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Sunday 3:30 PM–4:45 PM
2012 and the Jews
Sunday 3:30 PM–4:45 PM Room 237
We will take part in a discussion about the role of Jews and Jewish issues in this year's presidential race: Will Jews stick with Obama... and does it matter? How much influence do Jewish political donors have? Which issues matter most to the Jewish community? Why is there a growing voting gap between the Orthodox and everybody else?
Behind the Scenes at a Jewish Funeral
Sunday 3:30 PM–4:45 PM Room 209
Community, Introduction to, Torah
What are the basic elements of a Jewish funeral? What role does the Chevra Kadisha play in the community, and why is it important to Jewish living?
Beit Midrash 2
What went wrong in Sodom?
Sunday 3:30 PM–4:45 PM Library
How to, Introduction to, Torah
In this interactive session, Rabbi Helen Plotkin will lead a discussion of the texts that have been available for study in the Beit Midrash throughout the day on Sunday. (See the session Beit Midrash 1.) Those who have had a chance to prepare by working through the texts earlier in the day will ask questions and offer interpretations. All are welcome to participate as together we uncover the range of biblical and rabbinic perspectives on the problematic story of Sodom and Gomorrah found in Chapter 19 of Genesis.
Bringing It Home
Behind the Scenes on How LimmudPhilly Happens
Sunday 3:30 PM–4:45 PM Alumnae Room
Curious about how LimmudPhilly happens? Want to learn more about volunteering? Join this year's co- chairs, Brian Cohen and Sara Levy, to learn more about the Limmud story, Limmud International, and how you can get involved!
Global Hunger
A Jewish Responsibility?
Sunday 3:30 PM–4:45 PM Room 202
Community, Culture, Social Justice, Torah
The U.S. Farm Bill debate continues, a catastrophic famine rages in East Africa and our food aid systems are in need of reform. The marginalized communities most affected in the developing world are far from us in almost every sense. What, if anything, motivates us as American Jews to help give voice to the voiceless across the globe, and how do we best support these international neighbors with so much distance, so many conflicting priorities and so little time? Speaking from his experiences in Senegal and drawing from specific Jewish texts and traditions, David Spinrad of the American Jewish World Service will lead a text-based discussion on the Jewish obligation to justice in the 21st century, and consider the real-time example of U.S. food aid reform.
Israel in Song
Sunday 3:30 PM–4:45 PM Room 203
Israeli music represents the diversity of peoples and culture that make up contemporary Israeli society: East and West, secular and religious, and much more. It also tells a wonderful story of a proud people engaged with Jewish history and texts, as well as eager to complain about politics and their neighbors! Explore the history of Israeli music, sing along with your favorite tunes, and learn some new ones!
Israeli Folkdance!
Sunday 3:30 PM–4:45 PM Gym
Culture, How to, Israel, Music & Performance
Let your hair down and have fun at our Israeli Dance party. We will start with easy dances so everyone can be included. So save your energy and join our circle!
Israeli-Palestinian relations
Can we have a 2 state solution?
Sunday 3:30 PM–4:45 PM Room 238
Is the future of Israeli-Palestinian relations a two- state solution? The very concept sounds idyllic. Two states living side-by-side in peace and harmony with free trade and a free market of ideas. However, history has shown us otherwise, so we need to carefully examine the nature of statehood within Palestinian society and the kind of partnership Israel seeks.
Play Isn’t Just for Recess
How Play Promotes the Moral Imagination of Children and Adolescents
Sunday 3:30 PM–4:45 PM Room 233
Introduction to, Philosophy & Science
Play isn’t just for children nor is it just about sports. Play is an essential element in our education, in our emotional lives, and in our moral development from early childhood until deep into adulthood. One might even say that we don’t ever cease to have a capacity for play! This talk presents findings from the presenter’s study of moral education in Chinese, Jewish, Muslim, Quaker, Roman Catholic and non-sectarian private and public schools. Through a series of interactive case studies that illuminate decision points and moments of moral growth, participants in this talk will see how teachers, parents and all adults who spend time with young people can foster a sense of play that leads to positive moral decisions and creativity in the classroom, on the playing fields, in the arts and at home.
Ritual Craft
A framework for ritual designing better rituals
Sunday 3:30 PM–4:45 PM Room 228
How to, Introduction to, Spirituality
Spend an hour exploring the art and craft of ritual design. Whether you are a spiritual leader, or just interested in how to create rituals, this practical workshop will provide a framework for creating and analyzing rituals. The framework is based on Ketzirah's years of ritual development, as well as many schools of ritual studies. This framework applies to any type of ritual from personal to life-cycle to holiday services. Spend an hour and re-energize your approach to creating rituals!
Tales From the First Book
Sunday 3:30 PM–4:45 PM Blauvelt Theatre
“Tales” contains 11 original songs based upon the narrative stories of the first book of the Torah – Genesis. The songs feature the highlights of the book, covering creation, Noah, Abraham & Sarah, the destruction of Sodom and Gemorrah, Jacob and Joseph in sequential order. An adventurous range of musical influences find a home in the songs, including classic rock, inspirational, blues and Broadway. The eclectic listener will enjoy the unpredictable presentation of this broad spectrum of sounds. Listeners will also be fascinated with the explorative and novel approach that Rabbi Saul takes in order to revitalize the ancient narrative and touch us with the timeless universal range of emotions of love, conflict, harmony, anger, fear and peace. Together, the songs are woven to present a concept album – a veritable rock opera that captures the tales and drama of the Book of Genesis in a way not heard before!
The Garment
Based on 3 Stories by S Y Agnon
Sunday 3:30 PM–4:45 PM Room 240
Straight from Israel--a fascinating new adaptation of the ironical and allegorical stories of Nobel Prize laureate S. Y. Agnon--one of the greatest writers in modern Hebrew literature. His stories carry a multi-layered pattern of hidden and transparent ideas, underlining the eternal questions that constantly arise regarding the aim of man's existence, whether he leaves the world naked as he came or if his belief is strengthened as he goes through it?
The God beyond Normative Theism and Normative Atheism
Rethinking God and Spirituality in a Jewish Context
Sunday 3:30 PM–4:45 PM Room 232
The way we think about God is so often boring, as if the presence of evil can somehow dispose of the God question through simplistic atheism ("I can't believe in a God that let the Holocaust happen or who lets one child die of Tay-Sachs or AIDS") or free will/theism ("It's not God's fault. God gave us free will and so we must struggle to blah, blah, blah"). We can do better than that, and we have. We'll explore some new ways and some old but different ways of thinking about God together.
When Oral Torah was Experienced as a Written Corpus
Sunday 3:30 PM–4:45 PM Room 208
How did the Babylonian Talmud, a body of ancient rabbinic traditions replete with legal controversies and nonlegal material, come to be construed as a reference work and prescriptive guide to Jewish life? This presentation considers some of the ways in which the encounter with Oral Torah as a written corpus transformed Jewish society and culture in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries.
When the Sacred Meets the Profane
New Jewish Soul Music From Israel and Beyond
Sunday 3:30 PM–4:45 PM Room 201
Part song session, part teaching, all music! Discover the new Jewish "soul" music emerging from Israel. Hear and sing the music of Alma, The Diwan Project, Yosef Karduner, Yonatan Razel, Fools of Prophecy and others. This music fuses the ancient with the modern, while bringing together Eastern and Western influence to create powerful, heartfelt and potent new music. Come to listen, sing and discuss how these artists are blurring the lines between song and prayer.
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