Join a Heritage Trip to Poland
Long-serving Sar-El Volunteer and Board Member Marvin Shapiro
Invites you to Join
the AACI Heritage Trip to Poland
Monday May 23-Monday May 30, 2011
TRADITION, DESTRUCTION & THE JEWISH SPARK - The AACI (Association of
Americans and Canadians in Israel) invites you on an unforgettable journey of a
lifetime. Seven days investigating, experiencing and encountering these dramatic
strands which form the essence of our Jewish consciousness:
TRADITION: Poland was the cradle of Jewish religion and civilization
DESTRUCTION: This vibrant center of Jewish life, culture and religion was
utterly destroyed
THE JEWISH SPARK:
Poland has been the locus of a significant Jewish Renaissance
Our journey will include: WARSAW, LUBLIN and KRAKOW and lesser known towns and
Shtetlach in search of the roots of Jewish life.
Highlights of the week include:
a. Visiting the beautiful Shtetl and synagogue of Ticocyn:
b. Feeling the dramatic story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
c. Experiencing a Hassidic Tisch in the Ger Beit Medrash
d. Undertaking a pilgrimage to the death camps of Treblinka and Maidanek.
e.Witnessing the resurgence of Jewish life at the Lauder Morasha School
f. Visiting the grave of Rabbi Elimelech of Lejansk
g. Meeting leading Jewish personalities in Poland: Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich;
dissident and Jewish leader Konstanty Geber.
h. Visiting the Yeshivat Chochmei Lublin
i. Visiting Synagogues in Zamosc, Tarnogrod, Lancut and Dzialoszyce
j. Meeting a righteous gentile and hearing her story.
k. Spending an unforgettable Shabbat in Jewish Krakow
l. Exploring the "Kingdom" of Auschwitz, with the leading Polish educator
at Auschwitz, and an afternoon pilgrimage to Birkenau.
Rabbi Rubenstein from South Africa who arranged and will be leading the trip is
currently completing an MA degree at the Hebrew University focusing on
Polish-Jewish relations and how they are taught in the Jewish world. He has
guided over a dozen different groups and is currently an Instructor at the Shem
Olam Institute for Holocaust Studies, and is also a senior educator in the Nativ
program which facilitates the conversion of non Jewish soldiers within the IDF
Price p/p Members $ 2100 p/p, non members $2150 based on double occupancy.
Single Supplement $ 250
Includes Round trip on EL AL
7 Nights hotel based on 4*
Half board basis with sandwiches for lunch + Full board Shabbat - Fully Kosher
Food Fully escorted by Rabbi Yitzchak Rubenstein + AACI staff person
Security Guard traveling with group
Daily free Bottled water
All Tips and entrances
Prices subject to foreign currency fluctuations
For additional information and registration, please contact Josie Arbel at AACI.
02-5600905 or jarbel@aaci.org.il