Sunday, May 5th

1:00 PM: Registration Opens
 
2:00 - 3:30 PM: Meet and Greet Reception
 
3:00 - 4:15 PM: Creative Workshops
Activities will include yoga, sing along, meditation, dance, improv, visual arts
 
4:30 - 5:45 PM: Convention Kickoff - Tomorrow’s Torah: Challenges to Sustaining Tradition and Creating Change in an Era of Personal Autonomy

Speakers: Rabbis Bradley Shavit Artson, Daniel Nevins, Avi Novis-Deutsch and Ariel Stofenmacher 

Moderator: Rabbi Jay Kornsgold
 
5:45 PM: Minhah
 
6:15 - 7:15 PM: Dinner
 
7:15 PM: Board buses to Shaare Zion Congregation
 
8:00 - 8:30 PM: Tribute to Rabbis Maurice Cohen z”l, Allan Langner z”l, Bernard Leffell z”l, Erwin Schild, Wilfred Schuchat z”l and Zev Solomon
 
8:30 - 10:00 PM: Today’s Jews - Tomorrow’s Jewry: Trends and Trajectories
Keynotes: Dr. Keith Neuman and Dr. Jack Wertheimer
Moderator: Rabbi Catharine Clark
 
10:00 PM: Maariv and Dessert Reception



Monday, May 6th

7:00 - 8:00 AM: Shaharit 
 
8:00 - 8:45 AM: Breakfast
 
8:45 - 10:15 AM: Limmud 

Teachers: Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, Rabbi Michael Brown, Anna Gonshor, Rabbi Robert Harris, Rabbi Reuven Kimelman, Dr. Rachel Korazim, Rabbi Gail Labovitz, Rabbi Daniel Nevins. Rabbi Ariel Stofenmacher


10:30 - 12:00 PM: Professional Workshops 
  • Rabbis Rachel Bovitz & Morey Schwartz: Assisted Suicide/Aid in Dying: A Sample Melton Lesson from Melton's Jewish Medical Ethics Curriculum, written by Rabbi Elliot Dorff
  • Rabbi Joshua Gruenberg: Navigating the First Five Years of Your Rabbinate
  • Dr. Yizhar Hess: Israel's Knesset - Post April 9th Elections
  • Rabbi Carla Howard: Counseling Communities Through Mass Tragedies 
  • Rabbi Jeremy Markiz: Social Media Strategy for Rabbis and Congregations
  • Rabbi Cheryl Peretz: You, Me & We Too
  • Stuart Rechnitzer: Driving Me Crazy: Diffficult Personality Traits

     
12:15 PM: Lunch
 
1:30 - 2:15 PM: Business Meeting
 
2:30 - 4:00 PM: Repeated Limmud/Workshops 

​Teachers: Rachel Korazim, Rabbi Gail Labovitz, Rabbi Daniel Nevins
  • Rabbis David Baum & David-Seth Kirshner: Responding Immediately to Issues of the Day Through Darshanut
  • Rabbis Rachel Bovitz & Morey Schwartz: Setting Goals for Jewish Text Study and Choosing the Best Modalities to Achieve Them
  • Jen Taylor Friedman: First Aid for Torah Scrolls 
  • Rabbis Elliot Salo Schoenberg & Orrin Krublit: How the 5779 RA Salary Survey Can Help Your Next Compensation Negotiation

     
4:00 - 6:30 PM: Free Time to Explore Neighborhood
 
4:15 - 5:30 PM: Creative Workshops
 
6:30 PM: Dinner
 
7:45 PM: Minhah/Maariv
 
8:00 PM: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of First Rabbinic Ordination from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies
 
8:30 PM: A Night of Music and Comedy Presendted by Streimel and Yid Life Crisis
 
10:00 PM: Montreal Nightlife



Tuesday, May 7th 

7:15 - 8:00 AM: Shaharit
 
8:00 - 8:45 AM: Breakfast
 
8:45 - 10:15 AM: Limmud 
Teachers: Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, Rabbi Rachel Bovitz, Dr. Naftali Cohn, Anna Gonshor, Rabbi Robert Harris, Dr. Norma Joseph, Rabbi Reuven Kimelman, Dr. Rachel Korazim, Rabbi Gail Labovitz, Rabbi Abi Novis-Deutsch
 
10:30 - 12:00 PM: Professional Workshops 
  • Rabbi Dr. Laurence Bazer: Issues in Military Chaplaincy
  • Rabbi Eli Garfinkel: 21st Century Torah: How Rabbis are Teaching Torah Across Diverse Digital Venues
  • Rabbi Mikie Goldstein and Dr. Yizhar Hess: Megilat Ha'atzmaut as a Talmudic Text
  • Rabbi Shimshon Hammerman: Session for Day School Educators
  • Rabbi Howard & Elaine Hoffman and Rabbi Martin & Jeanne Sandberg: Preparing for Retirement
  • Eliana Light: Creating Powerful, Positive Prayer for Families
12:15 PM: Lunch
 
1:15 - 1:45 PM: Honoring 50 Year Rabbis
 
1:45 - 2:00 PM: Minhah
 
2:15 - 3:45 PM: Repeated Limmud/Workshops 
Teachers: Dr. Naftali Cohn, Rabbi Robert Harris, Dr. Rachel Korazim
  • Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster: The Immigrant Should be as the Native-Born Among You: Jewish values and the current immigration and refugee crisis 
  • Rabbi Amy Levin: Create Your Collaborative Congregational Leadership Team
  • Eliana Light: The G!d Project
  • Rabbi Stewart Vogel: Conversation on the Future of the Conservative Movement

     
4:00 - 6:30 PM: Exploring Jewish Montreal
 
7:00 - 8:00 PM: Dinner
 
8:00 - 9:15 PM: Bonjour! Hi! - Religion and Secularism in a Bilingual Jewish Community
Speakers: Dr. Steven Lapidus and Richard Marceau
Moderator: Rabbi Sheryl Katzman
 
9:15 - 10:00 PM: Tekes for Yom Hazikaron (in collaboration with RA Israel)

Speakers: Dr. Rachel Korazim
 
10:00 PM: Maariv
 
10:30 PM: Montreal Night Life
 

Wednesday, May 8th

7:15 - 8:15 AM: Shaharit and Azkarah
 
8:15 - 9:00 AM: Breakfast
 
9:00  - 10:15 AM: Limmud 
Teachers: Rabbi Aubrey Glazer, Dr. Norma Joseph, Rabbi Reuven Kimelman, Dr. Rachel Korazim, RA Authors Session
 
10:30 - 12:00 PM: Professional Workshops 
  • Rabbi Shimshon Hammerman: Session on Supplemental Afterschool Learning
  • Rabbi Amy Levin: "Unsilo-ing" Your Members and Creating a Lively Community
  • Rabbi Cheryl Peretz: You, Me & We Too
  • Josh Warshawsky: Music as Midrash: Opening up the Liturgy

     
12:00 PM: Lunch
 
1:30 PM: Minhah and Convention Closing



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