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Limmud-Oz 2013

7:30pm AEST

Limmud-Oz Opening Ceremony Scientia Building Leighton Hall

8:00pm AEST

Is two states for two peoples still a viable solution? Scientia Building Tyree Room Chavruta - live and on stage! Scientia Building Gallery 2 Reading the past: The Holocaust in history and literature Scientia Building Ritchie Theatre Have we lost our Jewish values? Scientia Building Gallery 1

9:15pm AEST

Flamenco Sephardi Sounds Scientia Building Leighton Hall The threat of Iran Scientia Building Ritchie Theatre G-d is not righteous and the Torah is not moral Scientia Building Gallery 1 and 2 Jews as global citizens: Our responsibility in the world Scientia Building Tyree Room

9:30am AEST

Menachem Begin: The Prime Minister of the Jews Scientia Building Ritchie Theatre Pushing the parameters of being pro-Israel Engineering Building Room G6 Chavruta 1: Consumerism Scientia Building Farrell Room Judaism the ever changing? An 'Orthodox' perspective on Halachic creativity and where we see it in 2013 Scientia Building Gonski Room Freud, Jews & Judaism: The Jewish identity of the founder of psychoanalysis Scientia Building Alumni Room To capture the fire: The life and works of Elie Wiesel Scientia Building Gallery 1 Do some Jews truly 'hate' their Jewishness? Engineering Building Room G8 How to jail a terrorist on occupied soil? - What international military standards? Scientia Building Gallery 2 Oh no, it's subtitles! Continuing education Scientia Building Ronald Room Will the new Pope tango with the Jews? Engineering Building Room G1

10:45am AEST

Between the sheets: The current revolution in Jewish erotic and sexual literature Engineering Building Room G6 ‘Jewishness’ in classical music Engineering Building Room G8 A Jewish State - but how Jewish? Scientia Building Ritchie Theatre Israel and Palestine – daring to trust Scientia Building Tyree Room Judaism and Halacha mean rebellion Scientia Building Gallery 1 What's so special about the Shema? Scientia Building Alumni Room Revisiting Lithuania: a reconciliation journey Engineering Building Room G1 The kings of Algiers: How a Jewish trading house started a war Scientia Building Gallery 2 Why I do what I do: A personal Jewish journey Scientia Building Ronald Room Missing links in learning. Why is my child having a learning difficulty? (Double session) Scientia Building Gonski Room What makes a man a man - virtual mentoring of men Scientia Building Farrell Room

12:00pm AEST

'One of a Kind' - introduction to a new Jewish musical! Scientia Building Tyree Room Tevye transformed: Sholem Aleichem from page to stage and film Scientia Building Gallery 2 Israel and Cyprus: geography, energy politics and the future Engineering Building Room G1 The new Middle East: an Israeli perspective Scientia Building Ritchie Theatre Judaism and Halacha mean rebellion (continued) Scientia Building Gallery 1 Physics and the Shabbat switch Scientia Building Farrell Room Measuring death Engineering Building Room G8 Ess mein kinder: feeding children without guilt Scientia Building Alumni Room Missing links in learning. Why is my child having a learning difficulty? (Double session) Scientia Building Gonski Room Shape the future: tissue engineering and embryonic stem cells Scientia Building Ronald Room The power of racist insults? Engineering Building Room G6

1:15pm AEST

Israeli folk song unplugged! Scientia Building Tyree Room The elusive nature of justice Scientia Building Gallery 2 A Constitution for Israel Engineering Building Room G8 Rhetoric and reality in the Middle East Scientia Building Alumni Room Jewish responses in apartheid South Africa Scientia Building Farrell Room Rehabilitating the child: the Buchenwald Boys in post-war France Scientia Building Gonski Room The divine Sarah Bernhardt Scientia Building Ronald Room Bloody Israelis Scientia Building Ritchie Theatre Community elders reflect: successes and failures in education and community work Engineering Building Room G6 Om nom yom: Examining community celebrations and commemorations of the yoms Engineering Building Room G1 The underbelly of the Jewish community Scientia Building Gallery 1

2:30pm AEST

Performance Scientia Building Leighton Hall The Jew in Shakespeare Engineering Building Room G6 A Progressive Zionist response to attacks from the anti-Israel Left Scientia Building Ritchie Theatre Failing school system + 3 years army + Gap year in Thailand = Start-Up Nation? Engineering Building Room G8 'Counting teeth': the use of humour in the Rabbinic literature Scientia Building Alumni Room I'm under 18 and I do give a S*#! Scientia Building Gonski Room Jewish - Aboriginal cooperation Engineering Building Room G1 Jews of African lands Scientia Building Gallery 2 Singularly pluralistic - is pluralism good for our Jewish community? Scientia Building Farrell Room Women hold up half the sky Scientia Building Tyree Room

3:45pm AEST

The Dybbuk: star-crossed lovers in the shtetl Scientia Building Ritchie Theatre Seeking asylum in Israel Scientia Building Ronald Room The Australian media and Israel Engineering Building Room G6 Pledges of Jewish allegiance: What does conversion to Judaism really represent? Scientia Building Tyree Room Sects and the City (of 2nd Temple period Jerusalem) Engineering Building Room 101 Through the lens of the Holocaust: the traces of the Shoah in testimonies of the Cambodian genocide Scientia Building Gonski Room Holy Hate! Muslims and Jews Engineering Building Room G8 The triple threat? Anti-Israel sentiment, Australia and assimilation - South African Jewry in 2013 Engineering Building Room G1 Working mothers and stress Scientia Building Alumni Room

5:00pm AEST

Delegitimisation: hot air or high impact? Engineering Building Room G1 Everything you always wanted to know about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but thought it was too stupid to ask Scientia Building Tyree Room Pesach is early this year but we need to fix the Jewish calendar Engineering Building Room G6 Jewish Shanghai during WW2 Scientia Building Ronald Room Killing time, saving time: calendars and the Holocaust Scientia Building Ritchie Theatre 'Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea' - Film and panel Engineering Building Room 101 Fertility and our community Scientia Building Alumni Room Supporting our children’s angry and upset feelings Scientia Building Farrell Room

6:15pm AEST

Jew me, sue me: antisemitism in popular song Scientia Building Gallery 2 Am I a Zionist? From Aliyah to the IDF Engineering Building Room G8 Drafting the Ultra-Orthodox to the Israel Defence Forces Scientia Building Ritchie Theatre From 'Hatufim' to 'Homeland' Engineering Building Room G1 Spinoza, the scandal of a heretic ban and the drastic need for a radically different Jewish education Scientia Building Tyree Room “Women known for these acts” – lesbianism in halachah Engineering Building Room G6 Formations of memory: the shaping of Holocaust survivor testimonies Scientia Building Alumni Room The ghetto and the poet Scientia Building Ronald Room 'Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea' - Film and panel (continued) Engineering Building Room 101 What does Adelaide have to teach Jewish Australia? Scientia Building Farrell Room

7:30pm AEST

Jews your words! Scientia Building Gallery 2 Sing with a FULL Jewish heart: Take home songs from Ashkenaz, Sephard and Yemenite traditions Scientia Building Farrell Room Living in a movie Engineering Building Room 101 The conduit to freedom – the story of the secret back channel negotiations between Israel and Hamas for the release of Gilad Shalit Scientia Building Ritchie Theatre The G-d of truth and the Torah of truth: what's the truth? Scientia Building Gallery 1 Whisky and the treif wine barrel effect Scientia Building Gonski Room A drama of faith and family: custody disputes in post-liberation France Scientia Building Alumni Room Child sexual abuse – working together as a community Engineering Building Room G1 Tango and gefilte fish Scientia Building Ronald Room The Jewish community in 2035 - how bright is the future looking? Scientia Building Tyree Room

8:45pm AEST

'Ushpizin' Engineering Building Room G1 Performance Scientia Building Leighton Hall SuperJews: Jews and the invention of the comic book Scientia Building Tyree Room Israeli political activism and the social media revolution Scientia Building Ritchie Theatre The Jewish echo-chamber and the Israel debate Scientia Building Gallery 1 Moses on steroids Scientia Building Ronald Room Forgotten heroes of social change Scientia Building Alumni Room Don't tell Grandma I'm dating a gentile Scientia Building Farrell Room Living a Torah lifestyle as an intersex/trans/bisexual/lesbian/gay Jew Scientia Building Gallery 2 Living on Campus: Social scene, rite of passage or educationally advantageous? Scientia Building Gonski Room

10:00pm AEST

'Ushpizin' (continued) Engineering Building Room G1 Kosher gospel performance Scientia Building Leighton Hall Water and peace: Israel, Jordan and Palestine Scientia Building Gallery 2 Confidentiality & confession Scientia Building Gallery 1 Fighting hunger in a world of plenty - a grassroots approach Scientia Building Tyree Room

9:30am AEST

Artists' Beit Midrash Engineering Building Room 102 Yoga Scientia Building Tyree Room Israel's new (and old) security and defence challenges and responses Scientia Building Ritchie Theatre Observations of the Occupation: 2 Australian Zionists visit Hebron Scientia Building Alumni Room Chavruta 2: Work Scientia Building Farrell Room History, memory and the meaning of things Scientia Building Gallery 2 The wicked son - confessions of a self-hating Jew Scientia Building Ronald Room Becoming Australian - three generations Engineering Building Room G1 We are all believers now: Religion and democracy Scientia Building Gonski Room Why are American Jews mostly Liberals? Will that change in the future? Scientia Building Gallery 1

10:45am AEST

Artists' Beit Midrash (continued) Engineering Building Room 102 Stories of ghosts - G-d is in the detail Scientia Building Tyree Room Settlements: obstacles or necessary to peace? Scientia Building Alumni Room The Palestinian citizens of Israel: How to confront the reality of a Jewish nation-state with a large Palestinian-Arab minority Engineering Building Room G1 Did G-d really speak at Sinai? Scientia Building Gallery 1 Jewish feminism - the 'revolutionary' journey from the margins to the mainstream Scientia Building Gonski Room In conversation with Deborah Lipstadt Scientia Building Ritchie Theatre Dual citizenship in a globalising world Scientia Building Gallery 2 Jewish continuity and interfaith relationships: Are we on the right path? Scientia Building Ronald Room The UK's first pluralist Jewish secondary school Scientia Building Farrell Room

12:00pm AEST

Kosher gospel workshop Scientia Building Tyree Room From Cairo to Jerusalem: Obama's two very different trips to the region Scientia Building Gallery 1 Peace of water: The water crises in the Middle East and the next war Scientia Building Farrell Room Pro-Israel advocacy: Comparing America and Australia Engineering Building Room 102 Compromise, contradiction or conviction: Does Modern Orthodoxy really exist? Scientia Building Gallery 2 Revelatory silence, idolatrous noise: Does the still, small voice speak to us today? Scientia Building Gonski Room Film: Holocaust in Lithuania Engineering Building Room 101 From kippa to cossack in three generations Scientia Building Alumni Room My speech lifts, my speech sings: Writing during the Holocaust Scientia Building Ritchie Theatre The life and trial of Eugenia Falleni - the woman who lived for 22 years as a man Engineering Building Room G1 Deep ecology & conservation of nature Scientia Building Ronald Room

1:15pm AEST

Allan Sherman singalong Scientia Building Farrell Room How do we talk about Israel? Scientia Building Ritchie Theatre The Kotel – symbol of unity or division? Engineering Building Room G1 Is religion killing Judaism ? Scientia Building Gonski Room Journey of the soul - Kabbalah meditation Engineering Building Room 102 Film: Holocaust in Lithuania (continued) Engineering Building Room 101 The power of witnessing relational trauma: Recent advances in Holocaust trauma Scientia Building Alumni Room Getting our children to do as they are told Scientia Building Ronald Room Give me the numbers or tell me the story: Interrogating the impact of Jewish day schools Scientia Building Gallery 2 Justice, justice you shall pursue Scientia Building Gallery 1

2:30pm AEST

CURTAIN UP! – The Jewish influence on musicals in theatre and film Scientia Building Tyree Room Foreign policy and crisis management of Iran and the Palestinians Scientia Building Ritchie Theatre Israel and Australian Jewry - an unequal partnership? Engineering Building Room G1 Unsettling questions about the settlements Scientia Building Gallery 2 Unlocking the secrets of the Torah Scientia Building Alumni Room Moses and monotheism - a Jewish Freudian slip Engineering Building Room 102 My Mother's Spice Cupboard - A Journey from Baghdad to Bombay to Bondi Scientia Building Farrell Room Voices of the Holocaust: Why Survivors Choose to Talk Scientia Building Gallery 1 Jewed Out Scientia Building Gonski Room The ethics of money OR: What in the world was Bernie Madoff thinking? Engineering Building Room 101 YiddishPOP - a brand-new animated Yiddish language program Scientia Building Ronald Room

3:45pm AEST

The topic of the session = You Scientia Building Alumni Room Yiddish cabaret in Israel, Yinglish comedy in America, and the language(s) of Jewish humour Scientia Building Gallery 1 How Zionist really is our community? Engineering Building Room G1 The people, wanting everything, have so far got nothing Scientia Building Ritchie Theatre What do Jews believe? Scientia Building Gallery 2 Finding lost victims of the Holocaust Scientia Building Gonski Room The Jewish-Libyan connection Scientia Building Tyree Room Everyday ethical dilemmas Engineering Building Room 102 Personalities unravelled Scientia Building Farrell Room Why be Jewish? Engineering Building Room 101

4:45pm AEST

The topic of the session = You (continued) Scientia Building Alumni Room

5:00pm AEST

A musical celebration of Limmud-Oz Scientia Building Tyree Room Jews & Bollywood Engineering Building Room G1 Heritage - ensuring Israel's true story is told through fiction Scientia Building Gallery 2 The promise of Israel and its underappreciated message to humankind Scientia Building Ritchie Theatre Eternally other Scientia Building Gallery 1 From little things, big things grow Engineering Building Room 101 Talking and walking with Muslims: The 2013 Muslim/Jewish International Mission to Washington DC Scientia Building Gonski Room Women on top - intimate truths Engineering Building Room 102