Agenda
8:45 AM Shacharit (optional)
9:30 AM Registration and Breakfast
Opening Address
Jonathan Silver
Text-Based Seminar
Tikvah faculty and guest speakers
Lunch
Callings and Careers
Option 1: Journalism and Media
Kassy Akiva
Abe Greenwald
Option 2: Domestic Policy
Talia Katz
Reihan Salam
The New Administration and the US – Israel Relationship
Elliott Abrams in conversation with Jonathan Silver
Mincha (optional)
Jewish Leadership in a Time of Crisis and Renewal
Shari Redstone in conversation with Eric Cohen
Callings and Careers
Option 1: STEM
Oren Poleg
Ofir Zigelman
Option 2: Law
Benjamin Silver
Judge Steven Menashi
Israel and the Battle of Ideas in American Politics
Rep. Ritchie Torres in conversation with Jonathan Silver
Dinner
Maariv (optional)
The Most Important Decision of your Life: Thinking about Building a Family
(Optional Conversation with Rabbi Mark Gottlieb)
Social Hour
Monday, January 20
7:45 AM Shacharit (optional)
8:45 AM Breakfast
Tikvah’s Campus Strategy
Jonathan Mack
Callings and Careers
Option 1: Foreign Policy
Aaron MacLean
Michael Doran
Option 2: Jewish Education and Academia
Jonathan Schatz-Mizrahi
Rabbi Ari Lamm
Option 3: Business and Technology
Jake Greenspan
Jordan Bryk
Lunch and Inauguration Watch Party
Models of Campus Leadership: Case Studies in Success
Jews and Christians on Campus
Simone Rizkallah
Rabbi Ari Lamm
Mincha (optional)
Navigating the Classroom: How to Study Israel and Jewish Ideas in College
Michael Doran
Andrew Koss
The Search for Meaning and the Resurgence of Faith in American Culture
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and Ross Douthat
6:15 PM Dinner
“To-go” options available for departing students