Makor Rishon’s First International Diaspora Conference
How the Corona Pandemic Has Impacted the Jewish World
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Sunday Tuesday Wednesday June 7 June 9 June 10
9:00AM 9:00AM 9:00AM Greetings Greetings SPEACH OF THE PRESIDENT Minister of Diaspora Affairs, MK Omer Yankelevich (Blue and Minister of Settlement Affairs, MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) President of Israel Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin White party) 9:10AM - 9:40AM 9:10AM - 10:00AM 9:10AM - 10:00AM One on One Coping with the Corona Pandemic The WOLT of the Jewish world: Zvika Klein, Diaspora correspondent, Makor Rishon, with Discussion among World Jewish leaders Can one be an emissary by Zoom? Minister of Aliya and Absorption Pnina Tamano-Shata Opening remarks: Zack Bodner, CEO, Palo Alto OFJCC and Opening remarks: Sivan Rahav-Meir, journalist, News 12, founder of Zionism 3.0 World Mizrachi Emissary 9:40AM - 10:35AM Moderator: Ofer Hadad, journalist and news presenter, News 12 Moderator: Riki Rath, Makor Rishon feature writer This is Home Eric D. Fingerhut, President and CEO of the Jewish Miriam Peretz, Recipient of Israel Prize for Lifetime Aliya in wake of the corona pandemic Federations of North America Achievement Moderator: Elyashiv Reichner, feature writer and columnist, Marc Eisenberg, President Alliance Israélite Universelle and Qualita Chani Lipschitz, Chabad emissary in Kathmandu Makor Rishon Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein, Chief Rabbi of South Africa Rabbi Eliahu Birnbaum, Founding Director, Straus-Amiel and Ariel Kandel, Director-General Qualita Beren-Amiel Emissary Training Programs, Ohr Torah Stone Zev Gershinsky, Executive Vice President Nefesh B’Nefesh 10:00AM - 10:30AM Dr. Shraga Bar-On, Director, David Hartman Center for Shay Felber, Deputy Director-General Jewish Agency One on One Intellectual Excellence 10:35AM - 11:05AM Chief, Makor Rishon, 10:00AM - 10:05AM־in־Haggai Segal, Editor with Isaac Herzog, Chairman of the Jewish Agency TED talk One on One 10:30AM - 11:00AM Ariel Schnabel, commentator on US affairs and columnist, 1+1=3 in Jewish Math Makor Rishon, with Rabbi Berel Lazar, Chief Rabbi of Russia Right or Left Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander, President and Rosh HaYeshiva, Who cares more about Diaspora Jewry? Ohr Torah Stone 11:05AM - 11:50AM Moderator: Sara Haetzni Cohen, Chairwoman of My Israel, 10:00AM - 10:30AM Connecting the Startup Nation columnist, Makor Rishon Business Connections from Afar MK Tamar Zandberg, Meretz TED talk Opening remarks: Shoham Nicolet, Co-Founder and CEO, IAC Yinon Magal, journalist and presenter on Radio 103 and Thoughts about the future of the Jewish people in Channel 20 TV the Diaspora Moderator: Ricky Maman, Economics commentator, Makor Rishon, and research fellow, Kohelet Forum Rabbi Eliahu Birnbaum, Founding Director, Straus-Amiel and 11:00AM - 11:30AM Yasmin Lukatz, Founder and CEO ICON – Israel Collaboration Beren-Amiel Emissary Training Programs, Ohr Torah Stone Network One on One Michael Eisenberg, co-founder and Partner, Aleph Venture 10:30AM - 11:00AM Zvika Klein, Diaspora correspondent, Makor Rishon, Capital Fund with Dani Dayan, Israel’s Consul General in New York One on One Oudi Antebi, Director of Enterprise Strategy, Facebook 11:35AM - 12:05PM Dr. Ruth Kabessa Abramzon, founder and CEO of Shabbat UNPLUGGED with Joe Liberman, former US Senator, in a 11:50AM - 12:20PM Shared Purpose discussion of Shabbat as a unifying factor for Jews around the One on One world Who’s afraid to talk? Zack Bodner, Chief Executive Officer, Palo Alto OFJCC and Moderator: Prof. Gil Troy, McGill University, Montreal, Canada founder of Zionism 3.0, with Nir Braudo, Deputy Director for 11:00AM - 11:30AM Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, Head of Yeshivat Har Bracha and Strategic Planning, BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social rabbi of Har Bracha community Mutual Responsibility Change Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur, Liberal Jewish Movement of France Israel and world Jewish communities at a time of 12:20PM - 12:40PM 12:30PM - 1:00PM crisis Moderator: Dr. David Barak-Gorodetsky, Ruderman Program Performance One on One for American Jewish Studies, Haifa University Great homeland Rabbi Elhanan Nir, Editor of Shabbat supplement, Makor Shira Ruderman, Executive Director, Ruderman Family Stand up with New immigrant comics, men and women, talk Rishon, with Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman, President Shalom Foundation about their experiences in the Holy Land Hartman Institute Rabbi Doron Peretz, Chief Executive, World Mizrachi Lital Shemesh, news presenter, Channel 20 TV 1:00PM Yehuda Setton, COO Jewish Agency
Performance 11:45AM - 12:20PM Singer Corinne Alal sings and recounts her experiences meeting with US Jewish communities, with Shira Sherez Zik – Founder Thursday Workshop June 11 and Director of the Gesher Leadership Institute Jewish Meditation: Spiritual exercise and mindfulness with Rabbi Daniel Silverstein 9:00AM 12:20PM - 12:35PM Greetings Haggai Segal, Editor-in-Chief, Makor Rishon Monday Tour: Little New York June 8 How did the first Jews arrive in Manhattan? 9:10AM - 10:00AM Moshe Samuels leads a virtual tour of the Jewish gangster and 9:00AM a visit to a legendary delicatessen on the Lower East Side THE HOME AND THE BOOK Greetings The future of Jewish education in wake of the Defense Minister and Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz coronavirus pandemic AFP Moderator: Batel Kolman, correspondent and columnist, Makor 9:10AM - 10:00AM Rishon Tova Birnbaum, Director of Jewish Content, Palo Alto OFJCC Antisemitism 3.0 Tal Shaked Cretella, Director of the UnitEd Diaspora initiative Antisemitism in the age of the New Media Dr. Zohar Raviv, International VP of Educational Strategy, Moderator: Orly Goldklang, Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Website Taglit-Birthright Israel Editor, Makor Rishon Dr. Elan Ezrahi, Jewish Peoplehood Studies Program, Haifa Emi Palmor, Oversight Board, Facebook and Instagram University Prof. Yuval Shany, Deputy President, Israel Democracy Institute 10:00AM - 10:30AM 10:00AM - 10:30AM One on One One on One Avital Indig, journalist, Makor Rishon, with MK Naftali Bennett, Boaz Bismuth, Editor-in-Chief, Israel Hayom, with Elan Carr, US former Minister of Defense and Minister of Diaspora Affairs government’s Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism 10:30AM - 11:15AM 10:30AM - 11:00AM The Next World Collision Course Will the coronavirus fundamentally change the Radical campus activity Jewish world? Moderator: Yair Kraus, correspondent, Makor Rishon Moderator: Racheli Malek-Buda, correspondent and columnist, Ofir Dayan, President of SSI – Students Supporting Israel at Makor Rishon Columbia University Tehila Friedman, Director of Jewish Peoplehood Affairs, Shir Attias, President of SSI – Students Supporting Israel at UCLA Shalom Hartman Institute Romi Ronen, SSI – Students Supporting Israel at UCLA Rabbi Ethan Tucker, President and Rosh Yeshiva, Hadar Institute 11:00AM - 11:30AM Rabbi Amichai Eliyahu, Chairman, Organization of Community Rabbis One on One Rabbi Shmuel Pappenheim, Rabbi and Torah Educator, Ariel Schnabel, commentator on US affairs and columnist, Dresden, Germany Makor Rishon, with Nadav Eyal, Foreign Affairs Editor, News 13 Jew_©John_Offenbach 11:15AM - 11:45AM 11:30AM - 12:00PM One on One One on One Yair Sheleg, journalist, Makor Rishon, with Prof. Gur Alroey, Dr. Shmuel Faust, Deputy Editor of Shabbat supplement, Makor Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Haifa University Rishon, with Rabbi Sergio Bergman, outgoing Argentinian Minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development and 11:45AM - 12:10PM President of the World Union for Progressive Judaism One on One 12:00PM - 12:30PM Zvika Klein, Diaspora correspondent, Makor Rishon, with Yaakov Haguel, Deputy and Acting Director, World Zionist One on One Organization Hodaya Karash-Hazony, Diplomatic Correspondent, Makor Rishon, with Gidi Mark, Director, Taglit-Birthright Israel 12:10PM - 12:40PM
12:30PM - 13:00PM Workshop Master Class Unique and surprising Jewish cooking Who Is a Jew: The photographic version 12:40PM - 1:00PM International photographer Shahar Azran with British photographer John Offenbach, creator of the book and World Tish exhibition JEW. Photographs by John Offenbach, documenting Kol Ha’olam Kulo – Communities sing before portraits of 120 Jews from around the world Shabbat