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JLI’s Retreat Featured 50 Seminars and Workshops

GREENWICH, CT [CHI] — JLI’s National Jewish Retreat completed its first full day of programming on Wednesday. Participants were able to choose from a menu of more than 50 lectures, seminars and workshops on wide range of subjects.

Some of the intriguing topics were: Where is G-d When It Hurts (Rabbi Yossi Jacobson), Women in the Synagogue, Total Immersion: Thoughts on Mikvah From the Deep (Mrs. Rivka Slonim), Redeeming the New World Economy (Rabbi Asher Crispe), The Land of Israel and its Pursuit of Peace: A Halachik Perspective (Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie), Talmud with Training Wheels (Rabbi Levi Kaplan), Tefilin: Decoding Black Boxes (Rabbi Yossi Jacobson), Who Was a Jew? (Prof. Larry Schiffman), The Jewish Pathology (Rabbi Moshe Bryski), Criminal Confessions and Torture: Moral and Ethical Dilemmas in Talmudic and Modern Law (Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe), Reincarnation and Remediation (Rabbi Asher Crispe), Do You Believe in Angels? (Rabbi Moshe Bryski), Art and Soul (Michoel Muchnik), 355 Years of American Judaism (Prof. Jonathan Sarna), Finding Faith in Adversity (Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie), The Comedy of Marriage (Rabbi Yossi Jacobson), Defiance and Seven Kabbalistic Steps to Highly Effective Parenting (Mrs. S.E. Crispe).

At dinner, a special video presentation was shown featuring Shimon Waronker’s remarkable achievements in the New York City Public School system. To a standing ovation, Mr. Waronker was awarded for his inspiring contribution to education and for being a ‘Light onto the Nations.’

(Photos by: Baruch Ezagui)

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5 Comments

  • look to the east

    I would like if there was a on the ground grass roots group in CH to provided basic Jewish services towards all. Just like sushie, it looks good but it is not real food. That is right when will CH have a real Chabad House?

  • a fan from FL

    hey mi nuvi!! it’s gr8 to see u!

    WOW!! kol hakavod!!

    how do you “tanse af alle chasunis”?

  • a fan from TN

    HI VULVA!

    you look great!

    Dididim, Meish & Zelig can’t wait for you to join them!

  • bex

    RACHEL my little TURTLE..GET AWAY FROM THE SUSHI BAR!! girl u know i love sushi..im expecting u 2 send some to me or atleast save it..ill be in NY in a few days
    anyways looks like ur having tons of fun and it’s a really successful program..wish i was there!