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