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2011 Annual Convention & Exposition

      

  • Earn up to 17 continuing education credits

  • More than 450 exhibit booths

  • Breakout sessions on topics that most affect your business

  • Third Annual PLPA Conference

  • Jewish Funeral Directors of America meetings

  • Networking luncheons, receptions and dinners

  • Free food & drinks in the Expo hall

  • 2011 KIP Awards presentation

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.JFDA Annual Meeting


Jewish Funeral Directors of America
Annual Spring Meeting
in conjunction with the ICCFA 2011 Convention & Exposition
March 8-11, 2011
 
Click here to download a registration flyer

JFDA members will have access to all ICCFA educational programs and to the Exhibit Hall. In addition, the JFDA has created the following program specifically for its members:

THURSDAY, MARCH 10

8:30 to 10 a.m.
Meeting of JFDA Members


2-3:30 p.m.
Uni-faith Mourning Practices in an Inter-faith World: Issues and Strategies
Rabbi Leonard Zukrow
Inter-faith marriage has become the “norm” among American Jewry, with about 50 percent of marriages resulting in an inter-marriage. This presents profound challenges at a time of grief. How does an inter-faith family mourn? How does a non-Jewish spouse mourn for a Jewish spouse? Beyond burial issues are the issues related to ritual, planning the funeral, and dealing with families of different religious backgrounds and beliefs about the after life. Rabbi Zukrow will present this interactive session, encouraging participants to share their experiences in their roles as Jewish funeral directors.

Rabbi Leonard Zukrow is assistant rabbi and director of education at Congregation Ner Tamid in Henderson, Nevada. Previously, he served as rabbi of Temple Beth El, a historic congregation in Pensacola, Florida, and he is a former adjunct instructor at the University of Redlands in Redlands, California. Zukrow has hosted a television program on interfaith relations and has long been involved in social justice work, serving on the boards of a local food pantry and an interfaith housing project. He is a Brickner Fellow of the Religious Action Center in Washington, DC. Rabbi Zukrow holds a bachelor of science in social welfare and Hebrew studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a master’s degree in Jewish education from Spertus College in Chicago.



3:30 to 5 p.m.
The Death of Moses: What It Teaches Us about Death and Dying from the Jewish Perspective
Rabbi Malcolm Cohen
The Torah culminates in Moses’ death. This episode is wistful but poetic. Learn and discuss some of the Rabbinic legends associated with this incredible event. Discover how Moses fights the Angel of Death and how God finally takes him to his resting place. The texts deal with end of life issues which have practical relevance to funeral directors. This session will give you the opportunity to clarify your own theological and spiritual responses to death.
 
Rabbi Malcolm Cohen is the rabbi at Temple Sinai in Las Vegas, Nevada. He previously served Beth Israel Congregation in Florence, South Carolina, and before that was one of three full-time rabbis at West London Synagogue, the flagship congregation of the Reform movement in the United Kingdom. He received his training for ordination at Leo Baeck College in London, and at the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
 
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