01-01

Welcoming Remarks - Mr. Ehud Olmert, Mayor of Jerusalem

01-02

Welcoming Remarks - The Hon. Daniel Kurtzer, US Ambassador to Israel

01-03

Welcoming Remarks, Harav Shear Yashuv Cohen, Chief Rabbi of Haifa

01-04

Welcoming Remarks, Ms. Tova Ilan, K’Lavi Yakum

01-05

Welcoming Remarks, Rabbi Saul Berman, Director of Edah

01-06

Welcoming Remarks, Rabbi Saul Berman, Director of Edah

01-07

Plenary 1 - The Jewish Character of Israel: Vision and Reality (Moderator: Prof. Elisha Haas)

01-08

Plenary 1 - The Jewish Character of Israel: Vision and Reality
(Keynote: Prof. Asher Cohen)

01-09

Plenary 1 - The Jewish Character of Israel: Vision and Reality
(Prof. Shalom Rosenberg)

01-10

Plenary 1 - The Jewish Character of Israel: Vision and Reality
(Prof. Avi Ravitzky)

01-11

Plenary 1 - The Jewish Character
of Israel: Vision and Reality
(Prof. Alex Lubotzky)

01-12

Plenary 1 - The Jewish Character
of Israel: Vision and Reality
(Summation: Prof. Elisha Haas)

02-01

Plenary 1 - Questions to the Panel

03-01

Plenary 1 Continuation
(Moderator: Prof. Eliott Horowitz

04-intro

Plenary 2 - The Distinctive Message of Religious Zionist Modern Orthodoxy
(Moderator: Dr. Amnon Schapira)

04-01

Plenary 2 - The Distinctive Message of Religious Zionist Modern Orthodoxy
(Keynote: Prof. David Hartman)

04-03

Plenary 2 - The Distinctive Message of Religious Zionist Modern Orthodoxy
(Dr. Ruth Halperin Kedari)

04-04

Plenary 2 - The Distinctive Message of Religious Zionist Modern Orthodoxy
(Rav Shagar)

04-05

Plenary 2 - Questions to the Panel

04-06

04-07

04-09

04-10

04-11

05-01

Plenary 2 Continuation
(Moderator: Rabbi Dr. Eli Cahan)

07-Intro

Closing Plenary: World Jewry and Israel
(Moderator: Mr. Murray Laulicht)

07-01

Closing Plenary: World Jewry and Israel
(Mr. Murray Laulicht, Rabbi Michael Melchior)

07-02

Closing Plenary: World Jewry and Israel
(Mr. Isi Leibler)

07-03

Closing Plenary: World Jewry and Israel
(Rabbi Yitz Greenberg)

07-04

07-05

Closing Remarks: Harav Yehuda Amital

07-06

Closing Remarks: Rabbi Saul Berman

Text Study Session:
Rabbi David Bigman
"The Relevance of Rav Hutner’s Thought to Modern Orthodoxy"

Text Study Session:
Prof. Susan Handelman
"The Meaning of Suffering and Disaster"

Text Study Session:
Prof. Rachel Keren
"Models of Leadership in Rabbinic Texts"

Workshop:
Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Rabbi David Aaron
"The Role of Spirituality in Balancing the Competing Religious Duties of Productivity, Meditation, and Study"

Workshop:
Rabbi Yehudah Gilad
"Duties and Attitudes Towards Non-Jews In Israel"

Workshop:
Prof. Benny Ish-Shalom, Rabbi David Golinkin, Rabbi Yosef Avior
"Divergent Conceptions of Halachic Conversion: the Role of Israeli Citizenship"

Text Study Session:
Prof. Tamar Ross
"The Limits of Allegory as a Tool for Resolving Conflicts Between Scientific and Religious Truth"

Workshop:
Rabbi Dr. Naftali Rotenberg
"Legislating Religious Requirements-Are There Alternatives?"

Workshop:
Rabbi Dr. Daniel Tropper, Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey Woolf
"Can We Be Tolerant of Jewish Diversity without Becoming Relativists?"

Workshop:
Rabbi Yoel bin Nun, Prof. Ehud Luz
"Messianism in Religious Zionism-Different Approaches"

Text Study Session:
Aharon Shemesh
"Blessings on the Torah"

Workshop:
Ella Belfer
" Democracy as a Religious Value"

Workshop:
Dr. Tzvi Blanchard, Prof. Zvi Zohar, Chana Kehat
"Psychology, Anthropology and the Validity of Halachic Presumptions"

Workshop:
Shira Breuer, Rabbi Jeremy Stavisky, Dr. Tzvi Blanchard "Education that Transmits Passion and Values"

Text Study Session:
Daniel Landis and Sheryl Robbin
"New Models for Bat Mitzvah"

Workshop:
"The Role of the Holocaust in Jewish Identity"
Eliezer Schweid, Efraim Zuroff

Workshop:
"The Relevance of Orthodoxy to Israeli Culture"
Bambi Sheleg, Yair Sheleg

Workshop:
"Models of Authority in Halachic and Public Policy"
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin

Workshop:
"The Dialectic of Change in the Status of Women in Halacha-Are there Limits?"
Rabbanit Chana Henkin, Prof. Chana Safrai, Dr. Dina Zimmerman