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10:00am EST

More than Menorahs: A Conversation with Authors of Jewish Children’s Literature Zoom Room FSidura Ludwig • Tziporah Cohen • Anne Dublin • Kathy Kacer Jewish Single Seeking Soulmate Zoom Room IZale Newman Corona and Keter: Disease and Divinity Zoom Room DBaruch Frydman-Kohl Trumpism and text and the rule of Law: Zoom Room BDahlia Lithwick L'dor V'dor (from generation to generation) Zoom Room CJerry Scherer Discover the National Library of Israel - It's Your Library Too Zoom Room JDJ Schneeweiss What Was He Thinking: The Diaries of Mordecai M. Kaplan Zoom Room EMitchell Rothman The Unnamed Women in Tannach: 'The Daughters Of' Zoom Room HEryn London

11:00am EST

Opera in Israel Zoom Room FGuy Mannheim Widening Our Tent: Intermarriage and Jewish Community Zoom Room BMicah Streiffer Show Me Your Face - Spiritual Care in a Brooklyn Hospital During the First Surge Zoom Room CKara Tav Hindsight is 2020: Modernizing Holocaust Education for 2020 and Beyond Zoom Room GAlexandria Silver The Nuremberg Trials: How have they changed everything? Zoom Room ASylvia Solomon Meeting with the Biblical Angels   Who are the angels and what is their role in Jewish life? A unique and open-minded workshop, a discussion followed by a meditative experience. Zoom Room JTami Yaari Comfortably Uncomfortable - A Conversation with Rivka Zoom Room DRivka Campbell Israel's Foreign Policy in the times of COVID Zoom Room HGalit Baram • Omer Yankelevitch What I learned about Israelis and Palestinians from working at an Interfaith Youth Movement in East Jerusalem Zoom Room EIttay Flescher My Teacher, Nehama (Leibowitz) Zoom Room IPeta Pellach

12:00pm EST

Join Aviva Chernick, Neshama Carlebach and Batsheva Capek for an intimate conversation about music, life on the road and navigating the Jewish World as Artists and Women Zoom Room FNeshama Carlebach • Batsheva Capek • Aviva Chernick Welcoming Newcomers in a Pandemic: What You can Do Zoom Room JNaomi Kramer • Jodi Block Integrated Judaism and a Remixed Approach to Tikkun Olam Zoom Room BRoberta Kwall How Halacha Changes: The COVID Cases Zoom Room CChaim Saiman The Future of Campus Antisemitism: Are the Kids Alright? Zoom Room ESofia Freudenstein • Hilly Adler Collecting the Dream Zoom Room DDavid Matlow Change Talk: Jewish Wisdom on Making Positive Life Changes Zoom Room HNoah Tile Talmud From the Balcony: Rabbinic Perspectives on Perennial Human Questions Zoom Room IElana Stein Hain Conducting Global Digital Diplomacy and Expanding Middle Eastern and Jewish World Views from Home During a Pandemic Zoom Room AFranz Afraim Katzir Israel - Navigating Multiple Landscapes Zoom Room GZohar Raviv

1:00pm EST

Musical Performance Zoom Room FNeshama Carlebach

2:00pm EST

Achdut and Jewish Media: Striving to Represent the Unrepresented Zoom Room IDave Gordon Journeying Through Myth, Midrash & Mystery; A Poetry Reading with Carol Rose Zoom Room FCarol Rose The State of Jewish Philanthropy with Andrés Spokoiny Zoom Room BAndres Spokoiny Spielberg and the Sephardi: Testimonies of Jewish Refugees from Islamic lands Zoom Room AHenry Green • Lisette Shashoua Showing Cavodכבוד) 18 ) during COVID19 – Living honourable lives in precarious time - What we can learn from Sefer Breishit Zoom Room GShalom Schachter Panel: What does the future of Jewish life look like in Ontario's smaller Jewish communities? Zoom Room DDan Brotman • Joe Roberts • Gustavo Rymberg Golden Age Travel - Freshman Spring: A Live Zoom-performed Teleplay Zoom Room CBenjamin Rubin Sacrifice, Cravings, and Bloodshed: Does Torah Allow City-Dwellers to Eat Animals? Zoom Room EAryeh Bernstein You don't look like a rabbi! Zoom Room HBecca Walker • Ariella Rosen Nehemiah: Our First Politician : A Man for OUR Season Zoom Room JJerry Friedman

3:00pm EST

We're Jewish. It's funny: A Musical Performance Zoom Room GBatsheva Capek “BAYAMIM HAHEM BAZ’MAN HAZEH” The Glorious History of Hazzanut and its Art Zoom Room IBeny Maissner The End of Israel Advocacy Zoom Room EHilly Adler • Noam Sibony • Leena Muti Crisis & Opportunity: Intergenerational Musings on Jewish Life in the Age of COVID-19 Zoom Room FMichael Knopf • Neal Rose • Carnie Rose Rescue Mission: Inside Diarna's race to save Jewish history in the Middle East and North Africa Zoom Room CJason Guberman Towards a More Liberal Religious Epistemology: Science, Reason and Miracles Zoom Room DJesse Shore "The Jewish Experience in Politics" Zoom Room JAnnamie Paul Jewish Roller Derby: A Game Without Borders Zoom Room BAllison Vanek Hiking from Sea to Sea: A Virtual Israel Experience Zoom Room AJosh Hartuv Torah, Lashon Hara (Gossip) and the Internet Zoom Room HIrwin Huberman

4:00pm EST

Literature or Propaganda? How Children's Authors Write about the Arab-Israeli Conflict Zoom Room HMarjorie Gann SNL's Jews Zoom Room JDavid Benkof In the trenches fighting anti-Semitism: City Hall behind closed doors Zoom Room IJames Pasternak The Who What Where When of Hatzoloh Toronto Zoom Room GHeshi Kuhnreich Introduction to Post-Pandemic Theology Zoom Room FDavid Zvi Kalman Animating Change: Innovating Toward a Brighter Jewish Future Zoom Room ADavid Singer Shang-Chai: Reflections on My Time in Asia's Jewish Community Zoom Room CJulia Ullman Enlisted Archaeology Zoom Room ENaama Baumgarten-Sharon Jewish Baseball - More than Koufax and Greenberg Zoom Room DBob Cooper Sarah Schenirer and the Founding of Bais Yaakov Zoom Room BNaomi Seidman