Theology as Personal Story: A Rabbi’s Reflections

Grand Ballroom

Dr. Arthur Green Judaism since its beginning has been a narrative tradition. We love to tell stories. The most native form of Jewish theologizing is narrative: re-telling the old story in some new and expansive way. But theology is also a highly personal undertaking. At its most honest, it is an account of one’s own […]

Lunch

2013 Convention Committee Meeting (Closed Meeting) SWARR Regional Lunch (Closed Meeting)

CCAR of Today

Grand Ballroom

Active Component Military Service Award, Rabbi Seth Phillips CCAR Atid Legacy Society Ethics: Proposed changes to Ethics code Ethics: Appointments to Ethics Committee Financial reports Other Business

Leading Into the Future: Transforming Threats to the Integrity of Your Rabbinate Into Kvod HaRav

Grand Ballroom

Leading Into the Future: Transforming Threats to the Integrity of Your Rabbinate Into Kvod HaRav 3:15 PM–4:30 PM Chief Executive Steven A. Fox Join in an interactive session with Steve Fox that moves beyond the traditional "State of the CCAR" report.  Talk with Steve and other colleagues about transforming threats to the integrity of your […]

Welcome from the Governor and Reception

Independence Ballroom

Welcome from the Governor and Reception 4:30 PM–6:30 PM Reception in Honor of 40 Years of Women in the Rabbinate in Honor of Governor Deval Patrick, who will address the CCAR. Independence and Grand Ballrooms

WRN Dinner

Commonwealth Room

For CCAR women rabbis, by reservation only.

Dinner with Friends

Why dine alone? Come to the concierge desk at 6:00 pm and meet new friends for dinner.

Mikveh Monologues

Republic Ballroom

Mikveh Monologues 8:30 PM–10:30 PM The Mikveh Monologues shares touching stories of immersion experiences, teaches about the meaning of the ritual, and engages audiences in a conversation about the power of ritual in contemporary Jewish life. As a work for the stage, these ideas become immediate, accessible, and moving; outreach in the broadest sense. About […]

Maariv

Alysa Mendelson Graf and Elaine Zecher

Yoga Shalom: The Embodiment of Prayer

Fairfax Room

What’s Jewish about yoga? Explore this unique worship experience that combines yoga, prayer, chanting, meditation and music and learn how to bring the experience home for yourself and your congregation.  Yoga Shalom is for people of all physical abilities and can be done sitting in a chair. It stills the mind, opens the heart and […]

Breakfast

Grand Ballroom

Breakfast (A Morning for Israel) 7:45 AM–8:30 AM sponsored by ARZA

Building an Inclusive, Democratic Israeli Society

Grand Ballroom

Building an Inclusive, Democratic, Israeli Society Dr. Manuel Trajtenberg Professor Manuel Trajtenberg, Professor of Economics at Tel Aviv University since 1984, is one of the worlds leading experts on Research and Development and innovation in society with a strong concentration on economics. He headed the government committee that formulated a response to last summer's "tentifada […]

Shacharit

Grand Ballroom

Arnie Gluck and representatives of MARAM

Social/Digital Media in Jewish Life

Exeter Room

Jordyne Wu Your congregants are online -- are you?  Learn how to use internet marketing and social media to reach out to new members ...

Transforming Reality – The Potential of Leadership Guided by Love

Clarendon Room

Ebn Leader In a world torn by violence and division, what form of leadership can guide us to healing? Come learn with Rabbi Ebn Leader as he explores an approach to leadership that could be useful for our times. Rabbi Leader turns to a surprising place for his insight, wrestling with the charismatic, miracle-working rabbi/teacher […]

Spirituality and Social Justice: Striving for Integration

Dalton Room

Or Rose Drawing on teachings from the traditions of Kabbalah, Mussar, and Hasidism, as well as the writings of such modern religious activists as Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, and Abraham Joshua Heschel, we will explore the ongoing challenge of Tikkun Ha-Middot and Tikkun Olam.  How do we understand the relationship between the practices of Torah […]

Touchstone Texts on Leadership

Fairfax Room

Rick Jacobs From Rabbi Eleazar in the Talmud to contemporary teachers of leadership including Abraham Joshua Heschel, Marge Piercy, Rabbi Jack Stern, Rabbi Elka Abrahamson and others, we will bore down on what it means to exercise Jewish leadership in our holy work.

Resilience in Rabbinic Work

Steven A. Fox and Deborah Prinz For CCAR Coaches and Consultants Working with Rabbis Closed Meeting

Lunch

12:15 PM–1:30PM Communities of Practice (CoP) Lunch Commonwealth Room

Communities of Practice Lunch

Commonwealth Room

Meet with your Community of Practice, or come to join one.  Create a CoP, or learn about them. Bring your own lunch.