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2025 OHALAH Conference Schedule
שבעים פנים Shivim Panim
Acknowledging, Affirming, and Navigating Community
The Shabbaton schedule will be emailed to registered attendees. Find more information on workshops, presenters and plenaries here. Schedules, presenters and times are subject to change.
Sunday Time |
Sunday Events |
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM |
AOP Smicha Ceremony |
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM |
Smicha Reception and freilach celebration Shuk open for your shopping pleasure! |
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM |
OHALAH Opening Dinner |
7:40 PM - 9:00 PM |
Opening Night Welcome with Musician-in-Residence, Lior Tsarfaty, and Rabbi Jan Salzman, Rabbi Rain Zohav and Rabbi Shawn Zevit |
9:00 PM - Late |
Late night schmoozing, music and socializing |
Monday Times |
Monday Events |
6:30 AM - 7:30 AM 7:15 AM - 6:30 PM |
Morning Meditation Registration/Information Table Open |
7:15 AM - 8:30 AM |
Breakfast OHALAH Cantor's Breakfast ALEPH Ethics Committee |
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM |
Shacharit: Hazzan Jessi Roemer and Friends, in honor of our teachers |
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
Break |
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
Keynote Plenary with Melila Hellner-Eshed, PhD |
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM |
Lunch Focus Group Gleaning your Social Justice Wisdom (for clergy students) Sponsored by ALEPH, Led by Rabbi Debra Kolodny B'nei Kodesh: Raising Children and Working as Clergy Affinity Group Meal with Rabbi Elyssa Austerklein AOP Governors Meeting Shuk open for your shopping pleasure! |
Monday Times |
Monday Events |
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM |
Workshops: Concurrent Sessions 1. Power Dynamics, Consent, and Tools for Self-Awareness with Hazzan Diana Brewer 2. Jews and Indigenousness: Contradictions, Problems, and Blessings with Rabbi David Seidenberg 3. Opening to Guidance through Shemot Kedoshim/Holy Names with Rabbi Hanna Tiferet Siegel and Dr. Stacia Kenet, Mashpi’ah Ruchanit 4. Earth-Based Video Torah for Healing a Fractured World with Rabbi Aaron Rotenberg and Rabbi Natan Margalit |
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM |
Break |
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
Workshops: Concurrent Sessions 1. Establishing and Sustaining Your Devekut with Rabbi Shefa Gold 2. Discernment Pastoral Counseling with Rabbinic Pastor Carl Viniar 3. “YHVH Yevarekh Et Amo BShalom (Mishna Oktzin 3:12)” ה' יְבָרֵךְ אֶת עַמּוֹ בַשָּׁלוֹם Baal HaSulam’s Torah of Peace with Rabbi Reuben Modek 4. Building a Renewal Community in a Secular Jewish Landscape: a 30-Year Case Study with Rabbi Dan Goldblatt |
5:15 PM - 5:45 PM |
Mincha: Rabbinic Student Margo Wolfson and Rabbinic Pastor Chaya Lerner |
6:00 PM - 7:15 PM |
Dinner Focus Group Gleaning your Social Justice Wisdom (for ordained clergy) Sponsored by ALEPH, Led by Rabbi Debra Kolodny AOP Governors Meeting Shuk open for your shopping pleasure! |
7:15 PM - 7:50 PM |
Maariv: Class of 2021: Hazzan Stephanie Weishaar, Rabbi Carl Woolf, Hazzan Steve Margolin, Rabbi Irwin Keller, Rabbinic Pastor Chaya Lerner, Rabbi Charna Rosenholtz, Rabbi Lex Rofeberg |
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM |
From Sorrow to Song: Jewish Music for Healing and Transformation with Musician in Residence, Lior Tsarfaty |
9:30 PM - ? |
Late night schmoozing, music and singing |
Tuesday Times |
Tuesday Events |
6:30 AM - 7:30 AM 7:30 AM - 6:30 PM |
Morning Meditation Information Desk Open |
7:15 AM - 8:15 AM |
Breakfast RPA Annual Meeting ALEPH Communities Open House |
8:15 AM - 9:00 AM |
Shacharit: Hazzan Jack Kessler's Students led by many Cantors and Cantorial Students |
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM |
Plenary on Cultivating Conscious Community: Texts, Tools and Group Wisdom with Rabbi Andrea Cohen-Kiener and Rabbi Tirzah Firestone |
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM |
Break |
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
Workshops: Concurrent Sessions 1. Salvaging Hilkhot Lashon Hara with Rabbi Jeremy Sher 2. Listening for the Still Small Voice with Rabbi Lori Klein and Rabbi Lori Shaller 3. B'nai Mitzvah Soup to Nuts: A Keva Guide with Rabbinic Pastor Cantor Lisa Levine 4. The Torah of Agreeing to Disagree with Rabbi Evan Krame |
12:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
Lunch on Your Own Focus Group Gleaning Your Social Justice Wisdom (for clergy students) Sponsored by ALEPH, led by Rabbi Debra Kolodny Shuk open for your shopping pleasure! |
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM |
Introduction to Rabbi Burt Jacobson's book, Living in the Presence with Rabbi Diane Elliot, Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, and Rabbi Zvika Krieger |
1:50 PM - 2:50PM |
Photo Walking with Spirit led by Rabbi Julie Danan Chair Yoga for Balance and Mindfulness with Reb Cantor Lisa Levine RYT500 Yoga Alliance |
Tuesday Times |
Tuesday Events |
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM |
ALEPH Report |
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM |
Mincha: Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan |
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM |
Break |
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM |
Integral Halakah Plenary: Flawed Beings Learning From Flawed Teachers w/ Rabbi Elizabeth Goldstein and Rabbi SaraLeya Schley |
5:30 PM - 6:45 PM |
Dinner Focus Group Gleaning your Social Justice Wisdom (for ordained clergy) Sponsored by ALEPH, Led by Rabbi Debra Kolodny AOP Governors Meeting Shuk open for your shopping pleasure! |
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM |
Workshop: When I Sit in Darkness G-D is My Light with Keynote Presenter, Melila Hellner-Eshed, PhD |
8:45 PM - 9:00 PM |
Building Our Mishkan With Rabbi Andrea Cohen-Kiener |
9:00 PM - 9:30 PM |
Ma'ariv: Rabbi Zvika Krieger, Rabbi Diane Elliot and Hazzan Shulamit Wise Fairman. In honor of Rabbi Burt Jacobson z"l |
9:30 PM - Late |
Dance with Rabbinic Student Dan Yolles |
Wednesday Times |
Wednesday Events |
6:30 AM - 7:30 AM 7:30 AM - 6:30 PM |
Morning Meditation Information Desk Open |
7:15 AM - 8:15 AM 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
Breakfast AOP VAAD Meeting |
8:15 AM - 9:00 AM |
Shacharit: Hazzan Evlyn Gould and Rabbi Yitz Husbands-Hankin |
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM |
Break |
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM |
Tikkun Olam Plenary: Navigating in the Wake of October 7th, facilitated by Rabbi David Cooper. Featured Panelists: Rabbi Debra Kolodny, Rabbi Naomi Steinberg, Rabbinic Pastor Carl B. Viniar, Rabbi Shawn Zevit and Rabbi Rain Zohav |
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM |
Break |
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM |
Workshops: Concurrent Sessions 1. Deep Listening Across the Generational Divide with Rabbi Diane Elliot and Rabbi Irwin Keller 2. Swords into Plowshares with Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin 3. Kol Refuah: Healing Voice with Hazzan Shayndel Adler |
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM |
Lunch AOP VAAD Mtg Cont. Last Call for Shuk! |
Wednesday Times |
Wednesday Events |
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
Workshops: Concurrent Sessions 1. Hallel-You-YaH: The Shivim Panim of Sefer Tehillim with Rabbi Dr. Brielle Rassler 2. Building Blocks of Belonging: Practical Strategies for Vibrant Congregations with Rabbi Schachar Orenstein |
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM |
Break |
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM |
Mincha: Rabbi Deni Marshall and Rabbi Elizevha Hurvich |
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM |
Workshops: Concurrent Sessions 1. Play to Find Yourself: Playing Tabletop Roleplaying Games for Growth, Exploration, and Healing with Rabbi Menachem Cohen 2. Today's Machlochet l'Shem Shamayim? Talking About the Gaza War with Rabbi David ALadjem and Rabbi Lori Shaller |
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM |
Dinner |
7:00 PM - 7:45 PM |
Ma'ariv: Lior Tsarfaty and Friends |
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM |
Closing Ceremony: A Weaving of Voices |
