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Campers are greeted at Camp Eitan in Moshav Avnei Eitan in the Golan Heights. Photo courtesy of Tova Hadad.

At this special-needs summer camp, nobody ever ‘ages out’

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Dasha is 30 years old, and has been attending the same summer camp for 13 years. While many people finish the camp experience at the age when Dasha began hers, Camp Eitan is a unique...
The One Happy Camper (OHC) program was piloted in 2006 to offer incentive grants up to $1,000 to campers attending Jewish overnight camp for the first time, with the goal to increase the number of young people benefiting from the transformative experience of Jewish summer camp. Credit: Courtesy.

Grants to summer camp boost enrollment and connection to Judaism, say administrators

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Besides celebrating the return of summer camp this year, for Jewish communal professionals there’s an additional item to cheer: the 100,000th child attending a Jewish camp, thanks to the One Happy Camper initiative. The program—a...
Campers gather at Camp Ramah in the Poconos. Source: Camp Ramah/Facebook.

Back at the lake and canteen: Jewish campers express relief just ‘getting to be...

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The countdown started weeks ago, and it’s finally time—time for many to return to sleepaway camp after a year of lockdowns, Zoom school, and separation from friends and family amid a worldwide pandemic. “I’m so...
A lake in Camp Ramah in New England. Credit: Facebook.

Reform movement cancels summer camps, Israel trips out of coronavirus worries

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As some states begin to reopen for business, a number of Jewish summer camps have announced that they will be closed for the season because of the COVID-19 outbreak. The Union for Reform Judaism released...