Tuesday, March 20th
Liturgical Uses of Poetry: Sometimes It Works, Sometimes It Doesn’t
Hampton RoomShelly Marder and Janet Marder with Peter Berg, Eddie Goldberg, Leon Morris, and Elaine Zecher Many of us use poetry in our services. Poetry ...
Divorce and Get: Current Legal and Religious Possibilities to Reduce Pain and Provide Support
Jefferson RoomRachel Goldman, Amy Scheinerman This informative workshop will combine many elements designed to be useful in your rabbinate, including both legal and religious information ...
Making the Most of the “Wet Hair Moment:” Orchestrating a Meaningful Immersion Experience For Your Conversion Candidate
Berkeley RoomLisa Berman This workshop will explore a variety of questions about the conversion immersion experience. How do conversion candidates prepare for the actual immersion? ...
Transforming Reality – The Potential of Leadership Guided by Love
Clarendon RoomEbn Leader In a world torn by violence and division, what form of leadership can guide us to healing? Come learn with Rabbi Ebn ...
Spirituality and Social Justice: Striving for Integration
Dalton RoomOr Rose Drawing on teachings from the traditions of Kabbalah, Mussar, and Hasidism, as well as the writings of such modern religious activists as ...
Touchstone Texts on Leadership
Fairfax RoomRick Jacobs From Rabbi Eleazar in the Talmud to contemporary teachers of leadership including Abraham Joshua Heschel, Marge Piercy, Rabbi Jack Stern, Rabbi Elka ...
How Did Moshe Manage to be Rabbenu to 600,000 Unappreciative Congregants?
Gardner RoomHarold Kushner This text study will look at Moshe as rabbinic exemplar. Drawing from Rabbi Kushner’s book on Moses, entitled, “Overcoming Life’s Disappointments,” we ...
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
Canadian Rabbis Lunch and Study
Independence BallroomPre-Marital Counseling
Clarendon RoomDr. Paula Brody Most couples will seek out a clergy connection before their marriage. For interfaith couples, this interaction is often pivotal. How can ...
The Foundations of Social Media for Rabbis
Exeter RoomLisa Colton Social media is powerfully influencing the way individuals engage and organizations operate. This democratization of access to information, support for relationships and ...
On-Camera Media Training for Rabbis (I)
Board RoomDennis Ross and Sarah Standiford This session requires pre-registration. Session is capped at 8 participants. “Should I take this interview? How do I craft ...
Successfully Navigating the Senior-Second Rabbi Dynamic
Jefferson RoomAndrea Goldstein, Ronne Friedman, Shelly Zimmerman Many of us spend much of our careers in working relationships with other rabbis. Come learn with some ...
I Can Ask For That? Rabbinic Contract Negotiations Deconstructed
Berkeley RoomMichael Gan, Martha Hausman, and Abby Kelman Contract negotiations can be awkward, confusing and tense but they don’t have to be. You will learn ...
Moses & Hasidism: Reflections on Leadership
Dalton RoomOr Rose Like so many interpreters before and after them, the early Hasidic masters engage the figure of Moses in different ways as they ...
Learning to See an Invisible God
Gardner RoomHarold Kushner Drawing from Parashat Vayera, we will consider how rabbis can help people recognize when God becomes manifest in their lives.
You’re Not Really That Bad, Or Are You: Sin, Wrongdoing and Missing the Mark in High Holy Day Liturgy
Hampton RoomPeter Berg, Eddie Goldberg, Janet Marder, Shelly Marder, Leon Morris, Elaine Zecher Chet, averah, pesha, and avon are all Hebrew words that connote the ...
Enhancing Prayer with Technology
Exeter RoomPeter Levi, Dan Medwin, Ron Segal From stone tablets, to parchment, to bound and printed books, Jews have been regular adopters of new technology ...
On-Camera Media Training for Rabbis (II)
Board RoomDennis Ross and Sarah Standiford This session requires pre-registration. Session is capped at 8 participants. “Should I take this interview? How do I craft ...
Leading With, and Not Alone: Community Organizing and “Relational Power”
Gardner RoomLila Foldes, Stephanie Kolin Transforming the culture of our communities, leading effectively in social justice, engaging our youth successfully, and other sacred rabbinic work ...
Opening the Gates to Bar and Bat Mitzvah
Jefferson RoomArlene Remz For the past eight years, Gateways: Access to Jewish Education, Boston’s central address for Jewish special education, has prepared dozens of youngsters ...
The Three Themes of the Shofar Service and Their Reverberations Throughout the Days of Awe
Hampton RoomPeter Berg, Eddie Goldberg, Janet Marder, Shelly Marder, Leon Morris, Elaine Zecher Since Rosh HaShanah is called Yom Truah, how does the structure of ...
Finding Our Way to the God of Torah
Berkeley RoomRachel Timoner Lightning on the mountain. Plagues as punishment. War and bloodshed. The God of Torah can be difficult to relate to, even alienating, ...
Reception for All Sponsors and Donors
Commonwealth RoomReception for All Sponsors and Donors 6:30 PM–7:30 PM All rabbis who helped underwrite the costs of our Convention programs or donated to the ...
HUC-JIR Alumni Dinners
Celebrate 1, 5, 10, 18, 25, 30 or 50 years in the rabbinate with your classmates at dinner! For members of the classes of ...
Dinner with Friends
Why dine alone? Come to the concierge desk at 7:30 PM and meet new friends for dinner.
A Maariv Musical Experience
Grand BallroomJosh Nelson and Josh Zweiback
2013 Convention Committee Meeting
Closed Meeting