Cuisine
Impeccable Gourmet catering
Entertainment
Music.
Comedy.
Magic.
Family
Daycamp.
Yoga.
Crafts.
Zumba.
Gameroom.
Inspiration
Speakers, Chazzan and connection.
Accomodations
Newly renovated, and updated Hudson Valley
MEDIA INTERVIEWS
Cuisine
Impeccable catering by Jose Rivas
Jose Rivas, executive chef if the villa Roma resort returns to Destinations for Pesach 2023 Jose brings 25 years of Pesach fine dining with him and has worked with Destinations during 5 previous Pesach holidays. he brings with him a wealth of executive kitchen experience having served as the executive chef over at Honors Haven, The Nevele, The Raliegh hotel, Hudson Valley and now currently at the Villa Roma.
We welcome you to join our Communal Seder led by one of our Rabbayim and Chazzan or dine individually in our gorgeous main dining room or rent a private dining area for you and your family.
Regardless of your choice you will feast on delicately prepared courses by our Chef and his highly regarded catering staff.
Our Tea rooms and after show dessert extravaganzas will put the finishing touches on our elaborate program. So come join and feast; Pesach 2023awaits.
+ Under Hashgacha of Rabbi Ahron Simkin
+ Mashgiach on premises
+ Cholov Yisroel
+ Chassidish Shechita
+ Shmurah Matzah Available
+ Full coursed meals
+ Deluxe Kiddush
+ Exquisite 24 hour Tea Room
+ Chol-Hamoed To-Go Packages
The Entertainment
NYBC
This Chol Hamoed evening, we invite you to be dazzled and enjoy the greatest Jewish boys choir sensation,
under the direction of
the world famous
producer, composer, and songwriter,
Yitzy Bald.
Coming off their many knockout album releases, entertaining music videos, and stellar concert performances
the past few years,
they are truly ready to wow you with their amazing vocals, choreography, and personality!
See for yourself and experience today what everyone has been talking about.
Let's welcome the New York Boys Choir.
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Moshe Antelis
Moshe Antelis is an accomplished bass and lead guitarist. He has performed thousands of simchas & concerts throughout the US and worldwide. Backing up Superstars like The Piamentas, Mordechai Ben David, Shlomo Carlebach & The Diaspora Yeshiva band.
Moshe made his debut in the secular music world. Making appearances on MTV (Music television), Featuring “The Triplets “, and was frequently seen performing in, and around New York City.
Director of commercial real estate for Coldwell Banker in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Moshe is a Musician at heart and proud Dad of his boisterous bunch in Hillside New Jersey.
Looking forward to sharing a wonderful Pesach with you at the Hudson Valley resort and spa 2022.
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Michoel Streicher
The Jersey Tennors
The Jersey Tenors is the newest Opera/Rock Mash-up sensation that creates an explosive blend of the most iconic Opera classics
Whether it's a theatrical production, corporate entertainment event, private event, party entertainment, or an outdoor concert…These four charming wise guys will raise the roof with their powerful voices, and they will have you singing along before you guys know it.
Streicher was born and raised in Brooklyn, United States. He studied at the Lucerne Yeshiva in Switzerland, where he was encouraged by yeshiva head Rabbi Yitzchak Dov Kopelman to develop his musical talent. After his marriage he began singing at family events and became a well-known singer in the Hasidic world. He also served as cantor in a series of synagogues in the United States and Canada.
In 1989 Streicher released his debut album “The Whole Truth”. But his main release came with the publication of the album “Thank you!”, Which included the song “Ein Aroch” which won great sympathy. The performance of the song, which was composed by Benny Hershkowitz in the original lyrics of “Lechol Nafshasna” from the Psalms of Shabbat, has since been recorded by many artists. The song was a favorite of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv and Streicher performed it for him in his home.
In 1990, Streicher and chassidic singer Mordechai Ben David performed for children with cancer in Zichron Menachem. The event was one of the first live performances in the haredi community and left its mark on Hasidic music. Parallel to his success as a singer he founded a diamond trading business.
His musical style is characterized by a lyrical tenor, deep and quiet, and he was also famous for the cantorial passages that he combined in some of his poems.
Among his outstanding works are the songs he performed for “Nachamu”, “Raza D’Shabbat”, “Tefilat Haderech”, “Song for the Future” (Nigun Baal Shem Tov). Another famous song is “The Last Seder Night in the Warsaw Ghetto,” to lyrics and music by Shlomo Carlebach, whose musical way served as a source of inspiration.
At the end of the 1990s he immigrated to Israel, settled in the ultra-Orthodox community of Modi’in Illit and devoted most of his day to Torah study at the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, alongside evening performances at family events. The study influenced the nature of the hits he produced at the time, including “The Power of Torah”, “Yesod Hasidut” and “The Song of Father” about the love of the Torah study of Rabbi Moshe Hevroni, head of the Hebron Yeshiva, composed by R’ Hillel Palai. The song “Power of Torah” was performed at the end of the Talmud in 2005, in the presence of prominent rabbis and tens of thousands of participants.
Some melodies that appeared in Streicher’s albums were copied from foreign music bands, without mentioning the original, a rather common phenomenon in Hasidic music. The melody of the song “Michael – Hora (Everything from the Dabid”) from the album “Thank you” was taken from the song “Rasputin” by the German-Jamaican band Bonnie Am and the melody of “Genghis Khan”.
Streicher has eleven children, some of whom have been famous as singers and cantors in their own right, and some of them accompany the father with various records. In 2012 they released a family album “Say a little and do a lot”. His son Eli appeared as a prodigy in part of the “Lechaim Tish” series and at events in Vizhnitz Hassidism.
(2012)He has served as cantor in the Young Israel Synagogue on Ninth Avenue in Brooklyn, and as a voice development teacher.
Family First
Happy Family. Happy Pesach.
At Destinations we understand the need for amazing Children's Entertainment, so that the adults can enjoy a relaxing Pesach, This year at Honors Haven is no exception. Our Complete day-camp and Babysitting program is Directed by a much-sought-after educator Avigail Salter. With a collection of entertaining activities and daily shows. This Chag will entertain all children, allowing you the rest you deserve.
• Supervised Children's Day Camp
• Teen Program
• Supervised Children's Dining Service Featuring Lunch & Dinner
• Children's Outdoor Playground
• Optional Toddler Program & Babysitting Services
• Quality Live Evening Entertainment on Chol Hamoed.
• Arts & Crafts
• Video entertainment
• Game Room
• Inflatable Center
• Daily Exercise & Dance Classes, Including Aerobics, Zumba, Yoga, Simcha & Line Dancing
Aviva Wiess will be joining us for the first time this year as our day camp director. Aviva has over a decade experience working at the Gross and Shechter Pesach program. Aviva is an experienced and passionate elementary school teacher and day camp leader. Her creativity, energy and enthusiasm will ensure that your kids of all ages have their most memorable YomTov experience ever!
Inspiration
Dr Mordechai J Gampel
Dr. MORDECHAI J. GAMPEL is a psychiatrist and noted lecturer. He is a graduate of SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, and completed his residency in psychiatry at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Currently, he has been working as an attending psychiatrist in various emergency rooms in the New York area. Dr. Gampel is married to Dr. Neshe Gampel, an accomplished Emergency Room Physician, and they reside in North Woodmere with their three children. DESTINATIONS is delighted that Dr. Mordechai Gampel and his family join us once again at our Pesach program.
Rabbi Yehoshua Weber
Rabbi Weber is the founder of the Ohr Tzvi Montebello-Monsey shul/learning center, teaches at many Monsey institutions and puts out a weekly parsha article and podcast. He is also Rabbi Emeritus of Toronto’s Clanton Park Synagogue, where he served on Toronto’s beis din, in many areas of community leadership and founded NeXTJeN, an innovative young adults’ program. Rabbi Weber has published and lectured widely - including alongside Prime Minister Netanyahu at Merkaz HaRav’s annual Yom Yerushalayim celebration.
Rabbi Weber's ability to incorporate historic, scientific and anthropological data into his shiurim and his warmth and passion inspire all those who hear him. And his exposure to many worlds - he studied in Beis Medrash Govoha and at Y.U.’s Revel graduate school and has semicha from Chaim Berlin - and his fluent Hebrew and Yiddish, allow him to connect with all types of people.
He and his wife Leah, a special education teacher, have seven children and have fostered many children, including the Lev Tahor children.
Rabbi Weber's parsha messages and podcasts are available on this website, ohrtzvi.org.
Dov Hinkind
Assemblyman Dov Hikind served the 48th Assembly District for more than three decades as an outspoken advocate for his constituency, battling discrimination, anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial, and human rights violations. In the 30+ years of his tenure, Dov has committed himself to the immediate concerns of his constituency and is proudest of mediating, facilitating, and advocating on their behalf. Elected in 1982, the Assemblyman has honorably pursued justice for his constituents in Borough Park, Dyker Heights, Flatbush and beyond, frequently receiving calls for his leadership on issues which involve the greater Jewish community.
In the early 1970s, Assemblyman Hikind was a leader in the movements to free Syrian and Soviet Jewry. Upon learning of President Ronald Reagan’s visit to the graves of Nazi war criminals, Dov traveled to Bitburg, Germany to protest.
His parents, Frieda and Mayer Hikind, both Holocaust survivors whose families were decimated by the Nazis, rebuilt their lives in the United States. In their home, Dov learned the true value of justice and honor, the dignity inherent in every human being regardless of their station or position, and the inalienable significance of freedom.
Rabbi Dov Greer
Rebbetzin Sima Greer
Rabbi Dov Greer serves as the Rabbi of the Beis Medrash of West Hempstead shul, and has been a Rav and Posek for nearly 20 years. He founded and leads an evening Beis Medrash program for young men in college, based in West Hempstead. He maintains a position as a Kiruv Rabbi in Mount Kisco Hebrew Congregation. He is also an in-demand Mohel, teaches Chassanim, and lectures widely. He is an EMT with the Mount Kisco VAC, and has served as a hospital Chaplain. Rabbi Greer was raised in Connecticut, studied in Yeshivas Brisk and Beth Medrash Govoha. He graduated with Honors from Yale University, has Semicha from Rav Yitzchak Berkovits, and was certified as a Mohel by the London Beth Din. He and his wife Sima are the proud parents of seven children
Rebbetzin Sima Greer is a teacher of Judaic Studies for two decades. She has taught high school Chumash and Navi, is a popular guest lecturer, and has directed women's programming and learning in her capacity as a Rebbetzin. She is currently a Curriculum Coordinator in Torah Academy for Girls in Long Island, and serves as Rebbetzin both in her husband's shul Beis Medrash of West Hempstead as well as their Kiruv position in Mount Kisco Hebrew Congregation. She has been at the forefront of Women's Adult Education for years, from beginner classes to advanced textual chaburot, as well as teaching kallahs. Sima (Tiefenbrunn) Greer grew up in Edison, NJ, graduated from Stern College for Women, and is the proud mother of seven children.
Rabbi Dovid M Cohen
Rabbi Dovid M Cohen has served as a communal Rabbi for eighteen years in the NY/NJ area and as a veteran scholar in residence around the world. He was in Panama Pesach 2022 & in Alaska this past summer. He has also done multiple Sukkot programs in Cancun.
He has a law degree from Columbia Law School and a Masters degree in Marital Therapy from the University of North Texas.
He is the author of the book “We’re Almost There: Living with Patience, Perseverance and Purpose,” presenting a pathway for confronting challenges.
His new book "Together Again: Reimagining the Relationships that Anchor our Lives" was recently released to great acclaim.
Rabbi Cohen is the host of the popular Jewish Philanthropy Podcast ("The JPP") and a Senior Relationship Officer at the Orthodox Union.
He has been a guest on many popular podcasts
Rabbi Yechiel Lichtenstien
Rabbi Yechiel M Lichtenstein is a popular traveling speaker and practicing licensed psychotherapist. He currently works in the hip area of Sunset Park and the prestige district of Park Ave in NYC. With a clientele ranging from socialites to academics, navigating cultures and norms has become a focus point of his research and practice.
A charming yet energetic polymath, he has captivated audiences from across the spectrum. Highly accomplished at a young age, Rabbi Lichtenstein has taught Machshava in several Brooklyn based seminaries including Ateres Tziporah, Bnos Binah, and Ateres Naava. In addition, he provides professional trainings on mental health topics and innovations to clinically oriented facilities and organizations. Similarly, as a frequent guest at hotel programs, scholar-in-residence events, conferences, and national radio, his range of topics cover ancient spirituality to millennialist thought.
Fluent in philosophy and psychology while being a graduate of prestigious Yeshivos combined with a Social Change oriented University fuels dynamic discussions and analytic thought. Aside of an MS in Mental Health, he also holds several post-graduate certifications and trainings. When not traveling, Rabbi Lichtenstein resides with his Rebbetzin and family in Brooklyn, NY.
Accomodations
Nestled in the heart of the Shawangunk Mountains and surrounded by gorgeous Catskill views, the Hudson Valley Resort & Spa offers 270 well-appointed guestrooms and suites, a challenging 18-hole championship golf course, and full-service European health spa.
On-site amenities will include a modern spa and fitness center with Jacuzzi, sauna and steam rooms, an arcade center and game room, tennis and basketball courts, free wireless internet access, and so much more!
Formerly the Granit Hotel, our property has been a popular destination in the Catskills region of New York's Hudson Valley for more than 70 years: so take a look and you’ll be sure to agree- the Hudson Valley Resort & Spa offers guests the perfect balance of charm and comfort.
Recently renovated and repainted under Jewish Managment.