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8:00am EST

Morning Egalitarian Shacharit Service (mixed seating; gender-inclusive leadership) WLSS (2nd Floor) Morning Mechitza Shacharit Service (separate seating; male leadership) Presentation Room (Atrium) Check-in and Registration Opens Lobby

8:45am EST

Breakfast Available for Purchase Dining Room

9:00am EST

'Twas the Best of Times, ‘Twas the Worst of Times: Anti-Semitism, Israel and the Politics of Resentment on Campus Today K506 We're Gonna be Royals: Jewish Queens in History Presentation Room (Atrium) Childhood Anxiety: A Growing Epidemic U407 Sinai to AI: The Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Jewish Law WLSS (2nd Floor) The Power of One: What Can Jewish Texts Teach Us About Jewish Unity? K406 Separating the Art from the Artist: Jewish Ethics and Media Consumption in the #MeToo Era K306 Children's Babysitting U301

10:00am EST

Limmud NY Shuk (Organizational and Vendor Fair) Main Floor

10:15am EST

Daniel Cainer: In Concert Unterberg Auditorium (Basement) Combating LGBTQ Bullying in Orthodox Middle Schools and High Schools 10th Floor Conference Room Jewish Grandparenting Today: Findings from the U.S. National Study of Jewish Grandparents K406 Tricky Matters: The Negotiation of Female and Male Sexual Desire in College and Beyond Presentation Room (Atrium) When Bold Women Study Talmud: Taking Back Aggadah K506 Inclusion by Design U407 Is There Such a Thing as “Jewish Mindfulness”? WLSS (2nd Floor) Politics from the Pulpit: Moral Imperative or Moral Concern? K610 Praying To/For/With God?: Three Talmudic Alternatives to Traditional Prayer U408 Where’s the Love? Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s Unique Perspective on Dating, Relationships and Marriage K306

11:00am EST

Camp Ramah Children's Program U305 Lunch and Snacks Available for Purchase Dining Room

11:30am EST

Witness Theater: Bringing Holocaust Survivors Back to High School K506 Finding the "I" in Identity U408 Jews: Now Presented in Technicolor Unterberg Auditorium (Basement) If They Won’t Give Us Seats, We’ll Build Our Own Table Presentation Room (Atrium) Failing Forward: Transforming Challenges into Opportunities K306 What Will They Say About You When You’re Gone? U407 Higher Ethics: Ancient and Contemporary Jewish Voices in the Conversation on Legalizing Marijuana K406 What Happens with the Jews Stays with the Jews? Communal Betrayal and Non-Jewish Authority K610 Words that Cannot Be Written: Oral Torah and Chosenness in the Pachad Yitzchak WLSS (2nd Floor) A Winter's Tale 10th Floor Conference Room

12:45pm EST

Mincha: Egalitarian Service (mixed seating; gender-inclusive leadership) WLSS (2nd Floor) Mincha: Mechitza Service (separate seating; male leadership) Presentation Room (Atrium)

1:00pm EST

Nineveh: Poetry Reading with Q+A Presentation Room (Atrium) Acting Ancestors: A Time Traveling Adventure! Unterberg Auditorium (Basement) Sephardic-Mizrahi and LGBTQ+: An Intersectional Experience on the Margins K406 What Does It Look Like To March Towards Freedom? The Book of Numbers and Social Change K610 New York Jew: Synagogue Community K306 ”This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land”: On the Value of the Land of Israel in Jewish and Zionist Thought K506 From Oys to Joys: How to Bring Warmth and Community into Your Congregational School and Classroom U407 The Promise of an Earth Seder U401 Soaringwords Innovation Workshop: Growth Mindset U408 Compare and Contrast: Teaching Daf Yomi in Borough Park or on Twitter - a Case Study 10th Floor Conference Room To Hold Opposites in Your Heart: Rav Yitzchak Hutner and the Value of Religious Pessimism WLSS (2nd Floor)

2:15pm EST

Visual Ritual: A Creative Craft Workshop K610 Pluralism: Not Just a Buzzword! WLSS (2nd Floor) Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish-Hindu Encounter K306 Scaling and Growth: From Vision to Reality in Building a Jewish Nonprofit U408 “The Day All Jewish Women Turned Invisible”...and All the Days After That Unterberg Auditorium (Basement) Jewish Genealogy Workshop K406 How Do We Talk to Kids About Anti-Semitism? U407 Love Stories of the Rabbis: Talmudic Teachings on Desire and Devotion 10th Floor Conference Room Modern Love with a Talmudic Twist K506 Talmud for Poets Presentation Room (Atrium)

3:30pm EST

Chesed Comedy Show - Rated Gimmel Unterberg Auditorium (Basement) Secrets Of The Haggadah: It's Never Too Early to Prepare for Pesach K610 The Mystical Art of Hand Drumming 10th Floor Conference Room Ashkanormativity vs Sefardinormativity K506 Staying in a State of T'Shuvah: A Response to the Opioid Epidemic Presentation Room (Atrium) Who Really are Modern Orthodox Adults? U407 Women of the Wall: Freedom or Respect? K306 The Forgiveness Conundrum WLSS (2nd Floor) The Jewish Road to Character: Mussar as a Practice for Balance in Our Lives U408 Building an Animated Jewish Future: A Case Study from Four Rabbis' Trip to Paradise K406 Joseph's Wrestling with an Angel U401

4:30pm EST

Dinner Available for Purchase Dining Room

4:45pm EST

"Back to Berlin": Film Screening K406

5:00pm EST

Bibliodrama: Integrating Theater with Torah K506 Bukharian Jews and The Silk Road: What is the Connection? U408 Let's Talk about Reparations, Then and Now (Part 1) 10th Floor Conference Room New York Jew: Popular Culture K306 Once Upon a Time in...Jewish Solidarity Presentation Room (Atrium) The Power of the Place K610 Unpacking Your Jewish Baggage U401 Huppah, Kiddushin and Cui Bono: Who Benefits in Marriage? WLSS (2nd Floor) The Netsiv's Contribution to Saving the Planet U407

6:15pm EST

#TVGoneJewy U408 Educating for Optimism: Why KIVUNIM is Telling a Different Story K306 Let's Talk about Reparations, Then and Now (Part 2) 10th Floor Conference Room Bridges, Barriers and the Bris: Brit Milah vs. the Evolving Definitions of Jewishness Presentation Room (Atrium) Israeli Politics 101 U407 Emet/Truth: Mussar Teachings for an Age of Complexity K506 Psychoanalytic Hauntings from Our Jewish Patriarchs: Ghostly Transmissions WLSS (2nd Floor) A Controversy Most Fowl: Turkeys, Orthodox Female Rabbis, and How 'Old World' Judaism Incorporates 'New World' Ideas K610 Taking Responsibility for Others: Mitzvah or Folly? Jewish Wisdom on Guarantors K406

7:15pm EST

Ma’ariv: Egalitarian Service (mixed seating; gender inclusive-leadership) WLSS (2nd Floor) Ma’ariv: Mechitza Service (separate seating; male leadership) Presentation Room (Atrium)

7:45pm EST

Limmudapalooza (Variety Show) Unterberg Auditorium (Basement)

9:00pm EST

God Should Not Have Chosen Us Unterberg Auditorium (Basement) Have You Ever Noticed That Anyone Driving Slower Than You is an Idiot, While Anyone Driving Faster Than You is a Maniac? K406 Are Holocaust Jokes Funny? K306