• The Mendy Vim Passover Story

  At Mendy Vim's Holidays, we have a long tradition of superb hospitality, with attentive and immaculate service. We treat each guest as part of our family, with a warm and intimate atmosphere and the utmost attention to your needs.

  Mendy's expertise in all-year-Hotel catering since 1974, as General Manager and Owner of Vim's Hotel for twenty seven years, and vast experience in running hotel facilities, help us create an exciting holiday stay for all of our guests. Blessed with the 'personal touch', our team pays close attention to your every detail and warmly greets each guest and family. Our staff has been with us for many years, and includes noted Rabbis, speakers, lecturers, Cantor and singers, and entertainers for your holiday delight.

  At Mendy Vim Passover Holidays, we care about the details, with a 38 year tradition of personalized service and experience.

  Each year, new families join us for an incomparable holiday experience. Our many guests, from the tri-state area, Boston, Baltimore, California, and abroad return to us each Pesach for a wonderful experience, to relive their special memories, and to create new ones once more.

• Our Staff: It's all about Service

  Our caring and dedicated staff are committed in enhancing your Pesach Yom Tov experience. Do you have a special request? Do you need a boxed lunch? Can't find your activity? do you have pecial dietary requirements? Not sure where something is? Do you need special seating? We're here to assist, talk to any one of our committed professional staff, and we'llchelp!

  Meet some of our in House Hospitality Staff, Scholars- in- Residence, Noted Lecturers, and Entertainers

  Find out more about our star studded cast of speakers, lecturers, and entertainers.. Our warm and gracious dining room hostesses, a superb program director, licensed Day Camp director, and immaculate wait staff experienced in providing the utmost in dining room service, our noted Rabbis, lecturers, musicians, Cantor, singers, inspirational and motivational speakers, are all dedicated to your superlative Pesach vacation.

  Introducing a terrific lineup of additional performers for daily and nightly Chol Hamoed shows, more about additional Performers and Entertainment...

  As our many fans will attest, we take dedicated pride in our outstanding service while fulfilling your family's every need for a most wonderful Yom Tov.
  

• Our Scholars in Residence

  RABBI AARON E. GLATT
  MD, FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA Rabbi Dr. Glatt is the Assistant Rabbi at Congregation Anshei Chesed (South Shore) in Hewlett, NY and Assistant to the Rabbi at the Young Israel of Woodmere. He is in his third cycle of giving a Daf Yomi shiur.

  An international lecturer on medical halachic issues, Rabbi Dr. Glatt has recently authored a popular sefer entitled Visiting the Sick: A halachic and medical guide - with down to earth advice, published by ArtScroll Publications (2006). He previously authored Women in the Talmud, published by the Orthodox Union (2003) and distributed by Mesorah Publications.

  Rabbi Dr. Glatt is currently President / Chief Executive Officer of St. Joseph Hospital (formerly New Island Hospital), Bethpage NY, where he was Chief Medical Officer from 2005-2006.

  RABBI DOVID HIRSCH Rabbi Dovid Hirsch is a Rosh Yeshiva at Rabbeinu Isaac Elchanan Seminary, Yeshiva University in New York City and co-occupant of the Katz Chair of Talmud. He is also Morah D’Asra of Kehillas Beis Yosef of Passaic-Clifton, New Jersey. Rabbi Hirsch holds an MS in Jewish Education from Azreilli Graduate School of YU. Rabbi Hirsch has been a scholar -in- residence and guest speaker throughout the U.S. and Israel.

  He is married to Miriam Hirsch and has five daughters. This, G-d willing, will be his fourth Pesach with Mendy Vim’s Holiday Tours.

  RABBI GERSHON KRAMER Rabbi Kramer has been a Rebbe at the Hebrew Academy of Long  Beach for the past number of years. He has also led the Young adult collegiate minyan at Kneset Israel (the White Shul) for many years and currently runs the young adult collegiate minyan in the Young Israel  of Lawrence Cedarhurst.

  In addition, Rabbi Kramer has been the  Director of both Camp Avraham Chaim Heller and Camp Bei Kyta -  overnight camps for orthodox teen-age boys.

• Inspirational Speakers

  PROFESSOR NAOMI KLAPPERProfessor Naomi Klapper has been a college professor since1986,has served as faculty at Yeshiva University, Stern College for Women, Sy Syms School of Business, and Lander College, and is the Director of Counseling Services at Lander College for Women, serving as their Life Crisis Intervention Counselor. She is a faculty mentor to Lander faculty, and is frequently consulted on psychological aspects of Metropolitan Jewish community affairs.
  In addition to teaching, Naomi Klapper is also a licensed clinical therapist and maintains a private practice in Manhattan.
  Professor Klapper has lectured throughout the tri-state area on a myriad of topics related to Parenting, Relationships, Marriage, and Wellness. She is the recipient of several teaching awards, including the “America’s Top Teachers” award. 
  Professor Klapper resides in Teaneck, New Jersey with her husband and four children.

  RABBI SHLOMO HORWITZ,
  DIRECTOR JEWISH CROSSROADSShlomo Horwitz has over 25 years of experience in Jewish education and outreach for both adults and youth, getting his start by working with street kids in a Tel Aviv slum during the '82 war in Lebanon.His Jewish Crossroads program has successfully impacted thousands of adults and teens throughout the USA, Canada, England and Israel, guiding them to explore and discover the beauty of Judaism. Shlomo has personally delivered each of the presentations in a variety of venues including synagogues, college campuses, school assemblies, overnight camps and Shabbatonim.
  A product of Yeshivat Sha'alvim in Israel and a musmach of Yeshivat Ner Yisrael in Baltimore, Shlomo is a CPA and works full-time as a director at a research firm which consults to the US and foreign governments. He conducts a daily Talmud class in Baltimore which features a prominent group of sassy and opinionated adults that he loves. He is an avid urban kayaker, in season.

  MICAH D. HALPERNMicah is a frequent analyst on network television and radio in the areas of terror, the Middle East and Muslim Fundamentalism. The author of the bestselling book THUGS, Halpern, a syndicated columnist, is also a well-known social and political commentator, educator, and historian. He lectures frequently, both in the United States and Israel, on issues relating to terror, foreign affairs, Israel and the Middle East, as well as wine history, and popular culture. In 1997, Micah Halpern was appointed Israel columnist for America Online and continues, to write a weekly, now syndicated, column on foreign affairs, the Middle East and terror. For fun, Micah Halpern writes a column on kosher wines, and conducts our Passover wine tasting event.

• Cantor

  CANTOR NACHMAN SCHNEIDER

  Nachman Schneider currently serves as the cantor of Congregation Beth Israel of Brooklyn. Having assumed his first cantorial position at the age of seventeen, he has also held cantorial posts at prestigious congregations such as Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, and Shomrei Emunah of Brooklyn.

  In addition to his regular position, he routinely accepts engagements as a cantor-in-residence in a wide variety of settings including Park East Synagogue, Synagogue for the Arts, and Mendy Vim’s Holidays. He also officiates at weddings, is a featured artist at various organizational functions and fund raisers, and gives nusach lessons as his schedule permits.

  Cantor Schneider’s tenor voice is well suited for the cantorial tradition which he follows. His strict adherence to nusach, mastery of cantorial recitative, and diverse repertoire of congregational song combine with his “chazonishe krechtz” to evoke in listeners the memories and emotions of a bygone cantorial era. His familiarity with the style and spirit of the Golden Age of Cantorial Music does not preclude his own improvisation, which is, in fact, the centerpiece of cantorial art.

  This Passover, Cantor Schneider will be leading the Seder and the davening for us in a stirring recital of his own memorable syle.

• Program Director, Games "Master", Dance Instructor

  JONATHAN DZIK Jonathan was known as the "Game Master" for 17 years at the Nevele Hotel during the Pesach holiday.  Last year he brought his emcee skills to The Inn at the Pocono’s for Mendy Vim's Tours.   He runs games for all ages, with a competitive, yet humorous and friendly demeanor.   (Some of the games have prizes for the winners).An accomplished musician and choral director, he also accompanies vocalists and instrumentalists at numerous concerts on the piano.

  MARK INFIELD Mark Infield has been a teacher at the Frisch School in Paramus, N.J. for 28 years. He has taught Music, CPR, Phys.Ed and Health. He served for 12 years as Co-Music Director at Camp Nesher in Lakewood, Pa. He is a professional musician who has performed and sung with all of the major Jewish orchestras in the NY/NJ metropolitan area; He has accompanied singers such as Mordechai BenDavid, Avraham Fried, Mike Burstyn, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, Yaakov Shwekey, and many others. He is a founding member, has performed around the world, and  still  performs and records with Shlock Rock. He has also recorded with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and others.

  He has served as Chazzan, Baal Tokea, and Baal Koreh in numerous shuls for the Yomim Noraim. He is also a NJ certified EMT Instructor at the Bergen County EMS Training Center in Paramus, NJ and a Life Member of the Englewood Volunteer Ambulance Corps. 

  FAIGEE SASHITZKY Faigy has been teaching dance for over 25 years. She has experience in Israeli folk dancing and line dancing. She loves keeping on top of what's new and hot in the dance world and gets great satisfaction in teaching what she has learned to others. During the year, Faigee teaches dance at the Yeshivah of Flatbush, the Boro Park Y and at the East Mid-wood Jewish Center. When not tapping her feet to the beat of a song, Faigee enjoys taking long walks in the park.

• Hospitality, Recreation, and Day Camp Director

  JOANNE ISRAEL Joanne has been with us since 1990, superbly manning our courtesy desk. She is a welcoming face to our many repeat guests, and facilitates all your trip and schedule arrangements.
  NANCY BIONDO Nancy Biondo is a graduate of East Stroudsburg University with a major in Secondary Education and a minor in Fine Arts. With over twenty years experience in Hospitality as coordinator, sales manager, and Director of Sales before retiring, she has worked with Vim's Holidays through three Passover Seasons. As coordinator for Vim Holidays, her responsibility is to ensure that all the details of the program are in place, so that each guest experiences an enjoyable and memorable holiday.TAMI ROSENSTEIN Tami, our Day Camp Director, has worked in education for over 15 years.  Currently an Assistant Principal in a NYC Public School, she ably runs our Children's Day Camp with warmth and verve, offering our younger guests their choice of many activities.TERRY INFIELD Terry Infield has been the Food Service director at Yavneh Academy in Paramus, NJ for ten years. She also worked at Camp Nesher in Lakewood, Pennsylvania for 12 years serving as Canteen Manager, Dining Room Manager, Cooking instructor and dairy Chef. Prior to coming to Vim’s Holidays she served as Dining Room manager for 4 years at Passover Celebrations at the Lakeview Scanticon resort in Morgantown, West Virginia. She is a department of health certified Food Safety Manager.

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