8th North American Chevra Kadisha and Jewish Cemetery Conference in Atlanta, GA - Draft Program
| Day | Session | Time | Education | Tahara | Chaplaincy | Cemetery | room color | room name | |
| Sunday | 9:00-8:00 | Registration - Rick Light, Reba Herzfeld, and others from Atlanta | Madison | ||||||
| 9:30-10:00 | Cemetery and Museum Tours | Eisenhower | |||||||
| 10:00-1:00 | Noshes | Perimeter | |||||||
| 12:30-1:00 | Welcome - David Zinner, Rabbi Stuart Kelman, Harley Felstein and Reba Herzfeld | Washington | |||||||
| Plenary 1 | 1:00-2:00 | Opening Speaker - Jewish Buddhist and Hindu - Comparative Meditations on Death - Laurie Patton | Jackson | ||||||
| 2:00-2:10 | Break | Jefferson | |||||||
| Workshop 1 | 2:10-4:10 | Effective Tahara Leadership - Dr. Michael Slater | Tahara Demonstration - Rick Light + Atlanta CK team | Bridging the Gap -From Hospice to Hevra - Hospice intensive - for CK folks | Jewish Cemetery Association of North America (JCANA) Board and Membership Meeting | Monroe | |||
| 4:10-4:20 | Break | Boardroom 1 | |||||||
| Workshop 2a | 4:20-5:20 | Educating the Jewish community about jewish traditions - panel with Rena Boroditsky, Cindy Hirsch, Cantor Donna Faye Marcus, Chava Gal Or | Tahara Q & A - Moderated by David Zinner | Bridging the Gap -From Hospice to Hevra - Hospice intensive - for CK folks part 2 | Genealogy - Nolan Altman | ||||
| Workshop 2b | 5:20-6:20 | Chesed Shel Emet and the Hebrew Free Burial Associaton - Amy Koplow | |||||||
| 6:20-6:30 | Break | ||||||||
| 6:30-7:30 | Dinner | ||||||||
| Plenary 2 | 7:30-8:30 | Plenary: Rabbi Arnold Goodman - 35 years after A Plain Pine Box | |||||||
| 8:30-9:30 | Mincha-Maariv | Dessert, Music and Facilitated Socializing | |||||||
| 9:30-10:00 | |||||||||
| 10:00-11:00 | Informal Networking | ||||||||
| Monday | 7:00-8:00 | Shacharit | |||||||
| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast | ||||||||
| Plenary 3 | 8:30-9:30 | Breakfast Speaker - Richard Fishman - The Future of Cemeteries | |||||||
| 9:30-9:40 | Break | ||||||||
| Workshop 3a | 9:40-10:40 | How to start a new CK; recuriting volunteers - panel with Rabbi Mel Glazer, Rick Fields, Barbara Kavadias, Derek Fields, Mitch Kaufman | Complicated Tahara - Dr. Michael Slater | Afterlife And The Renewal Of Jewish Death Rituals - Simcha Raphael | Cemetery Regulation -Richard Fishman - Q&A | ||||
| Workshop 3b | 10:40-11:40 | Cemetery Finances and Future Planning - David Hoguet | |||||||
| 11:40-11:50 | Break | ||||||||
| 11:50-12:20 | Lunch | ||||||||
| 12:20-12:35 | Gamliel Institute Update - Rabbi Stuart Kelman | ||||||||
| Plenary 4 | 12:35-1:35 | Lunch Speaker - Simcha Raphael - Afterlife and Immortality, Resurrection and Reincarnation: A Traveler's Guide To The World Beyond For Contemporary Hevra Kaddisha | |||||||
| 1:35-1:40 | Break | ||||||||
| Workshop 4 | 1:40-3:40 | New KvN Website - Rick Light Gamliel Institute - Rabbi Stuart Kelman | Processing Emotions - Rabbi Mel Glazer | A Child’s Guide in Coping with a Loved One’s Death - Rabbi Rachmiel Tobesman | Land use & Computer compatibility - Al Matherly & Sherry Hood | ||||
| 3:40-3:50 | Break | ||||||||
| Workshop 5a | 3:50-4:50 | Organ & Tissue Donation | Near-Death Experiences And Afterlife In Zohar: Implications For Hevra Kaddisha - Simcha Raphael | Customer Service - panel Mona Shangold, Susan Lefelstein and others | |||||
| Workshop 5b | 4:50-5:50 | Developing Community Educational Action Plans around autopsies, organ and tissue donation - moderated by David Zinner | |||||||
| 5:50-6:00 | Break | ||||||||
| 6:00-7:00 | Dinner | ||||||||
| Plenary 5 | 7:00-8:00 | Dinner Speaker: Rabbi Mel Glazer - Caring for the Caregivers | |||||||
| 8:00-8:10 | Break | ||||||||
| 8:15-9:15 | Mincha-Maariv | Cremation Round Table - facilitated by Rabbi Stuart Kelman | Movie - Departures | Cremation Round Table - facilitated by Rabbi Stuart Kelman | |||||
| 9:15-10:00 | |||||||||
| 10:00-11:00 | Networking | ||||||||
| Tuesday | 7:00-7:30 | Shacharit | |||||||
| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast | ||||||||
| Plenary 6 | 8:30-9:30 | Breakfast Panel - Green Burial and Green Cemeteries | |||||||
| 9:30-10:00 | David Zinner - Chevra Kadisha Today | ||||||||
| 10:00-10:10 | Break | ||||||||
| Workshop 6 | 10:10-11:10 | Chevra Politics - facilitated by Rena Boroditsky | Infection Control for Chevra Members - Dr. Michael Bell | Making Cemetery Rituals More Meaningful - From Consecration to Burial to Parallel lines to Handwashing - Rabbi Me'irah Iliinisky | |||||
| 11:10-12:10 | Tahara Manuals - History and Evolution - David Sclar | Rituals - Round Table Discussion led by Rabbi Me'irah Iliinsky | Gone With The Wind - Disaster Recovery in Oakland Cemetery - Bob Cutrone | ||||||
| 12:10-12:30 | Lunch (Carry Away Available) | ||||||||
| 12:30-1:30 | Kavod Board Meeting | ||||||||
| 1:30-2:30 | Gamliel - Tahara Manuals and Tefila – David Sclar and Rabbi Stuart Kelman | ||||||||
| 2:30-5:30 | |||||||||
| 6:00-7:30 | Gamliel - Dinner | ||||||||
| 8:00-10:00 | Tahara Q & A – David Zinner | ||||||||
| Wednesday June 9 | 7:00-8:00 | Gamliel - Breakfast | |||||||
| 8:00-10:00 | Gamliel - Infection Control – Reps from the CDC | ||||||||
| 10:00-12:00 | Gamliel - Wrap-up | ||||||||
| 12:00-1:00 | Gamliel - Lunch | ||||||||