Shabbat in Crown Heights is truly one remember!

We headed over to Oholei Torah grand ballroom to join the close to 700 students from around the world who came to celebrate Shabbat together.

We started off with some breakout sessions on various topics in Jewish life and campus life. We then headed over to 770 the main synagogue in crown heights for Kabbalat Shabbat. The service was filled with singing and dancing and you can feel the electricity and spirituality in the room.

We than had Shabbat dinner at the homes of our hosts. After dinner we went for our annual house farbrengen hop. We went from farbrengen to farbrengen truly inspirational.

Shabat morning we has services followed by lunch with all 700+ students. We the had the opportunity to choose from a number of sessions on various topics. From science and Torah, stump the rabbi to election politics for Torah perspective, these sessions were truly enlightening.

When Shabbat came to a close we marked it with a musical havdallah service. We then went home to get ready for the night.

Just before the onset of Shabbat we got together for an intro to Shabbat and Crown Heights and Shabbat.

Rabbi Simon Jacobson of the meaningful life center and author of best seller towards a meaningful life shared some thoughts and challenged us to find our mission statement im life.

After that the girls lit the Shabbat candles to usher in the Shabbat!

Afrer registration we went on a walking tour of crown heights. We went to a traditional scribe, (Torah Factory) a Mikvah (ritual bath) & the Chabad Lubavitch library.

Finally concluded our tour at 770 Chabad world headquarters.

So we woke up bright and early :) headed over to the Jewish children's museum to check in for the Shabbaton and enjoy a delicious breakfast.

Many other schools are pouring into town! We are not the only ones who made it!

Reppin UCF! Go Knights!

So we made it into the city! It only took an hour and a half :) The city is bustling as always!

We headed over to Times Square and then hung out in the city before making our way over for a really late lunch.

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After having some time to settle in we enjoyed a delicious brunch at Rivkie's moms house. Now it's time to hit the City!

Yes! There is access to the city :)

We gonna take the subway to Barclay Center and then a shuttle into the city and hit up Times Square!

We are on the way to the Heights!

Meet our bus driver! Only in NYC or Israel :)

Crown Heights are you ready for some Jewish Knights?

Photo Credit: Mike Koretsky
Taken from JetBlue 150

What a smooth and short flight! Chabad UCF is ready to rock NYC!

Oh wait we should probably get out luggage ;)

Just to let you know we are the first school to touch down in NYC!