Conference Program

Friday May 2, 2008

9::00 am Registration Opens

9:30 am Presidents’ Session

9:30 am Vashti’s Dancing Bracelets

9:30 am Kabbalah in Fiction. Catherine Buck Morgan, Books/Periodicals/Libraries
Discussion of Kabbalah: A Love Story, by Lawrence Kushner; The Seventh Telling: The Kabbalah of Moshe Katan, by Mitchell Chefitz; and Bee Season, by Myla Goldberg

10:35-11:00 am Gift Shop Open; Coffee and Juice Break

11:15 am Unleash your Spirit -Belly Dancing- Dawn Wasserman, Owner- Consistant Integrity Healing
11:15 am Israel Today -- Susan Steinberg

12:30 pm TORAH FUND LUNCHEON -- Social Hall

OPENING PLENARY

2:15 pm-2:30 pm Break—Shop Gift Shop

2:35 pm WLCJ - All Your Programming Needs Barbara Ezring & Jodi Beck
2:35 pm Heart & Soul of Sisterhood - Membership Lisa Hecht

2:35 pm Our Future - Youth & School Marsha Menuskin & Rosalyn Konter

3:45 pm Back to Hotel to Rest & Refresh

4:00 pm Raising Voices with Heart & Soul - Music (Hotel Hospitality Room)Lisa Stuart

6:00 pm Assemble to Shul

6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Services Led by PGW Women (Sanctuary)

Shabbat Dinner (Social Hall)

7:30 pm Keynote (Sanctuary)Sandy Myers, Women’s League Consultant

INSTALLATION Gloria Adelson, Southern Region Followed by a Dessert Reception
Back to Hotel—Hospitality Room Open
Sisterhood Presidents’ Round Table Meet with Consultant

SATURDAY, May 3, 2008

8:00 am Light Breakfast at Hotel Hospitality Room on First Floor

9:30 am Shabbat Services Led by Southern Region Sisterhood Members & Congregation Agudath Achim

1:30 pm Torah Study with Rabbi Murray Ezring, Charlotte, NC Sanctuary

2:30 pm Shabbat Stretch

2:35 pm Looking at Torah through Women’s Eyes Sandy Myers, Women’s League Consultant

3:30 pm Back to the Hotel-Shabbat Meditation

4:00 pm Raising Voices with Heart & Soul -Music Hotel Hospitality Room Lisa Stuart

6:00 pm Back to the Synagogue Micah/Mariv Seudah Snack Foyer

Spirituality Through Poetry The Writing of Rav Cook (Chapel) Rabbi Kenneth Leitner

Havdallah (Chapel)

7:30 pm Dinner (Social Hall)

LIGHT OF TORAH AWARDS (Sanctuary)followed by Musical Reception honoring Light of Torah Awardees

9:30 pm Back to Hotel

Hospitality Suite open for FUN AND GAMES (Comfortable Attire)

SUNDAY, May 4, 2005

8:15 am To the Shul!

8:30 am Shacharit Services
Collect Tzedakah after Service for Zahir Nativ

9:00 am What is your Sisterhood Doing? Informal Networking Breakfast Social Hall - Sit at the your portfolio table
(1) Creative Judaic Arts, June Schwartz
(2) Judaica Shop, Maxine Schein
(3) Archives, Shelia Adelman
(4) Rosh Hodesh, Fran Silver
(5) Mitzvah Service, Cindy Jaret
(6) Z’havah, Sandy Myers
(7) Incoming Executive Committee, Barbara Ezring
(8) Public Relations, Merice Kraar

10:30 am Give from the Heart to Soothe the Soul - Ways and Means Workshop (Sanctuary)Ellen Vinocur Potash & Martha Segal

11:30 am Closing Plenary
Camp Ramah, April 26, 27, 28
Traveler’s Prayer - Rene Montagne
Gift Shop Open

12:30 pm Box Lunches Available

1:30 pm Professional Tour of Jewish Historical Savannah

Travel Home Safely and Join Us at Summer Board Meeting in Greensboro, NC, June 22nd