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Limmud Toronto 2019

THE SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. One does not register for sessions. Seating at individual sessions is first come, first served.

8:30am EST

Registration Entrance Hall

9:30am EST

The Time is Short, The Task is Great: Jewish Responses to Climate Change J130Risa Alyson Cooper • Andrea Most "Theory as a Liberatory Practice": Queer Feminist Theory and Jewish Thought P115Laine Zisman Newman Calling People In: Fighting Antisemitism Through Relationship J230Julia Appel Almost Within Reach: An Israeli Experience of Gaza J250Naama Baumgarten-Sharon The Power of One and the Power of Many - Finding Your Passion and Pursuing It: Lessons Learned from Looking a Nazi in the Eye and Working at the United Nations J225Jordana Lebowitz The Devil We Know: The Evolution of 'Satan' in Jewish Textual History P120David Markus Finding Purpose in a Godless World: Why We Care Even if the Universe Doesn't J125Ralph Lewis Golden Age Travel J140Benjamin Rubin Children's Program J300 (second floor)

10:00am EST

Marketplace Marketplace

10:30am EST

Baghdad to Bukhara: a Journey Celebrating the Power of Poetry P120Yvonne Green More Than Oy Vey: Why We Need More Diversity of Jewish Grandparents in Today’s Picture Books. J250Sidura Ludwig Café Limmud Café Limmud - beside the AtriumMike Moskowitz Constructing Diaspora Identity in the Second Temple Period J225Nadav Sharon Spiritual Care? What kind of a job is that for a nice Jew?? J125Rena Arshinoff • Yacov Fruchter Artificial Intelligence and Jewish Theology J130David Zvi Kalman Learning to Cope: Uncovering Anxiety and How to Manage It P115Leanne Matlow “Yom Kippur in a Gym”: What Five Random People in a Novel Are Really Thinking About On Yom Kippur (Hint: it’s not only teshuva or God) J230Nora Gold The Bible Hasn't Been in Heaven in a Long Time J140Sholom Eisenstat

11:30am EST

What makes Orthodoxy so vibrant in our age? J140Daniel Korobkin Café Limmud Café Limmud - beside the AtriumYvonne Green A Jewish Conception of Universal Human Rights and International Justice J225Yonah Diamond Finding the “I” in Identity J125Daphne Lazar Price Not About Us Without Us J130Dara Lithwick • Rivka Campbell Alexander Pecherky Hero of the Sobibor Uprising: Facts and Fictions P120David Bezmozgis Einstein and the Rabbi: The Untold Story of His Friendship with Rabbi Chaim Tchernowitz, and Their Conversations About the Talmud, Zionism, and God J250Yair Rosenberg Teaching our Children to Swim - How to Deal with Danger and Doubt J230Nancy Wallack Welcoming the Stranger: Jewish Responsibility in the face of the World Refugee Crisis P115Naomi Kramer • Yacov Fruchter • Jodi Block

12:30pm EST

LUNCH: will be available on the lower level as well as the main floor. Atrium

1:30pm EST

Jewish American Influence On American Popular Music, 1880-2000 J125Allan Cheskes Allyship as Spiritual Practice P115Mike Moskowitz How 'Why' Grew Up: The Evolving Divine Call for Sacred Relationship in the Book of Genesis J250David Markus Is it OK to assume that all Bibles are the same? J225Barry Levy Kosher Concubines J230Jarrod Grover Across the spectrum: Understanding a fragmented Family and our sacred text J140Menachem Creditor • Tina Grimberg • Yael Splansky • Jesse Shore Of Many: Multifaith Leadership on University Campuses J130Chelsea Garbell

2:30pm EST

Religion vs Humanity in Shtisel P120Maurice Yacowar Science and Spirituality in a Jewish Novel J230Leora Freedman A Sacred Trust: Judaism and the Ethics of Power P115Menachem Creditor Ethics and National Security policy: Can they be Reconciled? J140Dan Kurtzer Navigating Israel through Memory, Modernity and Moral Compass J125Ya'ara Saks "I always wondered why we couldn't have more children": Women's Experiences of Infertility after the Shoah J130Peggy Kleinplatz Lost Letters, Found Voices: Hidden Stories of Medieval Jewish Women as Discovered in the Cairo Geniza J225Judith Shapero Female Rabbis: Agents of Change/Preservers of Tradition J250Tina Grimberg • Jennifer Gorman • Elyse Goldstein • Lila Kagedan • Julia Appel

3:30pm EST

The Jewish Experience in Canada Today J250Keith Neuman Making New Jewish Art from Traces of a Jewish Past in Poland J140Aleksander Prugar • Helena Czernek Café Limmud Café Limmud - beside the AtriumYa'ara Saks • Leora Freedman Choosing Judaism: The Example of Los Neuvos Judios de Guatemala P120Elyse Goldstein Jewish Settlements in Palestine : 1870-1914 J125Ed Kroft A Trial that Changed the Course of Social History: The Dreyfus Affair J130Sylvia Solomon • David Wintre From Generation to Generation: The Changing Nature of Judaism from the 20th to the 21st Century P115Steve Wernick A Muted Religious Renaissance: Orthodox Belief and Critical Biblical Scholarship J230Jesse Shore Comforting Mourners: Where Jewish Law and Common Sense Intersect J225Robyn Fryer Bodzin

4:30pm EST

What's On our Mind? J140Yossi Sapirman • Elliot Malamet Stories to Heal a Broken World  J130Eli Rubenstein Café Limmud Café Limmud - beside the AtriumSylvia Solomon Mathematics and Mishna J230Adina Gamse Campus Life: Personal Perspectives J225Hilly Adler • Levi Cassidy • Shirel Korobkin • Sofia Freudenstein Are you a Particularist or Universalist? P120Yael Splansky Race in Judaism: It's Complicated J250Mordechai Torczyner The Rabbi and The Ethicist; Wearing Different Hats P115Lila Kagedan Our Bodies, Ourselves: Judaism & Reproductive Justice J125Chelsea Garbell

5:30pm EST

Limmud After Party Atrium