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3rd North American Chevra Kadisha Conference - Workshops |
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Medium size group - speaker or panels with discussion |
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Emotional & Spiritual |
Communal |
Practical |
Historical |
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Needs of CK Members and of the Families |
CK Organizing and Development |
Tahara and Other Hands On Issues |
Basis and Evolution of CK Practice |
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1: Sunday - 3:45-5 pm |
Comforting the soul - creating a safe place for a post-Tahara discussion. Rabbi Mel Glazer |
Developing good working relationships between the funeral home and Chevra Kadisha - Andy Fier, Wendy Kraft, Rena Boroditsky |
Lessons Learned - Review of the beginning Tahara demonstration |
Individual vs Community: death as a Jewish Communal Challenge - Dr. Sylvie Goldberg |
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2: Monday - 10:15-11:30 am |
Chevra Kadisha first responders - comforting and helping the newly bereaved family make initial decisions about the funeral, tahara, shmira - Jeff Davidson |
In the beginning - Educating the community about Jewish death & mourning traditions to help develop interest in the Chevra Kadisha - Rochel Berman |
Sew in the Mourning - History and manufacture of Tachrichim - Elizabeth Menkin |
Rituals,
books and people: the emergence and development of the Chevra Kadisha in |
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3: Monday - 2:15-3:30pm |
Physical & Spiritual care at the end of life - balancing the role of rabbi and Chevra Kadisha - Rabbi Felicia Sol, Rabbi Jay Yaacov Schwartz, Helen Radin & Susan Rosenthal. |
"Vigil-Keepers for the Morning": The Spiritual and Communal Significance of Sh'mirah – Rabbi Regina Sandler-Phillips |
Death Burial and Mourning Issues for Intermarried Families and the Chevra Kadisha - Carol Cunradi and Rabbi Stuart Kelman |
Applbaum Archives - 40 years of Chevra Kadisha organizing in the Orthodox community- David Zinner |
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4: Monday - 3:45-5 pm |
Writing Through Grief: Obituaries, Eulogies and Memoirs - Ari Goldman & Samuel Freedman |
Organizing a chevra kadisha – creating a caring culture, identifying models, making it work – Rabbi Regina Sandler-Phillips and Marion Schwartz |
For Rabbis - Developing and maintaining rabbinic support for the Chevra Kadisha - Rabbi Stephen Roberts, Rabbi Adam Mintz, Rabbi Larry Sebert, and Rabbi Stuart Kellman) |
Why do we say and do this? - Taharah prayers and more - Rabbi Mosha Epstein |
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5: Tuesday - 10:15-11:30 am |
The One Who Heals the Broken Hearted... - The Psychological Wisdom of Bereavement Halacha and Tradition - Rabbi Joseph Ozarowski |
The Gamliel Initiative: Negotiating funeral and burial contracts - Bob Hausman |
To Save One Life is as if YOU Saved the World: The Chevra Kadisha’s Role in Donation for Transplant - Lisa Dinhofer |
".
. . among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem": Parallelism in
personal |