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National Jewish Retreat 2019

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7:00am EDT

A Guide to Touch the Divine: Women's Preprayer Session Delaware BMrs. Shainie Weingarten Stretch & Intention Exhibit HallMrs. Shelly Dembe The Enigma of Prayer Delaware ARabbi Chaim Block

7:30am EDT

Shacharit Thurgood Marshall Ballroom Beginner's Minyan - Men Delaware ARabbi Zalman Wircberg Beginner's Minyan - Women Delaware BMrs. Chavi Epstein

8:00am EDT

Breakfast Marriott Ballroom

9:15am EDT

The Kosher Pet Delaware ARabbi Mendel Blau Mummies, Midwives and Makkos Virginia ARabbi Dr. Eddie Reichman Shema Exposed Delaware BMrs. Shifra Sharfstein The Essence of a Jew MarylandRabbi Manis Friedman The Zivtofsky case and Divine Providence Virginia CMrs. Alyza Lewin

10:20am EDT

A Taste of Talmud: The Right to Recline Delaware ARabbi Boruch Kaplan Art in Contemporary Jewish Life: A Chassidic Perspective Delaware BMr. Aryeh Wuensch How to Forgive if you can't Forget MarylandRabbi YY Jacobson The Pence Rule and Jewish Law Virginia ARabbi Berel Bell Challah Bake WilsonMrs. Goldie Plotkin

11:25am EDT

How to Overcome Fear and Instill Self Confidence Virginia ARabbi Shalom Paltiel Display of Rare Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Judaica: A Gallery Talk Virginia CMr. Daniel Kestenbaum An Insight Into the Book of Bereshit and the Compelling Life Lessons MarylandRabbi Yitzchok Schochet Jews and US Presidents Delaware ADr. George Dean Teaching with Clarity and Empathy: the Rebbe and Rav Soloveitchik on Education Delaware BRabbi Mark Gottlieb

12:30pm EDT

Lunch Marriott Ballroom

2:00pm EDT

Medical Ethics Roundtable Delaware ARabbi Dr. Eddie Reichman The Baal Shem Tov's Gift to World Jewy Delaware BRabbi Chaim Block The God You Don’t Believe In: on Faith, God, Miracles, Good, and Evil MarylandRabbi Simon Jacobson Women of the Holocaust Virginia ADr. Miriam Klein-Kasenoff The Art of Optimism CoolidgeMrs. Sara Blau The Ultimate Gift Virginia CDr. Simcha Leibovich

3:05pm EDT

Rambam Virginia CRabbi Dovid Flinkenstein Not to Worry:Six Jewish Ideas for Coping with Anxiety Delaware BRabbi Mordechai Dinerman Crossfire MarylandRabbi Boruch Epstein • Rabbi Chaim Block • Rabbi Yitzchok Schochet • Rabbi YY Jacobson Oy Vey! They Became Religious Delaware ARabbi Dovid Eliezrie Soviet Jewry and Collapse of Communism: A Personal Account Virginia AMr. Lev Virine

4:30pm EDT

Pre Shabbat Reception TBA

5:55pm EDT

The Shabbat Effect Delaware BRabbi Shalom Paltiel On Shabbat We All Rest MarylandRabbi Simon Jacobson The Warmth of Shabbat Delaware AR' Shmuel Reichman Candle Lighting Event Virginia AMrs. Shaindy Jacobson

6:30pm EDT

Candle Lighting Foyer

6:50pm EDT

Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat Thurgood Marshall Ballroom

8:00pm EDT

Seudat Shabbat Marriott BallroomRabbi YY Jacobson