473K Schedule of Events

9:00 am - 10:00 am 

Everyone Belongs Opening Session 

• Welcome & Connect: Wendy Verba, Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund, and Rabbi Bridget Wynne, Jewish Gateways
• This is Us: Video Portrait of our 473K 

Empowered Inclusion: How Affinity-Spaces Create More Opportunities for Belonging      

In Conversation:

• Analucia Lopezrevoredo, Moderator, Jewtina y Co and Bend the Arc 
• Kiyomi Gelber, Camp Tawonga 
• Arya Marvazy, KAHAL: Your Jewish Home Abroad
• Kenny Kahn, Monte Vista High School and Be’chol Lashon 

Closing blessing: Rabbi Isaiah Rothstein, Jewish Federations of North America

10:15 am - 11:30 am 

Belonging Roundtables 

Come ready to engage in generative conversations led by diverse communal leaders from across the Jewish landscape about challenges related to belonging, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Each Roundtable contributes an important piece to shaping our collective vision for 473K. Your reflections at the end of each session will be captured in a short online form that will be compiled into key themes and action steps (and documented by our guest artist Elizabeth Beier into a 473K visual story)!

View the complete list of Roundtables, facilitators, and biographies. You can find your Roundtable assignments in the Reception room on QiqoChat, the conference platform.

11:45 am - 12:25 pm 

Affinity Groups  

We will be offering open affinity spaces on both days of 473K where you can reflect and process your learning and experiences with others who share your identities. On May 4, groups are organized by race and ethnicity. May 5 groups are spaces for other identities including gender, sexual orientation, and different abilities. You can attend an Affinity Group Room for an identity you share. Please help us keep groups no larger than 15-20 by choosing a different room if it seems crowded.

12:30 pm - 1:00 pm 

Everyone Belongs: 473K Closing Session 

Regroup in the Main Stage room to make connections and take inspiration with you as we look past 473K to create change in our communities.

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Everyone Belongs Opening Session 

• Welcome & Connect: Arthur Slepian, Board Chair, Jewish Community and Endowment Fund

Putting Power in the Spotlight in our Jewish Communities

In Conversation:

• Rabbi Isaiah Rothstein, Rabbinic Scholar and Public Affairs Advisor, Jewish Federations of North America 
• Lindsey Newman, Director of Community Engagement, Be’chol Lashon, and co-chair, Racial Justice Taskforce, Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund 
• Danny Grossman, CEO, Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund 

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  Closing Blessing: Rabbi Mychal Copeland, Sha’ar Zahav

10:15 am - 11:30 am 

Belonging Roundtables 

Come ready to engage in generative conversations led by diverse communal leaders from across the Jewish landscape about challenges related to belonging, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Each Roundtable contributes an important piece to shaping our collective vision for 473K. Your reflections at the end of each session will be captured in a short online form that will be compiled into key themes and action steps (and documented by our guest artist Elizabeth Beier into a 473K visual story)!

View the complete list of Roundtables, facilitators, and biographies. You can find your Roundtable assignments in the Reception room on QiqoChat, the conference platform.

11:45 am - 12:25 pm

Affinity Groups  

We will be offering open affinity spaces on both days of 473K where you can reflect and process your learning and experiences with others who share your identities. On May 4, groups are organized by race and ethnicity. May 5 groups are spaces for other identities including gender, sexual orientation, and different abilities. You can attend an Affinity Group Room for an identity you share. Please help us keep groups no larger than 15-20 by choosing a different room if it seems crowded.

12:30 pm - 1:00 pm 

Everyone Belongs: 473K Closing Session 

Regroup in the Main Stage room to make connections and take inspiration with you as we look past 473K to create change in our communities.

9:00 am - 12:30 pm 

473K Design Studios 

The purpose of 473K Design Studios is to develop community resources that will accelerate belonging and inclusion in Jewish life. Small groups of up to fifteen people will collaborate in these immersive sessions. Topics are subject to change. 

View the complete list of 473K Design Studios and biographies.

• Inclusive Rituals for Transitional Times
• Putting “Community” in Communities of Practice
• Finding Your People: Small Groups as a Vehicle for Creating Belonging in your Organization
• Creating Programs that Celebrate Multiracial Jewish Community
• Putting Belonging Back on the Board