SHOVE-OOH-OT ALL-NIGHT JEWISH LEARNING FESTIVAL
DOWNTOWN TIKKUN LEIL SHAVUOT
On Tuesday, May 18, 2010, Limmud Toronto was thrilled to co-present the second annual Downtown Toronto All-Night Jewish Learning Festival at the Miles Nadal JCC. With over 300 people in attendance (including 40 stalwarts who were still standing for the closing rooftop service at 6am), the night was a tremendous success! And the cheesecake was delicious! PRESENTERS INCLUDED:
- Rabbi Tina
Grimberg on daughters as cornerstones
- Eden Nameri threshes out the story of Ruth
- Dr. Aviva Goldberg on women's lifecycle rituals
- Rabbi Dr. David Weiss on Maimonides' cure for souls
- Harriet Wichin and her famous insta-choir
- Michelle Katz -- back by popular demand with Jewish meditation
- Sarah Margles on language
- Miriam Sarah Schacter motions for peace
- Frieda Forman on Yiddish women writers
- Rabbi Ed Elkin on the role of fear in our relationship to God
and the mitzvot
- Sydney Nestel on Megillat Esther
- Orrin Wolpert on gay Jewish wedding ceremonies
- Rabbi Aaron Levy on ethical Jewish eating
- Rabbi Miriam Margles sings our way to Sinai
- Professor Elan Dresher with a linguistic anaylsis of the Bible
- Mark Clamen on wacky midrashic legends of Sinai
With cooking classes, Tikkun Olam, arts discussions, and
much, much more!
The Downtown Tikkun Leil Shavuot was
co-presented by Limmud Toronto,
the Miles Nadal JCC, Congregation Darchei Noam, the First Narayever
Congregation, Kolel: The Adult Centre for Liberal Jewish Learning, Makom
and the Kiever Synagogue, the Koffler Centre of the Arts, the Annex
Shul, and Congregation Shir Libeynu.
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