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8:30– 5:00
Art Exhibition @ the Café

8:45 – 9:20
Daf Yomi
Jewish Meditation
Pat Shacharit

9:30-10:20
Creating Compassionate Connections through Jewish Text and mindful communication
The Evolving Role of Social Finance in Raising Funds and Engaging your Community
A Case Study: Jewish Values Mentoring Immigrant Communities
Rambam’s principles on nutrition influence on Jewish Russian Cuisine
Role Models of Jewish Women in Leadership Roles

9:30 -11:20
Collaborative Quilting : Build a Baby Quilt

10:30-11:20
Blockbuster Judaism: A Century of Jews in Movies
Hidden in the Warsaw Zoo / Cachés dans le zoo de Varsovie
History of Liturgical Music: Explained and Sung
Memory and Story in Nascent Judaism and Christianity
Promoting Minority Rights and Religious Freedom in a Turbulent World
Prose and Poetry – Compartments of a Life

11:30-12 :20
Conservative Confidential: Inside the Fabulous Blue Tent
Musica Ebraica A Joyful Shout: the History of Jewish Choral Music
Rabbi, Rabba, Maharat, Morateinu: Orthodox Women Breaking New ground in Jewish Religious Leadership
Reincarnation and the Afterlife
Soap and Homegrown Laughter with Seymour Mayne and Friends

12:30-1:20
The Art of Story Telling
Hidden in Warsaw / Cachés dans le zoo de Varsovie
Jewish Funerals in the 21st Century
Letting Go : Prenuptial Agreement and Jewish Divorce
Occupy Me

1:00-4:00
Human Library

1:30-2:20
Confessions of a Kosher Beekeeper
Hillel Kook and the Campaign to Save the Jews of Europe
How Goodly Are Your Tents: Being a Jewish Bystander to Relationship Violence
Jewish Women Renaissance Project: Will they come back wearing a Sheitel?
Judaism and Islam look at stories that find origins in Torah and Koran
Post Elections: Jewish Lessons in Leadership
Water for Israelis and Palestinians: Reasons for Optimism
Why I am willing to donate my liver

2:30-3:20
Is there a way Jews communicate? Intersection of Identities: A Musical and Personal Journey
Laundering of Anti-Semitism Under Universal Public Values

3:30-4:20
Doing Good
Jewish Humor as a Dogma
Rescuing Hostages: At What Cost?
Writing from a Jewish perspective: four Ottawa authors speak

4:30-5:20
Contribution of Jews to the American Musical Theatre
Jews and Booze: Beyond Manischewitz
Living in the Moment: Myanmar to Home
Mowing the Grass: Israel’s Counterinsurgency Strategy and Security Paradigm Overview