Convention Program. The 48 th Annual Convention of The Rabbinical Council of America April 29 th - May 1 st 2007

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1 Convention Program The 48 th Annual Convention of The Rabbinical Council of America April 29 th - May 1 st 2007 Museum of Jewish Heritage Battery Place, New York, NY Concluding with Parallel Yemei Iyyun at The Wilf Campus, Yeshiva University The Orthodox The Center for Jewish History Rabbi Daniel Cohen Chairman

2 Convention Program Tearoom: Sunday/Monday 2.00pm 5.00pm in the Events Hall Time Sunday 1-3pm Sunday 2pm Sunday 3pm Sunday 4 PM Sunday 5 PM Sunday 6 PM Sunday 6:15 PM Sunday 6:45 PM Sunday 8 PM Sunday 9:45 PM Sunday 10 PM Sunday Events RCA Executive Committee Meeting Convention Registration 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 Part 1 Prophetic Leadership: Yirmiyahu as a Man of Emet in a World of Sheker Rabbi Hayyim Angel, Cong. Shearith Israel, NY Guided Workshop: Finding Your Leadership Style and Maximizing your Personal Power within your Shul Dr. David Schnall, Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration Forget the Lone Ranger: Best Networking Practices Within and Beyond the Synagogue. Chairman: Rabbi David Gottlieb, Shomrei Emunah, Baltimore MD Rabbi Reuven Spolter, Young Israel of Oak Park Rabbi Kalman Topp, YI of Woodmere Part 2 Communication or An IDF Officer s Leadership Excommunication?: An Analysis Insights as Related to the of Two Rabbinic Policies Contemporary Rabbinate Prof. Yaakov Elman, Rabbi Binny Friedman, Bernard Revel Graduate School Isralight Mincha Cocktails and Networking overlooking New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty Events Hall and Lobby Dinner Chairman: Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck NJ Outgoing Presidential Address Rabbi Dale Polakoff Welcoming New Members Events Hall Documentary Video: "Lonely Man of Faith" Chairman: Rabbi Ira Ebbin, Stamford, CT Ma ariv Conclusion of Sunday Program Best Networking Practices Rabbi Eli Weinstock, Cong. Kehilath Jeshurun, NY. Rabbi Ari Perl, Congregation Shaare Tefilla, Dallas TX Rabbi Chaim Marder, Hebrew Institute, White Plains, NY

3 Monday Events Monday 8 AM Monday 10 AM Shachrit at Stern College for Women (Lexington and 35 th Street) Breakfast in cafeteria (separate purchase) 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 Monday 11 AM Monday 12 PM 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 The Vaad Halacha presents Selected Research, Sources, and Perspectives on the Issue of Brain Death and Post Mortem Organ Donation Rabbi Asher Bush, Ahavath Israel of Wesley Hills, Chair, RCA Vaad Halacha Learning from the Experts: Tried and Tested Methods for Maximizing our Political Clout and Leadership in Governmental Affairs Rabbi Kenneth Hain, Beth Shalom Congregation, Lawrence NY Nathan Diament, Institute for Public Affairs of OU, Washington, D.C. Double Workshop: Can t We all Get Along? Dealing with Silos, Fiefdoms and Turf Wars in our Synagogues, Communities, and Organizations Part 1 Mark Zalkin, Zalkin Training Gerus Policies and Standards shiur on Ger Katan and its Halachic Policy Implications Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz, Beth Din of America Rabbi Yonah Reiss, Beth Din of America Effective Rabbinic Leadership in the realm of Israel Affairs and Religious Zionism: Politics, Ideology, Community, and Halacha Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Cong. Bnai Yeshurun Rabbi David Stav, Rabbanei Tzohar Workshop Continued Part 2 Mark Zalkin, Zalkin Training 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 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 PM A Tribute to Departed Chaverim Rabbi Moshe Rakowitz, Sephardic Jewish Center of Canarsie, Brooklyn, NY

4 Rabbi Hanan Balk, Congregation Agudas Israel, Cincinnati, OH Monday 3 PM Monday 4 PM Monday 5 PM Monday 5:15 PM Monday 6 PM Monday 8 PM Monday 9.45 PM Monday 10 PM Ask the Posek Rabbi Mordechai Willig, RIETS Becoming a More Effective and Successful Leader: Real-World Lessons That You Can Use From a Wall Street Executive Steven Bodurtha, Senior Vice-President, Merrill Lynch Bein Pesach La'Atzeret: Perspectives on Sefiras Ha-Omer: A model methodological Shiur Rabbi Yonasan Sacks, RIETS Yesh Chochmah ba-goyim: Mega-churches and the Purpose Driven Synagogue: Methods and Meaning for your Shul; Real Tools to Benefit your Community and Yourself Rabbi Daniel Cohen, Cong. Agudath Sholom, Stamford, CT Military Chaplains Workshop: Q&A with Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz, Beth Din of America Auditorium Mincha Resolutions and Elections of Officers and Executive Committee members Chairman: Rabbi Barry Freundel, Kesher Israel synagogue, Washington, DC. Chairman, RCA Resolutions Committee 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 Current Israeli Halachic and Tanach Literature, Journals and Developments Rabbi David Stav, Shoham Israel Rabbanei Tzohar Me'Ever la-yam: Creating Partnerships and Synergies with Israeli Kehillot and Tzohar Rabbanim Rabbi David Stav, Shoham Israel, Rabbanei Tzohar Rabbi Shalom Baum, Keter Torah, Teaneck NJ 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 Ma ariv Conclusion of Monday program

5 Tuesday Events: Three Parallel All-Day Yemei Iyyun Tuesday 8 AM Tuesday All Day Programs Shachrit at Stern College for Women (Lexington and 35 th Street) Breakfast in cafeteria (separate purchase) Program 1: Program 2: Academic Scholarship: Does It Yom Iyun in Hilchot Nidah Have a Place in our Shuls? Coordinator: Rabbi Adam Mintz The Center for Jewish History 15 W16th NYC 9:15 AM until 4:30 PM Session A: 9:15 AM Is the Study of Jewish History Kosher? Rabbi Gil Perl, Yeshiva University Session B: 10:45 AM The Rabbinic Library of the Future: A Guide to Navigating the Internet and Obscure Rabbinic Bibliographies Menachem Butler Coordinator: Rabbi Joel Finkelstein Yeshiva University Wilf Campus, NYC 9:30 AM till 3:30pm Session A: Hilchos Mikvaos Rabbi Hershel Schachter, RIETS Kollel Elyon Session B: Chavruta and Marei Mekomot for Maros and Niddah Program 3: Current Issues Confronting the Local Vaad HaKashruth Coordinators: Rabbi Kenneth Auman Rabbi Yosef Grossman The Orthodox 11 Broadway, NYC 10 AM until 4 PM Session A: 10: AM Current Issues Facing the Local Vaad HaKashruth Rabbi Yaakov Luban, Kashruth Division, Orthodox Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld, Session B: 10:50 AM Foodservice Kashering A Demonstration Rabbi Moshe Perlmutter, Lunch 12:00 PM Viewing of the exhibitions at the Center for Jewish History and YU Museum Session C: 1:00 PM Academic Scholarship: Implications for the Religious Study of Tanakh and Parshanut Prof. Naomi Grunhaus, Yeshiva University Session C: 2:30 PM Jewish History vs. Collective Memory: Historians in the Synagogue. Prof. Elisheva Carlebach, Queens College Lunch Dealing with Infertility Dr. David Pelcovitz, Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration CJF Senior Staff Members Session C: Shiur on Marot Rabbi Yaakov Neuberger, RIETS Session D: Common Issues in Hilchot Niddah Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky, RIETS Session C: 11:45 AM Protecting the Chain of Kosher Meat Supply Rabbi Moshe Elefant, Kashruth Division, Orthodox Lunch 12:30 PM With OU Rabbinic Coordinators as well as Ask the Rabbi Panel Session D: 1:15 PM Bishul Akum Shiur Halacha Rabbi Menachem Genack,

6 Session D: (cont. of Session C) Roundtable, topics such as Historical truth contradicting our rabbinic tradition, books we shouldn't be reading, scholars-inresidence we shouldn't invite Moderator: Prof. Elisheva, Carlebach, Queens College Participants: Rabbi Jeremy Wieder, RIETS Rabbi Yaakov Kermaier, Fifth Avenue Synagogue Rabbi Ezra Labaton, Cong. Magen David of West Deal NJ Mincha Session E: 2 PM The Shul Kiddush Is it Really Kosher? Rabbi Dov Schreier, Kashruth Division, Orthodox Mincha 4:00 PM Session E: Visit the YU Gottesman Library: Seforim and Torah Journals for Today s Rabbi Session E: 4:15 PM Distribution of a list of potential scholars-in-residence and lecturers Rabbi Adam Mintz Rabbi Nasanayl Braun Congregation Brothers of Israel Mincha 2:45 PM Session F: 3:00 PM Bedikas Toloim Rabbi Yosef Eisen, Session G: 3:45 Neemanus and Mirsas Shiur Be Halacha Rabbi Hershel Schachter, RIETS Kollel Elyon Session H: 4:00 Closing Remarks Rabbi Kenneth Auman, Orthodox Tzeitchem la Shalom u-le Shana ha-ba ah bi-yerushalayim ha-benuyah!