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Wednesday
, August 6
Adams, 6th Floor
11:00am •
The Case for Israel and Jerusalem
12:15pm •
Religion in the Public Domain: Supreme Court 2014 Town of Greece v. Galloway
2:30pm •
Merchants of Venice: The Ethics of Debt Insolvency
3:45pm •
Tevye and the Rich Man: Investments, Partnerships, and the Ethics of Business
8:00pm •
Peace Upon the Land
Exhibit Hall, 4th Floor
6:00pm •
Mincha
10:15pm •
Maariv
Grand/State Ballroom, 4th Floor
6:15pm •
Dinner
Logan, 3rd Floor
12:15pm •
Sima's Creative Confections
LIMITED
3:45pm •
Sima's Creative Confections
LIMITED
Madison, 3rd Floor
12:15pm •
Final Moments: End-of-Life Decisions and Jewish Law
2:30pm •
A Heart Quandary: Turning off the Pacemaker
Marshfield, 3rd Floor
11:00am •
The Chassidic Personality Test
Mezzanine
9:00am •
Registration
Monroe, 6th Floor
11:00am •
Finding Your Mission in Life
12:15pm •
A Mystical Guide to Enjoying the Retreat
2:30pm •
The Brains Behind the Book
3:45pm •
Hobbits and Hebrews: The Biblical Vision of JRR Tolkien
8:00pm •
Apollo 613: The Jewish View of Space and Science
9:15pm •
Sacred Shepherds: Moses and the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Pool
2:30pm •
AquaTread (For Women)
Red Lacquer, 4th Floor
9:00am •
Breakfast
1:15pm •
Lunch
3:45pm •
Taking Doctors to Task: The Ethics of Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
5:00pm •
Talmudic Ethics: How an Ancient Value System Informs Modern Practice
8:00pm •
Keynote Panel: Waterboarding, NSA Snooping, and the War on Terror in U.S. Courts
9:15pm •
Crossfire!
Salon 1, 3rd Floor
3:45pm •
Pilates (Women Only)
TBD
5:00pm •
Orientation
Water Tower Parlor, 6th Floor
12:15pm •
King Solomon's Sword: Jewish Ethics of Shared Child Custody
3:45pm •
Cries of Joy at the Wailing Wall
Wilson, 3rd Floor
11:00am •
What in the World are the Four Worlds?
12:15pm •
Seekers of the Lost Ark
2:30pm •
Do I Exist?
3:45pm •
Can a Hamburger be Holy?
9:15pm •
Am I Happy Yet? (Will Someone Please Make Up My Mind?)
Thursday
, August 7
Adams, 6th Floor
9:15am •
The Separation of Synagogue and State
10:30am •
The Kabbalistic Origins of Liberalism and Conservatism
11:45am •
Love Tales from the Talmud
2:15pm •
The Ages of the World: The Thirteen Cycles of Time and the Dating of the Cosmos
3:30pm •
A Double Vision
4:45pm •
Panel Discussion
Cresthill, 3rd Floor
9:15am •
Roundtable
LIMITED
10:30am •
Roundtable
LIMITED
11:45am •
Roundtable
LIMITED
2:15pm •
Roundtable
LIMITED
4:45pm •
Roundtable
LIMITED
Crystal, 3rd Floor
10:30am •
Glass Ceilings in Ivory Towers: Women and Torah Education
11:45am •
Strategies of Success
3:30pm •
Maimonides and the Rebbe—The Hidden Connection
4:45pm •
Perfect Patriarchs and Marvelous Matriarchs
Exhibit Hall, 4th Floor
7:30am •
Shacharit - Advanced Service
2:15pm •
Well Bread
5:45pm •
Mincha
10:15pm •
Maariv
Grand/State Ballroom, 4th Floor
8:00am •
Breakfast
1:00pm •
Lunch
6:00pm •
Dinner
Kimball, 3rd Floor
7:00am •
Awakenings! Movement for the Body (for Women)
Logan, 3rd Floor
11:45am •
Sima's Creative Confections
LIMITED
4:45pm •
Sima's Creative Confections
LIMITED
Madison, 3rd Floor
7:00am •
Dusting Off the Siddur
7:30am •
Shacharit - Beginners Service for Men
Marshfield, 3rd Floor
7:00am •
Awakenings! Movement for the Soul
7:30am •
Shacharit - Beginners Service for Women
10:00pm •
Reflections
Monroe, 6th Floor
9:15am •
The Founding Father at the Chupah: A Reflection on America's Founding
10:30am •
Reclamation of the Millennial Generation
11:45am •
Comedy & Healing
2:15pm •
Genetics and the Jewish Family
3:30pm •
The Uroboros, Cybernetics and Nanotechnology: Torah Insights into the Reprogrammable Universe
4:45pm •
Israel's Diplomacy: An Insider’s View
9:30pm •
50 Children
Pool
3:30pm •
AquaTread (Women Only)
Red Lacquer, 4th Floor
9:15am •
Why Be Ethical?
10:30am •
For G-d and Country: Jewish Life in Public Service
11:45am •
Jewish Response to Terror
2:15pm •
Diamonds: The Legacy of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
3:30pm •
Crossfire!
4:45pm •
The Eichmann Trial
8:15pm •
Concert - Ethan Bortnick
Salon 12, 3rd Floor
11:45am •
Sinai Scholars Academic Symposium
2:15pm •
Sinai Scholars Academic Symposium
3:30pm •
Sinai Scholars Academic Symposium
Wabash Room, 3rd Floor
9:15am •
Exploring the Mystical Dimensions
10:30am •
Sound the Great Shofar
11:45am •
Why Yom Kippur Is Just like Purim
2:15pm •
The Four Guardians
3:30pm •
The Four Guardians, Part II
4:45pm •
Can War Be Ethical?
Wilson, 3rd Floor
9:15am •
PRAY TELL! Text Messages - A text-based study of Personal Prayer (Advanced)
9:15am •
PRAY TELL! Text Messages - A text-based study of Personal Prayer (Overview)
10:30am •
Pro-Life or Pro-Choice? Jewish Perspectives on the Beginning of Life
11:45am •
The Stem Cell Debate: A Jewish Perspective
Friday
, August 8
Adams, 6th Floor
9:15am •
A Chasid in Camouflage: My Encounter with the Lubavitcher Rebbe
LIMITED
10:30am •
Mikvah, Marriage, Mazal Tov
11:45am •
The Veracity of Torah: How Can We Be So Certain?
2:15pm •
Fabrengens in the Age of Facebook: Is Chasidism Relevant?
3:30pm •
The Archeologist Who Searched For the Lost Ark
Chicago, 5th Floor
2:15pm •
Up Beat: The Chassidic Melody’s Path to Joy (for Women Only)
3:30pm •
Welcoming the Shabbat Queen
Cresthill, 3rd Floor
9:15am •
Roundtable
LIMITED
10:30am •
Roundtable
LIMITED
11:45am •
Roundtable
LIMITED
2:15pm •
Medical Ethics Roundtable
LIMITED
3:30pm •
Roundtable
LIMITED
5:30pm •
Roundtable
Crystal, 3rd Floor
9:15am •
Where Medicine Differs: the Search for an Immutable Foundational Ethic
10:30am •
The Innocence Project
11:45am •
Israel's First Coins and the Stories They Tell
5:30pm •
Fortune Tellers, Psychics and Horoscopes
Empire, Lower Level
4:30pm •
Pre-Shabbat Reception
Exhibit Hall, 4th Floor
7:30am •
Shacharit - Advanced Service
Grand/State Ballroom, 4th Floor
8:00am •
Breakfast
1:00pm •
Lunch
7:45pm •
Shabbat Dinner
Indiana, 3rd Floor
7:00am •
Krav Maga (for Men)
LIMITED
Madison, 3rd Floor
7:00am •
Exploring Judaism’s Ancient Key to Prayer
7:30am •
Shacharit - Beginners Service for Men
Marshfield, 3rd Floor
7:00am •
How to Pray with Passion and Purpose
7:30am •
Shacharit - Beginners Service for Women
Mezzanine
2:30pm •
A Tour of Jewish History
Monroe, 6th Floor
9:15am •
The Talmudic Marriage of Henry the VIII
10:30am •
Finding Your Personal “Tipping Point”
11:45am •
King David: Ruler, Warrior, Poet and Scholar
2:15pm •
How to Make Good Relationships Great
3:30pm •
The Pursuit of Happiness
5:30pm •
Wine and Dine the Shabbat Way: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Shabbat Traditions
Red Lacquer, 4th Floor
9:15am •
The Comedy of Marriage: Five Love Principles from the Five Books of Moses
10:30am •
The Jewish-American Position on Operation Protective Edge
11:45am •
Jonas Phillips: The First Truly American Jew
2:15pm •
Crossfire!
3:30pm •
Zionism Through The Lens of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
5:30pm •
Tales of the Bible: The 2014 Edition
6:45pm •
Candle Lighting
6:45pm •
Mincha and Kabalat Shabbat
TBD
10:30am •
The Jewish History of Medicine: A Tour of International Museum of Surgical Science
Wabash Room, 3rd Floor
9:15am •
50 Children
Saturday
, August 9
Adams, 6th Floor
9:15am •
Shacharit - Beginners Service for Men
2:30pm •
Honey, Heads and Leeks: The Foods of Rosh Hashanah
7:15pm •
Like an Angel
Chicago, 5th Floor
2:30pm •
Letters of Light: Numerology and Hebrew Alef-Beit
4:45pm •
Farbrengen! A Traditional Chassidic Repast for Mind, Heart, and Soul (For Men)
Cresthill, 3rd Floor
2:30pm •
Roundtable
LIMITED
7:15pm •
Roundtable
LIMITED
Crystal, 3rd Floor
8:30am •
A Peek into the Parsha: Va’etchanan
9:15am •
Shacharit - Beginners Service for Women
2:30pm •
From Artificial Hearts to Ariel Sharon’s Brain: Jewish Medical Ethics Update 2014
4:45pm •
Farbrengen! A Traditional Chassidic Repast for Mind, Heart, and Soul (For Women)
Empire, Lower Level
6:00pm •
Seudah Shelishit (Third Shabbat Meal)
Exhibit Hall, 4th Floor
12:00pm •
Kiddush
Grand/State Ballroom, 4th Floor
8:00am •
Breakfast
1:00pm •
Shabbat Lunch
9:45pm •
Motzei Shabbat Live
10:45pm •
Melave Malkah
Lobby
9:00pm •
Havdalah Ceremony
Monroe, 6th Floor
2:30pm •
Moshiach: What, When, Why?
7:15pm •
Yizkor
Red Lacquer, 4th Floor
9:15am •
Shacharit - Advanced Service
4:30pm •
Mincha
7:15pm •
The Moments That Change Our Lives
8:45pm •
Maariv
Wabash Room, 3rd Floor
7:15pm •
My Brother’s Keeper: The Talmudic Approach to Live Organ Donation
Wilson, 3rd Floor
8:30am •
Discovering the Purpose of Prayer
LIMITED
2:30pm •
My Secret Mission Behind the Iron Curtain
Sunday
, August 10
Adams, 6th Floor
9:15am •
The Case of Cloning: How Jewish Law Authorities Decide Bioethics Questions
10:30am •
When the Matzah Falls Butter-Side Down
11:45am •
Medical Crossfire: Answering Your Medical Ethics Questions
2:15pm •
If God Is Good, Why Is The World So Bad?
3:30pm •
Man: A Microcosm of the Universe
Cresthill, 3rd Floor
9:15am •
Roundtable
LIMITED
10:30am •
Roundtable
LIMITED
11:45am •
Roundtable
LIMITED
2:15pm •
Roundtable
LIMITED
Crystal, 3rd Floor
9:15am •
The Original 12 Steps of Teshuvah
10:30am •
What the Rebbe Told Me: Community and Life
11:45am •
Judge Duty: Why We Can’t Jump to Conclusions
2:15pm •
The Chicago Mystique - Past and Present
3:30pm •
Chabad, Mossad, and the KGB
Empire, Lower Level
5:00pm •
Dinner
Exhibit Hall, 4th Floor
7:30am •
Shacharit - Advanced Service
Grand/State Ballroom, 4th Floor
8:00am •
Breakfast
1:00pm •
Lunch - Closing Banquet
Madison, 3rd Floor
7:30am •
Shacharit - Beginners Service for Men
Marshfield, 3rd Floor
7:30am •
Shacharit - Beginners Service for Women
Monroe, 6th Floor
9:15am •
Adams, Jefferson and the Jews
10:30am •
The Rebbe's Doctor
11:45am •
In Search of Real Peace: The Arab-Israeli Conflict Explained
2:15pm •
Hebron: A Story of Heartbreak and Hope
3:30pm •
Yiddish: Metaphysics of a Mameloshn
Red Lacquer, 4th Floor
9:15am •
Labels: Looking Beneath the Surface
10:30am •
Man-Made Security in a G-d-Given Land
11:45am •
My Father's Teacher
2:15pm •
Crossfire!
Wabash Room, 3rd Floor
9:15am •
Ten Commandments - or 613?
10:30am •
What Moses Knew That Ben-Gurion and Churchill Did Not
Wilson, 3rd Floor
3:30pm •
A Scribe Describes His Craft
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