Speakers and Entertainers:
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak (YY) Jacobson, editor-in-chief of the largest Yiddish-English weekly The Algemeiner Journal, is one of the most sought after speakers in the Jewish world today. He serves as the spiritual leader of congregation Bais Shmuel in Brooklyn, and is the dean of www.TheYeshiva.net, teaching via the web the largest Torah classes in the world today, with tens of thousands of students globally. He is the first rabbi to have given the keynote to all of the 4,000 US military chaplains, and the 34,000 employees of the National Security Agency.
Sara Esther Crispe is the creator and editor of the women’s site www.TheJewishWoman.org, a project of www.chabad.org where she is a featured writer. Additionally, she is a well-known lecturer and leading speaker of women’s issues. She has spoken across America, as well as Europe, Canada and South America. Known for her clear and direct approach, she is able to take current and provocative issues and make them meaningful and personal to audiences of various backgrounds. Sara Esther and her husband were the founders and directors of Torat Chesed: The Institute for Advanced Learning for Jewish Women in Jerusalem, Israel. She has her BA from the University of California, San Diego in Literature/Writing and studied for her Master’s at Brooklyn College in Literary Theory where she was a lecturer of Composition. Her first book, I Used to be the Perfect Mother...Then I Had Kids is in the process of being published. She lives with her husband and four beautiful children in Merion, PA.
Chana Leah, born in Panama as Jacqueline,was raised in a non-Jewish home. She was an accomplished child prodigy in the field of music. She played and sang at numerous musical events throughout Latin America.
As a teenager her parents sent her to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to learn new music styles and to further develop her natural talent to play by ear, improvise and compose. Jacqueline was already asking questions about beliefs, and religion. Soon after marriage in 1987 to her husband, Marco Polo Nunez, who was raised in a Christian evangelical home, she realized that she and her husband shared a deep spiritual connection and a common pursuit: that of finding the purest form of Truth in their quest to connect to G‑d.
Chana Leah's presentation is a fascinating story about an individual who had a heartfelt and deep desire to live a life serving G‑d in the truest sense and through Divine Providence,came to the doors of Judaism in 1998.
Her story is complimented by original music compositions filled with content hat express her emotions, her experiences and her gratitude.
Chana Leah, works as a professional Coach and Mentor and lives with her family in New York. She is a charismatic and talented speaker and performer who connects with her audiences.
Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe is a renowned scholar, author and lecturer. A profound thinker, he has written and lectured on the Judaic perspective of contemporary, legal, scientific and social issues.
Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe, is Permanent Scholar-in-Residence to Chabad at Harvard, and Dean of the Institute of American and Talmudic Law in New York, NY. Rabbi Yaffe has lectured and led seminars throughout North America, as well as in Europe and South Africa.
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL $340 per person, prepaid before February 7th 2011
excluding hotel accommodation.
Hotel accommodations
$55 per night double occupancy
$110 per night single occupancy
After Feb 7th $375 per person, for the full weekend package
excluding hotel accommodation.
Full program and meals begin Friday March 4th, 2011, 10:00 am
Food will be available for those arriving Thursday night and early Friday morning.
Transportation from Crown Heights leaving Friday Morning, returning
Sunday Afternoon, will be available by reservation only.
According to hotel regulations only 2 shabbos candles in glass holders will be allowed
for each woman attending the convention, which will be provided.
This is acceptable according to halachah. ______________________________________________________________________
Hotel: The Crowne Plaza Hotel, 801 Greenwich Avenue, Warwick, RI 02886
(401) 732-6000 click here for driving directions and here for transportation options
The hotel is a few minutes from the Providence (PVD) TF Green Airport
and about 75 minutes from Boston Logan Airport.
The hotel provides free shuttle service from the Providence Airport.
Please call 401-732-6000 to request the free shuttle or you may go to
the Airport help desk in the baggage claim area to call the shuttle service.
Please note that Shabbat candle lighting time in RI for March 4th is 5:19pm
Driving time may vary based on traffic. Please leave ample time for travel.
Schedule
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Thursday, March 3, 2011 |
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7:00 – 9:00pm
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Welcome and Light Supper Kumzitz |
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11:00pm – 1:00am
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Swimming & Fitness Room |
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Friday, March 4th
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8:00 –11:30am
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Newport Sightseeing: Touro Synagogue; Newport Mansion Tour, nominal fee (see registration form)
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10:00 – 12:00pm
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Registration
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12:00 – 2:00pm
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Welcome and Luncheon Chairperson / Welcome to RI My Family’s Connection to Chabad Speaker TBA Musical presentation New Jem Video Presentation
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2:00 – 3:00pm
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Spa Menu
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3:30 – 4:30pm
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Preparation for Shabbat
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4:30 – 4:50pm
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Choice of mini-workshops
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4:50pm
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Candle Lighting and Mincha Shabbat begins at 5:17 pm |
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5:40 – 6:00pm
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Maintaining My Judiasm on Campus Alexa Gladstone |
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6:10 –6:45pm
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Kaballat Shabbat – Welcoming the Sabbath |
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7:00 –9:00pm
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Kiddush and Shabbat Dinner Shabbat melodies Personal Story
Keynote Address: |
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9:30 –10:30pm
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Chassidic Farbrengen
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Shabbat, March 5th
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8:00 –8:30am
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Shabbos Mevorchim – Reciting Tehillim/ Psalms
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8:30 –9:30am
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Parshat Pekudei: A Deeper Look at the Weekly Torah Portion Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Jacobson
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10:00 – 12:00pm
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Choice of Shacharit Services: v Beginner’s Services v Minyan Services |
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12:30 – 2:30pm
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Kiddush and Shabbat Luncheon Everybody Should Be Counted
Speaker TBA Shabbat Singing |
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2:45
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Choice of Sessions
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4:00 – 5:00pm
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Mincha and Seuda Shlishit Buffet
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5:00 – 6:00pm
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Ask Your Questions and Let the Rabbis Answer
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6:25pm
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Havdalah – Farewell to the Shabbat
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7:00 – 8:00pm
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Gala Mitzvah Fair
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Shabbat Evening, March 5th
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8:00pm
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Melave Malka Dinner A Letter of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Greetings from the East Bay Community Mrs. Sandra Oster Keynote Address: Rabbi Yossef Yitzchock Jacobson "ומלאה הארץ דעה את ה' כמים לים מכסים" (ישעי' י"א, ט
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11:00pm- 1:00am
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Swimming & Fitness Room
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Sunday, March 6th
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Shacharit
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8:00 –9:00am
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Exercise
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8:00 –9:30am
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Hot Buffet breakfast
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9:00 – 12:00pm
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Shop the Boutiques
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9:30 – 10:30am
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Choice of Workshops: v The Living Waters – Mikvah vFinding The Kosher Recipe for Shidduchim: v Keeping Kosher in the Home – Food That Satisfies Body and Soul – Mrs. Rivie Feldman |
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10:45 – 11:45am
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Choice of Workshops: v What is Love? A Kabbalistic Understanding v Parenting v “...And you shall write them upon the doorpost and upon your gates” – Take a peek inside a mezuzah
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12:30 – 4:00pm
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Grand Banquet Chairwoman – Mrs. Shoshana Laufer Greetings Vice Chair of the Jewish Alliance of Greater RI (Federation) Bnos Chabad Representative Message from The National Council of N’shei Ubnos Chabad Roll Call – Saluting Women from around the Globe Musical Interlude
Keynote Address – Sara Esther Crispe Singing and Dancing with Simcha Sounds Finale – Taking Our Inspiration Home |