W
hat is in a Jewish name?
What does Judaism have
to say about the advances
in organ transplant and donation? Is
there an emerging Jewish psychedelic
movement? How is freedom of religion
now being interpreted by the United
States Supreme Court? Finally, because
it is late October, are there ghosts,
angels and demons lurking in our
Jewish texts?
The community at large is welcome to
explore the answers to these questions
and hundreds more as Limmud
Michigan makes its comeback 11 a.m.-
4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30, at the Wayne
State University Student Center,
5221 Gullen Mall in Detroit. Online
registration is now open. Tickets are
$36. Student fee is $18. The fee to
attend includes a boxed lunch, drinks
and snacks. To register, go to https://
limmudmichigan.org.
Limmud Chair Sue
Birnholtz said the theme of
this year’s event, the first
live, in-person Limmud
since 2019, is “henei matov
umanaim” — how pleasant
it is to be together. With
more than 40 presenters,
including many local area rabbis and
Jewish educators to others across North
America, the Jewish education event
has something for every type of learner.
Topics range from Jewish identity,
Israel, ethics, law, history, social justice,
and body and soul, to name a few.
Limmud Michigan is part of a wider
Jewish learning movement of the same
name that originated in 1980 in the
United Kingdom. Globally, Limmud is
held in 83 communities in 43 countries.
The last Limmud drew in more than
500 participants and event organizers
expect the same or even a larger
turnout, Birnholtz said.
“As a Jewish community, we need
that human connection and we want to
be together,” Birnholtz said. “It will be
Sue
Birnholtz
STACY GITTLEMAN
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
continued on page 14
Courses Offered
at Limmud
11-11:50 A.M.
• The Reemerging Jewish
Entheogenic (Psychedelic)
Movement
• From Rachel and David to Maya
and Ezra: Trends in American
Jewish Personal Names
• On Finding God: Returning the
“Awe” into “Awesome”
• Jewish Vulnerability or White
Privilege? Seeing American Jewish
Identities through the Prism of
American Racism
• Praying for the Sick
• Exploring the Lived Impact of
the Holocaust on the Second
Generation
• Jewish Values in a Secular
Workplace and Learning Space —
An Experiment
• Living a Jewish Life in
18th-Century Michigan
NOON-12:50 P.M.
• Na La’amod! Honoring Gender
Through the Halakhic Process
• How to set up Whova Event App
• Shomrei Adamah — Guardians of
the Earth: Facing the Climate Crisis
through Dialogue and Action
• God’s Justice Measure for
Measure in the Exodus and
Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address
• Science and the Divine Paradox
• Jewish Monster Hunting: A
Practical Guide to Jewish Magic,
Monsters and Mayhem
• Detroit’s Yiddish Theater: A
Stage in the Wilderness
• Escaping Egypt and the Belief
That Millennials Won’t Pay
• Still Liberal After All These Years:
American Jews and their Politics
1-1:50 P.M.
• Three Hanukkah Blessings, Two
Hanukkah Songs: Five Fascinating
Texts
• Possibly Kosher? Exploring
Impossible™ Meat and the
Boundaries of Kashrut
• Shabbat, Particularism and
Universalism
• Organ Transplantation & Jewish
Medical Ethics
• How Love Conquers Evil
• Soup Kitchens, Free Bagels &
Other Old/New Forms of (Jewish)
Mutual Aid
• When the Supreme Court “Got
Religion” — The New Expansion of
Religious Rights
• Not All Those Who Wander Are
Lost and Vice Versa
2-2:50 P.M.
• Let’s Talk About Death: How &
Why to Host a Death Over Dinner
by Reboot
• What kind of Jew are You?
• Sing a New Psalm
• Tithing and Taxation
• Celebrating Jewish Resistance
& Remembrance: ‘Lights in the
Darkness’
• “Bubbe” or “Grandma”? “Singing”
or “SinGing”? Language and
change in Jewish Greater Detroit
• Israelis Head to the Polls ... Again
• Speakers and Keeners:
Ashkenazic Women at Prayer
• Between Dybbuks and Exorcists:
Judaism and Spirit Possession
3-3:50 P.M.
• Joseph and his Mishpacha:
Family Joys and Family Struggles
• “Justice has not Been Done”:
Police Accountability in Jewish
Law
• The Golden Calf as Political
Polemic
• Canon and Can Not: Should the
Book of Ecclesiastes be Part of the
Bible?
• To Grieve Like an Israeli — A
Poetic Dialogue
• Here Comes Skotsl: Finding Our
Place in the Jewish Community
• Israel’s Iran Problem
• Between the Lines: Under-
Represented Voices of Torah
Channeled through Song
• A Brief History of Antisemitism
According to https://
limmudmichigan.org.
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