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Limmud NY 2015

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1:00pm EST

The Art of Transformational Leadership: The Jewish Way GroveGidi Grinstein

2:30pm EST

Passover Origins: How We Got to the Seder AspenShelley Cohney

8:45pm EST

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

10:15pm EST

Scrabble Cafe BelltownShira Dicker • Ari Goldman The Nature of Eating Jewishly AspenNigel Savage

10:00am EST

Chesed: What Does Judaism Have to Say? SpringdaleHanan Harchol

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

1:45pm EST

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

3:45pm EST

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

5:15pm EST

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

7:30pm EST

FlaSh'ma: 30-Minute Flashtalk with Sh'ma Journal CoveSh'ma 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

9:45pm EST

Peoplehood with Purpose AspenYosef Abramowitz The Great Jewish Paradox of Our Time: Power and Vulnerability ElmGidi Grinstein

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

8:30am EST

Jewish Fundraising Workshop WatersideEric Kaplan

10:00am EST

Love and Fear: What Does Judaism Have to Say? ElmHanan Harchol Pondering Yovel and 50 Years Since the Six Day War BelltownSally Gottesman A Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish-Hindu Encounter WillowAlan Brill The Neuroscience of Teshuva: Neuroplasticity and Personal Change AspenMona Fishbane

11:30am EST

Conservative Judaism for Today and Tomorrow: Rethinking a Movement and Tradition AspenArnold Eisen Inmarriage as Policy, Inclusion as Practice CoveSteven M. Cohen Who Are These Orthodox Lesbians and Why Do They Keep Following Me? BelltownMiryam Kabakov Creating Family: Infertility Then and Now GlenbrookSuzanne Brody Spirituality and Leadership SpringdaleDasi Fruchter

1:00pm EST

Baby Boomer Blues? WestoverAudrey Lichter Secrets of an Intrepid Limmud Traveler: How to Fly for Less (or Free) SpringdaleKaren Radkowsky Jewish Education is Dead. Long Live Jewish Education. CoveJonathan Woocher Jewish Jonah and Islamic Yunus Long RidgeShoshana Razel Gordon Guedalia