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Poconos Shabbaton an eagerly awaited annual event
The program was hosted by the New York based Chamah International (www.chamah.org) which runs humanitarian and educational programming in Israel, Russia and the United States, and the Lubavitch Youth Organization (www.lubavitchyouth.org). The weekend featured programming in Russian as well as English, and drew people from Israel and around the US, from Miami to Boston, California and beyond, as well as from Russia, Ukraine and Georgia.
The three-day gathering in White Haven, Pa., brought together Jews who long ago fled the Soviet Union, more recent immigrants from Eastern Europe and refugees from the ongoing war in Ukraine for a weekend filled with seminars and song, Torah classes and prayers, food and friendship.
For Marina Braverman of Staten Island, N.Y., being together with 1,000 other Russian-speaking Jews from around the world at the 14th annual Russian Jewish Shabbaton weekend earlier this month was something she looked forward to all year long. It’s an annual event that her parents took her to as a teen, and where years later, she met her husband, Alex, and where she has taken her children, ages 7 and 4, since they were infants.
Temuri Yakobashvili, former ambassador of Georgia to the United States, says in addition to the powerful speakers and a varied mix of topics, he was glad to see the crowd’s diversity.
Yakobashvili said it was meaningful to have a mix of those who are actively practicing Judaism and those who are seeking to learn more about it, as well as the event’s socio-economic and cultural diversity.
“Having these groups together and not only being physically together, but interacting with each other, learning from each other, sharing after classes, debating, arguing, just enjoying together—that was the most incredible part of it,” says Yakobashvili. “The diversity gives you different perspectives.”
The weekend offered so much to explore, he says, adding there was something for everyone, from kids to adults. During their time together, participants heard from rabbis, authors, entrepreneurs and artists. Lecture topics ranged from the rabbinical court to parenting, creating sacred space, how the Talmud tackles current problems, Kabbalah, finding one’s life mission and more.
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