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Saturday, Sunday, and Monday: Congregation Rodeph Sholom, 7 W. 83rd Street, New York, NY 10024

Friday night: Romemu, 165 W. 105th Street, New York, NY 10025

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8:30am EST

8:45am EST

Unrequited Love: What Smart Women Study in Talmud Board Room (4th Floor) Judapest and the Largest Synagogue in Europe: Virtual Tour of My Jewish Budapest Room 9 & 10 (5th Floor) “I Have Worked and I Have Achieved” (BT Megillah 6a): In Search of Creative Business Opportunities for People with Disabilities Room 6 (5th Floor) Yoga for the Jewish Spirit: “Make For Me a Sacred Place That I Might Dwell Within You” (Exodus) Room 7 (5th Floor) Learning and Modeling Justice: Torah & Today Room 4 (5th Floor) Confronting Death through the Zohar: Brutal and Comforting Kabbalistic Myths of Mortality Eisner Auditorium (6th Floor)

10:00am EST

Family Music and Movement Room 12 (5th Floor) The Language of Photography: Layers of Meaning Room 6 (5th Floor) Midat Sodom and the Housing Affordability Crisis Room 8 (5th Floor) The Story of Rabbi Plimo and Satan (Qiddushin 81a-b): The Emotion of Disgust in Jewish Ethics Room 5 (5th Floor) Instant Yiddish Room 11 (5th Floor) Is Inclusion Always Best for a Child with Special Needs? Room 4 (5th Floor) "The Middle East is Funny:” Explore Israeli History through Comedy Room 1 & 2 (5th Floor) On Entitlements and Obligations: Narratives of American Jewry Board Room (4th Floor) Israeli Dancing Room 7 (5th Floor) Listen, Act, Change Room 9 & 10 (5th Floor) Nothing But the Truth? Balancing Personal Integrity with the Pull of Tradition Hahn Chapel (2nd Floor) Was Esau Jewish? Eisner Auditorium (6th Floor)

11:15am EST

Brain Death and Organ Donation In Halacha Board Room (4th Floor) Impact/Intent: What Matters in the Ethics of Speech? Room 11 (5th Floor) Seeing Race in Jewish Communities Hahn Chapel (2nd Floor) The Book Smugglers of the Vilna Ghetto: A Metaphor for the Struggle for Jewish Continuity Room 4 (5th Floor) We Were Strangers, Too: Obligation, Love, and Fear Eisner Auditorium (6th Floor) In Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism Room 8 (5th Floor) Is Spirituality Jewish? Room 9 & 10 (5th Floor) Meditation: Pause, Breathe, Balance, Connect Room 7 (5th Floor) The Talmudic Story of Shimon b. Shetah and King Yannai: Rabbinic Perspectives on Judicial and Executive Conflict Room 5 (5th Floor) My Dear Children Room 1 & 2 (5th Floor)

12:00pm EST

Babysitting: Lunch Break Camp Limmud NY: Lunch Break

12:45pm EST

New York Jewish History, Culture, and Community Room 9 & 10 (5th Floor) Yetzirah (Creation): Creating with The In[HEIR]itance Project Hahn Chapel (2nd Floor) Won't You Be My Neighbor? The Right to Privacy in Jewish Sources Eisner Auditorium (6th Floor) #dresscoded Room 8 (5th Floor) If You Think Something is Brand New, You Don't Know History Board Room (4th Floor) Jewish Identity, Jewish Diversity: Photographic Explorations Room 4 (5th Floor) Israeli Dancing Room 7 (5th Floor) Intersections of Justice Room 6 (5th Floor) Post-Patriarchal Strategic Planning: A Kabbalistic Model Room 5 (5th Floor) The Queen and the Spymaster: Uncovering the Hidden Story of Purim Room 11 (5th Floor)

1:00pm EST

1:50pm EST

Egalitarian Mincha Schnurmacher Chapel (6th Floor) Orthodox Mincha Room 9 & 10 (5th Floor)

2:15pm EST

The Remarkable History of the New York City Synagogue Room 4 (5th Floor) Story and Art with Honeycake Magazine Room 12 (5th Floor) Who Invited Helios, the Sun God, and the Zodiac to Shul? Room 6 (5th Floor) Kaleidoscope: What Does Jewish Look Like to You? Room 1 & 2 (5th Floor) A Pluralistic Reading of the Bible Room 11 (5th Floor) God Is In the Crowd Eisner Auditorium (6th Floor) Navigating Race Issues in Spiritual Communities (Especially for Clergy) Room 8 (5th Floor) The JSwipe Story and Jewish Love Room 9 & 10 (5th Floor) Building Community with Yiddish Dance Schafler Forum (Basement) Find Your Voice-And Be a Voice Room 7 (5th Floor) Our Immigrant Stories and What They Teach Us About Welcoming the Stranger Today Board Room (4th Floor) God-Talk and the Torah Hahn Chapel (2nd Floor) The Good, the Bad and the Holy: What is Holiness and Why Does it Matter? Room 5 (5th Floor)

3:30pm EST

Should Justice Be Blind? Jewish Reflections on Judicial Impartiality, Legislative Favoritism, and Substantive Justice Room 11 (5th Floor) A Forgotten Heroine: The Remarkable Letter and Life of Rachel Mordecai Room 4 (5th Floor) LGBTQ 101 Room 1 & 2 (5th Floor) Israel and American Jewry: How Deep is the Divide and May It Be Healed? Eisner Auditorium (6th Floor) Expanding the Canon: Transforming Judaism in the 21st Century Room 9 & 10 (5th Floor) Spoken Word Hahn Chapel (2nd Floor) Immigrant Song: Ruth and the Politics of the Foreigner Board Room (4th Floor) Lessons Learned in Starting and Scaling a Jewish Non Profit Room 8 (5th Floor) Eating as a Spiritual Ecosystem: The Hasidic Approach to the Material World Room 5 (5th Floor) What is the Creator God in an Era of Human Innovation? Room 6 (5th Floor) Lying Rabbis: Between Policy and Integrity Room 7 (5th Floor)

4:45pm EST

Reflections on the Woman's March Room 9 & 10 (5th Floor) Subversive Leadership: Women's Navigation of Authority in Jewish History Board Room (4th Floor) "Curb Your Offendedness:" Cultural Differences through Larry David Room 1 & 2 (5th Floor) Creating Community: Strengthening our Global Jewish Family Room 6 (5th Floor) Lama Ivrit? (Why Hebrew?) – The Place of Hebrew in the Judaism and Zionism of the 21st Century Room 4 (5th Floor) Secular Education in Ultra-Orthodox Yeshivas: What's at Stake Hahn Chapel (2nd Floor) The Value of Time: Work, Rest, and Social Justice Room 11 (5th Floor) Why Do We Find Prayer so Hard? Room 8 (5th Floor) Tanya: Heart, Mind and Joy in Not Being Perfect Eisner Auditorium (6th Floor) Torah Lishmah: When Less is More Room 7 (5th Floor)