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LimmudVan '18

Please Note: Registration for Limmud is for the day’s activities.
There is no prior selection of individual sessions.
All sessions are open to all registered participants until all seats are filled.
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7:00pm PDT

Intro and Welcome Ballroom

7:30pm PDT

Tastes Across Centuries: The Enduring Influence of the Foods of Spain’s Medieval Jews Room ASusan Barocas Sacred Texts: Three Religious Traditions in Twenty-Five Words or Less FoyerLaura Duhan-Kaplan Yonah ben Amitai, Inc. - a dramatized midrash Room FAvi Dolgin

8:45pm PDT

Havdalah Ballroom

9:15pm PDT

Schmooze and Snack Ballroom

8:30am PDT

Registration Lobby

9:30am PDT

Arguing with the Storm: The Genesis of an Anthology Room GRhea Tregebov Celebrating Chagall Room IJonathan Wisenthal Tell Your Own Torah Story -- Children age 8-12 Kids and teen programming roomJenny Glickman-Rynd From Mameh-Loshn to S'fat Em: The Untold (Yiddish) Story of the Revival of Spoken Hebrew Room HAdam Rubin Reading Jewish Women: The Benefit of Marginality A SpeakChorus Room FSusan Shamash The Complicated Life Journey of Child Holocaust Survivors Room ERobert Krell Climate Change is a Jewish Issue Room DLarry Barzelai Combating Antisemitism on the Internet Room CDavid Matas DiverCity: Why diversity is Jerusalem’s best hope Room ALior Schillat Childcare Available All Day - for children ages 3 to 11 Childcare roomHabonimDror Ken Achva

10:50am PDT

Cartooning a Split Jewish Identity: the Autobiographical Comics of Miriam Libicki Room FMiriam Libicki Celebrate Israel's 70th with PJ Library - Families with children age 3-7 Kids and teen programming roomLissa Weinberger and Katia Fermon The Long and the Short of Noodles Room ASusan Barocas Translating the Enemy? Arabic Literature in Hebrew Room HRahel Halabe Not Really Elementary!!! The Damascus Document and the Community Rule Room GJoelle Lake Tzedaka, Tzedaka, Tirdof Room CDavid Berson • Nomi Yeshua Exploring Elder Wisdom through a Jewish Perspective Room BGloria Levi Face to Face - Seeing God in Ourselves and Others Room IAdam Stein Outtake: Joseph, yes that Joseph, recites morning prayers during seduction scene Room DMark Stein

12:10pm PDT

Salomone Rossi and the Jews of Italy Room IDavid Skulski Art Exploration: Jewish Symbols in Mixed Media - Children age 8-12 Kids and teen programming roomJulia Bennett Israeli Life Room AMarsha Lederman • Alden Solovy Jewish Early Childhood Education Across the Ages Room HHillel Goelman The Christie Pits Riot of 1933 in Toronto, Canada's Worst Race Riot Room GGordon Cherry Jews and Anxiety - Are our people more anxious than most? Room DMarion Rom Do we really love anyone unconditionally? Even our kids? Room CAnne Andrew Three Spheres of Transformation: Collaborative Poems for Counting the Omer Room BHannah Dresner Approaching the Edge: Texts and Resources Addressing the End of Life Room ENatan Fenner The Messianic Era, Are We There Yet? Room FDaniel Friedmann

1:00pm PDT

Pluralism, Identity, and You - Inter-Religious Field Trip - Teens grade 8-12 LobbyHillary Kaplan and Alykhan Velji

1:10pm PDT

Lunch and schmooze Ballroom

1:20pm PDT

Jewish Youth: A conversation taking stock of our place in the world Kids and teen programming roomAriel Martz Oberlander

2:00pm PDT

Arabic, Mediterranean, Spirituality and Rap: Current Trends in Israeli Popular Music Room IBenjamin Rubin Outcasts: Images of the Jew in Western Art Room GEfrat El-Hanany Jewish Themed Games hosted by Camp Miriam Counsellors - Children age 8 - 12 Kids and teen programming room Jews and Gambling: Texts and Types Room DRichard Menkis Regina Jonas (1902-1944): The First Female Rabbi of Berlin Room HCarey Brown Finding Consensus About the Census: Our People Count Room AJonathan Berkowitz Pride and Prejudice: Exploring the intersectional politics of Jewish LGBTQ2SA issues in Canada Room CAlycia Fridkin Liturgical Chevruta Room FAlden Solovy Ritual Magic and the Modern Rabbinate Room EHarry Brechner Shots of Holiness: The Changing Role of Hebrew in Contemporary Judaism Room BPhilip Gibbs

3:15pm PDT

Shylock? Room CMark Leiren-Young Three Songs, Three Languages BallroomDavid Millard The Ancient Jewish Art of Balloon Twisting - Children Age 8-12 Kids and teen programming roomLeora Zalik From Truman to Trump: Jerusalem between 1948 and 2018 Room ALior Schillat Naming and Shaming: Jewish Names in German History Room FChris Friedrichs Can Jewish Values Solve Vancouver's Housing Crisis Room HNoam Dolgin • Michael Geller JACS Presents Addiction 101: Myth Busters Room GRebecca Denham Legacy Letters (AKA Ethical/Spiritual Wills - So That Your Values Live On) Room EAnnie Klein Sold at Sotheby's Room DBinyamin Bitton

4:30pm PDT

Closing Event, Music and Raffle Draws Ballroom