| Time | Chevra Kadisha | Tahara | Chaplaincy | Cemetery | ||||
| 8:00-noon | Sunday Brunch (Ongoing Registration) | |||||||
| noon-12:30 | Introductions: Hosted by David Zinner | |||||||
| 12:30-12:45 | Welcome From Sponsors: Michael Slater, Rabbis Mark Diamond & Jason Weiner, Kalsman | |||||||
| 12:45-1:00 | Welcome from Track Coordinators: Harley Felstein, Carol Cunradi, Rabbi Anne Brener | |||||||
| 1:00-2:00 | Opening Speaker – Comforting the Comforters – Rabbi David Wolpe | |||||||
| 2:00-2:10 | B R E A K | |||||||
| 3:10-4:10 | Tahara Demo – Rick Light | Chaplaining a Community – Rabbi Myrna Matsa | Chevra Kadisha and Jewish Cemeteries working together | |||||
| 4:10-4:20 | B R E A K | |||||||
| 4:20-5:20 | Ethical Wills – Muriel Dance | Processing Emotions After Doing a Tahara | Becoming a Caring Community – Rabbi Anne Brener | Marketing Your Cemetery for Sales – Bob Zev | ||||
| 5:20-6:20 | Gender Issues in the Chevra Kadisha | Marketing Your Cemetery for Fundraising – Bob Zev | ||||||
| 6:20-6:30 | Mincha | B R E A K | ||||||
| 6:30-7:30 | Sunday Dinner 6:30-7:30 | |||||||
| 7:30-8:30 | Plenary Session: End of Life Encounters From the Front Lines – How well meaning clergy and individuals can sometimes makes things worse – Rabbi Jason Weiner | |||||||
| 8:30-9:00 | Ma’ariv | B R E A K | ||||||
| 8:30-10:00 | Evening Program: Green Issues – Natural Burial, Green Tahara, and Standard Setting – Rabbis Stuart Kelman and Janet Madden; Green Burial Council | Evening Program: Chanting During Tahara | ||||||
| Time | Chevra Kadisha | Tahara | Chaplaincy | Cemetery | ||||
| 7:00-8:30 | Shachrit 7-8:00 | Monday Breakfast 7:00-8:30 | ||||||
| 8:30-9:30 | Morning Plenary: Preparation for Shiva – Observations of a Rebellious Daughter – Reb Mimi Feigelson | |||||||
| 9:30-9:40 | B R E A K | Bus to Mt. Sinai Cemetery in Simi Valley | ||||||
| 9:40-10:40 | Outreach to the next Generation | Moving Tahara – Dance – Aliza Shapiro and Andrea Hodos | Journey of the Soul – Rabbi Eli Spitz | Developing Plans for Unused Land | ||||
| 10:40-11:40 | Chevra Kadisha – Across the Pond and Down Under | Insurance – Love It and Hate It | ||||||
| 11:40-11:50 | B R E A K | Cremated Remains – Where Do We Bury? | ||||||
| 11:50-12:30 | Monday Lunch 11:50-12:30 | Lunch | ||||||
| 12:30-12:45 | Kavod v’Nichum and Gamliel Institute Update: Rabbi Stuart Kelman and Dr. Michael Slater | Community – Bringing People to the Cemetery | ||||||
| 12:45-1:30 | Lunch Plenary: Grief as a Spiritual Path – Rabbi Anne Brener | |||||||
| 1:30-1:40 | B R E A K | |||||||
| 1:40-2:35 | Identity Transitions – Stories of the Living and the Dead – Reb Mimi Feigelson | Infection Control in Tahara – Dr. Joel Ackelsburg | Chaplaincy as Outreach – Rabbi Pearl Bar Lev | Closing – Last One Out – Turn Off the Lights | ||||
| 2:45-3:40 | Tahara & Tissue Donation – David Zinner | Being with the Dying – Rabbi Carla Howard | Low Income Burial | |||||
| 3:40-3:50 | B R E A K | |||||||
| 3:50-5:50 | Chevra Kadisha Organizing in LA | Who’s Talking to Whom When We Do a Tahara? Rabbi Stuart Kelman and Dan Fendel | Spiritual Support by the Numbers – Adi Bodenstein and Christina Shu | |||||
| 5:50-6:00 | Mincha | B R E A K | Bus returns from Mt. Sinai Cemetery | |||||
| 6:00-7:00 | Monday Dinner 6:00-7:00 | |||||||
| 7:00-8:00 | Evening Plenary: Rabbi Elliot Dorff – Ethical, Environmental and Financial Issues in the Burial vs. Cremation Discussion | |||||||
| 8:00-8:10 | Ma’ariv | B R E A K | ||||||
| 8:15-10:00 | Evening Program: Moving Tahara – Dance – Aliza Shapiro and Andrea Hodos | Evening Program: Networking Discussion – moderated by David Zinner | ||||||
| Time | Chevra Kadisha | Tahara | Chaplaincy | Cemetery | ||||
| 7:00-7:30 | Shachrit | |||||||
| 7:30-8:30 | Tuesday Breakfast 7:30-8:30 | |||||||
| 8:30-9:30 | Breakfast Plenary: How Do We Get the Biggest Secret Of the Jewish Community Out To The Public – Rob Eshman – LA Jewish Journal? | |||||||
| 9:30-10:00 | State of the Chevra Kadisha Movement, David Zinner | |||||||
| 10:00-10:10 | B R E A K | |||||||
| 10:10-11:10 | Organizing a North American Education Effort – Burial vs Cremation | Spiritual Hands – Rabbi Me’irah Iliinsky | Creating Funerals for Unaffiliated Families | Unanswered Questions – Unresolved Issues – Brainstorming and Networking | ||||
| 11:10-12:10 | Muslim Practices Around Death and Burial | Networking for chaplains- facilitated by Rabbi Anne Brener | ||||||
| 12:10-12:30 | Tuesday Lunch 12:10-12:30 (take-away available) | |||||||
| 12:30-2:00 | Kavod v’Nichum Board Meeting | |||||||
| 3:00-4:00 | B R E A K | |||||||
| 3:00-10:00 | Tuesday afternoon and Evening – Gamliel Institute | |||||||
| 8:00-noon | Wednesday – Gamliel Institute | |||||||