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LimmudVan'20

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7:30pm PST

Havdallah Ballroom

8:00pm PST

Israeli Dance BallroomNaomi Taussig Songs Nona Taught Me and other Treasures to Open the Mouth, Soften the Heart and Stir the Imagination Room BAviva Chernick The Yiddish Midrash of Itzik Manger Room FIrwin Keller Would the Rabbis Approve of Uber? Room IPhilip Gibbs

9:30am PST

People of the (Children's) Book: The Art and Craft of Writing Jewish Book for Kids Room CBrianna Sayres Rare Yiddish Player Piano Rolls Room BPhilip Dayson The Miraculous Birth of the Israel Philharmonic Room EGordon Cherry Sephardic Tradition: The Judaism of the Future Room FJoshua Maroof The Socialist Kabbalist You Didn't Know We Needed Room GMatthew Gindin Beyond the Bucket List: Envisioning your Elderhood as a Reflection of Jewish Tradition Room HHelen Waldstein Wilkes Interreligious Dialogue as Diplomacy Room DRaanan Mallek

10:50am PST

Unstitched & Rewoven: The New Jewish Family Room ESamuel Klein How Leonard Bernstein used the music of the S'lichot service to create West Side Story Room BCarl Sayres Reading Shtisel Room AMaurice Yacowar Teaching Yiddish Literature Room DRachel Mines Rich and Poor among the Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam's Golden Age Room FTirtsah Levie Bernfeld Judaism and Vegetarianism: Why and How Room HRoslyn Kunin The Techie Rabbi: How a long history with computers influences daily rabbinic work Room CAdam Stein Driverless Cars - A Moral Halachic Analysis Room GShlomo Gabay Spiritual Community on the Land: An Ecological View of the Ten Commandments Room ILaura Duhan-Kaplan

12:10pm PST

Angel Cards - a New Tradition for Your Friday Night Table Room GHannah Dresner Can My Voice Come Out and Play/ A Vocal Practice from Breath into Song Room BAviva Chernick Jewish Women's Travel Writing in the 19th Century Room DRicha Dwor Kissing An Old Dream Goodbye- A Presentation Room HGloria Levi The “Othering” of Germany’s Jews and Canadian First Nations Room EAnna-Mae Wiesenthal Heading for Extinction and What to Do About It Room IMaayan E. Kreitzman • Larry Barzelai The Convivialist Manifesto: Imagine! Room CNoemi Gal-Or An MBA from Heaven Room FDaniel Friedmann • Shmulik Yeshayahu Joseph the Matriarch Room AIrwin Keller

1:10pm PST

2:00pm PST

Bar Mitzvah Boy Room HMark Leiren-Young The Many Faces of Jewish Music Room BMoshe Denburg Chiune Sugihara Sempo--A Shining Light in the Depths of Darkness Room DGeorge Bluman The Heretic, the Cleric and the Maverick: Unlikely Neighbours in Old Amsterdam Room FSamuel Klein Building Jewish Micro Communities Though Cohousing and Co-ownership. Room CNoam Dolgin Implementing the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism Room GDavid Matas Biblical Psychohistories Room EBruce Aft Healing Christian Antisemitism Room ALaura Duhan-Kaplan • Jason Byassee • Harry O. Maier Making Scents of the Torah Room IBarry Shell

3:15pm PST

Abuyadaya Story and Music Room BRachman Nagwere Contemporary Mexican Jewish Composers Room CDavid Skulski Dickens and the Jews Room GErrol Durbach Lomir Tantsn Yiddish Dances Ballroom upstairsClaudia Bulaievsky Sephardi Women and Family Life in Early Modern Amsterdam Room ATirtsah Levie Bernfeld The Hidden Joys of Researching a Holocaust Legacy Room DKaren Treiger A Close Reading of the Akedah Room HLouis Sutker Understanding The Method of Midrash Room FJoshua Maroof