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Modernity Track

Friday, 17:30 - 18:45 (Early Evening)
Why on Earth Would an Intelligent Young Woman Convert to Judaism?
Lene Rachel Andersen

Friday, 17:30 - 18:45 (Early Evening)
Shamor V'Zachor
Aviva Dautch, Rebecca Joy Fletcher, Shmuel Klitsner, Amichai Lau-Lavie, Deborah Lipstadt

Friday, 21:00 - 22:00 (Late Evening)
Matityahu and Murder: Another Look at the Chanukah Story
Elliott Malamet

Friday, 22:20 - 23:30 (Night)
The British Imperial / Metric Measurement Mess
Ronnie Cohen

Saturday, 20:00 - 21:10 (Late Evening)
Degree of Ethnic Tolerance in Russia
Alla Stremovskaya

Saturday, 20:00 - 21:10 (Late Evening)
Light and Dark: Creating Limmud Shabbat
Joel Grishaver, Tamar Ish-Horowicz, Clive Lawton, Raymond Simonson, Tamra Wright

Sunday, 09:30 - 10:40 (Early Morning)
Unafraid: the Combative Philosophy of Eliezer Berkovits
David Hazony

Sunday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Mid-Morning)
A Survivors Guide to BT (No, Not that BT)
Nick Gendler

Sunday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Mid-Morning)
Hakhamim of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation
Jeff Berger

Sunday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
The Power of Satire: European-Jewish Cabaret
Rebecca Joy Fletcher

Sunday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg: Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy (1 of 3)
Marc Shapiro

Sunday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
Moses Mendelssohn and His Adversaries (1 of 3)
Allan Arkush

Sunday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
Four Jewish Spiritual Revolutions that Changed the World - and Me (1 of 4)
Tzvia Greenfield

Sunday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
Escaping the Prison of Halacha (1 of 4)
Matt Plen

Sunday, 15:30 - 16:20 (Mid Afternoon Short)
Shimshon Raphael Hirsch - What Did He Really Stand For?
David Reuben

Sunday, 17:00 - 18:00 (Families Hour 2)
Jewish Moot Court (Adult and Family)
Joel Grishaver

Sunday, 18:40 - 19:50 (Dinner Hour I)
Growing Up Jewish in a Communist State
Alla Stremovskaya

Sunday, 19:10 - 20:20 (Dinner Hour II)
Euro+Trash: Kafka, Comics and Collisions of Culture
Eli Valley

Sunday, 19:10 - 20:20 (Dinner Hour II)
10 Reasons Why We Need to Believe in God
Stuart Altshuler

Sunday, 19:10 - 20:20 (Dinner Hour II)
'Mordecai Richler: the Last of the Wild Jews'
UK Jewish Film Festival, Irene Wise, Lindsay Wittenberg

Sunday, 20:40 - 21:55 (Prime Time)
Lighting Up: the Beauty of Chanukah
William Kolbrener

Sunday, 20:40 - 21:55 (Prime Time)
200 Days to Go - the Olympics Really Are Just Around the Corner
Steve Miller

Sunday, 20:40 - 21:55 (Prime Time)
Shabbat From Creation to Fish Bones
Raphael Sylvester

Sunday, 22:15 - 23:30 (Limmud Late)
Needed: a New Orthodox Theology (1 of 2)
Herzl Hefter

Monday, 08:00 - 09:00 (Early Bird)
The 12 Turning Points in Jewish History
Stuart Altshuler

Monday, 09:30 - 10:40 (Chavruta Alternatives)
In the Beginning
Lene Rachel Andersen

Monday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Morning Intensive)
Anthropology and the Holocaust: Primo Levi on Purity and Chaos
Robbie Duschinsky

Monday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Morning Intensive)
Is Judaism Just Another Fundamentalism?
William Kolbrener

Monday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Morning Intensive)
Bintel Brief (1 of 3)
Liana Finck

Monday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
ADD, Esau, and the Sale of Birthrights
Shmuel Klitsner

Monday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Faith, Doubt and the Road Ahead: Struggling with Our Judaism
Nathan Lopes Cardozo, Elliott Malamet

Monday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Innovating in the Jewish World
Zelig Golden

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)
Moses Mendelssohn and His Adversaries (2 of 3)
Allan Arkush

Monday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
Four Jewish Spiritual Revolutions that Changed the World - and Me (2 of 4)
Tzvia Greenfield

Monday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
Escaping the Prison of Halacha (2 of 4)
Matt Plen

Monday, 15:30 - 16:20 (Mid Afternoon Short)
The Dawn of the Third Stage of Judaism: the Stage of Return
Richard Elliott Friedman

Monday, 17:10 - 18:20 (Late Afternoon)
Spinoza, the Kotzker Rebbe and I
Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Monday, 17:10 - 18:20 (Late Afternoon)
Getting Ahead with (Jewish) Hats! (1 of 2)
Jonathan Myers

Monday, 17:10 - 18:20 (Late Afternoon)
Are You a Good Person? Teenagers Wrestle with Ethics
Elliott Malamet

Monday, 18:40 - 19:50 (Dinner Hour I)
Growing Up Orthodox and Gay
K. David Brody

Monday, 19:10 - 20:20 (Dinner Hour II)
'Footnote'
Jewish Agency for Israel, Limmud Conference Social Events Team

Monday, 20:40 - 21:55 (Prime Time)
Should the Current Chief Rabbi Be the Last Chief Rabbi?
Jonathan Romain

Monday, 20:40 - 21:55 (Prime Time)
Make Them Laugh, Make Them Cry, Make Them Ask the Reasons Why
Daniel Cainer, Maureen Kendler

Monday, 20:40 - 21:55 (Prime Time)
Lying Around
Margaret Jacobi, Richard Jacobi

Tuesday, 09:30 - 10:40 (Chavruta Alternatives)
Why Are Our Children Alienated From Judaism?
Elliott Malamet

Tuesday, 09:30 - 10:40 (Chavruta Alternatives)
A New Orthodox Theology - Radical Divine Immanence (2 of 2)
Herzl Hefter

Tuesday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Morning Intensive)
Goodbye, Columbus, Hello Christopher: the Evolution of American Jewry
Shuly Schwartz

Tuesday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Overkill? Is Israeli Society Obsessed by Remembering the Holocaust?
Yeshaya P Balog

Tuesday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Torah and the Pleasure Principle
William Kolbrener

Tuesday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Limmud Chai - a Rabbi, a Chazan and a Life Coach
Michael Harris, Juliet Landau-Pope, Ramón Tasat

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)
Are There Still More Jews in Ethiopia?
Sybil Sheridan

Tuesday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Debates on Synagogue Music in North America
Gershon Silins

Tuesday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
The Philosophy of Rav Kook: Is It Still Relevant? (2 of 3)
Marc Shapiro

Tuesday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
Four Jewish Spiritual Revolutions that Changed the World - and Me (3 of 4)
Tzvia Greenfield

Tuesday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
Getting Ahead with (Jewish) Hats! (2 of 2)
Jonathan Myers

Tuesday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
Escaping the Prison of Halacha (3 of 4)
Matt Plen

Tuesday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
Fighting for the Diaspora: Jewish Soldiers in National Armed Forces
Reuben Livingstone

Tuesday, 15:30 - 16:20 (Mid Afternoon Short)
Rabbis and Imams: Building Understanding in an Age of Fracture (1 of 2)
Muhammad Al-Hussaini, Mohamed Elsharkawy, Michael Hilton, Reuben Livingstone

Tuesday, 15:30 - 16:20 (Mid Afternoon Short)
Jewish International Development: Sharing Knowledge, Changing Lives
Yossi Ives

Tuesday, 17:10 - 18:20 (Late Afternoon)
JCC4London2013 ... New Home with a New Programme!
Andrew Gilbert, Roy Graham, Atira Winchester

Tuesday, 17:10 - 18:20 (Late Afternoon)
Practising Judaism in a Secular Age: the Future of Halacha
Laura Janner-Klausner, Deborah Kahn-Harris, Joel Levy, Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Tuesday, 17:10 - 18:20 (Late Afternoon)
Karl Marx: Antisemite or Critic of Antisemitism?
Robert Fine

Tuesday, 18:40 - 19:50 (Dinner Hour I)
A Jewish Guide to Happiness
Jonathan Romain

Tuesday, 19:10 - 20:20 (Dinner Hour II)
Nietzsche and Modern Orthodoxy
Michael Harris

Tuesday, 22:15 - 23:30 (Limmud Late)
Jewish American Dad
Nathan Abrams

Tuesday, 22:15 - 23:30 (Limmud Late)
Free Will? It's All in Your Head
Natan Levy, Daniel Reisel

Wednesday, 08:00 - 09:00 (Early Bird)
Would You Murder and Also Inherit? A Biblical Story of Crimes, Misdemeanours and Other Addictions
Judy Klitsner

Wednesday, 08:00 - 09:00 (Early Bird)
Teaching Community to a Texting Generation
Janet Schatten

Wednesday, 08:00 - 09:00 (Early Bird)
Halachic Challenges of Being the Chief Rabbi of Poland
Michael Schudrich

Wednesday, 09:30 - 10:40 (Chavruta Alternatives)
Pluralism vs Relativism: Case Studies in the Philosophical Underpinnings of Jewish Law
Shmuel Klitsner

Wednesday, 09:30 - 10:40 (Chavruta Alternatives)
The Brilliance and the Horror: Faces of German Jewry (3 of 3)
Jonathan Wittenberg

Wednesday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Becoming British
Anthony Nicholls

Wednesday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Judaism on Love and Romance
Elliott Malamet

Wednesday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Jacob Israel De Haan - the Life and Work of a Controversial Jew
David Soetendorp

Wednesday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Inner or Outer Light: Personal Inspiration vs Communal Values
Chananel Rosen

Wednesday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
Rabbi Shlomo Goren: the Revolutionary Chief Rabbi (3 of 3)
Marc Shapiro

Wednesday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
Baskin-Robbins Has 31 Flavours - How About American Judaism?
Shuly Schwartz

Wednesday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
I Am Taking Off My Kippah!
Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Wednesday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
Four Jewish Spiritual Revolutions that Changed the World - and Me (4 of 4)
Tzvia Greenfield

Wednesday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
Escaping the Prison of Halacha (4 of 4)
Matt Plen

Wednesday, 15:30 - 16:40 (Mid Afternoon)
My Wife Is a Bigamist: a Journey with Herzl
David Breakstone

Wednesday, 15:30 - 16:40 (Mid Afternoon)
Empowering Jewish Teens: the LimmudLA Way
Yechiel Hoffman

Wednesday, 15:30 - 16:40 (Mid Afternoon)
Scriptural Reasoning: History, Theory and Practice (3 of 3)
David Ford

Wednesday, 17:00 - 18:10 (Late Afternoon)
Gendering Judaism
Lindsay Simmonds

Wednesday, 17:00 - 18:10 (Late Afternoon)
A Manifesto on the Future of Christian Theology
David Ford

Wednesday, 17:00 - 18:10 (Late Afternoon)
Two Approaches to Halachic Writing: Mishna Berura and Arokh HaShulchan
Ian Gamse

Wednesday, 17:00 - 18:10 (Late Afternoon)
Agnostics Anonymous: Living the Death of God
Elie Jesner

Wednesday, 22:15 - 23:30 (Limmud Late)
Torah Views on Singlehood and Marriage, Sexuality and Procreation
Danny Epstein

Thursday, 11:30 - 12:40 (Morning Intensive)
From Madoff to Strauss-Kahn: Why People Sin - the Psychology (2 of 2)
Daniel Goldfarb

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)
'The Wisdom of Love': Philosophy, Religion and the Talmud in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas (4 of 4)
Tamra Wright

Thursday, 13:00 - 14:10 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Israeli Society and the Holocaust or Why Did We Need a New Yad Vashem Museum?
Rachel Korazim

Thursday, 13:00 - 14:10 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
God Is Not Righteous and the Torah Is Not Moral
Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Thursday, 13:00 - 14:10 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Lashon Tweets
Judith Levitt