Limmud Festival 2024

Limmud Festival 2024 – Friday 12:50

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Chat-GPA: Where AI meets Education

Batsheva Haber 

Red 5

Can CHAT-GPT write my students’ papers? Is there a way to use DALL-E-2 to enhance creativity, for ourselves and our students? In this session, we will take a closer look at AI platforms, with an emphasis on how they can be used in educational settings. We will also discuss some challenges that AI presents and explore strategies for addressing them.

Ethiopian Dabo Bread

Beejhy Barhany 

Orange 11

Come and bake Dabo – the traditional Shabbat loaf of Ethiopian Jews – and learn about the history and culture of Dabo from the entrepreneur, activist and chef Beejhy Barhany. Dough will be provided, and space is limited.

Journeys of several Boundary Crossers

Amir Morris 

Red 4

A journey where we compare and contrast Abraham, Moses, and Ulysses, understand similarities and differences in their journeys and introduce an understanding of both Jewish and general societal implications of their form of 'other'

Self-Identification and the Law: Lessons from the Koy

Eli Goldsobel 

Orange 12

Explores self-identification through the lens of the "koy," an ambiguous creature in Jewish law that challenges definitions of identity. By examining texts like the Talmud & Mishneh Torah, we uncover how the koy's uncertain status offers insights into embracing complexity & fluidity in our identities within structured systems of law and tradition.

What is Israel For, Now?

Noah Efron 

Red 3

At a time when so many people – lots of our kids among them – have so much criticism of Zionism and of Israel, it can be hard to remember how remarkably Israel has reshaped what it means to be a Jew, mostly for the better, and how revolutionary a success Zionism has been.

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