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CROWNE שבת פרשת ויצא PLAZA THANKSGIVING WEEKEND STAMFORD Dr. David Lieberman Thursday Afternoon 5:00 PM Concurrent Sessions I Pain Management: Understanding and Dealing with Distress – Others’ and Our Own Pushback! Managing Reactions to the Growth of our Kehillos Rabbi Paysach Krohn Rabbi Yitzchok Pindrus Rabbi Eliezer Feuer Rabbi Avi Schnall Agudah Live: Interviews, Recap and More from the Convention Center Leadership Lounge: Looking to the Future HOSTS Rabbi Baruch Ber Bender Rabbi Avi Schnall Yosef Knopf Rabbi Shlomo Soroka Charlie Harary 6:00 PM Concurrent Sessions II Friday Morning Attention Deficit New Order: Maintaining Our Ruchniyus Amid 9:45 AM Concurrent Sessions I Relentless Distraction The “Same-Old Same-Old” Syndrome: Recapturing Vibrancy Rabbi Mordechai Finkelman and Vitality in Our Yiddishkeit Rabbi Mordechai Becher Rabbi Ari Neuwirth Rabbi Ilan Meirov Rabbi Mordechai Becher Succesful Business Strategies Applied to Life The Billion Dollar Question: Why Our Tuition Costs Keep Going Up Charlie Harary Rabbi A.D. Motzen Naftali Horowitz Mr. Avrohom Weinstock An Ounce of Prevention: Identifying early “at risk” warning W OMEN signs Protecting Our Most Vital Assets: How Can We Keep Our Rabbi Shmuel Berkowitz Children Safe? Dr. Shlomo Zimmerman Debbie Fox MSG, LCSW Zehava Farbman MSW Thursday Night 11:00 AM Concurrent Sessions II 7:30 PM Keynote Session Everlasting Bond: The Challenges and Rewards of Shalom INTERNATIONAL BALLROOM Bayis Throughout Life Together We Will Dr. David Fox Rabbi Daniel Frank, LMFT Rabbi Yaakov Robinson Rabbi Elya Brudny More Than Welcome: Making the community’s marginalized Dayan Yonason Abraham truly comfortable A UDIO-VISUAL PRESENTATION Together We Will Rabbi Avi Hoffman Rabbi Akiva Tendler 10:30 PM Concurrent Sessions Q&A: "I'm Asking for a Friend..." Rabbi Eliezer Feuer

Rabbi Elya Brudny WOMEN Can’t We All Get Along? Nurturing Relationships with Difficult M ODERATOR Yisroel Besser People Shidduch Advice from the Pros Dr. David Lieberman Dr. Aviva Biberfeld Rabbi Shlomo Lewenstein Rabbi Avi Neuberger 1 THE AGUDAH CONVENTIONON

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Erev Shabbos / Kabbolas Shabbos Game, Set, Match! Preparing Our Children for the Shidduchim Parsha Rabbi Zechariah Wallerstein 4:20 PM Mincha and Kabbolas Shabbos Rabbi Elya Brudny Rabbi Aryeh Zev Ginsberg Q and A with Rav Shmuel 4:20 PM Mincha and Kabbolas Shabbos - For Women Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky A DDRESS Mrs Slovie Jungreis Wolff 11:30 AM Mini-Keynote Sessions Friday Night The Power of One: Living Lives That Make a Difference 8:15 PM Concurrent Sessions Rabbi Yaakov Bender Five Hard Questions Young People Ask …And How Best to Rabbi Aryeh Zev Ginsberg Address Them Rabbi Moshe Weinberger Rabbi Yaakov Bender Rabbi Henoch Plotnik Rabbi Henoch Plotnik Rabbi Chaim Zvi Senter Shabbos Afternoon Abuse Kills: Crafting a Communal Response to a Dangerous Scourge 2:45 PM Concurrent Sessions Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel Behind Closed Doors: Exploring Difficult Family Issues Rabbi Rabbi Mordechai Becher More Than Cholent and Menucha: Helping Our Children – and Rabbi Avrohom Weinreb Ourselves – Appreciate Shabbos. Together We Can: Creating Partnerships Between Schools and Homes Rabbi Moshe Weinberger Rabbi Moshe Weinberger Rabbi Zechariah Wallerstein Chaim Neuhoff PhD W OMEN W OMEN Q & A It Starts With Me: Strengthening Ourselves to Strengthen Others Rebbetzin Leah Feldman Mrs Slovie Jungreis Wolff Mrs. Slovie Jungreis Wolff Mrs. Leba Schwebel Rebbetzin Yael Kaisman 4:20 PM Sholosh Seudos 9:30 PM Tish/Sheves Achim MEN - ENGLISH Rabbi Ephraim Wachsman Rabbi Aharon Feldman Dayan Yonason Abraham Dayan Yonason Abraham

10:00 PM Leil Shabbos Inspiration MEN - YIDDISH Rabbi Yosef Frankel Rabbi Mordechai Becher M EN - LEFKOWITZ LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE Rabbi Henoch Plotnick Shabbos Morning Rabbi Chaim Zvi Senter 8:00 AM Shacharis - Sefard W OMEN I NTRODUCTION A DDRESS Mr. Shlome Werdiger Rebbetzin Yael Kaisman D RASHA Rabbi 10:00 AM Concurrent Sessions Parshah Shiur Rabbi Shlomo Cynamon 2 THE AGUDAH CONVENTIONON

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Motzoei Shabbos Sunday Morning 7:15 PM Concurrent Sessions 10:15 AM Yarchei Kallah Every Jew’s Heritage: Rabbi Dovid Shoen Ensuring Torah-Study Opportunities for All 10:15 AM Concurrent Sessions Rabbi Chaim Zvi Senter #TWW: How working Together has and will make a difference Rabbi Shlomo Cynamon Rabbi Moshe Matz Rabbi Yitzchok Wagner Rabbi Avi Schnall Alt-Right, Alt-Left, CTRL ALT DLT impact on the Jewish Rabbi Abba Cohen Community: How Scared Should We Be? Rabbi Yitz Frank Rabbi Abba Cohen Rabbi Shlomo Soroka Rabbi Avi Shafran Rabbi Ariel Sadwin C HAIRMAN C HAIRMAN Rabbi Yeruchim Silber Rabbi A.D. Motzen Jewish Family Dynamics: From the Kotel to Kiddushin: The Mounting Battle for Israel’s Striving for the Ideal, Dealing with the Real Soul Rabbi Zechariah Wallerstein Rabbi Yitzchok Pindrus Rabbi Yaakov Robinson Dr. Irving Lebovics Agudah Live: Interviews, Middle Class Crunch: raising the bar, applying the brakes - Recap and More from the Convention Center round table open discussion HOSTS Shia Markowitz Rabbi Avi Schnall Rabbi Baruch Ber Bender Rabbi Shlomo Soroka 11:30 AM Closing Keynote Session 8:30 PM Keynote Session INTERNATIONAL BALLROOM CENTRAL INTERNATIONAL BALLROOM The Plague of Addictions: Confronting an Alarming Contemporary Challenge Rabbi Dr. Dovid Fox Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel Rabbi Zechariah Wallerstein Rabbi Ephraim Wachsman Rabbi Yosef Viener Mr. Shia Markowitz A UDIO-VISUAL PRESENTATION Yarchei Kallah C ONVENTION CHAIRMAN Rivie Schwebel THURSDAY 10:15 PM 11:00 PM Post Keynote Rabbi Moshe Weinberger Agudah Live: Interviews, Recap and More from the Convention Center FRIDAY 9:45 AM

HOSTS Dayan Yonason Abraham

Rabbi Avi Schnall MOTZOEI SHABBOS 7:30 PM Rabbi Shlomo Soroka Rabbi Shlomo Gottesman

SUNDAY MORNING Rabbi Dovid Shoen

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