Sept. 1

Group Flight departs NY (JFK)

Sept. 2

Arrive Tel Aviv

Sept. 3-4

Orientation

Sept. 6

Shabbat in Old City

Sept. 20

Return for Slichot

Sept. 30-Oct 1

Rosh HaShana in Old City

Oct.  9

Yom Kippur in Old City

Oct. 10

Vacation Begins *

Oct. 24-27

3 day field trip

Oct. 28-30

Community service/Chesed

Nov. 1

Shabbat in Old City

Nov. 2

Studies resume

Nov. 27

Thanksgiving Dinner

Dec. 24-27

Chanukah Vacation

Dec. 28

Studies resume; Evening Chanukah Party

Jan. 6

Fast of Tevet- half day Old City tour & explore

Feb. 8

TuB'Shvat Seder

Mar. 10-11

Purim/Shushan Purim

Mar. 26

Zman (semester) ends – Optional Efrat Shabbat

Mar. 29- Apr. 1

Community service/Chesed program

Apr. 2 – 19

Pesach vacation *

Apr. 20

Holocaust memorial day; Evening Ceremony

Apr. 21

Holocaust memorial day; special program

Apr. 22-23

2 day field trip

Apr. 27

Eve of Israel Memorial day;  Evening ceremony

Apr. 28

Israel Memorial  day - Har Herzl

Apr. 29

Israeli Independence day 

May 12

Lag B'Omer – field trip

May 22

Jerusalem day – Special dinner

May 28-29

Shavuot- Shabbat in Old City

June 15

Year Ends