Full schedule:

8:30 AM

Registration

9:00 AM

Torah in Yerushalayim: a Celebration and a Challenge

Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb

10:00 AM

L’AYLA (WOMEN ONLY)Yom HaKippurim, Shir HaShirim, and Kodesh Kodashim

Rabbanit Shani Taragin

10:00 AM

HALACHA Machnisei Rachamim: Whose Side Are the Angels On?

Rabbi Anthony Manning

10:00am

MACHSHAVA Teshuva in the Chasidic Court of Reb Zusha of Anipoli

Rabbi Dr. Sholom Gold

11:00 AM

Kol Nidrei: The Source of Joy and Success for the Entire Year

Rabbi Meir Goldwicht

12:00 PM

L’AYLA (WOMEN ONLY)Things Given to the Heart

Mrs. Rachelle Fraenkel

12:00 PM

HALACHA The Secret of the Ten Days of Teshuva

Rabbi Ari Kahn

12:00 PM

MACHSHAVA Teshuva: Returning to the Real Self

Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

1:10 PM

“Trust or Treif” – the Halachic Foundations of Kashrut Supervision

Rabbi Yitzchak Fund

1:50 PM

First Mincha

02:15 PM

V’Ahavta L’Rayecha Kamocha – Seeing the Good in Others

Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman

3:15 PM

PANEL A Halacha in the Board Room: The Interface of Jewish Law and Ethical Business Practices

Panelists: Rabbi Menachem Copperman, Rabbi Dr. Alan Kimche, and Rabbi Ari Wasserman. Moderated by Rabbi Ian Pear.

03:15 PM

PANEL BWhere might the Future of Reproductive Technology lead us – Science, Ethics, and Halacha

Panelists: Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander, Rabbi Dr. Avraham Steinberg, and Rav Gideon Weitzman. Moderated by Rabbi Shimshon Nadel.

04:15 PM

Second Mincha

4:30 PM

Changing Our Behavior during the Yomim Noraim: Ideal or Hypocrisy?

Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon

5:30 PM

L’AYLA (WOMEN ONLY) Hardened Hearts: על חטא של אמוץ הלב

Rebbetzin Shira Smiles

05:30 PM

HALACHA Teshuva in a Changing World

Rabbi Shalom Rosner

5:30 PM

MACHSHAVA Neila Inspirations

Rabbi Dr. Ahron Adler

6:30 PM

Siyum Ceremony for OU’s Semichat Chaver Program

6:50 PM

Can Teshuva Erase a Mitzva?

Rabbi Benji Levene

7:45 PM

Maariv

8:00 PM

The Yimei HaDin: On What are We Being Judged?

Rabbi Zev Leff

9:00 PM

PANEL A Unpacking Spiritual Baggage: Teshuva as a Vehicle for Simcha

Panelists: Rabbi David Aaron, Rabbi Zvi Gluck, and Rabbi Judah Mischel. Moderated by Rabbi Aaron Goldscheider.

9:00 PM

PANEL B Science, Technology, and Contemporary Kashrut: OU Global Kashrut in the 21st Century and Beyond

Panelists: Rabbi Michoel Hoffman, Rabbi Yissachar Dov Krakowski, and Rabbi Mordechai Kuber. Moderated by Rabbi Yaacov Haber.

10:15 PM

L’AYLA (WOMEN ONLY) Real Return

Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller

10:15 PM

MACHSHAVA The Heroes that Bring Mashiach

Rabbi Menachem Nissel

10:15 PM

HALACHA A Taste of Semichat Chaver Program (SCP), the OU’s International Practical Halacha Program

Rabbi Elyada Goldwicht

11:00 PM

Closing Divrei Hitorerut and Chizuk

Rav Asher Weiss

11:55 PM

Musical Selichot

Rav Shlomo Katz