Today’s kids can learn anything from organic farming to circus arts.
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Camps are partnering with schools and shuls on year-round activities
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For the first 3 1/2 weeks of the summer, one group of 5-year-olds at Ramah Day Camp in Nyack, N.Y., was “very quiet” as the children went about the typical camp activities, according to Amy Skopp Cooper, the camp’s director.
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Each summer, Camp Ramah in New England (CRNE) brings close to 60 post-army emissaries to serve as bunk counselors and teach in such specialty areas as dance, sports, swimming, nature, woodworking, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, ropes and krav maga. Campers and staff are accustomed to such names as Neta, Ela, Tal, Ofer…
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The National Ramah Commission has released the results of a new strategic planning survey conducted to document the impact of Ramah special needs programs. Ramah’s leadership in the field of Jewish special needs camping dates back to its first Tikvah program in 1970, the first program of its kind.
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In 2007, my three daughters asked me if they could go to summer camp along with their schoolfriends. For the previous several years, I had always said no. It was far, it was costly. And summer was the only time I had vacation from work, and I wanted to spend that time with my children. I said I would think about it.
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Speaking with interns in the Ramah Service Corps is like being immersed in a giant bubble bath. Young adults in their late teens and early 20s, their enthusiasm for serving as camp ambassadors at synagogue schools is just that effervescent and buoyant.
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For the past two summers, Israeli Arab athletes Nadine and Fahoum have had a special task: teaching tennis and tolerance to Jewish kids attending Camp Ramah in the U.S. and Canada.
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Fifteen years ago was my last summer at Camp Ramah (as a camper at least). I have returned to camp since my days as a camper; including six summers as staff along with visits to show my wife a little slice of the Judaism that resonates with me the most. This year I returned to Conover, Wisconsin as a rabbi for the very first time. Camp Ramah, referring to the camp in Wisconsin (although I am sure the other camps as well), is a place where Judaism and Jewish education are at their finest.
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