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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 ...

Camp All Day, Every Day

A cookie is just a cookie, but a Newton is fruit and cake.A camp is just a camp, but MY ...

The Childhood Friendship That Set My Life’s Course

This post is part of our series dedicated to Jewish Disability Awareness Month. Everyone has a passion and a calling. ...

5 Reasons Parents Should Send Their Children With Disabilities to Jewish Camp

This post is part of our series dedicated to Jewish Disability Awareness Month. I must confess. When I first started ...

Jewish Disability Awareness Month

February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month (JDAM), which brings a topic that is very important to us at the Foundation ...

Coming Out and Coming Home to My Jewish Sleepaway Camp

I first thought that I might be different when I was in sixth grade.I went to Jewish day school, and ...

Falling in Love with Myself

He was bubbling over with excitement. He had heard so much about this place. This was his first time away ...

Social Media Isn’t the Enemy

Now that your kids are home from camp, many of you are facing a new dilemma: should campers and their ...

Home From Camp & Back to School

Camp ended.I can’t believe it’s over. All of a sudden, I transitioned from the tie-dyed 24/7 magic of camp to ...

Walking the Walk: On Welcoming a Transgender Bunk Counselor

This summer, Habonim Dror Camp Na’aleh did something unprecedented at Jewish camp – we had a transgender bunk counselor. At ...