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Monday, May 12
 

4:00pm EDT

Welcome & Opening Program
Monday May 12, 2025 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
PURE WRN: A Vision for the Future
  • Welcome & Remarks
  • Cantor Becky Mann Introduction
  • Drum Circle
Speakers
avatar for Lori Fithian

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 →
avatar for Cantor Becky Mann

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

8:00pm EDT

What's Jewish about Cheese?
Monday May 12, 2025 8:00pm - 9:30pm EDT
Tasting and Program with Mongers Provisions with introduction by Megan Brudney.

Cash Bar
Speakers
avatar for Zach Berg

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
 
Tuesday, May 13
 

9:00am EDT

Congregation Shir Tikvah Programs
Tuesday May 13, 2025 9:00am - 1:30pm EDT
Tuesday Morning Program Schedule
  •  9:00 AM - 10:45 AM: T'filah with Azkarah
9:50 AM: Rabbi Judith Abrams z'l Memorial Lecture: Rabbi Dalia Marx, PhD

Rabbi Judith Abrams, PhD, Memorial Lecture Scholar is generously funded by the Abrams Family to celebrate women rabbis and scholars in the spirit of our beloved colleague Judith (Judy) Abrams z’l. This lecture series is inspired by the Talmud lecture Rabbi Abrams z'l delivered to the WRN community in 2013 in Memphis, the year before she died. We live her legacy by learning Jewish text from inspiring teachers in her memory.

Past Scholars:
Rabbi Dr. Kari Tuling, 2015, Denver, Co
Rabbi Amy Scheinerman, 2017, Baltimore, MD
Rabbi Dr. Dvora Weisberg, 2019, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Rabbi Dr. Mira Wasserman, 2021, Virtual
Rabbi Dr. Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, 2023, Wylie Center, Beverly, MA
 
  • 10:45 AM - Break
  • 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM: Kesher Groups II
  • 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM: WRN Working Lunch
Hamotzi
WRN Updates
Conversation with MARAM Colleagues moderated by Rabbi Mary Zamore.
 
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM: Board buses for the Detroit Institue of Arts
Tuesday May 13, 2025 9:00am - 1:30pm EDT
Various Locations

2:00pm EDT

Detroit Institute of Arts Tour
Tuesday May 13, 2025 2:00pm - 4:15pm EDT
Detroit Institute of Arts Tour

  • 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM: Board buses to Downtown Synagogue.
Tuesday May 13, 2025 2:00pm - 4:15pm EDT
Detroit Institut of Arts

4:30pm EDT

Interfaith Clergy Panel, Downtown Synagogue Tour
Tuesday May 13, 2025 4:30pm - 6:45pm EDT
Downtown Synagogue Program

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM: Tour & Interfaith Clergy Panel


Panel guests: Rabbi Ariana Silverman, The Reverend Emily Guffey and Bishop Dr. Corletta J. Vaughn.

6:00 PM - 6:45 PM: Board buses back to the Hotel
Speakers
avatar for The Reverend Emily W. Guffey

The Reverend Emily W. Guffey

Rector, Christ Church Detroit
The Rev. Emily Williams Guffey (she/her) joined Christ Church Detroit as its nineteenth rector in October 2018, the first woman to hold the position. She grew up in the area and is honored to serve in the city where her family has lived and worked for generations.  At one of the... Read More →
avatar for Bishop Dr. Corletta J. Vaughn

Bishop Dr. Corletta J. Vaughn

Senior Pastor, Holy Ghost Cathedral Church of Detriot
Bishop Dr. Corletta J. Vaughn is the Senior Pastor of the Holy Ghost Cathedral Church of Detroit, Michigan and Presiding Bishop of Go Tell It Evangelistic Ministry, Worldwide Network of Churches. She is a graduate of Detroit Public Schools, Wayne County Community College, William... Read More →
avatar for Rabbi Ariana Silverman

Rabbi Ariana Silverman

Rabbi, Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue
Ariana Silverman became the rabbi of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue in 2016. A native of Chicago, she graduated from Harvard University, was ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program and is a Rabbinic... Read More →
Tuesday May 13, 2025 4:30pm - 6:45pm EDT

8:30pm EDT

What's Jewish about Chocolate?
Tuesday May 13, 2025 8:30pm - 9:15pm EDT
Chocolate nurtured Sephardim and Ashkenazim through upheaval and catastrophe. Since the days of European contact with chocolate, Jews found opportunity, sustenance, and resilience in the New World product. Join us for stories and chocolate treats.

Dessert & Coffee

Cash Bar
Speakers
avatar for Rabbi Deborah Prinz

Rabbi Deborah Prinz

Author, On The Chocolate Trail
Rabbi Deborah Prinz authored the trail blazing book On the Chocolate Trail: A  Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao, now in its 2nd Edition. She was awarded a Starkoff Fellowship and a Director’s Fellowship from the American Jewish Archives as well as a Gilder Lehrman Fellowship from the Rockefeller Library to pursue the research for the chocolate book. It stirs age-old passions for chocolate... Read More →
Tuesday May 13, 2025 8:30pm - 9:15pm EDT
Royal Oak Room Embassy Suites/Detroit-Troy/Auburn Hills

9:15pm EDT

Fun and Games
Tuesday May 13, 2025 9:15pm - 9:45pm EDT
Fun and Games
Tuesday May 13, 2025 9:15pm - 9:45pm EDT
Royal Oak Room Embassy Suites/Detroit-Troy/Auburn Hills
 
Wednesday, May 14
 

6:00pm EDT

Temple Israel Program, Dinner, T'filah and Song
Wednesday May 14, 2025 6:00pm - 9:30pm EDT
Temple Israel Program

6:00 PM - 7:45 PM: Dinner & Program
Blessing After the Meal
7:45 PM: Break
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Minyan and Concert with Cantor Becky Mann

9:15 PM - 9:30 PM: Board buses back to the Hotel
Speakers
avatar for Cantor Becky Mann

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 →

Wednesday May 14, 2025 6:00pm - 9:30pm EDT
Various Locations
 
Thursday, May 15
 

10:45am EDT

Closing Program
Thursday May 15, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
WRN: The Future is Now


REMINDER: Room check out must be done by 11:00am. Volunteers ar available to help.
Thursday May 15, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Royal Oak Room Embassy Suites/Detroit-Troy/Auburn Hills
 
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