🕎 Dec 14–22
Eight nights to light and reflect in a peaceful woodland setting. Nightly menorah lighting, blessings, and victory songs . Fresh home-made latkes and sufganyiot, served with delicious kosher meals by the warmth of the wood stove fire. Menu of optional outdoor and indoor activities all week.
What's Included:
Early and late checkout available
Kosher meals for entire stay
Nightly candle-lighting, latkes, sufganyiot
Full gourmet Shabbos experience (see below)
British breakfasts & Shakshuka Sunday
Daily custom indoor and outdoor activities from our menu
To-go picnics
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. There is a guest refrigerator in the Tea Room and a Shabbos hot water urn for tea and caoffe.
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.
Enjoy a nature trail walk through the Green Earth Foundation Chautauqua Bottoms just a few feet from the inn, and take some quiet time for davening, to spend with family, friends, with books, magazines, puzzles and divrei Torah.
Activities:
See below for a variety of outdoor activities to choose from. We'll make all the arrangements and you'll have to-go picnics to take with you.
🚗 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.
