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Additional Information
Program Schedule
Shuk Details

• Cafe Dilemma, Vinings
Facilitator: Ilana Lasday and Lauren Fisher, BBYO Beyond
• Changing Attitudes About Blindness, Marriott L-402
Facilitator: Ike Presley, American Foundation for the Blind
• Community Spotlight: Bulgaria and Turkey, Marriott L-403
• Community Spotlight: Maccabi Tzair, Israel, Marriott L-406
• Community Spotlight: United Kingdom & Ireland, Harris
• Community Spotlight: Uruguay and the Baltics, Marriott L-401
• Dream Big, International South
Facilitator: Jeffrey Sparr and Matthew Kaplan, PeaceLoveStudios
• Fighting Hunger: A Social Justice Approach, Williams
Facilitator: Sarah Rosky, MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger
• For Better or Worse: Social Media as a Force to be Reckoned
With in Israel’s Public Diplomacy, Embassy A
Facilitator: Barak Raz, Former IDF Spokesperson
• From Selma to Ferguson: Southern Rabbis and Bold
Leadership, Techwood
Facilitator: Rabbi Daniel Septimus, University of Texas Hillel
• G-d Loves the Genderqueers: Gender Diversity in Jewish
Sacred Texts, Kennesaw
Facilitator: Joanna Ware, Keshet
• Homosexuality in Judaic Text: A Traditional, Accepting
Response, Marriott M109
Facilitator: Robbie Medwed, SOJOURN
• How to Create a Safe Space, Regency VII
Facilitator: Emily Greener, I Am That Girl; Emmanuelle Chriqui,
Actress and Activist
• Improv!, Marriott M104
Facilitator: Pam Schuller, NFTY
• Icebreakers and Ideas: Games and Activities to Start Cultural
Dialogue, Fairlie
Facilitator: Ron Jones and Simon Pringle-Wallace,
Dialogues on Diversity
• Immigration and Welcoming Communities, Hanover B
Facilitator: Rachel Peric, Welcoming America
• It’s Not Who YOU Know, It’s Who Knows You, Hanover D
Facilitator: Erica Miller and Sydney Kaplan, AIPAC
• Jam Sessions, Marriott M304
Facilitator: Toby Pechner, Song Leader
• Jewish Life on Campus, Inman
Facilitator: Adam Maslia, Israel on Campus Coalition

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