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Saturday
, January 30
7:30pm PST
Limmud Cabaret
Ballroom
Sunday
, January 31
8:15am PST
Doors Open, Registration, Coffee and Snacks
TBA
8:50am PST
Welcoming Remarks
Ballroom
9:25am PST
A Warsaw Travelogue: Polish Jewish Places Now
Room C
Jewish Noses
Room B-1
Threads of Memory - a tapestry journey
Room G
“Cairo to the Cloud" - a documentary-in-progress about the Cairo Geniza
Room H
A Progressive Zionist Response to the BDS Movement
Room A - Sanctuary
Poverty in Jewish Vancouver and how to eradicate it
Room F
From Ageing to Sageing - Wisdom in Later Life
Room D
The Torah and Hebrew must be learned and understood together
Room E
10:25am PST
Break
TBA
10:45am PST
"The most suitable diet": Jewish Vegetarianism between the wars
Room H
The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky
Room G
Choiceless Choices Faced by Women in the Holocaust
Room B
Jewish community engagement across the generations (past, present & future)
Room F
Justice for Jews from Arab Countries
Room A - Sanctuary
Jewish Mindfulness
Room D
Bayom Hahu: Zechariah's Interfaith Vision
Room E
Ruth: The Torah Awakens
Room C
11:45am PST
Break
TBA
12:05pm PST
On Yona Wings
Room C
Tel Aviv in History and Art
Room G
Understanding Israeli Politics; How Do You Run a Country with 12 Parties Represented in the Parliament?
Room H
Memorializing Jewish Vilna: Translating the work of Yiddish writer Abraham Karpinowitz
Room B
Jews on the Iberian Peninsula: Current Research Trends, New Questions
Room A - Sanctuary
Niggun as Spiritual Practice
Room D
War and Occupation
Room E
Witchcraft and Sorcery in Judaism
Room F
1:20pm PST
Lunch
Ballroom
2:15pm PST
Hear, O Israel: Rereading the Shema through Modern Jewish Poetry
Room E
Would that I were gefilte fish: geography and dialectology of a national dish
Room A - Sanctuary
Jewish Canadian Military Heroes
Room F
If you Prick Us, Shall We Not Bleed? Ideologically Challenging Entertainment and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Room B
Etz v’ Even (Wood and Stone) – Confessions of a Recovered Jewish Buddhist (or Jewbu)
Room C
Meditation on a Single Verse: Opening to the Midrashic Process
Room D
Golems and A.I.: the Ethics of Servitude
Room G
Masters of Short Fiction in the Talmud
Room H
3:15pm PST
Break
TBA
3:30pm PST
Two Jewish Giants of Opera.
Room G
Sephardic Judaism-The Judaism of the Future
Room F
The Two Sisters that Loved Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Room B
What is Jewish Art?
Room A - Sanctuary
Green Yeshiva: A Jewish perspective on humanity’s relationship with the Earth
Room H
Shift Happens! Difficult Conversations
Room E
How Happiness Thinks: Finding a Self-Concept of Happiness
Room C
Integral Halachah: A New Approach to an Old Process
Room D
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