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Politics Track
Monday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
'Exodus 1947' - the Ship that Launched a Nation
Ruth Gruber
Wednesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
'Operation: Last Chance': a Final Worldwide Effort to Track Down Nazi War Criminals
Efraim Zuroff
Tuesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
'The Birth of the Neocons: Jewish Political Thought in McCarthyite America'
Benjamin Tankel
Tuesday, 19:20 - 20:30 (Early Evening 2)
A Jewish-Zionist Constitution for the State of Israel
Israel Harel
Wednesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
A Regional Solution for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Israel Harel
Monday, 19:20 - 20:40 (Early Evening 2)
America, Israel, Iran, Iraq - the Middle-East and Western Foreign Policy in 2008 and Beyond
Hagai Segal
Monday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Anglican-Jewish Relationships
Guy Wilkinson
Tuesday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Antisemitism and Islamophobia
Richard Stone
Sunday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Archaeological Espionage - TE Lawrence and Leonard Woolley in Sinai 1913/14.
Stephen Rosenberg
Sunday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Armenia, Jews and Genocide
Mark Levene
Tuesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Assessing the Al Qaeda/Islamist Threat After the Failed London and Glasgow Attacks
Hagai Segal
Tuesday, 19:20 - 20:30 (Early Evening 2)
BBC Distortions About Israel: Two Case Studies
Andrew White
Sunday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Campus Antisemitism
Ruth Deech
Tuesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Can Nazi War Criminals Still Be Prosecuted in the 21st Century?
Efraim Zuroff
Tuesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Circles of Obligation
Ruth Messinger
Wednesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Come and Measure Your Carbon Footprint to Save the Planet!
Jess Gold
Monday, 09:20 - 10:50 (Chavruta)
Day Trip to Beth Shalom and Aegis Trust
Shoshana Bloom, Peter A. Geffen, Ruth Messinger
Wednesday, 15:50 - 17:00 (Late Afternoon)
Developing Dialogue Within the UK Jewish Community
Keith Kahn-Harris, Brian Klug, Clive Lawton
Tuesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Does Israel Really Need a Protective Wall?
Israel Harel
Tuesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Encounter Point
UK Jewish Film Festival, Lindsay Wittenberg
Wednesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Famous and Infamous Jews in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Lawrence Goldman
Tuesday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Genocide in Darfur - Our Responsibility
Ruth Messinger
Tuesday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Getting Israel's Messages Across: Winning Battles, Losing the War...?
Andrew White
Sunday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Global Fears and Urban Terrors
Victor Seidler
Wednesday, 15:50 - 17:00 (Late Afternoon)
Images and Perceptions of the Jewish People
Ruth Yaron
Sunday, 20:50 - 22:00 (Mid Evening)
Introduction to the Ideological and Security Roots of Jewish Settlement in Judea, Samaria and Gaza
Israel Harel
Tuesday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Is the Blood of Rabbis and Yeshiva Students Redder Than that of 'Ordinary' Jews? (1 of 2)
Efraim Zuroff
Wednesday, 19:20 - 20:30 (Early Evening 2)
Is the Blood of Rabbis and Yeshiva Students Redder Than that of 'Ordinary' Jews? (2 of 2)
Efraim Zuroff
Sunday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Israel Advocacy in Britain Today - the Views of an 'Atheist Gentile Zionist'
Lorna Fitzsimons
Wednesday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Israel as a Refuge for (Non-Jewish) Refugees?
Jean-Marc Liling
Tuesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Israel at 60: Rethinking Israel and the Diaspora (4 of 4)
David Newman
Monday, 09:20 - 10:50 (Chavruta)
Israel at 60: Seeking a Civil Society (2 of 4)
David Newman
Sunday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Israel at 60: the Crisis of Leadership (1 of 4)
David Newman
Tuesday, 09:20 - 10:50 (Chavruta)
Israel at 60: Where Is Israel? In the Middle East, Europe or the United States? (3 of 4)
David Newman
Sunday, 15:50 - 17:00 (Late Afternoon)
Israel in the Middle East - Strategic Overview
Ruth Yaron
Tuesday, 08:00 - 09:00 (Early Bird)
Israel's Fundamental Case: Let's Have a Dialogue.....
Andrew White
Monday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
Israel's Heroic Years - 1948-1967 (1 of 4)
Colin Shindler
Monday, 15:50 - 17:00 (Late Afternoon)
Israeli Politics for Beginners
Daniel Needlestone
Wednesday, 19:20 - 20:30 (Early Evening 2)
Jewish Self-Hatred: Myth or Reality?
Antony Lerman
Wednesday, 15:50 - 17:00 (Late Afternoon)
Jews in Germany or Jewish Germany?
Irene Runge
Wednesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Jews, News, and the Media in Israel
Bradley Burston
Sunday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Ken Livingstone and the Jews of London
Adrian Cohen
Monday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Knowledge Is the Beginning
UK Jewish Film Festival, Lindsay Wittenberg
Tuesday, 15:50 - 17:00 (Late Afternoon)
Limmud International - from 1 to 35 in Eight Years
Andrew Gilbert, Micah Gold, Elliott Goldstein, Clive Lawton, Mariano Schlimovich
Tuesday, 18:50 - 20:00 (Early Evening 1)
Morality and the IDF: a Soldier's Tale
Dan Kosky
Monday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
NGOs, the Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Exploitation of Human Rights
Dan Kosky
Wednesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Panel Discussion: 'What Will Anglo-Jewry Look Like in Twenty Years Time?'
Alastair Falk, Alexander Goldberg, Brian Klug, Antony Lerman
Monday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Panel Discussion: What Should Israel Learn from Nearly Two Years of Hamas Palestinian Government?
Bradley Burston, Israel Harel, Hagai Segal, Ruth Yaron
Wednesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Parliament and Israel
Louise Ellman
Sunday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Perspectives on the Academic Boycott
David Newman
Wednesday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Political Contacts at Every Level
Henry Grunwald
Wednesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Refugee Stories: Extracts from the Forthcoming Book 'Reluctant Refuge: the Story of Asylum in Britain'
Edie Friedman
Monday, 19:20 - 20:40 (Early Evening 2)
RenéCassin Presents: in Translation.
Naomi Soetendorp
Wednesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Secular and Religious Zionism: a Guide for the Perplexed
Colin Shindler
Sunday, 19:20 - 20:30 (Early Evening 2)
Stop the Boycott
Jeremy Newmark
Tuesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Stories the Media Ignores - Idealism, Creativity and Hope in Modern Israel
Andrew White
Monday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
The Clash of Civilizations
Avrum Burg
Wednesday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
The Elephant in the Room: What Do British Jews Not Talk About?
Alastair Falk, Alexander Goldberg, Rachel Ingram, Keith Kahn-Harris, Meirav Kallush, Antony Lerman, Raymond Simonson, Michael Wegier
Wednesday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
The Euphoria of Oslo and the Death of Rabin (3 of 4)
Colin Shindler
Wednesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
The Future of British Jews: Strategic Thinking for Our Community in the 21st Century
Alexander Goldberg
Tuesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
The Future of Zionism - Two Perspectives
David Breakstone, Avrum Burg, Hillel Halkin
Monday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
The International Campaign Against Antisemitism
Michael Whine
Monday, 18:50 - 20:10 (Early Evening 1)
The Jewish Energy Project - a Multi-Dimensional/Multi-Purpose Concept of Jewish Activity
Tsvi Bisk
Sunday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal and How He Tried to Shape Holocaust Memory
Efraim Zuroff
Tuesday, 15:50 - 17:00 (Late Afternoon)
The Media and the War on Terror
Ruth Yaron
Monday, 20:50 - 22:00 (Mid Evening)
The Need to Boycott Israel
Bradley Burston
Wednesday, 19:20 - 20:30 (Early Evening 2)
The Non-Military Reasons for the IDF's Unsatisfactory Performance in Lebanon in 2006
Israel Harel
Wednesday, 18:50 - 20:00 (Early Evening 1)
The Promised Land and the New World: Seeing Zion in America
Brian Klug
Tuesday, 15:50 - 17:00 (Late Afternoon)
The Sacred and the Secular: the Relationship Between Faith and Politics in Britain?
Zaki Cooper
Tuesday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
The Settlements and the Rise of the Right (2 of 4)
Colin Shindler
Thursday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
The Sharon Years: a Long Walk to Disaster? (4 of 4)
Colin Shindler
Tuesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
The West Wing's Guide to Judaism
Miriam Shindler
Tuesday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
UK Jewish Film Festival, Lindsay Wittenberg
Sunday, 15:50 - 17:00 (Late Afternoon)
War and Peace in the Middle-East - the Latest Developments
Hagai Segal
Wednesday, 19:20 - 20:30 (Early Evening 2)
What Could Jews and Tibetans Possibly Have in Common?
Marc Bergen, Jess Herman
Wednesday, 08:00 - 09:00 (Early Bird)
What Self-Hating Jews Can Teach Muslims
Bradley Burston
Wednesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Why Are So Many Leftists So Anti-Israel
Bradley Burston, Alan Dershowitz
Tuesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Why There Is No Palestine
Bradley Burston
Sunday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Midday)
Windows to Israeli Society - East and West and the In-Between
Revital Shloman
Tuesday, 15:50 - 17:00 (Late Afternoon)
Witness
Ruth Gruber
Monday, 18:50 - 20:10 (Early Evening 1)
Women in the Military
Ruth Yaron
Wednesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
World Poverty and Tsedakah - Charity or Justice?
Robert Stone
Wednesday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
Zionism and Its Discontents: Rights to the Land of Israel - Claims and Compromises (3 of 4)
Gideon Shimoni