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A New Bridge at Ramah Darom
January 24, 2020
Ramah Darom is a busy place! All year long we chip away at campus projects which maintain and preserve our mountain home. This year you will see many exciting enhancements, including new floors and drink stations in the dining hall, handicap access to Levine Center bathrooms and additional paved roads, making our campus even more […]
Eliana Leader
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Camp Ramah Staff Train All Year Long
January 10, 2020
Last week, 11 of our Camp Ramah Darom tzevet (staff) were together at the National Ramah Winter Leadership Training Conference at Camp Ramah in California. It was an incredible four days of learning together. Five cohorts came together to develop leadership skills and share best practices with over 20 year-round Ramah professionals from across the movement. The […]
Robyn Diamond
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When Parents Get to be Campers, Too
January 8, 2020
I love seeing people having fun. I’m writing this on the last day of Chanukah, sitting on a rocking chair on the porch of the Levine Center at Ramah Darom’s Winter Break Family Camp. It’s a beautiful 55 degrees in the mountains, and glorious sunshine is sparkling off the lake. For a Canadian, this doesn’t […]
Wally Levitt
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2019 Impact by the Numbers
December 21, 2019
Thank you for another year of incredible impact at Ramah Darom! Help us continue the story of inclusion, accessibility and transformation with your donation to the Annual Fund.
Ramah Darom
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A More Confident Child
December 19, 2019
I just watched my daughter dance in front of the whole JCC camp at the Shabbat celebration. You might not know this, but that’s a pretty big deal for her and for us. My daughter is typically very shy in front of a group and prefers to be on the sidelines rather than in the […]
Ramah Darom
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A Visit to Sesame Place
December 19, 2019
Last week Ramah Darom’s Director of Camper Care and Tikvah Support, Dr. Audra Kaplan, and Director of Camp Yofi, Susan Teckteil, spent some time learning at Sesame Place. They joined representatives from 15 other Jewish camps, including three other Ramah camps, that received Yashar Initiative grants from the Foundation for Jewish Camp to improve accessibility of […]
Robyn Diamond
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Our Seven Years at Family Camp
November 20, 2019
Seven years ago, our family of five arrived on the Ramah Darom campus for our first experience at Winter Break Family Camp. It was a small program of maybe 15 or 20 families hailing from various locations; Atlanta GA, Memphis TN, St. Petersburg FL, and our group of five families from Boca Raton FL. Our […]
Layne Bilu
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Theater at Darom – The Torah of Transformation
October 30, 2019
Pirkei Avot records our ancient sages attempts to identify the three pillars on which our world stands. In this spirit, I want to offer my own statement of the three things upon which the World of Theater at Ramah Darom relies: Courage – Ometz, Kindness – Chesed and Flexibility – Gimishut. Reflecting on over 10 years of […]
Sharona Rubinstein
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Welcome to Our New Board Members
October 29, 2019
At the Ramah Darom Board of Directors Annual Meeting this past Sunday, our Board elected six new Directors for a three-year term. Each has a strong personal connection to Ramah Darom including as a past camper, parent, staff member and/or Retreat participant. Our new Directors join our current roster of committed Board members. At the […]
Wally Levitt
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Welcome to Café Darom
October 3, 2019
This past summer our Tikvah Vocational Program (TVP) participants, opened and ran an in-camp coffee shop! Café Darom served various flavors of hot and iced coffee, as well as hot chocolate to the staff at Ramah Darom. As baristas took orders, operated Keurig machines and made each order, they improved skills such as organization, customer […]
Maya Albin