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Register for Student Retreat

Experience Shabbat — Melton Style — at our Searching for the Sacred Student Retreat, to be held on Friday, April 16 - Sunday, April 18, 2010, at the beautiful Capital Camps in Waynesboro, PA. Featuring the best of Melton-style learning with renowned faculty, the Retreat is open to all Melton students, graduates, spouses, and interested participants.

Download informational flyer or Register online.

Retreat Schedule — Searching for the Sacred

Friday, April 16 Welcome to Capital Camps
4-7:00 pm

Arrival, check-in, wine and cheese
Free time until candle lighting

7:00 pm

Welcome and Candle lighting
Festive Shabbat Tisch (good food, stories, songs) led by Rav Yonatan and his Hassidim (Avi, Haim, and Sandy

8:30 pm

Exploring Sacred Space (two groups)
Avi West:  Shabbat and the Space-Time Continuum
Haim Aronovitz: Did the Zionist Leadership Turn Their Backs on Jerusalem?

10:00 pm Oneg Shabbat
   

Saturday, April 17

 
8:00 am 8:00 am
8:30 am Breakfast
9:30 am Where Text Meets Spirit: A New Encounter with the Shacharit Liturgy with Avi West
10:45 am

D’var Torah on Parshat Tazria/Metzora:
Judy Kupchan and Yonatan Mirvis  (two groups)

11:00 am

Exploring Sacred Time (two groups)
Sandy Winter: What is the Essence of Shabbat?
Haim Aronovitz:
Challenges to Holy Time in a Jewish State

12:30 pm Shabbat Lunch
1:30 pm Free time 
3:00 pm A Walk in the Woods with Robert Frost, Yehudah Amichai and Haim
4:00 pm

Text Study of Pirkei Avot in Multiple Voices and Perspectives with Avi, Sandy, Haim and Judy

5:00 pm

Israel Update withYonatan Mirvis

6:00 pm Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres
6:30 pm Dinner
8:15 pm Havdalah
9:00 pm Screening and Discussion: “Yoo Hoo, Mrs.Goldberg” a film by Aviva Kempner
   

Sunday, April 18

 

8:00 am

Breakfast
9:00 am

Exploring Sacred Action (two groups)
Avi West: The Pillars of Judaism: How Do Technology, Public Space, and 21st Century Lifestyles Change the Playing Field?
Haim Aronovitz: “Woe to Them Who Are at Ease in Zion”

11:00 am -12 pm

Introduction of International Alumni Association and Looking to the Future of the Mini-School with Rose Weitz and Yonatan Mirvis

12:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm

L’hitraot And Safe Travels!

Study Series Schedule for 2009-2010

One session remains in the FMAMS International Alumni Association Study Series:

Date Topic Scholar
May 11, 2010 Arab/Israeli Conflict Joy Newman
For more information, please contact Jody Hyman at jhyman@fmams.org.il or 847-714-9843 x 308.

 

 


 


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