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

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

That would be awesome, but sadly, yes, they're a week apart.

We're going to be moving into a new place come May, and I don't know what parking will be like on that street, but street parking is relatively plentiful here, save that you have to move the car to the alternate side each night. We may be able to work something out though, given that we'll have a parking sticker and a garage.

[cellio]

Or I could move the car to the other side of the street each night. :-)

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

o/~ So I do my parking on the alternate side o/~

[cellio]

Oh, there's a limit on number of cars? Ok, that does make what you said about the sticker make more sense. Oops. :-) (This is not the minhag of my neighborhood, either the sticker or the side-switching. Well, we switch sides on alternate weeks for street cleaning, but not daily.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

We'll have a one car garage, so having one car on the street with the sticker (the sticker is essential for parking for more than two hours in the neighborhood) is the part that makes it tricky. However, akawil takes the car to work each day, so we could do car swapping tricks, or failing that we can put your car in the flat rate $8 all day lot in the parking lot of what used to the be the Maneschewitz factory.