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7:45am CST

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9:00am CST

Deuteronomy - The Book of Moses Room 610 Jewish Mindful Meditation Room 611 Sports: A Tool for Hope or Destruction? Room 603 The Jewish Music You Don't Know Yet Room 605 What Are They Thinking? White Oak Room B Where Do You Give? Setting Priorities for Tzedakah Room 613 Writing the Torah and the modern parent: what can we learn? Fort Dearborn B I and Thou: Jewish Sexual Ethics Cardinal Room Love Is Stronger Than Death: Unusual Uses of The Song of Songs Terrace Room The History of Intermarriage Monarch Room West Side Jews vs. South Side Jews White Oak Room A

10:10am CST

Biblegum Pop Culture - Biblical Themes and Characters in Pop Music Fort Dearborn B Dancing Sephirot Inner Circle How Social Science Research Will Strengthen Your Organization Room 610 Is Limmud Jewish? White Oak Room B Judaism & the Environment - Educators' Session Monarch Room Ner Tamid: The Use of An Eternal Flame In Religious Iconography Room 611 Telling Stories with Words and Pictures: Writing Comics and Graphic Novels (Teen Only) Room 613 The New Histadrut and the Struggle Against Subcontracting in Israel White Oak Room A Love in the Garden Cardinal Room Parental Love & Communal Responsibility: Lessons from the Stubborn and Rebellious Child Room 605 Same-Sex Love and Jewish Literature Illinois Room C Jews and Politics in Chicago Illinois Room A

10:15am CST

Knit for Israel Pier Room

11:20am CST

Being Jewish After High School: Conversations with Real Jews (T) Room 611 Ethical Wills: Values in Action Monarch Room Love and Joy and Healing from Trauma White Oak Room A Meditation Chants/Drums Room 613 Untold Stories from Israel and the West Bank Illinois Room B "Hatboxes": a Short Film at the Junction of Judaism and Love Fort Dearborn B Beyond Brides: The Mikveh and Relationships Illinois Room C Who is the Neighbor I am Bidden to Love? White Oak Room B REFUGE: Stories of the Self-Help Home Room 605 Shalom Chicago Room 603 Tzedek Adamah Community Organizing Training Cardinal Room Laughing Through History: 30 Jokes in 60 Minutes Illinois Room A A Shmooze With G-d. Or What We Say When We Pray. Room 610

12:30pm CST

LUNCH

1:35pm CST

Hull House & Jewish Immigrants in Chicago Hull House

1:40pm CST

End of Life Issues in the Jewish Tradition Room 610 Four Secular Jewish Songs Fort Dearborn B Rumbula's Echo: The Mishnah, the Holocaust with Bullets and the Cost of Genocide (documentary) Room 605 The Nine Month Sukkah Cardinal Room When Women Take Hold White Oak Room B Write Your Own Healing Prayers Monarch Room Hear Our Voice: Perspectives from Women on the Bimah Illinois Room A It's Yom Kippur-Let's Check Out the Chicks Illinois Room B Jews and Non-Jews Living and Loving Together White Oak Room A Physical Love & Emotional Intimacy: Lessons from the Laws of Niddah ('Family Purity') Illinois Room C Jews Working for Justice: Yesterday and Today Room 603 Meet Maimonides. No, Really. Room 613

2:50pm CST

Does God Require the Heart? The Importance of Desire, Intention and Deed in Prayer and the Mitzvot: Two Rabbinic Stories Monarch Room Fact and Fiction: Jewish Storytelling Room 613 How to Enchant and/or Repel Demons - Jewish Demonology 101 Illinois Room A Jews with Power: Advocacy in the Jewish Tradition Illinois Room B Love at the End of Life: The Jewish Hospice Experience Room 603 Niggunim: Developing Our Singing Community Room 605 Yoga with a Jewish Twist Illinois Room C Learning the Torah of Love: Text and Mindfulness Room 610 Love Carried Them Home Fort Dearborn B The Akedah: Love and Letting Go Terrace Room Chicago Sketches White Oak Room A Food and Place with the Gan Project White Oak Room B Stepping Stones to Successful Jewish Genealogical Research Cardinal Room

2:55pm CST

Knit for Israel Pier Room

4:00pm CST

'Heretical' Ideas Found in Medieval Jewish Bible Commentators Monarch Room Jews and Sports Fort Dearborn B Law & Border Terrace Room Lily Renee, Escape Artist Room 613 Listening to Jewish Women in a West Bank Settlement Cardinal Room More, Much More Than Fiddlers On The Roof! Room 603 The Nine Billion Names of God White Oak Room B ZENA: Warrior Princess Room 611 Chicago Sinai: Inspiring Reform for 150 Years Room 605 Famous Chicago Jews White Oak Room A Azamra: Jewish Kirtan Inner Circle

5:10pm CST

Closing Session: Sing it out with Kol B'Seder Illinois Room A