Limmud Oz Melbourne 2025

Limmud Oz Melbourne 2025

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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3:30pm AEST

Why do people kill each other? A case study of the first murder in history BM OzAlex Sinclair

4:45pm AEST

All you need is love BM OzLindsay Simmonds

7:45pm AEST

Gala Concert: Me + 1 - Jewish songwriters RG Hall - Rm 12Ari Jacob • Shira Etzion • Anita Lester • Rita Satch • Jonothan Skovron • Adam Starr

9:30am AEST

The ABCD's of the future of Israel and Palestine: articulating four potential options for the future, and assessing the chances for each MG.04 - Rm 1 (MPR)Alex Sinclair A Jewish roadtrip through Nineteenth-Century Yemen M1.02 - Rm 10Alan Verskin

10:45am AEST

School band rocks RG Hall - Rm 12Adam Starr Sitting on the couch with Lenny Bruce and the Kotsk Rebbe; Jewish humour and the thirst for truth RG1.17 (ensemble room) - Rm 8Tal Spinrad Yiddish theatre and American popular music SG.10 - Rm 5Mark Kligman Bibi the betrayer (boged)! - at least as claimed by about half of the Israeli population 🤔 SG.11 - Rm 6Emmanuel Gruzman Parallel fronts- 330 days together and apart M1.03 - Rm 2Sara Ribner-Grabin • Gabi Grabin Creative ways to build memory today: How I rebuilt the Gentilli family story RG.04 - Rm 11Denis Passalent Writing life as a Jew RG.03 (theatrette) - Rm 9Michael Gawenda The October 7 2023 progrom was neither new or unexpected. What is unique is how it has affected the Melbourne Jewish Community 1 SG.08 - Rm 4John Zeleznikow What is woke ideology and why is it bad for the Jews? SG.12 - Rm 7Melinda Jones Chains of dilemma: Judaism, ethics and hostage deals M1.05 (Informal) - Rm 3Jeremy Stowe-Lindner Not in God's Name: Confronting religious violence - why are religion and violence so intertwined and (how) can they be disentangled? M1.02 - Rm 10Lindsay Simmonds Talmudic stories: from history to literature MG.04 - Rm 1 (MPR)Jeffrey Rubenstein

12:00pm AEST

The Jewish genre book challenge SG.08 - Rm 4Danielle Jones-Resnik Arab citizens of Israel, a community in crisis MG.04 - Rm 1 (MPR)Dina Kraft Australian Jewish stories M1.02 - Rm 10Kim Rubenstein • Cohava Rubenstein Sturgess Medicine, Nazism and the Holocaust SG.10 - Rm 5Jack Green My Holocaust story as a Zionist M1.03 - Rm 2Dita Gould We should all be hoarders: the Cairo genizah RG1.17 (ensemble room) - Rm 8Shoshana Gottlieb Jewish meditation and Kabbalah wellbeing SG.12 - Rm 7Orna Triguboff Listen your way to peace RG.04 - Rm 11Donna Jacobs Sife The politics of antisemitism RG.03 (theatrette) - Rm 9Joshua Shanes What does the Bible say about Hhmosexuality? M1.05 (Informal) - Rm 3Idan Dorshav Dershowitz The art of disagreement and dialogue SG.11 - Rm 6Shamir Caplan • Daniel Heller

1:15pm AEST

New trends in food and wine in Israel RG.04 - Rm 11Linda Gradstein The colour of Jews in a white Australia RG1.17 (ensemble room) - Rm 8Sarah Charak From trauma to tomorrow: A look at Jewish and Israeli identity post-October 7th MG.04 - Rm 1 (MPR)Alex Sinclair The power of listening: healing across divides M1.02 - Rm 10Esther Takac • Tony Heselev

1:30pm AEST

These are her names: remarkable Jewish women you should meet SG.12 - Rm 7Sidra Moshinsky The extent of antisemitism in Australia: a review of the evidence SG.08 - Rm 4Andrew Markus Talmud in a nutshell M1.03 - Rm 2Raphael Dascalu What does the Torah say about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? M1.05 (Informal) - Rm 3Ilan Bloch Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan - Torah, Kabbalah, the Holocaust, Sholem Aleichem: themes and connections SG.10 - Rm 5Myer Bloom

2:45pm AEST

Learn some Klezmer with the Melbourne Klezmer School RG1.17 (ensemble room) - Rm 8Adam Starr • Amy Zakar Banner How does our community support the status quo? SG.08 - Rm 4Russell Goldblatt • Isabella Satz • Hannah Sharp • Talia Slonim Can a dog be Jewish? M1.02 - Rm 10Julie Szego Fighting for the enemy: Jews who fought for the Nazis RG.04 - Rm 11Jeremy Stowe-Lindner Second generation Holocaust legacies: reconciling rejected faith and personal perspectives SG.12 - Rm 7Louise Helfgott Jewish mindfulness RG.03 (theatrette) - Rm 9Zohar Safra 120 years has come and gone: what's with the Bundists right now? SG.11 - Rm 6Layla Carmeli-Wolski • David Slucki Emotional men and proactive women - how women shape Jewish history M1.05 (Informal) - Rm 3Lindsay Simmonds The narrative art of Talmudic stories MG.04 - Rm 1 (MPR)Jeffrey Rubenstein

4:00pm AEST

Leonard Cohen: the greatest Jewish modern poet, singer and writer RG.03 (theatrette) - Rm 9Helen Webberley The four sons and their stories RG.04 - Rm 11Gabrielle Shroot Yiddish revolutionary and resistance songs MG.04 - Rm 1 (MPR)Tomi Kalinski • Mir Kumen On Choir The state of two states: why now is the urgent time for peace SG.08 - Rm 4Michael Chaitow Everything you wanted to know about Jewish sex (but were afraid to ask) SG.11 - Rm 6Miriam Dolnikov Ashamed to Admit podcast live SG.12 - Rm 7Dash Lawrence • Ralph Genende • Allison Conyer • Tami Sussman The Israelisation of American Judaism RG1.17 (ensemble room) - Rm 8Joshua Shanes Beyond the scoreboard: safeguarding Jewish participants in sports M1.02 - Rm 10Jacquie Seemann Charak • Ashley Browne Holy mischief: Jews and Muslims continue to gather since October 2023. the power of disruptive dialogue M1.03 - Rm 2Abe Schwarz • Hana Assafiri Likhlukhit - the woman who was so ugly her husband divorced her: a Talmudic exploration of beauty, the male gaze and female agency M1.05 (Informal) - Rm 3Adina Roth

5:15pm AEST

Big Macher Trivia: the Jewish-themed quiz MG.04 - Rm 1 (MPR)Dane Stern Jewish spiritual ecology – a Torah of the earth SG.12 - Rm 7Ben-Zion Weiss 'Any requests for your favourite song?' David Rothberg - singer/keyboard player of Jewish and popular music RG.03 (theatrette) - Rm 9David Rothberg The life and liturgical music of Syrian Jews RG.04 - Rm 11Mark Kligman Covering the war: challenges and opportunities SG.10 - Rm 5Linda Gradstein Jerusalem If I Forget You - Jerusalem's seam lines SG.08 - Rm 4Ilan Bloch Kol Nidrei controversy: a millennium of Jewish arguments about the famous Yom Kippur prayer RG1.17 (ensemble room) - Rm 8Alan Verskin Wehrwolf SG.11 - Rm 6Eugene Shafir 70 faces: reading queerness into Torah study M1.05 (Informal) - Rm 3Shoshana Gottlieb Myth and Mishnah M1.03 - Rm 2Raphael Dascalu

6:30pm AEST

Sunday concert: Me + 1 - Jewish instrumental music RG Hall - Rm 12Simon Starr • Amy Zakar Banner • Rachel Moshel • Josh Moshe • Yuval Ashkar • Daniel Mougerman • Adam Starr Anne Frank's memory keeper: documenting the story of Hannah Pick-Goslar RG.03 (theatrette) - Rm 9Dina Kraft

9:30am AEST

Facing forgiveness: an experiential encounter for the soul M1.02 - Rm 10Brandon Srot From the Jerusalem Talmud to the Babylonian Talmud: the reworking of stories and the Talmudic ethic of shame MG.04 - Rm 1 (MPR)Jeffrey Rubenstein The world we knew: a Torah of loss and grief M1.05 (Informal) - Rm 3Adina Roth

10:45am AEST

Dreaming of Jerusalem SG.08 - Rm 4Gabrielle Shroot A region in flux: explaining the changes and challengers in the Middle East RG.04 - Rm 11Bren Carlill Engaging with Israel in the era of Smotrich and Ben-Gvir: a guide for the perplexed, the despairing, and the petrified RG1.17 (ensemble room) - Rm 8Alex Sinclair Jews, Greeks and the Letter to Aristeas M1.02 - Rm 10Geoff Jenkins • Leon Sterling Not in our community: addressing Melbourne’s Jewish youth homelessness RG.03 (theatrette) - Rm 9Leah Boulton • Dassi Erlich Some thoughts on the writing of “Everything Goes to The Dogs”: the ethics of fiction and the telling of tales SG.10 - Rm 5Michael Schwartz What’s new under the sun? Past, present and future explorations MG.04 - Rm 1 (MPR)Sidra Moshinsky • Julie Szego • Melissa Castan • Ralph Genende Putting your case to the media SG.11 - Rm 6Jamie Hyams The changing Australian Jewish population: findings of the 2021 Census SG.12 - Rm 7Andrew Markus The intimacies of friendship — what have we learned from Shavuot? M1.05 (Informal) - Rm 3Lindsay Simmonds Whither the Jewish future? The wisdom of five daughters from Torah, Tevye and Jane Austen M1.03 - Rm 2Esther Jilovsky

12:00pm AEST

A collective voice: Ha`Lev`s musical response RG Hall - Rm 12Tonia Plack Barolsky • Ha'Lev choir • Corey Fooks Challenges and triumphs: boundaries, chesed and the practicalities of working with elders, students, and women on parole, in very remote Aboriginal communities RG1.17 (ensemble room) - Rm 8Esther Oliver Different responses to crises- post Oct 7 M1.02 - Rm 10Amanda Castelan-Starr Linda Gradstein: in conversation SG.08 - Rm 4Linda Gradstein Ransoming hostages: an halachic perspective M1.03 - Rm 2Ronnie Figdor Michael John Davies (Me'ir ben Ya'akov): new information on a notorious Jewish convict RG.04 - Rm 11Larry Stillman The Lessons my Holocaust survivor mother taught me about overcoming difficult times SG.11 - Rm 6Rachelle Unreich “I was not living until the day I began teaching”: A medieval Jewish woman explains to Moses Maimonides why she became a Bible teacher MG.04 - Rm 1 (MPR)Alan Verskin Orthodox politics and religious identity in the 21st century RG.03 (theatrette) - Rm 9Joshua Shanes Can the centre hold? SG.10 - Rm 5Josh Burns • Deborah Stone The maid of R’ Judah the Prince: knowledge, power and privilege in the Jewish community M1.05 (Informal) - Rm 3Sarah Charak

1:15pm AEST

Jewish filmmakers: Jewish films M1.02 - Rm 10Shaun Miller Jews and musical theatre RG.03 (theatrette) - Rm 9Mark Kligman The Jewish married life of a straight, religious homosexual RG1.17 (ensemble room) - Rm 8Ari Jacob Why what happens in the West Bank never stays in the West Bank MG.04 - Rm 1 (MPR)Dina Kraft Every Body: dissecting body image in the Jewish community RG Hall - Rm 12Ruby Kraner-Tucci • Elon Gersh • Jaimee Krawitz • Tami Sussman The October 7 2023 progrom was neither new or unexpected: what is unique is how it has affected the Melbourne Jewish community 2 RG.04 - Rm 11John Zeleznikow

1:30pm AEST

Education for pluralism in Israel today M1.03 - Rm 2Peri Sinclair Synagogues of Melbourne: the diversity of our Jewish community SG.11 - Rm 6Alex Kats Upstander education for an anxious community SG.12 - Rm 7Zoi Juvris Lawfare SG.08 - Rm 4Gregory Rose The last Jew in Labor SG.10 - Rm 5Adam Slonim Humans in the image of God: a transformational idea M1.05 (Informal) - Rm 3Raphael Dascalu

2:45pm AEST

Shira b'tsibur RG1.17 (ensemble room) - Rm 8Simon Starr • Adam Starr Israel uncovered SG.12 - Rm 7Erez Feinberg The 'next step' on the long road to peace in Israel-Palestine SG.10 - Rm 5David Cohan The effect of the Gaza war on the Middle East RG.04 - Rm 11Linda Gradstein A Black Jewish Prince and his quest to save the Jews SG.08 - Rm 4Alan Verskin Joy as resistance: reclaiming light in a darkened world M1.03 - Rm 2Ros Ben-Moshe Understanding anti-zionism SG.11 - Rm 6Melinda Jones What are the core innovations of Kabbalah and how have they changed Judaism? RG.03 (theatrette) - Rm 9Joshua Shanes Jillian Segal in conversation MG.04 - Rm 1 (MPR)Jillian Segal The Shapira scroll: a modern forgery or the most ancient Biblical manuscript ever discovered? M1.05 (Informal) - Rm 3Idan Dorshav Dershowitz The story-cycle in the Talmud M1.02 - Rm 10Jeffrey Rubenstein

4:00pm AEST

Golem girls of the 21st century RG.04 - Rm 11Shoshana Gottlieb Popular Jewish music RG.03 (theatrette) - Rm 9Mark Kligman Changing tactics in Gaza: Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir's new approach M1.02 - Rm 10Ahron Shapiro Postcard from Israel’s protest frontlines: the agony and fight of the hostage families and a nation MG.04 - Rm 1 (MPR)Dina Kraft History of Jewish surnames – their origins, types and etymologies M1.03 - Rm 2Bernie Kuran So you want to write your family story? An author tells you why you should SG.11 - Rm 6Rachelle Unreich Why interfaith dialogue is more important in a post October 7 world SG.12 - Rm 7Alex Kats Schools, religion and the law: an unholy alliance RG1.17 (ensemble room) - Rm 8Jacquie Seemann Charak The story of self SG.08 - Rm 4Danielle Jones-Resnik Speaking truth to power - how Jewish leaders are encouraged to hold authority to account M1.05 (Informal) - Rm 3Lindsay Simmonds When are Jewish texts not relevant? SG.10 - Rm 5Shamir Caplan

5:15pm AEST

Tryptich I: next generation musicians RG Hall - Rm 12Anouchka Starr • Reuben Goldfarb • Shira Vorcheimer • Adam Starr

5:45pm AEST

Tryptich II: Tisch! RG Hall - Rm 12Adam Starr • Noam Sendor

6:15pm AEST

Tryptich III: Fifth of Nisan RG Hall - Rm 12Rachel Moshel • Fifth of Nisan

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