WRN 2025 Convention Detroit: Full Schedule

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4:00pm EDT

Welcome & Opening Program

Monday May 12, 2025 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

Embassy Suites/Detroit-Troy/Auburn Hills

PURE WRN: A Vision for the Future

Welcome & Remarks
Cantor Becky Mann Introduction
Drum Circle

Speakers

Lori Fithian

Percussionist, Drummunity

Lori Fithian has been facilitating drum circles and leading workshops for the last five years. She has played hand drums and studied many different drumming traditions since 1990. However, playing on tupperware bowls as a child seems to be the real beginning of her rhythmical career... Read More →

Cantor Becky Mann

Cantor-in-Residence

A composer, guitarist, and cantor, Becky Mann has been called “one of the brightest voices of a new generation of Jewish songwriters carrying our tradition forward in new and exciting ways.” She is passionate about creating community through music and meaningful worship, and inspiring... Read More →

Monday May 12, 2025 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Royal Oak Room Embassy Suites/Detroit-Troy/Auburn Hills

All-Conference Programming

8:00pm EDT

What's Jewish about Cheese?

Monday May 12, 2025 8:00pm - 9:30pm EDT

Embassy Suites/Detroit-Troy/Auburn Hills

Tasting and Program with Mongers Provisions with introduction by Megan Brudney.

Cash Bar

Speakers

Zach Berg

Co-Owner, Mongers' Provisions/the RIND

Zach began his food career at 13 working in kosher catering. He is a product of the Detroit Jewish Community. Zach is day school educated; his mother Elissa Berg was a prominent Jewish educator in the area. He and his business partner met at Tamarack Camps as little kids and now he... Read More →

Monday May 12, 2025 8:00pm - 9:30pm EDT
Royal Oak Room Embassy Suites/Detroit-Troy/Auburn Hills

All-Conference Programming