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Friday
, February 13
Alder
10:15pm •
Teen Meet Up
Aspen
2:30pm •
Passover Origins: How We Got to the Seder
4:50pm •
Traditional Egalitarian Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma'ariv Service (mixed seating, mixed leadership)
8:45pm •
Ethics of War: The Status of Enemy Civilians
10:15pm •
The Nature of Eating Jewishly
Ballroom I
11:45am •
Friday Lunch 11:45-1:00
Ballroom I, II, III
6:30pm •
Shabbat Dinner 6:30-8:30
Ballroom III
10:15pm •
Friday Night Tisch
Belltown
2:30pm •
New Jewish Iconography and Block Printing Workshop
10:15pm •
Scrabble Cafe
Cove
1:00pm •
I'm Not Spielberg: A Contemporary Jewish Filmmaker's Life
2:30pm •
YiddishPOP
4:50pm •
Partnership Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma'ariv Service (separate seating, mixed leadership)
8:45pm •
Weep, Pray, Love: Rachel in the Bible and Beyond
Elm
1:00pm •
When Your Brother (or Sister) Sins: Judaism and Mass Incarceration
2:30pm •
Havdalah Rehearsal
4:50pm •
Traditional Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma'ariv Service (separate seating, male leadership)
8:45pm •
Undoing the 'Un': Former Ultra-Orthodox Jews
10:15pm •
Were the Rabbis Proto-Feminists? The Case of the Adulterous Woman
Glen
2:30pm •
Bim Bam Shabbat! Pre-Shabbat Celebration for Ages 0–5
8:45pm •
Family Ruach: Festive Shabbat Song Session
Glenbrook
1:00pm •
Food and Spirituality: Limmud Chavruta
Grove
1:00pm •
The Art of Transformational Leadership: The Jewish Way
2:30pm •
Ben-Gurion and the Pragmatic Tradition in Israeli Politics
4:50pm •
Renewal Kabbalat Shabbat Service
8:45pm •
Being a Mensch in Marriage: Nurturing Long-Term Love
High Ridge
2:30pm •
God's Hero: In Search of a Little Humanity
8:45pm •
How 50,000 Bulgarian Jews Survived the Holocaust
Limmud NY Cafe
5:00pm •
Welcome Shabbat Tel Aviv-Style
Long Ridge
2:30pm •
Losing and Regaining Spiritual Focus: The Wandering Mind and Meditation
Mezzanine
4:30pm •
Shabbat Candlelighting
Springdale
1:00pm •
Learning from Superheroes: Folklore, Comics and Jewish Education
2:30pm •
Art, Kabbalah, Jungian Archetypes and Tikun Olam
8:45pm •
Halacha: Science or Art?
10:15pm •
Rachel Rose Reid: Spoken Word, Stories Sung
Waterside
2:30pm •
My Heart Transplant vs. Your Clean Water: Allocating Scarce Tzedakah Resources
8:45pm •
Yiddish as a Language of the Future
Willow
4:50pm •
Family Shabbat Service
8:45pm •
'All Who Are Hungry, Let Them Come': Torah and the African Refugee Crisis
Saturday
, February 14
Aspen
8:45am •
Traditional Egalitarian Shacharit Service (mixed seating, mixed leadership)
12:15pm •
When the Water Runs Out: Allocating Resources in a Desperate World
1:45pm •
Hasidut Today
3:15pm •
Traditional Egalitarian Shabbat Mincha
3:45pm •
Honoring Your Father and Mother: Psychological Challenges
5:15pm •
Personal and Spiritual Stories of Individual Women Who Have Converted (Some A Few Times)
6:15pm •
Traditional Egalitarian Shabbat Maariv
7:30pm •
Responsa Radio: Live!
9:45pm •
Peoplehood with Purpose
Ballroom I
5:15pm •
Family Early Saturday Dinner 5:15-6:15
Ballroom I, II
7:30am •
Shabbat Breakfast 7:30-9:30
11:30am •
Shabbat Lunch 11:30-1:30
7:30pm •
Saturday Dinner 7:30-9:30
Ballroom III
7:30am •
Daf Yomi Saturday
8:45am •
All You Need is Four Words: Family Fun for Shabbat
5:15pm •
Seudah Shlishit (The Third Meal)
Belltown
12:15pm •
Parashat Terumah: The Offerings of Our Hearts
1:45pm •
The Ties That Bind Us: The Possibilities and Limits of Communal Repentance
3:45pm •
For Grandparents Only!
7:30pm •
Secrets and Tastes of Ashkenazi Cooking with Gefilteria
Cove
8:45am •
Partnership Shacharit Service (separate seating, mixed leadership)
11:30am •
Kernels of a Pomegranate: The Art of Storytelling
1:45pm •
Models of Shared Leadership: Miriam, Moses and Aaron
3:45pm •
Mikvah: Personal Moment or Communal Infrastructure?
5:15pm •
Corporate Compliance and Jewish Ethics
7:30pm •
FlaSh'ma: 30-Minute Flashtalk with Sh'ma Journal
8:15pm •
I Love You, but You're (Still) Wrong about Everything
11:15pm •
The Rebbetzin's Disco
Elm
8:45am •
Traditional Shacharit Service (separate seating, male leadership)
11:30am •
Ms. President: The Obligation for Women to Exercise Leadership
1:45pm •
Scrabbleogamy: How to Play Together to Stay Together
3:15pm •
Orthodox Shabbat Mincha
3:45pm •
Nostra Aetate: Catholic-Jewish Relations' 50th Anniversary
5:15pm •
The Significance of Being First: Competing Jewish and Arab Discourses
6:15pm •
Orthodox Shabbat Maariv
8:15pm •
Studio Aggadah: New Ideas Lab
9:45pm •
The Great Jewish Paradox of Our Time: Power and Vulnerability
Glen
10:15am •
Shabbat Morning, Camp Style!
1:45pm •
Tales Told to the Magic Carpet
3:45pm •
Family Chavruta
7:30pm •
Pajama Party Movie Night!
8:15pm •
Middle School Extravaganza!
Glenbrook
10:00am •
Food and Ritual: Limmud Chavruta
12:15pm •
The Dragon in the Abyss, the Id in the Unconscious: Kabbalah, Myth and Psychoanalysis
1:45pm •
Dolce and Her Daughters: A Businesswoman in Medieval Germany
3:45pm •
Meditating on Language
5:15pm •
Fallen Angels and Forbidden Fruit
8:15pm •
The Original Hassidic Tales: Law, Narrative, and Piety in the Talmud
9:45pm •
Mifgash Ramah—Ramah Meet-Up
Grove
8:45am •
Romemu Shabbat Morning Service
10:15am •
Moses in the Sky with Sapphires: Storah Service
11:30am •
Beyond Bibi: The Israeli Elections—A Guide for the Perplexed
1:45pm •
The Rabbinic Narrative of Pacifism and Its Modern Critics
3:45pm •
Pluralism, Integrity, and Community
6:30pm •
Community Havdalah
9:45pm •
Concert: Basya Schechter and Pharaoh's Daughter
High Ridge
12:15pm •
Exodus, the Sequel
1:45pm •
Instant Yiddish! 50 Words in 50 Minutes
3:45pm •
Afternoon Soul Time
5:15pm •
What's in a Name? A Storytelling Session on Names
7:30pm •
Aseh L'cha Rav (Find Yourself a Teacher): Models of Leadership and Followership in Contemporary Jewish Life
Long Ridge
9:45am •
Valentine's Shabbat Yoga
12:15pm •
What Will Happen When the Messiah Comes? Learn a Yiddish Folksong
1:45pm •
Gift Me Something to Give
3:45pm •
Yoga for Women
5:15pm •
Are You There God? It's Me. A Spiritual Open-Mic (without the Mic) Event
8:15pm •
Gilgul, Dybbuks and Golems: Do Jews Believe in Them?
9:45pm •
Jewish Meditative Practice from the Aish Kodesh
Mezzanine
11:15pm •
The Unfire with Peter Kashin and Friends
Springdale
10:00am •
Chesed: What Does Judaism Have to Say?
11:30am •
Using Ritual to Cope with Change—A Case Study: Divorce
1:45pm •
Shechitah and Ethics: Is Kosher Slaughter 'Humane'?
3:45pm •
Sephardic Vignettes from the Balkans
5:15pm •
Creating and Holding Sacred Space
7:30pm •
Twentieth-Century Philosophies of War: Heschel, Levinas and Their Relevance to Israel
9:45pm •
The Last Jews of Baghdad (Film)
Waterside
12:15pm •
The Scholar, the Techie and the Artist
1:45pm •
Lethal Wives and Impure Widows
3:45pm •
Heavenly Jerusalem, Earthly Jerusalem
5:15pm •
Starting a Jewish Giving Circle
9:45pm •
“Yes, and…”: An IMPROV workshop
Westover
1:45pm •
Book Club: A Post-Zionist Tale in 1947?
3:45pm •
Judaism and Medicine: Beyond Bioethics
5:15pm •
Three Mitzvot That Never Were and Never Will Be
8:15pm •
Judaism and Homosexuality
9:45pm •
Pardes Meet Up
Willow
11:30am •
Passing the Pen: How Increased Literacy and Education Have Changed the Meaning of Torah
1:45pm •
Friends of Bill W.
3:45pm •
Yiddish Translation Matters
5:15pm •
Modern Orthodoxy and the Boundaries of Pluralism
7:30pm •
Speaking of Names...
Sunday
, February 15
Alder
10:00am •
Forgiveness: Whom Is It For? A session for teens and parents
12:00pm •
Street Art and Tikkun Olam - a session for teens
Aspen
7:30am •
Traditional Egalitarian Sunday Shacharit Service
10:00am •
Innovation and Jewish Organizations
11:30am •
Hakovesh Et Yitzro (Mastering Your Instincts): Neurobiology Meets Rabbinic Wisdom
1:00pm •
Traditional Egalitarian Sunday Mincha Service
1:30pm •
Abomination: Jewish Legal Responses to LGBT Legitimacy
6:45pm •
Concert: Nefesh Mountain
8:15pm •
Tevye: The Milkman and the Fiddler
Ballroom I, II
7:30am •
Sunday Breakfast 7:30-10:00
Ballroom I, II, III
11:30am •
Sunday Lunch 11:30-1:30
6:00pm •
Sunday Dinner 6:00-8:00
Ballroom III
8:30am •
Daf Yomi - Sunday
Belltown
8:30am •
The Letter that Changed Everything: Ben Gurion's Status Quo Letter
11:30am •
'I Am with You in Distress': Jewish Responses to Communal Crisis and Tragedy
1:30pm •
Sketches of our Fathers: Medieval Jewish Art as 'Visual Torah Commentary'
3:00pm •
Women Giving Money--Beyond the Stereotypes
6:45pm •
Adam's Invention of Religion
8:15pm •
Models of Jewish Leadership: Women in America
9:45pm •
The Chosen Quiz: A Limmud Institution Since 5773
Cove
8:30am •
Empowering Parents as Educators: PJ Library as Part of a Toolkit
10:00am •
Portraits of Jewish Bulgaria
1:30pm •
The Sturgeon Queens (Film)
3:00pm •
An Appetizing Tradition: Talking with the 4th Generation About 100 Years of Russ & Daughters
6:00pm •
FlaSh'ma: 30-Minute Flashtalk with Sh'ma Journal
6:45pm •
Shiva, Shabbos Candles, and Mikveh: Innovation and Creativity in Jewish Ritual
8:15pm •
Learn Yiddish Online—NOW!
11:15pm •
Karaoke
Elm
7:30am •
Orthodox Sunday Shacharit Service
8:30am •
Torah in the Religious School Classroom
10:00am •
Jewhooing the Sixties
11:30am •
A Jewish Melting Pot at the Crossroads of the World: The Cuisine of Georgia
1:00pm •
Orthodox Sunday Mincha Service
1:30pm •
Taking Hold of Torah: The Weekly Portion and the Yearly Cycle as Gateways into Life
3:00pm •
Personal Stories of Iraqi Jews (Two Short Films)
7:40pm •
Orthodox Sunday Maariv Service
8:15pm •
The Joy of Text - Live!
9:45pm •
Researching a Travel Guide to Israel During the Gaza War of 2014
Glen
8:45am •
Music Together with Naomi
10:00am •
Children's Songwriting Workshop and Family Concert
1:30pm •
Humor and Hokhma (Intelligence) with a Detour through Chelm
3:00pm •
Jewish Heroes and Superheroes: Creating Jewish Comics
6:45pm •
Rock Out and Rikud! Camp Israeli Dancing Favorites!
8:15pm •
Middle School Movie Night!
Glenbrook
10:00am •
Food and Hunger: Limmud Chavruta
12:00pm •
Subconscious Yiddish Issues
1:30pm •
Where Are We Going? Judaism for the Mid-21st Century
3:00pm •
Towards a Theology of the Child: The Chovat HaTalmidim as Case Study in Complexity
6:45pm •
What's Your Spiritual Type?
8:15pm •
Finding the Jewish God in the Post-Secular Age
9:45pm •
The Origins of Havdalah in the Book of Esther
Grove
10:00am •
NEW, CHANGED SESSION: Reflections on Copenhagen and Paris
11:30am •
On Serving God: Does Halakha Help or Hinder?
1:30pm •
Uncle Vanya
4:30pm •
Limmud-A-Palooza
6:00pm •
The Torah after Ferguson: Human Equality in the Bible
9:45pm •
Concert: Zusha
High Ridge
8:30am •
The Challenge of Power: How to Be a More Ethical Funder
10:00am •
Varieties of Modern Orthodoxy 1800-2015
12:00pm •
The Four Founding Stories of Judaism: Why They Matter Separately and Together
1:30pm •
Fusing Ancient with Modern: The Art of Translating the Talmud with Cutting-Edge Technology
3:00pm •
American Jewry, Beyond Boundaries
6:45pm •
What about My (Jewish) Genes in Twenty-Fifteen? Advances in Hereditary Cancers
8:15pm •
Songs of the Heart
9:45pm •
Seven Life Lessons from Harvard Divinity School—And How They've Changed Over the Decades
Long Ridge
8:30am •
Discovering Our Place within the Matrix of Life
10:00am •
Yoga: Rise and Shine a Light
11:30am •
Mural Workshop: Collaborative Conceptual Graffiti Wall
1:30pm •
Mending the Heart, Tending the Soul: A Spiritual Journey through the Torah Path of Mindfulness
3:00pm •
Limmud NY Tzedekkah Fund: Make a $1000 Grant!
3:00pm •
CANCELED Can You Save a Blessing for Me? CANCELED
6:00pm •
This is Not a Gaga Class
8:15pm •
The Akedah (Sacrifice of Isaac) in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions
Mezzanine
10:00am •
Limmud NY Shuk (Marketplace)
Springdale
8:30am •
The Triple Bottom Line: Creating a Sustainable Jewish Community
10:00am •
An Israeli Vision to Reverse Climate Change
12:00pm •
Jewish Food History
1:30pm •
Uniformity and Diversity: Left-Handedness and Halakhah
3:00pm •
New York Andalus Ensemble
6:00pm •
The Jewish Brain on Music: What I Learned When I Picked up My Cello in Middle Age
7:40pm •
Traditional Egalitarian Sunday Maariv Service
8:15pm •
Punk Jews (Film)
9:45pm •
Envy: What Does Judaism Have to Say?
Waterside
8:30am •
'You Shall Love the Stranger': Traditional Approaches to the Status of Non-Jews in Israel
10:00am •
The Conflict of Priorities: Inwardness-vs-Ethics
12:00pm •
Dramatic American Religious Demographic Shifts and Their Implications for Israel Support
1:30pm •
Who is Judaism For, Anyway? Universalism and Particularism in a New Key
3:00pm •
Three Singers, One Family: Esther, Israel Joshua, and Isaac Bashevis Singer
8:15pm •
The Practice of Good Men in Islamic, Jewish, Hindu, and Canon Law
Westover
10:00am •
The Making of Tefillin
1:30pm •
Write Your Own Talmud
3:00pm •
Israel of the Heart/Israel of the Mind
6:45pm •
The Scribal Arts
8:15pm •
TuBishVanya: Creating a Tu Bishvat (Jewish Arbor Day) Uncle Vanya
Willow
8:30am •
Friends of Bill W.
10:00am •
Jewish Travel in Asia
12:00pm •
The Displaced Persons
1:30pm •
Finish Your Song: A Workshop for Songwriters
3:00pm •
Off the Record: The Law and Law-to-Be-Applied in Jewish Responsa and Islamic Fatawa
6:45pm •
The Pious Ones: Who Are the Hasidim?
8:15pm •
The Modern Kosher Meat Industry
Monday
, February 16
Aspen
7:30am •
Traditional Egalitarian Monday Shacharit Service
10:00am •
The Neuroscience of Teshuva: Neuroplasticity and Personal Change
11:30am •
Conservative Judaism for Today and Tomorrow: Rethinking a Movement and Tradition
1:00pm •
The Israel We Imagine
2:15pm •
Traditional Egalitarian Monday Mincha Service
Ballroom I
11:30am •
Monday Lunch 11:30-1:00
Ballroom I, II
7:30am •
Monday Breakfast 7:30-9:30
Ballroom III
8:30am •
Daf Yomi Monday
Belltown
8:30am •
What Would Moses Do?
10:00am •
Pondering Yovel and 50 Years Since the Six Day War
11:30am •
Who Are These Orthodox Lesbians and Why Do They Keep Following Me?
1:00pm •
Artists’ Beit Midrash
Cove
10:00am •
Justice, Justice You Shall Pursue: Social Justice and Jewish Engagement—Opportunities and Obstacles
11:30am •
Inmarriage as Policy, Inclusion as Practice
1:00pm •
Jewish Education is Dead. Long Live Jewish Education.
Elm
7:30am •
Orthodox Monday Shacharit Service
8:30am •
Recovering the Mystical Tradition: Toward a Contemporary Jewish Spirituality
10:00am •
Love and Fear: What Does Judaism Have to Say?
11:30am •
The Talmud Uncensored
2:15pm •
Orthodox Monday Mincha Service
Glen
10:00am •
Golem: Making a Friendly Monster
Glenbrook
8:30am •
Who Was the Ramban?
10:00am •
What's the Use of Jewish History?
11:30am •
Creating Family: Infertility Then and Now
1:00pm •
Nahala: A Celebration of Remembrance
Grove
10:00am •
Understanding Israel’s Declaration of Independence
11:30am •
Skills for Telling Stories to (and with!) Children
1:00pm •
'You Shall Surely Open Your Hand': Poverty, Shmita and a Social-Theological Vision
High Ridge
8:30am •
The 'Jewish' State: The Politics of Religion in Israel
10:00am •
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!
11:30am •
Jewish Film in 2009: A Serious Man Versus Inglourious Basterds
1:00pm •
Food and Sustainability: Limmud Chavruta
Long Ridge
8:30am •
Morning Brachas (Blessings) Rejuvenation
10:00am •
Yoga of Gratitude
11:30am •
Three Summers of Zionist Crisis: 1937, 1947, 1948
1:00pm •
Jewish Jonah and Islamic Yunus
Springdale
10:00am •
My Life, My Art
11:30am •
Spirituality and Leadership
1:00pm •
Secrets of an Intrepid Limmud Traveler: How to Fly for Less (or Free)
Waterside
8:30am •
Jewish Fundraising Workshop
10:00am •
The Taboo History of Jews in Arab Countries
11:30am •
The Messiah: When Is She Coming and What Is Her Role?—Hasidic Views
1:00pm •
The Religious Imagination: Thinking and Unthinking God
Westover
8:30am •
Tackling Tefillah: Is More 'Effective' Prayer Possible?
10:00am •
When the Tablets Shatter: Dementia in Rabbinic Literature and Theology
11:30am •
Learn Torah Trope in One Hour!
1:00pm •
Baby Boomer Blues?
Willow
10:00am •
A Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish-Hindu Encounter
11:30am •
Friends of Bill W.
1:00pm •
Holy Ground: Surveying the Significance of Shoes and Bare Feet in the Bible
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