FRIDAY 2/21/14
TIME
9:00- 10:00 AM
SESSION TITLE
Registration
LOCATION
Alperin Lobby
10:00- 10:45 AM Introduction Mendelsson Convocation Center
10:45- 12:10 PM
“It’s Time to Start Listening”:
Collecting the Data on Campus Mendelsson Convocation Center
How do leaders learn what their community wants and needs? In this session we will engage with a model for collecting information that can be used to make data based visions for your community. We will learn and practice engaging in one-on-ones and will talk about how to collect information from these conversations that strikes at the heart of what your community most needs.
12:15 PM- 1:00 PM Lunch JTS Dining Hall
1:00 PM - 2:45 PM The Great Design Challenge JTS Dinning Hall
How do leaders use data to address large and small problems in their communities? In this session we will discuss how data can be collected and mined to understand the needs of our communities and how we can use this data to determine where and how to begin to transform our communities. In this session, we will practice this process by collecting data on to solve a design problem Columbia's campus.
2:45PM - 3:00 PM Break
“What do We Stand For?” :
Turning Data into Effective and
Inspiring Visions
Alperin Lobby
3:00 PM- 4:00 PM Mendelsson Convocation Center
What does the design challenge and 1 on 1 meetings have to do with strengthening my community? In this session we will talk about how the data we collect in our communities allows us to understand the needs of our community and how we can transform these needs into impactful vision statements
4:00 PM- 5:20 PM Break, Get Ready for Shabbat
5:20 PM- 6:45 PM
7:45 PM- 8:15 PM
8:30 PM- 10:00 PM
Shabbat Services
Shabbat Dinner
A Conversation with JTS
Chancellor Arnold Eisen
10:00 PM - 10:40 PM Break Out Sessions
10:45 PM Oneg Shabbat
Various Locations
Womens League Seminary
Synagogue
JTS Dining Hall
Mendelsson Convocation Center
Various Locations
Alperin Lobby

February 2014 Shabbaton Schedule
SATURDAY 2/22/14
TIME SESSION TITLE
9:30 AM- 10:30 AM Breakfast
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Shabbat Morning Services
LOCATION
Kraft Center, 5th Floor
Kraft Center, 5th Floor
10:00 AM- 11:00 AM Meditative Shacharit
11:00 AM- 12:00 PM Torah Portion Study Session
Kraft Center. 3rd Floor
Kraft Center, 4th Floor Beit
Midrash
12:00 PM -1:15 PM Shabbat Lunch
1:30PM- 2:30 PM
What Does it Mean to be a Jewish
Conmmunal Leader
Kraft Center, Rennert Auditorium
Mendelsson Convocation Center/
Various Locations
In this session we discuss the tensions that arise between data driven communities and the individual needs of the Jewish communal leader and the Jewish tradition.
2:30 PM- 2:45 PM
2:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Break
Prayer Intentionality Workshop
Womens League Seminary/
Various Locations
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM
5:45 PM- 6:35 PM
6:40 PM - 7:10 PM
7:10 PM- 8:15 PM
8:15 PM
Break
My Place in the Conversation
Dinner
Maariv/ Havdallah (End Shabat)
Vision Based Goal Setting for
Campus Communities
Return to Change
Various Locations
JTS Dinning Hall
Womens League Seminary
Synagogue
Womens League Seminary
Synagogue/ Various Locations
9:00 PM
9:20 PM
Ice Cream at JTS
Leave for Upright Citizens Brigade
Theatre
Alperin Lobby

February 2014 Shabbaton Schedule
SUNDAY 2/23/14
TIME SESSION TITLE
9:00 AM- 9:45 AM Shacharit (Morning Prayer)
9:45 AM- 10:45 AM Breakfast, Remarks
11:00 AM- 12:45 PM
Learning from the Pros: Best
Practices for Jewish Community
Building
1:10 PM- 2:00 PM
12:45PM - 1:10 PM Closing Remarks
Lunch
LOCATION
Womens League Seminary
Synagogue
JTS Dinning Hall
Alperin Lobby.Mendelsson
Convocation Center
Mendelsson Convocation Cetner
JTS Dinning Hall

February 2014 Shabbaton Schedule
Barnard College
Binghamton University
Boston University
Brandeis University
Columbia University
Dickinson College
Duquesne University
Elon University
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Los Angeles Pierce College
Queens College
Muhlenberg College
New York University
Northern Virginia Community College
Queens College
Rutgers University
Rutgers University- New Brunswick
Union College
University of Delaware
University of Hartford
University of Illinois
University of Maryland
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rochester Class
Washington University in St. Louis

February 2014 Shabbaton Schedule
Conference Trainers:
Megan Goldman
 Engagement Rabbinic Educator at the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life
 JTS Rabbinical School Class of 2014
Justin Rosen Smolen
 Program Director at PresenTense
 MPA from NYU's Wagner School of Public Service
Conference Educators:
Rabbi Elyse Winick, Brandeis University
Leandro Galanternick, Seminario Rabinico Latinamericano
Avigail Ben Aryeh, Marom Olami
Abe Tanzer Fried, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
Michael Fraade, Rabbinical Assembly
Additional Conference Guests:
Chancellor Arnold Eisen Jewish Theological Seminary
Ezra Shanken UJA Federation of New York
Rabbi Jason Rubenstein Mechon Hadar
Rabbi Ethan Tucker Mechon Hadar
Marc Gary Jewish Theological Seminary
Rabbi Ashira Konigsburg Rabbinical Assembly
Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz Jewish Theological Seminary
Rabbi Mitchell Cohen Ramah Camping Movement
Rabbi Daniel Nevins Jewish Theological Seminary