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LimmudFest NY 2020

Sasha Malamud

Staten Island, New York

4:00pm EST

Check-In for Shabbat Participants Lobby

5:00pm EST

Candle Lighting Atrium

8:30pm EST

The Power of Love: How the Commandments to Love Can Minimize Abuses of Power WLSS (2nd Floor)

9:45pm EST

Jews’ Line is it Anyway? An Improv / Jewish Values Mash-up Presentation Room (Atrium) The Jewish Pleasure Principle: Sexual Affirmation and Disavowal in the Jewish Tradition K306 Friday Night Tisch Atrium

8:45am EST

Shabbat Morning Egalitarian Service (mixed seating; gender-inclusive leadership) - With a Taste of Baghdadi-Indian Tradition WLSS (2nd Floor)

10:15am EST

Shabbat Va’yinafash: Mindfulness Meditation K306

11:15am EST

Communal Kiddush

12:00pm EST

The Challenges of Pluralism and Religious Freedom in Israel Presentation Room (Atrium) Radical Amazement: How to Live in Wonder Each and Every Day K306

1:15pm EST

Wise Aging Presentation Room (Atrium) The Different Stages of Mourning in the Aftermath of Tragedy WLSS (2nd Floor)

2:15pm EST

Mincha: Egalitarian Service (mixed seating; gender-inclusive leadership) WLSS (2nd Floor)

2:45pm EST

Learning to Talk About God Today: A Rational Quest for a Mystical Reality Presentation Room (Atrium)

4:00pm EST

The Radical Israeli Thought of Rav Shagar WLSS (2nd Floor)

5:15pm EST

What Makes This Jew Different From All Other Jews? Race, Difference, and Safety in Jewish Spaces U305 The Power of Speech: Are We Still Speaking the Same Language? WLSS (2nd Floor)

6:15pm EST

Ma’ariv: Egalitarian Service (mixed seating; gender inclusive-leadership) WLSS (2nd Floor)

6:30pm EST

Havdalah and Concert Unterberg Auditorium (Basement)

7:30pm EST

Harnessing the Immense Power of Humility! U305 At the Crossroads of Sephardic, Mizrahi, and Russian-Speaking Worlds: The Story of the Bukharian Jews K306

8:45pm EST

The Spiritual Humanism of Abraham Joshua Heschel: Jewish Education for the 21st Century K406 Yaffa & Esther's Excellent Limmudventure: A Judeo-Cultural Odyssey K306

9:00am EST

Sinai to AI: The Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Jewish Law WLSS (2nd Floor) Separating the Art from the Artist: Jewish Ethics and Media Consumption in the #MeToo Era K306

10:15am EST

Daniel Cainer: In Concert Unterberg Auditorium (Basement) When Bold Women Study Talmud: Taking Back Aggadah K506 Is There Such a Thing as “Jewish Mindfulness”? WLSS (2nd Floor) Praying To/For/With God?: Three Talmudic Alternatives to Traditional Prayer U408

11:30am EST

Jews: Now Presented in Technicolor Unterberg Auditorium (Basement) 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 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)

1:00pm EST

Acting Ancestors: A Time Traveling Adventure! Unterberg Auditorium (Basement) What Does It Look Like To March Towards Freedom? The Book of Numbers and Social Change K610 ”This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land”: On the Value of the Land of Israel in Jewish and Zionist Thought K506 The Promise of an Earth Seder U401 Soaringwords Innovation Workshop: Growth Mindset U408 To Hold Opposites in Your Heart: Rav Yitzchak Hutner and the Value of Religious Pessimism WLSS (2nd Floor)

2:15pm EST

Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish-Hindu Encounter K306 Jewish Genealogy Workshop K406 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 Staying in a State of T'Shuvah: A Response to the Opioid Epidemic Presentation Room (Atrium) 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

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 Once Upon a Time in...Jewish Solidarity Presentation Room (Atrium) 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) 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

7:45pm EST

Limmudapalooza (Variety Show) Unterberg Auditorium (Basement)

9:00pm EST

God Should Not Have Chosen Us Unterberg Auditorium (Basement)

9:00am EST

New York Jew: Local History Fiddlers on the Roof: Using Mussar to Maintain Balance in a Shaky World K506