National Jewish Retreat 2026

National Jewish Retreat 2026

Schedule is tentative and subject to change.

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7:30am EDT

Shacharit Ivanka

8:00am EDT

Breakfast Grand Ballroom

9:15am EDT

Together Again: The Relationships That Make or Break Our Lives White & Gold 1Rabbi Dovid M. Cohen Way More Than Waymo: The Ethics of Programming—Who Lives and Who Dies IvankaRabbi Yechiel Krisch When the Rebbe Challenged Me: Personal Encounters That Changed the Way I Live CrystalRabbi Dovid Eliezrie

10:20am EDT

Building a World through Kindness: Rebuilding a Fractured World—One Act at a Time CrystalRabbi Moshe Bryski Halachah in the Hot Seat White & Gold 2Rabbi Yosef Marlow I Lived in a Drug Rehab for Five Years: How I Built Successful Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities, and What I Learned about Recovery White & Gold 1Rabbi David Nesenoff A Journey Back: VR Experience Roundtable Room Trust and Your Gut: How Faith, Stress, and Health Are More Connected Than You Think IvankaRabbi Manis Friedman

11:25am EDT

Order Confirmed. Gratitude Pending. Why Demanding More Is Short-Circuiting Your Miracles White & Gold 1Mrs. Charlene Aminoff The Forgiveness Experiment: What Would Your Life Look Like If You Let It All Go? CrystalRabbi Yisroel Bernath Unwrapping Your Legacy: What Halachah Really Says about Your Will White & Gold 2Rabbi Moshe Lieberman Where Is G-d When It Hurts? The Hardest Question in Judaism IvankaRabbi Yitzchak Schochet Beis Medrash: Decoding Tanya: The Inner Battle (Likutei Amarim) MajesticRabbi Naftali Silberberg

12:30pm EDT

Lunch Grand Ballroom

2:00pm EDT

A WILD Jewish Love Story: A Chinese Movie Star and a Puerto Rican Wall Street Woman CrystalMrs. Yael Trusch • Mr. Matt Trusch Fanatics and False Messiahs: The Scandal That Fractured the Jewish World White & Gold 2Rabbi Mendel Krasnjanski The Greatest Story of All Time White & Gold 1Rabbi Shmuel Reichman Future-Proofing the Jew: Halachah in the Age of AI, Space Travel, and Lab-Grown Meat IvankaRabbi Dovid M. Cohen • Rabbi Yechiel Krisch • Rabbi Moshe Lieberman • Rabbi Yosef Marlow • Rabbi Naftali Silberberg The Great Cook-Off and Kosher Meat Expo: Watch a Master Kosher Chef in Action MajesticChef. Yos Shwartz

3:10pm EDT

Blackout: Developing Your Spiritual Night Vision White & Gold 1Mrs. Charlene Aminoff Has Religion Been Good for the World? The Case For—and Against—Faith CrystalRabbi Manis Friedman How You Say It Matters: The Secrets to Being an Outstanding Speaker White & Gold 2Rabbi David Nesenoff My Grandfather: A Nazi? How I Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal. IvankaMrs. Silvia Foti Beis Medrash: Should I Sin for Someone Else's Sake? Roundtable RoomRabbi Mendel Krasnjanski

4:20pm EDT

Becoming a Mother Without a Womb: How Raw Faith Rewrote My Story CrystalMrs. Ariella Kamen Broken Strings, Beautiful Music: Finding Strength, Purpose, and Song, Even When Life Doesn’t Go as Planned White & Gold 1Rabbi Moshe Bryski Holy Intimacy: The Transformative Power of Mikvah White & Gold 2Mrs. Rivkah Slonim Somatics, Souls, and Psychedelics: Can Therapy Replace Chasidus? IvankaRabbi Yechiel Krisch Speaker Meet-Up: Your Chance to Go Beyond the Talk Roundtable RoomRabbi Yisroel Bernath • Rabbi Manis Friedman

5:15pm EDT

5:30pm EDT

Dinner Grand BallroomMrs. Rivkah Slonim

8:00pm EDT

Point Taken: Where Every Parable has a Point, Every Source Scores, and Every Second Counts IvankaMrs. Yael Trusch • Rabbi Yechiel Krisch • Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet • Rabbi Naftali Silberberg

9:15pm EDT

9:30pm EDT

Viennese Table Ivanka Foyer

9:45pm EDT

Film Screening: The True Story of the Jew Who Dared to Challenge Henry Ford IvankaMs. Gaylen Ross Undaunted: From Czars, Communists, and Nazis to a Modern Jewish Renaissance White & Gold 2Rabbi Yechiel Krisch • Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie