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Last Year's Schedule

Friday, October 31

1:00-3:00 Registration, Kraft Center Lobby

3:00-4:00 Welcome and Opening Program

4:00-4:30 Prepare for Shabbat

4:35-5:15 Mishpacha Groups Introduction

5:30-6:15 Candle Lighting [actual candlelighting 5:35 pm] and Shabbat Services with Rabbi Jacob Staub, Shoshana Jedwab, and Chani Getter

6:15-7:45 Dinner and Singing

8:00-11:00 •Evening Session 1: Halloween Parade in the Village with Ri Turner

•Evening Session 2: Jewish Film and Discussion led by Vanessa "Vinny" Prell of NUJLS

•Evening Session 3: Tisch (song, drink, celebration) led by Afraim Katzir and Zvi Bellin

11:00 Laila Tov! (Good Night!)


Saturday, November 1st

9:30-12 •Shabbat davening option 1: Shacharit w/ Rabbi Jacob Staub, Shoshana Jedwab, and Chani Getter

•Shabbat davening option 2: Shacharit at area shuls

•Shabbat davening option 3:
10-11 Back to School: Judaism 101 with Nehama Benmosche
11-12 Yoga with Daniel Max

12:00-1:20 Lunch (including Nehirim First-Timers Table with Zvi Bellin and Professional Queers/Professional Jews/Professional QueerJews Meet-and-Greet Table with Ri Turner)

1:30-2:30 Afternoon Session 1

•Option 1: Going to and Becoming Ourselves: Transformations and Covenants in Lech Lecha with Dr. Caryn Aviv of Jewish Mosaic and the University of Denver

•Option 2: Intergenerational Community Building with Rabbi Jacob Staub and Jonathan Vatner

•Option 3: Integration of our Jewish Queer Lives with Chani Getter

•Option 4: Educating Your Clergy: The Next Step in GLBT Activism with Gabriel Blau

2:40-3:40 Afternoon Session 2

•Option 1: Creating a Truly Inclusive Jewish Community with Lynn Schusterman, Jay Michaelson, and Dror Chankin-Gould

•Option 2: The Other World: An Exploration of Halloween for Jews with Rabbi Jill Hammer

•Option 3: Trans/Gender 101 with Jase Schwartz

•Option 4: Jews, Muslims and other Interfaith Dating Adventures with Randy Furash and Ty Power

3:45-4:45 Afternoon Session 3

•Option 1: Unkosher Flesh: Noah's Nakedness and Ham's Curse--A peek at the Parshah with Rabbi David Dunn Bauer

•Option 3: Hell No We Won't Go!: Talmudic Texts Of Protest and Social Change with Shoshana Jedwab

•Option 3: Kishkas: Fat Acceptance for a Personal Revolution with Devra Polack

•Option 4: Create your own workshop

---Telling Our Stories: Coming Out Jewish & Queer with D'ror Chankin-Gould

---Sign up to lead your own workshop in the lobby!

4:50-5:50 Mishpacha groups

6:00-6:45 Evening Spiritual Practice

•Option 1: Mincha with Aaron Weininiger

•Option 2: Meditation with Jay Michaelson

•Option 3: 12-Step Meeting

•Option 4: Student talk time with Zvi Bellin and Vinny Prell

6:45-8:00 Dinner

8:00-8:15 Traditional Maariv with Aaron Weininger

8:15-8:45 Havdalah

9:00-10:30 Evening Program: Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad

11pm Laila Tov! (Good Night!)


Sunday, November 2nd

9:00-9:50 Morning Program

•Option 1: Early Risers Coffee Klatch

•Option 2: Yoga with Daniel Max

9:50-10:40 Breakfast (including optional discussion table with Jay Michaelson about his 150 days in silence)

10:50-12:00 We will begin promptly: Keynote Panel on Social Justice featuring Vanessa Prell, Ty Power, Becca W., and Sasha T. Goldberg

The perfect end-piece to a weekend full of programming that has centered around Judaism and social justice, community building, and Jewish texts dealing with social change, this keynote panel will feature Nehirim teachers and activists Vinny Prell, Ty Power, Becca W. and Sasha T. Goldberg will be discussing current domestic issues in social justice. The panelists will address feminism, race, interfaith coalition building, community organizing, welfare and the economy, intergenerational work and ageism, how those issues overlap and intersect; and, lastly, how we as Jews can take a hands-on approach to tackling that popular catch phrase, "Tikkun Olam." We invite you to be part of the dialogue; there will be time for discussion and Q&A; afterwards.

12:10-1:00 Closing program/ Last mishpacha group