Heritage House Women
Shabbos
Experience an authentic Shabbat in the Old City of Jerusalem!
Visit the Western Wall, meet new people, enjoy festive Shabbat meals, and connect to your Jewish heritage- while taking in the spirituality of the Old City.
R’ Meir Schuster’s Heritage House is an organization that gives young Jews the opportunity to connect to their Jewish heritage.
The weekends are subsidized so that every person can experience an authentic Shabbat without needing to worry about the expense.
The Heritage House has separate dorms for men and women.
The men’s dorm sleeps up to 13 men, with 2 toilets and 2 showers.
The women’s dorm sleeps up to 10 women with 3 toilets and 3 showers.
There is also an event space with place to eat and relax, as well as an outdoor courtyard.
Getting there
I met Meir Schuster in a roundabout sort of way – through a high school classmate of mine who knew an Aish HaTorah student who had been brought to the yeshiva […]
Herschel seems to have been one of a fortunate few who had an ongoing mail correspondence with Rabbi Meir Schuster. What follows is a sampling of Reb Meir’s letters to […]
I was a philosophy major at Yale University. In 1978, I went to a kibbutz in Israel – not because I was Jewish (I had never even been bar mitzvahed) […]
After graduating college with a degree in geological engineering, I moved to the bayous of Louisiana in 1981 to work on the oil rigs. No Jews. No holidays. No guilt. […]
I was trying to visit my friend Shalom Schwartz (see story) with whom I had gone to High School. I had Shalom’s address but no number. I was on a […]
The Heritage House has touched so many people’s lives and changed them for the better. For example, the girl who came to Israel on Birthright, having just found out she […]
Meir and Esther Schuster lived upstairs from us on Rechov Even HaEzel 11 when we first got married thirty-six years ago. As newly married Americans we became close to a […]
Last week I received an email from the Chofetz Chaim Foundation, announcing the illness of Rav Meir Schuster and asking people across the globe to say Tehillim for his refuah […]