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Friday
, February 14
Atrium
5:00pm •
Candle Lighting
5:15pm •
Welcoming Shabbat Tel-Aviv Style
6:45pm •
Communal Shabbat Dinner
9:45pm •
Friday Night Tisch
K306
8:30pm •
Understanding Jewish Marriage in Halakhic Discourse
9:45pm •
The Jewish Pleasure Principle: Sexual Affirmation and Disavowal in the Jewish Tradition
Lobby
4:00pm •
Check-In for Shabbat Participants
9:45pm •
Walking Group to Upper West Side #1
9:45pm •
Walking Group to Aloft Hotel #1
11:00pm •
Walking Group to Upper West Side #2
11:00pm •
Walking Group to Aloft Hotel #2
Presentation Room (Atrium)
5:15pm •
Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma’ariv: Mechitza Service (separate seating; male leadership)
8:30pm •
From Kilayim to CRISPR: Jewish Concerns with Gene Editing
9:45pm •
Jews’ Line is it Anyway? An Improv / Jewish Values Mash-up
U305
8:30pm •
Jewish Calcutta Through Music and Memory
WLSS (2nd Floor)
5:15pm •
Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma’ariv: Egalitarian Service (mixed seating; gender-inclusive leadership)
8:30pm •
The Power of Love: How the Commandments to Love Can Minimize Abuses of Power
9:45pm •
Facebook and Lashon Hara: Using Social Media Responsibly
Saturday
, February 15
Atrium
8:30am •
Continential Breakfast
12:00pm •
Buffet Lunch
4:30pm •
Seudah Shlishit (Light Meal)
7:30pm •
Buffet Dinner
K306
10:15am •
Shabbat Va’yinafash: Mindfulness Meditation
12:00pm •
Radical Amazement: How to Live in Wonder Each and Every Day
1:15pm •
Jewish Meditation Compared to Yoga/Tantra
2:45pm •
Convivencia: The Untold Story of Moroccan Jewish History
4:00pm •
T'Shuvah: Judaism's Response to the Opioid Crisis and the Myth of Perfection
5:15pm •
Civil Marriage in Israel: An Unholy Mess
7:30pm •
At the Crossroads of Sephardic, Mizrahi, and Russian-Speaking Worlds: The Story of the Bukharian Jews
8:45pm •
Yaffa & Esther's Excellent Limmudventure: A Judeo-Cultural Odyssey
K406
8:45pm •
The Spiritual Humanism of Abraham Joshua Heschel: Jewish Education for the 21st Century
Presentation Room (Atrium)
8:45am •
Shabbat Morning Mechitza Service (separate seating; male leadership)
12:00pm •
The Challenges of Pluralism and Religious Freedom in Israel
1:15pm •
Wise Aging
2:15pm •
Mincha: Mechitza Service (separate seating; male leadership)
2:45pm •
Learning to Talk About God Today: A Rational Quest for a Mystical Reality
4:00pm •
Why Jews Intermarry: Notes on a Transgressive Subject
5:15pm •
The Earth is the Lord’s: Jewish Perspectives on Environmental Protection
6:15pm •
Ma’ariv: Mechitza Service (separate seating; male leadership)
U305
2:45pm •
Face of the Ethiopian Jewry
4:00pm •
Fake News and the Resurgence of Anti-Semitism
5:15pm •
What Makes This Jew Different From All Other Jews? Race, Difference, and Safety in Jewish Spaces
7:30pm •
Harnessing the Immense Power of Humility!
8:45pm •
Truth, Justice, and the American (Oy) Vey: the significance of the Jewish influence on comic book superheroes
U407
7:30pm •
Masala Havdalah! The Jews of Bombay and Cochin
8:45pm •
KAN is Hollywood
Unterberg Auditorium (Basement)
12:00pm •
Tough Topics: Navigating Challenging Conversations with Children
1:15pm •
Who is Your Josh? The Evolution of Matan and Jewish Disability Inclusion
6:30pm •
Havdalah and Concert
WLSS (2nd Floor)
8:45am •
Shabbat Morning Egalitarian Service (mixed seating; gender-inclusive leadership) - With a Taste of Baghdadi-Indian Tradition
1:15pm •
The Different Stages of Mourning in the Aftermath of Tragedy
2:15pm •
Mincha: Egalitarian Service (mixed seating; gender-inclusive leadership)
2:45pm •
Family vs. Nation: Does the Land of Israel Supersede the Jewish Home?
4:00pm •
The Radical Israeli Thought of Rav Shagar
5:15pm •
The Power of Speech: Are We Still Speaking the Same Language?
6:15pm •
Ma’ariv: Egalitarian Service (mixed seating; gender inclusive-leadership)
Sunday
, February 16
10th Floor Conference Room
10:15am •
Combating LGBTQ Bullying in Orthodox Middle Schools and High Schools
11:30am •
A Winter's Tale
1:00pm •
Compare and Contrast: Teaching Daf Yomi in Borough Park or on Twitter - a Case Study
2:15pm •
Love Stories of the Rabbis: Talmudic Teachings on Desire and Devotion
3:30pm •
The Mystical Art of Hand Drumming
5:00pm •
Let's Talk about Reparations, Then and Now (Part 1)
6:15pm •
Let's Talk about Reparations, Then and Now (Part 2)
Dining Room
8:45am •
Breakfast Available for Purchase
11:00am •
Lunch and Snacks Available for Purchase
4:30pm •
Dinner Available for Purchase
K306
9:00am •
Separating the Art from the Artist: Jewish Ethics and Media Consumption in the #MeToo Era
10:15am •
Where’s the Love? Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s Unique Perspective on Dating, Relationships and Marriage
11:30am •
Failing Forward: Transforming Challenges into Opportunities
1:00pm •
New York Jew: Synagogue Community
2:15pm •
Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish-Hindu Encounter
3:30pm •
Women of the Wall: Freedom or Respect?
5:00pm •
New York Jew: Popular Culture
6:15pm •
Educating for Optimism: Why KIVUNIM is Telling a Different Story
9:00pm •
Are Holocaust Jokes Funny?
K406
9:00am •
The Power of One: What Can Jewish Texts Teach Us About Jewish Unity?
10:15am •
Jewish Grandparenting Today: Findings from the U.S. National Study of Jewish Grandparents
11:30am •
Higher Ethics: Ancient and Contemporary Jewish Voices in the Conversation on Legalizing Marijuana
1:00pm •
Sephardic-Mizrahi and LGBTQ+: An Intersectional Experience on the Margins
2:15pm •
Jewish Genealogy Workshop
3:30pm •
Building an Animated Jewish Future: A Case Study from Four Rabbis' Trip to Paradise
4:45pm •
"Back to Berlin": Film Screening
6:15pm •
Taking Responsibility for Others: Mitzvah or Folly? Jewish Wisdom on Guarantors
9:00pm •
Have You Ever Noticed That Anyone Driving Slower Than You is an Idiot, While Anyone Driving Faster Than You is a Maniac?
K506
9:00am •
'Twas the Best of Times, ‘Twas the Worst of Times: Anti-Semitism, Israel and the Politics of Resentment on Campus Today
10:15am •
When Bold Women Study Talmud: Taking Back Aggadah
11:30am •
Witness Theater: Bringing Holocaust Survivors Back to High School
1:00pm •
”This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land”: On the Value of the Land of Israel in Jewish and Zionist Thought
2:15pm •
Modern Love with a Talmudic Twist
3:30pm •
Ashkanormativity vs Sefardinormativity
5:00pm •
Bibliodrama: Integrating Theater with Torah
6:15pm •
Emet/Truth: Mussar Teachings for an Age of Complexity
K610
10:15am •
Politics from the Pulpit: Moral Imperative or Moral Concern?
11:30am •
What Happens with the Jews Stays with the Jews? Communal Betrayal and Non-Jewish Authority
1:00pm •
What Does It Look Like To March Towards Freedom? The Book of Numbers and Social Change
2:15pm •
Visual Ritual: A Creative Craft Workshop
3:30pm •
Secrets Of The Haggadah: It's Never Too Early to Prepare for Pesach
5:00pm •
The Power of the Place
6:15pm •
A Controversy Most Fowl: Turkeys, Orthodox Female Rabbis, and How 'Old World' Judaism Incorporates 'New World' Ideas
Lobby
8:00am •
Check-in and Registration Opens
Main Floor
10:00am •
Limmud NY Shuk (Organizational and Vendor Fair)
Presentation Room (Atrium)
8:00am •
Morning Mechitza Shacharit Service (separate seating; male leadership)
9:00am •
We're Gonna be Royals: Jewish Queens in History
10:15am •
Tricky Matters: The Negotiation of Female and Male Sexual Desire in College and Beyond
11:30am •
If They Won’t Give Us Seats, We’ll Build Our Own Table
12:45pm •
Mincha: Mechitza Service (separate seating; male leadership)
1:00pm •
Nineveh: Poetry Reading with Q+A
2:15pm •
Talmud for Poets
3:30pm •
Staying in a State of T'Shuvah: A Response to the Opioid Epidemic
5:00pm •
Once Upon a Time in...Jewish Solidarity
6:15pm •
Bridges, Barriers and the Bris: Brit Milah vs. the Evolving Definitions of Jewishness
7:15pm •
Ma’ariv: Mechitza Service (separate seating; male leadership)
U301
9:00am •
Children's Babysitting
U305
11:00am •
Camp Ramah Children's Program
U401
1:00pm •
The Promise of an Earth Seder
3:30pm •
Joseph's Wrestling with an Angel
5:00pm •
Unpacking Your Jewish Baggage
U407
9:00am •
Childhood Anxiety: A Growing Epidemic
10:15am •
Inclusion by Design
11:30am •
What Will They Say About You When You’re Gone?
1:00pm •
From Oys to Joys: How to Bring Warmth and Community into Your Congregational School and Classroom
2:15pm •
How Do We Talk to Kids About Anti-Semitism?
3:30pm •
Who Really are Modern Orthodox Adults?
5:00pm •
The Netsiv's Contribution to Saving the Planet
6:15pm •
Israeli Politics 101
U408
10:15am •
Praying To/For/With God?: Three Talmudic Alternatives to Traditional Prayer
11:30am •
Finding the "I" in Identity
1:00pm •
Soaringwords Innovation Workshop: Growth Mindset
2:15pm •
Scaling and Growth: From Vision to Reality in Building a Jewish Nonprofit
3:30pm •
The Jewish Road to Character: Mussar as a Practice for Balance in Our Lives
5:00pm •
Bukharian Jews and The Silk Road: What is the Connection?
6:15pm •
#TVGoneJewy
Unterberg Auditorium (Basement)
10:15am •
Daniel Cainer: In Concert
11:30am •
Jews: Now Presented in Technicolor
1:00pm •
Acting Ancestors: A Time Traveling Adventure!
2:15pm •
“The Day All Jewish Women Turned Invisible”...and All the Days After That
3:30pm •
Chesed Comedy Show - Rated Gimmel
7:45pm •
Limmudapalooza (Variety Show)
9:00pm •
God Should Not Have Chosen Us
WLSS (2nd Floor)
8:00am •
Morning Egalitarian Shacharit Service (mixed seating; gender-inclusive leadership)
9:00am •
Sinai to AI: The Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Jewish Law
10:15am •
Is There Such a Thing as “Jewish Mindfulness”?
11:30am •
Words that Cannot Be Written: Oral Torah and Chosenness in the Pachad Yitzchak
12:45pm •
Mincha: Egalitarian Service (mixed seating; gender-inclusive leadership)
1:00pm •
To Hold Opposites in Your Heart: Rav Yitzchak Hutner and the Value of Religious Pessimism
2:15pm •
Pluralism: Not Just a Buzzword!
3:30pm •
The Forgiveness Conundrum
5:00pm •
Huppah, Kiddushin and Cui Bono: Who Benefits in Marriage?
6:15pm •
Psychoanalytic Hauntings from Our Jewish Patriarchs: Ghostly Transmissions
7:15pm •
Ma’ariv: Egalitarian Service (mixed seating; gender inclusive-leadership)
Monday
, February 17
10th Floor Conference Room
9:00am •
In the Beginning, God Created: Sacred Arts and Sacred Texts Intensive
K506
9:00am •
Fiddlers on the Roof: Using Mussar to Maintain Balance in a Shaky World
K610
9:00am •
Creativity Intensive: An Extended Session on Rethinking Ritual
Lobby
8:00am •
Check-in and Registration Opens
Presentation Room (Atrium)
9:00am •
Uncovering Nakedness: Does Gender Really Matter?
U401
9:00am •
Insights into Jewish Practices Around Death and Mourning
U407
9:00am •
Hebrew Reading Marathon
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