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Limmud Seattle 2019

7:30pm PST

Ferocious Vulnerability: Learning to Live in the Complexity B204Will Berkovitz • Talya Gillman

9:00pm PST

Recent Threats of Oldest Hatreds B204Diane Douglas • Miri Cypers • Jay Rosenbaum • Daniel Weiner

8:45am PST

Turn It and Turn It: A Musical Conversation with Challenging Biblical Personalities R306Ilan Speizer Philosophers Café: Portals of our Jewish Heritage R203Judi Gladstone Single Jewish Parents Throughout History R308Shoshana Billik A Blessing for the Tsar!? Praying For or Against the Government R205Israel Geselowitz Jewish Parenting with Intention R309Alayne Sulkin • Trea Shocken Diament • TBA The Ethic of Truthtelling and Lying: A Text Study R102Malka Popper

10:15am PST

The Poems of Emma Lazarus R206Jodie Futornick Understanding Jewishness & Whiteness R203Cecily Kaplan • Rachel Zerrell Divine Providence vs. Free Will R102Shnai Levitin 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

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

11:45am PST

Make 'Em Want to Sing! (Songleading Workshop) R306Beth Hamon Jonah ben Amitai, Inc.: A Theatrical Midrash R209Avi Dolgin Jewish Spiritual Practice: The Art of Blessing R205Emily Meyer Legitimate Criticism of Israel or Antisemitism? When Does it Cross the Line? R210Randy Kessler Spiritual Gifts - How to Create an Ethical Will and Legacy Letter R106BRochelle Wynne Putting Jewish Values Into Practice in Healthcare Policymaking R208Yael Assor Law & Order: A Jewish Perspective R101Kayla Higgins • David Warnock

1:15pm PST

Modern Jewish Klezmer Music: From Eastern Europe to America R106CJay Krulewitch 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 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

1:45pm PST

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

2:45pm PST

Jewish Creativity: Torah Tree, Poetry and Bird Song R209Ken Shiovitz Modern Day Immigration Insights from Sarah, Abraham, Hagar and Ishmael R203Jill Borodin 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 Halacha of the Future R308Harry Zeitlin How Happiness Thinks R106BRabbi Elazar Bogomilsky

4:15pm PST

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 The One Thing You Can Never Lose: Your Unique Relationship with G-d R205Avram (Avi) Rosenfeld 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