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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