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LimmudBoston 2012

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8:45am

Sparks of Hope: Art-making Workshop Inspired by Chanukah Youth Lounge Discover Dignity and Disability with a Jewish Lens Coppleman-Clarke Social Hall Going Digital in the Supplementary Jewish Classroom: What it takes...and gives! CR 6 Israel's Declaration of Independence & Jewish Tradition CR 15 Yoga to a Jewish Beat CR 9 What happens when you (kind of) get what you wish for: The Story of Yiftah Schwartz Social Hall

9:00am

Got Hebrew? (Family Friendly) NS 1 Bet You Haven't Heard This One CR 16 LimmudBoston 2012 Community Art Project--Mosaic Design by Cecilia Kremer of Chromatile Coppleman-Clarke Social Hall Raising Jewish Girls to Dream Big CR 7 Let My People Eat: Passover for Gluten-Free and Other Special Diets CR 11 Why Us? The Genetics of Breast and Ovarian Cancer in the Jewish Community Beit Midrash The Anti-Israel Bias in Schools: What are our Children Really Learning? Yamins Chapel Don't Roll Your Eyes: Make Those Intermarried In-laws into Family Leffell Conference Room A History of Rosh Hashanah and How It Has Changed Over the Years CR 8 Revolution of Jewish Spirit: How to Revive Ruakh in Your Spiritual Life and Transform Your Synagogue Feinberg Library WWHD - What Would Heschel Do? CR 10 Are We Angels or Ashes?: An Answer In A Prayer CR 14

10:15am

LimmudBoston 2012 Community Art Project--Mosaic Design by Cecilia Kremer of Chromatile Coppleman-Clarke Social Hall Create a Great Mitzvah Project NS 1 Water Power: Experience, Text, and Ritual CR 6 Fruit of the Vine: What Makes Wine Kosher? CR 15 The First LIght: Judaism between Paganism and Technology CR 7 The Tenth Commandment: 'Thou Shalt Not Covet' CR 8 Papercutting: A Jewish Tradition Youth Lounge Educators@LimmudBoston Coppleman-Clarke Social Hall What Jewish Law Teaches Us About Moral Dilemmas and Problematic Decision-Making in Modern Medicine Leffell Conference Room Israel Today: Updates from the Consul Geneal of Israel to New England Sanctuary Israel Today: Updates from the Consul Geneal of Israel to New England Sanctuary Israel Today: Updates from the Consul Geneal of Israel to New England Sanctuary Embodied Jewish Chanting CR 9 Jewish Tales Live! Yamins Chapel Two Jews Can Still be a Mixed Marriage CR 11 The God of Curried Fish: A Mitzvah-centered Story and Discussion Session CR 10 EnLIGHTen Yourself CR 16 Eve Exposed: Looking at Biblical, Rabbinic and Modern Texts CR 14 Offerings of the Heart: Jewish Values-Based Spiritual Approaches to Money and Community Feinberg Library

11:30am

The Importance of Israeli Theatre In America CR 14 Who Was Mendele Moykher Sforim? A Short Introduction to the Great Beginning of Modern Yiddish Literature Leffell Conference Room The Spiritual Lives of Children: Implications for Classroom Teaching CR 15 Jewish Perspectives on End of Life Care CR 7 American Jews and America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball CR 8 But What Does It Mean to The Jews? A Conversation on the Jewish Community and Current Events.The Jewish Values in the Press CR 10 Storytelling Games & Open Mic! Theme: mishpocha Yamins Chapel Yoga and Judaism CR 9 A Modern Jewish Wedding: Making Your Wedding Traditional and Personal Beit Midrash Kosher Trash: Building a Cheap and Easy Sukkahleh CR 11 Ancient Jewish Answers to Global Climate Change: Preparing for the 5775 Sabbatical Year Trager Conference Room JCHOICE presents Social Media and Tzedakah: Magnifying the Voice of a New Generation CR 6 Dreams, Kabbalah, and Renewal Youth Lounge Moses's disABILITY ~ What Moses Can Teach Us About Creating Fully Inclusive Communities CR 16 Why Should We Care About the Dead Sea Scrolls? Feinberg Library LimmudBoston 2012 Community Art Project--Mosaic Design by Cecilia Kremer of Chromatile Coppleman-Clarke Social Hall

1:15pm

The Big Picture and the Little Tiny Things: An Outdoor Experience for Parents and Children CMT Foyer The Stranger Among You: African Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Israel Beit Midrash Torah Chanting With Heart CR 11 LimmudBoston 2012 Community Art Project--Mosaic Design by Cecilia Kremer of Chromatile Coppleman-Clarke Social Hall Shlimiels and Shlimazels: Fifty Yiddish words You Can't Live Without! Feinberg Library Soulful Education: How to Teach from Mind-to Heart-to Life--A Demonstration. CR 16 2008-2012 Elections: What Happened? What Changed? What Mattered? Sanctuary Finding the Sacred through Rhythm Youth Lounge The Last Jews - An Apocalyptic Comedy/A Play Reading Yamins Chapel More than Meets the Eye: The Structure & Meaning of Prayer Seen through the Friday Evening Liturgy CR 15 Ritual Transformation for GLBTQ Celebration CR 8 Why Do I Exist? A Soul Journey in Four Parts Leffell Conference Room Are We Bound by the Binding of Isaac? The Akeidah with Midrashic and Modern Re-readings CR 14 Jews, God, and Food: The Relationship of Jews and Eating in the Tanakh and Beyond CR 10

2:30pm

'The Music Man of Terezin: The Story of Rafael Schaechter as Remembered by Edgar Krasa' Leffell Conference Room Beyond the Fiddler-on-the-Roof: Pathways to Future Jewish Music Theater CR 7 LimmudBoston 2012 Community Art Project--Mosaic Design by Cecilia Kremer of Chromatile Coppleman-Clarke Social Hall Superman or Mitzvah Man? Teaching Jewish Values through Comic Book Super Heroes Beit Midrash The Mideast Puzzle CR 8 Brother Keepers: Jewish Men's Issues in the Twenty-First Century Feinberg Library Reading ACROSS the Lines: Daughters of Abraham Women's Interfaith Book Group Schwartz Social Hall Sacred Sound and Healing CR 9 Welcoming Our Babies CR 14 Our Radical Tradition: How the Torah Instructs us to Build a Free Society CR 16 Spiritual Gym: Exercises for a Healthy Soul CR 15 Bible Stories You Didn't Learn in Hebrew School CR 11 Should Jews Read the New Testament? Yamins Chapel Stories of our Jewish Journeys CR 10

3:45pm

Jews on Screen Beit Midrash Rabbis, Rogues and Schlemiels: What Makes Jews Laugh Leffell Conference Room Exploring Nature and Judaism Inside and Outside Trager Conference Room Living in a Fragile World: Teaching Conservation to Children Through Spiritual Exploration CR 8 ESPN-Judaism: Breaking Down the Separation of Shul and Sport CR 11 Embodying the Kabbalistic Tree of Life Through Meditation & Movement CR 9 The Jar of Tears: A Memorial from the Warsaw Ghetto Schwartz Social Hall Gleaning: A Torah-Based and Modern-Day Response to Hunger and Food Waste in Greater Boston Yamins Chapel Change and Transitions in the Tanach and Today CR 6 Hebrew Letters - A Mystical, Rational and Practical Exploration Youth Lounge From 'OY' into 'AH HA': Relevant Resources for Jewish Nonprofit Organizations! CR 10

4:00pm

Zamir Chorale of Boston Open Sing & LimmudBoston 2012 Finale Coppleman-Clarke Social Hall

5:00pm

Art as Tikkun Olam CR 15 Using Jewish Values to Build Better Professional-Lay Relationships CR 14 Possibilities for Peace in Israel Yamins Chapel Where have all the shtetels gone?And why? CR 6 A Taste of Jewish Meditation CR 9 Spicing up Birkat ha-Mazon CR 16 Biblical Metaphor Reveals: You Really Don't Know Clouds at All CR 10 Earth Based Rituals For all Seasons: On the Farm and in the Garden Trager Conference Room Owning Midrash: Exploring Personalities in Tanach through Traditional and Contemporary Midrash CR 8 What Comes Next?: Jewish Approaches to the Afterlife CR 11 What's in a Name? Anonymity and Identity Among Biblical Women CR 7 Cousins of Faith: Film Screening and Discussion Beit Midrash

6:00pm

LimmudBoston 2012 Grand Finale! Coppleman-Clarke Social Hall

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