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7:15am PST

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7:30am PST

Orthodox Sunday Shacharit-Morning Service (separate seating; male leadership) Wilson Traditional Egalitarian Sunday Shacharit-Morning Service (mixed seating; gender-inclusive leadership) Catch Sunday Breakfast Regency Ballroom

8:45am PST

A Taste of Mussar DukeEleni Z. Litt Designing for Reverence: Creating Better Jewish Books ColumbiaDavid Zvi Kalman Wild Yeast and Ancient Grains KoiArielle Aronoff Daf Yomi Sunday YaleDena Weiss The History and Mystery of the World's Most Important Bible Manuscript CornellRichard Hidary The Making of Tefillin StanfordZerach Greenfield Yingenuity - The Sacred Healing Journey of Yin Yoga PennHelaine Sheias At Court at the Fateful Moment: Esther Retells Joseph HarvardElisheva Urbas Is Cannabis Kosher? The Torah of Marijuana CatchRishe Groner Antisemitism Then and Now RutgersPaul Weinberg Jews on the Chocolate Trail WitherspoonDebbie Prinz Under the Sea: Az Yashir and the Creation Stories of Israel's Ancient Neighbors BrownStu Halpern Beyond Sociology of Jews PrincetonMijal Bitton Divine Disability: A Disability Studies Approach to Understanding God DartmouthOra Horn Prouser Two Sides of the Same Coin: Exploring Orthodox Feminism in Israel and in the US WilsonNechama Goldman Barash • Yaffa Epstein

9:00am PST

Music Together with a Jewish Bent PJ Library Toddler NookNaomi Weinberger

9:15am PST

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9:30am PST

Limmud NY Shuk (Marketplace) Atrium - Lobby Level

10:30am PST

Family Yoga Dance Party OppenheimerAja Cohen PJ Library Story Time PJ Library Toddler NookAsya Gribov A Survey of Jewish Choral Repertoire HarvardDaniel Henkin Low and Slow: Secrets From a Kosher BBQ and Cholent Master KoiAdam Gindea The Akedah in the Arts: Art is Also Midrash RutgersSandra Lilienthal Forging a Contemporary Jewish Sex Ethic BrownChaim Seidler-Feller • Doreen Seidler-Feller Ten Things About the Passover Seder That You Never Learned in School CatchSeth Cohen The Date of Shavuot and the Ancient Jewish Calendar Controversy StanfordJeffrey Rubenstein Birthright vs. Human Rights: A Critical Look at the City of Hebron ColumbiaAvner Gvaryahu Righteous Gentiles & Muslim Registries: Reflections on Extraordinary Altruism and the Obligations of Universalism WilsonYehuda Kurtzer The Torah of Refugees: The Commandment to Love the "Stranger" WitherspoonShai Held #MetJerusalem: Jerusalem 1000-1400 PrincetonAaron Koller The Other Side of the Coin CornellSteve Feingold Torah Tropes: Studying Myths Shared Between Cultures, Including Ours YaleYaron Bernstein State of the Jewish Transgender Community DartmouthYiscah Smith • Abby Stein

11:15am PST

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12:00pm PST

Limmud NY Professional Networking Meet-Up PennMichael Brochstein Stone Cold Torah: Can Torah Shape Us and Do We Want It To? CatchAvi Killip Torah from the Bard: What Shakespeare and the Sages Teach Each Other About Life DukeMichael Bernstein The Practice of the Good in Hindu, Jewish, Islamic, and Canon Law HarvardShoshana Razel Gordon Guedalia Angels and Demons: The Akedah, the Exodus, and a Pre-Rabbinic Midrash BrownStu Halpern Jewish Responses to the Invention of the Mechanical Clock RutgersDavid Zvi Kalman Jews and the Civil Rights Movement WilsonMaital Friedman Jewish Film Festival Favorites: Wedding Doll ColumbiaElliot Fix Sunday Lunch Regency Ballroom The Chosen Cholent and Smokehouse Food Truck Hyatt Parking LotAdam Gindea

12:45pm PST

The Quest for MenschHood! OppenheimerAndrew Davies • Aaron Friedman Draw and Sketch and Schmooze with Dorrie KoiDorrie Rifkin Learning Music with Tizmoret! DartmouthCory Hecht • Tizmoret What Is Midrash and How Does It Work? StanfordJeffrey Rubenstein My Story in the Media - How Does it Portray Me and My Community? PrincetonAbby Stein Panel: What is Our Responsibility to the Jewish People and to the World? WitherspoonAbigail Pogrebin • Shai Held • Stephanie Kolin • Yiscah Smith Mezuzah: From Ancient Near East Context to Medieval Superstition CornellMalka Strasberg The Impact of Women Leaders on the Jewish Community YaleRebecca Einstein Schorr

1:15pm PST

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2:00pm PST

Orthodox Sunday Mincha-Afternoon Service (separate seating; male leadership) Wilson Traditional Egalitarian Sunday Mincha-Afternoon Service (mixed seating; gender-inclusive leadership) Catch

2:30pm PST

Chazzanus Today! StanfordJeremiah Lockwood Sofer for a Day--A Taste of Jewish Scribal Arts KoiLeana Jelen Tapping into Your Creative Self Through Fear PennElad Nehorai The Sabbath Manifesto PrincetonZoe Penina Baker Tizmoret in Concert BrownTizmoret (More Than) Twelve Angry Men (and Women) ColumbiaEllen Flax And You Thought All Sifrei Torah Were the Same? CornellZerach Greenfield Rest My Case: The Role of Law in Middle East Conflicts WilsonEfraim Chalamish Surviving to Thriving: The Indomitable Spirit of Contemporary Refugees Worldwide RutgersRachel Grant Meyer The Crisis We're Ignoring: Secular Education in Hasidic Yeshivas DukeNaftuli Moster 1917, 1947, 1967, 2017: The Legacies of the Past and the Future of Modern Israel CatchYehuda Kurtzer In the Big-Banging YaleYaron Bernstein A Matter of Dignity: The Path to Gay Rights in Conservative Halakhah WitherspoonDaniel Nevins Disruptive Jewish Communities DartmouthAudrey Lichter Pluralism: Pretenders and Purists HarvardOra Horn Prouser

3:15pm PST

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4:15pm PST

Rock Out and Rikud! Camp Israeli Dancing Favorites! OppenheimerAlana Tilman A Deep Dive into the Jewish Calendar: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew RutgersAbigail Pogrebin Panel: How Can Jewish Tradition and Culture be Expressed Creatively and Innovatively? WitherspoonShira Hecht-Koller • David Zvi Kalman • Avi Killip • Faith Leener Poetry and Prayer BrownHara Person Israeli Life and Culture as Pillars of American Jewish Life: A Philanthropic Agenda for Israel Engagement WilsonDavid Gedzelman Through the Looking Glass: Teshuva, Recursion and the Bicameral Mind HarvardMichael Bernstein Roots and Foundations of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 1915-1949 StanfordDorit Price-Levine (Lev) How Much Tzedaka to Give: Limmud Chavruta DartmouthEllen Flax Walk the Walk and Talk the Talk: Talmudic Stories of Authenticity PrincetonYaffa Epstein Survivor: Aron's Story - An Illustrated Memoir CornellAlex Teplish The American Jewish Story Through Film II: Guaranteeing Freedom CatchEric Goldman Readings from 'Forty Years in the Wilderness: My Journey to Authentic Living' ColumbiaYiscah Smith What is a Welcoming Shul? PennSaundra Sterling Epstein • Miryam Kabakov • Steve Kay Kupietzky What's Next: Engaging the Baby Boomer Generation YaleBrian Fink

5:15pm PST

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5:45pm PST

Orthodox Sunday Ma'ariv-Evening Service (separate seating; male leadership) Wilson Traditional Egalitarian Sunday Ma'ariv-Evening Service (mixed seating; gender-inclusive leadership) Catch

6:00pm PST

Limmud NY Gala Dinner Regency BallroomAndrew Davies • Aaron Friedman • Andrew Lustig • Tizmoret

7:15pm PST

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8:15pm PST

Ethics and Halakhah in Tension and in Tandem CornellDaniel Nevins Hasidic Storytelling - Outside the Box DukeAbby Stein Jewish Music Today RutgersCory Hecht • Tizmoret Celebrate Limmud NY Volunteers! KoiPenny Arons Teen Meetup: Sunday Cafe Meetup CornerRachel Kanter A Life of Dialogue: The Teachings of Martin Buber HarvardBill Plevan Panel: What does it mean to value diversity of thought in 2017? WilsonMaital Friedman • Dorit Price-Levine (Lev) • Efraim Chalamish • Jenna Citron Art as Spiritual Practice: Utilizing Writing, Drawing, and Painting to Strengthen Our Inner Voice DartmouthRivka Nehorai Empathy: A Text Study in Judaic and Medical Sources BrownSeth Aronson • Shapir Rosenberg Righteous in Our Generation: A Jewish Approach to Environmental Truths ColumbiaElan Margulies 'I'm Not Actually a Rabbi!': Women's Spiritual Leadership in Orthodox Judaism YaleLaura Shaw Frank Giants in Conversation: What Would Rabbis Heschel and Soloveitchik Say to One Another? StanfordShai Held No Comparison: How Judaism in Germany Today is Unlike Anything You Would Imagine PrincetonPaul Strasko The American Jewish Story Through Film III: Coming of Age CatchEric Goldman

9:00pm PST

Limmud NY Pub Night Limmud NY Cafe

9:15pm PST

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9:45pm PST

Adaptability and Demons: A Medieval Guide to Jewish Lifecycle Rituals PrincetonFaith Leener Reigniting a Passion for Prayer: The Case of the Scrapbook Siddur ColumbiaBenjamin Adler The Audacity of Prayer and the Not So Silent Amidah CornellAviva Richman Downtime with Drisha Cafe Meetup CornerShira Hecht-Koller Friends of Bill W. Duke The Sway Machinery in Concert WitherspoonJeremiah Lockwood • The Sway Machinery Yetzer HaRa - The Evil Inclination, Eros and Thanatos StanfordAndrew Shapiro Katz “I’m Not White, I’m Jewish”: Did the Jews Negotiate Their Whiteness in America? RutgersIsaiah Rothstein Touching Jewish History (For Teenagers) YaleSteve Feingold Queering Limmud NY: A Meetup HarvardMiryam Kabakov • Bernard Kabakow

11:15pm PST

Karaoke PrincetonEric Kollin Volunteer: Programming SquadLIMITED Volunteer Central Volunteer: Schlepping SquadLIMITED Volunteer Central