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Limmud NY 2015

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1:00pm

Food and Spirituality: Limmud Chavruta GlenbrookRobin Moss

2:30pm

God's Hero: In Search of a Little Humanity High RidgeJoel Alter

8:45pm

Ethics of War: The Status of Enemy Civilians AspenElana Stein Hain Halacha: Science or Art? SpringdaleChaim Rapoport Weep, Pray, Love: Rachel in the Bible and Beyond CoveAvi Killip

10:15pm

Were the Rabbis Proto-Feminists? The Case of the Adulterous Woman ElmYsoscher Katz

7:30am

Daf Yomi Saturday Ballroom IIIEthan Tucker

10:00am

Food and Ritual: Limmud Chavruta GlenbrookKaren Radkowsky

11:30am

Ms. President: The Obligation for Women to Exercise Leadership ElmSharon Weiss-Greenberg Passing the Pen: How Increased Literacy and Education Have Changed the Meaning of Torah WillowElsie Stern

12:15pm

The Scholar, the Techie and the Artist WatersideAvishai Magence 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

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 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

3:45pm

For Grandparents Only! BelltownSharon Halper Heavenly Jerusalem, Earthly Jerusalem WatersideJill Jacobs Meditating on Language GlenbrookZohar Atkins Family Chavruta GlenRobin Moss Judaism and Medicine: Beyond Bioethics WestoverYonah Hain Pluralism, Integrity, and Community GroveEthan Tucker

5:15pm

Modern Orthodoxy and the Boundaries of Pluralism WillowBen Greenberg Corporate Compliance and Jewish Ethics CoveCarole Basri 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

7:30pm

Responsa Radio: Live! AspenAvi Killip • Ethan Tucker Twentieth-Century Philosophies of War: Heschel, Levinas and Their Relevance to Israel SpringdaleElana Stein Hain

8:15pm

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

8:30am

'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

10:00am

Forgiveness: Whom Is It For? A session for teens and parents AlderHanan Harchol NEW, CHANGED SESSION: Reflections on Copenhagen and Paris GroveAmichai Lau Lavie • Nigel Savage Varieties of Modern Orthodoxy 1800-2015 High RidgeAlan Brill The Conflict of Priorities: Inwardness-vs-Ethics WatersideMichael Fishbane Food and Hunger: Limmud Chavruta GlenbrookEllen Flax

11:30am

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

12:00pm

The Four Founding Stories of Judaism: Why They Matter Separately and Together High RidgeGidi Grinstein Subconscious Yiddish Issues GlenbrookNaftali Ejdelman

1:30pm

Sketches of our Fathers: Medieval Jewish Art as 'Visual Torah Commentary' BelltownBen Greenfield 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

Israel of the Heart/Israel of the Mind WestoverAmi Hersh 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

6:00pm

The Torah after Ferguson: Human Equality in the Bible GroveShai Held

6:45pm

Shiva, Shabbos Candles, and Mikveh: Innovation and Creativity in Jewish Ritual CoveDasi Fruchter Adam's Invention of Religion BelltownMira Wasserman

8:15pm

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

9:45pm

The Origins of Havdalah in the Book of Esther GlenbrookOra Horn Prouser

8:30am

Who Was the Ramban? GlenbrookAbe Schacter-Gampel What Would Moses Do? BelltownChaim Bronstein 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

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire! High RidgeEllen Flax When the Tablets Shatter: Dementia in Rabbinic Literature and Theology WestoverBen Greenfield

11:30am

Creating Family: Infertility Then and Now GlenbrookSuzanne Brody Spirituality and Leadership SpringdaleDasi Fruchter The Talmud Uncensored ElmMira Wasserman The Messiah: When Is She Coming and What Is Her Role?—Hasidic Views WatersideSharon Flatto

1:00pm

Artists’ Beit Midrash BelltownErica Frankel Jewish Education is Dead. Long Live Jewish Education. CoveJonathan Woocher Jewish Jonah and Islamic Yunus Long RidgeShoshana Razel Gordon Guedalia '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