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Get Up, Stand Up, Greenbriar d
Experience a theatrical journey that explores
prayer through a physical and emotional creative
process. Learn how to provide access to prayer
for peers in a welcoming and comfortable way,
without the intimidation that can come from
reciting a foreign language by rote.
Facilitator: Jonathan Adam Ross, Storahtelling
Sessions: Limmud 2
Global Education: Education for Life,
Hanover B d
Join a facilitated conversation focused on
building a global network through local
communities thus empowering students to be
self sufficient and powerful adults. 
Facilitator: Harry Nadler, World ORT
Sessions: Limmud 2
G-d Loves the Genderqueers: Gender
Diversity in Jewish Sacred Texts, Kennesaw
What do traditional Jewish texts have to say
about sex and gender diversity? How many
central biblical figures have been described by
leading rabbis as gender non-conforming? What
can we learn from our traditional texts about
a Jewish response to gender diversity? Come
explore these questions and more as we dive into
traditional and contemporary texts on gender
diversity in Judaism.
Facilitator: Joanna Ware, Keshet
Sessions: Limmud 3
Homosexuality in Judaic Text: A Traditional,
Accepting Response, Marriott M109
The Torah is traditionally understood to condemn
sexual relations between men and has long been
used as a weapon against GSD (LGBT) people.
Using biblical, talmudic and contemporary texts,
compare traditional and changing attitudes and
ideas towards homosexuality while diving deep
into the meaning of the legal proscriptions and
prohibitions.
Facilitator: Robbie Medwed, SOJOURN
Sessions: Limmud 3
How to Be a Political Jewish Operative,
Hanover C
Did your Jewish mother ever tell you that you
can become president one day? Senator?
Representative? Ever fancy yourself being a
spokesperson for the head of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, the Communications
Director for a top politician, or the Policy person
who solves the middle east peace crisis? Join two
top Jewish Politicos as they teach you what you

will need to enter the political world as a young,
smart Jewish dynamo.
Facilitator: Jenny Davis, National Jewish
Democratic Council; Matt Brooks, Republican
Jewish Coalition
Sessions: Limmud 2
How To Create a Safe Space, Regency VII
How do you create a space where people feel
safe to be exactly who they are, instead of who
they think they’re supposed to be? What would be
possible in a space like that? Learn how to create
a space where people feel heard, seen and like
they belong – and watch the magic unfold!
Facilitator: Emily Greener, I Am That Girl;
Emmanuelle Chriqui, Actress and Activist
Sessions: Limmud 2, Limmud 3
How To Make Difficult Decisions and Tough
Choices Not So Tough, Marriott L-405 d
Tough choices lie before all of us. College.
Relationships. Family. Religion. The Future. How
can we make these decision-making processes
less difficult? This session will engage you and us
together in conversation, strategies and ideas to
help each of us feel calm, cool and collected as
you navigate these tough choices. We will look to
the wisdom from Jewish tradition, our community
and within ourselves, and end our time together
armed with tools and confidence.
Facilitator: Mark S. Young, The Jewish
Theological Seminary
Sessions: Limmud 2

I Survived an Israeli Game Show,
Marriott L-406
So you say you love Israel, right? Put your
knowledge to the test with a fun and interactive
game that’s sure to get you up and moving
around, be wacky and will definitely be the
highlight of IC. Whether it’s Israeli history, modern
culture or Israel around the world, anything and
everything is in this awesome program led by
three StandWithUs MZ Teens. 
Facilitator: Sam Finn, BBYO Michigan Region;
Talia Weseley, BBYO Conneticut Valley Region;
Joel Gutovitz, BBYO Mid-America Region: Kansas
City Council; StandWithUs MZ Teen Fellows
Sessions: Limmud 2
Icebreakers and Ideas: Games and Activities
to Start Cultural Dialogue, Fairlie
This is a highly interactive, high energy workshop
designed to give you real, practical and
immediately usable skills to help promote and
sustain conversations about our differences. The