Ramah Marriages

Berkshires

Ivan Marcus & Judy Lefkowitz Marcus
Camps Attended: Connecticut, Nyack, Berkshires
Met: 1958
Married: 1964
See listing under Connecticut.

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Dan & Ruth Krasner
Camp Attended: Berkshires (formerly Nyack)
Year Met: 1960
Year Married: 1964

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Jonathan Woocher & Sherry Fleisher Woocher
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1965
Married: 1968

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Michael Laxmeter & Judith Friedlander Laxmeter
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1966
Married: 1967
Meeting at Ramah made it much easier to get to know each and come to love each other. We were engaged five weeks after meeting each other at Ramah - since we spent every day together - unlike in the city where you cannot do that on a regular basis. Camp provided the environment of an exclusive "city" in its own right. The rest is history!

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Harriet Greenfader Spevack & Harold Spevack
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1966
Married: 1967
Ramah is an ideal place for one to meet a spouse. Our son Daniel also met his wife Liz at Ramah in the Berkshires (see story and photo below). The people who attend or work at the camp already have a common value system. Jewish identity, worship and the importance of Eretz Yisrael are a central part of those affiliated with the camp. Common backgrounds make relationships easier and provide a good foundation upon which to build. Meeting in a relaxed atmosphere, away from the stilted and strained dating scene, enables young people to develop deep, lasting and meaningful relationships. Many of our best friends are still our camp friends from thirty-five years ago. Having a best friend for a spouse is a blessing.

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Carl Wolkin & Judy Lynne Rosenberg Wolkin
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1966
Married: 1969
Judy and I were counselors in Edah Gimel where Shacharit services took place in a circle. Our eyes met one day, and one thing led to another. She wore big sunglasses, but I guess I could see through them to the person behind. As it happened (and I am not terribly proud of this fact) I had arranged for my then girl friend to come and work at camp, but on July 8 after spending an entire night sitting (that was all) by the lake and talking, I decided that my future was with Judy.

Judy was an undergrad at Buffalo and I at Columbia and JTS Rabbinical School bound. Judy was in the first graduating class of the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County. I went to an afternoon Hebrew School at Temple Adath Yeshurun in Syracuse. I grew up in a non-observant home, she in a very observant one. Only in the wonderful Jewish atmosphere of Ramah could our relationship have flourished.

Even after 36 plus years of love, I still believe it was bashert, as this poem Judy gave me shortly after we fell in love suggests:

Choice by Barbara Jones
He wondered just which girl he'd choose of all the many girls he knew;
which girl he'd pick at choosing time, say, maybe, in a year or two.
And while he wondered on this thing, this vital choice, he strolled
about - with Judy of the quiet eyes, with Judy, who had picked him out.

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Sharon Pearlman Levin & Jonathan L. Levin
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1967
Married: 1970
Jonathan (then called "Yoni") was a graduate of the Mador Program at Poconos and was assigned (against his wishes, since he was a Poconos camper) to Berkshires. Sharon had been a madricha the year before at Berkshires and, though a year younger than Jonathan, was a seasoned second-year madricha. On the first day of staff week, the rosh edah convened a meeting of Machaneh Alef madrichim in Jonathan's bunk. Jonathan spotted this cute redhead, though he wasn't sure about a madricha who had never been a Madornik.  Sharon accidentally left her raincoat in the bunk after the meeting.  Jonathan saw that as a sign and determined to return the coat chivalrously that evening at the Shabbat dance. As Jonathan was about to lose his nerve to approach Sharon with the coat, she came up to him and convinced him to join her in the "yesh lanu tayish" line dance. That was their first night as a Ramah couple, and they continue to think of themselves that way. Their two children both attended Ramah (New England and Poconos), and they hope that their grandchildren (one now 7 months and one on the way) also will someday. Sharon and Jonathan celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary on June 25, 2005.

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Jerry Kriger & Bea Skolnik Kriger
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1968
Married: 1971
I met Jerry my very first day at Ramah, the week before the campers arrived. The rest is history. In addition to my having met Jerry, we still count the people we met at camp among our closest friends, even with having made aliyah to Israel 27 years ago.

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Eric Segal & Karen Legman Segal
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1968
Married: 1975

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Susan Ticker & Henry Rosenblum
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1968
Married: 1976
We met when she was taking Senior Life Saving. I was her victim but she was afraid to come in and save me. She said I was too big for her and we had taught kids never to put their own lives in danger. She failed the course but years later we re-met when I was the Hazzan of her parents' shul and was training her youngest brother for Bar Mitzvah. I guess we turned out to be compatible after all.

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Shira Nadich Levin & James L. Levin
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1969
Married: 1973
Spent the summer of 1969 at camp (1st year on staff for both of us). We became very close friends - and developed a wonderful circle of friends. Within about 2 years we began to go out and were married in 1973 when we graduated college.

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Sam Fraint & Deena Segal
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met and Married in the 1970s
We met over dinner in the chadar ochel during staff week.  It turned out that Deena was friends with a girl I had known in USY and I sat down, ostensibly with her, and impressed Deena by making the other girl laugh throughout dinner.  Apparently, she was known among her friends as a sourpuss, so Deena grossly over-estimated my powers of humor.  That night Deena was asked out by my best friend.  He wanted to get her ice cream at the Red Rooster, 19 miles outside of camp on Rt. 22.  He had no car and I had my father’s, which I was forbidden to loan to anyone, so I volunteered to drive them (and another friend who managed to worm his way into what had been a threesome.)  At the Red Rooster I noticed that Deena, who was and is quite thin, was shivering from the cold.  In an inspired moment in which my synapses became entangled with those of an entirely different person, I offered her something warm.  She gratefully accepted my smelly old Levi's jacket, my most prized possession.  On the way back to camp, I got a flat tire right outside a rowdy bar (now, I believe, a church).  Drunken townies were everywhere and the fourth member of our foursome decided to treat the flat as an opportunity to imitate Mario Andretti's pit crew at Indy and change the thing within a minute or two.  An hour later we were still there, my best friend was oily and cranky from the tire, and Deena was my girlfriend.

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Kenny Hoffman & Janet Andron Hoffman
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1973
Married: 1976

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Jeremy Platek & Lisa Resman Platek
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1975
Married: 1990
Lisa and I actually met in college but learned early on that we had both been Ramah campers the same years and during two years of Nitzanim, had been in the same edah together (she was a munchkin, I was the cowardly lion). It apparently was meant to be.

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Baruch Weiss & Laura Blumenfeld
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1975
Married: 1997
I met Laura at the Berkshires in 1975, when she was 11 and I was 18.  I was her swimming instructor and made a very, very big mistake – I failed her.  Not a smart thing to fail the woman you will marry 22 years later, especially when it turns out that she is the author of a book entitled Revenge.

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Stuart Saposh & Linda Holof-Saposh
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1976
Married: 1977

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Steve Goldstein & Marlene Noveck
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1977
Married: 1993

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Howard Rebenstock & Amy Gerstel Rebenstock
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1977
Married: 2003

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Larry Kroll & Jodi Feldman Kroll
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1978
Married: 1991
We met in 1978 as campers. We had an amazingly close edah that kept in touch and saw each other often throughout the years. We were close friends and kept in touch throughout college. Larry would often visit me at Tulane during Mardi Gras with some other camp friends. Our third year on staff, we started dating and realized fairly quickly that we would be together for the rest of our lives. We married in 1991 and recently celebrated our 14th anniversary! We are so thankful to Ramah for bringing us together and for the amazing friends who are still such a large part of our lives. Our 3 daughters Hillary, Rachel and Emma have all had the opportunity to visit Ramah where "Mommy and Daddy met.

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Jeremy Sacks & Belinda Mason Sacks
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1982
Married: 1992

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Jeremy N. Sokolic & Sarah Rubin Sokolic
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1982
Married: 1997

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Ira Landman & Ursula Skolnik Landman
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Year Met: 1983
Year Married: 1991
We met at USY encampment during tallis making. We both have enjoyed each other's company ever since - and hope that our children will go to a similar camp program at Ramah.

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Naomi Himmel Savitz & Joshua Savitz
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1983
Married: 1995
Although we first met one another in Shorashim (11 years old), it wasn't until we both returned to Camp on staff in 1989 (17 years old) that we started to date. I vividly remember watching Josh play softball, turning to a friend and saying, "I'm going to marry that guy."  Little did I know it would really end up that way. We dated long distance for the next 6 years and were married in December 1995. This December marks our ten-year wedding anniversary. At Camp Ramah Berkshires I found my best friend, the love of my life and the greatest father for our two children, Ariella (5 1/2) and Nate (1 1/2). We have returned to Camp several times for alumni weekend and sit on the fundraising committee of the alumni association. Our daughter anxiously waits until she is old enough to go to the camp "where Ima and Abba met."

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David Ehrenkranz & Ilyse Braun
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1984
Married: 1990
During staff week I was playing ultimate frisbee and I misthrew the frisbee and it landed near Ilyse...when I went to pick the frisbee up....we fell in love.

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Larry Reiter & Laura Fox Reiter
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1984
Married: 1994
We met as campers when Larry was in Gesher and I was in Machon. We were just friends then and did not begin dating until after we had graduated from college. But, like all Ramah relationships, we kept in touch and would see each other at reunions, college and parties. There is just something about the Ramah connection. Our wedding had a bunch of Ramahniks in attendance and we had 4 ushers and 4 bridesmaids who also attended Ramah (some siblings included...).

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Craig Gittleman & Stacy Cooper Gittleman
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Year Met: 1985
Year Married: 1994

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Alex Stern & Sandi Arnowitz Stern
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1984
Married: 1996
I had been at Ramah since Shorashim, but Solelim was Sandi's first summer. Never one to be shy, on her first day at Ramah, Sandi essentially threw her duffle bag on her bunk bed (the same duffle that I would be schlepping across Israel on Ramah Seminar), made two quick girlfriends and headed for the boys' kikar to introduce herself. We've been best friends ever since. Summer after summer we both returned to Ramah, and winter after winter we ran up our parents' phone bills. Even though we did not start dating until the summer of 1990, when we were on staff, we both have several remembrances of times where we began to know that we were more than friends. We were married in 1996, surrounded by all of our Ramah friends (many of whom played a pivotal role in the ceremony). We now have two beautiful daughters, Jessie and Abby. We can't wait until they go to Camp Ramah with the children of all of our best friends.

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Marcy Felsenfeld & Kenny Gold
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1985
Married: 2001
We first met when I was a counselor in Marcy's edah in 1985. We reconnected in 1996 when we were both living in New York City and were active in Ramah alumni events and social gatherings. We began dating in 1999 after spending some time together at Ramah over Labor Day weekend. We were married in 2001.

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Aaron Michael Frank & Laura Shaw Frank
Met at: Ulpan Ramah Plus
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1986
Married: 1992
Aaron and I met and became good friends on Ulpan Ramah Plus. He went to CES-JDS in Rockville, MD and I went to Solomon Schechter in NJ.  Because of URP, Aaron came to work at Ramah Berkshires together with all his new Schechter friends. Our friendship grew and grew, and finally, right after Aaron's second summer as a rosh edah, we started dating! Our wedding was a Ramah fiesta, complete with a kayak "borrowed" by our friends from the Berkshires agam, and a huge sign saying "Ramah's Other Season"!

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Eric Weinstein & Sarah Klagsbrun
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Year Met: 1987
Year Married: 1995
I’d worked the previous summer as rosh mayim at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires and returned for a day’s visit. I noticed Sarah Klagsbrun—a first-year instructor whom I’d remembered vaguely from when she was a camper—and made a mental note of the wide smile (and yes, the red bathing suit).  Maybe things are different in Wisconsin or Georgia, but there weren’t too many blonde-haired, green-eyed Jewish women where I’m from.

Six years later, I was with two Ramah friends when one mentioned that he’d once gone on a date with Sarah, but she was too busy with medical school and didn’t seem interested. I thought I’d try. So I asked Richie Friedman, who knows everyone, to get me her number. In hindsight, I probably could have contacted Sarah’s parents, who are another Ramah couple (Poconos).

I called Sarah and asked her on a date. It was the night before her anatomy exam, but actually my timing was good. She and her roommate had just been calling out for their basherts during a study break.

Six months later, we were engaged at camp. Berkshires used to have a pre-season “day in the country” for alumni. I asked my old waterfront buddy, Mark Neustadt, to park a boat with the ring in it by “the rock” across the lake. I nervously swam out with Sarah, we got into the boat, and I returned home with my fiancée.

Now we have Eliana, a third-grader at Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan who just spent a week in Ta’am Ramah and is returning next year. There’s Benji (1st grade), whose good buddy at Nyack is Gabe Gerstel, whose dad Jon I met on my first day as a camper there when we were 8.  And there’s Ari (7 months).  I'm on the Berkshires Committee, overseeing facilities. I swim out to that rock every time I can. (Submitted 2007)

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Michael Leifman & Sharon Samber
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1989
Married: 1994

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Jennie Goldress & Andrew Eisenberger
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1989
Married: 1996
We sang Rad Hayom at the end of our wedding with all of our camp friends linked arm in arm.

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John Schapiro & Sarah Asekoff Schapiro
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1989
Married: 1996
We met while I was a JC and John was an AA.  We "went out" for three long days and then broke up.  We did not speak for the rest of the summer. Since John worked in the mail room, I always made the campers get the mail and toilet paper so that I would not have to see John.  The next year we were assigned to work in the same edah (Joan Tannenbaum was our rosh). We started to go out again that summer of 1990.  We dated all through college, got engaged in 1995, and married in 1996.  We had many Ramahniks at our wedding, & Ramah was even mentioned during our wedding ceremony. John and I are now the proud parents of a beautiful 3 year-old girl named Grace Elizabeth (Liba Neshamah).

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Liron Gitig & Diana Goodman Gitig
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1990
Married: 1994

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Daniel Spevack & Liz Arnold Spevack Camp Attended: Berkshires Met: 1990 Married: 1996 Little did I know that one day, Harriet Spevack, Rosh Mayim, and Harold Spevack, Rosh Teva (see their story above), would be my mother and father-in-law!

Our Ramah story really begins in Ramah Nyack, where Dan was a staff brat and I was a camper. It wasn't until years later that Dan and I officially met at Berkshires in 1990 during staff week. Though the exact location of our first meeting remains in dispute (I say chadar ochel, Dan says A-side igul), it was clear that it was the start of something special.  We were married in October 1996 amidst lots of camp friends (and even some Amos Moses dancing!). We now have two boys, Eytan (Gesher 2018) and Noam (Gesher 2020), who love spending Labor Day at camp.

A Multi-Generational Ramah Family: The Spevacks: Dan, Noam, Hal, Harriet, Eytan and Liz

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Alan Rebenstock & Laurel Oppenheimer Rebenstock
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1991
Married: 1995
Berkshires Labor Day Weekend Retreat 1991: I, Laurel, had Ramahnik friends who encouraged me to apply to attend the retreat even though I never officially was a camper. Since there were open spaces and I had good references, Danny Perla, who was organizing the weekend, allowed me to come along with my friends. I had been a camper and had worked in Jewish camps in CA and had attended several weekend Shabbaton events at Ramah Ojai during college and at Berkshires during grad school and after (through Michael Brockstein's chaverah at Ansche Chesed). What I didn't realize was that Danny Perla called Alan after speaking to me on the phone, saying something like, "Have I met a girl for you!!! You better be at camp on Labor Day." All weekend long, I was chasing Danny, who seemed quite nice and then Danny introduced me to Alan who seemed to be following us around. Somehow, I ended up in a canoe on the lake, alone with Alan..... going in circles for hours, sharing our stories and I lost all interest in Danny, who seemed quite smitten with several other girls anyway. Alan just seemed to keep showing up...repeatedly asking to be my square dance partner, ping-pong opponent, and he held my flashlight while I did some songleading with my guitar at the campfire. Our first kiss was under the gazebo, by moonlight, on our last night. We exchanged numbers before returning to the city and the rest......is history!! We were honored to have Danny Perla serve as a witness on our ketubah, as he was really our matchmaker. We just had our 16th anniversary and this summer, 3 of our 4 kids are attending Camp Ramah for 8 weeks. (Submitted 2011)

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Andrew Bloom & Ronda Janowski Bloom
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1991
Married: 2000

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Jonathan Bloom & Michelle Weisfelner Bloom
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1992
Married: 2003
We met when we were 15 years old and both campers in Machon. Jonathan had been there for many years but it was my first summer. Although we were not originally close friends, we always remained in touch through mutual Ramah friends until the summer of 1995. Jonathan was on staff that summer and I came up for the night to see my sister's Bogrim play. We reconnected and started dating at the end of that summer. Though we spent some time apart in college, we began dating again on New Years Eve 2000. The rest is history. There must be something magical in the air there. If not, how could you explain how so many of us found not only love, but lifelong friendships there, that span well beyond our years as campers and into adulthood.

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Benjamin Mann & Aliza Mann
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1993
Married: 1995
We had actually met and dated briefly three years earlier in USY, but had completely lost touch until the summer of 1993. Ben knew I was going to be there because his father had the staff list before the summer began. I, however, was surprised to see him there. We spent the first day of staff week together talking and by the 4th of July we knew we would spend the rest of our lives together.

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David Englander & Stephanie Levitz Englander
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1993
Married: 1997
Well, it depends who you ask but it all started on the bridge connecting A-side to B-side. Ramah changed both of our lives forever! After meeting for the second time (the first was when our younger sisters shared a bunk bed in their Machon summer), we had a lot of fun working together as staff members. One cold February night, we drove up to camp and David proposed right at the lamb and the wolf. We can't wait for our daughter Yaffa and our two sons Zev and Ayal to experience Ramah!

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Harry Joseph Pell & Lisa Eiseman Pell
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1993
Married: 2001

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Lawrence Michael Covitt & Melissa Chordock Covitt
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1993
Married: 2003

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Yuval Marcus & Liz Horwitz Marcus
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Year Met: 1993
Year Married: 1995
We met at a Berkshires alumni reunion. Yuval had been a camper and staff member at Berkshires and Nyack. I attended with a group of friends.

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Noah Borenstein & Amy Judith Heller
Met at Israel Seminar
Camps Attended: Berkshires, New England
Met: 1993
Married: 2005
Amy and I are an intermarriage, of sorts. We met on Ramah Seminar in 1993 -- she was from Berkshires and I was from Palmer. Years later, we were at Hebrew University together. Despite these many run-ins, Amy and I didn't start dating until we bumped into each other on the subway in NYC in 2003. We were married in November 2005

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Howard Scott Shafer & Lisa Kotler Shafer
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1994
Married: 1995
Howard and I met through Danny Perla, a mutual friend and Ramah Berkshires alumni. Danny wanted to set us up in August 1994. I told him that I was quite busy with my work as an intern at Mt. Sinai and I was planning to attend the Ramah Labor Day Weekend with my friend Elaine Lewis. Danny told me that Howard was also going to attend the reunion and that is where we met. Although it was not love at first sight, I think that the similarities in our backgrounds including attending Ramah and being involved in USY ultimately brought us together. We did not know each other in camp, but both attended in 1979 and 1980 and had many friends in common. My Solelim counselor, Liz Wallach, is the sister of Howard's good friend Adam Wallach.

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Dan Gottstein & Amy Schein Gottstein
Camp Attended: Berkshires, Wisconsin
Year Met: 1994
Year Married: 1999
I attended Berkshires but Dan is actually a Ramah Wisconsin alumni.  We met at college through Wisconsin friends I had met on my Seminar trip.  We live in Chicago now but I still plan on sending our two sons Owen (3 1/2) and Micah (2 months) to Berkshires.

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Joshua Rosenblatt & Rachel Mann
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1994
Married: 1999
We met during a staff week peulat erev, "Win Lose, or Draw." Josh disappointed the team by being an omanut counselor who couldn't draw. But Rachel didn't mind being on the losing team. By the time the campers arrived, we both knew that it would be a summer unlike any other.

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Jason Philip Rogoff & Dara Elizabeth Schatt
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1994
Married: 2006

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Jeffrey Arnowitz & Tamar Brendzel Arnowitz
Camp Attended: Berkshires--Staff
Met: 1995
Married: 1999
We met during our summer as counselors in Cohavim. We immediately hit it off, but only started dating during the last two weeks of camp. Little did we know that those two weeks would turn into a lifetime. The ideals and values that brought us to Ramah provided a great starting point for a marriage that lives with those same values. We love Ramah and can't wait to send our children.

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Zachary Seiden & Julia Keltz
Berkshires
Met: 1996
Married: 2008

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Joshua Henkin & Beth Berkowitz
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1997
Married: 2002
We did not actually meet at camp. Josh was a counselor in my sister's edah, so when we ran into each other years later we knew who the other was from our mutual Ramah history.

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Simmy Kustanowitz & Ilana Edelman Kustanowitz
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1997
Married: 2003
Ilana and I sort of knew each other when we were campers at Ramah in the Berkshires, but I was an edah older than she and we didn’t really become friends until we worked together on staff in 1997.

From day one of Staff Week ‘97, Lani and I clicked in an amazing way. Within days, we were confiding in each other, sharing childhood stories, and simply enjoying every minute we spent together. We quickly became the best of friends, and that friendship only intensified as we worked together the following summer, as counselors for Gesher ’98.

In ’99 we both worked in camp yet again, Lani in Gesher and me as JC Advisor. We were still platonic friends, but everything was about to change. In February 2000, we decided that we were finally ready to give this a shot.

Our big, seemingly-risky decision began a journey that led to our engagement in 2002, our beautiful wedding in 2003, and countless incredible moments along the way. We’ve also made plenty of trips to Ramah to revisit all of our memories – those we created through twenty-two combined years in Wingdale – both independently and with each other.

Lani and I often find ourselves thanking Ramah in the Berkshires for helping to shape who we are today. Many of our friendships, memories and positive personality traits were developed and nurtured within that small piece of land between Bet Am Bet and the marp. And yet with so much to be thankful for, we’ll never forget the most important part Ramah played in our life – it brought us together.

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Ted Kesler & Judy Weinberg
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Year Met: 1998
Year Married: 1999
We met at the Camp Ramah Berkshires Memorial Day singles weekend, 1998. For me, Ted, it was love at first sight. At Oneg Shabbat, I saw her across the room. Her presence, her joy reached me, and I said to myself, "That's the kind of woman I want to marry!" For Judy, it took a few more months of courtship before she said, "That's the kind of man I want to marry!" We have now passed our 8th wedding anniversary, have a girl, Korina, 6, a boy, Daniel, 4, and our dog, Bashert, 11 (or as Judy tells people, her first Bashert!).

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Ehud Marcus & Erica Neuman Marcus
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Year Met: 1999
Year Married: 2003

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Steven Seiden & Aviva Queen Seiden
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Year Met: 2000
Year Married: 2005

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Ari Ungar & Rebecca Tobin
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 2002
Married: 2005

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Harrison Rubenfeld & Susannah Levithan
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 2002
Married: 2011
Quoted in Ramah Berkshires enewsletter, June 2011: "As soon as we started talking about getting married, Harrison and I knew it had to happen in camp," said Susannah. "Our best friends are from camp, we grew up there, we met at camp and now we are the luckiest two people in the world because we got married in the best place on Earth, surrounded by the most amazing people."

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Mark Berman & Rachel Gordon Berman
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 2004
Married: 2006
Although we didn't start dating until the summer of 2004 while living in New York City, we really go way back to 1982 when we were at the same elementary school. We didn't really know each other back then, but it was a beginning, as was our high school, day camp, and Camp Ramah. For us, Ramah was the most important link and we have so much fun sharing stories from our years there and going back to visit our special places, especially where we got engaged—the madregot.

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Rafi Cohen & Michele Weber
Met at Berkshires, Attended Poconos and New England
Year Met: 2005
Year Married: 2006
We met on the Upper West Side of Manhattan the first time and were reintroduced at Ramah Berkshires at the Kehilat Hadar Shavuot Retreat. We are alumni of Poconos and New England.

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Ari Saposh & Naomi Queen Saposh
Camp Attended: Berkshires
Met: 1995
Married: 2008

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