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🐎 Nov 20–24

A restful and revitalizing autumn weekend featuring guided horseback riding through Giant City State Park’s scenic trails, and therapeutic horse riding classes. Cozy comforts, gourmet kosher Shabbos meals, and peaceful woodland surroundings make this an ideal pre-winter reset.

What's Included: 

  • Thursday or Friday check-in (your choice)

  • Thursday optional therapeutic horseriding class or trail ride in Giant City State Park 

  • Healthy kosher meals for your entire stay

  • British breakfasts & Shakshuka Sunday

  • Full gourmet Shabbos experience (see below) 

  • Sunday therapeutic horseriding class or trail ride in Giant City State Park

  • Late Monday checkout available 


All weekends include the Yidz Inn Shabbos Special: 

Candle lighting and kiddush, home-baked challah and full gourmet kosher Shabbos meals prepared by Israeli chefs Yogev Levy & Keren Yaari, using locally sourced organic produce and fresh frozen kosher meats. 


Shabbos breakfast includes oatmeal yogurt parfait with fresh fruit in season, frittata and pastries. A Shabbos hot water urn is available for tea and coffee, and there is a guest refrigerator in the Tea Room.


Guests are invited to a mid-day fish and meat cholent lunch, a light seudah shlishit, and a melave malka kumzitz with hand-baked cholov yisroel pizza from our outdoor wood-fired oven. 


Thursday (optional early check-in): 

  • Arrive early and unwind with a book or nature stroll. 

  • Evening meal features Soup Supper heated on the wood stove 

  • Optional therapeutic horseriding class or trail ride in Giant City State Park for early check-in


Friday: 

  • Full British cooked breakfast with kosher beef bacon, Jerusalem sausage, fresh farm eggs, grilled tomatoes, sauteed mushrooms from a local mushroom farm, baked beans, and roasted potatoes. With pastries

  • Choose from several local nature walks, forest hike or zipline tour

  • Candlelighting at 4:21PM, followed by kiddush and evening meal


Shabbos (Saturday): 

  • Buffet breakfast includes oatmeal, yogurt & fresh seasonal fruit parfait, frittata, and pastries, with Shabbat water urn available for coffee and tea

  • Guided nature trail walk and quiet time for davening, to spend with family, friends, with books, magazines, puzzles and divrei Torah

  • Traditional lunch with fish, cholent, salads, and home-baked challah

  • Light seudah shlishit (fruits, cakes, cookies) before sunset

  • Melave Malka kumzitz with hand-baked cholov yisroel pizza from the wood-fired outdoor oven


Sunday: 

  • Shakshuka breakfast with fresh homemade bread and veggie sides

  • Trail rides on horseback through Giant City State Park, and optional therapeutic riding lesson, with country picnic


Monday:

  • Relaxed breakfast and woodland views

  • Optional late checkout


🚗 Travel Info:

 The Yidz Inn is within five hours driving distance from five neighboring states:


📍 2 hrs from St Louis, MO 

📍 2.5 hrs from Nashville, TN 

📍 3.5 hrs from central Missouri 

📍 5 hrs from Alabama, Arkansas, or Chicago 

✈️ 1-hr flight from Chicago O’Hare to Marion, IL (pickup available) 

🚆 Amtrak to Carbondale station (pickup available) 

🛻 STL Airport pickup/drop-off may be arranged upon request 


❗Cancellation Policy: 

Cancel 7+ days before: ✅ Full refund 

Cancel 3–6 days before: 🔁 50% refund Cancel 

<3 days before: ❌ Non-refundable


“We could not get enough of your tea and cake:) It was the best retreat we could have asked for." - Sally, NY

Choose your accommodations:

When I told my family I'd found a kosher place in Carbondale, they were surprised, but your hospitality made our stay a luscious dream." - The Shenkers, Chicago

Choose from a variety of outdoor activities:

"The whole place transports you into a different world, with all the comfort and charm, everywhere you look, such exquisite details, indoors and out. Privacy mixed with warmest welcome." - Mimi, CA

Step out into a backyard oasis shaded by acres of grand maple, oak, pine and walnut trees. Enjoy the birdsong orchestra in flight, as squirrels, rabbits, chipmunks and even deer come near. Unwind, embrace the outdoors.
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