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Age/Gender Issue Track
Sunday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Love, Lust, Betrayal: the Secret Lives of Biblical Women
Alicia Jo Rabins
Sunday, 15:30 - 16:20 (Mid Afternoon Short)
Rosa (Parks), Golda (Meir), and Me
Eetta Prince-Gibson
Sunday, 19:10 - 20:20 (Dinner Hour II)
Women Unchained: an Agunah Documentary (1 of 2)
Rachel Levmore
Sunday, 20:40 - 21:55 (Prime Time)
Women Unchained: an Agunah Documentary (2 of 2)
Rachel Levmore
Monday, 09:30 - 10:40 (Chavruta Alternatives)
Understanding the Agunah Problem: Sources of Jewish Divorce Law
Rachel Levmore
Monday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Morning Intensive)
Half the Community - Private Lives: Women and Prayer, Shema, and Kaddish (1 of 4)
Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz
Monday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
They Married What They Wanted to Be: Rebbetzins in American Jewish Life
Shuly Schwartz
Monday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
More Stories of Women in Torah You Probably Didn't Learn in Hebrew School
Alicia Jo Rabins
Monday, 15:30 - 16:20 (Mid Afternoon Short)
Re-Framing Esther
Anna Gerrard
Monday, 15:30 - 16:20 (Mid Afternoon Short)
Shaken But Not Stirred - or Why Did the Orthodox Rabbi Shake My Hand? (1 of 2)
Zvi Solomons
Monday, 15:30 - 16:20 (Mid Afternoon Short)
Work-life Balance - How to Do Your Own Juggling Act
Diana Wolfin
Monday, 17:10 - 18:20 (Late Afternoon)
Created Beings of Our Own: Gender Diversity in Jewish Texts
Gregg Drinkwater, Elliot Kukla
Monday, 17:10 - 18:20 (Late Afternoon)
Segregated for God's Sake
Anat Hoffman
Monday, 20:40 - 21:55 (Prime Time)
The Battle Against Breast Cancer
Dafna Michaelson
Tuesday, 09:30 - 10:40 (Chavruta Alternatives)
Two Exemplary Women - Huldah in the Bible and Beruriah in Rabbinic Literature
Tal Ilan
Tuesday, 09:30 - 10:40 (Chavruta Alternatives)
Solving the Agunah Problem: What YOU Can Do
Rachel Levmore
Tuesday, 09:30 - 10:40 (Chavruta Alternatives)
Two Types of Ageing: a Jewish Perspective on the Challenge of Growing Old
Yossi Ives
Tuesday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Morning Intensive)
Arrested for Praying at the Western Wall
Anat Hoffman
Tuesday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Morning Intensive)
Half the Community - the Vortex: Women and Tallit, Tefillin, and Torah Scrolls (2 of 4)
Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz
Tuesday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
England, Agunot and a Prenuptial Agreement Preventing Get Refusal
Rachel Levmore
Tuesday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Women and Torah Study in the Talmudic Period, Part 2 (2 of 2)
Judith Hauptman
Tuesday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
The Limits of Kiddushin
Yaffa Epstein, Herzl Hefter, Joel Levy
Tuesday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Ageing in the Jewish Community
Abigail Morris
Tuesday, 17:10 - 18:20 (Late Afternoon)
Come and Lie with Me Love
Joel Grishaver, Sybil Sheridan
Tuesday, 17:10 - 18:20 (Late Afternoon)
Are We All in the Same Boat? Fighting Marginalisation in Our Communities
Tanya Harris, Boaz Kramer, Elliot Kukla, Tirza Leibowitz
Tuesday, 18:40 - 19:50 (Dinner Hour I)
Voices From Our Side of the Curtain
Carolyn Bogush, Deborah Katchko-Gray, Judy Klitsner, Jacqueline Nicholls
Tuesday, 20:40 - 21:55 (Prime Time)
Reading Beruria in Tel Aviv
Ruth Calderon
Tuesday, 20:40 - 21:55 (Prime Time)
Girls in Trouble Concert
Girls In Trouble
Wednesday, 09:30 - 10:40 (Chavruta Alternatives)
Generation J: Young, British and Jewish in 2011
Ilana Fenster, Joshua Marks, Daniel Sheldon, Jamie Slavin, David Yehuda Stern
Wednesday, 09:30 - 10:40 (Chavruta Alternatives)
'The Dreamers'
Linda Berkowitz, UK Jewish Film Festival
Wednesday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Morning Intensive)
To Wear Is Human, to Live Divine: Cross Dressing and Drag in Jewish Texts
Elliot Kukla
Wednesday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Morning Intensive)
Half the Community - Blithe Spirit: New Spiritual Directions for Women (3 of 4)
Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz
Wednesday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Morning Intensive)
Scandals of the Talmud: the Stories They Wouldn't Teach You in Cheder (3 of 4)
Yaffa Epstein
Wednesday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Morning Intensive)
Rediscovering the Divine Image in Dementia
Margaret Jacobi
Wednesday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Women Leading the Way
Dafna Michaelson
Wednesday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
Josephus Flavius and His Source - Nicolaus of Damascus - on Royal Hasmonean and Herodian Women
Tal Ilan
Wednesday, 15:30 - 16:40 (Mid Afternoon)
Get Up Ladies and Lead! How Can We Get More Women to Lead the Jewish Community?
Carolyn Bogush, Nicky Goldman, Laura Marks, Abigail Morris, Hannah Weisfeld
Wednesday, 17:00 - 18:10 (Late Afternoon)
Gendering Judaism
Lindsay Simmonds
Wednesday, 17:00 - 18:10 (Late Afternoon)
'Crime After Crime'
Linda Berkowitz, UK Jewish Film Festival, Lindsay Wittenberg
Wednesday, 18:30 - 19:40 (Dinner Hour I)
The Tent, the Field and the Battlefield: Radical Reversals in the Roles and Fortunes of Biblical Woman
Judy Klitsner
Wednesday, 19:00 - 20:10 (Dinner Hour II)
Amy Winehouse: the Tip of the Iceberg?
Simon Phillips
Wednesday, 19:00 - 20:10 (Dinner Hour II)
Salman Rushdie's 'Fury' Meets Philip Roth's 'Sabbath's Theatre': Parody or Homage?
David J Zucker
Wednesday, 19:00 - 20:10 (Dinner Hour II)
Transgendered Jews
Anna Gerrard, Su Rathgeber Knan
Thursday, 10:00 - 11:10 (Chavruta Alternatives)
A Traditional Yet Modern Talmud Shiur, Bavli Ketubot 23a
Judith Hauptman
Thursday, 11:30 - 12:40 (Morning Intensive)
Half the Community - Waiting in the Wings: Women's Tefillah Groups and Bracha Parties (4 of 4)
Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz
Thursday, 11:30 - 12:40 (Morning Intensive)
Scandals of the Talmud: the Stories They Wouldn't Teach You in Cheder (4 of 4)
Yaffa Epstein
Thursday, 11:30 - 12:40 (Morning Intensive)
Trans Wishlist
Judith Levitt, Maxwell Zachs
