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The schedule is subject to change. One does not register for sessions.  Seating at individual sessions is first come, first served.
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Deidre Butler

Carleton University, Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies
Director

Dr. Deidre Butler is Director of the Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies and the Jewish Studies specialist in the Religion program at Carleton University. She researches and teaches at the intersections of religion, gender, sexuality, and Jewish thought as well as Limmud Ottawa’s fearless academic advisor.


Sunday, March 6
 

10:00am EST

From Poland to Polo M1 Café Limmud CC Lounge Hit the Road, Jack: Excommunication in Modern Israel S2 In Their Own Words: Young Jewish Adults in Toronto L4

11:00am EST

Halachic Creativity: Moroccan Thought, Maimonidean Thought and Beyond S5 Café Limmud CC Lounge Gender, Religion, and Politics in Israel M1 Truth and Fiction - Memory and Jewish Tradition S7 The Times They Are A-Changing: How Should We Prepare for a New Generation of Jewish Learners? L2

12:00pm EST

Moses's Wife was a What? Poetry Takes on Jewish Diversity L3 Finding Home: A Journey of Life Lessons in the Land of Israel L1 The Magic of Fiction: Why One Writer Chose to Write a Novel about Anti-Israelism on Campus S7 The Jew as an Agent of Tikkun Olam L2

1:00pm EST

Rabbi, Rabba, Maharat, Morateinu : Orthodox Women Breaking New Ground in Jewish Religious Leadership S1 Clocks and Jewish Law L1 What's on Your Seder Plate? Contemporary, Environmental, Egyptian, and Feminist ideas S5 Benjamin Brown: Architect M1 A Minority Within A Minority: Jews of Colour S7

2:00pm EST

Makeshift Spirituality: Jewish Home-Making in the Secular 21st Century L3 Mapping Ararat: Remembering an Imaginary Jewish Homeland S7 Biblia Erotica -- Sexy Passages in the Bible S2 Café Limmud CC Lounge Hacking Terror: Israel and the Digital Battlefield L2 Playing Hitler's Games: The 1936 Nazi Olympics and the Canadian Jewish Community S5 The Road Less Travelled: Women on the Fringe L1

3:00pm EST

TRANSforming Traditions: Exploring Trans Issues in Jewish and Islamic Texts and Discourses L2 So, You Want to Make a Jewish Podcast? S1 The Lines that Exclude: The Contours of our Jewish Community L3 Café Limmud CC Lounge

4:00pm EST

Grassroots for Affordable Jewish Education S7 But Will Your Kids Be Jewish? Family Matters L2 From Aging to Saging - V'hadarta P'nei Zakein L3 Café Limmud CC Lounge Creating Conscious Community S2 Not By Bread Alone - כי לא על הלחם לבדו S1 Tackling Mental Health Stigma through Jewish Learning L1

5:00pm EST

Exploring Religious Identity: A Hands-On Creative Workshop S2