Jewish Learning Retreats

Jewish Educator: Rabbi Sofia Zway

Base is the home of a Rabbinic family which serves as a home-base for community, learning, and mentorship. Join your Base community for a weekend retreat where we will celebrate Shabbat together through spirited song, discussion, and prayer (traditional and experimental) and of course food and play! For this retreat, we are only accepting applications from individuals who live in LA or plan to actively participate in the Base LA community.

Jewish Educator: Coming soon!

Are you Queer and Jewish? Are you searching for a weekend of learning and connecting with other Queer Jews? We have a retreat for you! Join our second annual Moishe House Queer Retreat where we will explore your relationships to self, Judaism, and our queer community.

Moishe House's Jewish Summer Camp experience for young adults, Camp Nai, is sailing out to the Bahamas, December 6-9! Cruise with new friends - on a Royal Carribean ship, that's guaranteed to be filled with laughter, adventure, parties and rest. Soak in the sun and explore what it means to be “Wandering Jews,” moving together as Jewish through time and spaces. Get somewhere warm this winter with Nai Cruise. Spots are limited and fill up quickly so grab your room before we lift the anchor in Florida!

As we are saying farewell to the summer and getting ready for the High Holidays season, I’m excited to share with you the news of our upcoming 4 HQ Jewish Learning Retreat: Engaging with Israel through 4 Hatikvah Questions which takes place on December 13-15, in Prague.

Let’s Talk about Israel! The subject of Israel can be a particularly challenging topic to handle, especially since October 7. How do we engage in conversations about subjects that we ourselves do not completely understand? How do we embrace complexity without shying away from the unknown or the controversial? How do we create a safe space for dialogue about issues that might divide us while interacting with them and each other in a way that builds community? How do we engage in healthy arguments and why is it important? We invite you to join the Let’s talk about Israel retreat and engage in a dialogue about Israel through the 4 Hatikvah questions exploring the topics of peoplehood, identity, freedom, and land. Healthy arguments make us smarter and bring us closer. And this retreat will help develop tools and techniques to help you engage in healthy arguments in your home, campus, or community. The aim of this 3-day learning retreat is to equip its participants with foundational knowledge and skills to create and facilitate meaningful programs about Israel for their community, while creating a safe space where community building can happen along divided and complex opinions.

What is 4HQ? The 4HQ framework serves as a template to guide meaningful conversations about Israel, even (and especially) with a divided audience.

Moishe House's International Retreatology is back in person for the first time since 2019! Join other Jewish young adults (21-32) who dream big, are passionate about building Jewish community and want to create amazing multi-day immersive Jewish programming! After completion of International Retreatology, you'll be eligible for a grant of up to $5,500 (USD) to put on the retreat of your dreams! We'll be gathering on November 22-24 just outside of Paris, France to learn all of the skills to run a Peer-Led Jewish Learning Retreat!