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Limmudfest 2020

5:30pm PDT

Registration Gates of Prayer

6:45pm PDT

Shabbat Candlelighting Board Room, GOP

7:00pm PDT

Conservative Shabbat Kabbalat Service Bart Room, GOP Orthodox Shabbat Kabbalat Service Library, GOP Reconstructionist Kabbalat Shabbat Service Gates of Prayer Reform Kabbalat Shabbat Service Sanctuary, GOP

8:15pm PDT

Shabbat Dinner Gates of Prayer

9:30pm PDT

Shabbat Tisch Gates of Prayer

9:00am PDT

Conservative Shabbat Morning Service Gates of Prayer Orthodox Shabbat Morning Service Gates of Prayer

9:30am PDT

Reform Shabbat Morning Service Gates of Prayer

10:00am PDT

Reconstructionist Shabbat Morning Meditation Gates of Prayer

10:30am PDT

A Cup of Fun: Adding Joy to Your Holiday Traditions (Shabbat Version) Board Room, GOP

11:45am PDT

Shabbat Lunch for Everyone Gates of Prayer

12:45pm PDT

Duty to Live or Right to Die? The Ethics of Medical Aid in Dying Room 3, GOP Left, Right, and Center: Anti-Semitism and Hate in the World Around Us Bart Room, GOP The Chesed Challenge (Ages 7+) Room 13, GOP Judaism and Environmental & Food Justice Room 12, GOP Torah, Tent-Pegs, and Time - Teachings of Community and Inclusion Room 2, GOP Sam Zemurray: The Fish That Ate the Whale Sanctuary, GOP The Map to Mensch-Hood: How Taking Charge of the Younger Kids at Camp and at School Gets You Ready for Your Future Room 1, GOP The Power of Memory: How Telling the Story of the Haggadah Shapes Jewish Power Library, GOP Babysitting for Ages 0-6 Gates of Prayer

2:00pm PDT

Hollywood through the Lens of Three Female Austrian Jewish Exile Scriptwriters Library, GOP The World I Want for My Kid(s) Room 2, GOP How to Talk to Your Neighbor: Building Bridges across the Israel/Palestine Political Divide Bart Room, GOP Gefilte Fish Tank Room 13, GOP Niggunim: Together in Melody Room 3, GOP Knowing the Soul of the Stranger -- The Human Face of Immigration Adult Lounge, GOP CHOPPED...and Jewish Community Room 1, GOP Angels and Demons Sanctuary, GOP Infertility: Ancient Curse, Modern Blessings Board Room, GOP Bikur Cholim and Nichum Aveilim: How to Visit the Sick and Comfort the Mourner Room 12, GOP

3:15pm PDT

Graphic Reform, Comic Subversion: Comics and Social Values in Postwar America Library, GOP The Hidden Benefits of Cheap Labor: How Jobs for Jewish Teens at Summer Camps and Similar Settings Can Foster Personal Growth Room 1, GOP And You Shall Be a Blessing Room 13, GOP Instant A Cappella! Room 2, GOP Economic Justice: A Jewish Call to Action Board Room, GOP Secular Yiddishkayt in the American South Room 12, GOP Portraits of Female Leadership: The Exodus of Egypt through Women's Voices Room 3, GOP This Month Is for You: Human Initiative In Setting the Calendar Sanctuary, GOP Yoga for the Jewish Spirit Gates of Prayer

4:30pm PDT

Israel Zangwill's The Melting Pot: The Play that Tried to Change History Room 2, GOP (Inherited) Trauma and the Jewish Sexual Tradition (Part 1 of 2) Room 3, GOP The Battle for the Jewish Future: Europe. America, and Israel Bart Room, GOP Vulnerable Populations and the Criminal Justice System Room 1, GOP Death and Mourning Practices Room 13, GOP Papa Don't Preach: Father-Daughter Relationship Fails in the Hebrew Bible Sanctuary, GOP Living Our Values: Finding Time for Service and Acts of Chesed in Busy Family Lives Library, GOP

5:45pm PDT

(Inherited) Trauma and the Jewish Sexual Tradition (Part 2 of 2) Room 3, GOP Finding Love - Optimistic Dating in a Complicated World Room 2, GOP Jewish Objects Hiding in Plain Sight: Challah Library, GOP Jewish Farming Then and Now Room 1, GOP Jews Resisting White Nationalism Today: How We Got Here and What We Can Do Now Bart Room, GOP Who Are These People? What Jews Don't Know about Christian Zionists, and Vice Versa Room 13, GOP Biblical Poetry Room 12, GOP Angels by Your Side - A Prayer to Symbolically Summon Angels Sanctuary, GOP

6:45pm PDT

Seudah Shlishit: The Third Shabbat Meal Gates of Prayer

7:30pm PDT

Havdallah and Melavah Malkah Sanctuary, GOP

TBA

TBD - Israel Uptown JCC

9:00am PDT

Death, Mourning, and Processing: A Conversation 202A, JCC Let's Make Streudel Together Kitchen, JCC Mah Jongg with Renee Zack Arts and Crafts Room, JCC A Brief History of Contemporary Jewish A Cappella Grant Board Room, JCC Creating an Ethics Code for Your Congregation: Why, How, and When to Use It? Adult Activity Lounge, JCC Prayers & Playlists: What Do You Stand For? Youth Activity Center, JCC Receiving the Whole Torah – Even the Parts We Wish Weren’t There Library, JCC Introduction to Sage-ing (Part 1 of 2) 209, JCC Mikvah: A Magical Gift 202B, JCC

10:15am PDT

Notes from the Press Box Grant Board Room, JCC Joy Comes in the Mourning Room 208, JCC Jewish Graphic Narrative: Conflict, Hybridity, Connectivity Arts and Crafts Room, JCC Pesach in Poetry 202B, JCC From the “St. Louis” Incident to the Present Day Library, JCC Israel is Real Dance Studio, JCC Kids + Worms = Fun Nosh Cafe, JCC Instant A Cappella! Auditorium, JCC Judaism, Police, and Community Safety 202A, JCC Reproductive Health and Rights in the US and Abroad: How Jewish Women Have Made a Difference and What We Can Do to Take Action Adult Activity Lounge, JCC Changing the World - One Simple Act at a Time Youth Activity Center, JCC Praying with Your Feet Youth Activity Center, JCC wish you were okay Youth Activity Center, JCC Introduction to Sage-ing (Part 2 of 2) 209, JCC

11:30am PDT

Game Over! Tracking and Confronting the Proliferation of Hate in Online Spaces Adult Activity Lounge, JCC Making the Most of Mitzvah Day: Planning and Executing Successful Family Service Days 202B, JCC Matzah Cover Art For Passover Arts and Crafts Room, JCC How Do Children Survive? Maurice Sendak's Holocaust "Memory" and Fantasy Library, JCC From Biblical Apocalypse to US Foreign Policy in Jerusalem Dance Studio, JCC Jewish Global Diversity (Ages 5+) Nosh Cafe, JCC Is Paul Dead? Grant Board Room, JCC The Torah Case for Reparations 202A, JCC New Orleans Jewish Women: Making History, Taking Oral Histories Room 208, JCC The Torah Is So Great - Even the Angels Want It! Youth Activity Center, JCC The Power of the Circle Mind Body Studio, JCC

12:30pm PDT

Lunch Uptown JCC

1:30pm PDT

Moses and Monotheism: What Did Freud Think of Judaism? Dance Studio, JCC Jewish Perspectives on Organ Transplantation 202B, JCC Making Liturgy More Accessible: A Workshop for a Radical Shabbat Room 208, JCC Holy Ink and Climate Change Arts and Crafts Room, JCC Israeli Dancing Gym, JCC Broadway's "Noel Coward with a Social Conscience": A Rediscovery of Song-Writer Harold Rome Grant Board Room, JCC New Voices in Civil Rights: Treating Drug Addiction as a Disability and Empowering the Formerly Incarcerated Library, JCC Southern Jewish History on One Foot 202A, JCC Tell 'em Like Your Zaidy--or Classic Jewish Jokes and How to Tell Them the Way Your Bubby Likes Youth Activity Center, JCC Bruriah, Golda and Me: Making Sense of Feminism, Orthodoxy, and Power in 2020 Adult Activity Lounge, JCC Circle 'Round Mind Body Studio, JCC

2:45pm PDT

"Which Is the True Religion?: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Lessing's "Nathan the Wise" Adult Activity Lounge, JCC Eli’s Story: A Twentieth-Century Jewish Life 202A, JCC Are You Possibly A Reconstructionist? 202B, JCC Working with Water Colors to Expand Ritual Arts and Crafts Room, JCC The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Response to the Shoah Library, JCC Meshuganah Mambo 2.0 Youth Activity Center, JCC Niggun Circle Stage, JCC Two Who Stood Up: Rabbi Charles Mantinband and ADL Director A. I. Botnick 209, JCC Beyond the Music — Chanting the Torah Room 208, JCC Where Does Our Jewishness Live in Our Bodies? A Movement-Based Workshop Mind Body Studio, JCC

4:00pm PDT

Jewish Pride through Sports: The History and ‎Success of the Maccabi Movement and the Jewish Presence in the Olympics Grant Board Room, JCC Pretty Pretty Pretty Funny Youth Activity Center, JCC The (Pizza) Delicious Matzah Pizza Party! Adult Activity Lounge, JCC Conflict Resolution Uptown JCC My Israeli-Arab Conflict: Recollections of a Frontline, Lone Soldier of the IDF Dance Studio, JCC Current Barriers to Housing Justice Around the Country Room 208, JCC Intersections of Justice 209, JCC Building an Animated Jewish Future: A Case Study from Four Rabbis' Trip to Paradise Library, JCC Living with Gratitude: One Simple Jewish Ritual That Can Transform Your Life 202A, JCC