Year at a Glance

CALENDAR
 2010-2011

subject to change

August 23 Group flight takes off JFK

August 24 Program begins - group flight arrives

August 25 - 28 Orientation and first IN Shabbat

September 9 - 11 Rosh Hashana/Shabbat

September 18 Yom Kippur

September 19 - 29 Vacation *

September 29 - 30 Simchat Torah in The Old City

October 1 - 6 Vacation continues *

October 10 Return to dorms - classes resume

December 1 - 9 Chanukah - special programming

December 28 - January 2 Special Parents' program - click here for more details

March 19 - 21 Purim / Shushan Purim

April 3 - 28 Pesach Vacation * (do not fly before Sunday evening, April 3)

April 28 Zman resumes (program starts in the afternoon)

May 2 Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)

May 9 Yom HaZikaron (Israel Memorial Day)

May 10 Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israel Independence Day)

May 22 Lag b'Omer

June 1 Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day)

June 7 - 8 Shavuot

June 12 Year ends (we require that you stay until the evening)

June 14 (noon) Dorm Closes

 

* Dorms remain open (except for Chag and Shabbat Chol Hamoed),without food.
We will assist students with home hospitality for Shabbat and Yom Tov.

 

 

 

 
   

 

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