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Speakers and Conference Co-Chairs (left to right) Rabbi Jackie Ellenson ’83; Conference Co-Chair Alyssa Gray, J.D., Ph.D., Emily S. and Rabbi Bernard H. Mehlman Chair in Rabbinics, Professor of Codes and Responsa Literature; President Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D.; Ambassador Deborah E. Lipstadt, Ph.D., Former Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, United States State Department, Professor, Emory University; Jonathan Sarna, Ph.D., University Professor and the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University; Shuly Rubin Schwartz, Ph.D., Chancellor and Irving Lehrman Research Professor of American Jewish History, The Jewish Theological Seminary; Conference Co-Chair David Myers, Ph.D., Distinguished Prof. and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History, Director, UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, Director, UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute; Conference Co-Chair Rabbi Michael Marmur, Ph.D. ’92, Professor of Jewish Theology.

Jewish Thought speakers, left to right: Arnold M. Eisen, Ph.D., Chancellor Emeritus; Professor of Jewish Thought, The Jewish Theological Seminary; Leah Hochman, Ph.D., Director, Louchheim School of Judaic Studies, Associate Professor of Jewish Thought; Shira Billet, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought and Ethics, The Jewish Theological Seminary; Yoav Schaefer, Princeton University

Rabbi Robert Levine ’83, Congregation Rodeph Sholom, and his wife, Gina Levine, with Rabbi Jackie Ellenson ’83 (center).

Jewish Intellectual Thought speakers, left to right: Michah Gottlieb, Ph.D., Director, Associate Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Director of Graduate Studies for Ph.D. Program, New York University; Leora Batnitzky, Ph.D., Professor of Religion, Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies, Princeton University; Michael Meyer, Ph.D., Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History Emeritus; Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, Ph.D., Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Distinguished Service Professor of Jewish History; Chancellor Emeritus, The Jewish Theological Seminary

Liturgy/Siddur speakers and conference organizers, left to right: Yitz Landes, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Rabbinic Literatures and Cultures, The Jewish Theological Seminary, Presenter;  Rabbi Joseph A. Skloot, Ph.D. ’10, Rabbi Aaron D. Panken Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Intellectual History, Associate Director, Tisch Rabbinical Fellowship, 91�첥, Moderator; Rabbi Dalia Marx, Ph.D. ’02, Rabbi Aaron D. Panken Professor of Liturgy and Midrash, 91�첥, Presenter; Conference Co-Chair David Myers, Ph.D., Distinguished Prof. and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History, Director, UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, Director, UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute; Conference Co-Chair Alyssa Gray, J.D., Ph.D., Emily S. and Rabbi Bernard H. Mehlman Chair in Rabbinics, Professor of Codes and Responsa Literature; Conference Co-Chair Rabbi Michael Marmur, Ph.D. ’92, Professor of Jewish Theology; Conference Organizer Kristin Young, Director of HUC Connect, Special Projects Manager, President’s Office; President Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D.; Rabbi Wendy Zierler, Ph.D., Panelist; Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman, Ph.D. ’69, The Barbara and Stephen Friedman Professor Emeritus of Liturgy, Worship and Ritual, 91�첥 Emeritus, Presenter.

Liturgy/Siddur speakers, Rabbi Joseph A. Skloot, Ph.D., Rabbi Aaron D. Panken Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Intellectual History; Associate Director, Tisch Rabbinical Fellowship in discussion with Marcia Falk, Ph.D., Poet, Painter, Judaic Scholar, who joined virtually

Conference Benefactor, Burt Lehman, Emeriti Board of Governors, speaks at the Monday events at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan.

Panelists for In Dialogue with David: Remembering Rabbi Ellenson’s Transformative Leadership, left to right: Ambassador Deborah E. Lipstadt, Ph.D., Former Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, United States State Department, Professor, Emory University; Jonathan Sarna, Ph.D., University Professor and the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University; Shuly Rubin Schwartz, Ph.D., Chancellor; Irving Lehrman Research Professor of American Jewish History, The Jewish Theological Seminary; and President Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D., moderator.

Rabbi Hannah Ellenson ’25 shared personal reflections on the legacy of her father, Rabbi Ellenson, ��”l at the closing lunch.

Skip Vichness, conference benefactor and member of the Tuesday Morning Breakfast group, offered a moving reflection on his lifelong friendship with Rabbi David Ellenson, ��”l.

Halakhah speaker Alyssa Gray, J.D., Ph.D., Emily S. and Rabbi Bernard H. Mehlman Chair in Rabbinics, discusses Rabbi Ellenon’s impact on the field of halakhah, the state of the field at the moment, and future research directions to which his work points.

Rabbi Adam Ferziger, Ph.D., presenting on his session, Halakhah.

Conference co-chair, Rabbi Michael Marmur, Ph.D. ’92, Professor of Jewish Theology