6:00 AM
6:00 AM
- The Walking/Running Rabbis Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Hotel Lobby
- 6:00 AM - 7:00 AM | 1 hour
- Workshop
7:00 AM
7:00 AM
- Breakfast Hosted by ARZA, ARZENU, and Partners Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Pavillion/Caprice
- 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM | 1 hour
- Updates from Gilad Kariv and Josh Weinberg Co-Sponsored by: ARZA:Association of Reform Zionists of...
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
- Shacharit: Musical Service Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Rookwood
- 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Worship
- Shacharit: Mindfulness/Meditation Service Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Rosewood
- 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Start your day with a mindfulness practice centered around Psalm 82. Be prepared for sound and silence, reading and writing. The psalm will serv...
- Worship
- Registration Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Pavillion Foyer
- 8:00 AM - 6:30 PM | 10 hours 30 minutes
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Wising Up: Advancing the Work of the Task Force on the Experience of Women in the Rabbinate Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Hall of Mirrors
- 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 2 hours
- Starting with a creative presentation based on stories shared by colleagues, the Task Force will lead an exploration of the experience of women in ...
- General Session
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Hafsakah Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Pavillion/3rd & 4th Floor Foyers
- 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | 15 minutes
- Break
11:15 AM
11:15 AM
- Board Buses to HUC-JIR. The CCAR thanks The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati for sponsoring today’s programming at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati campus. Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - TBD
- 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM | 15 minutes
- The CCAR thanks The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati for sponsoring today’s programming at Hebrew U...
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Lunch at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) HUC-JIR - TBD
- 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 2 hours
- Including:Remarks by President, Andrew RehfeldClass roll callConvention 2019 CCAR Group Photo
- Meal
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- The Beauty and The East: Grappling with Israel in Sermons HUC-JIR - Herrman Learning Center: Classroom 3
- 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Workshop
- Jewish Renaissance: Renewing Jewish Life in an Age of Uncertainty HUC-JIR - AJA: Seminar Room (Split)
- 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- In this session we will consider two essays written by Martin Buber at two significant moments in his career, before and after the Shoah, and refle...
- Workshop
- Making Choices by Limiting Choices: On the Rambam as Curator of Tradition HUC-JIR - Herrman Learning Center: Archaeology Center
- 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- In an age of infinite choices the likely outcome is making no choice at all. Tradition offers a way of limiting choice to ease decision-making. An ...
- Workshop
- Exploring Sources for Contemporary Liturgical Creativity within Jewish Tradition HUC-JIR - Herrman Learning Center: Classroom 4
- 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- The future of Reform "Innovation" is guaranteed. What must be intentionally cultivated by American rabbis, cantors, educators, and lay leaders, how...
- Workshop
- Freehof Institute: Reform Responsa Past and Future: The Halakhic Legacy of Solomon B. Freehof HUC-JIR - AJA: Seminar Room
- 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Solomon B. Freehof, rabbi, scholar, HUC faculty member, was the preeminent halakhist of the American Reform movement during the 20th century. To ex...
- Workshop
- “They Will Think of Me for a Century”: A Bicentennial Reflection on Isaac Mayer Wise HUC-JIR - AJA: Electronic Room
- 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Issac M. Wise was not only the principal organizer of the Reform Movement in North America, he was also a prolific writer and indefatigable convers...
- Workshop
- From Surviving to Striving: Jewish Education as a Lever for Social Change HUC-JIR - Klau Library: Pavilion 2nd FL
- 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Jewish education has long been valued as a tool for cultural preservation and continuity; but our moment in history is demanding that Jewish educat...
- Workshop
- Moses Buttenweiser and the Manifestation of God through Moral Conduct HUC-JIR - Klau Library: 2nd FL Beit Midrash
- 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Professor Moses Buttenweiser taught Bible at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati from 1897–1934. In an undated article entitled "The Faith...
- Workshop
- Moral Injury and Soul Repair: Understanding an Emerging Field for Rabbis HUC-JIR - Herrman Learning Center: Classroom 11
- 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Moral injury and soul repair is the study of a phenomenon both ancient and contemporary—the profound brokenness resulting from violation of o...
- Workshop
- Oh! The Places You'll Go! Preparing the Next Generation of Rabbinic Leadership HUC-JIR - Herrman Learning Center: Classroom 10
- 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Panel discussion on wisdom learned from teaching the current generation of rabbinic students, and their observations about the future of Reform Jew...
- Workshop
3:15 PM
3:15 PM
- Hafsakah
- 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM | 30 minutes
- Break
- CCAR Journal Editorial Board HUC-JIR - Herrman Learning Center: Archaeology Center
- 3:15 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 45 minutes
3:45 PM
3:45 PM
- Pay to Pray – The Ultimate “Customized” Service HUC-JIR - Herrman Learning Center: Classroom 3
- 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- As algorithms and paid streaming services increasingly feed, inform, and affect every aspect of public discourse, authentic Jewish worship and ritu...
- Workshop
- The Rabbi's Social Role: Activist or Translator-in-Chief? HUC-JIR - Sisterhood Dormitory: Teller Lounge
- 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Workshop
- Literary Generations of the Kibbutz and Egalitarian Tensions between Individuals and the Collective. Sherry Levy-Reiner Memorial Lecture, co-sponsored by the Department of English at the University of Cincinnati HUC-JIR - AJA: Barrows Loebelson Reading Room
- 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- A remarkable number of Israel’s founding generation of writers were raised, or otherwise spent a significant number of years, on a kibbutz, and the...
- Workshop
- Commandment, Conscience, Controversy: The Reform Rabbi in the Corrupt Society HUC-JIR - AJA: Seminar Room (Split)
- 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Among the rabbinical issues we will discuss are the religious imperative to address social concerns, the conflict between external historical text ...
- Workshop
- Jewish Monologues in the 21st Century: Reading Texts of Identity Seekers (Taught in Hebrew) HUC-JIR - Herrman Learning Center: Classroom 2
- 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- The multidimensional reality of being Jewish in a postmodern world creates a new challenge. More than ever, we need a new approach to understand...
- Workshop
- Recovering from Moral Injury: Textual and Ritual Resources for Care HUC-JIR - AJA: Seminar Room
- 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- As our society grapples with myriad examples of people breaching their own or others' moral codes (#metoo), the mistreatment of asylum seekers, the...
- Workshop
- America's Jewish Women: A New History HUC-JIR - AJA: Electronic Room
- 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Two threads run through the entire story of America's Jewish women: a strong sense of self and a resolute commitment to making the world a better p...
- Workshop
- Rabbinic Portraits: Pious, Pompous or Profane? HUC-JIR - Mayerson: Mayerson Hall
- 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Join Lance Sussman, PhD and Skirball Museum director Abby Schwartz for a conversation about rabbinic portraits, then and now. Using the museum’s...
- Workshop
- Conversations That Matter: Create Transformational Community with Transformational Conversations HUC-JIR - Klau Library: Pavilion 2nd FL
- 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- How many of us spent time stuck in meeting after meeting where the content is irrelevant and the "leader" is talking at us, not to us or with us? W...
- Workshop
- Moses Buttenweiser and the Manifestation of God through Moral Conduct HUC-JIR - Klau Library: 2nd FL Beit Midrash
- 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Professor Moses Buttenweiser taught Bible at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati from 1897–1934. In an undated article entitled "The Faith and M...
- Workshop
- Revelation and the Holy Task of Listening: Strategies for Sacred and Successful Mentorship HUC-JIR - Herrman Learning Center: Classroom 11
- 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- How do we elevate reflective conversations between mentor and mentee for more effective partnerships and professional growth? In this session we wi...
- Workshop
- Rabbinic Leadership, Gender, and Social Change: A Medieval Perspective HUC-JIR - Herrman Learning Center: Classroom 10
- 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- At least 3% of high school students in the US today do not self-identify with the sex they were assigned at birth. What does Jewish tradition have ...
- Workshop
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Board Buses to Hotel
- 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM | 15 minutes
- Break
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
- Join Us for a Reception to Thank All CCAR Volunteers and Donors Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Pavillion
- 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | 1 hour
- Reception
6:30 PM
6:30 PM
- WRN Dinner: All CCAR Women Rabbis Are Welcome (By reservation only) Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Continental Room
- 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 2 hours
- Meal
- Dinner with Board Members (sign up in advance, meet in lobby) Cincinnati, OH - Offsite
- 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 2 hours
- Sign up: https://ccarnet.wufoo.com/forms/qd8noak0a2tgb9/Enjoy dinner at one of...
- Meal
- Dinner with Colleagues Cincinnati, OH - Offsite
- 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 2 hours
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- The Imperative of Criminal Justice Reform with Bryan Stevenson Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Hall of Mirrors
- 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Bryan Stevenson is a public-interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned. The Equal Jus...
- Keynote
10:00 PM
10:00 PM
- Siyum L'Yom - Concluding Our Day with a Brief Moment of Reflection Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Hall of Mirrors
- 10:00 PM - 10:05 PM | 5 minutes
- The Siyum L'Yom leader will conclude our day of learning together with five minutes of mindful prayer, connecting our final moments together...
- Worship
10:15 PM
10:15 PM
- Kaddish Minyan Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Julep
- 10:15 PM - 10:30 PM | 15 minutes
- Worship
10:30 PM
10:30 PM
- Friends of Bill W. Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Mayflower 3 (LL)
- 10:30 PM - 11:30 PM | 1 hour
- Meeting