Co-sponsored by the Rabbinical Assembly, Cantors Assembly and JTS Block/Kolker Center for Spiritual Arts - Register Now
Tuesday April 5, 2015, 8:45 am-3:30 pm at JTS
8:45-9:25 am | Registration (JTS lobby); Coffee/tea, muffins/fruit - Lobby outside Women’s League Seminary Synagogue
9:30-10:45 am | Introduction - Cantor David Lipp will open the program with five minutes of music; new music inspired by the siddur will be featured throughout the day (Students invited)
Welcome - Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, Executive Vice President, Rabbinical Assembly
Keynote Address - "What's New in Siddur Lev Shalem, and What's the Big Deal", Rabbi Ed Feld, Senior Editor of the siddur
Chair: Rabbi Amy Wallk Katz (Siddur Committee Member)
Introduction of New Music Initiative (Cantor Stephen Stein); presentation of new composition for Israel Najara poem (Rabbi Zach Fredman)
10:55-11:55 am | Concurrent Sessions
A. Reclaiming Kavanah: Strategies for prayer leadership utilizing our new siddur- Rabbi Amy Wallk Katz, Rabbi Jan Uhrbach (Associate Editor, Siddur Lev Shalem) (Students Invited)
B. Strategies and practices for introducing the siddur into communities - Rabbi David Ackerman, Cantor Joanna Dulkin (Siddur Committee Members)
12:00-12:45 pm | Lunch (Dining Room at reserved tables)
Presentation of a new composition of Mipi Eil (Cantor Jeremy Stein)
1:00-2:00 pm | Concurrent Sessions
C. Inside Siddur Lev Shalem - How did that get there? - Rabbi Rob Scheinberg (Siddur Committee Member) (Students Invited)
D. The siddur as a text for study at home and at shul - Rabbi Alan Lettofsky (Siddur Committee Member) Minhah (Women’s League Seminary Synagogue)
2:10-2:30 pm | Minhah (Cantor Joanna Dulkin, Siddur Commitee Member)
2:30-3:30 pm | Final session with Rabbi Ed Feld: Renewing Communcal Prayer -Dining Room
Session begins with presentation of new composition for the Great Hallel, Shir Shel Yom for Pesach (Cantor Ken Richmond)
Session concludes with new composition for Psalm 29 (Cantor Joanna Dulkin)