Camp Directors

Robots, Minecraft, and Shabbat

The following post is the next in our summer series hearing from the camps that were launched as a result ...

Making a Healthier Jewish Community

The following post is the second in our summer series hearing from the camps that were launched as a result ...

Our Common Purpose

Our staff have arrived for training and summer is soon underway! All year long I work hard to recruit staff, ...

Surrender

“At fifteen life had taught me undeniably
that surrender, in its place,
was as honorable as resistance,
especially if one had no choice.” ...

An Unknown Benefit of Camp for the Director

There are plenty of reasons I became a social worker and a camp director within the Jewish community. Recently, there ...

23 Years of Mitzvah Corps

This post is part of our series dedicated to Jewish Disability Awareness Month. The gates of camp will open in ...

Food-Smuggling Bubbes and Smoking Toilets: Stories From Jewish Summer Camp

Our friends at JTA have rounded up some of their readers’ most amusing camp stores.From New York’s Eden Village Camp:Craziest ...

Celebrating Tu Bishvat

Gilad and I welcomed our baby girl into the world on January 1st. Sivan Amali Shwartz arrived just in time ...

Don’t Miss the Magic

I recently saw “Matilda” on Broadway. Let me tell you – the kids in that show are incredible! I was ...

O’have Liot B’Bayit (Love to be Home)

Have you ever felt immediately welcomed in a new place? Well recently, Gilad came back from a recruiting trip to ...