LimmudBoston 2018: Full Schedule

9:00am EST

A Summer at Seeds of Peace: Engaging Conflict, Finding One Another

The Seeds of Peace program, provides Jewish and Arab teens the opportunity to spend a summer together. I was with teens from the West Bank, Gaza, Egypt, Jordan, India, and Pakistan. Participating in this Middle East dialogue group was transformative, and offered us the chance to engage deeply, sometimes painfully. We found the humanity in one another.

Presenters

Elie Berman

Elie Berman is a 11th grade student at Newton South High School. She attended the Jewish Community Day School from K-8. She loves theater and music and performs at the Watertown Children's Theater and at school.

Sunday December 2, 2018 9:00am - 10:00am EST
Room 110 Temple Reyim

History & Politics, Social Justice/Action (Diversity/Inclusivity)

1:40pm EST

The Status of Women According to the Two Stories of Creation in Genesis and the Koran

Let us compare the creation of woman in Genesis chapters 1 and 2, and discuss their impact on culture today. We will also look at these descriptions in the Koran for similarities and differences. If we have enough Hebrew speakers this session will be mostly in Hebrew.

Presenters

Iris Yaniv

Iris Yaniv lives in Israel where she is a secular humanistic rabbi and Bible scholar. She has been studying and teaching Bible and other Jewish texts for about 30 years, and leads at Yahel, liberal humanistic congregation in Haifa.

2018 Iris Yaniv English creation of woman pdf

2018 Iris Yaniv Hebrew pdf

Sunday December 2, 2018 1:40pm - 2:40pm EST
Room 110 Temple Reyim

Torah & Philosophy, Communities (Families, Parenting, etc.)

Encores http://www.yahelhaifa.co.il/

2:50pm EST

The Tragic Irony of Halakhic Development: How the Agunah Crisis Was Born From the Best of Intentions

The modern-day agunah crisis is one of Orthodoxy's great tragedies. What happened? Laws were developed to grant women greater freedoms in divorce. This session will trace divorce law through halakhic history, and how, despite solving many issues of the past, it created many more for our present.

Presenters

Mark Glass

Mark Glass is the rabbi of the Adams Street Shul in Newton, MA. From Manchester, UK, he received his BA in Philosophy, MA in Jewish Philosophy, and Semikhah at Yeshiva University. He was previously an Assistant Director of Advocacy at ORA, the Organization for the Resolution of A... Read More →

Sunday December 2, 2018 2:50pm - 3:50pm EST
Room 110 Temple Reyim

Torah & Philosophy

4:00pm EST

Consent Is A Jewish Value

Why didn't we learn about sexual consent - the vital importance of a clear "yes" - in Hebrew School? Looking at Talmudic law around sex and the body, and specifically laws around sexual consent, this session explores the Jewish history of sex education in a gender, sex and LGBTQ-inclusive way. This session is based on Merissa's 2018 ELI Talk, "Law of the Land: Boundaries, Atonement and Consent."

Presenters

Merissa Gerson

Merissa Nathan Gerson is Adjunct Professor of Jewish Civilization at Tulane University. Her MA in Jewish Studies from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, focused on inherited trauma,sex, and Judaism. She speaks on these topics nationwide and was the consultant... Read More →

Sunday December 2, 2018 4:00pm - 5:00pm EST
Room 110 Temple Reyim

Mind, Social Justice/Action (Diversity/Inclusivity) | Body & Soul, Social Justice/Action (Diversity/Inclusivity)

Encores www.KenMeansYes.org, a consent advocacy initiative; Merissa's 2018 ELI Talk, 'Law of the Land: Boundaries, Atonement and Consent.'