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Sunday, November 17
 

9:00am EST

The Golem's Shadow: Elemental Wonder M-08b From Silence to Speech: Mussar on Shticka/Silence G-25 Everything Has Changed. Why Haven't We? M-KI Sanctuary Witness Theater: Bringing Holocaust Survivors Back to High School G-06 Jews, Zionism and Justice in an Age of Ethnocentrism U-13 Dreaming Our Way Back to the Garden M-08a Psalmology: Moving our Prayers U-Mishkan Tefila Sanctuary And God Buried Moses: Stories of Jewish Burial G-31 As If Your Life Depended On It: Moving People and Institutions Towards a Post Fossil Fuel Era G-27 Silent Auction G-Preschool Lobby Jewish Tradition and Immigration Justice: Do Not Oppress the Stranger G-07 Arguments, Penalties, and the Still Small Voice G-11 Jewish Sex Ethics, or Sex with Judaism G-28 Russian Discussion - First Two Chapters of Genesis G- KI Chapel The Contributions of Women-Driven Biblical Study in North American Jewish Adult Education G-19 Thoreau's Secret and the Language of the Jews: A Midrash on Walden G-16

10:10am EST

The First Jewish Painter Moritz Daniel Oppenheim M-08b Enough with Small Talk, Let's Get to Big Talk G-16 2020 Women's Vote Centennial - Why Did It Take 72 Years to Get the Vote?! G-31 The Jews Arrive in Newton G-19 Shake Your Soul- An Invitation to Movement and Joy M-08a If Prayers Could Sing! Finding the Music in Prayer. U-Mishkan Tefila Sanctuary Silent Auction G-Preschool Lobby In Our Voices U-13 Shattered Stars / Healing Hearts: One Family's Journey through Courage, Compassion, and Kindness M-04 Benjamin Franklin's Influence on Jewish Thought and Practice G-28 Echo Chambers Instead of Conversation: It Starts in the Bible G- KI Chapel From the Rib, Which Elohin Took From Eve, She Made a Man: A Regendering Torah Experience G-27 Joseph in the Torah and Qu'ran G-11 So You Fell Asleep in Services - Do You Still Count For a Minyan? Uncovering Authentic Jewish Values G-06 The Powers That Bind: Women in the Family Circle G-25 Whose House is it? House of Aharon and House of Miryam G-07

11:20am EST

Celebration Gathering M-KI Sanctuary

12:40pm EST

Lunch

12:50pm EST

Jewish Tales - Live! U-13 Shira Lishma - Contemporary American Jewish Music M-08b Limmud for All - Join the Fun! Lounge Outside U-Mishkan Tefila Sanctuary Silent Auction G-Preschool Lobby Building a Solidarity Economy: Tackling the Racial Wealth Gap M-08a Choose Life: Healing the Climate Can Happen G-06 Jews and the Labor Movement - What's Work Got to Do With It? G-11

1:10pm EST

Orthodox Mincha Pickup Service U-Mishkan Tefila Sanctuary

1:30pm EST

Egalitarian Mincha Pickup Service U-Mishkan Tefila Sanctuary

2:00pm EST

Songs of Renewal: The Meshing of Liturgical and Secular Melodies to Lift the Soul U-Mishkan Tefila Sanctuary The Shaping of the New Jew M-08b Grandparenting in the Age of Diversity G-16 Go Wish - A Card Game for the Home Stretch G-11 Writing What We Believe for Those We Love: Ethical Wills for the 21st Century M-08a Silent Auction G-Preschool Lobby Anti-Semitism: Origins and Today 100 Centre - Room A Community Safety Strategies for Jewish Communities G-28 Israel Activism: How to Take Effective Action and Get Results G-06 Speak, Memory: Creating Jewish Women's Oral History G-25 A Chasidic Perspective & Practical Applications for 2019 100 Centre Street - Room B Bibliodrama: Integrating Theater with Torah U-13 Jewish Exploration of the Power of Words G-07 Legacy-What Will They Say About You When You Are Gone? A Hearing Men's Voices Experience G-27 Oh My God! Theology in Israeli Women's Midrash G- KI Chapel When God Speaks in 'Black English' to Moshe Rabbenu G-19

3:10pm EST

Jewish Stars in the Ring M-08a Participatory Play Reading About the "Birds' Heads Hagaddah" G- KI Chapel RSJ Community Performers – Music by Masters U-Mishkan Tefila Sanctuary Welcome Blanket G-Ground Floor Lobby When I Was Small: Original Jewish Songs and Stories 100 Centre - Room A Flip the Script: The Truth About Intermarriage G-16 Keeping Traditions after a Community Disperses G-19 Immigration Stories from Boston's Port M-08b Dance and Exercise to Israeli Music G-06 Experiencing the 13 Attributes of God G-28 The Conversation: Why it is Important G-25 The Kabbalistic Tree of Life G-31 Silent Auction G-Preschool Lobby Building a Movement for Justice for All: Challenging Anti-Semitism & White Nationalism M-04 Physics Class, Social Justice, and Tikkun Olam U-13 Giant Sea Creatures and Where To Find Them G-07 Is Gender Inequality a Biblical Mandate? M-KI Sanctuary Lilith: Recovery of an Ancient Israelite Demoness G-11

4:20pm EST

Gems of Jewish Poetry G- KI Chapel The Temple Mount Floors G-28 Why Did the Jews Leave Soviet Russia 100 Years Ago? M-08b The Other in the Contemporary Russian Jewish-Immigrant Narrative M-08a Sarah Schenirer to Sara Hurwitz: The Evolution of Jewish Women's Education G-25 Jewish Masculinity Before and After the Zionist Project M-KI Sanctuary Mental Health is for Everyone! And What Do You Know About This Silent Killer? U-13 Out of the Shadows: Spirituality and Mental Health G-06 Solve the Climate Crisis! A Beloved Little Saying Holds the Breakthrough We Need. G-19 Do Not Stand Idly By: Harm Reduction is Jewish G-16 Tekiah: Waking My Soul From A Deep Slumber U-Mishkan Tefila Sanctuary The Endangered Daughter: Bat Yiftah in Bible and Midrash M-04 The Jewish Road to Character: The Study and Practice of Mussar as a Jewish Spiritual Path for Our Times G-07
 
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