Yoga Shalom: The Embodiment of Prayer
Fairfax RoomWhat’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 BallroomBreakfast (A Morning for Israel) 7:45 AM–8:30 AM sponsored by ARZA
Building an Inclusive, Democratic Israeli Society
Grand BallroomBuilding 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 BallroomArnie Gluck and representatives of MARAM
Social/Digital Media in Jewish Life
Exeter RoomJordyne Wu Your congregants are online -- are you? Learn how to use internet marketing and social media to reach out to new members ...
On-Camera Media Training for Rabbis: What to Do When a Reporter Calls
Board RoomDennis Ross and Sarah Standiford This session requires pre-registration. “Should I take this interview? How do I craft my message and avoid tricky questions? ...
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 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 RoomOr 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 RoomRick 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.
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 will consider how faith is the best antidote to frustration.
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 BallroomCommunities of Practice Lunch
Commonwealth RoomMeet with your Community of Practice, or come to join one. Create a CoP, or learn about them. Bring your own lunch.
Herding Cats and Other Leadership Challenges
Grand BallroomHerding Cats and Other Leadership Challenges Dr. Martha Minow sponsored by the Rabbi Balfour Brickner Rabbinic Training Program of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism Keter Torah: 2 hours
Tea at Three
Constitution 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 seek to articulate their own visions of Jewish communal leadership. When does Moses—as presented in both biblical and post-biblical sources—serve as a positive or negative model for these mystical exegetes and […]
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 behaviors we address when we gather on the High Holy Days. Eventually these words have to be translated. What are the ramifications of the various translations? Together we will study some […]
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 for the purposes of study and worship. Come learn the newest tools to more deeply engage our members in prayer and liturgy, and to enhance our capabilities as facilitators of worship. […]
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 my message and avoid tricky questions? What works on-camera?” Even a little media training helps clergy become more comfortable and effective on-camera, in-print and on-air. This camera training session required attending […]
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 are things we cannot and often do not want to do alone. In this session, we will explore some of the tools of community organizing that help us build powerful relationships […]