Winter Shabbaton is Feb. 28–Mar. 2. Start time is 4:45pm and end time is 2:15pm. The exact location will be sent out to participants to ensure safety.

For this convention, you’ll be participating in home hospitality, where families from the synagogue will host you. You’ll bring a sleeping bag and pillow, and you’ll receive breakfast at your host homes.

Our Teen Leadership Council will lead most programming and services. These elected teens are super exicted to put on this Shabbaton!

Yes. Staff are always present, including our Director and Associate Director, as well as local staff from the synagogue and from other chapters.

All our staff are fully background checked.

If you’re coming from South Bay, the Peninsula, or San Francisco, a coach bus will provided for your transportation. On Friday, the bus will leave San Jose is 1:15pm, Foster City 2pm, SF, 2:40pm, and dropoff 3:30-4pm. On Sunday, the bus will leave at 2:30pm, stop in SF at 3pm, Foster City at 3:45pm, and San Jose at 4:30pm.

If you’re coming from the East Bay, North Bay, or Sacramento, we will arrange either North Berkeley BART station pickups or the Berkeley Amtrak station.

Yes, New Frontier has scholarships which we can provide to families. Please contact Mayer at mayer@newfro.org for more information.

Home hospitality guarantees one room request (which you submit during registration) provided the request is mutual among both requesters.

New Frontier is an egalitarian organization which upholds the standards of the Conservative/Masorti movement. Teens that are Shomer Shabbat will indicate this in their registration and will have a walking-distance home. During Shabbat, we do not write, play music, or use electronics — however, at non-Shomer Shabbat homes, teens are free to observe their own comfort levels. Shabbat afternoon will have options for quidditch, friendship bracelets, board games, an extra sicha, etc. Our programs are often attended by teens who do not observe Shabbat and are quite enjoyable regardless.