The Florence Melton Adult Mini-School has offered the Israel Seminar experience to its students, graduates and their spouses/significant others since 1993. While the Mini-School has been structured around its four core courses, contemporary Jews who are striving for Jewish literacy and familiarity with the essentials of Jewish heritage must also, at some stage in their lives, grapple with the place of Israel - the land, the state and its people. In fact, the Israel Seminar can even be considered as a fifth Melton course – the “icing on the cake” of a student’s Melton experience.

The Israel Seminar seeks to combine visits to core sites in the Holy Land with on-site text learning, allowing for a simultaneous exploration of critical issues in the actual locations where the events took place. Participants on the ten-day trip stay in luxury accommodations while experiencing everything a trip to Israel has to offer, along with the quality Melton study opportunities they have come to expect from their instructors at home.

For more information about seminars, e-mail Sue Parker Gerson.