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T'chiyah Israel Trip
Oak Park congregation's rabbi plans
12-day customized family tour.
R
abbi Jason Miller of
Congregation T'chiyah in Oak
Park will lead a May 16-28
custom trip to Israel.
Israel Tour Connection, which
serves family, bar/bat mitzvah and
congregational tours and educational
programming, designed the tour. Once
in Israel, ITC Israeli guides will share
their knowledge of Israel, the land and
its people as they lead the group to 43
Israeli sites.
"We're thrilled to be sponsoring a
tour this spring and we're excited about
the custom itinerary ITC has created
for us:" says Rabbi
Miller.
"It's a chance for
members of our con-
gregation and com-
munity to experience
the wonders of Israel
together as we travel,
learn,
pray and enjoy
Rabbi Miller
our beautiful home-
land — not to men-
tion beautiful hotels
like the Dan Panorama in Tel Aviv and
the King Solomon in Jerusalem:"
This trip is open to the community-
at-large.
Rabbi Miller serves not only
T'chiyah, but also Tamarack Camps, the
Jewish camping agency affiliated with
the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit. He is a Jewish Theological
Seminary of America graduate.
The tour will begin with a visit to
Jerusalem and includes the Old City,
Kotel tunnels, the Southern Wall exca-
vations, the Davidson Center, and the
Kotel (Western Wall). Tour-goers then
traverse the country as they visit Tel
Aviv, Masada, Ein Gedi, the Dead Sea,
the Golan Heights, Beit Shean, the exca-
vated city of Tzippori and the mystical
city of Tzefat, among other sites.
The tour coincides with the Jewish
festival of Shavuot celebrating the
harvest and commemorating the giv-
ing of the Ten Commandments on
Mount Sinai. Tour participants will
choose from a number of synagogues
in Jerusalem to attend Shavuot services
and will have the option of joining
study sessions.
"Visiting Israel during a holiday is an
incredible experience. There's an excit-
ing feeling in the air as people prepare
for the festival," says Rabbi Miller.
Bar/bat mitzvah families are wel-
come to tour. Arrangements for services
and any desired celebration in Israel
can be made.
"Since this is my first trip to Israel.
I'm thrilled to be going with Rabbi
Miller, members of Congregation
T'chiyah as well as other members of
the community who will join us',' says
Roz Schindler, co-chair of the Israel
Discovery tour.
"The itinerary planned is ambitious
and exciting; it will enable us not only
to explore historically significant sites,
but also visit various contemporary
communities and experience modern
Israeli life and culture. As the daughter
of survivors and a teacher of Holocaust
studies, I anticipate being particularly
interested and moved by sites that com-
memorate the Holocaust."
Key to the trip is a visit to Metro
Detroit's partnership community in the
Central Galilee.
"We're demonstrating to the Israelis
that the Detroit Jewish community
stands in solidarity with them , ) ' says
Harold Gurewitz, president of T'chiyah.
"We're proud of our partnership
region in the North of Israel and look
forward to visiting with them and
strengthening the bonds of friendship
and cooperation."
Tour participants will have the
opportunity to take part in the mitzvah
of leket (a biblical law that is a tax ben-
efit of the poor) by distributing food
to the underprivileged. This will be
performed with the help of Leket Israel,
an Israeli nonprofit formerly known as
Table to Table.
"We're guaranteeing an amazing
experience,' adds Rabbi Miller.
"It's a chance for friends to travel
together and learn about our history
and our homeland firsthand. It's also a
chance for parents and grandparents to
share with their kids and grandkids the
important place Israel holds in our lives
and in our hearts:'
Congregation T'chiyah's Israel
Discovery 2010 tour is open
to the community. For more
information: Rabbi Jason Miller,
(248) 535-7090 or
rabbi@tchiyah.org .
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