Year-Round Fellowships: Amitei Ramah

The Ramah Camping Movement has developed several year-round fellowships and leadership teams who work together to engage past, present, and future Ramahniks across North America and across the globe.

Amitei Ramah is our name for the group of more than 70 individuals who spend the year as part-time fellows and coordinators, engaging past, present, and future Ramahniks in Ramah experiences, programs, and events across North America and across the globe.

These cohorts include:

• Ramah Service Corps Fellowship (university students and post-college young adults)

• Reshet Ramah Coordinators (post-college adults)

• Ramah College Network Coordinators (current university students)

• Backcountry Bayit (post-college adults)

Read on to learn more about the work of our Amitei Ramah cohorts.

Ramah Service Corps Fellowship

Ramah Service Corps (RSC) Fellows work with their home camps to create experiential programs, help with local recruitment efforts, develop leadership training programs for older campers, and assist with internal projects.  

Launched as a pilot in 2010, the program continues to impact communities across North America in its twelfth year. National Ramah provides these young leaders with the tools, programmatic support, mentoring and training to help them make a significant difference in Jewish educational outreach in their communities, and guide them in recruitment for camp.

• Ramah Service Corps Fellows

Reshet Ramah Coordinators

Local Reshet Ramah coordinators plan and implement social, educational, and religious events for young alumni in their communities. Coordinators plan approximately 4-5 events based on the needs and interests of the alumni in their local communities.

• Reshet Ramah event highlights

• Calendar of Reshet Ramah events

Ramah College Network Fellowship

The Ramah College Network (RCN) engages hundreds of Ramah alumni each semester on over 20 university campuses. RCN Coordinators plan at least 3 events each semester, attend “ramahchiatto” coffee chats with Ramahniks, and build energized communities of Ramah alumni on campus. 

Want to bring the Ramah College Network to your campus? Contact Maya Klareich, Program Associate, at mayaklareich@campramah.org

• List of 2022-23 RCN campuses

• 2022-23 RCN Coordinator Bios

• Calendar of Ramah College Network events

Amitei Ramah Tzeirim (Ramah Teen Leadership)

Launched in summer 2018, Amitei Ramah Tzeirim is Ramah’s newest cohort of young leaders, focusing on teen Jewish leadership training, opportunities for Jewish study, and volunteering in Jewish communities across North America.

Backcountry Bayit

Since 2016, Reshet Ramah has been proud to partner with the Backcountry Bayit, a home devoted to engaging young Jews in Colorado’s Summit County community.

Led by several distinguished, young Jewish leaders, the Backcountry Bayit’s mission is to provide a home in the mountains for the rapidly growing Denver/Boulder Jewish community and to encourage and develop the year-round Jewish community present in Frisco, Colorado, through active outreach, weekly Shabbat meals, and other engaging Jewish programming.