Agenda
8:15 AM Shacharit (optional) and registration opens
9:00 AM Conference start
Opening Address
Jonathan Silver
Campus Delegation Roll Call
Jonathan Mack
The Deeper Campus Crisis: How Rabbinic Leadership Can Meet Students’ Intellectual and Spiritual Longings, a live recording of the 18Forty podcast
Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin
Rabbi Eitan Webb
Rabbi Ari Israel
Callings and Careers
Option 1: Journalism and Media
Kassy Akiva
Josh Hammer
Zach Kessel
Option 2: Domestic Policy
Adam Hoffman
Reihan Salam
Lunch
Friends and Partners Showcase
Comedians and the Israel Debate—Some Comic Relief amid Our Cultural Challenge
Josh Hammer, Ami Kozak, and a few surprise guests…
Break and Mincha (optional)
Jewish Leadership in a Time of Crisis and Renewal
Eric Cohen
Callings and Careers
Option 1: Foreign Policy
Carrie Filipetti
Zineb Riboua
Option 2: Law
Judge Steven Menashi
Dovid Schwartz
How to Get Along When (Almost) Everything Is Broken
Alana Newhouse and Reihan Salam
Dinner
Maariv (optional)
Zionism as a Spiritual Antidote to Modern Maladies
Amb. Yechiel Leiter and Sabrina Soffer
Optional: How to Think About the Most Important Decision You're Ever Going to Make
Monday, January 19
8:10 AM Shacharit (optional) and registration opens
9:00 AM Conference start
Models of Campus Leadership
Jonathan Mack
Josh Tolle
A New Direction in Tikvah's College Programming
Josh Tolle
Jonathan Mack
The Rosenthal-Levy Scholarship and the Higher Ed Renaissance
Alan Rubenstein
Callings and Careers
Option 1: Education/Academia
Samuel Goldman
Rabbi Mitchell Rocklin
Option 2: Business/Tech
Ofir Zigelman
Jake Greenspan
Lunch
Michel Houellebecq’s Submission: Framing Reflections
David Azerrad and Christopher Caldwell
Submission: Discussion Sections
David Azerrad
Christopher Caldwell
Alexander Duff
Steven Frankel
Samuel Goldman
Alan Rubenstein
Josh Tolle
Paul Wilford
Break and Mincha (optional)
Religious Revival and American Renewal
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and Rev. Johnnie Moore
6:05 PM Dinner
“To-go” options available for departing students