Alumni
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Boston University Hillel Young Alumni Leadership is pleased to invite you and your family to an...
I ♥ the 90’s Shabbaton
May 30 - June 1, 2008
Because we know you’d love to go back to college!
Shabbaton highlights will include:
* Shabbat meals in the gorgeous new
Florence and Chafetz Hillel House
* Tour of what’s new on campus including a special
BU rooftops tour
* Sight-seeing in Boston
* Sunday brunch with President Robert Brown (invited)
* See all your old friends and reminisce!
COST:
$100 per adult
$50 per child (over 6 years old)
Price includes all Shabbat meals & activities, and Sunday Brunch; some additional optional activities not included.
Babysitting will be available at an additional, though subsidized cost.
If you are unable to pay the full amount or would like to be a weekend sponsor, please contact Rabbi Avi directly.
RSVP:
A registration form is available here
You can print and mail it in to 213 Bay State Road or fax it to 617-353-7660.
You can also RSVP to Hillel at 617-353-1096 or email rabbiavi@bu.edu
Please RSVP to the shabbaton by April 30th 2008.
AIRFARE:
We suggest you look at the following sites to book cheap tickets:
| www.expedia.com | www.kayak.com | www.cheaptickets.com |
ACCOMMODATIONS:
We have booked special rates at the following two hotels, where we recommend that you stay:
1) Hotel Commonwealth – Luxury hotel in Kenmore Square
Located a couple of home runs from Fenway Park, Hotel Commonwealth offers 150 elegant guest rooms. Besides its outstanding location and all the usual amenities, the hotel also provides all guests with complimentary Wi-Fi Internet access and cordless phone service. With Great Bay, the in-house seafood restaurant, the Commonwealth hits a culinary home run. More than 10 retail shops offer easy access to the essential services that tourists require.
The hotel is in the eruv.
If you want to stay here on May 30th and 31st for a discounted rate of $239/night, a 20 room Block is currently being held. Please call Jennifer (617-532-5008) directly.
2) Holiday Inn Brookline
1200 Beacon St
Brookline, MA 02446
(617) 277-1200
This is a nice hotel about a 15-minute walk from BU Hillel on Beacon St. and is within th eruv.
3) Beacon Inn
1087 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02446
(617) 566-0088
#194 (1 Full, 4th floor)
$249 (Full, 2, 3rd floor)
4) Buckminster Hotel
645 Beacon Street, Boston MA 02215
(617) 236-7050
Queen, $159 (2) each
2 Queen $229 (1) each
5) Courtyard-Boston Brookline
40 Webster Street, Brookline, MA 02246
(617) 734-1393
BU-2 beds
$249 Fri
$299 Sat
12 rooms, 1 king, same price
Please see here for other hotel accommodations in the area. If you have questions, please contact Rabbi Avi Heller.
For singles, we may have a limited amount of home hospitality. Please contact Rabbi Avi to inquire.
OTHER INFORMATION:
1) Kashrut will be observed at all official events.
2) Babysitters will be available during all meal and davening times. We will also have a pool of babysitters available for evenings.
3) If you would like to be involved in giving a dvar torah, reading the Torah or leading services, or helping to plan/run the weekend, please contact Rabbi Avi.
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Boston University Hillel helps to provide a strong Jewish community for students while they attend Boston University. When students leave school they are prepared to enter the world and participate in whatever Jewish community they find. Alumni of the Boston University Hillel stay connected, and are instrumental in the continual development of Boston University Hillel for students that follow after them.
By participating in the Boston University Hillel Young Alumni Association, where you will be a supporter of the dynamic Boston University Hillel community, and will have the opportunity to connect, network and socialize with hundreds of other Boston University Hillel alumni at events in Boston as well as other regions throughout the United States.
With the help of our alumni community, Jewish life will flourish for students in the years to come.
