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Edah 05 Brochure Orthodox Judaism WHAT IT OFFERS YOU. WHAT IT OFFERS THE WORLD. February 20, 2005 11 Adar 1 5765 Skirball Center For Adult Jewish Learning at Temple Emanu-El 10 East 66th Street New York, NY 10021 General Information General Information Please use the stairs instead of elevators whenever possible so we can ensure that the Conference Badges elevators will be available for those who need them. You received a badge when you registered 45 West 36th St. 10th floor • New York,NY 10018 upon arrival. Please wear this badge at all times Tel.212-244-7501 while inside the Skirball Center. Due to fire safety codes, it is not permitted to sit on the floor in any part of the building or http://www.edah.org Where Things Are: stand in the back of classrooms during All session rooms are listed in the Conference sessions. Program on page 2, and all rooms as well as Food is NOT permitted in Lowenstein Hall. locations of restrooms, exits, lunch areas, etc. are noted in the maps that can be found on pages 14-16.The self-service coatroom can be Please help keep the Skirball Center clean by found in Blumenthal Hall in the basement level putting all garbage in trash receptacles which of the building. are available throughout the building. Need Assistance? Mincha/Maariv pamphlets can be found in your You will find helpful Edah volunteers wearing registration packet. blue Edah T-Shirts throughout the building. If you need assistance of any kind our volunteers are here to help you. Murray J. Laulicht Rachel Neumark Herlands Dr. Susan Handelman Chairman of the Board David Jacobowitz Rabbi Naphtali Harcsztark Snack food Howard Jonas Dr. Samuel C. Heilman Morton Landowne Dr. Norma Baumel Joseph Dr.William Helmreich provided by Mendy's, is available for sale in President Blumenthal Hall. Michele Greenberg Richard Joel Rabbi Saul J. Berman Coffee and Tea Kobrin Rabbi Howard S. Joseph Director Rabbi Simcha Krauss Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky Complimentary Coffee and Tea will be available Herbert Kronish Dr. Steven T. Katz throughout the day in several locations around EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Charles Kushner Rabbi Dr. Eugene Korn the building. Mark Charendorf Dr. Gila Leiter Rabbi Nathan Laufer Lunch: Sender Cohen Nathan J. Lindenbaum Nancy Lerea Evi Musher Shechter Rabbi Dr. B. Barry Levy There will be two different time slots during Shelley Cohen Shimon Neustein Rabbi Joshua Lookstein Orthodox Judaism the day for lunch. If your last name begins with David Eisner letters A thru M, we'd like to ask that you eat Rella Feldman Bethia Straus Quintas Rabbi Asher Lopatin lunch during the first session, which runs from Michael G. Jesselson Joseph R. Rackman Bat Sheva Marcus 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM. If your last name begins Suri Kasirer Adinah Raskas Dr. Rochelle L. Millen with letters N thru Z, please eat lunch during Lawrence A. Kobrin Judy Rosenblatt Rabbi Philip B. Miller the second session, which runs from Rabbi Haskel Lookstein Dr. Noam Shudofsky Rabbi Adam Mintz 1PM - 2:15 PM. You have two options for Matthew Maryles Maurice Spanbock Rabbi Emanuel Rackman where to pick up and eat your lunch: You may Linda Sterling Michael Stein Passi Rosen-Bayewitz pick up and eat your lunch in the main Lunch Linda Levi Tarlow Daniel Straus Rabbi Marc Schneier Room (Wise Hall) in the basement area of the Moshael J. Straus Rabbi Chaim Siedler-Feller building, or you may elect to eat your lunch BOARD OF DIRECTORS Rabbi Charles Sheer while attending any of the sessions that are ADVISORY COUNCIL Barry Shrage scheduled during your assigned lunch slot. If Seymour Adler Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz you wish to eat lunch while attending a Jack Bendheim Rabbi Haskel Lookstein Rabbi Ephraim Sturm session, you may pick up your lunch in any of Dr. Giti Bendheim – Chair Dr. Jacob Ukeles rooms 426, 526, or 626. Meat and non-Meat Daniel Besdin Dr. Susan Aranoff Rabbi Abner Weiss box lunches provided by Mendy's will be Michael Feldstein Dr. Steven Bayme available in all locations. Allan Galper Roselyn Bell Phyllis Getzler Rabbi Jack Bieler Books, Tapes of Conference Sessions, and Dr. Rivka Ausubel Danzig Exhibitor Tables Alan Goldberg Dr. Robert Goldberg Margy Ruth Davis Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Donald Feldstein The J. Levine bookstore, featuring many books Greenberg Arna Poupko Fisher that have been written by speakers at our con- Blu Greenberg Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman ference, can be found in the basement level. Jan Groveman Rabbi Shmuel Goldin Here you will also be able to purchase tapes Rabbi Stuart Grant of all conference sessions from the In-Phase Dr. Phyllis Hammer booth and visit informational tables of a num- ber of Jewish organizations and companies. Welcome to Edah’s Fourth Biennial International Conference. The Edah conference provides an opportunity for the open discussion of ideological, Halachic, and public policy issues concerning which there is room for legitimate disagreement within the Orthodox community.We believe that the capacity to discuss these matters intelligently and respectfully, in a manner fully rooted in Torah,promotes growth of true faith in Hashem and commitment to the life of Mitzvot. he theme of this conference manner intended to engage the overwhelming amount of devoted is,“The Challenges.The participants in open discussion of work done by the Edah Staff – Opportunities.T Diversity, Change, the issues. Out of that interaction Rabbi Bob Carroll, Rachel Craig, Meaning, Justice.” We will examine will emerge greater clarity, Marisa Yammer and Esther issues such as: the role of Daas greater wisdom and the Berman.The lay effort, led by Torah,the parameters of making opportunity to shape practices Ruth Levi, was an outstanding Halachic decisions for one's self, and policies which will achieve example of professionalism and of . the right to refuse government the greater benefit of the entire cooperative spirit. Our ORLD W orders, the use of pre-nuptial Jewish People. consultant, Evi Musher Shechter, agreements to solve the Agunah did exceptional planning for us, THE problem, confronting substance We are indebted to the Rabbinic, both here in the US and in Israel. Professional and Lay leadership of OFFERS abuse in our schools, the IT T relationship between Torah and Temple Emanu-El for the We hope that as a result of your WHA Democracy, attitudes towards the extraordinary kindness and participation, your own religious . OU non-Orthodox, and understanding courtesy they extended to us in and intellectual life will be deeply Y Kevod Ha'beriyot and Kevod hosting the Edah Conference at enriched and that you will be able Ha'tzibbur.These are just a few of the Skirball Center for Adult to make a greater impact on the OFFERS IT the eighty different topics which Jewish Learning of Temple Emanu- direction of your community.We T will be addressed at the El, as a service to the Jewish hope that we will have together WHA Conference. community. May this spirit of strengthened our courage to be inter-denominational cooperation modern and Orthodox. The presenters will include serve as a model, for helping to Rabbi Saul J. Berman, Director Rabbanim, scholars and lay heal the divisiveness which is so Murray Laulicht, Chair of the Board leaders from Israel and across destructive to our common North America who have studied, Jewish vision and destiny. Morton Landowne, President thought, taught and published on these matters.Their insights and This conference could not have wisdom will be presented in a been successful without the Edah Staff List Rabbi Saul J. Berman Evi Musher Shechter Advertising and Promotions by Director Conference Consultant Jesse Cogan Associates Rabbi Bob Carroll Rachel Craig Creative Services | Program Director Conference Coordinator Sylvia Finzi Design Xenla www.sylviafinzi.com Rabbi Uri Gordon Marisa Yammer Director, Jewish Teacher Corps Regional Conferences Coordinator Ruth Levi Esther Berman Conference Chair Conference Assistant •1 • Conference Program Conference Program 9:00 – 9:50 AM TEXT STUDY 11:30 – 12:45 PM SESSION I Room 527 (11:30 – 12:45 PM Lunch #1 in Wise Shifts in the Modern Orthodox/Charedi Divide Room 433 Hall or Session Rooms) Rabbi Francis Nataf Isaac Encounters Ishmael: A Jewish Dr. Steve Bayme Perspective on Islam Room 433 Room 427 Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller Madonna and Kabbalah: What Can We Women in Community Leadership Roles Room 425 Learn From the Headlines? Rabbi Dr.Aryeh Frimer Rabbi Dr.Alan Brill "The Gates of Weeping are Not Closed": Room 528 Berachot 5b Room 425 Are Day Schools Preparing Our Children for Dr. Gerald Cromer Confronting Intermarriage in Communities the Real World? Room 423 and Families Rabbi Charles Sheer Brother or Other: Orthodox Attitudes Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman Rabbi Jeffrey Kobrin Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld Towards Non-Observant Jews Room 524 Dr.Adam Ferziger Room 623 Toward a Halachic Theory of Truth Telling in Room 428 Has the Mix of Religion and Politics Speech and Sexuality Corrupted the Vision of Religious Zionism? Rabbi Dr.Yitz Greenberg Benefiting From Comparative Study of Rabbi Dr. Daniel Tropper Religious Ritual: T’vilah and Baptism Moshe Tur-Paz Room 633 Marcie Lenk The Ethics of Prioritizing Rescue: Jewish Room 428 Room 424 Leadership During the Holocaust Military Ethics in Fighting Terror Dr. Efraim Zuroff Re-reading Esav in the Talmud: Religious Dr.Asa Kasher Dialogue with the Non-Jewish World Room 625 Rabbi Francis Nataf Room 424 Of Wigs and Restaurants: Re-Encountering Seeing the Spiritual in Material Objects Room 533 Avoda Zara in the 21st Century Tobi Kahn Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey Woolf Independent-Minded Students: Talmudic Mierle Ukeles Models for the Seder Night Room 423 Orthodox Judaism Ilana Fodiman Silverman Room 624 Modern Orthodoxy – The 4th Century The Perception of Antagonism: Media Room 525 Version Coverage of the Orthodox Community Rabbi Dr.Yaakov Elman The Role and Power of Kavannah and Gary Rosenblatt Lishmah in Talmudic Texts Ami Eden Room 628 Rabbi Jay Miller Rabbinic Authority vs.
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