Jewish Camp: Forget Color War; It’s Time to Build Robots

For campers at the JCC Maccabi Camp Kingswood in southern Maine, a very hot summer just got very cool. The camp invited a team of Israeli high school students and their teacher to bring their technical and scientific expertise in»

New Israeli Cultural Center to Open in Budapest

by Abigail Pickus

Budapest is bursting with Jewish life and culture.

Just ask Szilvi Somlai.

Born and raised in Budapest, she works as the post-Taglit Birthright Israel and Masa Israel coordinator for the Jewish Agency in Hungary. She is also»

Summer Camp Programs Expand Worldwide

Despite the economic downturn, Jewish summer camp programs continue to expand. This year, several new camps opened in North America, and retreats sponsored by organizations including the Jewish Agency and the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) reached enlarged audiences in the»

Confessions of a Jewish Camp Counselor

by David Meyer

For nine years now – ten summers – life has begun in June or July and has ended sometime in August, taking a nine-month break marked by the beginnings and endings of my time at Habonim Dror»

Bishkek Jewish Summer Camp Provides Safe, Supportive Environment

Thirty Jewish children from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, took part in a special week-long keytana (Hebrew for day camp) from July 1st – 8th, 2010.

The keytana, organized by the Jewish Agency’s FSU Education Department Sunday School Unit, offered the children a»

Russian Speaking Summer Camp Opens at Nordiya Youth Hostel

For the first time the “Rimon Project”, an International Summer Camp for Russian speaking youth, is now taking place at the Nordiya Youth Hostel, near Netanya.

The camp, under the auspices of The Jewish Agency and the Genesis Philanthropy Group»

Summer Camp Time in the FSU

For nearly two decades, the Jewish Agency’s network of summer and winter camps in the former Soviet Union have reached tens of thousands of children, teens, university-age students and their families, connecting them to their heritage, Israel and the Jewish»

Ramah Special Needs Program Celebrates 40 Years of Inclusion

by H. Glenn Rosenkrantz

Campers, families, counselors and others touched by Ramah’s Tikvah program for special needs youth converged Sunday at Camp Ramah New England to mark the groundbreaking initiative and four decades of impact.

The Tikvah program, established at»

It’s Camp Time!

Despite the continuing financial struggles of many families, nonprofit Jewish overnight camps are filling up. As in 2009, camps are projecting a flat or increased enrollment over last year. Yet, over the next two months, tens of thousands of kids»

Jim Joseph Announces $33m. to Train Educators

As part of a continued concentrated effort to increase the number of credentialed future Jewish educators and to improve the quality of professional preparation and Jewish education they receive, the Jim Joseph Foundation (JJF) has announced that $33»

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