Wednesday, April 21, 2021
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82111829900?pwd=ZDZBYjZtVGZjMEdDeDI3cU9yQlk3Zz09Meeting ID: 821 1182 9900 Passcode: 466188
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Welcome: 9:00 AM
Rabba Sara Hurwitz, President and co-Founder, Maharat
Session #1: 9:10 AM - 10:00 AM,
Cultural Responses to Covid-19: The Plagues Project
Shira Hecht-Koller, 929
Zoe Fertik, Bima / Palo Alto JCC
Dan Libenson, Judaism Unbound
R. Dr. Erin Leib Smokler, Maharat
Session #2: 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
“Acts of God:” The Tricky Theology of Natural Disasters
Dr. David Zvi Kalman
Moderator: R. Dr. Erin Leib Smokler
Session #3: 11:25AM - 12:10 PM
Torah in Troubled Times: Experiencing Epidemic in Prague, 1713
Dr. Josh Teplitzky
Lunch: 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM
Session #4: 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
The Changing Rabbinate in Response to and Through Covid-19
R. Shira Koch Epstein
R. David Shuck
R. Avi Orlow
R. Joshua Lesser
Moderator: R. Jeffrey Fox
Session #4: 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Theodicy and the Randomness of Plague
R. Dr. Gordon Tucker
Moderated by R. Dr. Devorah Schoenfeld
Session #5: 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Radical Flexibility: (Re)Design in the Covid Era
Esther Sperber
Moderated by Dr. Esther Altmann
