Read daily journal entries from The Fellowship’s 25th Anniversary Alaskan Cruise
On The Fellowship’s first-ever Alaskan cruise, participants experienced some of the most beautiful country in God’s creation as they engaged in Bible study with Rabbi Eckstein and explored the Jewish roots of Christianity. You can get a taste of what the trip was like by reading daily cruise updates written by participant Sandy Thorn Clark, a professional freelance journalist and wife of Fellowship staff member Rev. Jerry Clark. .
Day 1: Sunday, August 31
The essence of everything is peace shalom and balance is the key to achieving peace, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein told a room filled with Fellowship supporters on Monday, the first full day of The Fellowship’s 25th Anniversary Alaskan Cruise. Read More
Day 2: Monday, September 1
One of the best things about The Fellowship’s Alaska Cruise has been the chance it affords participants to get to know their fellow friends of Israel and to spend time with Rabbi Eckstein. Yesterday morning we did just that, as the Rabbi gave us a chance to discuss a wide-ranging variety of topics, including world affairs, during a lively question and answer session. Read More
Day 3: Tuesday, September 2
When Fellowship supporters on the current Alaskan Cruise, celebrating The Fellowship’s 25th anniversary, expressed interest in some of the more common rituals of Judaism, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein was more than willing to wrap himself in a prayer shawl and tighten phylacteries small leather boxes containing slips inscribed with Scripture around his left arm to illustrate his point. Read More
Day 4: Wednesday, September 3
Juneau, located at the foot of mountain peaks on Alaska’s Gastineau Channel and the state capitol since 1906, proved to be the perfect port for the first docking of the cruise ship Westerdam on The Fellowship’s 25th Anniversary Alaskan Cruise. Read More
Day 5: Thursday, September 4
The picturesque green copper, onion-shaped domes of St. Michael’s Cathedral, considered the “Mother Cathedral of Orthodoxy for All of America,” dominate the architecture of Sitka, Alaska. The church domes were the first clue to Fellowship partners on Thursday the fourth full day of The Fellowship’s 25th Anniversary Alaskan Cruise that Sitka was once a Russian settlement. Read More
Day 6: Friday, September 5
"Life is to be enjoyed; life is to be cherished," Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein told friends of The Fellowship aboard the cruise ship Westerdam participating in the activities on the final days of the 25th Anniversary Alaskan Cruise. Read More
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