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Convention Program The 48th Annual Convention of The Rabbinical Council of America April 29th - May 1st 2007 Museum of Jewish Heritage Battery Place, New York, NY Concluding with Parallel Yemei Iyyun at The Wilf Campus, Yeshiva University The Orthodox Union The Center for Jewish History Rabbi Daniel Cohen Chairman Convention Program Tearoom: Sunday/Monday 2.00pm – 5.00pm in the Events Hall Time Sunday Events Sunday 1-3pm RCA Executive Committee Meeting Sunday 2pm Convention Registration Sunday 3pm Opening Keynote Plenary Welcoming Remarks Rabbi Daniel Cohen, Convention Committee Chairman The Rabbi’s Pivotal Leadership Role in Energizing the Future of American Jewish Life Richard Joel, Yeshiva University Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, Orthodox Union Edmond J. Safra Hall Sunday 4 PM Talmud Torah Track Leadership Track Networking Track Part 1 Prophetic Leadership: Guided Workshop: Forget the Lone Ranger: Yirmiyahu as a Man of Emet in a Finding Your Leadership Style Best Networking Practices Within World of Sheker and Maximizing your Personal and Beyond the Synagogue. Rabbi Hayyim Angel, Power within your Shul Chairman: Rabbi David Gottlieb, Cong. Shearith Israel, NY Dr. David Schnall, Shomrei Emunah, Baltimore MD Azrieli Graduate School of Rabbi Reuven Spolter, Jewish Education and Young Israel of Oak Park Administration Rabbi Kalman Topp, YI of Woodmere Shomron Yehudah Chevron Sunday 5 PM Talmud Torah Track Leadership Track Networking Track Part 2 Communication or An IDF Officer’s Leadership Best Networking Practices Excommunication?: An Analysis Insights as Related to the Rabbi Eli Weinstock, of Two Rabbinic Policies Contemporary Rabbinate Cong. Kehilath Jeshurun, NY. Prof. Yaakov Elman, Rabbi Binny Friedman, Rabbi Ari Perl, Congregation Bernard Revel Graduate School Isralight Shaare Tefilla, Dallas TX Rabbi Chaim Marder, Hebrew Institute, White Plains, NY Shomron Yehudah Chevron Sunday 6 PM Mincha Edmond J. Safra Hall Sunday 6:15 PM Cocktails and Networking overlooking New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty Events Hall and Lobby Sunday 6:45 PM Dinner Chairman: Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck NJ Outgoing Presidential Address Rabbi Dale Polakoff Welcoming New Members Events Hall Sunday 8 PM Documentary Video: "Lonely Man of Faith" Chairman: Rabbi Ira Ebbin, Stamford, CT Edmond J. Safra Hall Sunday 9:45 PM Ma’ariv Edmond J. Safra Hall Sunday 10 PM Conclusion of Sunday Program Monday Events Monday 8 AM Shachrit at Stern College for Women (Lexington and 35th Street) Breakfast in cafeteria (separate purchase) Monday 10 AM Plenary Session: Why and How Rabbis Can and Should Exercise Incisive Halachic and Political Leadership at this Critical Time of Societal and Communal Change Chairman: Rabbi Edward Davis, Young Israel of Hollywood-Ft. Lauderdale, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Rabbi Hershel Schachter, RIETS Kollel Elyon Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, Cong. Kehilath Jeshurun, NY Edmond J. Safra Hall Health Care Chaplains: Helping a Community in Crisis – Providing Spiritual Trauma Counseling for Major Impact Losses Rabbi Dr. Bennett Rackman, Peninsula Hospital Center, Queens NY Rabbi Dr. Joseph Ozarowski, Jewish Healing Network of Chicago Chevron Monday 11 AM Talmud Torah Track Leadership Track Networking Track The Vaad Halacha presents Selected Learning from the Experts: Tried and Double Workshop: “Can’t Research, Sources, and Perspectives Tested Methods for Maximizing our We all Get Along?” Dealing on the Issue of Brain Death and Post Political Clout and Leadership in with Silos, Fiefdoms and Mortem Organ Donation Governmental Affairs Turf Wars in our Rabbi Asher Bush, Rabbi Kenneth Hain, Beth Shalom Synagogues, Communities, Ahavath Israel of Wesley Hills, Congregation, Lawrence NY and Organizations Part 1 Chair, RCA Vaad Halacha Nathan Diament, Institute for Public Mark Zalkin, Zalkin Affairs of OU, Washington, D.C. Training Chevron Yehudah Shomron Monday 12 PM Talmud Torah Track Leadership Track Networking Track Gerus Policies and Standards shiur Effective Rabbinic Leadership in the Workshop Continued on Ger Katan and its Halachic Policy realm of Israel Affairs and Religious Part 2 Implications Zionism: Politics, Ideology, Mark Zalkin, Zalkin Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz, Beth Community, and Halacha Training Din of America Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Cong. Bnai Rabbi Yonah Reiss, Beth Din of Yeshurun America Rabbi David Stav, Rabbanei Tzohar Chevron Yehudah Shomron Health Care Chaplains: When the End Nears – Vidui Issues with Comatose and the Basic Stroke Patients Rabbi David Glicksman, Central New Jersey Jewish Home for the Aged Edmond J. Safra Hall Monday 1 PM Round Robin Lunch: Networking in Practice and for Real Chairman: Rabbi Reuven Spolter, Young Israel of Oak Park, Oak Park, MI Recognition of Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz marking 25 years as editor of Hadarom Rabbi Shaya Kilimnick, Congregation Beth Sholom, Rochester, NY Events Hall Monday 2:30 A Tribute to Departed Chaverim PM Rabbi Moshe Rakowitz, Sephardic Jewish Center of Canarsie, Brooklyn, NY Rabbi Hanan Balk, Congregation Agudas Israel, Cincinnati, OH Edmond J. Safra Hall Monday 3 PM Talmud Torah Track Leadership Track Networking Track Ask the Posek Becoming a More Effective and Current Israeli Halachic and Rabbi Mordechai Willig, RIETS Successful Leader: Real-World Tanach Literature, Journals Lessons That You Can Use From a and Developments Wall Street Executive Rabbi David Stav, Shoham Steven Bodurtha , Israel Senior Vice-President, Merrill Lynch Rabbanei Tzohar Chevron Yehudah Shomron Monday 4 PM Talmud Torah Track Leadership Track Networking Track Bein Pesach La'Atzeret: Yesh Chochmah ba-Goyim: Me'Ever la-Yam: Perspectives on Sefiras Ha-Omer: Mega-churches and the Purpose Driven Creating Partnerships and A model methodological Shiur Synagogue: Methods and Meaning for Synergies with Israeli Rabbi Yonasan Sacks, RIETS your Shul; Real Tools to Benefit your Kehillot and Tzohar Community and Yourself Rabbanim Rabbi Daniel Cohen, Cong. Agudath Rabbi David Stav, Shoham Sholom, Stamford, CT Israel, Rabbanei Tzohar Rabbi Shalom Baum, Keter Torah, Teaneck NJ Chevron Yehudah Shomron Military Chaplains Workshop: Q&A with Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz, Beth Din of America Auditorium Monday 5 PM Mincha Edmond J. Safra Hall Monday 5:15 PM Resolutions and Elections of Officers and Executive Committee members Chairman: Rabbi Barry Freundel, Kesher Israel synagogue, Washington, DC. Chairman, RCA Resolutions Committee Edmond J. Safra Hall Monday 6 PM Dinner Chairman: Rabbi Michael Whitman, Adath IsraelPoale Zedek, Montreal, Que. Remarks by Incoming RCA President Presentation of the Hoenig Award to Rabbi Mitch Ackerson Events Hall Monday 8 PM Plenum: Seeing Redemption in an Unredeemed World: At a Time of Profound Jewish, Zionist, and Spiritual Transformation and Crisis, Highlighting Models of Rabbinic and Communal Leadership, Partnership, Inspiration, and Renewal Chairman: Rabbi Joel Finkelstein, Congregation Anshei Sfard – Beth El Emeth, Memphis, TN Rabbi Basil Herring, Executive Vice President, Rabbinical Council of America Rabbi David Stav, Shoham Israel, Rabbanei Tzohar Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter, Center for the Jewish Future, Yeshiva University Edmond J. Safra Hall Monday 9.45 Ma’ariv PM Edmond J. Safra Hall Monday 10 PM Conclusion of Monday program Tuesday Events: Three Parallel All-Day Yemei Iyyun Tuesday 8 AM Shachrit at Stern College for Women (Lexington and 35th Street) Breakfast in cafeteria (separate purchase) Tuesday Program 1: Program 2: Program 3: All Day Academic Scholarship: Does It Yom Iyun in Hilchot Nidah Current Issues Confronting Programs Have a Place in our Shuls? the Local Vaad HaKashruth Coordinator: Coordinator: Rabbi Adam Mintz Rabbi Joel Finkelstein Coordinators: Rabbi Kenneth Auman The Center for Jewish History Yeshiva University Rabbi Yosef Grossman 15 W16th NYC Wilf Campus, NYC The Orthodox Union 11 Broadway, NYC 9:15 AM until 4:30 PM 9:30 AM till 3:30pm 10 AM until 4 PM Session A: 9:15 AM Session A: Session A: 10: AM Is the Study of Jewish History Hilchos Mikvaos Current Issues Facing the Kosher? Rabbi Hershel Schachter, Local Vaad HaKashruth Rabbi Gil Perl, Yeshiva University RIETS Kollel Elyon Rabbi Yaakov Luban, Kashruth Division, Orthodox Union Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld, Kashruth Division, Orthodox Union Session B: 10:45 AM Session B: Session B: 10:50 AM The Rabbinic Library of the Chavruta and Marei Mekomot Foodservice Kashering – A Future: A Guide to Navigating the for Maros and Niddah Demonstration Internet and Obscure Rabbinic Rabbi Moshe Perlmutter, Bibliographies” Kashruth Division, Orthodox Menachem Butler Union Lunch 12:00 PM Lunch Session C: 11:45 AM Viewing of the exhibitions at the “Dealing with Infertility” Protecting the Chain of Center for Jewish History and YU Dr. David Pelcovitz, Azrieli Kosher Meat Supply Museum Graduate School of Jewish Rabbi Moshe Elefant, Kashruth Education and Administration Division, Orthodox Union CJF Senior Staff Members Session C: 1:00 PM Session C: Lunch 12:30 PM Academic Scholarship: Shiur on Marot With OU Rabbinic Implications for the Religious Study Rabbi Yaakov Neuberger, RIETS Coordinators as well as “Ask of Tanakh and Parshanut the Rabbi” Panel Prof. Naomi Grunhaus, Yeshiva University Session C: 2:30 PM Session D: Session D: 1:15 PM Jewish History vs. Collective Common Issues in Hilchot Bishul Akum – Shiur Memory: Historians in the Niddah Halacha Synagogue. Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky, RIETS Rabbi Menachem Genack, Prof. Elisheva Carlebach, Queens Kashruth Division, Orthodox College Union Session D: (cont. of Session
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