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LimmudVan ’15

LimmudVan ’15 is a coproduction of Limmud Vancouver and the Vancouver Jewish Community Center.
Please Note: Registration for Limmud is for the day’s activities.
There is no prior selection of individual sessions.
All sessions are open to all registered participants until all seats are filled.
Review the schedule and plan your day.

7:30pm PST

Limmud Cabaret at the JCC Jewish Community Centre

8:30am PST

Doors Open, Registration, Coffee and Snacks Main entrance, most southerly door on Willow Street.

9:00am PST

Opening Remarks Theatre

9:45am PST

Leonard Bernstein - Beyond 'West Side Story' Room 5 Two Heroines of Antiquity: From Byzantium to Post Modernism Room 3 The Poetics of Psalms (Tehillim) Room 2 The Feminization of Judaism in 19th-Century Germany Gym The Humble Potato: Judaism and Food Trends of the 21st Century Room 4 A Tale of Two Tribes/ Exploring Cultural Parallels between Jews and Indigenous Peoples Room 6 Love, Hate and the Jewish State Theatre The Mirror of Heaven: The meaning of Water in Judaism Room 1 Peace it Together - Mini Film Festival Room 7

10:45am PST

Break TBA

11:00am PST

The Ultimate Thank You Speech Room 6 Shylock: Shakespeare and the 'Jewish Problem' Room 1 'Release!' The Vision of the Seventh Year Gym Bruriah: Truth, Myth, and the Construction of the Ideal Jewish Woman. Theatre A Virtual Tour of Historic Jewish Vancouver Room 3 Is there a Blueprint for the Universe? Room 4 Crime, Punishment, Torah and Return Room 2 How I Began to Make Peace With the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict through Participating in Bridgebuilding Dynamics in Israel Room 5 Peace it Together - Mini Film Festival Room 7

12:00pm PST

Break TBA

12:15pm PST

Aleph Through the Looking Glass: 3 Steps to Learning the Hebrew Script Room 5 The Relevance and Enjoyment of Philately (the Hobby of Stamp Collecting) For Jews in the 21st Century Room 6 Kabbalah and Ecology: God's Image in the More-Than-Human World Room 2 The Rescue of Czech Torah Scrolls Room 3 The Scar without the Wound and the Wound that did not Close: The Shoah and Jewish Victim Identity in Postwar Germany and in North America Theatre Yiddishkeit around the world Room 4 50 Days of Gathering Gym The Messianic idea in Judaism Room 1 Peace it Together - Mini Film Festival Room 7

1:15pm PST

Lunch Cafeteria

2:15pm PST

Landscapes of identity: The Canadian West in the Jewish Imagination Room 4 Yedid Nefesh: What Are We Singing? Room 2 From Age-ing to Sage-ing (cancelled) Room 6 Is Halacha (Jewish Law) Necessary? Rosenzwieg vs. Buber Room 5 17 Stories Theatre The Cantor wasn't singing like that last time - Jewish Connections to Opera Room 3 Panel: I’m not a farmer, I don’t live in Israel, why should I care about Shmita? Gym Breathe In Israel Room 1 Peace it Together - Mini Film Festival Room 7

3:45pm PST

Break TBA

4:00pm PST

The Adam Growe Quiz Show Theatre The Art of Storytelling Room 2 Jewish and Islamic Religious Feminism - Parallel Contemporary Trends Room 5 Who divorces Whom? Understanding the Power Dynamics of Divorce in Jewish and Israeli Law Gym The Old Jewish Cemetery at Mountain View - an irreplaceable landscape Room 4 The Portuguese Inquisition Room 6 Dyeing to Know Torah Room 1 Peace it Together - Mini Film Festival Room 7 The Ten Plagues and Science as a Way of Knowing Room 3

5:00pm PST

Collective Clean-up TBA