Tuesday 2 April, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

6:00 AM

The Walking/Running Rabbis

1 hour, 6:00 AM - 7:00 AM

Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Hotel Lobby

Workshop

7:00 AM

Breakfast Hosted by ARZA, ARZENU, and Partners

1 hour, 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Pavillion/Caprice

Updates from Gilad Kariv and Josh Weinberg Co-Sponsored by: ARZA:Association of Reform Zionists of...

8:00 AM

Shacharit: Musical Service

30 minutes, 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Rookwood

Worship

Or Zohar, IMPJ , Misgav Regional Council (Participant)

Feliza Bascara-Zohar, Feliza Bascara-Zohar (Participant)

Shacharit: Mindfulness/Meditation Service

30 minutes, 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Rosewood

Worship

Debra Robbins, Temple Emanu-El, Dallas TX (Participant)

Nancy Kasten (Participant)

Start your day with a mindfulness practice centered around Psalm 82. Be prepared for sound and silence, reading and writing. The psalm will serv...

Registration

10 hours 30 minutes, 8:00 AM - 6:30 PM

Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Pavillion Foyer

9:00 AM

Wising Up: Advancing the Work of the Task Force on the Experience of Women in the Rabbinate

2 hours, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Hall of Mirrors

General Session

Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus, Shir Tikvah, Homewood, IL (Participant)

Amy Schwartzman, Temple Rodef Shalom,Falls Church, VA (Participant)

Hara Person, CCAR (Participant)

Starting with a creative presentation based on stories shared by colleagues, the Task Force will lead an exploration of the experience of women in ...

11:00 AM

Hafsakah

15 minutes, 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Pavillion/3rd & 4th Floor Foyers

Break

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.

15 minutes, 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - TBD

The CCAR thanks The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati for sponsoring today’s programming at Hebrew U...

12:00 PM

Lunch at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR)

2 hours, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

HUC-JIR - TBD

Meal

Including:Remarks by President, Andrew RehfeldClass roll callConvention 2019 CCAR Group Photo

2:00 PM

The Beauty and The East: Grappling with Israel in Sermons

1 hour 15 minutes, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

HUC-JIR - Herrman Learning Center: Classroom 3

Workshop

Talia Avnon-Benveniste, HUC-JIR (Participant)

Jewish Renaissance: Renewing Jewish Life in an Age of Uncertainty

1 hour 15 minutes, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

HUC-JIR - AJA: Seminar Room (Split)

Workshop

Joseph Skloot, HUC-JIR (Participant)

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...

Making Choices by Limiting Choices: On the Rambam as Curator of Tradition

1 hour 15 minutes, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

HUC-JIR - Herrman Learning Center: Archaeology Center

Workshop

Jason Kalman Ph.D., HUC-JIR (Participant)

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 ...

Exploring Sources for Contemporary Liturgical Creativity within Jewish Tradition

1 hour 15 minutes, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

HUC-JIR - Herrman Learning Center: Classroom 4

Workshop

Richard Sarason Ph.D., HUC-JIR (Participant)

The future of Reform "Innovation" is guaranteed. What must be intentionally cultivated by American rabbis, cantors, educators, and lay leaders, how...

Freehof Institute: Reform Responsa Past and Future: The Halakhic Legacy of Solomon B. Freehof

1 hour 15 minutes, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

HUC-JIR - AJA: Seminar Room

Workshop

Joan Friedman, The College of Wooster (Participant)

Walter Jacob Ph. D., Abraham Geiger College (Participant)

Mark Washofsky, HUC-JIR (Participant)

Solomon B. Freehof, rabbi, scholar, HUC faculty member, was the preeminent halakhist of the American Reform movement during the 20th century. To ex...

“They Will Think of Me for a Century”: A Bicentennial Reflection on Isaac Mayer Wise

1 hour 15 minutes, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

HUC-JIR - AJA: Electronic Room

Workshop

Gary Zola Ph.D., The Jacob Rader Marcus Center (Participant)

Lance Sussman Ph.D., Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel, Elkins Park, PA (Participant)

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...

From Surviving to Striving: Jewish Education as a Lever for Social Change

1 hour 15 minutes, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

HUC-JIR - Klau Library: Pavilion 2nd FL

Workshop

Miriam Heller Stern Ph.D., HUC-JIR (Participant)

Jewish education has long been valued as a tool for cultural preservation and continuity; but our moment in history is demanding that Jewish educat...

Moses Buttenweiser and the Manifestation of God through Moral Conduct

1 hour 15 minutes, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

HUC-JIR - Klau Library: 2nd FL Beit Midrash

Workshop

Andrea Weiss, HUC-JIR (Participant)

Professor Moses Buttenweiser taught Bible at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati from 1897–1934. In an undated article entitled "The Faith...

Moral Injury and Soul Repair: Understanding an Emerging Field for Rabbis

1 hour 15 minutes, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

HUC-JIR - Herrman Learning Center: Classroom 11

Workshop

Kim Geringer, HUC-JIR (Participant)

Nancy Wiener, HUC-JIR (Participant)

Moral injury and soul repair is the study of a phenomenon both ancient and contemporary—the profound brokenness resulting from violation of o...

Oh! The Places You'll Go! Preparing the Next Generation of Rabbinic Leadership

1 hour 15 minutes, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

HUC-JIR - Herrman Learning Center: Classroom 10

Workshop

Jan Katzew Ph.D., HUC-JIR (Participant)

Jonathan Hecht Ph.D., HUC-JIR, Cincinnati (Participant)

Julie Schwartz, HUC-JIR (Participant)

Panel discussion on wisdom learned from teaching the current generation of rabbinic students, and their observations about the future of Reform Jew...

3:15 PM

Hafsakah

30 minutes, 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Break

CCAR Journal Editorial Board

1 hour 45 minutes, 3:15 PM - 5:00 PM

HUC-JIR - Herrman Learning Center: Archaeology Center

3:45 PM

Pay to Pray – The Ultimate “Customized” Service

1 hour 15 minutes, 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

HUC-JIR - Herrman Learning Center: Classroom 3

Workshop

Richard Sarason Ph.D., HUC-JIR (Participant)

Yvon Shore, HUC-JIR (Participant)

As algorithms and paid streaming services increasingly feed, inform, and affect every aspect of public discourse, authentic Jewish worship and ritu...

The Rabbi's Social Role: Activist or Translator-in-Chief?

1 hour 15 minutes, 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

HUC-JIR - Sisterhood Dormitory: Teller Lounge

Workshop

Mark Washofsky, HUC-JIR (Participant)

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

1 hour 15 minutes, 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

HUC-JIR - AJA: Barrows Loebelson Reading Room

Workshop

Ranen Omer-Sherman Ph.D., University of Louisville (Participant)

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...

Commandment, Conscience, Controversy: The Reform Rabbi in the Corrupt Society

1 hour 15 minutes, 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

HUC-JIR - AJA: Seminar Room (Split)

Workshop

Michael Meyer Ph.D., HUC-JIR (Participant)

Among the rabbinical issues we will discuss are the religious imperative to address social concerns, the conflict between external historical text ...

Jewish Monologues in the 21st Century: Reading Texts of Identity Seekers (Taught in Hebrew)

1 hour 15 minutes, 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

HUC-JIR - Herrman Learning Center: Classroom 2

Workshop

Talia Avnon-Benveniste, HUC-JIR (Participant)

The multidimensional reality of being Jewish in a postmodern world creates a new challenge. More than ever, we need a new approach to understand...

Recovering from Moral Injury: Textual and Ritual Resources for Care

1 hour 15 minutes, 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

HUC-JIR - AJA: Seminar Room

Workshop

Kim Geringer, HUC-JIR (Participant)

Nancy Wiener, HUC-JIR (Participant)

As our society grapples with myriad examples of people breaching their own or others' moral codes (#metoo), the mistreatment of asylum seekers, the...

America's Jewish Women: A New History

1 hour 15 minutes, 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

HUC-JIR - AJA: Electronic Room

Workshop

Gary Zola Ph.D., The Jacob Rader Marcus Center (Participant)

Pamela Nadell, American University (Participant)

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...

Rabbinic Portraits: Pious, Pompous or Profane?

1 hour 15 minutes, 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

HUC-JIR - Mayerson: Mayerson Hall

Workshop

Lance Sussman Ph.D., Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel, Elkins Park, PA (Participant)

Abby Schwartz, HUC-JIR (Participant)

Join Lance Sussman, PhD and Skirball Museum director Abby Schwartz for a conversation about rabbinic portraits, then and now. Using the museum’s...

Conversations That Matter: Create Transformational Community with Transformational Conversations

1 hour 15 minutes, 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

HUC-JIR - Klau Library: Pavilion 2nd FL

Workshop

Sam Joseph Ph.D., HUC-JIR (Participant)

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...

Moses Buttenweiser and the Manifestation of God through Moral Conduct

1 hour 15 minutes, 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

HUC-JIR - Klau Library: 2nd FL Beit Midrash

Workshop

Andrea Weiss, HUC-JIR (Participant)

Professor Moses Buttenweiser taught Bible at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati from 1897–1934. In an undated article entitled "The Faith and M...

Revelation and the Holy Task of Listening: Strategies for Sacred and Successful Mentorship

1 hour 15 minutes, 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

HUC-JIR - Herrman Learning Center: Classroom 11

Workshop

Miriam Heller Stern Ph.D., HUC-JIR (Participant)

How do we elevate reflective conversations between mentor and mentee for more effective partnerships and professional growth? In this session we wi...

Rabbinic Leadership, Gender, and Social Change: A Medieval Perspective

1 hour 15 minutes, 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

HUC-JIR - Herrman Learning Center: Classroom 10

Workshop

Jennifer Grayson Ph.D., HUC-JIR (Participant)

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 ...

5:00 PM

Board Buses to Hotel

15 minutes, 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Break

5:30 PM

Join Us for a Reception to Thank All CCAR Volunteers and Donors

1 hour, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Pavillion

Reception

6:30 PM

WRN Dinner: All CCAR Women Rabbis Are Welcome (By reservation only)

2 hours, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM