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Sacred Foods Conference
Chicago, June 5-6, 2007
Date: 4/13/2007 3:44:46 PM ( 17 y ) ... viewed 2251 times Friends:
I‚m sending out the registration materials for our upcoming Sacred Foods Conference again to URGE all of those who are interested to REGISTER IMMEDIATELY! Because of deadlines with the site and extremely low registration as of today, we need to know that you plan to come by next Thursday! Unless we hit our minimum by then we cannot move forward. If you were planning on attending, please be sure to register as soon as you can, but no later than Thursday, April 19!
The speakers at this event are truly amazing. If you are passionate about organic, sustainable, just and humane agriculture, you won‚t want to miss this! There likely won‚t be another even like it!
Thanks so much,
Brachot,
Deb
Sacred Foods Conference 2007
June 4, 5 and 6, 2007 in Chicago, IL
Please join us for the Sacred Foods Conference for an important discussion about faith, food and our future.
The Sacred Foods conference draws from Christian, Islamic and Jewish teachings about food and hunger and provides a timely forum to discuss their relationship to modern contemporary social and environmental concerns. The goal of the 2007 Sacred Foods Conference is to bring together individuals from nonprofit and faith-based organizations working on issues of food, agriculture, health, environment and social justice to learn about the Sacred Foods Project and its tools to assist congregations, share good practices and model programs across faith traditions, network, and identify opportunities for voluntary collaboration.
Who Should Come?
This is an event intended for
· Ordained and lay religious leaders yearning to help their denomination, religious institution, organization or congregation make concrete changes to support the goals of the project
· Executives from food businesses that produce products for religious markets or emphasize sustainability
· Purchasing agents in charge of food for religious institutions including hospitals, schools, universities, meal programs, senior and day care facilities
· Clergy involved in certification of foods or providing dietary advice
· Leaders in nonprofit organizations working to alleviate hunger and improve food production practices
When and where is the conference being held?
The Sacred Foods Conference will be held at the Cenacle Center, with registration beginning at 3 pm on Monday, June 4, dinner at 6 and a welcoming plenary and opening exercises beginning at 7 pm. The conference will conclude with lunch served at 12:30 on Wednesday, June 6. The Cenacle Center is located in Chicago, IL cenaclesisters.org/chcgcnfcntr.htm and is easily reachable from Chicago‚s O‚Hare airport. Driving directions and public transportation instructions will be provided after you register.
How do I register?
A registration form is attached to this invitation. You may either mail or fax the form by May 10 to:
Sacred Foods Conference
c/o ALEPH
7000 Lincoln Drive # B-2
Philadelphia, PA 19119
Fax: 215-247-9703
Registrations will continue to be accepted until June 1, however rooms at the facility may not be available and nearby hotels will cost more. We urge you to register by May 10!
May I bring a guest?
If you received this invitation and you know someone interested in attending, by all means invite him or her to join you and register for the conference. If your spouse/partner or friend are interested in joining you at the site and not attending the conference, they are also welcome. Please complete the guest information on your registration form, if appropriate. Because space is limited we encourage you to consider sharing your room with your guest.
About The Sacred Foods Project
The conference is sponsored by the Sacred Foods Project, an interfaith effort to incorporate religious and ethical principles in the ways in which we produce and distribute food. The project brings together religious leaders, faith-based and civic institutions and members of the food industry to improve the quality of our land, air and water, to provide healthier and more sustainable food for our citizens and to improve the lives of agricultural workers.
Launched in July, 2005, the project is housed in ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal and works in partnership with Faith in Place, the Food Alliance, the Islamic Society of North America, the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, the National Council of Churches as well as other faith-based institutions, businesses and nonprofit organizations.
Who can I contact for more information: Please direct your questions by email to RenateWoessner@yahoo.com.
Sacred Foods Conference Registration Form
Please complete the following information and mail or fax the form by May 10 to:
Sacred Foods Conference
c/o ALEPH
7000 Lincoln Drive # B-2
Philadelphia, PA 19119
Fax: 215-247-9703
Name(s):
Title:
Organization:
Address:
City: State: Zip:
Phone:
Email:
Website:
Fees and Charges:
___Registration, materials, room and board for 2 nights, double room: $325.
___Commuter Registration, materials, meals and site fee: $250.
Additions:
___I am bringing a guest who will join me in my room and for meals but not the conference: $150.
___Single room supplement: $40.
Total: $______
q My check payable to ALEPH/Sacred Foods Conference is enclosed in the amount of: $ ___
q Please bill my credit card for $ ("ALEPH" will appear on your credit card as the vendor.)
Visa/Mastercard # Exp. Date CV Code
Name as it appears on the card (please print):
Signature:
Conference Program
Monday, June 4
3:00 PM Registration Begins
6:00 PM Dinner
7:00 PM Opening and Welcome
8:30 PM Gathering at local restaurant
Tuesday, June 5
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Opening Prayer Mohammed Mazher Hussaini, Chief
Consultant on Halal Certification, ISNA
Update on Sacred Foods Project and Conference Review
Brief introductory exercise
Debra Kolodny, Executive Director, ALEPH
9:45-11:00 Sacred Foods in Action! Clare Butterfield, Moderator
Faith in Place, Chicago:Clare Butterfield, Executive Director
Hazon -Tuv HaAretz CSA Project, Leah Koenig, Director
Interfaith Worker Justice, Kim Bobo, Executive Director
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:20 Sacred Foods congregational tools and applying success stories to your congregation or institution Clare Butterfield and Brother David Andrews, NCLRC
12:30-1:45 Lunch
1:45-2:45 Certification and Sacred Foods Joe Regenstein, Moderator Tzedek Hecksher: Jewish worker rights in the Conservative Movement: Rabbi Morris Allen Halal Premium (humane) Meats: John Umlauf, CEO
2:45 Break
3:00 Purchasing Policies Scott Exo, Moderator
Convent and Hospital Procurement Policies in Pittsburgh: Sister Lyn Syzmkiewicz Sacred Foods guide for Congregational and Institutional purchasing Scott Exo, Food Alliance
6:00-7:00 Dinner
7:30 Evening program
Conference Program
Wednesday, June 7
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:00-9:15 Opening Prayer, Clare Butterfield Introduction to Break-outs
9:15-10:30 a.m. Implementing Sacred Foods in your faith tradition
10:30-10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 ˆ12:00 p.m. Implementing Sacred Foods in your metropolitan area/region
12:00-12:30 PM Discussion based on small groups
Summary and Closing, Debra Kolodny, ALEPH
Closing prayer, Br. David Andrews, NCRLC
12:30-2:00 p.m. Lunch and Afternoon Prayer (Dhuhr Salat)
Continued discussions over lunch
Departure
Conference Presenters
Rabbi Morris J. Allen has served as the first spiritual leader of the Beth Jacob Congregation since August 1986. During his tenure, Beth Jacob has been the recipient of nine Solomon Schecter Awards by the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism for innovative and creative programming. The congregation has been the focus of national studies and projects, including works undertaken by the Avi Chai Foundation and the Ratner Center for the Study of Conservative Judaism. Rabbi Allen leads the Conservative movement‚s work on producing a „Hechsher Tzedek‰, a means for determining how workers are treated in the production of Kosher food. He served as a member of the Rabbinical Assembly‚s „Commission on Human Sexuality‰, as well as the Rabbinical Assembly‚s Task Force on Strategic Planning. He has been involved with Jewish Community Action and their work on behalf of non-documented workers, particularly in the Hispanic community. Currently, he is involved in a local task force committed to more fair and honest coverage of Israel in the media. He is an on-call chaplain for the State Department of Corrections, visiting with Jewish inmates around the state. Rabbi Allen was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1984, and received his Bachelor‚s and Master‚s degree in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Brother David Andrews, CSC is the Executive Director of the .82-year-old National Catholic Rural Life Conference. For over 25 years, Brother Dave has worked for justice, sustainable development, and ecological integrity in the food and farm policy arena. His work has been recognized by the Archdiocese of Washington D.C.,which in 2003 gave him the Monsignor George Higgins Award for Labor Advocacy. In 2005, Brother Dave received the „Excellence in Practice and Application Award‰ from the Rural Sociological Society, which recognized his efforts to address the moral dimensions of the food system. He was recently appointed to the International Advisory Board for the EcoFair-Trade Dialogue, which in 2005ˆ06 will meet with a special focus on food sovereignty and sustainable development. In the course of his travels, Brother Dave has met with small farmers in Uganda and East Africa and attended World Trade Organization meetings in Hong Kong. Brother Dave speaks and writes frequently on his favorite theme „Eating is a Moral Act‰ which he uses to call attention to the role that everyone has in shaping a preferred and sustainable food and farm system.
Kim Bobo is the founder and executive director of Interfaith Worker Justice, the leading national organization that mobilizes religious support for low-wage workers and rebuilds partnerships with the labor movement. Since its founding in 1996, the organization has built a network of sixty religion-labor groups around the country, originated the „Labor in the Pulpits‰ program in which a hundred cities participate, started the Seminary Summer program -- a joint program with the labor movement, placing seminary and rabbinical students with unions for summer internships, and created dozens of congregational resources on economic justice. Prior to Interfaith Worker Justice, Ms. Bobo was a trainer for the Midwest Academy, and Director of Organizing for Bread for the World. She is co-author of Organizing for Social Change, the best selling organizing manual in the country.
Rev. Clare Butterfield is the Director of Faith in Place, an interfaith environmental ministry in Chicago that gives religious people tools to become better stewards of Creation. Faith in Place congregations work together to support renewable energy, conserve energy, build markets for local sustainable agriculture and fair trade products, and train the next generation of stewards of the earth through urban agriculture with youth. Rev. Butterfield is an ordained Unitarian Universalist community minister. She has an M. Div. from Meadville Lombard Theological School (2000), a J.D. (University of Illinois College of Law, 1983) and a B.A. in History (University of Illinois, 1980), and is currently enrolled in the D. Min program at Chicago Theological Seminary in with a focus on faith and the environment.
Scott Exo is the executive director for the Food Alliance, a Portland-based non-profit that works to create market incentives for sustainable agriculture. Food Alliance operates a certification program for environmentally friendly and socially responsible agricultural practices, and works to connect certified farms, ranches, and processors with the growing market for sustainably produced products. Prior to joining Food Alliance in 1999, Scott served as the director of the Grassroots Leadership Project at 1000 Friends of Oregon, and managed rural development and study abroad programs in Asia and Africa. While a graduate fellow at the East West Center in Honolulu, Scott earned Masters Degrees in Geography and in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Hawaii.
Mohammad Mazhar Hussaini, M.S., L.D. is the Director of Islamic Society of North America's Halal Certification Program. He served as the Regional Nutrition Coordinator of the Department of Public Health of the City of Chicago for 24 years. He has a Master's degree in Food and Nutrition from North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota and is a Licensed Dietitian in the State of Illinois. He is a published author, nutritionist, and a respected leader in Halal education.
Leah Koenig is the food projects coordinator at Hazon, a New York City-based non-profit that works to create a healthier and more sustainable Jewish community as a step towards a healthier and more sustainable world for all. She runs Tuv Ha‚Aretz, Hazon‚s Community-Supported Agriculture Project, consulting with local synagogues and Jewish Community Centers to start Jewishly-rooted CSAs. She also writes for the Jew and the Carrot, Hazon‚s blog on Jews, food, and contemporary life, and is a freelance writer who focuses on food and culture. She graduated from Middlebury College with a double degree in Religion and Environmental Studies.
Debra Kolodny is the Executive Director of ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal. She is responsible for overseeing and supporting all of the organizations projects, including Sacred Foods. She handles media work, outreach and visibility, fundraising and development and she serves the 38 affiliated ALEPH Communities with training and consultation. She also delivers programming through one-day Jewish Renewal festivals (Caravans) and biennial retreats. A veteran of several social justice movements, Debra has been working professionally with and for faith-based organizations, labor unions, civil rights organizations and other social justice non-profits for over 20 years. A graduate of the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the University of Pennsylvania Law School she has organized dozens of retreats and conferences and has led several interfaith coalitions.
Dr. Joe Regenstein is a Professor of Food Science in the Department of Food Science and is a Visiting Professor of Food Science at the University of Wisconsin. He has a B.A. in Chemistry and M.S. in Dairy Chemistry from Cornell and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Brandeis University. Dr. Regenstein last sabbatical (‚96-‚97) was as the Institute of Food Technologist's (IFT) first Congressional Science Fellow in Washington, DC working in Senator D'Amato's office as a Legislative Science Fellow dealing with agriculture, food safety, and clean air. He currently has responsibility for four courses: Food Law, Managing Food Waste without Trashing the Environment, Kosher and Halal Food Regulations (also available as a distance learning course at UW-Madison), and Environmental Stewardship in the Cornell Community. Dr. Regenstein leads the Cornell Kosher Food Initiative, which provides services to the kosher and halal foods sector. He was the keynote speaker at the 5th International Halal Food Conference in Chicago and is on the technical committee of the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council. Dr. Regenstein is the co-founder and newsletter editor of IFT‚s Religious and Ethnic Foods Division. He is a member of the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and National Council of Chain Restaurants‚ Animal Welfare Committee and a member of Humane Farm Animal Care‚s Scientific Committee. He is also an advisor to the Jewish Vegetarians of North America.
Sister Lyn Szymkiewicz, CSJ, is Director of Ecological and Land Projects with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden, Pennsylvania. She is presently coordinating a Building Sustainable Communities Project with seven congregations of women religious and local farmers and distributors. Sister Lyn is a founding member of the Sisters of St. Joseph Eco Group, which brings together Sisters who share an interest in creating and enhancing relations between nature and God and educating others about that connection. She recently earned a Master‚s Degree in Earth Literacy at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in Indiana.
John Umlauf is the CEO, Halal Premium Meats. He began his career at the feet of an old-time butcher in the corner meat shop and became a meat-cutter apprentice at age 16. Moving on to a culinary career---and working his way up to executive chef---John has come full-circle back to the meat business where he has served as Culinary Marketing Director for several Northeast Œnew paradigm‚ meat brands since 2002. He earned his Master of Divinity degree from Unification Theological Seminary in 1983 and conducted ecumenical conferences for clergy before returning to culinary work in 1992. John served as Corporate & Conference Chef for The Weston A. Price Foundation from 2002 to 2005 and still serves on the Honorary Board of Directors for that international non-profit organization. He often wears his chef‚s coat to events and sales calls as a reminder to all that „this is, after all, food!‰ He lives on an acre of land near Buffalo, NY with his wife and three children.
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Upcoming Events
2007 Sacred Foods Conference
Chicago, June 5-6, 2007
Cenacle Retreat Center
Join with religious and nonprofit leaders engaged in the work of food, faith and our future. Look for updates about the conference program and registration materials as they become available in this e-newsletter. You can subscribe to the Sacred Foods e-newsletter by sending an email to info@sacred-foods.org
Faith in Place at the Green Festival
Faith in Place is going to be all over the Green Festival, which is coming to Chicago for the first time the weekend of April 21-22 (Earth Day is April 22). This festival has brought tens of thousands of visitors, green businesses, environmental non-profits and more to San Francisco and Washington D.C. in the past. We expect the Chicago event to be the biggest Earth Day event (and the greenest thing that ever hit McCormick Place). Come visit our booth, attend our panel (Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m.), and cheer on our own Shireen Pishdadi and Clare Butterfield as they accept Green Awards from Chicago Magazine, (Saturday at 1 p.m.)
The Halal Food Conference is coming to Chicago, Illinois
April 21-24, 2007. To register, click on the preferred form below. We look forward to seeing you at the conference.
In Adobe pdf format (electronically submit completed form) 39 KB
http://www.ifanca.org/conference/2007/registration_form_word.doc
The ISLAMIC FOOD AND NUTRITION COUNCIL OF AMERICA Announces:
THE 9th INTERNATIONAL HALAL FOOD CONFERENCE
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Opportunities in WORLD HALAL FOOD TRADE
Venue: Holiday Inn Hotel and Conference Center
5300 W. Touhy Avenue
Skokie, IL 60077
Tel: 1.847.679.8900
Dates: Saturday, April 21-Tuesday, April 24, 2007
International Delegates Meeting - April 21
Banquet Dinner - April 22
Halal Conference - April 23-24
Registration Fees:
For IFANCA Client Companies - USD $400
For Students and Faculty - USD $200 (Students require faculty signature)
For all Others - USD $600
The Banquet dinner is included with all registrations
The International Halal Food Conference is the place to meet with companies from around the world to discuss and discover the keys to trading, marketing, and certification of Halal foods.
- Topics include all aspects of Halal certification, trade, and marketing.
- Guest speakers will discuss issues important to international Halal food trade.
- Professionals in halal certification will be on hand to answer your questions and to discuss the needs of the Halal market.
For hotel reservations by, please call 866-750-3369 and use code: Halal Food Conference or visit
http://www.skokieconference.com/halalfoodconference.
For more information, please contact:
Suzann Audi
Ph: 847-993-0034 x 212
Fax: 847-993-0038
Email: HalalConf@gmail.com
Publications
A Jewish Ethicist's Approach to Eating in a Fast Food World
Sandra L. Fischer, an ethicist studying at the Hartford Seminary has published A Jewish Ethicist's Approach to Eating in a Fast Food World, available for download at
http://sacred-foods.org/
The National Council of Churches’ Earth Day Sunday Study Guide
The National Council of Churches’ Earth Day Sunday theme for this year is “The Food that Sustains Us” and the accompanying study, action, and worship resource for congregations is “Our Daily Bread: Harvesters of Hope and Gardeners of Eden.” It asks congregations and individuals to speak with their legislators about food justice, buy local, buy naturally and organically produced foods, and to use CFSC’s Farm to School program to ask community institutions to source food locally. More information and a link to download (for free) can be found here:
http://www.nccecojustice.org/faithharvestworship.html
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