Excitement is building for the National Teen Shabbaton to begin this Friday in Brooklyn, NY. CTeen’s headquarters in Merkos Suite 302 high atop 770 is a hub of activity as staffers rush to finish the final preparations for the big event.
Final Preps Underway for Highly Anticipated Teen Shabbaton
Excitement is building for the National Teen Shabbaton to begin this Friday in Brooklyn, NY. CTeen’s headquarters in Merkos Suite 302 high atop 770 is a hub of activity as staffers rush to finish the final preparations for the big event.
“We have 225 teens flying in from around the country and even beyond,” says an excited Benzion Treitel, the event coordinator. “It’s the largest event in our history. Hundreds of sweatshirts were packed and folded and dozens of VIP passes have been printed. Everything is being made ready for our most important guests.”
Crown Heights will serve as the backdrop to this event. The hospitable community is often called upon to host Shabbatons, and their unique blend of gracious kindness only serves to impress and inspire the visitors.
The VIP Shabbaton will take the teens on tours to many of Manhattan and Brooklyn’s famous sights. One of the highlights will be a glamorous VIP Jewish Teen Yacht Event on Motzei Shabbos; including a meaningful Havdallah ceremony, hor d’ouvres and a lavish dinner, a stroll down the red carpet as paparazzi bulbs flash, exciting activities and multimedia presentations.
Rabbi Mendel Perlstein, director of CTeen says, “The event is designed to give the teens a feeling of self worth and to inspire them to meet their true potential as very important people in G-d’s plan for the world.”
think ahead
In the future you should try to organise it so it isn’t the weekend after chof beis shvat. It is a little difficult to give up our kids’ beds two weeks in a row.
mother in CHts
When planning for outsiders think of how this can be implemented for our kids; they also need chayas in their everyday lives.
californian - to think ahead
ur pathetic – wow such great exampole of hachnass orchim!!!!
Californians have no idea.
REally Californian? I didn’t write that first comment but let me tell you that as an out of towner you have no idea what it means to be crown heights hosts. At least once a month, if not more often, there are groups that need beds and meals. Now, here in CH we all live in tight quarters, so hosting 2 or 4 guests for a weekend ususally means our kids giving up their beds and spening the weekend in ours. How often do you people living in comfortable californian homes ever have to rearrange your families for guests you don’t even know? I do it and I do it happily as part of being a person lucky enough to live in CH, but don’t write off someone’s frustration at having to do this two weeks in a row. To be honest, when I was called for this weekend, knowing that I was hosting two shluchos for the last weekend, I had to remind myself what a priviledge it is to live in CH and to say yes with a smile.