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The following require pre-registration. The price includes admission and round trip transportation. All trips will depart promptly at 9:30 AM.

Sports Boston

The Hall at Patriot Place 2 Patriot Pl, Foxborough

Fenway Park, Gillette Stadium and the Hall at Patriot Place This is a program for sports fans of all ages. It will begin with a tour of historic Fenway Park, home of the 2004 and 2007 Major League Baseball champion Boston Red Sox. Fenway is celebrating its centennial this year. Participants will then travel to […]

$50.50

WRN Yom Limmud

Mayyim Hayyim For CCAR women rabbis Join your colleagues for an exciting and invigorating day at Mayyim Hayyim, a mikveh designed by and for the larger Jewish community of Greater Boston. Mayyim Hayyim offers more than 1400 Jews annually the opportunity to observe ancient ritual within the post-modern world. Our day will be comprised of […]

$36

Lunch

Try some of the great area restaurants.

Defanging the Birkat HaMinim (Part II)

Dalton Room

Dr. Ruth Langer A continuation of the morning session. The infamous twelfth benediction of the weekday amidah apparently cursed Christians explicitly in its early medieval forms and implicitly in its high European medieval forms. Christians were aware of this and censored the text, most formally and widely from the 1550s on. This all day Beit […]

Israel in Context: What Zionist Thinkers Say to Us Today

Hampton Room

Dr. Aaron Panken Zionism faces numerous challenges in the contemporary American Reform context. Recent articles even claim that American rabbinical students are beginning to exhibit less connection to the Jewish State, let alone our lay leaders. Dual loyalties, dual states and dueling theologies are just a few of the many complications that confront those who […]

What We Can Learn From Hasidic Religious Practice: Hasidic Niggun and Spirituality

Clarendon Room

Dr. Nehemiah Polen The world of Hasidism is famous for its musically creative and emotionally powerful niggunim. This session will explore how this rich legacy of niggun assists in the formation of one’s inner self and the cultivation of one’s spiritual development. We will listen to and learn from niggunim and also study Hasidic texts […]

Revolutionary Lessons from Boston

Republic Ballroom

Revolutionary Lessons from Boston Dr. Jonathan Sarna & Barry Shrage We will begin the conference with a dialogue between Dr. Jonathan Sarna, a leading scholar of American Jewish history, and Barry Shrage, the innovative President of Combined Jewish Philanthropies (Boston’s Jewish Federation). We will explore what has transformed the Boston Jewish community and how that […]

Tekes Peticha

Republic Ballroom

Ellen Nemhauser, Andrew Paley

Opening Reception

Grand Ballroom Prefunction

Opening Reception 6:30 PM–7:30 PM sponsored by ARZA World/Da'at Educational Expeditions

Opening Dinner

Grand Ballroom

Opening Dinner 7:30 PM–9:30 PM Motzi Boston Area Rabbis Birkat HaMazon Atid Society

Shacharit T’filah Convention Service

Grand Ballroom

Shacharit T'filah Convention Service 9:00 AM–11:00 AM James Gibson and Esther Lederman Our time honored Convention T’filah includes honoring of 50th Year Rabbis, honoring of the 40th Anniversary of Women in the Rabbinate, as well as the Azkarah. Follow along in iT'filah. Hakafah: Richard Block and Paul Kipnes Torah Readers: Sara Rich; David Kline; Sally […]

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 […]