ooh, shiny!

[cellio]

I just learned about this one-week learning program (in July) at Yeshivat Hadar, an egalitarian yeshiva in Manhattan. The classes sound really engaging and meaty (click through for descriptions). Here's what they say is a typical day:

Morning:
7:30 am - Davening with Yeshiva community (optional for Seminar participants)
8:00 am - Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 am [sic] -- Text Classes offered for participants with varied levels of Jewish text experience, with special Talmud class for beginners, and an opportunity to integrate with Yeshivat Hadar's Talmud class for participants with Jewish text backgrounds.

Afternoon (all classes are with the Yeshivat Hadar fellows):
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm -- Lunch with the Yeshivat Hadar community
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm -- Halakhah Seminar with Rabbi Ethan Tucker
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm -- Break and Minhah (optional for Seminar participants)
4:00 pm - 6:30 pm -- Jewish Thought Seminar with Rabbi Shai Held (and Yeshivat Hadar students)

Evenings:
Dinner
Special Speakers
Nights out in NYC

I only know Hadar by reputation (of, mainly, the associated independent minyan, and what I read in Empowered Judaism by R. Tucker). Do any of my readers know more? They say they welcome students of diverse backgrounds; I assume the guiding principles (for learning and davening) are traditional.

Do I know anybody else who might attend? And is it actually practical to (1) lodge and (2) park a car in the upper west side? (Please take as given that I basically know nothing about NYC neighborhoods and precious little about getting around beyond "I hear good things about the subway system".)

Comments

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

*wave*

here via a mutual friend

Yeshivat Hadar is super awesomecakes.

Driving in is possibly not too bad if you come in superearly for minyan and miss the worst of the traffic, but finding parking is a bitch and a half, unless you reserve space with a garage which is kind of pricey but maybe worth it for the time and rage you save.

I expect you might find a summer sublet on the UWS or in its Jewy-neighbourhood cousin Washington Heights, a little further north. Or crash space.

[cellio]

Hello and welcome! Thanks for commenting. (And making me smile -- "awesomecakes" is new vocabulary for me. :-) )

This Hadar program is for a week (not their longer programs that I don't have enough vacation time to do), so I wasn't thinking about sublet possibilities. Are there places that do by-the-week rentals for less than what a hotel would cost?

On driving, I was thinking in terms of parking the car somewhere upon arrival and ignoring it until it's time to leave, rather than driving in every day (which sounds super-stressful). I assume that places where my car would be intact at the end exist for a suitable fee. (Now does a non-local find them, if not staying at a hotel?)

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

Oh oh right, the week-long thing.

I expect there *are* week-long rentals, but I also expect that the Hadar minor deities lesser faculty are used to hooking week-long people up with crash space, spare rooms, etc. I bet if you asked them how people usually manage, they'd be able to give you some Jolly Good Ideas; and they're a nice bunch.

Fraid I don't know so much about where to leave one's car. The airports come to mind, as do the More Genteel Places To Live like Riverdale or parts of Queens.