YOUR PASSOVER PACKAGE INCLUDES:
- Elegantly Appointed Guest Rooms and Suites
- Traditional Communal Seders Led By Cantor
- Private and Semi-Private Family Seders Available
- Three Glatt Kosher/Cholov Yisroel Gourmet Meals Daily, Freshly Prepared By Our Master Chefs
- Lavish 24 Hour "Elite" Tea Room
- Box Lunches For Chol Hamoed Excursions
- Under Strict Orthodox Rabbinical Supervision - Rabbi Zushe Blech
- Supervised Children's Day Camp and Teen Program...Click Here
- Indoor Swimming Pool and Indoor Whirlpool
- Tennis, Basketball and Volleyball Courts
- Ping Pong and Foosball Tables
- Fitness and Exercise Room
- Jogging Path, Walking and Hiking Trails
- Quality Live Evening Entertainment On Chol Hamoed
- Daytime Social Activities Including Israeli, Simcha and Line Dancing
- Complimentary USA Today Delivered to Your Door Each Morning
- Daily Modern Orthodox Synagogue Services On Premises
- Inspiring Daily Shiurim Conducted By Our Rabbi/Scholar-In Residence in Our Seforim Filled Synagogue
- Holiday Programs, Group Discussions and Lectures Conducted By Our Scholars-In-Residence
SCHOLARS-IN-RESIDENCE
NATHAN LEWIN, ESQ.
Keynote Renowned Guest Scholar
Nathan Lewin, a magna cum laude Harvard Law School
graduate, has engaged in trial and appellate litigation
in federal courts for more than 40 years. He has argued
27 cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Among his many accomplishments, Lewin won in the Supreme Court the right of Lubavitch to maintain a Chanukah menorah in front of Pittsburgh's City Hall. He has brought lawsuits on behalf of Sabbath-observers who were discriminated against in private employment, on behalf of military chaplains who were denied the right to wear religiously-motivated beards, and on behalf of Jewish prisoners who were denied kosher food. Lewin's individual clients have included Attorney General Edwin Meese, III, former president Richard Nixon, actress Jodie Foster and musician John Lennon. He is sure to pique your interest!
MORTON A. KLEIN
National President - Zionist Organization of America
Keynote Renowned Guest Scholar
Morton A. Klein is National President of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest pro-Israel group in the United States, founded in 1897. He is a member of the Executive Committee of AIPAC. Mr. Klein is widely regarded as one of the leading Jewish activists in the United States. He is a member of the International Board of Governors of the College of Judea and Samaria in Ariel, Israel. The New York Jewish Week has named him one of the top ten Jewish leaders who have made a difference. The Jewish Press recently stated that "Morton Klein is one of the best minds in this country." The Wall Street Journal called the ZOA "heroic and the most credible advocate for Israel on the American Jewish scene today " and we should "snap a salute to those who were right about Oslo and Arafat all along, including Morton Klein who was wise, brave, and unflinchingly honest. When the history of the American Jewish struggle in these years is written, Mr. Klein will emerge as an outsized figure." His successful campaigns against anti-Israel bias as well as his work on Capitol Hill, were the subject of 30 feature stories both here and in Israel. More than 300 of his articles and letters have been published in leading newspapers and magazines around the world. Mr. Klein has appeared on TV and radio including ABC's Peter Jennings World News Tonight, NBC National News, Jim Lehrer News Hour, O'Reilly Factor, CNN, Fox TV, NPR, Col. Oliver North National Radio Show, VOA, Israel TV/Radio.
RABBI JOSEPH FRIEDMAN
Noted Rabbi and Lecturer
Rabbi Joseph Friedman was born in Lakewood, NJ and raised in Silver Spring, MD and Kew Gardens, NY. He studied at Ner Israel Rabbinical College (Baltimore, MD), where he earned a BA in Talmudic Law. In 1995, after serving first as NCSY Midwest Regional Director and then as the Rabbi of Beth Israel Congregation, in Omaha, NE, he was approached to serve as the Spiritual Leader at B'nai Israel Congregation in Norfolk, VA. He led a congregation of over 230 families, was Rav HaMachshir of the Vaad HaKashrus of Tidewater; founded the Norfolk Area Community Kollel (NACK), Torahs Chaim (a K-8 day school) and Yeshivas Aish Kodesh (a boy's Yeshiva High School). Rabbi Friedman's energy and enthusiasm attracted many new people to the synagogue for the first time. In 2005, after many years in the pulpit, he decided to return to the private sector, and moved to Memphis. He volunteers his spare time to his community, primarily as a lecturer/teacher at the Margolin Hebrew Academy/Cooper Yeshiva of the South and the Young Israel of Memphis. He was recently commissioned as a Captain in the Tennessee Air National Guard, serving as a chaplain. Rabbi Friedman's rabbinic approach has always been based on inclusivity and being non-judgmental. He is a Religious Zionist and a follower of R' Samson Raphael Hirsch's "Torah Im Derech Eretz" philosophy. Rabbi Friedman and his wife believe that ALL Kiruv takes place around the Shabbos table. Their home has been open to, quite literally, thousands of people, and they attribute almost 100% of their success to that approach. We are delighted to have Rabbi Friedman join us this Pesach. He will be overseeing our synagogue services giving D'var Torah's and Drashas on a variety of topics, as well as conducting inspiring Shiurim and lectures.
RABBI DR. MORRIS S. LASSON
Renowned Guest Lecturer
Rabbi Dr. Morris S. Lasson has been practicing psychology for the past 40 years in Baltimore, Maryland. He is past president of the Baltimore Psychology Association as well as the Maryland Society for Clinical Hypnosis. He also taught at the University of Maryland Medical School and Johns Hopkins University. He earned his simicha from Ner Israel Yeshiva in 1963.
RABBI BINYAMIN SANDERS
Noted Rabbi and Educator
Rabbi Sanders will be giving D'var Torah's and conducting Shiurim on a variety of topics. Rabbi Sanders taught at the Yeshiva of Greater Washington for 14 years at the high school level and is a veteran magid shiur for the Daf Yomi.
DR. LESTER ECKMAN
Professor at Touro College
Dr. Lester Eckman is a Holocaust survivor, a holder of seven academic degrees, author of ten major books, teacher, lecturer and full professor at Touro College. Among his books are: The Life and Works of the Hafetz Hayim, The History of the Musar Movement, The Teachings of the Fathers of the Musar Movement, From Freedom Fighter to Statesman - Menachem Begin, Corporate Morality and Jewish tradition and the History of the Mirrer Yeshiva from its establishment until 1945 and History of the Yeshivot in Lithuania and White Russia from Beginning Until Destruction. Dr. Eckman is founder and president of the Judaic Research Institute for Research and Publication of Works dealing with Judaica, ethics and the Holocaust. Dr. Eckman did graduate work in such places as Harvard, Columbia and New York Universities. He studied with such outstanding scholars as professors Salo Baron of Columbia and Abraham Katsh of New York University.
