We are beginning to accept that our future will look radically different than we expected, even three short months ago. But now, we need to chart a path forward. We are no longer on a journey from; now, we are on our journey to.
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What are we mourning? Certainly not anything as profound as life and death itself – something we know so many others are suffering through – so what is it? So in this data-driven age of metrics, allow me to attempt to quantify the unquantifiable emotional losses of a cancelled summer
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Trust is the foundational currency of summer camp. Campers wholly trust their counselors. Counselors and staff trust their administration, and the administration, in turn, trusts their counselors and staff. Trust, of course, is also vital between administration and parents, as parents relinquish some of their responsibilities to administration and administration agrees to take on these responsibilities while maintaining the safety of all of its constituents.
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The staff at Ramah in the Rockies got a rare bit of good news on Tuesday: Just days after applying for a grant designed to help small businesses weather the coronavirus-induced financial crisis, the Jewish summer camp had been approved.
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As a Ramah Israel MASA Israel Teaching Fellow in Jerusalem, Jennifer Cutler “has taught English to children in Israel since September, but rather than return home when the coronavirus began to mushroom, she elected to stay and continue teaching however she could.”
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Landing one of the lead roles in the Netflix mini-series “Unorthodox” was life-changing for Israeli actor Amit Rahav. “But so was being a shaliach to Camp Ramah Darom,” Amit said.
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With the serious threat of illness facing everyone from the coronavirus, no one knows whether our precious summer camps will be able to open this summer. Such uncertainty: Might we be able to run camps as usual, or at least have a few weeks of camp in July or August? What is certain, however, is that the benefits of camp are perhaps more obvious than ever.
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In telling the story of the Exodus, we will read about four children: the wise, the wicked, the simple, and the one who does not know how to ask. This year, amidst the uncertainty that has come to be our new norm, we also feel the presence of a fifth child.
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Ramah Ba-Bayit (“Ramah at Home”) is a compilation of programs from Ramah camps and Israel programs on Zoom, Facebook Live, and more!
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