One of the highlights of the busy pre-summer preparation season is the training of mishlachat members at Kibbutz Shefayim. This year’s Shefayim, with its focus on sacrifice, celebration, and sharing personal narratives, lays the foundation for a summer of dialogue and connection that we hope will strengthen bonds among the Jewish people.
The Kerem cohort of young professionals working year-round for Ramah camps visited Berlin over Yom HaShoah. It was an incredibly moving experience. We saw firsthand how a Jewish community rebuilds itself after tragedy.
Read MoreIt has been almost three years since we launched TikvahNet, Ramah’s virtual vocational training and socialization program for current Tikvah participants (aged 18+) and Ramah alumni with disabilities. Our in-person and virtual programs have engaged over 100 Ramah alumni with disabilities from across North America, and we have many exciting initiatives on the horizon.
Read MoreAttendees at the National Ramah Winter Leadership Training Conference immersed themselves in a Ramah environment for four days, reconnecting with friends from their own camps, and sharing in traditions from the 12 Ramah summer camps and Israel programs represented
Read MoreFrom December 19-28, 2022, our group of 11 Maslul Argentina participants and two National Ramah staff members had an extraordinary experience that combined work at a Jewish summer camp outside of Buenos Aires, meaningful service in the historic Jewish community of Basavilbaso, and time in the vibrant city of Buenos Aires, home to the largest Jewish community in Latin America.
Read MoreThe 2022 National Ramah Spring Leadership Training Conference --also known as Winer--was held from May 31-June 3 at Camp Ramah Darom in Clayton, GA. Winer 2022 was particularly meaningful as it was our first in-person staff training hosted at a Ramah camp in two and a half years.
Read MoreWe are thrilled to welcome to Jerusalem 18 Maslul Yisrael fellows, who will be working at 9 different Ramah camps this summer. Our week of learning at the Shalom Hartman Institute מכון שלום הרטמן is off to a great start, getting us thinking about the Israel we imagine and the Israel education we imagine bringing with us to camp.
Read MoreSix participants in the Kerem cohort—young professionals working full-time for Ramah camps—traveled to Israel with the National Ramah Commission for a week of learning, touring, and welcoming nearly 350 shlichim and shlichot and 70 NOAM campers at Kibbutz Shefayim. The trip emphasized Jewish peoplehood at all levels.
Read MoreLast week, over 100 madrichim and madrichot (counselors), rashei edah (division heads), vocational participants, Maslul Yisrael Fellows, and Amitei Ramah (year-round Ramah Fellows) from across the Ramah Camping Movement joined together to participate in the Weinstein Winter Leadership Institute, an inspiring two-day virtual staff training conference.
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