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Limmud Toronto 2021

10:00am EST

When Klezmer Met Jazz AAllan Cheskes The Morro Castle Disaster of 1934 and the Life and Death of Eva Hoffman DSonia Halpern Little Synagogue on the Prairie: Jewish Farming Colonies in Western Canada FHannah Blazer How to Start a Jewish Childcare Co-op EBenjamin Miller Jewish Surnames and Name Changing Around the World: Diversity and Unity GSarah Benor The Trial of Leo M. Frank - Antisemitism Georgia-style in 1913 CSylvia Solomon Goldilocks and the Three Orthodoxies: Traditional Responses to Same-Sex Relationships BSteven Greenberg What’s so Jewish about political engagement and why should I care? JVanessa Fhima Advancement or Dissonance? A look at 25 years of Orthodox Feminism HDaphne Lazar Price

11:00am EST

Haftarah through Art CLaya Crust Kvetching with Niv Mag: a discussion on new Jewish media! DClarrie Feinstein • Orly Zebak Beyond Kosher: Jewish Ethics and What We Eat ESara Eifler Did Maimonides Direct His Prayers Toward Jerusalem or Athens? GRaffi Sotto How We Choose and Why It Matters: Understanding Our Biases JSara Shapiro-Plevan "YHWH" ("Lord" or "Breath of Life"?), & the Climate Crisis AArthur Ocean Waskow Advocacy Against Child Sexual Abuse FManny Waks Women Who Built Israel: The Rescuers BPeta Pellach Hosting, Helping, Mentoring, & Managing: American Jewish Female Leaders IShuly Rubin Schwartz

12:00pm EST

Everything I Love, Fried. BLauren Schreiber Sasaki The Talmud, Astrology and Free Will JIrwin Huberman Experience with the 21% Israeli Arabs AAllan Fox Divine Justice IRabbi Deborah Waxman Traveling the Road of Tshuva HDavid Ben Moshe A Jewish Journey in the White House and Beyond DSarah Hurwitz "That's My Sipur": Jewish Literature and Multilingualism CRachel Seelig Sex, Drugs and Fermented Seal Flipper - Harm Reduction in Jewish Public Health Ethics EBarry Pakes Zionism in seventeenth century philosophy? GMeirav Jones Jewish meditation to heal the world FTami Yaari Or

1:00pm EST

Berlin 28, Paris 36, Jerusalem 61. A “Golden Age Travel” Zoom teleplay EBenjamin Rubin The Burning Bush BRos Schwartz Film and Q & A: "Commandment 613: A Sacred Craft" CKevin Hale • Miriam Lewin “ALL EXISTENCE WHISPERS TO ME ITS SECRET”:THE ILLUMINATED POETRY OF RAV KOOK ARabbi Itzchak Evan-Shayish (Marmorstein)

2:00pm EST

Religious Feminist Education – Do It Yourself! JRenana Ravitsky Pilzer Television and teshuva - three great excuses for watching lots of Netflix (and DVDs) FTamra Wright Secret Recipes: Food in the Judeo-Arabic Rabbinic Tradition GChaim Grafstein Ivrit in Israel and Abroad: The Miracle and the Challenge of the Revival of Hebrew HChanna Pinchasi The Arab, the Jew and the Construction of Modernity CTarek el-Ariss • Susannah Heschel Whats in a name: Exploration of Iraqi Jewish Identity BAdriana Tugg Lessons From the Pandemic – An Interfaith Perspective DYusuf Badat • Tina Grimberg • Jarrod Grover • Riscylla Shaw From Gaza to Jerusalem: How to prevent the next war IIttay Flescher

3:00pm EST

Israeli Journalism FAlison Kaplan Sommer Wrestling with Texts: Three Jewish Poets Explore Jewish Literary Traditions GAdam Sol, Alisha Kaplan, Lisa Richter Why Jew + Woman = Climate Activist ADianne Saxe The Mystical Body: Transforming Darkness into Light JMatthew Ponak Rivkush - A Live CJN Podcast - With Dr. Susannah Heschel CRivka Campbell Why the Two State Solution is the Only Option for a Jewish and Democratic Israel DJon Allen (Ott) Jewish Perspectives on Mental Health HDenise Lawee • Noah Tile • Mordechai Torczyner The Power of Giving EEllen Schwartz The Tikkun Project: Integrating Social Action and Jewish Values into Classroom Learning IDaniel Abramson

4:00pm EST

From the Shadow of the Shoah to Human Rights Fighter: A Journey EBernie Farber Singing our way through Torah JPaula Baruch Why We Do What We Do HSofia Freudenstein Newcomer Narratives: Contemporary Jewish Immigration to the GTA AAlon Gurfel • Elise Herzig • Teresa Berkman • Robi Bahar • Deborah Bhonkar Jewish values and investing FPaula Glick Preaching Under Pressure: Rabbi Isaac Arama before the Spanish Exile DBaruch Frydman-Kohl Bava Qama 83b CYonah Lavery-Yisraeli Jews, Canada and the Sense of Home BDavid Koffman A Torah of Allyship IMike Moskowitz How a Girl From the Suburbs Became the First Female Cantor in Jewish History GBarbara Ostfeld