What Are Your Aspirations for This Summer?
"It is at Ramah this summer where our young adult staff members will find Jewish community, form meaningful and authentic friendships, create safe space for dialogue and listening, and mark Jewish time together. I ask our tzevet (staff) to think about their summer aspirations, and encourage them to be exceptional staff, relationship builders, Jewish role models, learners, and teachers. I tell them, 'When you aspire, you inspire.'” - Reflections from Amy Skopp Cooper, CEO, National Ramah Commission
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2024 Louis & Shoshanah Winer Institute for Rosh Edah Training
This spring, the National Ramah Commission hosted two groups of rashei edot (division heads) for our annual Louis & Shoshanah Winer Institute for Rosh Edah Training—one from May 21–22 in Jerusalem and another from June 3–5 at Camp Ramah New England in Palmer, MA.
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“When I go to Poland, I want to go with Ramah.”
A group of 14 young adults, 12 of whom were Ramah alumni, recently spent a week in Poland on Ha’dor Yizkor: A Reshet Ramah Poland Journey. During our week together, we honored the vibrancy of Jewish life that once existed in the country, bore witness to the unfathomable atrocities of the Shoah, grappled with complex questions about Poland’s modern Jewish community, and celebrated our Jewish identities proudly and joyfully through prayer, song, and dance.
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Leading 300 Ramahniks in Israel for Volunteering, Learning, and Connection
We have just concluded two extraordinarily powerful back-to-back Israel missions for our North American staff and incoming shlichim. During the past two weeks in Israel, we brought together 300 members of the 2024 Ramah community, representing each of our North American camps.
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"There is nothing quite like a Ramah Shabbat”
Over the weekend of February 9–11, we convened 19 Ramah campus leaders for a Shabbaton about responding to antisemitism.
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A Time for Healing, A Time for Learning, A Time for Ramah Community
The Bert B. Weinstein Leadership Institute always comes at a time when our college-aged staff members yearn for their Ramah community. But this year, that yearning was even deeper than usual, after the events of October 7th and their impact on college campuses. Weinstein became more than just a mid-year opportunity to be in Ramah community and to learn new skills as madrichim, vocational participants, and rashei edot. It was a weekend filled with Jewish joy, pride, and community.
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Summer Camp as a Catalyst for Thoughtful Experiential Israel Education
Because of Ramah’s investments and partnerships with the Shalom Hartman Institute and others (including The Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization, we anticipate that Ramah camps this summer will be communities where conversation, study and experiences of Israel will be passionate, thoughtful and engaging, with space for productive disagreement. In so doing, we will confidently assert and deepen our core commitment to Israel.
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2023 Winer Institute for Rosh Edah Training
This year’s Louis and Shoshana Winer Leadership Institute for Rashei Edot brought together 31 participants from 10 different Ramah camps from May 22-24 at Ramah Day Camp in Nyack.
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Maslul Yisrael Fellowship - Week of Learning, May 2023
Our Maslul Yisrael 2023 cohort of 18 senior counselors, who will be working at nine different Ramah camps this summer, spent May 15-21 engaged in deep learning with the Shalom Hartman Institute.
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