Here is the projected itinerary for a Pathways Couples Program. (All scheduled programs are subject to alteration and are dependent on weather conditions permitting.)

Sunday Morning departure from JFK International Airport

Monday
Theme - Growth and Spiritual Development
Morning
Flight arrives at Ben Gurion International Airport and transfer to Jerusalem

Stop en route at the Haas Promenade to drink in the breathtaking panoramic views

Afternoon
Old City of Jerusalem - Southern Wall Excavations and full multimedia experience in the Davidson Centre

Sunset at the Western Wall

Afternoon Class:
Rabbi Shaya Karlinsky - Personal Development as a means to Spiritual Growth

Welcome Dinner

Tuesday
Theme: Community and the Jewish People Morning Lecture:
Rabbi Zev Leff - The Essential Components of a Jewish Community

Text preparation for class with study partners

Interactive workshop with
Rabbi Gidon Shoshan: Individualism or Conformity - Which is the Jewish Way?

Afternoon
Visit a new modern Jewish Community, speak to its founders, tours its institutions and experience its dynamic atmosphere

Evening Speaker:
Rabbi Yaacov Haber: Building Modern Jewish Communities in America and Israel

Wednesday
Theme: Marriage and Relationships
Morning Lecture:
Rabbi Jamie Cowland: Relationships and the Search for Meaning

Interactive workshop with
Rabbi Moshe Berliner – Love and Marriage

Afternoon Speaker:
Dr. Lisa Aiken - Marriage and Sexuality - a Jewish Approach

Bus departs for Tel Aviv

Personal meeting with the former
Chief Rabbi of Israel - Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau

Evening free time in Tel Aviv

Return to Jerusalem

Thursday
Theme: Being Jewish in a Non-Jewish World
Morning
Rabbi Anthony Manning: How the Jews Have Kept their Jewish Identity

Text preparation for class with study partners

Interactive workshop with
Rabbi Yaacov C. Haber: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - Models for Jewish Survival

Afternoon
Visit the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, burial place of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Guided visit around Hebron

Afternoon Class by
Rabbi Joel Zeff -Why the Jews?

Evening free time for dinner and shopping in the Jerusalem Mall

Friday
Theme: Shabbat and Spirituality
Morning Lecture:
Rabbi Dov Ber Cowan - A Deeper Look at Resting on Shabbat

Morning Practical Workshop:
Food and Shabbat

Walk through the beautiful Jewish neighborhood of Nachlaot to
The Shuk : experience sights, sounds and smells as Jerusalem prepares for Shabbat

Afternoon free time for lunch and shopping

Pre-Shabbat Program

Candle lighting in the hotel and Kabbalat Shabbat

Friday night dinner out with host families

Oneg Shabbat in the hotel - food, drink and great atmosphere

Shabbat
Theme: Shabbat and Spirituality
Shabbat morning services; optional explanatory tefilla study group

Shabbat Lunch

Shabbat Afternoon Speaker:
Rabbi Anthony Manning: Shabbat as a Taste of the Next World and Mashiach

Shabbat Afternoon Program

Special Shabbat Third Meal as the sun sets over Jerusalem

Havdala

Evening
Melave Malka - Saturday night live - music, food and great entertainment

Sunday
Theme: Torah, Education and Schooling
Morning Lecture:
Rabbi Dr. David Koenigsberg - Creating Self-Esteem in Ourselves and Our Children

Text preparation for class with study partners

Interactive Gemara and Chumash workshops with the Pathways Team

Afternoon Speaker:
Rabbi Fyvel Shuster - Educating Ourselves and our Children to be Jews in the 21st Century

Free time

Evening Farewell Dinner at
"Between the Arches" in the Old City

Farewell at the Western Wall

Depart Ben Gurion International Airport

Monday
Early morning arrival in the US