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Limmud Michigan 2019

10:00am

Instant A Cappella! SHALOM ST.Daniel Henkin The Birds' Heads Haggadah: My Family's Story 201Maya Barzilai The Wildest Thing of All: The Story of Maurice Sendak 1/3 HANDELMANAaron Bergman Integrating Chinese Healing Arts with Jewish Practice 301Gabrielle Pescador Won't You Be My Neighbor? The Right to Privacy in Jewish Sources 310Dena Weiss Does Jewish Law Permit Carrying a Gun on Shabbat? 312Aaron Starr King David: Real or Imagined King of Judah? 205Michael Pytlik Are You Possibly a Reconstructionist? 204Ora Nitkin-Kaner Magical moments: Passing on the stories, Jewish traditions and joys of life with your grandchild 303Lenore Wineberg In the year 2525, if man is still alive, will Jews survive? 202Ira Sheskin Tikkun Adam: A Jewish Response to a Crumbling World 307Nate DeGroot A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins at Home 305Zeesy Silberberg • Shneur Silberberg Jewish Perspectives on Organ Transplantation 308Jeffrey Devries

11:15am

LUNCH I HANDELMAN A Brief History of Contemporary Jewish A Cappella SHALOM ST.Daniel Henkin A Jewish Lens on Healthy Living for Your Brain and Body: Tips from the latest research 301Peter Ostrow Quantum Theology: Belief in an Age of Proven Uncertainty 307Joseph Lewis Six Days a Week Thou Shall Be Vegetarian 305Yisrael Pinson Nazi Medicine and Humanitarian Medicine in the Warsaw and Vilna Ghettos : A Classic Story of Good Versus Evil 201Herbert Yoskowitz From Generation to Generation: The Legacies of Love 204Corinne Stavish The Right, Left, or In-Between: Understanding Anti-Semitism 1/3 HANDELMANHoward Lupovitch The Ties that Bind or Destroy - The Akeida in Israeli Literature 312Nira Lev Leaping and Waiting: A Spiritual Practice for Pesach and Beyond 205Elliot Ginsburg The Old Neighborhood: Jewish Enclaves of Northwest Detroit 202Catherine Cangany Lock and Key: Should we be locking people up? 303Levi Dubov Protesting Pharaoh, Questioning God: A Jewish Conversation About Resisting Authority 308Alana Alpert Jewish Views on Angels and Devils 310Joseph Krakoff

12:30pm

LUNCH II HANDELMAN Jewish Monsters Beyond the Golem 1/3 HANDELMANJames Justin Sledge Puppets Play as Midrash for Young and Old 312Mitch Parker The Journey of the Soul 301Herschel L Finman Israel's Security Environment Today: Is Israel the Most Secure its Ever Been, or the Least Secure? 303Andrew Richter Whatever Happened to Nice Jewish Boys? What Do Jewish Men Do After #MeToo? 308Sam Langstein Camp Sisters: Women, Death and Life in the Holocaust 307Ruth Bergman When Our Sages, of Blessed Memory, Got the Science Wrong 305Joel Goldstein The Ugly Man: Analyzing a Talmudic Tale of Sin, Reflection, and Teshuva 204Scot A Berman Insights from High-Risk Robotics for Jewish Leaders 201Kevin Lieberman Once We Were Slaves: BDSM in the Jewish Community 205Stefani Goerlich A geographic, demographic, religiousity profile of Detroit Jewry, based on the 2018 community study 202Ira Sheskin Making Sense of the Ineffable Name 310Joe Klein

1:45pm

Encountering Israeli Poets and Poetry Through Music and Song SHALOM ST.Dina Routin • Rafi Fridman Avodah b’Gashmiyut: Service of the Body Through the Ages 308Jake Ehrlich Finding Compassion and Humility through the Study of Jewish Text 312Bill Robinson • Beth Huppin What's Jewish About Veg? 303Sara Eifler Civil Discourse between People Who Totally Disagree: Is it Possible? 1/3 HANDELMANAsher Lopatin Transforming Jewish Education: Lessons from Around the World 201Ilana Spencer Intersectionality 205Kenneth Waltzer Parenting a Transgender Child: A Jewish Mom's Story 307Roz Gould Keith The Two Most Important Words You Will Say at the Seder 202Robert Dobrusin Northern Michigan Jewish Lights 310Carol Ellstein The Tax Foreclosure Crisis in Detroit: What is it and why should I care? 301Lauren Fine • Gabe Slabosky Dollars and Sense: A Discussion and Skill Share 204Joelle Abramowitz

3:00pm

Celebrating Wine! Why Wine? 305Louis (Eliezer) Finkelman Breath Brake Seminar 310Elimelech Goldberg Jewish Theology for Atheists 1/3 HANDELMANPaul Yedwab Opening Connection to the Divine Beloved: Introduction to Contemporary Chanting 307Linda Leah Greene Hannah Arendt: A Wealth of Contradictions 301David A. Victor How Jewish is Feminism? 205Karla Goldman Text and Texture: Understanding How Christians Read the Bible 204David Krishef Beyond the Binary: Gender Identity and the Role of Community 201Susan Knoppow Israel and Michigan, Together in Business 308Josh Berg Yehudim: The Ones who Say Thank You 312Sky Brown • Moshe Givental A Journey to the Past: History Comes Alive 202Mike Smith From Egypt to Postville (and beyond): Jewish thoughts on migrant labor 303Ruby Robinson

4:15pm

But, it doesn't sound Jewish! Solomon Rossi and the sound of Jewish liturgy 1/3 HANDELMANJaemi Loeb #timesup or Behind the Times?: #metoo in Talmudic and Halakhic Literature 307David Polsky Anti-Semitism, Social Media and the First Amendment—Has Anything Changed After Charlottesville and Pittsburgh 303Howard M. Friedman What Makes a Prophet Profit? 312Moshe Givental The Genealogy Journey: From Research to Reunion 301James Grey An (Orthodox) Rabbi walks into a Madrassa 201Sam Englander In its Welfare You Will Have Peace: Praying for the Government 204Michael Langer Facing Our Fears: Intermarriage, Identity and Israel - Oh My! 308Nora Greenstein • Hannah Berger • Megan Bernard • Lauren Fine • Sam Langstein • Ashley Schnaar • Sara Weinfeld Welcoming the Stranger: Our Journey to a Detention Center for Migrant Children and a Vision for Compassion at Our Borders 205Rebecca Epstein • Rachel Goldberg • Abbie Egherman • Wendy Lawrence Exposed Shoulders vs. Exposed Diamonds: Rethinking Tzniyut (modesty) in an Age of Competitive Materialism 305Yonatan Dahlen

5:15pm

Soulful Songs: The Sephardic Legacy through Music HANDELMANLeahaliza Lee