No Time for Neutrality: A T’ruah Rabbinic Convening Schedule Sunday, February 5

4:30pm: Registration Opens ​

5:30pm: Opening Remarks: Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Executive Director, T’ruah and Rabbi ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Rachel Gartner, T’ruah Board Co-Chair ​

6:00pm: Dinner ​

7:00pm: Opening Keynote: Anthony Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU, ​ ​ interviewed by Rabbi Felicia Sol, Congregation B’nai Jeshurun (New York) ​ ​

8:00pm: Break ​

The Rabbinic Role in our Current Moment. 8:15pm: Breakouts ​ ● Into the breach: What does it mean to begin a rabbinate in this moment? (Students only) ​ ​ Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, AVODAH, and Rabbi Simkha Weintraub, The Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services (New York) ● Ties that bind: Pastoring to a politically polarized congregation in a time of fear and uncertainty (Ordained clergy only) ​ ​ Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, Central Synagogue (New York) ● The sacred work of justice: Activism as a spiritual practice Rabbi Marc Margolius, Institute for Jewish Spirituality ● The role of liturgy in social justice work Rabbi Menachem Creditor, Congregation Netivot Shalom (Berkeley, CA) ● Rabbinic self-care in an age of overwhelming demand Rabbi Ilanit Goldberg-Gradess, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill-Cornell Medical Center

9:30pm: Songs of the Movement: Rabbi David Shneyer, Am Kolel Jewish Renewal ​ ​ ​ Center of Greater Washington, and Rabbi Shawn Zevit, Mishkan Shalom ​ ​ ​ ​ (Philadelphia) Sign making for Monday action (Dessert will be served) ​ ​ ​

10:30pm: Lailah tov ​

Monday, February 6

7:30am: Traditional-Egalitarian Shacharit with BJ Minyan ​ ​ ​

7:30am: Creative Shacharit and Storahtelling: Rabbi Lisa Stella, Michigan Hillel, and ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, Lab/Shul (New York) ​ ​

8:30am: Breakfast ​ Registration opens ​

Our Precarious Community: The Rabbinic Response to Anti-Semitism 9:15am: Textual Introduction: Rabbi Jill Jacobs ​ 9:45am: Breakouts ​ ● What to do when Neo-Nazis come to town: Case studies on recent incidents of anti-Semitism Rabbi Francine Green Roston, Glacier Jewish Community (Whitefish, MT), and Deborah Lauter, ADL Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs ● Re-educating our progressive movements on anti-Semitism Prof. Eric Alterman, Brooklyn College, and Eric Ward, Ford Foundation, moderated by Rabbi Rachel Grant Meyer, HIAS ● A pastoral space for clergy who have dealt with hate incidents (Ordained clergy ​ only) Rabbi Jo Hirschmann, The Mount Sinai Hospital ​ ​ ● On the front lines: The role of the campus rabbi, a look into challenges and best practices Rabbi Rachel Gartner, The Jewish Chaplaincy at Georgetown University, and Rabbi Adam Lavitt, Swarthmore College

11:00am Ahavat HaGer: A text study with Rabbi Shai Held, Mechon Hadar ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

12:00-12:45pm Lunch ​ Informal meeting time for denominations

Love the Stranger as Yourself: Dismantling Systems of Oppression 1:00pm: Breakouts ​ ● Bringing your synagogue into the New Sanctuary Movement: An introductory training Rev. Alexia Salvatierra, Faith-Rooted Organizing UnNetwork (Burbank, CA) ● How to be an Upstander: Responding to hate incidents as they happen Dr. Debbie Almontaser, Bridging Cultures Group (New York) ● Praying with our feet: Strategies for civil disobedience Audrey Sasson and Mackenzie Reynolds, JFREJ (New York) ● MLK+50: A jubilee year of truth and transformation Rabbi Arthur Waskow, The Shalom Center

2:30-3:00pm: Break ​

2:45pm: Mincha ​

No Time for Neutrality: Organizing for Justice 3:05pm: Textual Introduction: Rabbi Roly Matalon, Congregation B’nai Jeshurun ​ ​ (New York) 3:35pm: Breakouts ​ ● Organizing 101: How to meet your congregants where they are and get them involved in human rights campaigns Rabbi Stephanie Kolin, Central Synagogue (New York) ● Organizing 201: How to pick an issue and moving forward with justice work Jeannie Appleman, JOIN for Justice ● Power mapping and organizing in rabbinical school (Students only) ​ ​ Salem Pearce, Hebrew College, and Sarah Barasch-Hagans, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College ● Case study: Congregation Beth Elohim as a model for synagogue organizing Rabbi Rachel Timoner, Congregation Beth Elohim (Brooklyn)

5:15pm: Dinner and Training for the evening action ​ Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (New York), and ​ ​ ​ ​ Rabbi Guy Austrian, Fort Tryon Jewish Center (New York) ​ ​ ​

6:25pm: Ma’ariv: Rabbi Claudia Kreiman, Temple Beth Zion (Brookline, MA) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

6:45pm: Action ​

Tuesday, February 7

7:30am: Traditional-Egalitarian Shacharit with BJ Minyan ​ ​ ​

8:00am: Meditation Shacharit: Rabbi Lisa Goldstein, Institute for Jewish Spirituality ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

9:00am: Breakfast ​

Yovel: The Fiftieth Year of Occupation 9:45am: Textual Introduction: Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, Hebrew Union ​ ​ ​ College-Jewish Institute of Religion (Cincinnati) ​ 10:30am: Breakouts: Addressing Israel This Year ​ ● Crafting a liberal Zionist identity for this moment Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky, Ansche Chesed (New York), and Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College ● How to have inclusive conversations about Israel across the political divide Rabbi Jessica Kate Meyer, Romemu (New York) ● If you will it, it is no dream: How to take action for a more just Israel this year Daniel Blinderman and Rabbi Jill Jacobs, T’ruah ● Prophetic promotion and op-ed training Dan Friedman, The Forward

12:00pm: Closing Plenary and Call to Justice: Rabbi Susan Talve, Central Reform ​ ​ Congregation (St. Louis) and Rev. Traci Blackmon, UCC Justice and Witness ​ ​ Ministries (St. Louis)

1:15pm: Lunch

2:00pm: Safe travels!