The Rabbinic Kallah at Wildacres
July 31-August 6, 2025

The Rabbinic Kallah at Wildacres has been occurring for over 70 years! The Kallah features an outstanding Jewish scholar for a six-day rabbinic seminar attended by Conservative, Orthodox, Reconstructionist, Reform, and Traditional rabbis and their families. We join together for study, prayer, discussion, debate, relaxation, and camaraderie. Rabbis and family members come from all over the country to enjoy the learning, kosher cuisine, egalitarian minyanim, and joyously observe Shabbat together. Participants are able to lead the davening, give Divrei-Torah, and offer workshops. The program includes evening entertainment, arts and crafts for family members, and children’s activities. Included in the schedule is free time for touring, relaxing, and schmoozing with family and friends.

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The Greater Carolinas Association of Rabbis waits for you

We will welcome Rabbi Dr. Joshua Kulp as our scholar for Rabbinic Legends Reexamined We will explore how rabbis and rabbinic narrators conceptualized their own history through a close reading of classical rabbinic texts. We will focus on pivotal figures who transformed Judaism from the Temple period to the post-Temple rabbinic era. By examining these texts, we will understand how the rabbis interpreted and reimagined their theological and cultural inheritance. We will analyze how these figures were initially portrayed and how subsequent generations reimagined them to address contemporary concerns. The Greater Carolinas Association of Rabbis (GCAR) has been meeting annually at Wildacres Retreat since 1951. We are rabbis, spouses, and families that hail from across the continent and every branch of Judaism. A week at Wildacres is a week like no other. Mark your calendar to join us on the mountaintop in western North Carolina for high level cholarship, chevreh, spirituality, peer-led learning, and great Jewish conversation. Programs for spouses and children will also be available. Reasonable prices include lodging and kosher meals.  Registration

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The Wildacres Interfaith Institute
July 28-July 30, 2025

The Wildacres Interfaith Institute has been meeting at Wildacres for over 25 years. The Institute brings together clergy and lay people of all faiths to gain understanding towards the Wildacres goal of “betterment of human relations.” Our annual Interfaith Institute at Wildacres Retreat Center off the Blue Ridge Parkway in Little Switzerland, North Carolina, is open to clergy and interested lay people from all religious traditions.  Come and join us for fellowship, discussion, and fun on the mountaintop. Wildacres provides a magnificent vista of the Blue Ridge Mountains, including stately Mt. Mitchell across the way. Our study sessions are supplemented by plenty of good food (strictly kosher and halal), a daily happy hour, evening entertainment, morning prayer services, and opportunities to explore the area.

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For information, please contact Marilyn Katz at marilynk377@gmail.com.

This gathering is open to clergy and lay-people of all faiths.  We invite seminarians and students of religion, as well as other people of faith who are interested in learning and sharing on a mountaintop in the Blue Ridge Mountains.  (Check out Wildacres website for details: https://wildacres.org/)

Once again we will offer a writing workshop during the retreat for those interested.  We will hear some local entertainment one evening as well as the creations of our writers presented another evening. We will be staying in Wildacres lodges and enjoying meals in their dining hall under Kosher supervision.  There will be opportunities to gather informally on the patio and in the canteen as well as time to explore the hiking paths and many local attractions.

See you on the mountain,

Rev. Dr. Amy Laura Hall, program coordinator,

Rabbi Edward Friedman, chair,

Marilyn Katz, registrar