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Limmud Seattle 2019

7:30pm PST

Judaism through Illumination B104David Moss

9:00pm PST

Toward a New Stage of Partnership in the Jewish Covenant: Projecting a New Era in Judaism B104Blu Greenberg • Yitz Greenberg

8:45am PST

Turn It and Turn It: A Musical Conversation with Challenging Biblical Personalities R306Ilan Speizer 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 Successfully Bridging the Secular-Religious Divide R210Jason Feld Transforming Ourselves, Transforming the World R204Lisa Goldstein Science and Torah: Dichotomy or Magnificent Harmony? R101Lloyd Tucker The Ethic of Truthtelling and Lying: A Text Study R102Malka Popper

10:15am PST

Jewish Scribal Arts R308Scott Emlen 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 Remixed: The New Jewish Family R309Samuel Klein What is Addiction and Why Should I Care? R209Miriam Green Ethical Wills as Creative Decision-Making Tools - Examining Jewish Legacy Documents R106BKindra Cooper

11:45am PST

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 Israeli Education as a Catalyst for Strengthening Shared Society and Increasing Arab Workforce Integration R203Lisa Richlen • Gail Zucker 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 Advanced Practice: Dealing with Difficult People & Situations R103Lisa Goldstein Do We Really Love Anyone Unconditionally? Even Our Kids? R308Anne Andrew

12:45pm PST

Youth: Jewish Scribal Arts R201Scott Emlen

1:15pm PST

Music as a Powerful Gateway to Jewish Spirituality R306Ari Joshua 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 Tips for an Easier Passover R205Linda-Jo Greenberg 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 A Taste of Talmud: The Page, the People, the Pursuit R101Sheldon Goldberg Gender and the Non-binary in Torah and Kabbalah R102Fern Feldman

2:45pm PST

Jewish Creativity: Torah Tree, Poetry and Bird Song R209Ken Shiovitz Drumming, Women and Judaism R306Lisa Schonberg 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 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 How Happiness Thinks R106BRabbi Elazar Bogomilsky

4:15pm PST

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 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 Settlements Debate R210Nevet Basker 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