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- A Survivors Guide to BT (No, Not that BT)
- Blurring the Lines Between Holy and Profane: Abusive Leadership From the Pages of the Bible to the Pages of Today's Newspapers
- Hakhamim of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation
- How to Be a Jewish Rockstar: the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Yes, Zappa ... and Torah
- Is There Really Any Such Thing As a Jew?
- Not in Heaven (1 of 3)
- The Eichmann Trial: Its Significance and Impact
- Where Hope Ends in Slavery
A Survivors Guide to BT (No, Not that BT)
Nick Gendler
Location: Soc 1
Tracks: Communities, Interfaith, Modernity
Type: Lecture, Discussion
When my sister began her religious journey it presented our family with a number of challenges and still does, however, we appear to have found our way through without fallout, or falling out. Come and hear stories like the one about my mother slapping the wedding planner at a family simcha, while we share ba'al t'shuvah coping strategies with each other.
Blurring the Lines Between Holy and Profane: Abusive Leadership From the Pages of the Bible to the Pages of Today's Newspapers
Judy Klitsner
Location: Sci 4
Tracks: Leadership, Social Justice, Tanach/Text
Type: Text Study
How does a religious leader become a predator? How does the leader avoid resistance from the community and from victims? After comparing two biblical stories of leadership gone awry, we will shift our focus to current times, demonstrating a disturbing commonality between the patterns in these texts and those that persist to this day. This is the second of two sessions, but the session stands on its own. No Hebrew skills necessary.
Hakhamim of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation
Jeff Berger
Location: Sci 8
Tracks: Communities, History, Modernity
Type: Lecture, Discussion
From 1866-79 Hakham Benjamin Artom led the Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation during a brief but important transitional period. He is remembered for his famous Bar Mitzvah prayer used in Orthodox synagogues for many years by Ashkenazim and Sephardim. Come learn more about his ministry and the unique times in which he lived.
How to Be a Jewish Rockstar: the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Yes, Zappa ... and Torah
Ginny Adams
Location: Sci 7
Tracks: Communities, Leadership, Storytelling
Type: Lecture, Discussion
What do rock stars and the average Jew have in common? The Beatles? Yes? Pink Floyd? ZAPPA?!?! How do each of our own personal stories come together to create our cosmic Jewish narrative? Relentlessly claim your unique Jewish identity. Who knows who you will influence ...
Is There Really Any Such Thing As a Jew?
Danny Shine
Location: Sci 5
Tracks: Philosophy, Psychology
Type: Workshop / Practical
We will be exploring this question and the question of identity in general and whether we even have an identity. We will delve deeply into the question 'who and what am I?'
Not in Heaven (1 of 3)
Joe Wolfson
Location: Rootes Chancellors 1
Tracks: Leadership, Midrash, Tanach/Text
Type: Lecture, Text Study
The Oven of Akhnai legend and its conclusion that the Torah is 'not in heaven', is to the Talmud what Sinai is to the Bible - the single event that gives sense to the whole. This intensive aims to put the story in a new light by focusing on the biographies of the key characters, and showing how the choices and decisions that confronted post-Temple Judaism live with us until today.
The Eichmann Trial: Its Significance and Impact
Deborah Lipstadt
Location: Ram 1
Tracks: Holocaust, Social Justice
Type: Discussion
In 1960 Israel kidnapped Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and brought him to Jerusalem to stand trial. What were some of the legal, historical, and moral issues embedded in this trial? How did this trial change the way in which the world thought about, not just the Holocaust, but genocide and the need to adjudicate it? What has been the impact of this trial and why is it still important fifty years after the event.
Where Hope Ends in Slavery
Rose Prevezer
Location: Rootes Chancellors 3
Tracks: Israel, Social Justice
Type: Lecture, Discussion
Israel is a destination country for human trafficking. Women and children are brought in every year to be exploited as modern day slaves. This session explores the sex slave trade in Israel and specifically what Anglo and Diaspora Jewry can do to help ATZUM's and the Task Force on Human Trafficking's struggle to combat this evil. We will look at changes in the trafficking 'industry', new Knesset initiatives, and the 'Women To Go' campaign.
