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LimmudBoston 2011

9:00am EST

The Jewish Calendar Religious School Conference Room (2nd Floor) Finding the Music in Prayer CR 9 Storytelling for Powerful Collaboration and Social Action Trager Conference Room (2nd Floor) The Distaff of Silence: The Image of Rachel the Matriarch in Modern Hebrew Poetry CR 11 The Boston Jewish Food Movement: Taking Root and Cross-Pollination Schwartz Social Hall Expanding the Shema Beit Midrash Where Do We Stand? Interfaith Families and the Jewish Community CR 14 Parents (Teachers), Children and G-d CR 16 What's Hiding in Your Jewish Genes? CR 7 Bringing a Gender Approach to Jewish Education Shelkan Youth Lounge On Cloud Nine: Engaged Learning for Digital Kids Chapel Transforming Your Synagogue Learning Program Sanctuary Using Storytelling in the Classroom Library Why Games? Coppelman Clarke Large Social Hall When Enough Isn't Enough: Judaism's Obligation to Share the Wealth CR 8 And when you offer your soul to the hungry.... CR 10 LimmudBoston Exhibitors Bowling Alley

10:15am EST

Exploring Jewish Values in Children's Literature Religious School Conference Room (2nd Floor) So Your Values Live On: An Ethical Will Writing Workshop CR 11 Creating Meaningful and Fun Mitzvah Projects for Yourself, Your Family or Your Kids CR 14 Creating our new world with the Alphabet of Vibration (TM) CR 16 Personal Prayer 101 Trager Conference Room (2nd Floor) Social Justice in Israel: Inspirational Stories Beyond the Headlines CR 6 Domestic Violence in the Jewish Community CR 15 The G-d Project: Mini-documentaries on G-d, Judaism and Spirituality CR 8 Mixed Blessings film clips and discussion CR 7 What's Next? Judaism 5.0: Feeling Comfortable with Discomfort CR 10 Mah Chadash Keynote: Extreme Makeover: Congregational Education Edition Sanctuary Loosening Our Stiff Necks CR 9 Stories We Pray: A look Into the Inner-work of Jewish Prayer Shelkan Youth Lounge Does anybody read the Bible literally? Leffell Conference Room (1st Floor) A Sense of Wonder Beit Midrash Sex in the City? A close reading of Judges 13. Library The Akedah: The Story Behind The Story Chapel

10:30am EST

Building Community Through Art Coppelman Clarke Large Social Hall

11:30am EST

Inspiring Students Chapel Childrens Holiday Services: Working With Parents Who Knew? CR 15 Laughing with Aleph, Bet and Gimmel: A Laughter Yoga session CR 16 Military and Morality CR 8 How to Get Started in Memoir Writing Religious School Conference Room (2nd Floor) My year with the Jewish Community of Estonia: Seabuckthorn hamentaschen and summer camp on the Baltic Sea: CR 11 Beyond the Book: Getting the Most out of a Jewish Children's Book Library How Do Parents and Teachers Communicate When they are Concerned About Children? Leffell Conference Room (1st Floor) Mishkan Me'at: Mobile Technology in Jewish Learning Sanctuary New Realities: Meeting the Challenges in the Lives of Our Teens Shelkan Youth Lounge Using Inquiry and Questioning to Deepen Student Learning & Classroom Relationships CR 6 How the Jewish Community Influenced JFK-The Untold Story Trager Conference Room (2nd Floor) The Farm Bill: Why Jews Should Care CR 7 Healing and Kabbalah CR 9 Biblical Emotional Honesty & Comfort Foods CR 14 Daf Yomi - Today's Page of Talmud Beit Midrash Inside-Outside: Biblical Leaders and Their Non-Jewish Mentors CR 10

12:00pm EST

Cafe Limmud Mid-Day Concert Schwartz Social Hall

12:30pm EST

Technology Fair Sanctuary

1:00pm EST

Hanukkah Books & Games with Emily Sper NS 1 Healing the World From the Inside Out-Silence and Sound, Through Chant, Meditation, and Crystal Bowl Vibrations CR 16 Biblio-Improv: Flash Drash Leffell Conference Room (1st Floor) B'nei Mitzvah - Creating a More Meaningful Experience CR 6 Jewish Life in Germany Today CR 7 Israel Climate Change on Campus CR 11 The Kibbutz Idea 100 Years Later CR 14 From Crisis to Vision: Jewish Philanthropy & Innovation. A Converstation between Shawn Landres & Gil Preuss Chapel Jews at Work Trager Conference Room (2nd Floor) Where Ethics Meets History: A Synthesis of Values, Sacred Texts and the Humanities Religious School Conference Room (2nd Floor) The Non-Jew in Jewish Prayer CR 8 Dance Midrash CR 9 Pushing the Button: Protest Songs in Israel Beit Midrash The Spirituality of Jewish childhood Shelkan Youth Lounge Bound and Beyond: Exploring the Boundaries of Torah CR 10 Reflections on Judaism and Holy Places Library

2:15pm EST

Giving a Damn: music and social conscience in the 1960s CR 11 Jewish Storytelling Concert for Families Schwartz Social Hall Finding Miriam--A One Woman Show Chapel A Contemplative State of Being: A Torah-based Musical Meditation CR 9 The Day the Talmud was Created Library What does Caring About and Being Pro-Israel Mean at This Time? Leffell Conference Room (1st Floor) Multiculturalism and Jewish Identity CR 16 Behind the scenes at a Jewish funeral/ Chevra Kadisha Trager Conference Room (2nd Floor) (Almost) Everything You Need to Know about Parenting in the Year 2011 Can Be Found in Ancient Texts CR 6 Teachers & Parents: For the Sake of the Child with Special Needs CR 14 Jewish Service Learning and TELEM: Jewish Youth Making a Difference Together; an interactive discussion and presentation. Shelkan Youth Lounge Lessons from Ghana: Judaism & our Global Obligations CR 7 Occupy Judaism CR 8 Mensa Math Mensch Religious School Conference Room (2nd Floor) The Psalms and Healing: Praying in Dark Times Beit Midrash Did Noah and Jonah Share the Same Boat? How Similar Stories Say Opposite Things About the Human Soul CR 10 The New Feminism of the 21st Century CR 15

3:30pm EST

Collecting Judaica in the 21st Century-Buyers Beware! CR 7 Jews, Assimilation and the American Musical CR 15 The Impact of Jews on Popular American Culture Library Jewish Storytelling Concert for Teens and Adults Schwartz Social Hall Jewish or Not: Who Gets to Decide Beit Midrash Today I am a Woman: stories of Bat Mitzvah Around the World CR 11 300 Ways to Enhance Your Seder: Fun and Educational Tools to Spice Up Your Seder CR 16 Heirloom Seeds: On Jews, Judaism and Growing Your Own Food CR 8 The Future of Jewish Mens Work CR 10 The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. Methods for teaching the value of Empathy. CR 6 ReConServaDox? A Panel Discussion on the Future of Jewish Movements Chapel Jewish Innovation in Europe: Seeds of a Global Revival Leffell Conference Room (1st Floor) Raising Funds for Mazon - A Unique Approach to Tikkun Olam Shelkan Youth Lounge Limmud Chavruta Religious School Conference Room (2nd Floor) The End of the Beginning: The Death of Moses Trager Conference Room (2nd Floor) You Are Who You Aren't: Jacob's Masquerade and Explorations in Jewish Gender Identity CR 14 Shalva Yoga CR 9

4:00pm EST

Zamir Chorale Open Sing Coppelman Clarke Large Social Hall

4:45pm EST

How to Find People Who are Hungry for What You Have to Offer Beit Midrash A Mishkan for Today: Practical Lessons from Ancient Israelite Sacred Architecture CR 10 A time to sing and a time to cry: a how to session on how to mark happy and sad transitions at a mikveh CR 8 Lurching Toward Zion: Struggle to complete the Aliyah of the Ethiopian Jews (or 'Falash Mura') CR 7 Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Can American Jews Actually Make a Difference? CR 15 Introduction to Jewish Genealogy CR 14 Jewish Optimism Library The Mussar of Parenting Religious School Conference Room (2nd Floor) Find Your Spirit in Healthy Life Rhythms CR 9 Jewish Stress Management CR 6 Mincha in Motion Shelkan Youth Lounge Seeking the 36 CR 11 Rescuing Captive Words: How an organic Judaic translation of common words offers fresh relevance to Judaism. Trager Conference Room (2nd Floor) The Wonders of Philosophy for Children--“P4C”--and Teaching Torah Leffell Conference Room (1st Floor)

7:00pm EST

Evening Concert Sanctuary