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Daphna Bittan

Daphna is a Hebrew and Judaic teacher at a Montessori day school in Brooklyn, NY. Her students come from all over the religious spectrum, and she always looks to bring new angles of study into her classroom. She loves to learn, see new perspectives, and meet people who share her passion for Jewish education.

5:00pm

Orthodox Partnership Kabbalat Shabbat Service [separate seating; mixed-gender leadership] Cove

6:30pm

Communal Shabbat Dinner Ballroom I, II

8:45pm

Journey through Time and Space through Storytelling WatersideMuriel Horowitz Tinker, Tourist, Soldier, Spy WestoverShaul Kelner Yiddish Ulpan Session 1: Instant Yiddish! 50 Words in 50 Minutes WillowNikolai “Kolya” Borodulin

10:30pm

Jewish Diplomacy – Israeli (foreign?) policy towards world Jewry SpringdaleShimon Mercer-Wood Undoing the 'Un': Reflections From Those Who Have Left Ultra-Orthodoxy ElmRachel Berger • Libby Pollak • Mindi Yeger 'The Spirituality of Laughter: A Jewish Look at the Holiness of Humor' High RidgeRobert Alper

8:45am

Orthodox Partnership Shabbat Morning Service [separate seating; mixed-gender leadership] Cove Orthodox Traditional Shabbat Morning Service [separate seating; male leadership] Elm

10:00am

Limmud Chavruta Project: Keeping The Peace WatersideMikhael Reuven

12:15pm

Defining Open Orthodoxy GroveAvi Weiss Melodies of Esther BelltownLisa Arbisser

1:45pm

Yiddish Ulpan – Session 2 SpringdaleNikolai “Kolya” Borodulin

3:30pm

How To Teach Your Kids (and Yourself) to Talk To God BelltownDaphna Bittan • Koren Publishers Jerusalem

5:15pm

Morocco and Her Jews: A Story of Surprise and Grandeur BelltownPeter Geffen Game Zone WillowLimmud NY Social and Communal Team

6:30pm

Community Havdallah GroveNaomi Less

8:15pm

Breaking the Silence on the Last Gaza War CoveAvner Gvaryahu

10:00pm

Volunteer: Hospitality Squad Volunteer Central

8:30am

Homa uMigdal (Bridge & Stockade) and Other Social Justice Tactics I Learned from Ze'ev Jabotinsky and David Ben-Gurion CoveAri Ne'eman

10:15am

How Do (and Don’t) Birthright Israel Trips Actually Work High RidgeShaul Kelner A Virtual Tour to Hebron - A Microcosm of the Occupation CoveAvner Gvaryahu

12:00pm

Sunday Lunch: Meet-Up Meal Ballroom I, II Chazak Chazak V'Nitchazek: When and Why Do We Need Strength? WillowAdina Gerver Ferguson/Fargesn: Racism, Jewishness, and the Struggle for Criminal Justice Reform AspenMike Rothbaum

1:45pm

Toward a Non-Delusional Religious Zionism: Charting a Way Forward GroveShai Held

3:30pm

The State of Liberal Zionism: A Public Conversation GroveRuth Calderon • Yehuda Kurtzer

5:15pm

Yiddish Ulpan- Session 3 WillowNikolai “Kolya” Borodulin

5:30pm

Sunday Dinner Ballroom I, II

7:00pm

Cupcakes! SpringdaleElliot Fix

8:30pm

Limmud NY Cabaret GroveRobert Alper • Eliana Light • Jacqueline Nicholls • Greg Wall

10:00pm

No Lost Love: The Obama-Netanyahu Relationship and Should Jewish Americans Worry About It ElmNathan Guttman Happy Jews: Judaism Through the Looking Glass of Positive Psychology High RidgeShoshana Mitrani Knapp

7:30am

Monday Breakfast Ballroom I, II

8:30am

Tfillah Educators Panel SpringdaleSara Beckerman • Daphna Bittan • Koren Publishers Jerusalem

10:15am

Menachem Froman: From Religious Zionism to Religious Post-Zionism WatersideShaul Magid For a Jewish Democratic State of Israel: End the Occupation WillowSteven Cohen

12:00pm

Superstition and Religiosity: The Psychology of Control GlenbrookEric Hammerman The World is Built With Kindness / Olam Chesed Yibaneh: The Ethics of Accepting and Extending Chesed (Acts of Loving-kindness) Long RidgeLila Kagedan