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Travel Back in Time for a Shabbat on Lloyd Street

Friday, 27 October - Sunday, 29 October 2023

B'nai Israel Congregation, 27 Lloyd Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202

 

Get to know the families that shared your own family's history and spiritual home

Join us as we invite home
synagogue alumni and the descendants of the many families
who made B'nai's history vibrant!

Pray, learn, and celebrate in Baltimore's Oldest Continuously Active Synagogue

 

This Shabbaton will mark  150 years since the congregation’s founders 
gathered at 81 North Gay Street on April 12th, 1873 to elect a Board of Trustees, and
129 years of B'nai israel at 27 Lloyd Street

We have an exciting and packed program that we are certain you will enjoy and find meaningful!
We look forward to sharing the weekend with you.

150th Anniversary Schedule

FRIDAY

 

5:00 pm

Doors Open - Come in, register, and mingle

6:30 pm

Welcoming Shabbat - Friday Evening Services 

7:30 pm

Catered Deluxe Shabbat Dinner

8:00 pm

Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Zev Eleff

The early years on Lloyd Street:
Rabbi Abraham Rice and Rabbinic Authority

 

SATURDAY

 

9:30 am - Noon

Saturday Morning Services - Shacharit

Sermon by Rabbi Herschel Reichman
Author of the Shem Mishmuel from Sochachev
The Avnei Nezer - The Rebbe of Sochachev
(Rav Forshlager's Primary Teacher)


Noon

Shabbat luncheon on Corned Beef Row 


Glatt Kosher Overstuffed Sandwiches and Deli Spread
Generously Sponsored by Marc Attman

 A once-in-150-years' opportunity to get a
Kosher "Corned Beef Row-Style" Deli Spread

(Prepared in a Glatt Kosher Facility Under Strict Rabbinic Supervision)

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Children's Scavenger Hunt

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
 

Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Zev Eleff
The Szolds of Lombard Street (and Lloyd Street)

3:00 pm -3:45 pm

Roundtable Discussion with Rabbi Etan Mintz
Challenges and Opportunities in Building Jewish Community:
The task for the next decade

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm

Panel Discussion with Rabbi Etan Mintz and Dr. Zev Eleff 

Going on 150: Challenges and Opportunities
for Urban Modern Orthodox Jewish Communities
What we can learn from the past as we look to the future

5:00 pm - 5:45 pm

Historic Walking Tour of Lloyd Street 
with Dr. Zev Eleff and Baltimore Historian Fred Shoken

 

5:45 pm - 7:00 pm
Free time to get to know each other!

7:00 pm 
Musical Havdalah, Kumsitz, and Cabaret
with Chazzan Avraham (“Avi”) Albrecht
Baltimore klezmer star Seth Kibel
and Guest Musicians

Light Buffet and Family Stories

SUNDAY

 

8:30 am
Shacharit

9:00 am
Bagels and Lox Breakfast

Rabbi Etan Mintz in Conversation

with Dr. Laura Shaw Frank and
Alan Ronkin of the American Jewish Committee

The Future of the Jewish Community

Genealogists will be available
 to help participants with challenges they may be having in their genealogical research.

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