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We work with tour operators, Jewish organizations, corporations and event planners, hosting groups from the U.S., Canada, Europe and Israel. We offer a cross between an exclusive restaurant and home hospitality that visitors to Israel find very special and exciting. Our guests often tell us that their visit to our home is one of the highlights of their trip to Israel.

Groups we've hosted: ADL (Anti Defamation League of Bnai Brith) Interfaith Mission & Civil Rights Mission, Georgetown University Interfaith Mission, Center for Jewish Art of Hebrew University, U.J.C. missions from all over the U.S., American Jewish Committee, New Israel Fund, Aish Ha Torah, Shambhala Publishing Conference.

We have organized Shabbat programs for synagogue groups and others residing at the nearby deluxe Rimon Inn Hotel (a five-minute walk from our home). Sabbath takes on an added dimension in Safed with Friday dinner, Sabbath lunch or "seudah shlishit" (third meal) at the Bar-Els. We can arrange for speakers or local guests to join the group for a meal to talk about Safed's unique connection to Sabbath ("Lechah Dodi" was written in Safed) and offer a few kabbalistic insights to the holy day. After Shabbat Genine often takes groups on an evening gallery tour, followed by and a wine and cheese party and a roof-top concert back at the house for an extra-special end to the weekend.

Anecdotes:

In November we hosted an ADL Interfaith Mission led by Cardinal Bernard Law and Rabbi Samuel Chief of Boston. We held the dinner (for 80 people) in the Red Khan, a 13th century Mameluke Khan in the Old City of Safed. The guests were amazed by the beauty of the place and, of-course, the delicious food. A duo of Christian Arab musicians played for them and at the end of the evening we beheld a wonderful site: Jews and Christians dancing to Arab and Israeli music in an ancient mosque in the holy Jewish city of Safed!

Another ADL group we hosted (in our home this time) was a Civil Rights Mission from Boston which consisted of Jews and non-Jews, mainly lawyers and D.A.s, including the Attorney General of Massachus9ets, Mr. Tom Reilly. They ate dinner with us on Friday evening, and we served them up a Shabbat meal flavored with "ruah." At their request, we invited some interesting Safed residents to join them for dinner and they sang together zemirot and Shlomo Carlebach niggunim.



Previous Events We work with tour operators, Jewish organizations, corporations and event planners, hosting groups from the U.S., Canada, Europe and Israel. We offer a cross between an exclusive restaurant and home hospitality that visitors to Israel find very special and exciting. Our guests often tell us that their visit to our home is one of the highlights of their trip to Israel. Groups we've hosted: ADL (Anti Defamation League of Bnai Brith) Interfaith Mission & Civil Rights Mission, Georgetown University Interfaith Mission, Center for Jewish Art of Hebrew University, U.J.C. missions from all over the U.S., American Jewish Committee, New Israel Fund, Aish Ha Torah, Shambhala Publishing Conference. We have organized Shabbat programs for synagogue groups and others residing at the nearby deluxe Rimon Inn Hotel (a five-minute walk from our home). Sabbath takes on an added dimension in Safed with Friday dinner, Sabbath lunch or "seudah shlishit" (third meal) at the Bar-Els. We can arrange for speakers or local guests to join the group for a meal to talk about Safed's unique connection to Sabbath ("Lechah Dodi" was written in Safed) and offer a few kabbalistic insights to the holy day. After Shabbat Genine often takes groups on an evening gallery tour, followed by and a wine and cheese party and a roof-top concert back at the house for an extra-special end to the weekend. Anecdotes: In November we hosted an ADL Interfaith Mission led by Cardinal Bernard Law and Rabbi Samuel Chief of Boston. We held the dinner (for 80 people) in the Red Khan, a 13th century Mameluke Khan in the Old City of Safed. The guests were amazed by the beauty of the place and, of-course, the delicious food. A duo of Christian Arab musicians played for them and at the end of the evening we beheld a wonderful site: Jews and Christians dancing to Arab and Israeli music in an ancient mosque in the holy Jewish city of Safed! Another ADL group we hosted (in our home this time) was a Civil Rights Mission from Boston which consisted of Jews and non-Jews, mainly lawyers and D.A.s, including the Attorney General of Massachus9ets, Mr. Tom Reilly. They ate dinner with us on Friday evening, and we served them up a Shabbat meal flavored with "ruah." At their request, we invited some interesting Safed residents to join them for dinner and they sang together zemirot and Shlomo Carlebach niggunim.

	Band performing on our roof

		We can host corporate events in our home