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LimmudBoston 2018

A few notes:
Like Limmuds throughout the world, seating is not reserved.
Please remember to order your Kosher LUNCH before (the caterer’s deadline of) Nov. 25!

Limmuds are volunteer-driven events. Find Volunteer Spots when you click.

9:00am EST

Jewish Food, The History of The Famous Triumvirate: Bagels, Cream Cheese and Lox Room 109Joni Schockett Understanding the Jewish Moments in Mainstream Feature Films Room 104Barry Schneider Adoption and the Jewish Community Room 106Debra Olshever • Sandra Orenstein • Jennifer Sartori • Toby Zaitchik • Jayne Guberman Is There Life After Death (For a Synagogue)? Room 102Carol Clingan A Summer at Seeds of Peace: Engaging Conflict, Finding One Another Room 110Elie Berman Whose Hanukkah? The Maccabees, the Rabbis, the Halutzim, the Americans? Room 112Allan Lehmann A Very Narrow Bridge: Kabbalah and the Bipolar Experience Lobby 4Benjamin Newman Na L'Haveer Mayim - Just Add Water - Swimming and Skiing as Jewish Passions Room 113Mark Rosenberg The Art and Spirit of Mikveh: A Creative Experience Mayyim Hayyim 1Ceceley Chambers Great Big Love: Why Ahavah Rabbah is the Most Jewish Musical Mode 6 Main StreetLouis Polisson Jewish Contemplation and Meditation 5 Main StreetSteven Green The Uses of Desire: What, In Theological Terms, Are We to Make of Sexual Desire? Room 105Naftali Brawer

10:10am EST

From Sinai to Boston: What a Long Strange Trip We’re On: Teaching Jewish Peoplehood to Middle School Students Room 112Joe Wolke Building Community Through Music 6 Main StreetCarol Marton Concert: The World of Salamone Rossi Hebreo, Musician of Mantua 5 Main StreetLouise Treitman • Richard Lustig • Betty Bauman • Anne Levy • Deborah Melkin • Kyler Taustin • Phyllis Werlin • Steve Ebstein Gems of Jewish Poetry Lobby 4Mark Elber Jewish Influence on Superheroes Room 105Michael A. Burstein Satchmo's Second Family: The Karnofskys Did a Jewish Act of Kindness Change the Music of America? Room 101Peter Gerler Savoring the Sephardic Diaspora: Understanding Jewish Cultural Heritage through Flavors and Stories Room 102Sara Gardner Holiness Isn't Either/Or, It Is Both/And! Mayyim Hayyim 1Natan Margalit First Impressions and Social Perception: Autism in our Congregations and Classrooms Room 104Ruth Grossman Derech Eretz: Care for the Earth by Minimizing Your Carbon Foot Print Room 113Ellie Goldberg • Michael Gevelber Building Israeli-Palestinian Peace from Boston Room 109Eli Cohn-Postell • Miriam May • Sindy Wayne • Maya Norton • Kim Kronenberg • Etai Freedman Between Hubris and Humility (And the Space In-Between) Room 106Sara Hurwitz Older Than Forever: The Deathless Serach bat Asher Lobby 1Neal Gold

11:10am EST

LUNCHTIME! And So Much More 1 Main Street

11:20am EST

America, American Jews and the Land of Israel -- from Colonial Days to Our Days Room 109Jonathan Sarna How Can Jewish History Inform Our Response to Climate Change? Room 102Katy Allen • Fred Davis What's Jewish About Veg? Room 104Sara Eifler

12:15pm EST

Egalitarian Mincha Pickup Service Lobby 1 Orthodox Mincha Pickup Service Lobby 4

12:30pm EST

Standing With Israel: What Does That Mean For Us in This Political Era? Room 109Daniel Berman • Eliana Jacobowitz • Kenneth Bob • Andrew Pessin • Talia Stein Healthy Habits for Busy People Room 102Mitzi Weinman Perlmutter Light in the Darkness: An Embodied Approach to Hanukkah Room 112Josh Schreiber Shalem Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Mikveh Tour Lobby

1:40pm EST

Kippah Decoration Room 109Iris Lavine Stories Live and Local! A Jewish Story Concert 6 Main StreetAndrea Kamens • Cindy Rivka Marshall • Bruce Marcus • Mark Binder • Rona Leventhal You Won't Hear This in Shul: An Eclectic Overview of Contemporary Jewish Music Lobby 1Joey Baron Most of All, I Want My Child to be a Good Person Lobby 4Benjamin Gorelick Peace, Love and Chaos: 1968, Fifty Years Later Room 112Jon Wolf Finding Happiness: Resilience in the Face of Challenges Room 102Daniel Jackson Don't Say "Non-Jew": How to Embrace Interfaith Families 5 Main StreetStacie Garnett-Cook James Baldwin as Mirror: Jewish American Whiteness Then And Now Room 106Alona Weimer Comfort: "Nechama" Is that all? Room 101Aliza Arzt Shabbos Candles, Hidden Light--CANCELLED Room 113 The Status of Women According to the Two Stories of Creation in Genesis and the Koran Room 110Iris Yaniv Weaving the Messianic Light: Modern Midrash on the Book of Ruth Room 104Rachel Adelman

2:50pm EST

S.Y. Agnon: An Introduction to Israel's Nobel Laureate in Literature Room 106Michael Bohnen • David Link American Jewish Philanthropy: Engaging the Data Room 102Hannah Shaul bar Nissim Stories Connect Communities Room 113Cindy Rivka Marshall This is Israel Today...A Personal Video Journey Experiencing the Culture Israel Lobby 1Mona Henoch • Malky Wandel Yiddish Music for the Home 6 Main StreetZoe Lang Embracing Conflict: Tools for a Healthier Synagogue (or Relationship, or Job) 5 Main StreetMitch Gordon Moses Baskets: Saving Children on the Lusitania Room 104Len Abram Creating Your Own Haggadah Room 101Barry Bergman The Kedushah: The Meaning Behind the Prayer Room 112David Lerner A Torah Group Will Change Your Life Lobby 4Joel Segel • Mel Brown Genesis ~ An Artistic View Room 105Suri Krieger Our Common Ancestors: Sacred Shared Stories in Judaism and Islam Room 109Marcia Plumb • Carl Sharif El-Tobgui The Tragic Irony of Halakhic Development: How the Agunah Crisis Was Born From the Best of Intentions Room 110Mark Glass

4:00pm EST

Modern Hebrew in a Supplementary Setting 5 Main StreetLori Kipnes • Ilana Snapstailer Hanukkah Around the World: Music Exploration through Singing and Playing Instruments Lobby 1Shirel Gidekel So You May Live Long: Caring for Our Aging Parents, Caring for Ourselves Room 104Malka Young Childhood Depression and Synagogue Awareness Lobby 4Sandy Slavet • Irene Buchine Consent Is A Jewish Value Room 110Merissa Gerson Grandparenting Then and Now: What's the Same? What's Different? Room 105Bernice Lerner Mindfulness and Mikveh Mayyim Hayyim 1Leann Shamash Spirituality of Beekeeping Room 109Suzanne Offit The Living Psalms: How to Infuse the Poetry of the Torah into our Daily Lives 6 Main StreetMisha Clebaner • Jake Harris Radical Hospitality and the Jewish Responses to the Refugee Crisis Room 113Eliana Jacobowitz Earth Etudes for Elul: Spiritual Reflections for the Season, Author Readings Room 112Thea Iberall • Katy Allen • Jeff Foust • Judith Kummer • Susie Davidson Evolution of Halacha: A Case Study in Disability Room 106Claudia Marbach

5:00pm EST

CHANUKAH CANDLE-LIGHTING & MUSICAL FINALE Lobby

5:30pm EST

Cleanup Party - Volunticipation at its Finest Lobby

6:00pm EST

LimmudBoston Debrief Party TBA