Beis Community Theater Shabbaton Registration 
Friday November 7th-November 8th, 2025 Parshat Vayera

What is a Shabbaton? A Shabbaton is a weekend "urban retreat" of themed programming that will take place at The Beis Community in Washington Heights on the Jewish Sabbath featuring a combination of prayer services, communal meals (with theater-themed foods), and theater-related activities, panel discussions and additional theater and Judaism related sessions.
We look forward to you joining us!
Beis Planning Team
Co-Sponsored by: 24/6: A Jewish Theater Company

Shabbaton Schedule

Wednesday November 5th, 2025
7:00pm: Group outing to Tony Award winning Broadway musical Maybe Happy Ending. 
 

Friday November 7th, 2025

Candle lighting: 4:26pm Friday

4:30pm: Melodic Kabbalat Shabbat (incorporating some showtune melodies, without musical instruments) and Maariv 

6:00pm: Catered Shabbat Dinner featuring theater-themed foods (meat) (FULL) 

7:15 pm: Dessert featuring bake-off of best theater-themed desserts (sign-up info below)

7:30pm Panel: Stories from the Field featuring panelists who work in theater featuring: Max Abramovitz (master electrician/lighting designer), Tova Frank (Broadway marketing, New York Renaissance Faire), Yoni Oppenheim (director, dramaturg, artistic director), Aviva Katz (director, administrator, front of house manager), and Alexandra Feingold (AYALA) (voice teacher, singer, performer)!

8:30pm: Talmud Live! Improvised performance of Talmudic stories/cases

9:30pm: Tisch

Saturday November 8th, 2025

9am-noon: Shacharit - featuring dramatic Torah reading by Dr. Gabriel Wasserman, liturgy scholar and guided Bibliodrama activity by Rabbanit Tanya Farber

Noon: Kiddush

1pm: Catered Lunch featuring theater-themed foods (dairy, ALMOST FULL--a few more spots ONLY!)

Shabbat afternoon learning and conversations led by Sandy Sahar Gooen, Tova Frank, Aviva Katz and Sarit Perl. Stay tuned for the topics!

2pm-2:30pm: Break out session A (choose 1 of 4):

2:30pm-3pm: Break out session B (choose 1 of 4):

Options: 

Shylock Through History - Sarit Perl (she/her)

Jewish Identity and the American Musical - Sandy Sahar Gooen (he/him)

An Exploration of Yiddish Theater History  - Tova Frank (they/them)

Models of Theatre for Social Change - Aviva Katz (she/her)

3:15pm: Mincha

4:00pm: Seuda Shlishit meal featuring Torah learning taught by Davida Kollmar - Theatricality and the Parsha

5:26pm: Maariv and Musical Havdala

Motzei Shabbat Saturday Night Activity

~7:00pm: Sing-along movie screening with pizza dinner

Schedule subject to change.  

Prayer services will be Orthodox, all food will be kosher. We value making everyone comfortable and if you're not familiar with Orthodox synagogues, come as you are and you're fully welcome!  eas

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Meal registration
Both meals are FULL. 
If you'd like to be on waitlist, please indicate  below.
 If there is a cancellation, we will contact you in the order your request was recieved. 
please pay through the Beis:
www.beiscommunity.com/donate/ , 
Venmo @BeisCommunity , 
or Zelle thebeiscommunity@gmail.com Sliding scale: $26-$36 

If you cannot afford to pay full the amount, please let us know and we can try to make arrangements.
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Would you like to prepare or bring a theater-themed dessert/treat for our bake off & tisch? Dessert Sign-up!  (must be prepared in a kosher kitchen using kosher certified ingredients from Beis approved kosher certifications, see sign-up for details!) 
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7:30pm Panel: Stories from the Field featuring panelists who work in theater featuring: Max Abramovitz (master electrician/lighting designer), Tova Frank (Broadway marketing, New York Renaissance Faire), Yoni Oppenheim (director, dramaturg, artistic director), Aviva Katz (director, administrator, front of house manager), and Alexandra Feingold (AYALA) (voice teacher, singer, performer)!
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Sponsor the Theater Shabbaton! Events like this have a huge a price-tag, and we welcome sponsorships. (Sponsorship is in addition to meal payment) If this sponsorship is a tribute to theater teacher, memory of a loved one, or to celebrate a birthday or milestone; please indicate this below in space marked "other."
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