One Day Virtual Conference on Jewish Life

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10:00 - 10:50 AM
Torah Life Daf Yomi Rabbi Moshe Elefant	Click to listen Download MP3
Torah Life The Hidden Cost of Free Speech on the Internet Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman	Click to listen Download MP3
Community Life Sponsored by IPA Advocacy and Your Interests - A How-To Seminar Nathan Diament, Howie Beigelman and Maury Litwack	Click to listen Download MP3
Community Life Sponsored by Community Services Positive Jewish Marriage: The Keys to Unlocking and Maintaining a Happy Marriage Rachel Pill	Click to listen Download MP3
Synagogue Life Best Theories and Practices for Synagogue Leadership Dr. Linda Klonsky	Click to listen Download MP3
Synagogue Life Gabbaim: Understanding the Halachot of Chiyuvim Rabbi Hershel Schachter	Click to listen Download MP3
11:00 - 11:50 PM
Torah Life Halacha Under the Microscope: Worms in Fish and the Delicate Interplay between Halacha and Science Throughout the Ages Rabbi Dr. Edward Reichman	Click to listen Download MP3
Torah Life How Perfect Must a Woman Be? In Search of the Real Eishet Chayil Yael Weil	Click to listen Download MP3
Community Life Sponsored by Community Services Positive Jewish Parenting: Insanity is Hereditary – You get it from your children: Coping Strategies for Parents Drs. Sylvan and Marcy Schaffer	Click to listen Download MP3
Community Life Sponsored by Yachad/National Jewish Council for Disabilities Who Will Your Child Be? Challenges and Opportunities Posed by the Child With Special Needs Dr. Jeffrey Lichtman with a panel of Yachad parents	Click to listen Download MP3
Synagogue Life Fundraising: Not Just Dues and Dinners Rabbi Steven Weil and Rabbi E.B. Bunny Freedman	Click to listen Download MP3
Synagogue Life Enhancing the Spirituality of Tefillah through the Musical Mesorah Chazan Bernard Beer and Chazan Sherwood Goffin	Click to listen Download MP3
12:00-12:15 PM
Presentation to Steven J. Savitsky, OU President 2004-2011 Presenter: Elana Schreier Senior SKA High School for Girls, Hewlett Bay Park, NY
12:15 - 1:15 PM Plenary
The Mesorah What is the “Mesorah”? The term is most often used to define the chain of Jewish tradition that exists even outside of the written halachic texts. Can the Mesorah be changed, and if so, how does change come about? Rabbi Weinreb will discuss these and other questions that are prompted by challenges to the Mesorah through the ages and down to our own day. Presenter: Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb Executive Vice President, Emeritus, Orthodox Union
1:30 - 2:20 PM
Torah Life Is Tefillah a One Way Street or Does God Talk Back? What the Yosef Story Has to Tell Us About Divine Communication Rabbi Dovid Fohrman	Click to listen Download MP3
Torah Life Dating and Mating: A Common Sense Approach for Singles, Parents and Educators Rookie Billet	Click to listen Download MP3
Community Life Sponsored by OU Kosher Contemporary Issues in Kashrut: Topics in the news, plus questions from the audience Rabbi Menachem Genack and Rabbi Moshe Elefant	Click to listen Download MP3
Community Life Sponsored by the Seif Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (JLIC) Challenges and Opportunities for Orthodox Students at Secular College Campuses Rabbi Ilan Haber and Rabbi Joshua Ross	Click to listen Download MP3
Synagogue Life Short and Long Term Strategic Planning for Synagogues Dr. Linda Klonsky	Click to listen Download MP3
Synagogue Life On Fire: Sparking Immediate Shul Growth Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn	Click to listen Download MP3
2:30 - 3:20 PM
Torah Life What is a Heter? Rabbi Hershel Schachter	Click to listen Download MP3
Torah Life Personal Autonomy vs. Religious Authority: The Gan Eden Narrative Dr. Shira Weiss	Click to listen Download MP3
Special Session Sponsored by OU/IPA: US-Israel Relations Chair: Nathan Diament Panelists: BRET STEPHENS, Deputy editor, editorial page, The Wall Street Journal DAVID MAKOVSKY, Director, The Washington Institute's Project on the Middle East Peace Process.	Click to listen Download MP3
3:30 - 4:20 PM
Torah Life The Conversion Controversy in Israel and its Effects in the Diaspora Harvey Blitz with panelists Jerry Silverman and Rabbi Hershel Billet	Click to listen Download MP3
Torah Life Making Our Tefillot More Meaningful and More Personal Rabbi Shaul Robinson	Click to listen Download MP3
Community Life Sponsored by Educational and Day School Services and by Community Services Food, Body Image and Eating Disorders Frank Buchweitz, Dr. Sarah Roer and Dr. Ellen Haimoff	Click to listen Download MP3
Synagogue Life Around the World in 80 Ways: Best Youth Programming From Across the Globe Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn	Click to listen Download MP3
Synagogue Life How to Take Your Shul Board From Good to Great President's Panel	Click to listen Download MP3
4:30-4:45 PM
Inaugural Speech of Dr. Simcha Katz, OU President President Katz expresses his concerns for the challenges facing today’s Jewish community and lays out his vision for the new administration.
4:45 - 6:00 PM Plenary
The Orthodox Role in the Jewish Community of Tomorrow There seems to be little doubt that, during the next few decades, the Orthodox community will continue to grow in numbers out of all proportion to the rest of North American Jewry. But it is not only in terms of numbers that we may expect to become the dominant force in the Jewish community. There may also be a weakening of the commitment of each successive generation of the non-Orthodox movements. Our discussion will first need to affirm or to deny this scenario. But assuming it to be true, how did we get to this point, and what does it mean for us and for the future of the community? There will be a void which has to be filled. What must we do to prepare for all this, in terms of the education of our children, in terms of attempting to restructure the community, in terms of our relationships with the rest of American Jewry today? This is an opportunity for us to act in a visionary way, which has always been the hallmark of our leaders. Anchor: Rabbi Steven Weil Executive Vice President, Orthodox Union Panelists: Dr. Marian Stoltz-Loike Dean, Lander College for Women/The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School, Touro College Rabbi Steven Burg International Director, NCSY, and Managing Director, Orthodox Union Rabbi Efrem Goldberg Senior Rabbi, Boca Raton Synagogue, Boca Raton, FL Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and Senior Scholar at the Center for the Jewish Future, Yeshiva University Jerry Silverman President and CEO, Jewish Federations of North America

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