Limmud Oz Melbourne 2025: Grid

Welcome to the program for Limmud Oz Melbourne 2025!

Join us for an immersive weekend festival of Jewish ideas and culture, with >100 presenters and sessions to choose from.
From Ben-Gurion to bagels, Yentl to yoga, we always have something for everyone. Limmud is an opportunity for you to cultivate a personal Jewish experience and learn from presenters you might never come across otherwise.

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BM Oz	RG Hall - Room 12

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Why do people kill each other? A case study of the first murder... 3:30pm - 4:30pm

All you need is love 4:45pm - 5:45pm

Gala Concert: Me + 1 - Jewish songwriters 7:45pm - 9:00pm

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A Jewish roadtrip through Nineteenth-Century Yemen 9:30am - 10:30am

Not in God's Name: Confronting religious violence - why are reli... 10:45am - 11:45am

Australian Jewish stories 12:00pm - 1:00pm

The power of listening: healing across divides 1:15pm - 2:15pm

Can a dog be Jewish? 2:45pm - 3:45pm

Beyond the scoreboard: safeguarding Jewish participants in sport... 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Parallel fronts- 330 days together and apart 10:45am - 11:45am

My Holocaust story as a Zionist 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Talmud in a nutshell 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Holy mischief: Jews and Muslims continue to gather since October... 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Myth and Mishnah 5:15pm - 6:15pm

Chains of dilemma: Judaism, ethics and hostage deals 10:45am - 11:45am

What does the Bible say about Hhmosexuality? 12:00pm - 1:00pm

What does the Torah say about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Emotional men and proactive women - how women shape Jewish histo... 2:45pm - 3:45pm

Likhlukhit - the woman who was so ugly her husband divorced her:... 4:00pm - 5:00pm

70 faces: reading queerness into Torah study 5:15pm - 6:15pm

The ABCD's of the future of Israel and Palestine: articulating f... 9:30am - 10:30am

Talmudic stories: from history to literature 10:45am - 11:45am

Arab citizens of Israel, a community in crisis 12:00pm - 1:00pm

From trauma to tomorrow: A look at Jewish and Israeli identity p... 1:15pm - 2:15pm

The narrative art of Talmudic stories 2:45pm - 3:45pm

Yiddish revolutionary and resistance songs 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Big Macher Trivia: the Jewish-themed quiz 5:15pm - 6:15pm

School band rocks 10:45am - 11:45am

Sunday concert: Me + 1 - Jewish instrumental music 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Writing life as a Jew 10:45am - 11:45am

The politics of antisemitism 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Step into our office: Three Jewish therapists explore the impact... 1:15pm - 2:15pm

Jewish mindfulness 2:45pm - 3:45pm

Leonard Cohen: the greatest Jewish modern poet, singer and write... 4:00pm - 5:00pm

'Any requests for your favourite song?' David Rothberg - singer/... 5:15pm - 6:15pm

Anne Frank's memory keeper: documenting the story of Hannah Pick... 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Creative ways to build memory today: How I rebuilt the Gentilli... 10:45am - 11:45am

Listen your way to peace 12:00pm - 1:00pm

New trends in food and wine in Israel 1:15pm - 2:15pm

Fighting for the enemy: Jews who fought for the Nazis 2:45pm - 3:45pm

The four sons and their stories 4:00pm - 5:00pm

The life and liturgical music of Syrian Jews 5:15pm - 6:15pm

Sitting on the couch with Lenny Bruce and the Kotsk Rebbe; Jewis... 10:45am - 11:45am

We should all be hoarders: the Cairo genizah 12:00pm - 1:00pm

The colour of Jews in a white Australia 1:15pm - 2:15pm

Learn some Klezmer with the Melbourne Klezmer School 2:45pm - 3:45pm

The Israelisation of American Judaism 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Kol Nidrei controversy: a millennium of Jewish arguments about t... 5:15pm - 6:15pm

The October 7 2023 progrom was neither new or unexpected. What i... 10:45am - 11:45am

The Jewish genre book challenge 12:00pm - 1:00pm

The extent of antisemitism in Australia: a review of the evidenc... 1:30pm - 2:30pm

How does our community support the status quo? 2:45pm - 3:45pm

The state of two states: why now is the urgent time for peace 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Jerusalem If I Forget You - Jerusalem's seam lines 5:15pm - 6:15pm

Yiddish theatre and American popular music 10:45am - 11:45am

Medicine, Nazism and the Holocaust 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan - Torah, Kabbalah, the Holocaust, Sholem Aleichem: themes and connections 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Covering the war: challenges and opportunities 5:15pm - 6:15pm

Bibi the betrayer (boged)! - at least as claimed by about half o... 10:45am - 11:45am

The art of disagreement and dialogue 12:00pm - 2:00pm

120 years has come and gone: what's with the Bundists right now? 2:45pm - 3:45pm

Everything you wanted to know about Jewish sex (but were afraid... 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Wehrwolf 5:15pm - 6:15pm

What is woke ideology and why is it bad for the Jews? 10:45am - 11:45am

Jewish meditation and Kabbalah wellbeing 12:00pm - 1:00pm

These are her names: remarkable Jewish women you should meet 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Second generation Holocaust legacies: reconciling rejected faith... 2:45pm - 3:45pm

Ashamed to Admit podcast live 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Jewish spiritual ecology – a Torah of the earth 5:15pm - 6:15pm

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Facing forgiveness: an experiential encounter for the soul 9:30am - 10:30am

Jews, Greeks and the Letter to Aristeas 10:45am - 11:45am

Different responses to crises- post Oct 7 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Jewish filmmakers: Jewish films 1:15pm - 2:15pm

The story-cycle in the Talmud 2:45pm - 3:45pm

Changing tactics in Gaza: Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir's new approa... 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Whither the Jewish future? The wisdom of five daughters from Tor... 10:45am - 11:45am

Ransoming hostages: an halachic perspective 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Education for pluralism in Israel today 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Joy as resistance: reclaiming light in a darkened world 2:45pm - 3:45pm

History of Jewish surnames – their origins, types and etymologie... 4:00pm - 5:00pm

The world we knew: a Torah of loss and grief 9:30am - 10:30am

The intimacies of friendship — what have we learned from Shavuot... 10:45am - 11:45am

The maid of R’ Judah the Prince: knowledge, power and privilege... 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Humans in the image of God: a transformational idea 1:30pm - 2:30pm

The Shapira scroll: a modern forgery or the most ancient Biblica... 2:45pm - 3:45pm

Speaking truth to power - how Jewish leaders are encouraged to h... 4:00pm - 5:00pm

From the Jerusalem Talmud to the Babylonian Talmud: the reworkin... 9:30am - 10:30am

What’s new under the sun? Past, present and future explorations 10:45am - 11:45am

“I was not living until the day I began teaching”: A medieval Je... 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Why what happens in the West Bank never stays in the West Bank 1:15pm - 2:15pm

Jillian Segal in conversation 2:45pm - 3:45pm

Postcard from Israel’s protest frontlines: the agony and fight o... 4:00pm - 5:00pm

A collective voice: Ha`Lev`s musical response 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Every Body: dissecting body image in the Jewish community 1:15pm - 2:15pm

Tryptich I: next generation musi... 5:15pm - 5:45pm

Tryptich II: Tisch! 5:45pm - 6:15pm

Tryptich III: Fifth of Nisan 6:15pm - 6:45pm

Not in our community: addressing Melbourne’s Jewish youth homele... 10:45am - 11:45am

Orthodox politics and religious identity in the 21st century 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Jews and musical theatre 1:15pm - 2:15pm

What are the core innovations of Kabbalah and how have they chan... 2:45pm - 3:45pm

Popular Jewish music 4:00pm - 5:00pm

A region in flux: explaining the changes and challengers in the... 10:45am - 11:45am

Michael John Davies (Me'ir ben Ya'akov): new information on a no... 12:00pm - 1:00pm

The October 7 2023 progrom was neither new or unexpected: what i... 1:15pm - 2:15pm

The effect of the Gaza war on the Middle East 2:45pm - 3:45pm

Golem girls of the 21st century 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Engaging with Israel in the era of Smotrich and Ben-Gvir: a guid... 10:45am - 11:45am

Challenges and triumphs: boundaries, chesed and the practicaliti... 12:00pm - 1:00pm

The Jewish married life of a straight, religious homosexual 1:15pm - 2:15pm

Shira b'tsibur 2:45pm - 3:45pm

Dreaming of Jerusalem 10:45am - 11:45am

Linda Gradstein: in conversation 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lawfare 1:30pm - 2:30pm

A Black Jewish Prince and his quest to save the Jews 2:45pm - 3:45pm

The story of self 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Some thoughts on the writing of “Everything Goes to The Dogs”: t... 10:45am - 11:45am

Can the centre hold? 12:00pm - 1:00pm

The last Jew in Labor 1:30pm - 2:30pm

The 'next step' on the long road to peace in Israel-Palestine 2:45pm - 3:45pm

When are Jewish texts not relevant? 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Putting your case to the media 10:45am - 11:45am

The Lessons my Holocaust survivor mother taught me about overcom... 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Synagogues of Melbourne: the diversity of our Jewish community 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Understanding anti-zionism 2:45pm - 3:45pm

So you want to write your family story? An author tells you why... 4:00pm - 5:00pm

The changing Australian Jewish population: findings of the 2021... 10:45am - 11:45am

Upstander education for an anxious community 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Israel uncovered 2:45pm - 3:45pm

Why interfaith dialogue is more important in a post October 7 wo... 4:00pm - 5:00pm