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Monday, May 12
 

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
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
  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
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
  All-Conference Programming

9:45pm EDT

Minyan with Bedtime Blessings
Monday May 12, 2025 9:45pm - 10:00pm EDT
Embassy Suites/Detroit-Troy/Auburn Hills
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 →
Monday May 12, 2025 9:45pm - 10:00pm EDT
Royal Oak Room Embassy Suites/Detroit-Troy/Auburn Hills
  T'filah
 
Tuesday, May 13
 

8:30pm EDT

What's Jewish about Chocolate?
Tuesday May 13, 2025 8:30pm - 9:15pm EDT
Embassy Suites/Detroit-Troy/Auburn Hills
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 →
Debbie Prinz Program pdf
Tuesday May 13, 2025 8:30pm - 9:15pm EDT
Royal Oak Room Embassy Suites/Detroit-Troy/Auburn Hills
  All-Conference Programming

9:15pm EDT

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

8:30am EDT

T'filah & WRN Board Blessing
Thursday May 15, 2025 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
Embassy Suites/Detroit-Troy/Auburn Hills
Torah Service
Board Blessing


REMINDER: Room check out must be done by 11:00am. Volunteers are available to help.
Thursday May 15, 2025 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
Royal Oak Room Embassy Suites/Detroit-Troy/Auburn Hills
  T'filah

10:45am EDT

Closing Program
Thursday May 15, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Embassy Suites/Detroit-Troy/Auburn Hills
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
  All-Conference Programming
 
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