David Solomon Politics in Lockdown ROOM 1Shirli Kirschner • Josh Burns • Dave Sharma

7:30pm AEST

A vision for a new Zionism ROOM 4Jonathan Sadoff Confused identities: Sir Peter Gluckman in conversation with Professor Paul Moon ROOM 14Peter Gluckman • Paul Moon

8:30pm AEST

How to innovate like an Israeli ROOM 13Janet Sernack Israel uncovered ROOM 7Erez Feinberg

10:00am AEST

Shavuot sing along and play Kids roomRivky Shuchat CANCELLED - Modern Koranic interpretation: the surprising Talmudic basis ROOM 13Jon Yaakov Gorr

10:30am AEST

The joy of Shabbat Kids roomRivky Shuchat

11:00am AEST

Jewish AND: multiple identities for a vibrant Jewish future ROOM 2Adam Chalom

12:00pm AEST

Story time Kids roomPJ Library 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 The Jews of Melbourne: views from abroad ROOM 9David Slucki • Rebecca Margolis

7:30pm AEST

Making sense of Israeli politics: Tal Schneider in conversation ROOM 4Shahar Burla • Tal Schneider A homicidal troll and the riddle of God’s name: identity in the digital age ROOM 8Miriam Herschlag Remember Amalek: hatred and genocide in the Bible ROOM 14Gili Kugler

8:30pm AEST

Emergence of Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity from 70-200 ROOM 5Leon Sterling • Geoff Jenkins Why can't I find God? ROOM 15Samuel Lebens

7:15pm AEST

Havdallah ROOM 1

8:00pm AEST

CHUTNEY Facebook LIVEBen Adler • Matt Druery • Oscar Gross • Paul Khodor • Ben Samuels Trump’s peace plan: taking a closer look ROOM 6Oren Thaler

9:00pm AEST

Jewish and Middle Eastern music fusion ROOM 7Keshet Kesh

10:00am AEST

Australian Sephardi memoirs and histories ROOM 7Myer Bloom “Mum why does he walk like that?” Kids roomMenucha Cooper Tikkun Olam: be careful what you ask for ROOM 9Mannie Gross

11:00am AEST

A tour of Jewish medieval Spain ROOM 16Paul Forgasz Welcoming a big-nosed supporter of evil whose people kill prophets ROOM 14Jeremy Jones

11:45am AEST

Story time Kids roomPJ Library

12:00pm AEST

Text and the City: a Hebrew lesson through the walls of Tel Aviv ROOM 9Guy Sharett Social inclusion: what does it look like in these times? ROOM 3Ilan Abrahams • Ruth Barson • Gersh Lazarow • Gideon Reisner

12:45pm AEST

Story time Kids roomPJ Library

6:30pm AEST

The secret code found in a Jewish woman’s prayer book ROOM 11Aliza Lavie How Jewish is the Jewish State? A look from the trenches ROOM 15Seth Farber Why the Jews abandoned the ancient Hebrew alphabet ROOM 7Ari Lobel The Pub THE PUB

7:30pm AEST

The religious thought of Israel Porush ROOM 2Benjamin Elton

8:30pm AEST

Syrians and Israelis - but not at war: the refugee crisis ROOM 5Molly Bernstein Moses: Muslim and Jewish Perspectives ROOM 13Calisha Bennett • Farhan Khalil • Zalman Kastel