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Camping
More options for modern Orthodox campers
Jewish Journal
February 27, 2013
Camp Judah West, which has run travel and sports camps in West Los Angeles for the past four years, has procured a rental location near San Diego and is organizing a five-week summer camp session based on the ideals of Jewish camping, Zionism and Torah.
A Jewish food writer explores France
Jewish Journal
December 1, 2010
Author and Jewish food connoisseur Joan Nathan may be best known for her award-winning cookbooks on Jewish cuisine in America and Israel. But long before any of those projects began, there was Paris.
Habonim Dror celebrates 75 years of joyful Jewish camping
Jewish Journal
November 3, 2010
Not every American summer camp can claim to have helped smuggle arms to freedom fighters.
Solar panels, radio station keep Jewish camps current
Nancy Sokoler Steiner
January 25, 2008
It was a given that Benjy Rabin, 9, would spend part of his summers at Camp Ramah as soon as he was old enough. His father is a Ramah alum, and so are his older brother and sister.
A summertime find — future Jewish leaders
Zachary Lasker
December 14, 2007
As a camper, Max Kates was full of energy, soaking up everything Camp Ramah in Ojai offered. He loved sports, singing, his friends and Shabbat. When the summer arrived for him to join the staff, he immediately applied to participate in Ramah\’s counselor leadership-training program. In his first year as a counselor, Max was placed in a unit I supervised, and I watched with pride as he developed valuable skills in problem solving, public speaking, teamwork, program design and assessment.
Labor Zionist ideals live on at Gilboa
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
December 14, 2007
In real life, Leo Goldberg doesn\’t dance and sing.
But at Camp Gilboa, where he\’s spent summers for the past 9 years, Leo Goldberg dances. And he sings. A lot — and loudly.
A Dying Language Comes to Life
Jane Ulman
February 23, 2006
The Yiddish words flew — sometimes fluently, sometimes haltingly and occasionally \”shreklich\” or awful as the seniors reached for a word long forgotten or the students for a word they had not yet learned. They raised their voices, gesturing with their hands as they spoke.
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