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We are often asked what our favorite thing about camp is. The answers vary: leading Shabbat services, free swim, extra-long song sessions, first kisses, being Maccabiah (color war) general… One of our...
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It’s Purim Time!
We are getting ready to celebrate one of our favorite holidays, Purim, this weekend! Are you preparing and need some inspiration, recipes, projects, costume ideas, and books? Check out the...
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Passover, Camp Style
It’s March and that means Passover is right around the corner! Want fun crafts to teach your kids about this meaningful and complex holiday? How about activities to get them excited and involved in...
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Summer Lovin’– Sharon & Marshall
Camp and summer romances go hand in hand, and once in a while those early relationships actually go the distance. We’re rounding up some great stories of young love that blossomed into real life...
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Summer Lovin’ – Tamara & Neal
Camp and summer romances go hand in hand, and once in a while those early relationships actually go the distance. We’re rounding up some great stories of young love that blossomed into real life...
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Why Camp?
This third in a series of four blog entries, “Why Camp?” will examine some of the benefits that Jewish residential camping can provide for children based on the four part mission of Camp Tawonga. To...
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Summer Lovin’ – Ahuva & Meir
AHUVA & MEIR BALOFSKY When/how/where at camp did you meet? We met at Camp Moshava Ennismore in 1995 – she was a CIT and I was a second year staff. We were just friends for the first summer but the...
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Summer Lovin’ – Samantha & Brian
SAMANTHA & BRIAN ISENSTEIN When/how/where at camp did you meet? We met in the picnic grove during lunch, on the second day of staff training in the summer of 2002. Sam was an SIT (staff in...
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Summer Lovin’– Mollie & Jon
MOLLIE & JON BECKER When/how/where at camp did you meet? We knew each other since we were Oles, the youngest age group at Camp Tevya. It wasn’t until the year before my Kinneret summer when I was...
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Summer Lovin’– Alexandra & Eric
ALEXANDRA & ERIC SPITZ When/how/where at camp did you meet? We attended Camp JCA Shalom in Malibu, CA as kids and met in the Summer of 1993 when Eric was 13 and I was 12. We were camp crushes for...
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Summer Lovin’– Amanda & Adam
AMANDA SAGARIN & ADAM THOMASHOW When/how/where at camp did you meet? Adam and I knew each other in high school, as we were both participants in URJ’s NFTY-NE (North American Federation of Temple...
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Summer Lovin’– Alyia & Max
ALYIA & MAX CUTLER When/how/where at camp did you meet? Max and I met for the first time at Camp Edward Isaacs in 2000; I was a camper and he was a CIT. My girlfriends and I would give him a hard...
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Summer Lovin’– Shira & Noah
SHIRA & NOAH MENCOW HICHENBERG When/how/where at camp did you meet? I arrived at staff training at Camp Ramah in New England my junior counselor summer two days late, having just come back home...
View ArticleJewish Disability Awareness Month
February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month (JDAM), which brings a topic that is very important to us at the Foundation for Jewish Camp to the forefront of conversations all over the Jewish...
View ArticleUsing a Business Model to Make Jewish Summer Camp Affordable
By Rabbi Jason Miller Ask any Jewish family that sends their children to both a private Jewish day school and a Jewish summer camp about the affordability of such endeavors and they’ll use words such...
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Jewish camp trend-spotting: 10 ways a summer ritual is changing
By Julie Wiener Nostalgia about summer traditions notwithstanding, Jewish camps have changed dramatically from a generation ago. Camp’s value for Jewish education and identity-building is now a major...
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Counselor and Camper Costumes & More Purim Fun
Purim’s getting close, so we’re sharing some camp-themed costume ideas for you to enjoy! One of the most delicious memories of camp is s’mores roasting over a fire, so why not dress as one? Your...
View ArticleJewish Funders Network Awards Inaugural Shapiro Prize to Foundation for...
The Jewish Funders Network has named the Foundation for Jewish Camp as the inaugural recipient of the Shapiro Prize for Excellence in Philanthropic Collaboration, for being the first funder...
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Q&A
The call came the other day from our son Jonah’s sleep-away summer camp. Registration was almost completed and we hadn’t signed him up yet. Was there a problem? I explained the delay was because our...
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Summer Lovin’– Mollie & Jon
MOLLIE & JON BECKER When/how/where at camp did you meet? We knew each other since we were Oles, the youngest age group at Camp Tevya. It wasn’t until the year before my Kinneret summer when I was...
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