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Limmud NY 2015

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8:30am EST

Empowering Parents as Educators: PJ Library as Part of a Toolkit CoveJordanna Birnbaum Amsel • Elie Weinstock

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

11:30am EST

Hakovesh Et Yitzro (Mastering Your Instincts): Neurobiology Meets Rabbinic Wisdom AspenMona Fishbane

12:00pm EST

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

1:30pm EST

The Sturgeon Queens (Film) CoveJulie Cohen • Niki Russ Federman • Josh Russ Tupper 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

3:00pm EST

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

6:00pm EST

FlaSh'ma: 30-Minute Flashtalk with Sh'ma Journal CoveSh'ma The Jewish Brain on Music: What I Learned When I Picked up My Cello in Middle Age SpringdaleAri Goldman

6:45pm EST

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

8:15pm EST

Punk Jews (Film) SpringdaleSaul Sudin Tevye: The Milkman and the Fiddler AspenAnita Norich 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

9:45pm EST

Envy: What Does Judaism Have to Say? SpringdaleHanan Harchol