• Gorgeous State-of-the-Art 5-Star Ship
• Gourmet Glatt Kosher, cholov yisroel & pas yisroel culinary cuisine prepared on board daily by 5-Star chefs
• Under the strict supervision of the MGK (Maritime Glatt Kosher)
• Glatt Kosher; Cholov Yisroel
• Under the Hashgacha of Rabbi Manis Spitz
• Scholars in Residence: Stephen Savitsky, Rabbi Steven Weil and Yael Weil
• Entertainment by: Dudu Fisher, Avraham Fried, Cantor Daniel Gildar,
  Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot, Cantor Benzion Miller, Lipa Schmeltzer
• Stimulating Jewish Entertainment and Lectures
• Daily Minyanim, Daf Yomi, Shiurim
• Specialized Jewish Tours are available on this cruise
• World Class Cruise Activities and Amenities, Luxury Spa, Casino, Shopping, Broadway Style Shows

Actively involved with the OU for over 20 years, in addition to being President and Chairman of the Board, Mr. Savitsky has served as Dinner Chairman, Chairman of several missions to Israel, and Chairman of the Community and Synagogue Services Commission. He also headed the Human Resources Commission and has been a member of the OU Executive team for over a decade.

Mr. Savitsky has held many additional leadership positions in the Jewish community, including President of the Vaad Hakashrus of the Five Towns and Far Rockaway; founder and President of the Kew Gardens Hills Eruv; President of Congregation Ansche Chesed in Hewlett, Long Island, NY; and Chairman of the Board of Mesivta Ohr Torah, in Forest Hills, NY. He is a member of the International Board of Governors of the Mesorah Heritage Foundation. Mr. Savitsky has also represented the OU as a Scholar-in-residence at numerous synagogues across the United States.

Stephen J. Savitsky is the President and Chairman of the Board of ATC Health Care Services, a nationwide provider of temporary medical staffing. He also founded and served as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Tender Loving Care – Staff Builders, one of the nation’s largest providers of home health care services. Mr. Savitsky graduated from Yeshiva University with a degree in Economics and received an MBA from The Bernard Baruch Graduate School of Business of the City University of New York, with a specialization in finance and marketing.

Mr. Savitsky is married to Genie (nee Tennenbaum) Savitsky. They have four children: Julie (married to Shabsi Schreier), Avi (married to Cheryl Stein), Penina (married to Zvi Weiner), and Estie (married to Yehuda Berman). Both Penina and Estie are graduates of Stern College. The Savitsky’s have 13 grandchildren who – much to the Savitsky’s delight – live within walking distance of their grandparents.

Rabbi Steven Weil is the Executive Vice President, the chief professional officer of the Orthodox Union. In that capacity, he will have day-to-day responsibility for running the largest Orthodox synagogue umbrella group in the world, overseeing its staff and programs, maintaining fiscal responsibility, and above all, projecting an image of leadership and vision throughout the Orthodox Jewish community worldwide.

Rabbi Weil takes over an organization that operates a dazzling variety of programs, including its network of synagogues; initiatives for youth (NCSY and the Jewish Student Union); for individuals with disabilities (Yachad for the developmentally disabled and Our Way for the deaf and hard of hearing); for the Jewish family (Positive Jewish Parenting and Positive Jewish Marriage); for its community members via its Department of Community Services; for Orthodox students on secular college campuses (the Heshe and Harriet Seif Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus); for the people of Israel through the Seymour J. Abrams OU Jerusalem World Center; and for input into federal, state and local government through its Washington-based Institute for Public Affairs.

Rabbi Steven Weil, 43, comes to the OU after eight resoundingly successfully years at Beth Jacob Congregation in Beverly Hills, CA, the largest Orthodox congregation outside of the New York metropolitan area. Prior to that, he served for six years as Rabbi of Young Israel of Oak Park, Michigan, in suburban Detroit. Both are Orthodox Union member congregations. A man of great personal charm, Rabbi Weil has gained a reputation as a gifted orator, weaving inspirational messages of contemporary relevance into his teaching of traditional texts.

Raised on a cattle farm outside of Buffalo, NY, thereby growing up in a rural environment lacking the Jewish educational institutions necessary to live a fully observant lifestyle (the Weils were the only Jewish family within a 40-mile radius), young Steven migrated to New York City at age 14 to attend Ohr Torah High School; following a year in Israel, he proceeded to Yeshiva University and then to the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of YU, where he received semicha – rabbinical ordination. At the same time, he pursued an MBA in Finance at New York University, utilizing the New York City subway system to shuttle back and forth between the domain of the Book and the domain of the bank book.

“At NYU he demonstrated great talent in the financial and business world,” OU President Savitsky declared in the Summer 2009 issue of Jewish Action, the Orthodox Union’s quarterly magazine. “He had a calling, however, and gave up many of his business aspirations to enter the rabbinate.” At Oak Park, where he was hired after delivering a particularly outstanding sermon at his brother’s wedding, Rabbi Weil “was quickly labeled a rising star in the Jewish world,” wrote Mr. Savitsky. Then came Beverly Hills, where “he ignited the spark of Judaism throughout the community.”

Both congregations grew in striking fashion, as word went out that a charismatic young rabbi was turning the local synagogue into the place to be, with its clubs, educational programs, youth activities, and sermons that warmed the heart while educating the mind. All of this happened while the MBA rabbi was solidifying the shuls’ financial position, thereby providing an insight into what he is being called upon to accomplish at the Orthodox Union. Since arriving at the OU on April 1, Rabbi Weil has been traveling constantly, visiting OU congregations across the country. These trips have taken him to Boca Raton and Hollywood in Florida; Atlanta, Cleveland, Chicago, Seattle, Baltimore, Washington/Silver Spring, Dallas and Denver; plus sessions spent with OU colleagues in Lakewood NJ, learning from the leadership of the world’s largest Torah educational center, Beth Medrash Govoha. He has spent considerable time with the leaders of AIPAC, studying the organizational model from what many consider American Jewry’s best-run organization.

• All rates are per person based on Double Occupancy.
• Rates are subject to change without notice
• Port Charges & Government Taxes are additional: $252.70 p/p
• $500 per person deposit due at time of booking
• 3rd or 4th person in cabin (all Categories): $1,790 p/p
• Single rate is 180% in all categories.
• Travel insurance is strongly recommended
• Airfare not included