A camp at the Zimmer Children’s Museum that has exposed more than 400 children each summer to art, music, science, nature and magic — not to mention Jewish values — is being expanded to a second location this year.
For some children, attending Jewish summer camp is a quintessential part of growing up Jewish.
For the past seven summers, Hilary Kip’s twin boys have attended Camp Chesed, a Reseda-based program for kids with special needs now headed into its 20th year. There’s a very simple reason Kip sends them year after year
Jewish summer camp is full of tradition, but that’s not stopping Kibbutz Max Straus in Glendale from rolling out Kibbutz Explorations, four special core programs designed especially for 21st-century teens and tweens.
When his new camp opened last summer, Greg Kellner suspected he needed a morning ritual different from the traditional flagpole gathering at many Jewish overnight camps.
Like many children and teenagers, Michael Rosenbaum of Los Feliz sees going to summer camp as a highlight of his year.\n
Think summer camp is all fun and games? It is those things, but there’s a lot more to it. Just talk to some of the many veterans — from a camper to a songleader to a yoga instructor — of JCA Shalom’s residential summer camp in the hills of Malibu.
The benefits of Jewish summer camp are well documented — but so are the costs when it comes to parents’ wallets.
Summer camp options just got a lot more creative for Jewish teenagers on the West Coast.
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