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ROUTES NOVEMBER 5 GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITYNOVEMBER 5 Feed Your Intellect • Nourish Your Spirit Expand Your Journey THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON presents ROUTES NOVEMBER 5 GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITYNOVEMBER 5 Feed Your Intellect • Nourish Your Spirit Expand Your Journey IN PARTNERSHIP WITH GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY HILLEL TABLE OF CONTENTS Map ........................................................................................2-3 Session Schedule ..................................................................4-5 Sessions .............................................................................. 6-18 Continued Learning Opportunities ....................................... 21 Lunch will be available for pick-up in Dewberry Hall following Session 2. Please see map on page 2 for pick-up location. DEAR FELLOW TRAVELER ON YOUR JEWISH JOURNEY, “There is a Fountain of Youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” — Sophia Loren The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington is proud to welcome you to ROUTES: A Day of Jewish Learning and to the lovely campus home of George Mason University Hillel. We hope that the sessions in which you participate will expand your knowledge, and the social experience will further your pride in our wonderful community. Judaism has always valued life-long learning, and we continue to broadly define Torah as instruction—going from sacred texts, through the art of commentary, past generations of study in the arts and sciences that has enlightened, ennobled and even entertained humanity. We hope that today’s exploration of Jewish civilization will make you curious and stimulate your continued study. We also hope that these offerings, a mere sampling of topics and speakers available to us in the information age, will break the stereotype of how Judaism and Jewish learning are sometimes viewed. The thoughts, ideas and creativity produced by Jewish life and learning have enriched society over the millennia. The Greater Washington Jewish community, one of the most affluent, well-educated and sophisticated in all of the Diaspora, is positioned to continue that tradition. The engine of that tradition is Judaism’s encouragement to ask questions, be curious, engage in debate and apply knowledge to practical life for the betterment of society. Brian Tracy, an internationally recognized motivational speaker specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations, points out that, “Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.” We hope that ROUTES is another gateway for acquiring that knowledge, and that you all become the “movers and shakers in our society.” Sincerely, Meryl Rosenberg Chair, ROUTES: A Day of Jewish Learning Gil Preuss Executive Vice President & CEO, The Jewish Federation MAP Ground Floor Gold Dewberry Hall G19 G26 Lunch Pick-Up Registration & Info Table Cinema G30 The Bistro G38 Dance Studio G34-35 ENTRANCE 2 Third Floor George’s 325 A 321 326 B 327 C 334 E 336 F 337 G 3 ROUTES Entry2017 Level SESSION / Level 1SCHEDULE CINEMA DANCE STUDIO CLASSROOM A CLASSROOM B CLASSROOM PRE-SESSION ORIENTATION 9:00–9:30 FEATURED SPEAKER Music, Movement and Behind the Technicolor Hungry Values into Delicious Soviet Jewry & the Je Action: The Making of a SESSION 1 InterfaithFamily/DC presents: Midrash Dreamcoat: Hints of Abuse American Experience Sustainable (Kosher) 9:30–10:45 in the Joseph Story Rebranding Judaism PRESENTER: Kitchen PRESENTER: Matisyahu Tonti PRESENTER: Aaron Bregman PRESENTER: Rabbi Gordon Fuller PRESENTER: Archie Gottesman Evonne Marzouk EXCLUSIVE FEATURED SPEAKER BBYO Session Elation, Despair and Expanding Your Comfort Rituals: Our Actions Federation’s Imagine Israel Hope—The Emotional Zone for Family Speak Loudest Changemakers Series presents: Impact of the Six-Day War SESSION 2 PRESENTER: PRESENTER: 11:00–12:15 The Battle for Israeli PRESENTER: JoHanna Potts Dan Finkel Judaism and Why American Jennifer Raskas Jews Should Care About It PRESENTER: Rabbi Esteban Gottfried LUNCH BBYO 12:15–1:00 FEATURED SPEAKER My First Day of School: Love and Responsibility– The New Face(s) of SESSION 3 InterfaithFamily/DC presents: Making a Sweet First To Neighbor, Immigrant, American Jewish Life 1:00–2:15 Impression Self, Other and World Rebranding Judaism PRESENTER: PRESENTER: PRESENTER: Rabbi Sid Schwarz PRESENTER: Rabbi David Kalender Rabbi Fred Archie Gottesman Scherlinder Dobb FEATURED SPEAKER Jews on the Move: Jewish Gedalya (423 BCE), and No, Thank YOU: An Federation’s Imagine Israel Travel in the Modern World Rabin (1995): Trauma and Exploration of Gratit Changemakers Series presents: Turnaround in Society in Jewish Prayer SESSION 4 PRESENTER: 2:30–3:45 The Battle for Israeli Lauren Strauss PRESENTERS: PRESENTER: Judaism and Why American Tzachi Levy and Federation’s Maharat Dasi Fruchte Jews Should Care About It Congregational Shlichim PRESENTER: Rabbi Esteban Gottfried 4 Our Our Our Our Spirit Home Homeland Future Life OOM C CLASSROOM E CLASSROOM F CLASSROOM G BISTRO GEORGE’S NOVA Kallah EXCLUSIVE e Jewish Creating a Jewish Museum Using Media to Open Jewish Women’s ence in Washington Difficult Conversations Renaissance Project About Israel Reunion PRESENTERS: Kara Blond and PRESENTER: Samantha Abramson Steve Kerbel ions Emma is my Home Girl: Addiction and Jewish FEATURED SPEAKER How a Jewish Poet Defined Spirituality Jewish Women’s Renaissance Refugee Resettlement in PRESENTER: Project and Federation’s the United States Rabbi Paul Steinberg Women’s Philanthropy present: PRESENTER: Women Making an Impact Kerry Brodie PRESENTER: Alina Gerlovin Spaulding NOVA Kallah JWRP ) of Not Your Mother’s Mikvah: Developing a New Narrative Life Making an Ancient Ritual for Our Relationship Relevant and Resonant with Israel PRESENTER: PRESENTER: Ariele Mortkowitz Rabbi Stephanie Bernstein n What Will the Jewish World Don’t Just Survive—Thrive! FEATURED SPEAKER atitude Look Like in 2050? Juggling & Coping Skills for Jewish Women’s Renaissance A Moment Symposium Real Life Project and Federation’s Women’s Philanthropy present: PRESENTERS: PRESENTER: hter Laurence Wolff and Nira Berry Women Making an Impact George Johnson PRESENTER: Alina Gerlovin Spaulding 5 SESSIONS listed in alphabetical order by presenter Our Our Our Our Key: Spirit Home Homeland Future Life Developing a New Narrative for For example: what is the role of ‘peoplehood’ in Our Relationship with Israel modern Jewish identity? What is the meaning and purpose of Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel to Presenter: Rabbi Stephanie Bernstein modern Jewish life? What are the requirements of What does Israel mean to me, to the Jewish people fighting a ‘moral’ war, and how can Israel use its and to the world? power in a way that is consistent with the highest This is an opportune time to explore these standards of Jewish morality and values? How does questions—June marked the 50th anniversary of the Israel balance its legitimate right to self-defense with 1967 war; November marks the 100th anniversary the rights of others? Can a Jewish state be of the Balfour Declaration; in May, Israel will mark reconciled with the values of Jewish pluralism and its 70th birthday. freedom?” It is a time to celebrate the past and look to the Join Rabbi Stephanie Bernstein in the study and future. It is a time to honor those who made Herzl’s discussion of how we can help shape this new dream a reality. It is a time to commend Israel’s narrative. myriad accomplishments in technology, agriculture Rabbi Stephanie Bernstein: Rabbi Stephanie and medicine. It is a time to reflect on what we hope Bernstein grew up in Duluth, MN. She received a Israel can be. Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, an Studies show that—for many Jews in North M.A. in Guidance and Counseling from Eastern Michigan America—Israel is not as important as it used to be. University and an M.S.W. from Catholic University. She Fifty years after 1967, an occupation that was was a clinical social worker in the DC area for over 20 years. Rabbi Bernstein was president of Temple Sinai in supposed to be temporary seems permanent. In the Washington, DC. She was student rabbi at Northern West Bank, 2.7 million Palestinians live under Israeli Virginia Hebrew Congregation in Reston, VA. Rabbi military law, without rights of citizenship; how do we Bernstein received her rabbinic ordination from Hebrew reconcile this with democratic ideals and Jewish Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 2009. morality? Rabbi Bernstein is currently a rabbi at Temple Rodef Donniel Hartman, president of Israel’s Shalom Shalom in Falls Church. She is also the DC area Hartman Institute, believes that we need a new coordinator and teacher for the Union for Reform framework for our relationship with Israel: Judaism’s Introduction to Judaism classes. Rabbi Bernstein has been a chaplain with the Jewish Social “The Jewish community is not in need of an Israel Service Agency, serving patients in nursing homes and advocacy campaign of facts and figures alone, but assisted living facilities. She was the Study Guide writer also of a new Jewish narrative based on Jewish ideas for “The Torah: A Women’s Commentary.” Rabbi and values for engaging Israel in a way that will help Bernstein has served on the boards of the Jewish integrate Israel into a modern Jewish identity. Jews Community Relations Council, Jews United for Justice today need to be able to address crucial questions and Equality Maryland. for which they currently do not know the answer. 6 Don’t Just Survive—Thrive! and national Jewish heritage, the museum will boast several program spaces, temporary exhibition space Juggling & Coping Skills for Real Life and a family gallery. Join Executive Director Kara Presenter: Nira Berry Blond and Program Manager Samantha Abramson Life can feel overwhelming during times of for a preview of the project and a discussion about transition, or even on an everyday basis.
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