Breakout Round One

Sunday, November 1

  • Are We Still Welcome?

    Freidenrich Conference Center
    4th Floor

    Meg Keene, Haley Geffen, Dr. Logan Levkoff
    Moderated by Dr. Sharon Leslie

    Comparative-case panel asking when ideological or institutional belonging becomes conditional on disavowing part of oneself, while distinguishing genuine exclusion from overstatement, ideological overreaction, and legitimate boundary-setting.

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    Sun Nov 1 | 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM PST
    Breakout Round 1

  • How Did Anti-Zionism Become a Global Language?

    Seiler Family Gymnasium

    Adam Louis-Klein, Izabella Tabarovsky, Hussein Aboubakr Mansour
    Moderated by Daniel Klein

    Historical and ideological genealogy tracing how anti-Zionism became a global political language, with Daniel translating the history into present communal judgment and guarding against overapplication.

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    Sun Nov 1 | 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM PST
    Breakout Round 1

  • Whose Future Are We Building?

    Arrillaga Family Pavilion
    1st Floor

    Miriam Awad Morad, Omer Shalev, Rabbi Ezra Balser
    Moderated by Maia Zelkha

    Central question: How do we build communities when national, religious, and civic identities don't always fit neatly together?

    Zionism links Israel's future to that of Jews around the world, but citizenship, national identity, and religion do not always fit neatly together. Miriam Awad Morad works on civic participation among Arab citizens of Israel. Omer Shalev develops Jewish engagement initiatives connecting Israel and communities abroad. Rabbi Ezra Balser builds Jewish life with young American Jews. Drawing on their work, and moderated by Maia Zelkha, they will ask where these identities reinforce one another, where they create competing expectations, and how those tensions shape the communities people build. Who gets a voice when priorities differ?

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    Sun Nov 1 | 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM PST
    Breakout Round 1

  • What Did Zionism Ask Jews to Become?

    G-100

    Micki Weinberg

    Participatory primary-text study asking participants to engage Zionist/Jewish texts directly and experience that serious Jewish/Zionist literacy need not be outsourced.

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    Sun Nov 1 | 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM PST
    Breakout Round 1

  • Agency Is Not Control

    E-104

    Ron Weinreich

    Hands-on workshop about acting responsibly under conditions participants cannot fully control.

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    Sun Nov 1 | 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM PST
    Breakout Round 1

  • Which Jewish Story Are We Living?

    G-103

    Ariela Ronay-Jinich

    Beginning with Lech Lecha, participants explore the Jewish stories, memories and commitments they carry, compare where others locate belonging and responsibility, and make those inherited stories visible through a hands-on creative exercise.

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    Sun Nov 1 | 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM PST
    Breakout Round 1

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