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LIMMUD NZ 2012

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12:30pm NZST

Lunch & Learn 1

2:15pm NZST

From Rationalist to (Not Quite) Hassid 1 Managing your Life and Soul with the Rambam 3 Sporting Success? Jews & the Olympic Games 2

3:30pm NZST

Are Strong Women Born or Made? The Book of Esther, Session 1 3 Jewish Meditation 1 Stories of Peace and Shabbat 2

4:30pm NZST

Seuda Shlishit/Singing 1

4:45pm NZST

The Stories Behind 'Tracing' 2

5:30pm NZST

How can you have free will if God already knows what you are going to do? 2 Israel, New Zealand & Me 1 Mindfulness & Ageing 3

6:30pm NZST

Ma'ariv 1

6:50pm NZST

Havdalah 1

7:30pm NZST

Visioning the Divine 2 About the Oranges 1 Short Film: The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis 3

9:00pm NZST

Music in the Tent 2 The Prophet and the Prostitute 1

8:00am NZST

Registration, Coffee 1

8:30am NZST

Welcome 1

9:00am NZST

A Guide to the Guide (for the Perplexed) 2 A Taste of Yiddish 3 Surprisingly Happy - A Spiritual Autobiography 5 The clash of Liberalism & Zionism 6 The demonisation of Vashti. The Book of Esther, Session 2 1 Unlocking the Talmudic page – understanding the Jewish hypertext 4

10:15am NZST

Anna Funder and Jacqueline Knight-Klisser in conversation 2 Are we all thieves? - Intellectual Property & Halacha 6 Avodah Aravit - An Arab comedian’s view of Israel 3 Can Art Heal? 5 Jews & Freedom of Religion 4 Short Film: 'On Leave' 7 The Israeli Social Justice Protests : How a Facebook Post Could Change the Future of Israel 1

11:30am NZST

Bloch & Chassidic Music – recital and discussion 2 Debate - Is Halachah still necessary? 1 Israel and the Haredim 6 Mindfulness and Parenting 5 Short Film: 'Take Note' 7 The Enlightenment & the first Hebrew newspaper 3 Vittorio De Sica's film - The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 4

12:30pm NZST

Lunch 1

1:30pm NZST

Conversion & the Israeli Army 5 Growing up Jewish in Herne Bay post WWI 4 Jewish Education - what works and what doesn't 2 Music as a cultural bridge in the Middle East 6 Religious Belief and Make-Believe 3 Short Film: 'Mapping' 7 The Churches of the Warsaw Ghetto 1

2:45pm NZST

Delving into the Holocaust 2 Dilemmas in Humanitarian Work – an Israeli perspective 6 Funny, You Don’t Look Jewish - Significant Questions about Jewish identity 1 Israeli Dancing for beginners & intermediates 4 Moriah Kindergarten: Implementing our Values 3 Strangers in Our Land - The African Refugee Crisis in Israel 7 The Impact of Jewish Spirituality 5

4:00pm NZST

Is there a Jewish Narnia? 5 Keeping the Yiddishkeit Alive - surviving & thriving after the Christchurch earthquake 2 Music in response to the Holocaust 6 The Kibbutz – a Jewish social experiment 3 Understanding God via Architecture 1 What is Jewish History? 4

5:15pm NZST

A Taste of Florence Melton – The Israel/Diaspora Relationship 3 Jews from Palestine and Arabs from Israel 1 Short Film: 'Tasnim' 6 The Ethiopian Jewish Connection 4 The Online Jewish Museum - A World First 2 The Voice of Achasverosh. The Book of Esther, Session 3 7 When I’m 64 – The development of Israeli Pop Music 5

6:15pm NZST

Closing Celebration & Thanks! 1

6:30pm NZST

Finale Event: A Concert with Jonathan Besser & Gimel, and Carolina Moon singing Sephardic Songs 1