Community News | News Article
Jul 20, 2009 | Location: New York, NY | Category: Community News
Family Education Summer Conference to Feature Covenant Awardees and Foundation Director
New York, NY, Jul 20, 2009—Four Covenant Awardees will speak at the Consortium for the Jewish Family's Summer Education Conference, Aug. 3 - 5 in New York. Joel Lurie Grishaver (1998), Jo Kay (2001), Vicky Kelman (2003), and Philip Warmflash (2007) are slated to appear at this major conference - titled "How Do Congregations Accompany Families on their Jewish Journeys" - that is attracting innovative and forward-thinking participants from the areas of spirituality and ritual, Torah learning, service learning and Jewish peoplehood. Covenant Foundation Executive Director Harlene Winnick Appelman will give a keynote address at the conference.
In addition to the Consortium, the event is sponsored by The Central Agencies for Jewish Education in NY - BJE and SAJES, The Experiment in Congregational Education (ECE) and The Leadership Institute for Congregational School Educators (LICSE) of the Schools of Education of HUC-JIR and JTS in New York. The conference will take place at the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in Greenwich Village. For information, contact conference@sajes.org.
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