Following each set of keynotes there will be dozens of grade and age-specific sessions giving participants the chance to follow their interests and needs related to issues of content and literacy.

Midday will be filled with the blessing of personal study whether you prefer to learn with guidance and insights from extraordinary teachers or to sit and wrestle with texts together with a study partner in the Beit Midrash.

Afternoons will be packed with sessions designed to hone and advance your personal teaching and professional skills, to deepen your Judaic knowledge and understanding, and to learn about new materials and technologies.

And, of course, there will be music and song, dancing and storytelling, joyous prayer and meditation. This special community will join together with great ruach, the hallmark of any CAJE Conference, to remind each other that we are engaged in holy labor.We will celebrate our work, celebrate our community and celebrate the richness of our lives.

A very special Shabbat
While Shabbat at CAJE is always special, this year it will be particularly so. Beloved Eliot Spack, the CAJE Executive Director, will be retiring at the end of 2006 after 26 years with CAJE. This Shabbat will be a Shabbat of kavod, honoring Eliot and thanking him. It will also be a reunion of sorts as CAJE past and present join in this joyous Shabbat celebration. Among the scholars on hand making this an unmissable weekend are:

Rabbi Irwin Kula
Irwin is President of CLAL–The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, a leadership training institute, think tank and resource center. He is a much sought-after speaker and commentator on public culture and religion in the public square.

Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin is the author of fifteen books, including Jewish Literacy and The Book of Jewish Values, a senior associate of CLAL, a board member of the Jewish Book Council, and the rabbi of the Los Angeles–based Synagogue for the Performing Arts.

Rabbi Naftali Rothenberg
Naftali is the town rabbi of Har Adar in Israel. He is a Senior Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute where he co-chairs the Framework on Contemporary Jewish Culture and Identity and chairs the Center for Tolerance Education.

Joseph Telushkin, Irwin Kula, Ari Goldman, Liel Leibovitz and Alana Newhouse will appear at CAJE 31 courtesy of the Jewish Book Council.