Lighting the Way!
Park Plaza Hotel
Boston, Massachusetts
Sunday, December 4
to Thursday, December 8

More than 700 people -- lay leaders, rabbis, educators, other professionals, and synagogue members -- joined us at our international biennial convention in December.

DVDs of some of the talks at the convention are available. For details about buying DVDs with talks by Rabbi Jerome Epstein, Rabbi Harold Kushner, Rabbi Neil Gillman, Fran Immerman, Rabbi Menachem Creditor, and Professor Elliot Dorff, click here.

You can read the Convention Reporter and learn about some of each day's newsworthy events.

• Read about Sunday here.
• Read about Monday here.
• Read about Tuesday here.
• Read about Wednesday here.

Click here to read the Jewish Telegraphic Agency's story on the convention.

At the convention, we looked seriously at United Synagogue's evolving approach toward intermarried families. As we work to develop new models for working with the intermarried, we are talking and thinking about how to reach out to them more passionately and welcome them more warmly. Click here to read RAbbi Jerome Epstein's talk, Beyond Keruv to Edud; click here for more background.

To read the resolutions proposed by the social action and public policy committee and passed at the convention, click here

If you are a Schechter award winner and had your photograph taken at the convention, go to www.ultramoments.com. Your password and reference number are USCJ2005, and no matter when they were taken all the photos are dated December 6.

To see a list of who won our Solomon Schechter Awards for Synagogue Excellence, click here; for a more detailed look at the winning programs and the philosophy behind the awards, click here.

A wide range of vendors were at the convention; for a vendor list, click here.

To read an article about the convention that ran in the Fall/Winter United Synagogue Review, click here.

To see the convention brochure, click here.

To see what was scheduled for the convention, click here here.

Monday Reporter | Tuesday Reporter | Wednesday Reporter | Thursday Reporter | Convention Resolutions | Solomon Schechter Awards | Convention Vendors | Convention Schedule | What We've Got Planned | Biennial Convention Brochure