This event has ended. Visit the official site or create your own event on Sched.

Limmud OZ + NZ Online 2020

In order to have access to this event in its entirety, BOOK TICKETS HERE!
You will receive more information on accessing sessions in the days leading up to the event.

Please be aware that all times are scheduled according to Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). Should you wish to visualise the schedule in your local time zone, see the "Timezone" button on the right hand side.

For a selection of published works by Limmud presenters, click here.

Paula Darvas

P Darvas & Co
Principal solicitor
Australia

A progressive Jew, solicitor, academic, citizen and parent! All things:
--> theate, literature, arts
--> politics, law, philosophy, ideas and current affairs
--> science - sustainability: adaptation + mitigation of climate emergency

7:15pm AEST

Havdallah ROOM 1

10:00am AEST

The novel that inspired JoJo Rabbit and the relevance of Holocaust literature today ROOM 3Christine Leunens • David Cohen

12:00pm AEST

A flicker of light in a dark world: three remarkable stories of rescue during World War Two ROOM 7Julie Meadows • Tony Weldon • Harry Better • Leon Kempler • Eve Graham

6:30pm AEST

Israel that you don't know ROOM 3Hen Mazzig Bending spoons and autism: a spectrum guide to Jewish humour and the search for reality ROOM 7Tal Spinrad Politics in Lockdown ROOM 1Shirli Kirschner • Josh Burns • Dave Sharma The Pub THE PUB

7:30pm AEST

In the Rabbi's Kitchen ROOM 8Alon Meltzer Is everything unprecedented? Gauging antisemitism in an age of hyperbole ROOM 6Jeremy Jones Koora Koora Nyitting: We Are Here ROOM 12Suzanne Kosowitz • Jesse Fleay • Stuart Rhine-Davis The Pub THE PUB

8:30pm AEST

A Comedy Evening ROOM 1Jude Perl • Jacob Sacher • Michael Shafar Forgiving difficult people ROOM 5Elliott Malamet The psychologist and the rabbi are In ROOM 3Jacqueline Ninio • Amanda Gordon Haredi Society and the Future of World Jewry ROOM 11David Newman

10:00am AEST

Discovering opportunity in a time of crisis ROOM 1Alison Jones 2020 in the United States: how the Jewish vote is changing and why it matters ROOM 3Ron Kampeas

11:00am AEST

From Moses to Greta: leadership lessons for facing up to climate change ROOM 6Mirele Goldsmith

12:00pm AEST

Being Green and Jewish ROOM 3Dan Coleman • Miriam Solomon • Maddy Blay • David Zyngier An arrow in the eye of Satan! Judaism, disgust and morality: Qiddushin 81a-b ROOM 1Jeffrey Rubenstein

6:30pm AEST

The Jewish Left, ASIO and the Move to the Right ROOM 11Michael Komesaroff

7:30pm AEST

Making sense of Israeli politics: Tal Schneider in conversation ROOM 4Shahar Burla • Tal Schneider The climate crisis and need for cooperation in the Middle East ROOM 2Ittay Flescher • Gidon Bromberg • Nada Majdalani • Yana Abu Taleb

8:30pm AEST

Daniel Cainer in virtual concert ROOM 3Daniel Cainer

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 Lessons from loss. Is there an ethical teaching moment in Holocaust experience? ROOM 4Avril Alba Trump’s peace plan: taking a closer look ROOM 6Oren Thaler

9:00pm AEST

Jewish filmmakers: Jewish films ROOM 1Shaun Miller • Danny Ben-Moshe • Eve Ash • Esther Takac

10:10pm AEST

Trivia with Dane (Pub Quiz) THE PUBDane Stern

10:00am AEST

Australian Sephardi memoirs and histories ROOM 7Myer Bloom

11:00am AEST

Israel and the Asia Pacific Region – New Frontiers ROOM 2Mark Sofer

12:00pm AEST

Social inclusion: what does it look like in these times? ROOM 3Ilan Abrahams • Ruth Barson • Gersh Lazarow • Gideon Reisner

6:30pm AEST

Walking with your inner spirit: cultivating an "understanding heart" ROOM 9Yiscah Smith Living in the age of Covid-19 ROOM 3Lisa Jackson Pulver There may be lots of laws in Judaism – but what does Judaism really think of lawyers? ROOM 1Marcus Solomon

7:30pm AEST

Mind Over Terror - 3 Weeks 2 Cities 1 Mission ROOM 14Dov Benyaacov-Kurtzman “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

Syrians and Israelis - but not at war: the refugee crisis ROOM 5Molly Bernstein What we mean when we talk about annexation ROOM 3Dahlia Scheindlin Jewish diaspora media: mission (virtually) impossible? ROOM 11Michael Visontay • Eetta Prince-Gibson Putting our money where our mouth is: super Jewish superannuation ROOM 15Elinor Hasenfratz • Shamir Caplan • Lillian Kline Undateable or superhuman? Perceptions of disability in Jewish community ROOM 7Hannah Brady • Sam Brady Moses: Muslim and Jewish Perspectives ROOM 13Calisha Bennett • Farhan Khalil • Zalman Kastel