memories

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 ...

Lost in Translation

Growing up in Odessa, Ukraine until I was 15 years old I knew about two dozen Jews personally. Of those, ...

Memories of Swimming: From B- to A-Meets

Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School (or “JDS” as it was fondly known), the school my three brothers and I ...

I Stunk at Sports, But I Loved Them at Camp

When I was a kid, I stunk at sports. I did. I don’t like to think I did, but I ...

Kosher Soup for Ramadan & Other Tales of My Mother’s Moroccan Childhood

The Bergen Record was coming to my house to do an interview for my new novel. You’d think after having ...

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 ...

Lusting for Pens and Pencils

I love pens and pencils. I have loved them all my life. Whenever and wherever I travel, I buy pens ...

#timeismeaningless

A camp professional in my adult life, I have always been a camper at heart. I have the deepest, most ...

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 ...

Room For Improvement

A couple of years ago I was walking to synagogue with my two boys on the morning of Rosh Hashanah, ...