GroovePhest!

25888_112203022141838_100000564228203_162308_6719861_nThe Shabbat Tent Team is proud to announce that we will be at the first ever GroovePhest, in Lake Piro, May 13-16!

We will be camping ins spots 2, 3, and 4!

GroovePhest 2010 will kick off spring the right way with four days of camping, live music, hiking, relaxing, dancing, great vibes and inspiration. A portion of proceeds will benefit the Lake Piru foundation to help keep the lake and park open to the public for years to come, as well as benefit the Ventura County Food Banks.

Groovephest looks like it will be THE festival to be at this spring!

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Coachella Pot Luck Shabbat Dinner

Look For The Sign!

Look For The Sign!

The Shabbat Tent Team has set up a provisional Shabbat Tent in the Volunteer Camping Area – Lot 4B
From 6:30-7:30pm TONIGHT they will be hosting candle lighting, kiddush, and a pot-luck dinner.
They have some nice Herzog Syrah wine to make kiddush, bring your food!
Look for a blue canopy with the Shabbat Tent sign!
Everyone who comes gets a free Jewlicious Festival CD!
Call Avie and Shimon if you need to find them!
CELL PHONE  248-535-0521
Please — send us pictures if you go to Coachella for our websites!

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Become a Fan on Facebook

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Shabbat Tent official Fan Page is now up on Facebook. It is a place for information, photos, links, whatever. We loaded some pics from Langerado, Wakarusa, and Phish Fest.

If you know people in the pics you can help us tag them and share them.

Help spread the news about Shabbat Tent by becoming a fan.

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Gathering Of The Supplies

Unpacking at Wakarusa

Unpacking at Wakarusa

We are gearing up for Coachella – our first biz is to figure out how to gather all the supplies we need. We own a bunch of gear, but we don’t have everything we need, plus, we need other help bringing stuff into camping. We are not allowed to bring a uhaul, and only own a minivan…

Here are some of the supplies that we are going to need. If you have a way of getting any of these – let us know!

FOOD:
Fruits (2 Crates) Vegis (2 Crates) Tuna
Challah (30) bagels (10 dozen) Wine (2 cases)
Cookies (lots) olive oil 1gal chips (5 bags)
tortillas (5 bags) salsa lots hummous lots
Pickles 10 cans olives 10 cans Cakes (lots)

any other vegi foodstuffs

SUPPLIES
Water Coolers
Folding Chairs
Folding Tables
10foot or larger pop up canopy

Home Made Shabbat Tent sign

Large flagpole ( we had to leave ours at phishfest… long story.)

Be in touch if you are interested in getting something…

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Coachella Shabbat Tent Anyone?

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Are you interested in a Shabbat Tent Coachella 2010?

Let us know by filling out the volunteer form – and we will send you any info we have.

As always – our major hurdle is funding. We need funds to bring in the people, equipment, and food that is needed.

But it doesn’t cost a fortune at all. We just need some people willing to contribute what they can, a few sponsors, and we can do this.

Looking forward to hearing from you – Peace – Love – Shabbat Tent

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The World Needs More Shabbat Tents

Shabbat Tent gets a great mention in Harry Nelson’s torah commentary for Wexner Foundation Weekly Email.

Among the many great projects underway that offer a possible channel to greater balance on the permanent/impermanent axes, one that’s captured my imagination lately is the Shabbat Tent (http://shabbattent.com/), an emerging independent movement I learned about from my fellow Detroiter-in-exile and Jewish hero, Rabbi Yonah Bookstein.

The idea of Shabbat Tent is to go to where Jews already are, in significant numbers, at the big camping music festivals, each of which draw tens of thousands of people across the country seeking a spiritual connection in the communal enjoyment of the great jam bands of our time. Taking a cue from Abraham, for three days or so at a time, the Shabbat Tent folks set up a tent and provide open hospitality, from meals and snacks to shade to davening to a space to connect in the midst of a transcendent spiritual experience. In so doing, Shabbat Tent represents an effort to integrate Jewishness and make God’s presence felt in the process. We could use more projects like this across the Jewish world.

May we be blessed to find more balance in every facet of our lives.

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LA Jewish Journal: Phish, Shabbat Mingle in Coachella

November 11, 2009
Phish, Shabbat Mingle in Coachella

By Ryan Torok

For three days over Halloween weekend, between 30,000 to 40,000 fans of the eclectic, free-form rock band Phish gathered on the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, site of the annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, for Phish Festival 8. RVs and thousands of small camping tents staked out territory throughout eight campgrounds. And in one of those tents, on Friday night, Rabbi Yonah Bookstein led 35 people in a Kabbalat Shabbat service. This was the Shabbat Tent.

Starting at around 5 p.m., timed so people wouldn’t miss the first Phish set, a group of Jews and non-Jews crossed the campground dancing and singing “Lecha Dodi,” then, beneath a huge Israeli flag, they recited Kiddush, said the Motzi and ate a vegetarian Shabbat meal. Read the rest of this entry »

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Shabbat Tent: The Legend Returns

Our new Shabbat tent at Phish Fest 8! Please check it out! In the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway site next to camping headquarters! Corner of Carpet Crawlers and Gabriel Eno streets.

Thank you camping staff!

The long story in a nutshell — we were all set to go and then the Fira Marshall declared our lane a fire lane. No arguing with them. That is the law and we had to move. Oy Vey@!

After we had to move the staff felt bad and gave us this dream tent. An unused tent that had been put up for catering, with electricity, lights, next to water, WC, and the General Store.

So sweet and so kind. Such is the divine hand that guided the entire weekend.

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Find Us Here!

We made it- its a zoo. Expecting 50-60,000 people this weekend.

Look for huge Israeli flag in ” Lamb” camping lot – along fence, near exit to main venue area

Shabbat shalom!

UPDATE — CAMP MOVED NEXT TO CAMPING HQ AND GENERAL STORE IN LAMB CAMPGROUND

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PHISH FEST 8 SCHEDULE

Dear Friends,

We have a huge feast of food for Friday EARLY evening at 5:15. We will be making an early Shabbat and dinner so that folks that want to get to shows will have time.

Come after the shows Friday Night— more food, song, and stories.

We have breakfast, learning, services and lunch all planned for Shabbat AM before the shows start.

See you there!

see below the break for the FULL SCHED

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