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Ramah Marriages

Howard Tamler & Nechama "Nancy" Imberman Tamler
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1961
Married: 1967

Joel Rembaum & Fredi Breverman Rembaum
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1963
Married: 1965
Fredi: I drove to Ramah that summer with my rabbi's family (from Phoenix), Moshe and Margie Tutnauer and their boys. The summer before was my first summer ever at Ramah, when at age 16, I was in Machon. It was such a great Jewish experience for me that it didn't take much convincing to get my parents to okay my going back as a counselor in training, called then The Ozrim program, but my mother cautioned me to "not fall in love with a rabbi." That first Friday night during staff week when I was sitting with the Tutnauers, one of Moshe's students from the Mador program three years prior, came to sit next to us so that Moshe would introduce us. He was a rosh edah so I was very impressed. He later claimed he had an "in" with Moshe and was eager to meet the new girl, a blonde from Phoenix. We talked for hours that night and by the end of the summer, we were in love. I called my mom to tell her I had met this great guy, who was a rabbinical student, and my mom said, "I told you not to fall in love with a rabbi!" That was the beginning of a lifetime of connection with Ramah for us, our four children who grew up at Ramah and our first grandchild who attended Gesher last summer.

Joel: We met at Seudah Shlisheet during staff week at Ramah in California in Summer 1963. Fredi’s experience at camp had begun the previous summer, when she was a Machon camper. In ’63 she worked as a CIT. Joel was among the pioneering campers at Ramah California during the years 1955-59. Following a summer in the Ramah National Mador (in Ramah Poconos) in 1960, Joel returned to California and served as a counselor in 1961-62, and became a rosh edah in 1963. In the days that followed that first meeting on Shabbat, the "chemistry" worked and we became an "item." Fredi was entering her senior year in high school and Joel his senior year in college, so our relationship raised a few eyebrows. In fact we are less than three years apart in age, but, as we all know, at that point in one's life, where one is in school makes all the difference – except for us. In fact, we had much in common. Both of our families were active in Conservative shuls (Fredi at Beth El in Phoenix and Joel at Beth Am in Los Angeles), and our fathers had been leaders in the Zionist Movement in their respective communities. And, Rabbi Moshe Tutnauer had touched our lives in a very special way: Fredi, as her congregational rabbi; Joel, as his counselor and teacher at Ramah. We became engaged in spring 1964, and we were married in June 1965. We worked as counselor and rosh edah in 1964 and 1966. After finishing college (Fredi went to NYU) and rabbinical school (Joel studied at JTS) we moved back to Los Angeles, began working, spent summers on staff at California Ramah, and raised four children who began their tenure at camp as staff brats, graduated to campers and then took their places as counselors. In summer 2006, our oldest grandchild spent his first summer at California Ramah, marking the third generation in our family to become part of the Ramah community.

Ralph Dalin & Hedy Loeb Dalin
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1965
Married: 1972
We met at age 12 in Edah Gimmel and were together at Ramah again the following summer. On the Shabbat following our wedding, we celebrated Sheva Brakhot back at Ramah in Ojai.

Allan Michael Rosenthal & Wendy Wish Rosenthal
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1965
Married: 1973
I began attending Ramah in 1961. I was a camper for 4 years, and I have been on staff for 36 years. My husband, Allan, and I met and dated for around a week when I was 16 and he was 19. We then attended different colleges and re-met when I was a rosh edah and he came to visit camp the summer of 1971. After our three children were born, I went back to camp on staff from 1983 to the present. Our children were raised at Ramah California, and they in turn were on Ramah's staff. Our oldest son, Jeremy, met his wife, Gwen Shelden, in 1997 when they were both rosh edot. Our second son, Adam, met his wife, Jami Datnow, when they were Nitzanim campers in 1988. They attended camp together in every edah for the next nine years as campers and on staff. They became serious in 1997 when they both were counselors in Ramah's special needs edah. Our daughter, Lindsey, was a camper and a staff member as well. She lives in New York City, and would love to re-meet a fellow Ramahnik from Ramah in California.

David Elcott & Shira Milgrom
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1966
Married: 1973
Shira was Eve and David was Adam in a winter session play in California. We became friends and our relationship got less tacky than playing the Garden of Eden. Worked together at Camp Ramah in 1972 -- Shira as head of dance and David as a rosh edah. We shared the values of Camp Ramah about what Jewish life can be -- and gave that to our children who also experienced Camp Ramah and other similar Jewish experiences. In fact, Yaron met his wife Miriam at Camp Ramah and married exactly thirty years later.

Nina Bieber Feinstein & Ed Feinstein
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1969
Married: 1979
After Havdallah, evening walk around camp.

Kathy Rauchwerger Reynolds & Peter Reynolds
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1971
Married: 1975
Kathy and I attended Camp Ramah in California in the 60's. I went through the entire camping program, culminating with my Machon Summer in 1968; and followed as an Ozer (now Mador) in 1970, a counselor in 1971 and 1972; Winter Program Director '74/'75, and Summer Program Director in '77 and '78. Kathy was a camper in the mid-sixties, culminating with Machon in 1967; returning as Rosh Teva for twenty-plus years starting in 1977.

Kathy came to Camp from the San Francisco Bay Area, and I was from Southern California. Fate placed us in the same college dorm at Berkeley in the fall of 1971. I recognized Kathy, and suspected it was from Camp. Over a cafeteria dinner, I played the role of mind reader, and completely astounded Kathy with the announcement of names I suspected she knew camp friends of mine who were from San Francisco. With a name like "Peter Reynolds," she was unsuspicious of any Jewish connection. She was startled and surprised, and the rest is history.

Following college graduation in 1974, my first job back in L.A. was with Camp Ramah. I managed all of the administration and programming of the Winter-weekends at Camp while Kathy remained in San Francisco studying for her California teaching credential.

This June 15th marks our 30th wedding anniversary. Our wedding was a phenomenal celebration that brought together significant portions of California's Ramah community from both north and south. The decades that followed exemplified everything that the fundamental philosophy of Ramah could possibly aspire to. Kathy made a career of teaching science to Jewish day-schoolers in Los Angeles. The day that the school year ended, our household would pack up and move to Ojai. Our three children, Amy, Ben and Judy literally grew up at Camp. Judy completed her campership last summer and now awaits her departure for Poland/Israel on this summer's Ramah Seminar. Her, now adult, siblings have spent summers on staff as counselors and specialists.

Perhaps the most significant moment for us, as parents, was during Pesach-2000, when we traveled to Israel to be together with Amy who was studying at Pardes. On two consecutive nights we transformed Amy's apartment into a festive gathering place; first for Seder, and then for Shabbat. Both nights brought a large group of students, many of whom were Ramahniks on their Junior-Year abroad.

Kathy's work at Camp included many highlights; she developed the concept of environmental mini-camps, often transporting groups of campers to canyons or beaches of Ventura County. The campers performed hard work to clean up and preserve the natural beauty of these areas, and while doing so Kathy would integrate teachings of Torah. The environmental studies transitioned into the study of the region's geology. Kathy accomplished accreditation of her summer curriculum, and we believe her program to be the only Ramah course of study from which campers received full credit at their schools. The Ventura Country Board of Supervisors invited our campers to the county governmentcenter where official recognition was delivered in gratitude for Camp's contributions to Ventura's environmental improvements. But, in spite of these "loftier" accomplishments, most California Ramahniks remember Kathy for always braving the local rattlesnakes. Like the Camp doctor being rousted for a medical emergency, Kathy was often summoned to capture various creatures, including the snakes. She always caught the predators, sometimes adding to the nature-room's exhibits, but eventually escorting the animals back into the hills, returning them into the natural environment where they belonged.

After retiring from my own stint in Jewish education, I remained active with camp as an active participant onCamp Ramah in California's Board of Directors. For the last fifteen years I have enjoyed facilitating camp's insurance and risk-management program with participation on NRC's insurance and safety committee.

Etan Milgrom & Deborah Barak
Camp: California
Year Met: 1973
Year Married: 1978

Andrew "Coach" Scott Mayer & Marla Weiss Mayer
Camp: California
Year Met: 1973
Year Married: 1993

Ron Shulman & Robin Walzer Shulman
Camp: California
Year Met: 1976
Year Married: 1980

Jeffrey Rabin & Amy Bernstein Rabin
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1978
Married: 1984
I met Jeff during staff week. I thought he was a nice guy, but I wasn't interested in a relationship. Unbeknownst to me, he had a big crush on me the whole summer of 1978. Our paths crossed over the years, but it wasn't until August of 1982, when we saw each other at the Library Minyan of Temple Beth Am, that we decided to go out.Long over his crush, Jeff had given up on me, figured I would introduce him to my friends. I recognized what an amazing guy he was.We began dating, got engaged Purim of 1984 and married over Labor Day weekend of 1984. If it had not been for our initial meeting and getting to know each other at Ramah, I'm not sure we would have gone out four years later.

Josh Sharfman & Bonnie Levy Sharfman
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1979
Married: 1981

OK, Sheri says she first noticed me as a guy who would spent time studying college catalogs trying to figure out what I would be taking the next semester or whether I should even transfer to a different school.…

She and I had mutual friends and we remained in touch especially after she became a UCLA student like me. We began to date three years later. During that time we discovered she had in her possession an old unclaimed towel from the Ramah lost and found that had my name on it. I realized then that this was the sign she was my bashert, my intended one. I wrapped it around her and pulled her towards me, saying, "Would you marry me?" This was probably the 500th time I had asked her the same question. Previously she thought I was joking, but this time she said she would "think about it." Well, I finally wore her down, and the rest is HISTORY!

I am writing this actually on our 26th wedding anniversary. We are proud that our son Danny has gone through all the edot and will be working this summer as a counselor. We are also grateful for Ramah hosting a Special Needs Family Weekend so our son Mickey can also participate in the Ramah experience. (Submitted 2009)

Tara Spitz Reisbaum & Jay Reisbaum
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1979
Married: 1988
Tara and I met when we were part of the Chavurah program as camp waiters in '79. We did not start dating until the next summer when I was a Mador and she worked in the kitchen. We went back to camp each summer through college and then I went back a few more summers as a rosh edah. We then were married and Tara went back to camp as a teacher for the Tikvah Program, where she is currently the Director. I joined the Camp Board of Directors, where I currently serve as Chairman. Ramah has always been at the center of our lives. Camp Ramah allowed us to be a part of the most dynamic Jewish community around, filled with tremendous role models and an unparalleled depth of relationship to friends, mentors and students. Most of our closest friends are from our camp community. It has been a privilege to come through the ranks with so many of our top Rabbis, lay leaders and educators. As the song says, "there is no place like Camp Ramah." We are blessed to have been introduced to such a nurturing environment.

Gil S. Goldberg & Cindy Schonbrun Goldberg
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1980
Married: 1990

Mark Spillman & Leslie Neuman Spillman
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1981
Married: 2000
We met at Camp Ramah, and had many friends in common. However, our romance did not begin until 18 years later when we met again via jdate.com Jewish dating web site. A year after our first date in 1999, we were married and we now have triplets (girls who are 4 years old)!

Ronald Goss & Michelle "Mimi" Haligman Goss
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1983
Married: 1985

Steven Schwartz & Iris Toker Schwartz
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1983
Married: 1986
We were introduced by a mutual friend during the summer of 1983.

Greg Wagner & Ilyse Reiter Wagner
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1983
Married: 1994
We first met as campers in Machon at age 14 in 1983. While we didn't know each other well that summer we did remember one another when we re-met as Madors in 1986. That was the year we became best friends. For three years we were staff together, leaving one another at the end of the summer, but reconnecting as close friends instantly at the beginning of each subsequent summer. When I moved to L.A. after graduating college in 1991 I decided to contact Greg as we promised we'd always be friends. Well, he was still finishing college down in San Diego but happened to be home for two weeks and happened to be the one to hear my message on his parents' answering machine. We went out a couple of times before he returned to San Diego, staying out all night just talking and catching up. When Greg moved back to L.A. the following spring we begin dating and two and a half years later we were married. We now have three children, all of whom we plan to send to Camp Ramah once they're a bit older.

Matthew Benjamin Kaufman & Robin Lewis Kaufman
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1983
Married: 2004
We were apparently in Gesher (8 years old) and Sollelim together, but didn't meet or become friends until our Machon year. I noticed Matthew because he always volunteered to lead morning services and read Torah. He is a beautiful singer, and I admired him for his intelligence, interest in Judaism, and guts for standing in front of a bleary-eyed edah and chanting every morning! I had a secret crush on him, but was too shy to say anything, so he never knew. After Machon - back at home - I invited him to my Sweet 16 birthday party, and he came (his mother had to drive him)! We barely stayed in touch after that; only a few emails and phone calls were exchanged through college. At age 26, in 2001, he looked me up and asked if I would be his date to a party. I agreed. We were engaged in 2003, and married in 2004. We attended the 50 Year Reunion in Ojai in December of 2006. It was beautiful. We held hands and kissed for the first time at camp.

Jonathan Alec Baron & Alyse Michele/Bender Baron
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1984
Married: 1997
Jon and I met at Ramah as campers when we were 13 years old and were best of friends. We kept in touch through letters for the year following that summer, but then we lost touch. I grew up in California, and Jon lived in Arizona. Years later when I was moving out to start college at UC Irvine I found some of Jon's old letters and wrote him a letter. He was in Israel at the time and his parents forwarded the letter to him. We then started writing letters again (in the days before email!) for almost two years. We visited each other and began a long-distance relationship for the next year. I transferred to U of Arizona my junior year of college and we were married a few years later. We now have two wonderful children and look forward to sending them to Ramah in the years to come!

Miriam Wolf & Daniel ("Dani") Moskowitz
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1987
Married: 1990
We met outside the staff laundry room... Dani was at camp for the first time following completion of his mandatory Army service in Israel...Not only would our paths never have crossed without Ramah, but our joint experience at Ramah also enabled two people with different Jewish experiences -- one a secular Israeli and the other a practicing Conservative Jew -- to share a common experience and realize that we could bridge this gap and build a Jewish life together. We now have the amazing experience of returning to Ramah in California as a family where Miriam works as a yoetzet, along with our gan-age children, Yael and Rafi -- no doubt, soon to be campers!

Michael Abrams & Tami Kagan-Abrams
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1987
Married: 1993
I saw Michael and instantly thought, "Wow! I really want to meet that guy!" He was a couple of years ahead of me so I thought we wouldn't get to meet. I was thrilled when we were introduced! He told me that he had the same reaction when he first saw me; he thought we wouldn't get to meet because I was hanging out with the Madors. But it really was love at first sight, because we started dating that fall after camp had ended, and have been together ever since -- that's 18 years and counting. We just had a baby girl in February, Samantha Claire Abrams.

Jami Datnow Rosenthal & Adam Ryan Rosenthal
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1988
Married: 2003
When we first met, we were nine years old - in Nitzanim. We were friends and pen pals for years, and had crushes on each other off and on.... Years later, when we were in college, we returned to Camp as Tikvah (now Amitzim) counselors, fell in love and have not been apart since. We had a long-distance relationship for three years of college, then moved to be near each other in the Bay Area when we graduated. We got married a few years later. Rabbi Reuven Taff, whom we have known for years from Ramah (he was Rosh Musikah), officiated at our wedding and there were many fellow Ramahniks there to celebrate with us. In fact, many of our best friends are people we met at Ramah. Clearly, Ramah holds a very special place for us... it has always been a major part of both of our lives, and always will be. (See also Allan & Wendy Rosenthal.)

Moshe Ari Witztum & Elizabeth Komsky Witztum
Camp Attended: California
Year Met: 1989
Year Married: 1999
Micky and I dated the year he went to Israel with Meritz, while I was back at camp. (We were friends a year earlier). When he returned from Israel, we had a long-distance relationship for a while. We decided the distance was too difficult and remained close friends for many years. When I graduated college, I moved back to Southern California and we started dating again. At our wedding day, I presented him a photo of us that was taken in 1989 on the hill, and he had a friendship bracelet I made for him pinned to the inside of his tuxedo.

Abby Andiman Mars & Jonny Mars
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1990
Married: 1996
Although we were both at camp at the same time as campers for a number of years, we never met because we were in different age groups. It was only until we were counselors for the same edah in the summer of 1990 that we met (the first day of staff week), and the rest, as they say, is history... I was a boy from the valley; she -- a girl from the city -- and Ramah gave us a common ground and common timeframe on which to establish a relationship.

Aron Coleite & Tracy Strauss Coleite
Met at Israel Seminar
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1990
Married: 1996
We met on Ramah Seminar in Israel in 1990, and had a romantic walk under the stars in the Negev. We dated for a few months when we returned to the US, but those high school romances don't last so long. We were reunited on junior year abroad at Hebrew University in 1994 and got
married 7 years later! Now we live in Los Angeles with our 9-month-old daughter, Eden.

Matthew Benjamin Kaufman & Robin Lewis Kaufman
Camp Attended: California
Year Met: 1991
Year Married: 2004
We were apparently in Gesher (8 years old) and Sollelim together, but didn't meet or become friends until our Machon year. I noticed Matthew because he always volunteered to lead morning services and read Torah. He is a beautiful singer, and I admired him for his intelligence, interest in Judaism, and guts for standing in front of a bleary-eyed edah and chanting every morning! I had a secret crush on him, but was too shy to say anything, so he never knew. After Machon - back at home - I invited him to my Sweet 16 birthday party, and he came (his mother had to drive him)! We barely stayed in touch after that; only a few emails and phone calls were exchanged through college. At age 26, in 2001, he looked me up and asked if I would be his date to a party. I agreed. We were engaged in 2003, and married in 2004. We attended the 50 Year Reunion in Ojai in December of 2006. It was beautiful. We held hands and kissed for the first time at camp.

Eric Lowe & Jennifer Prottas Lowe
Camp Attended: California
Year Met: 1992
Year Married: 1996
We were both working on a Ramah weekend. I had been a camper and staff (including summers) for years, and Eric had worked Hebrew high weekends as staff.We had a mutual friend who said we should meet, and another friend who introduced us up at camp. We flirted all weekend :) and as a joke said we should get married!When I got home and told my friend that I was going to marry this guy, he said "I guess that means you want his phone number!" We talked occasionally and lost touch..... about 6 months later I found his number, called again, we met up... and we've been together ever since. We are about to celebrate our 11th wedding anniversary, and we are taking our kids for the Chevrei Ramah alumni weekend in August. We are excited to introduce them to Ramah experience!

Gabriel Glazer & Jacquelyn Mass Glazer
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1992
Married: 2001
We met on the bus on the way to Ramah from LAX, both of us from Phoenix, but never having met before. We were twelve and thirteen, on our way to our second session Sollelim summer in 1992. We became fast friends, started dating while on USY Poland Seminar Israel Pilgrimage in 1995, and after six years of dating in high school and college, married in 2001 right after graduation. There were many Ramahniks in attendance at our wedding, and we are happy to say that we have danced at many more Ramahnik weddings ever since!

Lauren Schmidt Ross & David Harris Ross
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1992
Married: 2003

A Ramah Union
by Matt Rosenbaum, Editorial Intern, Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles

David Ross and Lauren Schmidt met for the first time in Los Angeles in May 2000. Or at least, the couple is pretty sure that was the first time. Raised in Palos Verdes Estates, David was an active member of United Synagogue Youth since his early childhood, and spent every summer at Camp Ramah in Ojai, first as a camper and then as a staff member. Little did he know that his future wife slept only a few bunks away during those summers at Ramah. Lauren grew up in Austin, Texas, and was involved with Young Judaea and various Jewish summer camps. In the summers of 1992 and 1993, Lauren traveled west to work as a counselor at Camp Ramah.

Despite spending summers at the same camp and sharing a passion for music, Lauren and David knew that they must have interacted as staff together at camp but did not remember meeting each other when their paths crossed again through a mutual friend in 2000. "It’s almost impossible that we never even said ‘Hello’ through two entire summers at camp," David said. "But we really didn’t remember each other at all." Although they sensed a connection, Lauren still lived in Austin, and 2,000 miles was enough to dissuade David from pursuing a relationship. "I remember telling my friends, ‘Too bad she lives in Texas,’" David said. "I thought we really hit it off, so the distance was pretty disappointing."

David’s disappointment soon turned to excitement when he traveled to Texas with his band, Milot Ha’Nefesh, to open for musician David Broza at Young Judaea’s 50th anniversary celebration in April 2002. Lauren watched, then met David and his band. Even though they barely remembered each other, sparks flew and, three weeks later, David was in Austin meeting Lauren’s family. After a 10-month long-distance relationship, Lauren packed her bags and moved to Los Angeles in February 2003. Only two months after her move, Lauren found more than matzah in the afikoman bag on the second night of Passover: David had hidden an engagement ring among the broken crumbs.

"Then I got down on one knee, and she said yes," David said. "It worked out well. We had been joking about wedding lists after we were together for three weeks, so it didn’t really surprise either of us."

The couple currently lives in the Pico-Robertson area and is strongly involved in the Jewish community. Lauren, a graduate of the University of Kansas with a master’s degree in social work from the University of Texas, is an LCSW and school therapist in Santa Monica. David, who graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in music composition, works as a theater and music director at Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills. They were married on Nov. 2, 2003, at Camp Ramah.

Lauren and David Ross at their 2003 wedding

"It’s a little bit like ‘When Harry Met Sally,’" David said. "Their paths had crossed several times over 10 years, but nothing happened. The same was true with us — it just proves to us that it was meant to be."

Michael Adam Feinberg & Alison Goldstein Feinberg
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1993
Married: 1999
We met Gesher pre-camp during the summer of 1993. Michael had just finished his freshman year at Berkeley and I had finished my sophomore year at Tulane. Michael had attended Ramah his whole life, except for the summer previously - my first year on staff. We hit it off right away and were delighted to find out we would be working Machon together for the rest of the summer. It ended up being a quick, crazy and intense summer, because I was leaving for Israel for my junior year abroad at Hebrew U. We were having a lot of fun with Machon staff (Carnie Rose was an understanding rosh edah!) and campers and enjoyed a fantastic Tzaada Trip to Big Sur. But we were also very caught up with each other. In the end, Michael came to Israel for the second semester of that year and we headed back to Ramah for our final year in 1994. We were married in 1999 and have two girls: Nora - 2, and Sadie - 3 months.

Ron M. Schneidermann & Jenny Sanderson Schneidermann
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1993
Married: 2004
Ron and I met on the drive down to Camp Ramah. We had a small caravan of Ramah kids and moms from the Bay Area (Walnut Creek, actually) and were heading down to Ojai, CA for the summer. It was my first year and it was Ron's 2nd year. I'd be in Solelim and Ron was a big-shot Machoner. While we instantly became friends, the major age gap at the time—of 2 years—prevented any romance for the time being. For years, nothing serious ever materialized, even though Ron was thought to be having a "CCR" with me and got in trouble. In fact we actually were setting each other up with our own camp friends. All the while we knew deep down that we were perfect for each other. We stayed friends through high school and into college, where we both went to UCLA. We started dating at the end of 1999, graduated and later moved to San Francisco in 2002, and got married in 2004.

Our years at Camp Ramah not only started a long and wonderful friendship, but also started a crush that would last for 11 years until we got married. I think we still have crushes on each other! We both recognize what a major impact Ramah had on us. Aside from the fateful trip down and the many nights we spent on the lawn talking, Ramah instilled in us a love for Judaism, and the importance of living a Jewish life with Jewish friends. There's no doubt that when the time comes, we'll send our kids to Camp Ramah.

Israel Moses Gordan & Abby Leah Uhrman
Camp Attended: California
Year Met: 1994
Year Married: 2006
Abby and I first met in the summer of 1994 when we were both in Machon for the whole summer. Although we had both gone to camp before, I had always been first session and she was second. We then staffed together in 1996 and 1997 and were friendly, but it wasn't until we were Rashei Edah together in 2001 that we really became friends. At the end of the summer of 2002 we started dating and married four years late on 8/6/06. Ramah absolutely brought us together and we're both big fans of the institution!

Matthew Louis Zerden & Lisa de Saxe Zerden
Met at Israel Seminar
Camps Attended: California, New England
Met: 1996
Married: 2004
Matt and Lisa met the first day of the Seminar trip in the summer of 1996. Lisa attended Ramah in Ojai, CA. Matt was from Savannah, GA but attended camp in Palmer for many years. The first night of their program they met and were together for the 6+ week trip. Returning home was sad; they were so young and so in love but figured it would be impossible to stay together considering their distance and ages but with the support and love of their parents, somehow worked it out. The following summer they backpacked through Europe together, broke up for a bit in college and got back together when Matt graduated from school. From there the couple moved to Los Angeles and were engaged for a year before their wedding in June 2004 in Laguna Beach, CA. Six of their closest camp friends who were on Seminar with them attended the wedding as well. The couple now lives in Boston, MA where Matt is a student at Harvard Medical School and Lisa is a doctoral student at Boston University in Social Work and Sociology.

Jeremy Rosenthal & Gwen Shelden Rosenthal
Camp Attended: California
Year Met: 1998
Year Married: 2000

Daniel Varon & Stacy Krasner Varon
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1998
Married: 2004

Deborah Ann Musher & Joseph Martin Menashe
Camp Attended: California
Met: 1999
Married: 2002

Michael Victor Varon & Sepi Farivar Varon
Camp Attended: California
Met: 2000
Married: 2002

Yaron Milgrom-Elcott & Miriam Sheinbein
Camp Attended: California
Met: 2001
Married: 2003

Michael Auerbach & Samantha Platt Auerbach
Camp Attended: California
Year Met: 2001
Year Married: 2007
Michael and I were campers at the same time, but because we were a year apart, we never really interacted. It was not until we were staff members together in Tzophim that we really connected. We even had our first kiss on the Tzophim overnight. We are very grateful and dedicated to Ramah, and we look forward to sending our own children there.

Adam Joseph Titcher & Galia Daniel
Camp Attended: California
Year Met: 2003
Year Married: 2008
Galia and Adam first met when she was a member of a shlichut to Ojai in Summer 2003. They became closer friends upon her return summer in 2004, but it was not until Adam was studying for the year in Jerusalem (2004-05) that the two started to date. They maintained a very strong relationship across the world, Los Angeles, and Jerusalem for three years. Camp Ramah brought them together and provided the opportunity to know one another because otherwise they may never have met.