ALTNEULAND REVISITED
May 3-13, 2010 | 19-29 Iyar 5770
* Subject to change *
NOTE: Seminars run typically from Monday through to the following Thursday (eleven days). The last day includes dinner, but ends in time for late-night flights out of Israel.
PROLOGUE - (Dis)Embarking
MONDAY, May 3 (19 Iyar)
Program commences at 2:00 p.m. in the lobby of the hotel
Brief greetings; personal introductions
Introduction to seminar
4:00 p.m. Field trip to Jaffa: Points of Arrival
Starting Afresh: Earliest Tel Aviv and the Zionists
7:00 p.m. Opening Dinner
Overnight: Carlton Hotel, Tel Aviv
ACT ONE – Yama VaNegba
TUESDAY, May 4 (20 Iyar)
Tel(s) of Spring
Day commences at 8:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m. View of Tel Aviv from the hotel roof
Study session: The Place of the City in Zionist Thought
10:00 Field trip to southern Tel Aviv:
The New Invisibles and Social Responsibility: Foreign Workers and the New Challenges to Israeli Society
With the staff of Bina, the Yeshiva Hilonit
Workers’ lunch break (at leisure in the neighborhood)
Leave Greater Tel Aviv after lunch
Field trip to Tel Sheva: “Deep Are the Wells of the Past…”
Travel via the Negev Highlands to Mitspeh Ramon
7:00 p.m. Group dinner at Pundak Ramon
8:15 Debriefing session
Overnight: Pundak Ramon
WEDNESDAY, May 5 (21 Iyar)
Of Cosmic Beginnings & Visionaries
Day Commences before dawn!! Have warm clothing handy...
5:00 a.m. Pre-dawn near Ramon Crater: Desert Encounters
9:00 Breakfast at the hotel
Free time until 1:00 p.m. (swimming available)
Lunch at leisure
1:00 p.m. Travel to Kibbutz Sde Boker, Ben Gurion’s home.
BG’s Vision of the Negev and Israeli Society
4:30 Yeroham: Redeveloping Development Towns
Introduction and Tour of Town
Study session and Discussion
Group Dinner and Summary Meeting
Overnight: Pundak Ramon
THURSDAY, May 6 (22 Iyar)
Taming the Southern Frontier
Day Commences at 8:00 a.m.
8:30 a.m. Visit to The Institute for Desert Studies, Ben Gurion University
Facing the Challenge: Taming the Desert (or Adapting to it?)
* Solar Energy
* Desert Architecture
Brief stop at BG's graveside overlooking Nahal Zin
Lunch at leisure in Beer Sheva
2:30 p.m. Visit the El Amal School, serving a number of unrecognized
Bedouin villages: Bedouin Citizens: Whose Concern?
Proceed to Jerusalem via Machal Memorial
8:00 p.m. Group Dinner
Overnight: Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem
ACT TWO – Likrat Shabbat
FRIDAY, May 7 (23 Iyar)
Likrat Shabbat Lechu Ve'Nelcha…
Day Commences at 8:00 a.m.
8:30 a.m. Shabbat of Shalom? Jews vs. Jews
Study session
Field trip exploring Haredi neighborhoods
12:00 noon (Optional) Visit to Art Gallery or Israel Museum
Rest of the afternoon free
Erev Shabbat
5:30 p.m. Meeting in the lobby
How Egalitarian can Orthodoxy be? Special pre-Shabbat presentation
6:51 Hadlakat Nerot
7:00 Shabbat services of choice
8:30 Se’udat Shabbat at the hotel, followed by night tour to Meah She’arim (optional!) or study session
Overnight: Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem
SHABBAT (Behar–Bechukotai)
Morning on your own
Noon Parashat Hashavua study session
1:15 p.m. Lunch at the hotel dining room
Afternoon relaxation and Neighborhood walk
(Exploring Komemiyut)
Se’udah shlisheet together
8:11 p.m. Havdalah
Free evening from 8:30 p.m.
Overnight: Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem
N.B. Please settle bills before ending your day.
ACT THREE – Tsafona Vakedma
SUNDAY, May 9 (25 Iyar)
A Land of Many Voices
Day commences at 8:30 a.m.
10:00 a.m. Field visit to Palmach Museum, Ramat Aviv:
The Battle to Build a Nation
12:30 p.m. Travel North along the Coastal Road
Lunch at leisure in Zichron Yaakov
2:30 Ein Hod vs. Ayn Houd: The Art of Symbols
Tour of the village
Travel to Haifa
Check in at hotel
7:30 p.m. Dinner at the hotel
8:30 Debriefing Session
Overnight: Dan Hotel, Haifa
MONDAY, May 10 (26 Iyar)
Bedfellows … and Lovers? Jews and Arabs Together
Day commences at 8:00 a.m.
8:15 a.m. Study session:
Jews and “the Other”: The Portrayal of the Arab in Israeli Literature
10:30 Haifa: A Mixed City
Introduction
Field trip: Wadi Nisnas and the Art of Co-Existence
Lunch at leisure
Travel to Carmiel: Who is an Israeli?
Street Survey and Anthropological Exercise
Travel to Kibbutz Lavi
5:30 p.m. Meet with IDF soldier-teachers:
What Role Does the IDF Fulfill in Building the New Israel?
7:00 p.m. Group Dinner
Overnight: Kibbutz Lavi
TUESDAY, May 11 (27 Iyar)
Galilee models of “Newer Jews” - Shaping Contemporary Jewish
Self-Expression
Day commences at 8:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m. Short tour of Kibbutz Lavi: Building an Ideal Society?
Field trip:
"From Beit Alfa to Nahalal" - Connecting over seventy years
* Beit Alfa Synagogue at Kibbutz Heftsiba
* Mt. Gilboa - Site and Text in context: The Deaths of Saul and Yonatan
Break for lunch in Beit Shean
* Beit Shean - The Challenges of Nation-Building
* Field trip to Nahalal cemetery:
Whatever Happened to Meir Shalev’s “Blue Mountain”?
Dinner in Zichron Yaakov
Overnight: Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem
ACT FOUR – In the Eye of the Storm
WEDNESDAY, May 12 (28 Iyar & Yom Yerushalayim)
Is Jerusalem "as a city joined together?"
Day commences at 8:30 a.m.
8:30 a.m. Study session: Palestine and Israel in Mirror Verses
10:00 Field trip: Jerusalem - The View Along the Seam
12:30 p.m. Group Lunch
3:00 Voices in Dialog: An Encounter with Two Jerusalemites
4:30 Debriefing Session
Free Evening
Overnight: Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem
EPILOGUE – Pulling It All Together
THURSDAY, May 13 (29 Iyar)
Building Zion in Zion: Visions
Day commences at 8:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m. Study session: The Whole Megilla –
Does Israel at 60 Represent a Vision of Zion?
Haim Aronovitz
10:00 Justice in Jerusalem: Visit to the Supreme Court of Israel
11:30 Proceed to The Hebrew University, Mount Scopus
Bekhukotai, Modern Israel and the Jewish People
Meeting with Dr. Yonatan Mirvis
1:00 p.m. Lunch at leisure at the Hebrew University
or free time in city center
Afternoon free
5:30 Depart for Summary Session
6:45 p.m. Festive Farewell Dinner
Please try to arrange flights from 11:30 p.m. on, so as to enjoy the dinner with the group.
