We are putting up on the net as much of the convention as we can. We
have 6 speeches up now.
If you want to directly download some of these classes , then
go to directories http://613.org/rafiles/disk3/ou5760west/
or http://613.org/rafiles/disk4/load1/ouwest60/
Session F: The
Pros and Cons of Traditional
vs
Contemporary Courtship || D [mp3 download]
Speaker: Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt
Navigating
Troubled Times:Torah as Our Compass- Video
Speaker: Rabbi Norman Lamm
What do hell and mirrors have to do with each other?Too Jewish? Do Our Kids Need a Super-Frum Stage to End up Frum? Audio || D [mp3 download]
What important lessons does the Baal Hatanya teach us?
This is one of the most amazing speeches we have ever heard at 613. What is the purpose of Jewish Education and how do we get there?? Hear how the Rabbi used Heavy Metal music to get a young man to Yeshiva...
Jewish Business Ethics in a Corporate World
Speaker: Rabbi Michael Broyde
If a Jewish person asks you to pass him a ham sandwich, can you do it?
If someone asks for legal advice on how to steal and not get caught , can you tell him?
If someone says that he did a crime, can you as a lawyer defend him in court?
Being Jewish in Modern Turbulent Times
Rav Sadok says if you walk in the dirt, you will get dirty... How do we keep clean?Y2K AND THE MILLENNIUM:
Conducted by a panel of experts in the field of bio engineering, medical
schiences, media, entertainment, politics, and a halachic overview
by
Rabbi Nachum Sauer
Halachic overview by Rabbi Nachum Sauer || d [mp3 download]
Human Genome by Dr. Stohl || d [mp3 download]
Politics by Rabbi Cooper || d [mp3 download]
Medicine by Dr. Fink || d [mp3 download]
Internet and Media by Rabbi Adlerstein || d [mp3 download]
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23
7:45 PM KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Navigating
Troubled Times:Torah as Our Compass- Video
Speaker: Rabbi Norman Lamm
Rabbi Lamm demands tolerance, kedusha and that Jews learn torah and teach torah to more and more people so that we become a holy people...---------------------------------
Session 2: Conversations in the Womb:
Educating a Child from Day 1
Speaker: Dr. Lisa Aiken
Session 3: Can We Be like Mike and Still
Be "Reb Moshe"?-When is it OK to
Take from the Non-Jewish World?
Speaker: Rabbi Steven Weil
10:40 AM-11:50 AM
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Session 4: How to Propagate Modern
Orthodoxy: An Educators
Perspective
Speaker: Esther Krauss
Session 6: Women's Learning:
A Torah Perspective on "Equality"
Speaker: Rabbi Simcha Krauss
12 NOON - 1 PM
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Session F: The
Pros and Cons of Traditional
vs
Contemporary Courtship || D [mp3 download]
Speaker: Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt
Session 7: The Balkanization of Orthodoxy:
Why Can't Our Neighbors be "Just Like Us"?
Speaker: Rabbi A. Mark Levin
Session 8: Jewish
Business Ethics in a Corporate World
Speaker: Rabbi Michael Broyde
Session 9: Does Charity Begin at Home?
Balancing Community Commitments and Shalom Bayit
Speaker: Aviva Tessler
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24
VALLEY - YOM IYUN
at Shaarey Zedek, 12800 Chandler Blvd., NH
9:15 AM-10:30 AM
Session A: TV, Movies and MTV: If We
Participate, Must We Deteriorate?
Speaker: Aviva Tessler
Session B: Family Circus: Juggling Religious
Differences Within Our Families
Speaker: Rabbi Joel Tessler
10:40-11:50
Session C: A Jewish Response to Criminals:
G-d's Flock Dealing With Its Own Black Sheep
Speaker: Dr. David Luchins
Session D: Gay Rights or Toeveh? How Are We to Address Homosexuality
Speaker: Rabbi Jay Yaacov Schwartz
12 NOON-1:00
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Session E: Bungee Jumping and Day Trading:
A Halachic View of Thrill Seeking and Risk Taking
Speaker:Rabbi Yaakov Neuberger
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YOM IYUN
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26
9:15 AM-10:30 AM
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Session 10: Does Anyone Blush Anymore? Tzniut Under Siege and on the
Rebound
Panel: Rabbi Joel Tessler
Esther Krauss
Session 11: The Pollard Affair:
Lessons and Challenges
Speaker: Dr. David Luchins
Session 12: Bridging the Great Divide:
The Widening Gap Between
Religious and Secular in Israel
Speaker: Rabbi A. Mark Levin
10:40 AM-11:50 AM
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Session 13: Too
Jewish? Do Our Kids Need a Super-Frum Stage to End up Frum? || D [mp3 download]
Speaker: Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt
This is one of the most amazing speeches we have ever heard at 613.
What is the purpose of Jewish Education and how do we get there?? Hear
how the Rabbi used Heavy Metal music to get a young man to Yeshiva...
Session 14: Secular Law and the Agunah
Speaker: Rabbi Michael Broyde
Session 15: Maintaining Torah Ettiquite in a Secular Society.
Speaker: Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky
12:30 PM-1:30 PM
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Session 16: Keynote Address
Speaker: Rabbi Raphael Butler,
OU National Exec. VP
1:40-2:40 PM
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Session 17: Divorce, American Style:
Are we Becoming Progressive or
Assimilated?
Speaker: Dr. Lisa Aiken
Session 18: Goy
or Gentile: How Should we
Relate to
Other Peoples and
Cultures?
Speaker: Rabbi Steven Weil tape has some
audio glitches in it but it is listenable...
Session 19: In Search of Jewish Children:
On the Halachic and Scientific Frontier
Speaker: Rabbi Jay Yaacov Schwartz
2:50 - 3:45 PM - CLOSING SESSION
Y2K AND THE MILLENNIUM:
THE CHALLENGE NOW AND BEYOND
Conducted by a panel of experts in the field of bio engineering, medical
schiences, media, entertainment, politics, and a halachic overview
by
Rabbi Nachum Sauer