Rosh Hashanah at Isabella Freedman

2025 Pricing

• Standard Room (Private Bathroom): $1050 per adult in double occupancy | $1695 single occupancy
• Basic Room (Shared full bathroom between two rooms): $855 per adult in double occupancy | $1395 single occupancy
• Dormitory Style (shared half bathroom between two rooms) multiple occupancy: $525 per adult
• Commuter: $390 per adult
• Camper: $390 per adult
• Child (5-12) Staying in the same room $215 (If children are staying in a separate room, one child must be registered as an adult at the adult price)
• Toddler (2-4): $105
• Infant (under 2): $0

Davening and Ritual

Hear the shofar sound across the lake and gather in prayer under the trees. Choose the minyan of your liking – either Orthodox with a mechitza or Traditional Egalitarian. Both options invite you to participate with singing and hear thoughtful words of Torah. Welcome 5786 in warm community as we start the year together.

We are thrilled to announce a new partnership with Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (YCT), the inclusive Orthodox rabbinical school. This fall, for Rosh HaShanah and Shabbat Shuvah, YCT students and rabbis will lead tefillot and present classes.

The Traditional Egalitarian service will include a robust davening experience where all gender identities can sit together, count in the minyan and participate in the service. The davening will include a full matbeah tefillah (service structure) for Rosh Hashanah that leans on the ancient words and familiar melodies that stir the spirit. 

Program Highlights

Our various educators lead a series of classes throughout the holiday, as well as yoga, tours of our organic farm, and guided hikes on our trails. While many of our activities are family friendly, there will also be some dedicated programs for kids.

Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (YCT), the inclusive Orthodox rabbinical school will lead tefillot and present classes. Attendees can expect the open, welcoming atmosphere that is fostered by both Adamah and YCT, including a rousing experience of tefillah (prayer) aimed at heart, mind and soul.  YCT rabbis and rabbinical students will present classes on a Torah that is open to all humanity and concerned with our impact on the world and the environment.

See a Sample Schedule of Activities

Kids Programming

Camp Teva offers engaging programming for children ages 2-12. Adamah’s values of cultivating vibrant Jewish life in deep connection with the earth through joy, love, and hope are exemplified in all of our activities. At our holiday retreats, children will have the opportunity to explore the land, forest and farm. All activities are shabbat and holiday friendly. Activities include meeting the chickens, hiking to the magnificent overlook, forest games, nature art, field games, and more! Gan Teva, ages 2-4, is scheduled each morning of the retreat and Camp Teva (ages 5-12) is held in the mornings and afternoons. We look forward to welcoming your family to our campus! 

Kids programming will be outdoors as much as possible, including in the rain; a raincoat, rain boots, hiking boots or sneakers, and a labeled water bottle are required.

2025 Teachers and Educators

Daniel Paul will be leading the traditional egalitarian minyan at Rosh Hashanah. As head Gabbai at Kehilat Hadar Shaare Zedek, he is a regular contributor both leading services and reading Torah for the community. Daniel has over 15 years’ experience teaching at middle school, high school, and college levels. Originally from the UK, Daniel holds a Master’s in Classics from Oxford University and a postgraduate degree in teaching Classics from Cambridge University; he also received certification in the UK in World Languages and Ancient Humanities, and has taught a variety of historical, cultural, and mythological courses covering Greece, Rome, Egypt, Britain, and Europe. He is currently a History teacher and refounder of the Latin program at SAR High School; previously, he served as the international scholar-in-residence in Classics at Fordham University.

Rabbi Michael Gordan is a recent graduate of YCT.  He became a Rabbi because he relishes the opportunity to study a corpus of Jewish knowledge that has real practical value and guidance for how we live our lives. He works as a lawyer outside of Philadelphia where he is also an active member of the Jewish community and president of the local library.

Rabbi Tadgh Cleary graduated YCT class of 2025. He grew up in New Zealand, where he earned a degree from Victoria University of Wellington. He also studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel. During his time at YCT, he participated in Rabbi Klapper’s Summer Beit Midrash and the YCT Kollel for Psak, and he interned at the South Philadelphia Shtiebel. As a rabbi, he hopes to teach Torah and serve either in a small community or in educational leadership. He is inspired to facilitate other people’s religious journeys and to deepen their commitment, knowledge, and experience of Yahadut and the Ribono Shel Olam.

Rabbi Raffi Levi (he/him) graduated YCT class of 2025. He is a chazzan, activist, and nature enthusiast.  During the course of rabbinical school, he has worked as a chazzan in various settings, a mashgiach, an activist for Neurodiversity, Food Justice, and Climate Justice, a Trek Leader, Culinary Educator, and Wilderness First Responder (WFR). Raffi has interned on campus at Queens College Hillel as well as at synagogues in Riverdale, NY under R’ Dina Najman, and in Baltimore, MD under R’ Etan Mintz. Raffi’s vision in life is to infuse all parts of our lives and all things we experience with Kedusha; seeing the spark of Hashem in everything and everyone.

Daniel Machlis is in his fourth year of study in YCT’s semikha program. Alongside Torah, Daniel’s great passion in life is hiking through nature and basking in Hashem’s creation. He has held rabbinic internships at NY-Presbyterian Hospital Queens, SAR High School, and the Hebrew Home of Riverdale.

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