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Adam Fisher

Sunday, January 20
 

8:00am PST

Breakfast R301 & R302 Check-In R Building Lobby

8:45am PST

Philosophers Café: Portals of our Jewish Heritage R203Judi Gladstone 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 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 Being Happy with One’s Portion: The Jewish Roots of Voluntary Simplicity R106BTony Abrams (formerly Ramsey)

10:15am PST

Jewish Music Jam - Let's Play & Sing Together! ​ R306Jay Krulewitch • Harvey Niebulski Understanding Jewishness & Whiteness R203Cecily Kaplan • Rachel Zerrell From Cairo to Kindle: Jewish Identity, Values, and Books R204David Naggar Mumbayaleh!: A History of Jews in India R208Bevin Fritz-Waters • Masha Shtern Israeli Politics 101 R210Elisheva Goldberg 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 Ethical Wills as Creative Decision-Making Tools - Examining Jewish Legacy Documents R106BKindra Cooper

11:30am PST

Lunch R301 & R302

11:45am PST

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 Where Heaven and Earth Kiss: Jewish Law, Moral Reflection and Environmental Ethics R110Ariel Evan Mayse Jewish Spiritual Practice: The Art of Blessing R205Emily Meyer Legitimate Criticism of Israel or Antisemitism? When Does it Cross the Line? R210Randy Kessler 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

1:15pm PST

Lunch R301 & R302 Jewish Great Stories R209Barrie Rein Thunemann Modern Jewish Klezmer Music: From Eastern Europe to America R106CJay Krulewitch The Heretic, the Cleric and the Maverick: Unlikely Neighbors in Old Amsterdam R204Samuel Klein Results Over Rhetoric: Bringing the Left, Right and Center Together to Keep Israel Safe R210Wendy Rosen Textual and Social Activism in the Works of R. Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev R203Josh Weisman Gender and the Non-binary in Torah and Kabbalah R102Fern Feldman

2:45pm PST

Drumming, Women and Judaism R306Lisa Schonberg Modern Day Immigration Insights from Sarah, Abraham, Hagar and Ishmael R203Jill Borodin Yiddish Lebt! (Yiddish Is Alive!) R206Marianne Tatom 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 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

4:00pm PST

Mincha Service - Egalitarian Minyan R305

4:15pm PST

Make Your Own Challah! R208Masha Shtern Jewish Art Jumping Off The Page R103David Moss LGBT Jewish History - a Brief and Highly Biased Account R203Naomi Finkelstein Reading Jewish Women: Modernization as Opportunity - A SpeakChorus R209Susan Shamash A 115 Year Old Siddur and so Much More R106BAlbert S Maimon How Reframing the Israel-Diaspora Relationship Could Spark Global Jewish Transformation R110Jill Borodin • Jason Feld • Ariel Lapson • Jay Rosenbaum • Laurence Wolff 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