Ramah Marriages

Connecticut

Daniel Grossberg & Millie Feinberg Grossberg
Camp Attended: Connecticut
Year Met: 1957
Year Married: 1966

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Ivan Marcus & Judy Lefkowitz Marcus
Camps Attended: Connecticut, Nyack, Berkshires
Met: 1958
Married: 1964
How wonderful to be claimed by more than one Ramah!! Ivan and I spent our camping years at Connecticut where we were in the same edah but went out with others. We started going out together in Nyack the year it opened in 1961 and continued to see each other in Connecticut in1962 before getting married in 1964. I had twoyears in Poconos inthe Mador (1960) and Bechor (1965)Programs, some pre-camp atGlen Spey in 1968, worked as a teacher inBerkshires in 1968 and was a camp doctor at Berkshires in 1974. I am a long-time board member of Ramah Berkshires.

All four of our children went to Nyack and the Berkshires. Two of our children met and married their spouses at Berkshires.Yuval, our oldest, met his wife Liz at one of the Berkshires Alumni LaborDay Weekends. They have three children, two of whom already attendedNyack.

Our youngest logged the most camper years of all of his brothers atBerkshires and married a woman who also spent many years atBerkshires and was already interested in him then, but they starteddating later. They are still very networked with Ramah Berkshires andmany of their married friends are from camp. Ehud also is active in the local winter RBA and Erica co-chaired this year's Alumni Labor DayWeekend at Berkshires.

All of this background is to clarify whether Ivan and I as a couplequalify for being a Berkshires couple with children who are alsoBerkshires couples. After the Arielle Greenbaum – Yoni Saposh wedding recently, itwas brought up that they were the first second-generation Ramah Berkshires couple, if Ivan and I didn't count because we started going outat Nyack. The issue waswhether Nyack, as the precursor of Berkshires counts.

So, if you want to count us as a Connecticut/New England couple, wehave no objection, as all of our camper days were in Connecticut. Weeven tried to find the place a few years ago, but it was all weedsblowing in the wind.

In the Berkshires chadar ochel there is a wall of plaques of Ramahcouples and Ivan and I, Yuval and Liz, Ehud and Erica are proudlythere.

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Saul Shapiro & Miriam Klein Shapiro
Camp Attended: Connecticut
Year Met: 1954
Year Married: 1958

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Stanley Platek & Celia Silverstein Platek
Camp Attended: Connecticut
Year Met: 1954
Year Married: 1957
I was a camper waitress in the Machon and my Rosh Edah was Chaim Potok. Stanley was a counselor of the youngest campers, or staff brats, as we called them affectionately. He was in the Marp. My friend asked me to come with her and visit him. We spoke through the window. When he came out, I visited his table as often as I could and somehow, we became a couple. This must have worried Chaim Potok , who stood by my bunk every night and waited there after evening activities to see that I got in. Well, that was my first year in Ramah. We were married three years later in the JTS synagogue. He was a rabbinical student and I was in the Joint Program at the Seminary. This September we will celebrate 50 years of marriage. We were staff members in Ramah Connecticut, Poconos, Nyack and Berkshires for 18 consecutive years. All of our children went to Ramah from infancy until they were staff members themselves. Now our grandchildren go to Ramah Berkshires. We are truly a Ramah family.

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Michael Hecht & Sheila Diamant Hecht
Camp Attended: Connecticut
Met: 1954
Married: 1959
Camp Ramah connected us with a group of people who observed Judaism in a natural and positive way. Being a counselor at Camp Ramah showed that a person was a good choice for marriage!

Michael & Sheila Hecht, 2006

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Lee Levine & Mira Karp Levine
Camp Attended: Connecticut
Met: 1956
Married: 1961

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Sander Mendelson & Adina Newman Mendelson
Camp Attended: Connecticut
Met: 1957
Married: 1958

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Newton (Larry) Jassie & Lois Berman Jassie
Camp Attended: Connecticut
Year Met: 1957
Year Married: 1962
I think we met on the tennis court. Ramah was a great way to meet Jewish boys. We have been avid supporters of Ramah and tried to get our synagogue to support the program. With a change in leadership, it finally does.

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Edward Bromberg & Marian Wolarsky Bromberg
Camp Attended: Connecticut
Met: 1960
Married: 1965

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Michael Bohnen & Joyce Oppenheim Bohnen
Camp Attended: Connecticut
Year Met: 1961
Year Married: 1969

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Israel Nathan Silverman & Gloria Sussman Silverman
Camp Attended: Connecticut
Met: 1962
Married: 1963

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Steve Glazer & Andrea Soff Glazer
Camp Attended: Connecticut
Met: 1962
Married: 1965
We met during Steve's first summer at Ramah - Andrea had been a camper for years. We were married in June of 1965; and, after a two-day honeymoon on the Cape, spent the summer at the new Ramah in New England. Years later, Andrea served as business manager and winter director of New England. (Steve and Andrea are the first generation in a two-generation Ramah family. See also Ari Glazer & Stephanie Goldberg Glazer.)

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Wallace Zuckerman & Deborah Cohen Zuckerman
Camp Attended:Connecticut
Met: 1962
Married: 1966
We met at Camp Ramah in Connecticut the summer of 1962.

It was an incredible summer. Being on wait staff allowed us to be together and to get to know one another most of the time every single day.

Our campers detected early on that there was something to our relationship, but we denied it. They even made up a song where we were "rok chaverim b'Machaneh Ramah." After three weeks, that changed, but they didn't know it.

Despite the prevailing rules from the camp leadership of the importance of "the group" and not becoming couples, we were so happy together. These were the days of tea groups and Ray Arzt saying "Yesh od tzman v'od makom" if he saw us holding hands.

Deborah & Wallace in 1962

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