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11:45am EST

Friday Lunch 11:45-1:00 Ballroom I

1:00pm EST

I'm Not Spielberg: A Contemporary Jewish Filmmaker's Life CoveSaul Sudin Learning from Superheroes: Folklore, Comics and Jewish Education SpringdaleAliza Donath The Art of Transformational Leadership: The Jewish Way GroveGidi Grinstein When Your Brother (or Sister) Sins: Judaism and Mass Incarceration ElmJill Jacobs Food and Spirituality: Limmud Chavruta GlenbrookRobin Moss

2:30pm EST

Bim Bam Shabbat! Pre-Shabbat Celebration for Ages 0–5 GlenAmi Hersh Havdalah Rehearsal ElmJay Herman Art, Kabbalah, Jungian Archetypes and Tikun Olam SpringdaleHarry Heller New Jewish Iconography and Block Printing Workshop BelltownElke Sudin Passover Origins: How We Got to the Seder AspenShelley Cohney Ben-Gurion and the Pragmatic Tradition in Israeli Politics GroveIlan Troen My Heart Transplant vs. Your Clean Water: Allocating Scarce Tzedakah Resources WatersideMeesh Hammer-Kossoy Losing and Regaining Spiritual Focus: The Wandering Mind and Meditation Long RidgeMichael Fishbane God's Hero: In Search of a Little Humanity High RidgeJoel Alter YiddishPOP CoveNikolai Borodulin • Kate O'Brien

4:30pm EST

Shabbat Candlelighting Mezzanine

4:50pm EST

Family Shabbat Service WillowDoni Zasloff (Mama Doni) Partnership Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma'ariv Service (separate seating, mixed leadership) Cove Renewal Kabbalat Shabbat Service GroveDavid Ingber • Shira Kline • Amichai Lau Lavie • Basya Schechter Traditional Egalitarian Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma'ariv Service (mixed seating, mixed leadership) Aspen Traditional Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma'ariv Service (separate seating, male leadership) Elm

5:00pm EST

Welcome Shabbat Tel Aviv-Style Limmud NY CafeMatt Grob

6:30pm EST

Shabbat Dinner 6:30-8:30 Ballroom I, II, III

8:45pm EST

Family Ruach: Festive Shabbat Song Session GlenCamp Ramah Staff Undoing the 'Un': Former Ultra-Orthodox Jews ElmRachel Berger Yiddish as a Language of the Future WatersideNaftali Ejdelman Being a Mensch in Marriage: Nurturing Long-Term Love GroveMona Fishbane Ethics of War: The Status of Enemy Civilians AspenElana Stein Hain How 50,000 Bulgarian Jews Survived the Holocaust High RidgeJoseph Benatov 'All Who Are Hungry, Let Them Come': Torah and the African Refugee Crisis WillowMeesh Hammer-Kossoy Halacha: Science or Art? SpringdaleChaim Rapoport Weep, Pray, Love: Rachel in the Bible and Beyond CoveAvi Killip

10:15pm EST

Teen Meet Up AlderJenn Altman Rachel Rose Reid: Spoken Word, Stories Sung SpringdaleRachel Rose Reid Scrabble Cafe BelltownShira Dicker • Ari Goldman The Nature of Eating Jewishly AspenNigel Savage Friday Night Tisch Ballroom IIIDasi Fruchter • Shira Kline • Amichai Lau Lavie Were the Rabbis Proto-Feminists? The Case of the Adulterous Woman ElmYsoscher Katz

7:30am EST

Daf Yomi Saturday Ballroom IIIEthan Tucker Shabbat Breakfast 7:30-9:30 Ballroom I, II

8:45am EST

All You Need is Four Words: Family Fun for Shabbat Ballroom IIIShira Kline • Amichai Lau Lavie Romemu Shabbat Morning Service GroveDavid Ingber • Basya Schechter Partnership Shacharit Service (separate seating, mixed leadership) Cove Traditional Egalitarian Shacharit Service (mixed seating, mixed leadership) Aspen Traditional Shacharit Service (separate seating, male leadership) Elm

9:45am EST

Valentine's Shabbat Yoga Long RidgeAja Cohen

10:00am EST

Chesed: What Does Judaism Have to Say? SpringdaleHanan Harchol Food and Ritual: Limmud Chavruta GlenbrookKaren Radkowsky

10:15am EST

Moses in the Sky with Sapphires: Storah Service GroveDavid Ingber • Shira Kline • Amichai Lau Lavie • Basya Schechter Shabbat Morning, Camp Style! GlenCamp Ramah Staff

11:30am EST

Kernels of a Pomegranate: The Art of Storytelling CovePeninnah Schram Beyond Bibi: The Israeli Elections—A Guide for the Perplexed GroveYosef Abramowitz Ms. President: The Obligation for Women to Exercise Leadership ElmSharon Weiss-Greenberg Using Ritual to Cope with Change—A Case Study: Divorce SpringdaleAvi Killip Passing the Pen: How Increased Literacy and Education Have Changed the Meaning of Torah WillowElsie Stern Shabbat Lunch 11:30-1:30 Ballroom I, II

12:15pm EST

What Will Happen When the Messiah Comes? Learn a Yiddish Folksong Long RidgeNaftali Ejdelman The Scholar, the Techie and the Artist WatersideAvishai Magence When the Water Runs Out: Allocating Resources in a Desperate World AspenJill Jacobs The Dragon in the Abyss, the Id in the Unconscious: Kabbalah, Myth and Psychoanalysis GlenbrookNathaniel Berman Exodus, the Sequel High RidgeJonathan Kelsen Parashat Terumah: The Offerings of Our Hearts BelltownMolly Karp

1:45pm EST

Tales Told to the Magic Carpet GlenRachel Rose Reid Friends of Bill W. Willow Book Club: A Post-Zionist Tale in 1947? WestoverJenn Altman Scrabbleogamy: How to Play Together to Stay Together ElmShira Dicker • Ari Goldman Lethal Wives and Impure Widows WatersideShoshana Razel Gordon Guedalia Models of Shared Leadership: Miriam, Moses and Aaron CoveDasi Fruchter The Rabbinic Narrative of Pacifism and Its Modern Critics GroveYehuda Kurtzer Dolce and Her Daughters: A Businesswoman in Medieval Germany GlenbrookKatja Vehlow Shechitah and Ethics: Is Kosher Slaughter 'Humane'? SpringdaleNaftali Hanau Hasidut Today AspenMichael Fishbane • Art Green • Ysoscher Katz • Avi Killip Gift Me Something to Give Long RidgeJoel Alter The Ties That Bind Us: The Possibilities and Limits of Communal Repentance BelltownBen Greenberg Instant Yiddish! 50 Words in 50 Minutes High RidgeNikolai Borodulin

3:15pm EST

Orthodox Shabbat Mincha Elm Traditional Egalitarian Shabbat Mincha Aspen

3:45pm EST

Afternoon Soul Time High RidgeAmichai Lau Lavie Yiddish Translation Matters WillowAnita Norich Honoring Your Father and Mother: Psychological Challenges AspenMona Fishbane Mikvah: Personal Moment or Communal Infrastructure? CoveSharon Weiss-Greenberg For Grandparents Only! BelltownSharon Halper Heavenly Jerusalem, Earthly Jerusalem WatersideJill Jacobs Nostra Aetate: Catholic-Jewish Relations' 50th Anniversary ElmNoam Marans Sephardic Vignettes from the Balkans SpringdaleJoseph Benatov Yoga for Women Long RidgeAja Cohen Meditating on Language GlenbrookZohar Atkins Family Chavruta GlenRobin Moss Judaism and Medicine: Beyond Bioethics WestoverYonah Hain Pluralism, Integrity, and Community GroveEthan Tucker

5:15pm EST

Are You There God? It's Me. A Spiritual Open-Mic (without the Mic) Event Long RidgeShira Dicker Personal and Spiritual Stories of Individual Women Who Have Converted (Some A Few Times) AspenAngie Atkins • Linda Barat • Liz Savage • Katja Vehlow What's in a Name? A Storytelling Session on Names High RidgePeninnah Schram Modern Orthodoxy and the Boundaries of Pluralism WillowBen Greenberg Corporate Compliance and Jewish Ethics CoveCarole Basri The Significance of Being First: Competing Jewish and Arab Discourses ElmIlan Troen Family Early Saturday Dinner 5:15-6:15 Ballroom I Starting a Jewish Giving Circle WatersideFelicia Herman • Aviva Stampfer Seudah Shlishit (The Third Meal) Ballroom IIIDavid Ingber • Zusha Creating and Holding Sacred Space SpringdaleDasi Fruchter Fallen Angels and Forbidden Fruit GlenbrookElsie Stern Three Mitzvot That Never Were and Never Will Be WestoverBill Liss-Levinson

6:15pm EST

Orthodox Shabbat Maariv Elm Traditional Egalitarian Shabbat Maariv Aspen

6:30pm EST

Community Havdalah Grove

7:30pm EST

FlaSh'ma: 30-Minute Flashtalk with Sh'ma Journal CoveSh'ma Pajama Party Movie Night! GlenCamp Ramah Staff Aseh L'cha Rav (Find Yourself a Teacher): Models of Leadership and Followership in Contemporary Jewish Life High RidgeNigel Savage Speaking of Names... WillowSusan Weidman Schneider Responsa Radio: Live! AspenAvi Killip • Ethan Tucker Twentieth-Century Philosophies of War: Heschel, Levinas and Their Relevance to Israel SpringdaleElana Stein Hain Secrets and Tastes of Ashkenazi Cooking with Gefilteria BelltownLiz Alpern • Jeffrey Yoskowitz Saturday Dinner 7:30-9:30 Ballroom I, II

8:15pm EST

Studio Aggadah: New Ideas Lab ElmElke Sudin • Saul Sudin Middle School Extravaganza! GlenCamp Ramah Staff I Love You, but You're (Still) Wrong about Everything CoveCarl Wolkin • David Wolkin Gilgul, Dybbuks and Golems: Do Jews Believe in Them? Long RidgeSharon Flatto Judaism and Homosexuality WestoverChaim Rapoport The Original Hassidic Tales: Law, Narrative, and Piety in the Talmud GlenbrookJonathan Kelsen

9:45pm EST

Jewish Meditative Practice from the Aish Kodesh Long RidgeEli Steier Pardes Meet Up Westover Mifgash Ramah—Ramah Meet-Up GlenbrookCamp Ramah Staff “Yes, and…”: An IMPROV workshop WatersideYoni Oppenheim Concert: Basya Schechter and Pharaoh's Daughter GrovePharaoh's Daughter • Basya Schechter Peoplehood with Purpose AspenYosef Abramowitz The Great Jewish Paradox of Our Time: Power and Vulnerability ElmGidi Grinstein The Last Jews of Baghdad (Film) SpringdaleCarole Basri

11:15pm EST

The Unfire with Peter Kashin and Friends MezzaninePeter Kashin The Rebbetzin's Disco CoveHody Nemes • Rachel Rose Reid

7:30am EST

Orthodox Sunday Shacharit Service Elm Traditional Egalitarian Sunday Shacharit Service Aspen Sunday Breakfast 7:30-10:00 Ballroom I, II

8:30am EST

Friends of Bill W. Willow Empowering Parents as Educators: PJ Library as Part of a Toolkit CoveJordanna Birnbaum Amsel • Elie Weinstock The Letter that Changed Everything: Ben Gurion's Status Quo Letter BelltownTova Birnbaum The Challenge of Power: How to Be a More Ethical Funder High RidgeRichard Marker The Triple Bottom Line: Creating a Sustainable Jewish Community SpringdaleMichael Brochstein Discovering Our Place within the Matrix of Life Long RidgeMyra Estelle Gordon 'You Shall Love the Stranger': Traditional Approaches to the Status of Non-Jews in Israel WatersideMeesh Hammer-Kossoy Daf Yomi - Sunday Ballroom IIIGoldie Guy Torah in the Religious School Classroom ElmGalya Greenberg

8:45am EST

Music Together with Naomi GlenNaomi Weinberger

10:00am EST

Jewhooing the Sixties ElmDavid Kaufman Portraits of Jewish Bulgaria CoveJoseph Benatov Forgiveness: Whom Is It For? A session for teens and parents AlderHanan Harchol Innovation and Jewish Organizations AspenGidi Grinstein • David Ingber • Stephanie Ives • Elisheva Urbas • Jonathan Woocher The Making of Tefillin WestoverZerach Greenfield Jewish Travel in Asia WillowDaniel Robinson NEW, CHANGED SESSION: Reflections on Copenhagen and Paris GroveAmichai Lau Lavie • Nigel Savage An Israeli Vision to Reverse Climate Change SpringdaleYosef Abramowitz Varieties of Modern Orthodoxy 1800-2015 High RidgeAlan Brill Yoga: Rise and Shine a Light Long RidgeAja Cohen The Conflict of Priorities: Inwardness-vs-Ethics WatersideMichael Fishbane Food and Hunger: Limmud Chavruta GlenbrookEllen Flax Children's Songwriting Workshop and Family Concert GlenDoni Zasloff (Mama Doni) Limmud NY Shuk (Marketplace) Mezzanine

11:30am EST

Mural Workshop: Collaborative Conceptual Graffiti Wall Long RidgeElke Sudin Hakovesh Et Yitzro (Mastering Your Instincts): Neurobiology Meets Rabbinic Wisdom AspenMona Fishbane 'I Am with You in Distress': Jewish Responses to Communal Crisis and Tragedy BelltownAdam Mintz On Serving God: Does Halakha Help or Hinder? GroveShai Held A Jewish Melting Pot at the Crossroads of the World: The Cuisine of Georgia ElmAna Epremashvili • Tammy Epremashvili Sunday Lunch 11:30-1:30 Ballroom I, II, III

12:00pm EST

Street Art and Tikkun Olam - a session for teens AlderTimna Burston Jewish Food History SpringdaleShelley Cohney The Four Founding Stories of Judaism: Why They Matter Separately and Together High RidgeGidi Grinstein Subconscious Yiddish Issues GlenbrookNaftali Ejdelman Dramatic American Religious Demographic Shifts and Their Implications for Israel Support WatersideNoam Marans The Displaced Persons WillowJoseph Berger

1:00pm EST

Orthodox Sunday Mincha Service Elm Traditional Egalitarian Sunday Mincha Service Aspen

1:30pm EST

Finish Your Song: A Workshop for Songwriters WillowBasya Schechter Uncle Vanya Grove24/6: A Jewish Theater Company • Yoni Oppenheim The Sturgeon Queens (Film) CoveJulie Cohen • Niki Russ Federman • Josh Russ Tupper Sketches of our Fathers: Medieval Jewish Art as 'Visual Torah Commentary' BelltownBen Greenfield Humor and Hokhma (Intelligence) with a Detour through Chelm GlenPeninnah Schram Abomination: Jewish Legal Responses to LGBT Legitimacy AspenMiryam Kabakov • Amichai Lau Lavie Fusing Ancient with Modern: The Art of Translating the Talmud with Cutting-Edge Technology High RidgeAvishai Magence Who is Judaism For, Anyway? Universalism and Particularism in a New Key WatersideJonathan Woocher Mending the Heart, Tending the Soul: A Spiritual Journey through the Torah Path of Mindfulness Long RidgeGail Albert Where Are We Going? Judaism for the Mid-21st Century GlenbrookArt Green Taking Hold of Torah: The Weekly Portion and the Yearly Cycle as Gateways into Life ElmArnold Eisen Uniformity and Diversity: Left-Handedness and Halakhah SpringdaleEthan Tucker Write Your Own Talmud WestoverZohar Atkins

3:00pm EST

New York Andalus Ensemble SpringdaleSamuel Torjman Thomas Personal Stories of Iraqi Jews (Two Short Films) ElmCarole Basri Three Singers, One Family: Esther, Israel Joshua, and Isaac Bashevis Singer WatersideAnita Norich Jewish Heroes and Superheroes: Creating Jewish Comics GlenTimna Burston American Jewry, Beyond Boundaries High RidgeYehuda Kurtzer An Appetizing Tradition: Talking with the 4th Generation About 100 Years of Russ & Daughters CoveNiki Russ Federman • Josh Russ Tupper Israel of the Heart/Israel of the Mind WestoverAmi Hersh Limmud NY Tzedekkah Fund: Make a $1000 Grant! Long RidgeFelicia Herman • Aviva Stampfer Women Giving Money--Beyond the Stereotypes BelltownSusan Weidman Schneider CANCELED Can You Save a Blessing for Me? CANCELED Long RidgeSusan Reimer-Torn Off the Record: The Law and Law-to-Be-Applied in Jewish Responsa and Islamic Fatawa WillowShoshana Razel Gordon Guedalia Towards a Theology of the Child: The Chovat HaTalmidim as Case Study in Complexity GlenbrookMark Gottlieb

4:30pm EST

Limmud-A-Palooza GroveDoni Zasloff (Mama Doni) • Eric Lindberg • Peninnah Schram • Elke Sudin • David Wolkin • Zusha

6:00pm EST

FlaSh'ma: 30-Minute Flashtalk with Sh'ma Journal CoveSh'ma This is Not a Gaga Class Long RidgeErica Frankel The Jewish Brain on Music: What I Learned When I Picked up My Cello in Middle Age SpringdaleAri Goldman The Torah after Ferguson: Human Equality in the Bible GroveShai Held Sunday Dinner 6:00-8:00 Ballroom I, II, III

6:45pm EST

Concert: Nefesh Mountain AspenDoni Zasloff (Mama Doni) • Eric Lindberg The Scribal Arts WestoverZerach Greenfield Rock Out and Rikud! Camp Israeli Dancing Favorites! GlenCamp Ramah Staff The Pious Ones: Who Are the Hasidim? WillowJoseph Berger What about My (Jewish) Genes in Twenty-Fifteen? Advances in Hereditary Cancers High RidgeRachel Barnett Shiva, Shabbos Candles, and Mikveh: Innovation and Creativity in Jewish Ritual CoveDasi Fruchter What's Your Spiritual Type? GlenbrookLinda Rich Adam's Invention of Religion BelltownMira Wasserman

7:40pm EST

Orthodox Sunday Maariv Service Elm Traditional Egalitarian Sunday Maariv Service Springdale

8:15pm EST

TuBishVanya: Creating a Tu Bishvat (Jewish Arbor Day) Uncle Vanya WestoverYoni Oppenheim Punk Jews (Film) SpringdaleSaul Sudin Tevye: The Milkman and the Fiddler AspenAnita Norich Songs of the Heart High RidgeJonathan Kelsen Middle School Movie Night! GlenCamp Ramah Staff The Practice of Good Men in Islamic, Jewish, Hindu, and Canon Law WatersideShoshana Razel Gordon Guedalia Models of Jewish Leadership: Women in America BelltownSheridan Gayer The Modern Kosher Meat Industry WillowNaftali Hanau Finding the Jewish God in the Post-Secular Age GlenbrookAlan Brill The Akedah (Sacrifice of Isaac) in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions Long RidgeNoam Marans The Joy of Text - Live! ElmDov Linzer • Bat Sheva Marcus • Ramie Smith Learn Yiddish Online—NOW! CoveNikolai Borodulin

9:45pm EST

The Chosen Quiz: A Limmud Institution Since 5773 BelltownDebbie Leiderman Geiger • Ted Geiger Concert: Zusha GroveZusha Envy: What Does Judaism Have to Say? SpringdaleHanan Harchol Researching a Travel Guide to Israel During the Gaza War of 2014 ElmDaniel Robinson Seven Life Lessons from Harvard Divinity School—And How They've Changed Over the Decades High RidgeAri Goldman The Origins of Havdalah in the Book of Esther GlenbrookOra Horn Prouser

11:15pm EST

7:30am EST

Orthodox Monday Shacharit Service Elm Traditional Egalitarian Monday Shacharit Service Aspen Monday Breakfast 7:30-9:30 Ballroom I, II

8:30am EST

Jewish Fundraising Workshop WatersideEric Kaplan The 'Jewish' State: The Politics of Religion in Israel High RidgeLaura Lewis Who Was the Ramban? GlenbrookAbe Schacter-Gampel What Would Moses Do? BelltownChaim Bronstein Morning Brachas (Blessings) Rejuvenation Long RidgeEli Steier Recovering the Mystical Tradition: Toward a Contemporary Jewish Spirituality ElmArt Green Daf Yomi Monday Ballroom IIIYsoscher Katz Tackling Tefillah: Is More 'Effective' Prayer Possible? WestoverYossi Pollak

10:00am EST

My Life, My Art SpringdaleElke Sudin Love and Fear: What Does Judaism Have to Say? ElmHanan Harchol Golem: Making a Friendly Monster GlenTimna Burston Pondering Yovel and 50 Years Since the Six Day War BelltownSally Gottesman A Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish-Hindu Encounter WillowAlan Brill The Neuroscience of Teshuva: Neuroplasticity and Personal Change AspenMona Fishbane Understanding Israel’s Declaration of Independence GroveIlan Troen The Taboo History of Jews in Arab Countries WatersideCarole Basri What's the Use of Jewish History? GlenbrookDavid Kaufman Yoga of Gratitude Long RidgeAja Cohen Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire! High RidgeEllen Flax When the Tablets Shatter: Dementia in Rabbinic Literature and Theology WestoverBen Greenfield Justice, Justice You Shall Pursue: Social Justice and Jewish Engagement—Opportunities and Obstacles CoveSteven M. Cohen • Amichai Lau Lavie • Ann Toback

11:30am EST

Friends of Bill W. Willow Jewish Film in 2009: A Serious Man Versus Inglourious Basterds High RidgeSaul Sudin Skills for Telling Stories to (and with!) Children GroveRachel Rose Reid Conservative Judaism for Today and Tomorrow: Rethinking a Movement and Tradition AspenArnold Eisen Inmarriage as Policy, Inclusion as Practice CoveSteven M. Cohen Who Are These Orthodox Lesbians and Why Do They Keep Following Me? BelltownMiryam Kabakov Creating Family: Infertility Then and Now GlenbrookSuzanne Brody Spirituality and Leadership SpringdaleDasi Fruchter Three Summers of Zionist Crisis: 1937, 1947, 1948 Long RidgeRobin Moss The Talmud Uncensored ElmMira Wasserman Learn Torah Trope in One Hour! WestoverMichael Weis The Messiah: When Is She Coming and What Is Her Role?—Hasidic Views WatersideSharon Flatto Monday Lunch 11:30-1:00 Ballroom I

1:00pm EST

Artists’ Beit Midrash BelltownErica Frankel Baby Boomer Blues? WestoverAudrey Lichter Secrets of an Intrepid Limmud Traveler: How to Fly for Less (or Free) SpringdaleKaren Radkowsky Jewish Education is Dead. Long Live Jewish Education. CoveJonathan Woocher Jewish Jonah and Islamic Yunus Long RidgeShoshana Razel Gordon Guedalia The Israel We Imagine AspenYehuda Kurtzer Nahala: A Celebration of Remembrance GlenbrookRachel Rose Reid The Religious Imagination: Thinking and Unthinking God WatersideMichael Fishbane 'You Shall Surely Open Your Hand': Poverty, Shmita and a Social-Theological Vision GroveShai Held Food and Sustainability: Limmud Chavruta High RidgeEllen Flax Holy Ground: Surveying the Significance of Shoes and Bare Feet in the Bible WillowOra Horn Prouser

2:15pm EST

Orthodox Monday Mincha Service Elm Traditional Egalitarian Monday Mincha Service Aspen