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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