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8:00am PST

Check-In R Building Lobby Breakfast R301 & R302

8:30am PST

Youth: Happy Birthday, Trees! R201Claire Baskett

8:45am PST

Turn It and Turn It: A Musical Conversation with Challenging Biblical Personalities R306Ilan Speizer A Story in Pictures: Illustrating Sholem Aleichem R208Nancy Current • Tamar Libicki Melodies for Martin R106CJon Wolf Philosophers Café: Portals of our Jewish Heritage R203Judi Gladstone Taking Power: A Mid-Course Correction in Jewish HistoryYitz Greenberg Single Jewish Parents Throughout History R308Shoshana Billik The Penultimate and Peculiar Connection Between the Nordic and Jewish Cultures R206Phyllis Rosen A Blessing for the Tsar!? Praying For or Against the Government R205Israel Geselowitz Successfully Bridging the Secular-Religious Divide R210Jason Feld Jewish Parenting with Intention R309Alayne Sulkin • Trea Shocken Diament • TBA Transforming Ourselves, Transforming the World R204Lisa Goldstein The Jewish Bookshelf - Session A R110Rivy Kletenik Science and Torah: Dichotomy or Magnificent Harmony? R101Lloyd Tucker The Ethic of Truthtelling and Lying: A Text Study R102Malka Popper Om Shalom - Exploring the Parshah Through Yoga R Dance StudioCherie Hershman Being Happy with One’s Portion: The Jewish Roots of Voluntary Simplicity R106BTony Abrams (formerly Ramsey)

9:15am PST

Youth: Mentschmaker, Mentschmaker, Make me a Mentsch R201David Moss Youth: Exploring Genesis R202Claire Baskett

10:00am PST

Youth: Snack / Break Activities R201

10:15am PST

Jewish Music Jam - Let's Play & Sing Together! R306Jay Krulewitch • Harvey Niebulski Jewish Scribal Arts R308Scott Emlen The Poems of Emma Lazarus R206Jodie Futornick Understanding Jewishness & Whiteness R203Cecily Kaplan • Rachel Zerrell From Cairo to Kindle: Jewish Identity, Values, and Books R204David Naggar Choosing to be Chosen R106CJoe Buchanan Ending the Agony of Agunot: Once and Forever R103Blu Greenberg Mumbayaleh!: A History of Jews in India R208Bevin Fritz-Waters • Masha Shtern Divine Providence vs. Free Will R102Shnai Levitin Israeli Politics 101 R210Elisheva Goldberg Comfort Shawls: Embracing the Cycle of Love and Loss R205Marge Eiseman Remixed: The New Jewish Family R309Samuel Klein The Jewish Bookshelf - Session B R110Rivy Kletenik Then the Land will Reclaim its Sabbaths: What does Jewish Agricultural Law offer the Urban Jew? R101Shoshanah Haberman • Naama Sadan What is Addiction and Why Should I Care? R209Miriam Green Ethical Wills as Creative Decision-Making Tools - Examining Jewish Legacy Documents R106BKindra Cooper

10:30am PST

Youth: Starting the New Year with the Trees (Ages 7-12 + Parents too!) R201Adina Polen

11:15am PST

Youth: Snack / Break Activities R201

11:30am PST

Youth: What's Jewish About Saving the World? A Guide for Jewish Youth on Connecting Jewish Practices With Care for the Earth (Ages 7-12 + Parents too!) R201Deirdre Gabbay Lunch R301 & R302

11:45am PST

Make 'Em Want to Sing! (Songleading Workshop) R306Beth Hamon Jonah ben Amitai, Inc.: A Theatrical Midrash R209Avi Dolgin A Hipster's Guide to Klezmer: A Record-Drop Tour of the Highlights R206Mai Li Pittard Girls in Trouble: A Creative Journey Through Women in Torah R204Alicia Jo Rabins Where Heaven and Earth Kiss: Jewish Law, Moral Reflection and Environmental Ethics R110Ariel Evan Mayse Jewish Spiritual Practice: The Art of Blessing R205Emily Meyer Starting the New Year with the Trees R202Adina Polen The Lifts and Blasts of Judaism R106CKevin Coskey • Daniel Markowitz • Sam Perlin • Alan Rodan Legitimate Criticism of Israel or Antisemitism? When Does it Cross the Line? R210Randy Kessler Israeli Education as a Catalyst for Strengthening Shared Society and Increasing Arab Workforce Integration R203Lisa Richlen • Gail Zucker Spiritual Gifts - How to Create an Ethical Will and Legacy Letter R106BRochelle Wynne Grandparenting Jewishly with Intention R309Linda Morgan • David Raphael Putting Jewish Values Into Practice in Healthcare Policymaking R208Yael Assor Kabbalah and Object Oriented Programming, Or What Came first. R102Yechezkel Rapoport Law & Order: A Jewish Perspective R101Kayla Higgins • David Warnock Advanced Practice: Dealing with Difficult People & Situations R103Lisa Goldstein Do We Really Love Anyone Unconditionally? Even Our Kids? R308Anne Andrew

12:15pm PST

Youth: Lunch R201

12:45pm PST

Youth: Jewish Scribal Arts R201Scott Emlen

1:15pm PST

Lunch R301 & R302 Music as a Powerful Gateway to Jewish Spirituality R306Ari Joshua Jewish Great Stories R209Barrie Rein Thunemann Chavruta: A Drummer's Bat Mitzvah: Screening and Discussion R103Alicia Jo Rabins • Lisa Schonberg Modern Jewish Klezmer Music: From Eastern Europe to America R106CJay Krulewitch The Aesthetics and Politics of Remembrance: Holocaust Memory in the German Capitol R206Tamar Benzikry • Ilana Segal Robicsek The Heretic, the Cleric and the Maverick: Unlikely Neighbors in Old Amsterdam R204Samuel Klein New! Holocaust Teaching Kits for Jewish Supplemental Schools R208Ilana Kennedy • Debra Siroka Tips for an Easier Passover R205Linda-Jo Greenberg Israel on Campus R110Dana Benson • Amee Sherer • Mendel Weingarten Results Over Rhetoric: Bringing the Left, Right and Center Together to Keep Israel Safe R210Wendy Rosen Making Your Home Playful and Joyful: Using Play, Toys, Games and Creativity in Building a Jewish Family and Joyful Traditions R309Turhan Karabey • Jenna Turner Textual and Social Activism in the Works of R. Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev R203Josh Weisman A Taste of Talmud: The Page, the People, the Pursuit R101Sheldon Goldberg Gender and the Non-binary in Torah and Kabbalah R102Fern Feldman 3 Questions that Map the Journey to Your Soul R106BShep Rosenman

1:30pm PST

Youth: Snack / Break Activities R201

1:45pm PST

Youth: Waterville or Desertville: Why Does the Torah Tell Two Different Creation Stories? (Ages 9-12 + Parents too!) R201Ruz Gulko Youth: Yoga for Kids (Ages 7-9) R202

2:30pm PST

Youth: Snack / Break Activities R201

2:45pm PST

Jewish Creativity: Torah Tree, Poetry and Bird Song R209Ken Shiovitz Drumming, Women and Judaism R306Lisa Schonberg Modern Day Immigration Insights from Sarah, Abraham, Hagar and Ishmael R203Jill Borodin Chassidut and Modernity R103Yechezkel Kornfeld What's Jewish about Saving the World? Why and How to Weave Faith-Based Practices Into Your Environmentalism and Vice Versa R208Deirdre Gabbay Yiddish Lebt! (Yiddish Is Alive!) R206Marianne Tatom The Hidden Joys of Researching a Holocaust Legacy R101Karen Treiger Israel’s Challenges from Within: Addressing the Fissures and Building Social Cohesion R110Laurence Wolff Non-Jewish Migrants in a Jewish State: Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Migrant Workers and their Children R210Yikealo Beyene • Lisa Richlen Marriage and Love R205Mordechai Farkash • Rachel Farkash Bar and Bat Mitzvah: Many Paths to a Meaningful Rite of Passage R309Lisa Colton • Sharon London • Scott Porad • Michael Sarko A New Hasidism: Roots and Branches R106CAriel Evan Mayse Halacha of the Future R308Harry Zeitlin How'd This Get Canonized? A Synthesis of Biblical Text, Mythology, and Meta-Halacha in Sukkah 5b R102Daniel Popper A Talmudic Witch-Hunt: Trans-ing the Boundaries of Identity, Magic, & Power R204Gilah Kletenik How Happiness Thinks R106BRabbi Elazar Bogomilsky

3:00pm PST

Youth: The Music Factory at Limmud: Enjoy Singing and Learn the Basic Building Blocks of Music, Harmony and Rhythm R201Ari Joshua

3:45pm PST

Youth: Closing Activity R201

4:00pm PST

Mincha Service - Egalitarian Minyan R305 Mincha Service - Traditional Minyan R311

4:15pm PST

Singing the New Jewish Songbook R306Dov Gartenberg • Chava Mirel Make Your Own Challah! R208Masha Shtern Jewish Art Jumping Off The Page R103David Moss Limmud Leadership - Is This For You? R204Cara Abrams-Simonton • Robert Hovden LGBT Jewish History - a Brief and Highly Biased Account R203Naomi Finkelstein Reading Jewish Women: Modernization as Opportunity - A SpeakChorus R209Susan Shamash From Yizkor Book to Facebook and Screens to Genes: 25 Ways to Find your Family Story R206Jeffrey Schwartz • Carol Starin Judaism Decoded R308Nissan Kornfeld A 115 Year Old Siddur and so Much More R106BAlbert S Maimon The One Thing You Can Never Lose: Your Unique Relationship with G-d R205Avram (Avi) Rosenfeld Gamify Your Passover Seder R202Chesley Akiva Coughlin The Settlements Debate R210Nevet Basker How Reframing the Israel-Diaspora Relationship Could Spark Global Jewish Transformation R110Jill Borodin • Jason Feld • Ariel Lapson • Jay Rosenbaum • Laurence Wolff Transmitting Values and Building Identity Through Storytelling R309Miriam Brosseau • David Raphael • Elana Zaiman Dr. King and the Jews R106CJon Wolf Spinoza’s Theology: Crypto-Atheism or Ultra-Theism? R101Colin Marshall What Makes a Decent Person? Exploring the Rabbis' Imagination of Basic Morality R102Paula Rose