Thanking Hashem for his kindness, we offer -

Orthodox Union 9th Annual West Coast Torah Convention 1999/5760

Previous Conventions are available too.
OU Convention 5759-10 speeches including Rabbi Wein Keynote
OU Convention 5758-29 speeches including Rabbi Sacks Keynote
OU Convention 5757 Keynote by Rabbi Leff - The Essence of Spirtituality
OU Convention 5756 Keynote by Rabbi Sholmo Riskin- Yigdal Amir

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?
What important lessons does the Baal Hatanya teach us?
Too Jewish? Do Our Kids Need a Super-Frum Stage to End up Frum? Audio || D [mp3 download]
Speaker: Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt - One of the best speeches of the conference
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
Speaker: Rabbi Raphael Butler,
OU National Exec. VP
Rav Sadok says if you walk in the dirt, you will get dirty... How do we keep clean?
Y2K AND THE MILLENNIUM:
THE CHALLENGE NOW AND BEYOND || d [mp3 download]

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...
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24
CITY - YOM IYUN
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Session 1: Plastic Surgery, Body Jewelry &
Hair Transplants: Does the "Image
of G-d" Need a Face Lift?
Speaker: Rabbi Yaakov Neuberger

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