1. religion and spirituality
2. judaism

Bronfman
Room
The Living Room
Einstein
Room
Freud
Room
Ben Yehuda
Room
Landau
Room
Feynman
Room
Weizmann
Room
(Skyland suite)
Shalom Aleichem
Room
Gabor
Room
SECOND FLOOR
* Technology will be used
during the session
Friday, March 27
15:00
ARRIVAL AND
REGISTRATION
17:00
Limmud FSU Intellect Opening Reception.
Matthew Bronfman, Izzy Tapoohi, Chaim Chesler, Sandra F.
Cahn, Irina Rozenfeld + Tolkachev Traveling Exhibition:
This exhibit is made possible by the American Society for Yad Vashem
Open for all Limmud FSU participants
First time at
Limmud?
Roman Kogan, Alina
Bitel, Anya Zicer, Olga
Barskaya
18:00 - 18:30
Family Kabbalat
Shabbat
Alex Tansky
18:30 - 19:30
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Fake Jews - the
greatest scam of 19th century
Ilya Khinskiy(Russian)
Inspirational Carlebach
Minyan and Kabbalat
Shabbat
Reuven Ibragimov
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Bronfman
Room
The Living Room
Einstein
Room
Freud
Room
Ben Yehuda
Room
Landau
Room
Feynman
Room
Weizmann
Room
(Skyland suite)
Shalom Aleichem
Room
Gabor
Room
SECOND FLOOR
* Technology will be used
during the session
Friday, March 27 (Continued)
19:30 - 20:30
SHABBAT
DINNER
GROUPS I&II
21:30 - 22:30
22:45 - 23:45
The Secret of Elijah’s Cup
as a Key to the Jewish
Messianic Idea
Chaim Seidler-Feller
Israel and the World
after the elections
Gideon Meir
Un-Boring
Conversation
Alina Bitel
From Dissident
to Diplomat: An
Improbable Career in
the U.S. Foreign Service
Ilya Levin
Kropotkin and Chabad:
Left-wing Tendencies in
Judaism
Yoel Matveyev
My Stubborn Tongue:
Assimilation is Survival
One-woman show
Anna Fishbeyn
Simultaneous Chess
Exhibition and Lecture
“Jews in Chess”
Boris Gulko
Jews in Russian poetry
Stanislav Smelianskiy (Russian)
Diaspora point of view.
Victor Shenderovich (Russian)
Live Reading
Why Falafel is Better with a
Shot of Vodka
Sivan Hadari (Moatza)
Israel’s election 2015: the
aftermath and the fallout
Chemi Shalev & Charlotte Halle
The Cheburashka Project Cheburashki film screening
Alice Kogan (COJECO BluePrint
Fellow)
Does Jewish Art Exist?
Alexander Okun
(Russian)
Club social
Mike Rockman & Ilya Khinsky
00:00 - 1:00
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Bronfman
Room
The Living Room
Einstein
Room
Freud
Room
Ben Yehuda
Room
Landau
Room
Feynman
Room
Weizmann
Room
(Skyland suite)
Shalom Aleichem
Room
Gabor
Room
SECOND FLOOR
* Technology will be used
during the session
Saturday, March 28th
Shabbat Service
8:00 - 9:00
BREAKFAST
9:00 - 10:00
BREAKFAST
Stronger Stomach,
Tighter Butt, Less Lower
Back Pain
Igor Klibanov
Shabbat Mishpacha
Alex Tansky
SS Dominatrices:
Sexualized Nazi
Imagery
Menachem Kaiser
The Khazar Kingdom,
One of the Most
Mysterious Pages of
Jewish History. Is there
Something Common
Between Khazars and
Contemporary Russian
Jews?
Yigal Kotler
Letters & Numbers
Vladimir Daniel Druk
Alternative to Services:
Shabbat Meditation
Jay Michaelson
Shabbat Service
A Relatively Typical
Representative of
Modern Ironic Poetry
Igor Irtenyev(Russian)
How to find fascists
in Ukraine, who is
“Judeo-Bandera” and
what are Ukrainian
Jews fighting for
Igor Shchupak
(Russian)
Can Jews Be Good
Lovers? Forging a
Contemporary Jewish
Sex Ethic
Chaim Seidler-Feller &
Doreen Seidler-Feller
The Intellects: True and
False or Good and Bad in
the Thought of Maimonides
Michael Paley
The Israel-Palestinian
Conflict: Myths and Double
Standards
Izzy Tapoohi
Jews and Words
Fania Oz-Salzberger
10:00 - 11:00
11:15 - 12:15
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Israel and the U.S. - before
and after elections
Chemi Shalev
Chesed: What Does Judaism
Have to Say?
Hanan Harchol
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Bronfman
Room
The Living Room
Einstein
Room
Freud
Room
Ben Yehuda
Room
Landau
Room
Feynman
Room
Saturday, March 28th (Continued)
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 - 14:30
LUNCH
14:30 - 15:30
Weizmann
Room
(Skyland suite)
Shalom Aleichem
Room
Gabor
Room
SECOND FLOOR
* Technology will be used
during the session
Russian Literature in
Exile: Homework For
Tomorrow
Alexander Genis
(Russian)
From the annals
of antiquity to the
modern State of Israel:
from first legal case in
history won by women
to the first woman judge of the Supreme
Court
Yuliya Mazur
I am not a know-it-all or
I want to be loved
Dima Zicer
(Russian)
Ten Secrets to a Great
Jewish Marriage
Lori Palatnik
Russian Literature in
Exile: Homework For
Tomorrow
Alexander Genis
(Russian) - Continued
Europe? Not you
again!
Why Europe is turning
its back on the Jewish
state
Martin Yafe
Love, What’s sex got to
do with it and How to
be happy together
Anna Kaplan
STOP EXERCISING The Way
You Are Doing it Now
Igor Klibanov
When Women Have
“Issues” with Tradition
(whatever that
Tradition might be)
Marina Goodman
Prayers for the Tsar: How
Rabbis Fought Against the
Russian Revolution
David Fishman
Success as a leader
Yaron Prywes
Microbes R US: Is there
such a thing as “Jewish
Microbiome?”
Alla Paskovaty
How will we win the Yiddish
Cultural Revolution?
Dorfman Michael
(Russian)
Plains, tanks, trucks and
choppers! How to survive in
a crisis?
Ilya Bratman
Development of Creative
Thinking
Master-class
Ilya Akselrod (Russian)
LUNCH
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Bronfman
Room
The Living Room
Einstein
Room
Freud
Room
Ben Yehuda
Room
Landau
Room
Feynman
Room
Weizmann
Room
(Skyland suite)
Saturday, March 28th (Continued)
15:30 - 16:30
16:45 - 17:45
18:00 - 19:00
DINNER GROUP
I
19:00 - 20:00
DINNER GROUP
II
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Shalom Aleichem
Room
Gabor
Room
SECOND FLOOR
* Technology will be used
during the session
In between Pushkin and
a refrigerator
Dima Zicer(Russian)
Tensions Between
Erotic and Intimate
Needs : Keeping Erotic
Elements Alive in the
Long Term
Doreen Seidler-Feller
Journalist Panel
Free speech. What
“price” are we willing
to pay for it?
Ilan Evyatar,Charlotte
Halle, Mordehai
Haimovich,Walter Ruby
Bridging the Gap –
Achieving Harmony
Between Observant and
Non-Observant Friends and
Family
Lori Palatnik
Is Gay Good? The
Significance of Sexual
Diversity
Jay Michaelson
Contemporary Russia’s
portrait in cinematography
Dmitriy Astrakhan (Russian)
Insight into Speak Memory
Project
Yuliya Levit* and Marina
Eybelma
Russian outlook on
Russia and beyond
Victor Shenderovich
(Russian)
Happiness the Jewish
Way
Olga Gilburd (COJECO
BluePrint Fellow)
Anti-Semitic vs
anti-Israel. Is there a
difference
Leonard Petlakh
Victims and Fighters: Soviet
Jewish Women During the
Holocaust
Elissa Bemporad
Healthy & Delicious
Homemade Treats
Nataliya Ostrovskaya
“A Replacement Life “ Book reading and Q&A with
the author
Boris Fishman
Rus Jews Views:
Destigmatizing
Psychotherapy in Russian
Jewish Community
Victoria Drob (COJECO
BluePrint Fellow)
Building A Global
Jewish Movement:
Good for the Jews
Walter Ruby
The Vilna Ghetto Theater
Menachem Kaiser
Ukraine in Crisis:
How We Can
Continue to Help its
Jewish Population
Shaun Goldstone
Why did she bring a muffin
tin?
Katerina Romanenko
The Genre of Crisis
Book presentation
Igor Irtenyev (Russian)
9 social media lessons from
the Gaza war
Charlotte Hallé
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Bronfman
Room
The Living Room
Einstein
Room
Freud
Room
Ben Yehuda
Room
Landau
Room
Feynman
Room
Weizmann
Room
(Skyland suite)
Saturday, March 28th (Continued)
Gabor
Room
SECOND FLOOR
* Technology will be used
during the session
HAVDALAH
20:00 - 20:30
21:00 - 22:30
Shalom Aleichem
Room
Gala Concert
Performance by Sunnyside Social Club & Irina Rozenfeld
ORGANIZATIONAL
FAIR
22:30 - 23:30
Stand-up Performance
on all topics Jewish,
and otherwise
Ilya Akselrod (Russian)
Dance Party
DJ Budulai
23:30 - 00:30
Broccoli: A RussianLanguage Short Film
George Itzhak
Paint like Modigliane.
Art studio
Polina Dorosinskaya (Preregistration needed)
Jam Session
with Irina Rozenfeld &
Lyonya Khmel
Beyond the Blue Bottle
- Authentic, Handmade
and Kosher wine
tasting
Dmitriy Krasny
(Pre-registration needed)
Фильм “Деточки” Little
Children
Dmitriy Astrakhan
(Russian)
Sunday, March 29th
8:30 - 9:30
BREAKFAST
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Bronfman
Room
The Living Room
Einstein
Room
Freud
Room
Ben Yehuda
Room
Landau
Room
Feynman
Room
Weizmann
Room
(Skyland suite)
Shalom Aleichem
Room
BREAKFAST
10:45 - 11:45
12:00 - 13:00
SECOND FLOOR
* Technology will be used
during the session
Sunday, March 29th (Continued)
9:30 - 10:30
Gabor
Room
Dancing Into Shape with
Zumba
Yelena Vayner
Boot camp
Ilya Bratman
Behind the Canvas
Alexander Okun
(Russian)
Did God Code the
Universe in Lisp?
Yoel Matveyev
The untold story about
Bukharian & Ashkenazi
Jews in Central Asia
Manashe Khaimov &
JCCA’s Bukharian Teen
Lounge
Seeds of Conflict: Religious
Roots of the Arab-Israel
Conflict
Mordechai Becher
Global Anti- Semitism. Is
it a “cancer” that’s out of
control?
Abe Foxman
Ordinary Fascism and the
“Jewish question” Lecturediscussion
Igor Shchupak (Russian)
Music and Miracle:
A Story of Holocaust
Survival
Sonia Beker
Healing Mandala. Destress. Art Studio
Polina Dorosinskaya (Preregistration needed)
College Education in
XXI century. How it
could look like and
why?
James Kenigsberg
Have you come out of
Egypt?
Aryeh (Lev) Katzin
(Russian)
What is so funny about the
Holocaust?
Michael Dorfman
(Russian)
ISIS and World Wide
terrorism
Richard Frankel & Danielle
Murtha
Kosher Fertility
Richard Grazi
13:00 - 14:00
LUNCH TAKE
OUT
14:00
DEPARTURE
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Young Limmudnik Program
Marshak
Room
Ages 3-5
Lea Golberg
Room
Ages 6-8
Play Room
Korchak
Room Ages
9-12
Teen
Program
Friday, March 27th
18:30 - 19:30
Kabbalat Shabbat for
Families
Alex Tansky
19:30 - 20:30
PJ Party Bed Time
Stories
10:00 - 11:00
11:15 - 12:15
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12:30 - 13:30
13:30 - 14:30
Open
15:30 - 16:30
Shalom Shabbat!
Michaela Slutsky
16:45 - 17:45
Breakfast
Young Limmudnik
Time
Shabbat Friendly Group
Games
Indoor Playground
Yelena Yafe & Marina
Mirchevskaya
Animal Disguises with
AriSafari
Lost & Found drama
lab
Alla Igolnikova
18:00 - 19:00
19:00 - 20:00
Open
Indoor Playground
Yelena Yafe & Marina
Mirchevskaya
Play Room
Open
Korchak
Room Ages
9-12
Limmudniks Live!
Michaela Slutsky
Teen
Program
Teen Social
Zhanna Beyl
Lunch
The Science of Magic
with AriSafari
Culinary Arts
Beth Freynk
A Passover Tale
Beth Freynk
Feeling the Exodus -the
interactive and hands-on
workshop on the story of
Passover for children
Tzipporah Shalumov
Open
Feeling the Exodus
-the interactive and
hands-on workshop on
the story of Passover
for children
Tzipporah Shalumov
Lea Golberg
Room
Ages 6-8
14:30 - 15:30
Saturday, March 28th
8:00 - 10:00
Marshak
Room
Ages 3-5
Density at its finest Science for Children
Rimma Shikh
Lost & Found drama lab
Alla Igolnikova
20:00
Young Limmudnik
Time
Dinner group I
Dinner group II
Havdalah
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Young Limmudnik Program
Marshak
Room
Ages 3-5
Lea Golberg
Room
Ages 6-8
Play Room
Friday, March 27th
Korchak
Room Ages
9-12
Sunday, March 29th
9:00 - 10:00
Breakfast
F. Cahn, Iryna Rozenfeld
9:30 - 10:30
SHKOLA Judaism in
Russian with Inna & Yaffa
SHKOLA Arts & Crafts
with Rinah
10:45 - 11:45
SHKOLA Judaism in
Russian with Inna &
Yaffa
SHKOLA Arts & Crafts
with Rinah
SHKOLA Dance with
Ulyana
SHKOLA Arts & Crafts
with Rinah
SHKOLA Dance with
Ulyana
SHKOLA Judaism in
Russian with Inna &
Yaffa
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
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17:00- 18:00
Limmud FSU Intellect Opening Reception
Matthew Bronfman, Izzy Tapoohi, Chaim Chesler, Sandra
SHKOLA Mommy & Me
SHKOLA Dance with
Ulyana
12:00 - 13:00
Teen
Program
The Living Room
18:00-18:30
First time at Limmud?
Roman Kogan, Alina Bitel, Anya Zicer, Olga Barskaya
Ben Yehuda Room
Lunch take out
Departure
Join an interactive, friendly and fun-filled Shabbat
experience designed for families with children up to 7 years
old. Celebrate Shabbat through prayers, songs, storytelling,
dancing, marching with the Torahs and, of course, a special
kiddush snack!
Einstein Room
18:00-18:30
First time at Limmud?
Roman Kogan, Alina Bitel, Anya Zicer, Olga Barskaya
Ben Yehuda Room
18:30-19:30
Family Kabbalat Shabbat
Alex Tansky
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