A Community Mikveh in Newport Beach?!

                                          © 2001 Janice Rubin; from The Mikvah Project; www.mikvahproject.com

• Come learn more about spiritual practices of Mikveh
  
• Help create a Community Mikveh at Temple Bat Yahm in Orange County.
  

What's planned:

10:00-10:15    Registration

10:15-11:10    Keynote Speakers – Rabbi Rachel Adler and Rabbi Gail Labovitz

   What's a Mikveh For? Traditions and Vision

11:15-12:10    Concurrent Sessions (2)

                        Mikveh Defined and Redefined - Rabbi Anne Brener and
                                    Marca Gay

                        Mikveh as a Conversion Ritual - Penelope Oppenheimer Kieffer

12:15-13:00    Kosher vegetarian lunch provided by Blueberry Hill Catering

13:05-14:00      Concurrent Sessions (2)

                        Halacha of Mikveh: What Makes the Ocean Kosher and a
                                   Swimming Pool Not? - Rabbi Dan Shevitz 

                        Mikveh Guides, Key Component - Rabbi Barbara Penzner, Mayyim
                                    Hayyim, Boston, and Beth Tieman Feldstein, lay leader
                                    MACom Mikveh, Atlanta 

14:05-15:00    Mikveh Stories - moderated by Rabbi Gershon Zylberman
                                   Storytellers to include clergy who use           
                                   Mikveh personally as well as professionally