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.