National Jewish Retreat 2026

National Jewish Retreat 2026

Schedule is tentative and subject to change.

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8:00am EDT

Breakfast Grand Ballroom

8:30am EDT

A Chasidic Anxiety Antidote White & Gold 1Rabbi Mordechai Dinerman

9:45am EDT

Shacharit IvankaRabbi Zalman Katz Shacharit: Beginners’ Prayer Workshop for Women White & Gold 2Mrs. Aliza Scheinfeld

11:00am EDT

Re’eh: When Every Choice Becomes Destiny White & Gold 2Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie Shacharit: Beginners’ Service White & Gold 1Rabbi Yitzchok Tiechtel

12:30pm EDT

Shabbat Lunch Grand BallroomRabbi Yitzchak Schochet

3:00pm EDT

Before I Was Me: Reincarnation, Past Lives, and the Secret of the Soul Before Birth IvankaRabbi Yechiel Krisch Judaism's First Female To Appear In Print: Rivka Tiktiner's Seven-Branched Vision for the Jewish Future CrystalDr. Henry Abramson Resurrecting Mammoths and Reading Minds: The 2026 Jewish Medical Ethics Update White & Gold 1Rabbi Dr. Edward Reichman What Does Antisemitism Have to Do with the Jews? MajesticRabbi Moshe Krasnanski

4:00pm EDT

4:30pm EDT

Farbrengen! A Traditional Chasidic Repast for Mind, Heart, and Soul (for Men) White & Gold 2Rabbi Manis Friedman • Rabbi Simon Jacobson Farbrengen! A Traditional Chasidic Repast for Mind, Heart, and Soul (for Women) White & Gold 1Mrs. Shaindy Jacobson • Mrs. Yael Trusch • Mrs. Rivkah Slonim • Ms. Priva Schlanger

6:15pm EDT

Seudah Shelishit Grand Ballroom

7:45pm EDT

Beyond Jewish Survival: A Jewish Revival From Defense to Destiny CrystalRabbi Moshe Bryski Building Bridges, Not Broiges: The Jewish Art of Letting Go of Grudges IvankaRabbi Yitzchak Schochet Holy Desire: The Psychology of Love, Attraction, and Sacred Intimacy (Couples Only) MajesticRabbi Dr. Nachi Felt The Surprising Questions Asked by America's First Jews: Inside America's Earliest Halachic Correspondence White & Gold 1Rabbi Mordechai Dinerman Speaker Meet-Up: Your chance to go beyond the talk. Roundtable RoomRabbi Simon Jacobson • Rabbi Yisroel Bernath

8:38pm EDT

Maariv Prayer Ivanka

9:00pm EDT

Havdalah Ivanka

10:00pm EDT

Comedy Gold IvankaElon Gold

10:30pm EDT

Melaveh Malkah Meal Grand Ballroom