DAY ONE: Sunday, April 29, 2007
DEPARTURE
5:00 p.m. Depart Detroit on Northwest Airlines flight NW1251.
5:22 p.m. Arrive in Chicago.
9:55 p.m. Depart Chicago on LOT Airline flight LO4.
Overnight: Flight
DAY TWO: Monday, April 30, 2007
WARSAW: THE CAPITAL OF POLISH JEWRY
2:10 p.m. Arrive at Warsaw International Airport.
• Welcome by our representative and assistance with arrival formalities.
4:00 p.m. Guided visit through the Warsaw Ghetto, including the Remnants of the Ghetto Wall, The Warsaw Ghetto Memorial, Mila 18, headquarters of the Warsaw Ghetto and concluding program at the Umschlagplatz, site of the deportation of the Warsaw Jewish community to Treblinka.
6:00 p.m. Visit the Okapova Cemetery, a testament to the thriving Jewish community of Warsaw in the 19th and first half of the 20th century, where great rabbis, thinkers, scientists and Jews from all walks of life are buried.
7:00 p.m. Check into the hotel for rest and relaxation.
8:00 p.m. Dinner at a Warsaw restaurant, followed by processing of first day.
Overnight: Radisson SAS Hotel, Warsaw
DAY THREE: Tuesday, May 1, 2007
LUBLIN: THE GLORY OF POLISH JEWRY
MAJDANEK: THE MECHANISM OF DEATH
6:30 a.m. Breakfast at the hotel & morning minyan.
7:30 a.m. Check out of the hotel and depart Warsaw. Travel to Lublin.
10:00 a.m. Visit Yeshivat Chachme Lublin, one of the great centers of Jewish learning in the pre war years, established by Rabbi Meir Shapiro, founder of the Daf Yomi (Daily Page) Talmud study program.
12:00 p.m. Lunch on your own.
1:30 p.m. Guided visit through the Majdanek Death Camp, concluding with a memorial ceremony.
5:00 p.m. Depart Majdanek and drive to Krakow, with dinner en route.
9:00 p.m. Late evening check-in to the Krakow hotel.
Overnight: Radisson SAS Hotel , Krakow
DAY FOUR: Wednesday, May 2, 2007
KRAKOW: A SYMBOL OF JEWISH LIFE
AUSCHWITZ: THE SYMBOL OF JEWISH DESTRUCTION
7:00 a.m. Breakfast at the hotel & morning minyan.
8:00 a.m. Depart the hotel.
• Interactive ‘Site & Text’ program in the Kazimierz Jewish Quarter, once one of the most significant Jewish communities in Europe. The program will include visits to :
• The Altshul, the oldest synagogue in Poland.
• The Rema Synagogue, the synagogue of Rabbi Moses Isserles the “Rema,” the great codifier of Jewish law.
• The Rema Cemetery, where many great rabbinical leaders of Polish Jewry are buried.
• The “Pharmacy” gateway to the Ghetto, and the Jewish Ghetto.
• The Temple, Krakow’s Reform congregation.
• The Oskar Schindler factory.
12:00 p.m. Depart Krakow and travel towards Auschwitz, with a packed lunch en route.
1:00 p.m. Visit the Osvizem Jewish Center, located on the site of one of the many pre-Holocaust synagogues.
1:45 p.m. Guided walk through the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp/death camp complex, concluding with a memorial ceremony in Birkenau.
6:00 p.m. Return to Krakow.
• Dinner on your own.
Overnight: Radisson SAS Hotel , Krakow
DAY FIVE: Thursday, May 3, 2007
DEPARTURE FOR ISRAEL
7:00 a.m. Breakfast at the hotel & morning minyan.
8:00 a.m. Check out of the hotel and depart.
8:30 a.m. Visit to the Plaszow concentration camp on the outskirts of Krakow, followed by memorial service.
10:00 a.m. Depart Krakow with lunch on your own en route.
1:00 p.m. Visit the town of Kielce, site of the first post-Holocaust pogrom.
2:30 p.m. Continue traveling towards Warsaw.
3:30 p.m. Stop at the town of Sidlowitz, once a thriving Jewish community, visit the Jewish Cemetery.
4:30 p.m. Continue on towards Warsaw.
6:30 p.m. Farwell dinner at restaurant near Warsaw airport.
8:30 p.m. Depart the restaurant and travel to the airport.
9:00 p.m. Check in for LOT flight LO151 to Tel Aviv.
11:55 p.m. Depart Warsaw.
Overnight: Flight
DAY SIX: Friday, May 4, 2007
ARRIVAL IN ISRAEL
4:35 a.m. Early arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport.
• Welcome by our representative and assistance with arrival formalities.
• Stop at dawn at the "Scrolls of Fire" depicting the Jewish people’s determination throughout the ages, located in the Judean Hills.
• Ascend to Jerusalem via the Judean Hills.
• Stop at the Haas Promenade to say the traditional “shehechiyanu” blessing, recited upon entering Jerusalem.
9:00 a.m. Check into the Dan Panorama Hotel, followed by breakfast.
• Free time for rest and relaxation.
1:30 p.m. Visit the Machane Yehuda open air market as residents prepare for Shabbat – with lunch on your own.
3:00 p.m. Pre Shabbat visit to the Kotel (Western Wall).
6:45 p.m. Candle lighting.
7:00 p.m. Kabbalat Shabbat at a Jerusalem synagogue or at the hotel.
8:30 p.m. Private Shabbat dinner at the hotel.
Overnight: Dan Panorama Hotel, Jerusalem
DAY SEVEN: Shabbat, May 5, 2007
SHABBAT IN JERUSALEM
• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Shabbat services.
12:30 p.m. Shabbat lunch at the hotel.
2:00 p.m. Guided walk through the streets of Jerusalem using the writings of Israel’s Nobel laureate in literature, S. Y Agnon as a guide.
• Free afternoon.
6:30 p.m. Meeting at the Conservative Center.
8:00 p.m. Havdallah overlooking the Old City.
• Dinner on your own in Jerusalem.
• Lag B’Omer night tour of Jerusalem.
Overnight: Dan Panorama Hotel, Jerusalem
DAY EIGHT: Sunday, May 6, 2007
SEARCHING FOR ROOTS
7:30 a.m. Breakfast at the hotel & morning minyan.
8:30 a.m. “The Memory of the Shoah in Modern Israeli Society,” with Holocaust scholar, Rachel Korazim.
10:00 a.m. Guided visit through the newly renovated Yad Vashem complex, the Jewish National Memorial to the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, including: the Historical Museum, the Valley of the Communities and the Children's Memorial, followed by a memorial service.
1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own in Jerusalem.
3:00 p.m. Guided visit through new sites in and around the Old City of Jerusalem including the City of David and the Davidson Park at the Southern Wall Excavations.
5:30 p.m. Meeting at the Hartman Institute.
• Evening and dinner at leisure.
Overnight: Dan Panorama Hotel, Jerusalem
DAY NINE: Monday, May 7, 2007
TRADITION AND SPIRITUALITY
7:00 a.m. Breakfast at the hotel & morning minyan.
8:00 a.m. Check out of the hotel and depart.
10:00 a.m. Guided visit and text study in Zippori, site of the post Second Temple Jewish Settlement and the codification of the Mishna by Rabbi Yehudah Hanassi approximately 1800 years ago.
12:30 p.m. Guided visit and Druze style lunch in Peki’in in the Upper Galilee, site of continuous Jewish residence from the destruction of the Second Temple 2,000 years ago and the cave where Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai wrote the Zohar.
3:00 p.m. Visit Safed, a center of Jewish mysticism for hundreds of years, and a contemporary artists’ colony; visit some of the many unique synagogues, stroll through the quaint art galleries and shop in the artists’ colony.
5:30 p.m. Drive to Upper Galilee.
6:30 p.m. Sunset jeep tour of the Upper Galilee and Golan Heights with gourmet dinner in the field.
9:00 p.m. Check into the Nature Hotel.
Overnight: Nature Hotel, Kibbutz Hagoshrim, Upper Galilee
DAY TEN: Tuesday, May 8, 2007
NATURE AND SECURITY
7:00 a.m. Breakfast at the kibbutz hotel & morning minyan.
8:00 a.m. Check out of the hotel and depart.
8:30 a.m. Visit Kiriat Shmoneh and meet with local representatives for an insight into the effects of the 2006 war.
10:30 a.m. Walk through the Tel Dan Nature Reserve located on the largest tributary of the Jordan River and near the Biblical settlement of Dan.
12:00 p.m. Explore Israel's security situation on the Golan Heights. Observe the abandoned Syrian city of Kuneitra and the Hula Valley, and discuss the strategic importance of the area.
1:30 p.m. Travel south towards Tel Aviv, with lunch on your own en route.
• Drive along the Trans-Israel Highway for a close up view of the ‘Security Fence’ along the separation zone between Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
5:00 p.m. Arrive in Tel Aviv – Optional visit to the Nachalat Binyamin pedestrian mall, with its arts ‘n crafts fair and sidewalk artists (time permitting).
• Check into the Dan Panorama Hotel.
• Evening and dinner at leisure.
Overnight: Dan Panorama Hotel, Tel Aviv
DAY ELEVEN: Wednesday, May 9, 2007
A GLIMPSE AT CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL
7:30 a.m. Breakfast at the hotel & morning minyan.
8:30 a.m. ‘Israeli Society @ 2007’, dialogue with scholar Paul Liptz of the Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew Union College.
10:00 a.m. Visit to Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel was signed in 1948.
11:30 a.m. Stop at Rabin Square, named after the slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
12:30 p.m. Lunch on your own in Tel Aviv.
1:30 p.m. Walking tour through Neve Zedek one of Tel Aviv’s most unique, artistic and quaint neighborhoods
• Rest of the afternoon at leisure in Tel Aviv.
6:00 p.m. Check out of the hotel.
6:30 p.m. Festive farewell dinner at the Maganda Restaurant in the Yemenite Quarter of Tel Aviv.
8:30 p.m. Travel to Ben Gurion Airport.
9:00 p.m. Check in for the flight.
Overnight: Flight
DAY TWELVE: Thursday, May 10, 2007
DEPARTURE
12:05 a.m. Depart Tel Aviv on El Al flight LY027 to Newark.
4:40 a.m. Arrive in Newark.
9:15 a.m. Depart Newark on Northwest Airlines flight NW0657 to Detroit.
11:15 a.m. Arrive in Detroit.
DEPARTURE
5:00 p.m. Depart Detroit on Northwest Airlines flight NW1251.
5:22 p.m. Arrive in Chicago.
9:55 p.m. Depart Chicago on LOT Airline flight LO4.
Overnight: Flight
DAY TWO: Monday, April 30, 2007
WARSAW: THE CAPITAL OF POLISH JEWRY
2:10 p.m. Arrive at Warsaw International Airport.
• Welcome by our representative and assistance with arrival formalities.
4:00 p.m. Guided visit through the Warsaw Ghetto, including the Remnants of the Ghetto Wall, The Warsaw Ghetto Memorial, Mila 18, headquarters of the Warsaw Ghetto and concluding program at the Umschlagplatz, site of the deportation of the Warsaw Jewish community to Treblinka.
6:00 p.m. Visit the Okapova Cemetery, a testament to the thriving Jewish community of Warsaw in the 19th and first half of the 20th century, where great rabbis, thinkers, scientists and Jews from all walks of life are buried.
7:00 p.m. Check into the hotel for rest and relaxation.
8:00 p.m. Dinner at a Warsaw restaurant, followed by processing of first day.
Overnight: Radisson SAS Hotel, Warsaw
DAY THREE: Tuesday, May 1, 2007
LUBLIN: THE GLORY OF POLISH JEWRY
MAJDANEK: THE MECHANISM OF DEATH
6:30 a.m. Breakfast at the hotel & morning minyan.
7:30 a.m. Check out of the hotel and depart Warsaw. Travel to Lublin.
10:00 a.m. Visit Yeshivat Chachme Lublin, one of the great centers of Jewish learning in the pre war years, established by Rabbi Meir Shapiro, founder of the Daf Yomi (Daily Page) Talmud study program.
12:00 p.m. Lunch on your own.
1:30 p.m. Guided visit through the Majdanek Death Camp, concluding with a memorial ceremony.
5:00 p.m. Depart Majdanek and drive to Krakow, with dinner en route.
9:00 p.m. Late evening check-in to the Krakow hotel.
Overnight: Radisson SAS Hotel , Krakow
DAY FOUR: Wednesday, May 2, 2007
KRAKOW: A SYMBOL OF JEWISH LIFE
AUSCHWITZ: THE SYMBOL OF JEWISH DESTRUCTION
7:00 a.m. Breakfast at the hotel & morning minyan.
8:00 a.m. Depart the hotel.
• Interactive ‘Site & Text’ program in the Kazimierz Jewish Quarter, once one of the most significant Jewish communities in Europe. The program will include visits to :
• The Altshul, the oldest synagogue in Poland.
• The Rema Synagogue, the synagogue of Rabbi Moses Isserles the “Rema,” the great codifier of Jewish law.
• The Rema Cemetery, where many great rabbinical leaders of Polish Jewry are buried.
• The “Pharmacy” gateway to the Ghetto, and the Jewish Ghetto.
• The Temple, Krakow’s Reform congregation.
• The Oskar Schindler factory.
12:00 p.m. Depart Krakow and travel towards Auschwitz, with a packed lunch en route.
1:00 p.m. Visit the Osvizem Jewish Center, located on the site of one of the many pre-Holocaust synagogues.
1:45 p.m. Guided walk through the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp/death camp complex, concluding with a memorial ceremony in Birkenau.
6:00 p.m. Return to Krakow.
• Dinner on your own.
Overnight: Radisson SAS Hotel , Krakow
DAY FIVE: Thursday, May 3, 2007
DEPARTURE FOR ISRAEL
7:00 a.m. Breakfast at the hotel & morning minyan.
8:00 a.m. Check out of the hotel and depart.
8:30 a.m. Visit to the Plaszow concentration camp on the outskirts of Krakow, followed by memorial service.
10:00 a.m. Depart Krakow with lunch on your own en route.
1:00 p.m. Visit the town of Kielce, site of the first post-Holocaust pogrom.
2:30 p.m. Continue traveling towards Warsaw.
3:30 p.m. Stop at the town of Sidlowitz, once a thriving Jewish community, visit the Jewish Cemetery.
4:30 p.m. Continue on towards Warsaw.
6:30 p.m. Farwell dinner at restaurant near Warsaw airport.
8:30 p.m. Depart the restaurant and travel to the airport.
9:00 p.m. Check in for LOT flight LO151 to Tel Aviv.
11:55 p.m. Depart Warsaw.
Overnight: Flight
DAY SIX: Friday, May 4, 2007
ARRIVAL IN ISRAEL
4:35 a.m. Early arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport.
• Welcome by our representative and assistance with arrival formalities.
• Stop at dawn at the "Scrolls of Fire" depicting the Jewish people’s determination throughout the ages, located in the Judean Hills.
• Ascend to Jerusalem via the Judean Hills.
• Stop at the Haas Promenade to say the traditional “shehechiyanu” blessing, recited upon entering Jerusalem.
9:00 a.m. Check into the Dan Panorama Hotel, followed by breakfast.
• Free time for rest and relaxation.
1:30 p.m. Visit the Machane Yehuda open air market as residents prepare for Shabbat – with lunch on your own.
3:00 p.m. Pre Shabbat visit to the Kotel (Western Wall).
6:45 p.m. Candle lighting.
7:00 p.m. Kabbalat Shabbat at a Jerusalem synagogue or at the hotel.
8:30 p.m. Private Shabbat dinner at the hotel.
Overnight: Dan Panorama Hotel, Jerusalem
DAY SEVEN: Shabbat, May 5, 2007
SHABBAT IN JERUSALEM
• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Shabbat services.
12:30 p.m. Shabbat lunch at the hotel.
2:00 p.m. Guided walk through the streets of Jerusalem using the writings of Israel’s Nobel laureate in literature, S. Y Agnon as a guide.
• Free afternoon.
6:30 p.m. Meeting at the Conservative Center.
8:00 p.m. Havdallah overlooking the Old City.
• Dinner on your own in Jerusalem.
• Lag B’Omer night tour of Jerusalem.
Overnight: Dan Panorama Hotel, Jerusalem
DAY EIGHT: Sunday, May 6, 2007
SEARCHING FOR ROOTS
7:30 a.m. Breakfast at the hotel & morning minyan.
8:30 a.m. “The Memory of the Shoah in Modern Israeli Society,” with Holocaust scholar, Rachel Korazim.
10:00 a.m. Guided visit through the newly renovated Yad Vashem complex, the Jewish National Memorial to the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, including: the Historical Museum, the Valley of the Communities and the Children's Memorial, followed by a memorial service.
1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own in Jerusalem.
3:00 p.m. Guided visit through new sites in and around the Old City of Jerusalem including the City of David and the Davidson Park at the Southern Wall Excavations.
5:30 p.m. Meeting at the Hartman Institute.
• Evening and dinner at leisure.
Overnight: Dan Panorama Hotel, Jerusalem
DAY NINE: Monday, May 7, 2007
TRADITION AND SPIRITUALITY
7:00 a.m. Breakfast at the hotel & morning minyan.
8:00 a.m. Check out of the hotel and depart.
10:00 a.m. Guided visit and text study in Zippori, site of the post Second Temple Jewish Settlement and the codification of the Mishna by Rabbi Yehudah Hanassi approximately 1800 years ago.
12:30 p.m. Guided visit and Druze style lunch in Peki’in in the Upper Galilee, site of continuous Jewish residence from the destruction of the Second Temple 2,000 years ago and the cave where Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai wrote the Zohar.
3:00 p.m. Visit Safed, a center of Jewish mysticism for hundreds of years, and a contemporary artists’ colony; visit some of the many unique synagogues, stroll through the quaint art galleries and shop in the artists’ colony.
5:30 p.m. Drive to Upper Galilee.
6:30 p.m. Sunset jeep tour of the Upper Galilee and Golan Heights with gourmet dinner in the field.
9:00 p.m. Check into the Nature Hotel.
Overnight: Nature Hotel, Kibbutz Hagoshrim, Upper Galilee
DAY TEN: Tuesday, May 8, 2007
NATURE AND SECURITY
7:00 a.m. Breakfast at the kibbutz hotel & morning minyan.
8:00 a.m. Check out of the hotel and depart.
8:30 a.m. Visit Kiriat Shmoneh and meet with local representatives for an insight into the effects of the 2006 war.
10:30 a.m. Walk through the Tel Dan Nature Reserve located on the largest tributary of the Jordan River and near the Biblical settlement of Dan.
12:00 p.m. Explore Israel's security situation on the Golan Heights. Observe the abandoned Syrian city of Kuneitra and the Hula Valley, and discuss the strategic importance of the area.
1:30 p.m. Travel south towards Tel Aviv, with lunch on your own en route.
• Drive along the Trans-Israel Highway for a close up view of the ‘Security Fence’ along the separation zone between Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
5:00 p.m. Arrive in Tel Aviv – Optional visit to the Nachalat Binyamin pedestrian mall, with its arts ‘n crafts fair and sidewalk artists (time permitting).
• Check into the Dan Panorama Hotel.
• Evening and dinner at leisure.
Overnight: Dan Panorama Hotel, Tel Aviv
DAY ELEVEN: Wednesday, May 9, 2007
A GLIMPSE AT CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL
7:30 a.m. Breakfast at the hotel & morning minyan.
8:30 a.m. ‘Israeli Society @ 2007’, dialogue with scholar Paul Liptz of the Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew Union College.
10:00 a.m. Visit to Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel was signed in 1948.
11:30 a.m. Stop at Rabin Square, named after the slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
12:30 p.m. Lunch on your own in Tel Aviv.
1:30 p.m. Walking tour through Neve Zedek one of Tel Aviv’s most unique, artistic and quaint neighborhoods
• Rest of the afternoon at leisure in Tel Aviv.
6:00 p.m. Check out of the hotel.
6:30 p.m. Festive farewell dinner at the Maganda Restaurant in the Yemenite Quarter of Tel Aviv.
8:30 p.m. Travel to Ben Gurion Airport.
9:00 p.m. Check in for the flight.
Overnight: Flight
DAY TWELVE: Thursday, May 10, 2007
DEPARTURE
12:05 a.m. Depart Tel Aviv on El Al flight LY027 to Newark.
4:40 a.m. Arrive in Newark.
9:15 a.m. Depart Newark on Northwest Airlines flight NW0657 to Detroit.
11:15 a.m. Arrive in Detroit.
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