SUNDAY
CONVENTION OPENING
CDS #1 & #2 Rabbi Perry Raphael Rank, Midway Jewish Center, Syosset, New York; president, Rabbinical Assembly Welcome: Rabbi Marcelo Rittner, Comunidad Bet-El, Mexico City; chair, RA Convention Presenters: Rabbi Michael B. Greenbaum, Vice-chancellor, The Jewish Theological Seminary; Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, dean, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and vice president, University of Judaism; Rabbi Adrian Herbst, dean of studies, Seminario Latinoamericano Marshall T. Meyer, Buenos Aires, Argentina
CDS #3 & #4 Dr. Michael A. Meyer, Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, OH Remarks: Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, chancellor, The Jewish Theological Seminary Presentation to Rabbi Schorsch: Rabbi Perry Raphael Rank, Midway Jewish Center, Syosset, NY, president, Rabbinical AssemblyGreetings: President Vicente Fox Gala Dinner Toast: Rabbi Benjamín E. Scolnic
CD #5 Rabbi Marcelo Polakoff (Monday)
MONDAY
LIMUD
CD #6 Rabbi David R. Golinkin, president, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem
CD #7 Rabbi Miriyam Glazer, professor in literature; chair, dept. of literature, communications & Media, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies
CD #8 Rabbi Neil Gillman, Aaron Rabinowitz and Simon H Rifkind Professor of Jewish Philosophy, The Jewish Theological Seminary
CD #9 Rabbi Alfredo Borodowski, executive director, American Friends of Shalom Hartman Institute
CD #10 Rabbi Paula Reimers, doctoral candidate, Baylor University
CD #11 Prof. Daniel Fainstein, dean, Universidad Hebraica
CD #12 Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, dean, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies; vice president, University of Judaism
CD #13 Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, rector; Sol and Anne Dorff, Professor of Philosophy, University of Judaism
CD #14 Rabbi Gail Labovitz, assistant professor of rabbinics and department chair, University of Judaism
CD #15 Rabbi Reuven Hammer, Jerusalem, Israel; past president, Rabbinical Assembly
PLENARY
CD #16 Prof Judith Bokser-Liwerant, director, Graduate school of Political and Social Sciences, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico; chair, Academic Committee, Universidad Hebraica, Mexico City; Prof. Enrique Krauze, historian and essayist; member, Mexican Academy of History; author, Mexico: Biography of Power
CD #17 to Rabbi Joseph Wernik on his retirement as Chief Operating Officer, Joint Retirement Board Honoring 50-Year ColleaguesTribute to Rabbi Joseph Wernik on his retirement as executive director of Masorti Olami
CDS #18 & #19 The Honorable David Dadonn, Ambassador of the State of Israel to Mexico Presenter: Dr. Barry Rubin, director, Global Research in International Afairs (GLORIA) Center, Intradisciplinary Center University; author, Arafat: A Political Biography and The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East Response , followed by discussion: Rabbi Peretz A. Rodman, President, Rabbinical Assembly Israel
TUESDAY
LIMUD
CD #20 Rabbi David R. Golinkin, president, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem
CD #21 Rabbi Miriyam Glazer, professor in Literature; chair, Dept. of Literature, Communications & Media, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies
CD #22 Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, rector; Sol and Anne Dorff, Professor of Philosophy, University of Judaism
CD #24 Prof. Edna Aizenberg, Marymount Manhattan College
CD #25 Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, dean, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and vice president, University of Judaism
CD #26 Rabbi Paula Reimers, doctoral candidate, Baylor University
SKILLS WORKSHOPS
CD #29 Rabbi Lauren Eichler Berkun, Congregation Shaarey Zedek
CD #30 Rabbi Jerome M. Epstein, executive vice president, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
CD #31 Rabbi Felipe Goodman, Temple Beth Sholom
CD #32 Rabbi Dario Feiguin, Comunidad Amijai, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Jazan Ari Litvak, Comunidad Bet-El, Mexico City, Mexico
PLENARY
CD #33 Rabbi Perry Raphael Rank, Midway Jewish Center, president, Rabbinical Assembly Installing Officer: Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, chancellor, The Jewish Theological Seminary In Tribute: Rabbi Jonathan E. Berkun, Congregation Shaarey Zedek Response: Rabbi Alvin K. Berkun, Tree of Life Congregation, president-elect, Rabbinical Assembly Passing of Rabbinical Assembly Torah Mantle: Dr. Howard Elson, vice president and Joel Don Goldstein, executive director, Tree of Life Congregation Response: Dr. Howard Elson
CD #34 Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, Chancellor, The Jewish Theological Seminary Remarks: Rabbi Isidoro Aizenberg, rabbi emeritus, Conservative Synagogue of Jamaica Estates
WEDNESDAY
LIMUD
CD #35 Rabbi Reuven Hammer, Jerusalem, Israel; past president, Rabbinical Assembly
CD #36 Rabbi Neil Gilman, Aaron Rabinowitz and Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Jewish Philosophy, The Jewish Theological Seminary
CD #37 Rabbi David R. Golinkin, president, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem
CD #38 Rabbi Michael Graetz, rabbi emeritus, Congregation Magen Avraham, Omer, Israel; spiritual leader, Shiluv
CD #39 Dr. Lori Lefkovitz, Gottesman Professor of Gender and Judaism and director of Kolot: The Center for Jewish Women’s and Gender Studies, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
CD #40 Hazzan Steven Stoehr, Congregation Beth Shalom, president Cantors Assembly
PLENARY
CDS #41 & #42 Dr. Jack Wertheimer, provost, The Jewish Theological Seminary Rabbi Alan Silverstein, Congregation Agudath Israel, past president, Rabbinical Assembly; Francine Klagsbrun, noted writer and columnist; author of The Fourth Commandment Remember the Sabbath Day; former chair, Board of Overseers, Library, The Jewish Theological Seminary
CD #43 Rabbi Dario Feiguin, Comunidad Amijai; Rabbi Adrian Gottfried, Comunidade Shalom Tribute in Memory of Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer: Rabbi Guillermo Bronstein, Asociacion Judia de Beneficiencia y Culto de 1870
THURSDAY
LIMUD
CD #44 Rabbi Abraham Skorka, rector, Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano Marshall T. Meyer
CD #45 Rabbi Mayer Rabinowitz, associate professor of Talmud, The Jewish Theological Seminary; chair, Joint Bet-Din; member, committee on Jewish Law and Standards
CD #47 Rabbi Paula Reimers, doctoral candidate, Baylor University
CD #48 Rabbi Alfredo Borodowski, executive director, American Friends of Shalom Hartman Institute
PLENARY
CDS #49 & #50 Rabbi Vernon H. Kurtz, North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, past president, Rabbinical Assembly Discussants: Rabbi Baruch Frydman-Kohl, Beth Tzedec Congregation Rabbi Daniel S. Nevins, Adat Shalom Synagogue; Rabbi Elie Spitz, Congregation B’nai Israel
