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Thursday, November 4,
1999
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| 3 P.M.
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Registration
Desk open at the Hyatt. Hospitality Suite open at noon. |
| 6:00 PM
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SJHS Officers and Board members: Board Meeting/Dinner
Non-Board members: Dinner on your own.
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Friday,
November 5, 1999
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10 AM to 4:30 PM
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Registration Desk open at the Hyatt
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| 10 AM to 5:PM
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Hospitality Suite open
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| 9:15 AM to1:30 PM
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Optional Tour of Jewish Richmond
Temple Beth Ahabah Museum and Archives
Temple Beth Ahabah sanctuary and windows
Virginia Holocaust Museum
Beth El Synagogue Sanctuary
Hebrew Cemetery, Confederate Section
Lunch at Beth El Synagogue
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| 2:00 PM
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Conference Convenes
Greetings: Richard November, President of the Richmond Jewish Federation
Welcome by SJHS President Bruce
Beeber, MD
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| 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
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“The Virginia Experience: Challenge and Response”
Moderator : Clara G. Schiffer, Advocate, Women’s Rights
Dr. Peter Opper, Exec. Director, Jewish Family Services of Richmond:
“Ladies’ Hebrew Benevolent Association’s First 150 Years”
Rita Ruby, President, Jewish Family Services:
“Women and Community: Yesterday and Tomorrow”
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3:30 PM to 3:45 PM
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Break
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3:45 PM to 4:45 PM
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Moderator: Minette Cooper, Chair, Ohef Sholom Temple
Archives
Norfolk, VA
Benn Trask, Associate Curator, Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, VA
and
Jennifer Priest, Curator, Ohef Sholom Temple Archives, Norfolk, VA:
“Chartered for History: SS President Warfield Becomes Exodus 1947”
Neil November, Community Volunteer:“Now It Can Be Told: Guns for
Ben Gurion”
Dr. Melvin Urofsky, Director, Ph.D Program in Public Policy,
Virginia Commonwealth University: “Why Is This Time Different From
All Other Times?”
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5:30 PM
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Depart Hyatt for Temple Beth Ahabah by bus
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6 PM
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Dinner at Temple Beth Ahabah
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8 PM
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Shabbat Service at Temple Beth Ahabah, Sermon by Rabbi
Martin P. Beifield, Jr.
Tribute to Dr. Abram Kanof
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| 9:45 P.M.
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Oneg Shabbat
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10:15P.M
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Return to Hyatt Hotel by bus
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Saturday,
November 6, 1999
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10:30 AM to 6 PM
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Hospitality Suite Open
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| 8:15 AM to 8:45 AM
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Shabbat service at the Hyatt
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| 9 AM to 9:50 AM
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“The Lone Star of David”
Moderator: Hollace Weiner, author of Jewish Stars in Texas
Sherry Zander: “Texas Touchstones: Small Synagogues and Their
Communities”
Kay Goldman: “Merchants, Masons and Politicians; Jews on the Texas
Frontier”
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9:50 AM to 10:10 AM
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Break
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| 10:10 AM to 11 AM
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“History through Fiction”
Moderator: Terry Barr, Presbyterian College
Leta Weiss Marks, author of Time’s Tapestry, Four Generations of
a New Orleans Family
Judy Goldman, author of The Slow Way Back
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11 AM to 11:10 AM
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Break
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| 11:10 AM to Noon
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“Fitting In”
Moderator: Dr. Dianne Ashton
Dr. Scott Langston, Southwest Baptist University: “Negotiating the
Boundaries of Faith: Reverend Benjamin Morgan Palmer, Rabbi James K.
Gutheim and Rabbi Max Heller”
Caroline Light: “Social Uplift, Jewish Motherhood, and Becoming
‘White’ in the Depression Era South.”
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Noon to 12 :30 PM
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Break
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| 12:30 PM
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Luncheon and speaker: The Jerome Gumenick Lectureship
Guest Speaker: Alfred Uhry, Pulitzer, Oscar and Tony prize
winning playwright, author of Driving Miss Daisy, Last Night of
Ballyhoo and Parade.
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2:45 PM to 4:30 PM
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“The Printed Word”
Moderator: Rosel Schewel, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Lynchburg
College
Dr. Lance Sussman, author of Isaac Leeser and the Making of
American Judaism, “Isaac Leeser and The Occident”
Dr. Clarence W. Thomas , author of The Serious Humor of Harry
Golden, “Harry Golden and The Carolina Israelite”
Seth Gitell, National Editor of the Forward, “Forward Newspaper:
Next 100 Years”
Dr. Michael Feldberg, Executive Director of the American
Jewish Historical Society to give commentary on the panel, The Printed Word.
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4:30 PM
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Break
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| 6:15 PM
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Havdalah
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| 6:30 PM
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Cash Bar
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7:00 PM
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Banquet and Keynote Speaker
Susan Stein, Curator of Monticello, The Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Foundation
“The Levy Family and the Preservation of Monticello.”
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Sunday,
November 7,
1999
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| 8:30 AM-9:30 AM.
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SJHS General Membership Meeting
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| 9:30 AM-10:30 AM
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“A Touro Family Album”
Moderator: Dr. Mark Greenberg, Historian, The Museum of the Southern
Jewish Experience
Lester Sullivan, Archivist, Xavier University of Louisiana, “Judah Touro’s New Orleans in Black and White”
Keith and Theresa
Stokes, Newport, Rhode Island, “200 Years of an Ethnic American Family”
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10:30 AM-10:45 AM
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Break
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| 10:45 AM-Noon
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“Meet the Authors”
Moderator: Marcus Rosenbaum, editor of Heart of a Wife: The Diary of
a Southern Jewish Woman
Edward Cohen, The Peddler’s Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in
Mississippi
Stella Suberman, The Jew Store
Hollace Weiner, Jewish Stars in Texas: Rabbis and Their Work
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12:30 PM Lunch
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Report by Beryl Weiner, Chairman of the Grants Committee
Installation of Officers:
Catherine Kahn, President
Report of the Planning Committee for 2000
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2:00 PM
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Adjournment
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