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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