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UAHC
WORKSHOPS, SERIES A
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5, 1:30 P.M.–3:00 P.M.
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NUMBER
|
TITLE
|
TRACK
|
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A01 |
Strengthening
the Partnership between Volunteers and Professionals |
|
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A02
|
The
Boy Scouts of America, Gays, and Reform Congregations: What’s
behind the Debate? |
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| |
A03 |
Breaking Down the Walls: Merged Formal and Informal Education
Programs That Work |
|
| |
A04 |
Children and Prayer: Raising the Next Generation of Worshipers
|
|
| |
A05
|
Updating Your Image: Creating a Unified Approach to Marketing
Your Programs and Mission |
|
| |
A06 |
Chanting the Prophets: Learning Haftarah Trope in Three
Days, Session 1 of 3 (Session 2 is D28; session 3 is a Saturday
Torah Study Breakfast.) |
|
| |
A07 |
Honoring Our Parents: Perspectives on Caring for Aging Parents
|
|
| |
A08 |
“You’re
Invited”: Programs That Welcome Newcomers |
|
| |
A09 |
Speaking Words of Wisdom: Creating a D’var Torah
|
|
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A10 |
Aleph Isn’t Tough: Teaching Hebrew to Adults
|
|
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A11 |
Managing the Sacred: Finding Holiness in Your Work As a
Temple Board Leader |
|
| |
A12 |
Keeping the Congregational Connection: Outreach Efforts
for the College Years |
|
| |
A13 |
The Mitzvah of Comforting the Bereaved: The Synagogue Community
Response to Interfaith Families |
|
| |
A14 |
To See the World through Reform Jewish Eyes: The Liberal
Jewish Traveler |
|
| |
A15
|
Where
the Men Aren’t: Is There a Gender Crisis in Your Congregation?
|
|
| |
A16 |
It Is Never Too Early to Begin: Preschool Wisdom |
|
| |
A17 |
How Small Congregations (under 250 Members) Spend Their
Money |
|
| |
A18
|
Women
of Reform Judaism: Teaching Families, Uniting Congregations
|
|
| |
A19 |
Beyond Jewish Music 101: Creative Congregational Music Programming
|
|
| |
A20 |
Sanctifying
Our Lives: Cultivating Judaism As a Single Jew |
|
| |
A21
|
Serving
Special Needs Children: Suggestions for B’nei Mitzvah
Programs and Religious Schools |
|
| |
A22 |
Building
Your Temple Library |
|
| |
A23 |
“Is
There a Place for Me?”: Building Community from the
Inside Out |
|
| |
A24 |
Managing
Synagogue Funds and Investments for Maximum Return |
|
| |
A25 |
Selecting Software for Synagogue Management |
|
| |
A26
|
Small
Congregations: Organizing an Effective Lay-Led Religious
School |
|
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A27
|
Riches
of Our Reform Movement: Programs and Services of the Commission
on Social Action and the Departments of Outreach/Synagogue
Affiliation |
|
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A28 |
“Who’s
Watching?” New Technologies and the Right to Privacy
|
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UAHC
WORKSHOPS, SERIES B
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5, 3:30 P.M.–5:00 P.M. |
| |
NUMBER
|
TITLE
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TRACK
|
| |
B01
|
Exploring
Synagogue Change: Implementing a Vision for the Future |
|
| |
B02 |
Marketing Is Not a Four-Letter Word: Reaching Your Members
and the Larger Community |
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B03 |
Outreach Programs Your Congregation Can’t Do Without
|
|
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B04 |
Rethinking High Holy Day Music: Giving Voice to Your Congregation’s
Spirituality |
|
| |
B05 |
What’s Really Going On in Catholic-Jewish Relations |
|
| |
B06 |
How
to Run an Annual Campaign for Your Congregation
|
|
| |
B07
|
Creating
an “Achim Committee” in Your Congregation
|
|
| |
B08 |
Recruiting and Retaining Volunteers |
|
| |
B09 |
It Happens in Our Congregations: Responding to Domestic
Violence |
|
| |
B10 |
“May
the Words of My Mouth…” Can We Pray What We Don’t
Believe? |
|
| |
B11 |
Retreats for Board Advancement: Motivating and Focusing
Synagogue Leadership |
|
| |
B12 |
When
Aleph Isn’t Enough: Beyond Hebrew 101 (for adults
only) |
|
| |
B13
|
Teaching
Justice to Children and Adults: Integrating Study and Action
|
|
| |
B14 |
Creating
Healthy Leadership: How Boards and Rabbis Can Really Succeed
Together |
|
| |
B15 |
How Large Congregations (over 600 Members) Spend Their Money
|
|
| |
B16 |
When There’s No Jewish Funeral Home: Creating a Congregational
Chevrah Kadisha |
|
| |
B17 |
Meeting the Challenge of Synagogue Diversity: Creating a
Culture of Inclusion |
|
| |
B18 |
Can We Talk?: Making the Synagogue a Safe Place for Youth |
|
| |
B19 |
Making
the Whole More Than the Sum of Its Parts: School, Camp,
Youth Group, Israel, and Home, Session 1 of 2 (Session 2
is F11.) |
|
| |
B20 |
Building a Comprehensive Youth Program: Implementing the
Vision in Your Congregation |
|
| |
B21 |
The Nuts and Bolts of Synagogue Construction and Renovation |
|
| |
B22 |
Responding to Christian Evangelism in Smaller Communities |
|
| |
B23 |
Teaching
the Chanting of Our Sacred Texts
|
|
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B24 |
Removing the Stigma of Mental Illness in the Jewish Community
|
|
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B25 |
We Can’t Teach Everything: Setting Educational Goals |
|
| |
B26 |
Mitzvah Day and Beyond: Award-Winning Social Action Programs
for a Whole Year |
|
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B27 |
New Ways of Thinking about Congregational Education and
Educators |
|
| |
B28 |
We Built It, They Came: Integrating Newcomers into Growing
Congregations |
|
| |
B29 |
Riches of Our Reform Movement: Programs and Services of
the Departments of Religious Living and
Synagogue Music |
|
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|
|
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JOINT
UAHC-WRJ WORKSHOPS, SERIES C
THURSDAY, DEC. 6, 10:30 A.M.–NOON |
| |
NUMBER
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TITLE
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TRACK
|
| |
C01
|
Social
Justice and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel |
|
| |
C02 |
The Shifting Church/State Landscape: The Supreme Court,
Charitable Choice, and Beyond |
|
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C03
|
This
workshop has been moved to A28
|
|
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C04 |
Developing a Spiritual and Moral Capacity in Our Teens and
Young Adults |
|
| |
C05 |
Imagining Possibilities, Implementing Change: Renewing Worship
in Your Congregation |
|
| |
C06
|
When
Generations Collide: The Aging of the Baby-Boomer Generation
and Its Implications for Synagogue Membership, Finance,
and Programming |
|
| |
C07 |
Reform Judaism in the Twenty-First Century: The Latest Findings
from the National Jewish Population Survey |
|
| |
C08 |
The Spiritual Dimensions of Social Justice |
|
| |
C09
|
Healthy
Environment, Healthy Children: What You and Your Congregation
Can Do
|
|
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C10
|
The
Jewish Stake in Globalization: Pursuing Justice in the New
Economy |
|
| |
C11 |
A Mitzvah for Leadership: Encouraging Conversion in Our
Synagogue Communities |
|
| |
C12 |
Raising Your Congregation’s Membership IQ: Recruitment,
Integration, and Retention |
|
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C13 |
Rethinking Synagogue Dues: Creating a Culture of Commitment
in Your Congregation |
|
| |
C14 |
The Changing Role of the Sh’liach Tzibur: Challenges
for Twenty-First Century Prayer Leadership |
|
| |
C15 |
So
You Want to Be a Jewish Professional? Meet with HUC-JIR
|
|
| |
C16 |
Strengthening the Partnership: Creating Sacred Partnerships
between the President and Clergy |
|
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C17
|
The
Power of Full-Time Jewish Education: Preschools, Day Schools,
and Camps |
|
| |
C18 |
Creating and Sustaining a Caring Family Concerns Committee:
Pathways to Personal and Congregational
Transformation |
|
| |
C19 |
Reaching Them Early: Programs for Expectant Parents and
Parents with Young Children |
|
| |
C20 |
Jewish
Solidarity: Maintaining a Committment to Israel
|
|
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C21 |
Dealing
with Tragedy: Practical Jewish Responses
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UAHC
WORKSHOPS, SERIES D
THURSDAY, DEC. 6, 4:15 P.M.–5:45 P.M. |
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NUMBER
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TITLE
|
TRACK
|
| |
D01 |
Between Temptation, Transgression, and Transformation: Genesis/B’reishit
and the Birth of Possibilities, Dr. Tamara Eskenazi,
HUC-JIR
Scholar-in-Residence, Session 1 |
|
| |
D02 |
Looking for Torah in All the Wrong Places: A Rabbinic Story
of Personal Transformation, Dr. Michael Chernick, HUC-JIR
Scholar-in-Residence, Session 1 |
|
| |
D03 |
The Language of Prayer: Dr. Mark Washofsky, HUC-JIR Scholar-in-Residence,
Session 1 |
|
| |
D04 |
Beyond Crisis Management: Rethinking the Education Committee
|
|
| |
D05 |
Sizing Up Your Congregation’s Membership Potential:
Using Your Size to Best Advantage |
|
| |
D06 |
Renewing Shabbat Morning Congregational Worship |
|
| |
D07 |
From the Proposal to the Chuppah and Beyond: Spiritualizing
and Strengthening Our Future Families |
|
| |
D08 |
Do the Right Thing: Real World Ethics
|
|
| |
D09
|
Engaging
Generation E: Understanding Today’s Youth Culture and
Its Implications for Congregations |
|
| |
D10 |
The Synagogue As a Source of Spiritual Strength for Care
Givers |
|
| |
D11 |
Communicate!: Internet Resources for Congregational
Leaders |
|
| |
D12
|
Ruth
and Beyond: Successful Congregational Models of Tikkun
Leil Shavuot, S’lichot, and Yom Kippur Study |
|
| |
D13 |
Developing Your Planned Giving Program to Ensure Your Long-Term
Financial Stability |
|
| |
D14 |
Dealing
with Conflicting Leadership Styles
|
|
| |
D15
|
Recruiting,
Training, and Retaining Religious School Teachers |
|
| |
D16 |
Jewish Role Models: Making Room for Brotherhood |
|
| |
D17 |
Small Congregations: Music That Works When the Worshipers
and Resources Are Few |
|
| |
D18 |
Dreamers and Guardians: Women Building Reform Jewish Communities
|
|
| |
D19 |
Building Financial Resources for Youth Programs
|
|
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D20 |
Rising from the Ashes: What Your Congregation Can Do to
Rebuild Judaism in Europe |
|
| |
D21 |
How Medium-Sized Congregations (under 600 Members) Spend
Their Money
|
|
| |
D22 |
Being Great Jewish In-Laws to Interfaith Couples |
|
| |
D23 |
For Temple Presidents: Creating and Maintaining Your Leadership
Team |
|
| |
D24 |
Beyond the Organ: Using Instruments in Your Worship Services
|
|
| |
D25 |
Building Local Coalitions of Conscience: Working with Muslims
and Arab Americans
|
|
| |
D26 |
Be Fruitful and Multiply: Issues of Infertility and Adoption
|
|
| |
D27 |
That All May Enter: Opening Our Synagogues to Those with
Disabilities
|
|
| |
D28 |
Chanting the Prophets: Learning Haftarah Trope in Three
Days, Session 2 of 3 (Session 1 is A06; session 3 is a Saturday
Torah Study Breakfast.) |
|
| |
D29 |
Riches of Our Reform Movement: Programs and Services of
the Departments of Synagogue Management and Jewish Family
Concerns |
|
| |
D30 |
Striking
Sparks/Raising Ruach: 20's & 30's Leadership
Kick-off and Orientation |
|
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UAHC
WORKSHOPS, SERIES E
FRIDAY, DEC. 7, 8:30 A.M.–10:00 A.M. |
| |
NUMBER
|
TITLE
|
TRACK
|
| |
E01 |
Reaching Your Members: Using E-Mail and the Web to Communicate
|
|
| |
E02 |
Bar/Bat Mitzvah: Maximizing the Experience |
|
| |
E03 |
Social Action As Outreach: Opportunities for Involving the
Non-Jewish Spouse |
|
| |
E04 |
Growing Your Adult Learning Programs: Successful Models
|
|
| |
E05
|
Reform
Jewish Practice: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow |
|
| |
E06 |
“Will
You Still Need Me…When I’m Sixty-Four?” The
Evolving Relationship between Boomers and Synagogues |
|
| |
E07 |
Rabbinic Evaluation: Toward Ongoing Mutual Review in the
Synagogue |
|
| |
E08 |
Income Sources for Congregations: The Big Picture |
|
| |
E09 |
Developing Progressive Judaism in Israel: Personal Stories |
|
| |
E10 |
Life after NFTY: Preparing Our High School Youth for Reform
Jewish Life on a Pluralistic Campus |
|
| |
E11 |
Making Meetings Jewish: Putting Study on the Agenda |
|
| |
E12 |
Engaging Junior Youth in Congregational Life: Keys to Post-B’nei
Mitzvah Retention |
|
| |
E13
|
Managing
the Temple Office |
|
| |
E14 |
Being Great Jewish Grandparents to Children of Interfaith
Couples |
|
| |
E15 |
How Are We Doing? Tools to Assess Your Religious Education
Program |
|
| |
E16 |
Introducing New Melodies into Your Worship Services: How,
When, What, and Why? |
|
| |
E17 |
The Experiment in Congregational Education On-Line |
|
| |
E18 |
Synagogue As a Center for Wellness and Healthy Aging |
|
| |
E19
|
Custody
Issues: The Religious and Legal Ramifications |
|
| |
E20 |
Walking Together: Bringing Jews, Christians, and Muslims
Together in Your Community |
|
| |
E21 |
Songs of Healing |
|
| |
E22 |
Future Leader Programs: Creating Board Members for the Future
|
|
| |
E23 |
Youth in the Small Congregation: Challenges and Opportunities
|
|
| |
E24 |
The Jewish Experience As a Model for Teaching Tolerance
and Conflict Resolution |
|
| |
E25 |
How to Figure Your MUM Dues |
|
| |
E26
|
New
Models for Social Action: Weaving Social Justice into Your
Total Congregational Program |
|
| |
E27 |
Acquiring a Torah: Purchasing, Borrowing, and Commissioning
Options |
|
| |
E28 |
Outreach Families in Reform Synagogues: Meeting the Challenge
of Integration |
|
| |
E29 |
Riches of Our Reform Movement:Programs and Services of the
Small Congregations Department and the UAHC Youth Division
|
|
| |
E30 |
Working
with Interfaith Couples Facilitator Training, Session 1
of 2 (Session 2 is Workshop F27) |
|
| |
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UAHC
WORKSHOPS, SERIES F
FRIDAY, DEC. 7, 2:45 P.M.–4:15 P.M. |
| |
NUMBER
|
TITLE
|
TRACK
|
| |
F01 |
Competing Models of Transformation: Ezra and Nehemiah and
the Reconstruction of Jewish Life,
Dr. Tamara Eskenazi, HUC-JIR Scholar-in-Residence, Session
2 |
|
| |
F02 |
An Ugly Encounter: Revisioning the Nature of Leadership,
Dr. Michael Chernick, HUC-JIR Scholar-in-Residence, Session
2 |
|
| |
F03 |
Flags on the Bimah, Dr. Mark Washofsky, HUC-JIR Scholar-in-Residence,
Session 2 |
|
| |
F04 |
Social Action As a Gateway to Synagogue Transformation |
|
| |
F05 |
Creating and Maintaining an Effective Staff Team
|
|
| |
F06 |
The Role of the Non-Jew in the Synagogue: Delineating Boundaries,
Opening the Gates |
|
| |
F07 |
Parents Are the Real Teachers: Goals for Parent Education
Programs |
|
| |
F08
|
Thirteen
at Any Age: Developing Adult B’nei Mitzvah Programs
|
|
| |
F09 |
Don’t Just Sit There…Pray! Developing a Worshipful
Congregation |
|
| |
F10 |
Distance Learning: Using the Internet for Teacher Training
|
|
| |
F11 |
Making the Whole More Than the Sum of Its Parts: School,
Camp, Youth Group, Israel, and Home, Session 2 of 2 (Session
1 is B19.) |
|
| |
F12 |
Different Faces in the Mirror: Implications of the New Jewish
Family for Synagogues and Schools |
|
| |
F13 |
Turn It, for Everything Is in It: Resources for Renewing
Torah Study |
|
| |
F14 |
Creating a Sexual Harassment Policy |
|
| |
F15 |
Be a Mensch: Teaching Ethics to Children |
|
| |
F16
|
Saying
Good-bye and Saying Hello: Successful Rabbinic Transitions
|
|
| |
F17 |
Is Your Congregation Youth Friendly? A Self-Evaluation |
|
| |
F18 |
The Challenges of Success in Outreach:New Approaches and
Next Steps |
|
| |
F19 |
Small Congregations: Creating Meaningful Worship without
Clergy |
|
| |
F20 |
A
Tune for Every Season: A Practical Guide to the Music of
the Jewish Calendar |
|
| |
F21
|
Creating
Jewish Memories: The Power of Family Home Rituals |
|
| |
F22
|
The
Role of the Rabbi in Fund-Raising |
|
| |
F23 |
Music to Enhance the Jewish Wedding: Keeping Wagner Off
the Guest List |
|
| |
F24 |
Making
Your Congregation the “Place to Be” for Young
Adults |
|
| |
F25 |
Riches of Our Reform Movement: Programs and Services of
the Departments of Adult Jewish Growth
and Jewish Education |
|
| |
F26
|
Recruiting
Professionals for the Jewish Future: A Training Program
for HUC Alumni |
|
| |
F27 |
Working
with Interfaith Couples Facilitator Training, Session 2
of 2 (Session 1 is Workshop E30) |
|
| |
F28 |
Social
Pluralism: Progressive Judaism's Mission in Israel |
|
| |
|
|
|
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|
| |
UAHC
WORKSHOPS, SERIES G
SUNDAY, DEC. 9, 10:30 A.M.–NOON |
| |
NUMBER
|
TITLE
|
TRACK
|
| |
G01
|
Creating
and Maintaining Your Temple’s Social Action Programs |
|
| |
G02
|
Personnel
Issues for Congregations: Hiring, Job Descriptions, Contracts,
and Benefits |
|
| |
G03 |
Synagogue Growth Isn’t Only Measured in Numbers: Building
Vitality When Membership Declines |
|
| |
G04
|
Innovative
Approaches to Teaching Talmud to Adults |
|
| |
G05
|
A
Love Affair with God: Seeking Modern Spirituality |
|
| |
G06 |
The Synagogue As a Center for Healing |
|
| |
G07 |
Family Education and Your Congregation: Lessons from the
Field |
|
| |
G08 |
Small
Congregations: Confronting the Challenge of Limited Financial
Resources |
|
| |
G09 |
Recruiting, Training, and Supporting Youth Advisors: A Key
Role of the Youth Committee |
|
| |
G10
|
The
Spirituality of Aging: The Spiritual Search of the New and
Emerging Jewish Older Adult |
|
| |
G11 |
Engaging New Interfaith Couples in Jewish Life: Approaches
for Family, Clergy, and Congregation |
|
| |
G12 |
Running a Capital Campaign for Physical Plant and Endowment |
|
| |
G13 |
Succeeding at Jewish Education: Three Congregational Models
|
|
| |
G14 |
Developing
a Book Discussion Group in Your Synagogue: Starting Your
Group and Training Lay Facilitators |
|
| |
G15 |
Striking
Sparks/Raising Ruach: 20's & 30's Leadership
Wrap-Up and Next Steps |
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