Afternoon: Registration at 4:00 PM, followed by orientation.

Dinner: Hotel dining room.

Evening: This evening we will attend a student music recital at the Curtis Mansion on Rittenhouse Square. 3 Blocks from the hotel.

Lodging: Club Quarters

Meals Included: Dinner

Lecture on Philadelphia history or art. Field trip to the National Constitution Center/Rodin Museum/Philadelphia Museum of Art/Philadelphia Orchestra.

Breakfast: at hotel.

Morning: Early Philadelphia History lecture followed by field trip to the National Constitution Center which opened in 2003 and is the leading center on The Constitution, the Bill of rights and the amendments.

Lunch: Lunch out

Afternoon: We will visit Rodin Museum, which houses the largest collection of Rodin sculptures outside of Paris. Then we will explore the galleries at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Dinner: Dinner at Davios Restaurant

Evening: This evening we will attend the Philadelphia Orchestra Concert at the Kimmel Performance Hall.

Lodging: Club Quarters

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

National Museum of American Jewish History Liberty Bell/ Independence Hall/ Evening Lecture TBA

Breakfast: Hotel dining room.

Morning: JOSH PERELMAN (Deputy Director of Exhibitions, Programs, and Collections): ns): The primary theme of this institution is freedom and the opportunities, the challenges, the choices that come with that. Here we really have the opportunity at the place where freedom was enshrined in this country. This museum sits across the street from the Liberty Bell, up the street from Independence Hall and the Constitution Center. It’s largely a chronological core exhibition that begins in 1654 with the first permanent settlement of Jews in what was then colonial America and weaves its story up until really the present day. The first Jews who came to this nation came in search of freedom, came in search for opportunity. The ingenuity of Jews in America has led to all sorts of amazing achievements in the sciences, in culture certainly. Irving Berlin’s story is really remarkable in that here he is, this Jewish immigrant from Russia who wrote “God Bless America,” who wrote “White Christmas.” One item that visitors will love to see is the typewriter from “Schindler’s List,” which Mr. [Steven] Spielberg made available to the museum for exhibition. And certainly one of the most colorful groups are Jewish gangsters, Jewish criminals. I think one of the important roles Jews have played in the history of this nation is that Jews have been advocates for civil rights, civil liberties, for the extension of freedom not only to themselves, but to others as well. Whether it’s Abraham Joshua Heschel in the civil rights movement or Bella Abzug in the women’s movement, or the many people who came together for the movement for Soviet Jewry, here they are staking their claim to freedom and working tirelessly, energetically on behalf of the freedoms of others.

Lunch: lunch out

Afternoon: This afternoon we will visit The Liberty Bell and Independence Hall located in the colonial city.

Dinner: At hotel or at a popular restaurant.

Evening: Evening lecture TBA

Lodging: Club Quarters

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Hotel dining room. Checkout is 12 Noon. Bags can be stored with the concierge.

Morning: We will be listening to a lecture on Philadelphia architecture.

Lunch: At art museum cafeteria. Checkout is 12 Noon. Bags can be stored with the concierge.

Afternoon: Program ends at 1:00 PM

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch