NAORRR Annual Convention
We are very excited to see all of you in Phoenix for the 2027 convention!
New
Workshops
Four
Days
Three
Scholars
New and Exciting Offerings at the 2027 Convention! So Much Is Happening in Phoenix! Join Us!
“Do not say: I will learn when I have leisure; you may never have it.”
– Pirke Avot 2:5
SPEAKERS 2027
Meet Our Scholars
Rabbi Ellen Lewis
Rabbi Ellen Lewis has more than forty years of experience as a rabbi and a therapist. After her ordination at HUC-JIR in Cincinnati in 1980, she spent over thirty years serving congregations in Dallas,Texas; Summit, New Jersey (named rabbi honorata); and Washington, New Jersey (named rabbi emerita). Rabbi Lewis received her analytical training in New York at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies. She has written and presented widely about the intersection of Judaism and modern psychoanalysis. She now practices full-time as a therapist, supervisor/coach, and pastoral counselor. Her website can be found at www.rabbiellenlewis.com
Mark Washofsky
Mark Washofsky is emeritus professor of Rabbinics at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. His academic specialty is the literature of Jewish law (halakhah) and the application of legal theory to the understanding of the Jewish legal process. His publications deal with such subjects as the history of the halakhah, the nature of rabbinical decision making, and issues of medical ethics in Jewish law. He is chair of the Solomon B. Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah and served as chair of the Responsa Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis from 1996 to 2017. In addition to numerous articles, he is the author of Reading Reform Responsa (2023) and Jewish Living: A Guide to Contemporary Reform Practice (revised edition, 2010) and editor of Reform Responsa for the Twenty-First Century (2010).
Rabbi Dvora Weisberg, Ph.D.
Rabbi Dvora Weisberg, Ph.D. is the Rabbi Aaron Panken Professor of Rabbinics on the Los Angeles campus of Hebrew Union College. Rabbi Weisberg served for eleven years as the Rabbinical Program Director in Los Angeles and then as the National Rabbinical School Director of Hebrew Union College from 2020 to 2025.
She received her B.A. summa cum laude from Brandeis University and her undergraduate thesis, was entitled “Can the Demands of Jewish Feminists Be Met Within the Halakhic System?” She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Talmud and Rabbinic Literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and was ordained at Hebrew Union College. Prior to Hebrew Union College, Rabbi Weisberg taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the College of William and Mary, and the University of Pittsburgh.
Rabbi Weisberg is the author of Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism (2008), a study of the ancient rabbis’ vision of the family and its members, and Tractate Menahot: A Feminist Commentary (2020). Her book on levirate marriage and the family was a finalist for the 2009 National Jewish Book Awards in the category of Women’s Studies.
Online Convention Registration Opens September 11.
Early Bird $315
On or before 11/19/26
Standard Registration $375
After 11/19/26