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Limmud Toronto 2023

8:45am EDT

Egalitarian Minyan with Hadar J130

9:30am EDT

How my friends and I are building a coalition of Jewish students across the country to fight Antisemitism J125Nati Pressmann The Basketball Game J130Hart Snider Judaism and Platonism: A Match Made in Heaven? J230Dylan Shaul What do Israeli and Canadian Jews still have in common? P120Yaron Deckel Unity through Diversity: The Concept of Eilu V'Eilu in Jewish Thought P115Jared Anstandig Panel Discussion on the Significance of LGBTQ+ Jewish Summer Camp P105Cindy Levy (she/her) • Bex Roitman (they/them) • Saul Freedman-Lawson (they/them) Singlehood in the Canadian Jewish Community J225Libby Bear

10:30am EDT

Antisemitism on Social Media J130Johanna Novis Leonard Cohen: the Man and the Mask P120Michael Posner The Tuwim Questions: Who is a Jew? Who is a Pole? J230Myer Siemiatycki Predicting when Peace is Possible: Analyzing the Palestinian-Israeli conflict J140Shawn Guttman The Expulsion of the Arab Jews J125Richard Stursberg Chaos, Song and the Foundations of Prayer P115Aviva Richman Meet The CJN Daily Podcast: Attend a Live Taping of the Show and Meet the Host Ellin Bessner P105Ellin Bessner • Mitchell Consky Periphery: Resilience and Power on the Margins J225Akilah Allen-Silverstein

11:30am EDT

The Champ and the Chosen People: Muhammad Ali and the Jews J125Max Wallace When is it Okay to Criticize Israel? P105Ben Murane Food Politics and Birkat Hamazon: Building Blessings for Fulfilled Futures J130Izzy Waxman • Madeline Wintermute Kaddish: how to heal a grieving heart P120Ben Shefter Curating the New Toronto Holocaust Museum P115Hanna Schacter • Rachel Libman Inclusion: Our Journey in the Jewish Community. J230Susie Sokol (Why) Are There 613 Commandments? J225Marc Herman My Body, My Choice? Mom, can I get a tattoo? J140Adena Berkowitz

12:30pm EDT

Marketplace open, and Lunch Served Main Floor

1:40pm EDT

Egalitarian Minyan with Hadar J130

2:00pm EDT

Jewish Jazz Club Owners and Promoters in Toronto since 1946 J225Ralph Coram A Journalist Explains Israel's Turbulent Political Reality J140Allison Kaplan Sommer Evolution of Early Judaism from Prehistoric Cults J130Eva Goldfinger Nevertheless She Persisted: Persistent Women of the Tanach P115Elyse Goldstein Queering the Jewish Wedding P105Toby King How Green Is Your Torah? P120Micah Streiffer The Most Horrible Story in The Talmud J125Sholom Eisenstat

3:00pm EDT

Noah's Arc: Noah Zatzman and the Green Party P115Noah Zatzman The Joys of Prohibition P105Sandra Shaul The Origin of Canadian Cantorate of Yesteryears J125Beny Maissner The Conservative Evolution: How American Neoconservatism Made Aliyah to Israel, 1985-2015 J140Aharon Ariel Levi Secular Jewishness and Jewish Secularisms J225Lia Tarachansky • Paula David • David Wall • Sharoni Sibony The Humble King: Searching for God with Rebbe Nahman J130Vincent Calabrese Judaism & Reconciliation in Canada: What is Our Responsibility? J230Emily Green • Sterling Stutz Jewish Ethics and Commercial AI P120Mordechai Torczyner

4:00pm EDT

Sarah Aaronsohn - The First Female Spy of Palestine J230Adam Hummel Culture Wars, Jewish Communities and the U.S.-Canada Divide J140Daphne Price Lazar Netflix is my Synagogue: Jewish Pop-Culture as Religious Practice J130Lex Rofeberg Plowing Deeply to Open the Heart - Jewish Mindfulness as Cultivation P115Jordan Bendat-Appell • Miriam Margles The Blessing of the Children: Ancient Sources, Contemporary Interpretations P120Edward Elkin Welcoming Ukrainians in a Time of War: First-hand Accounts & the Community Response J125Vova Saikov • Shirley Worth • Alisa Zilbershtein • Jodi Block Is there Torah We Cannot Learn? J225Sofia Freudenstein Theology in Song P105Baruch Frydman-Kohl

5:00pm EDT

Marketplace open Main Floor

5:15pm EDT

Afterparty & Concert with Queen Kong Main Floor