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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
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Shana Tova
September 27, 2019
Wishing You a Happy and Sweet New Year. Shana Tova from Ramah Darom Thank you to our artists: Baylee L. (Kochavim), Amalia K. (Sollelim), Maayan K. (Garinim)
Robyn Diamond
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Ramah Reflections: a year of growth, change and momentum
September 20, 2019
I’ve always loved the days leading up to Rosh Hashanah. Growing up in Montreal, the imminent arrival of the new Jewish year always had a very specific feel. Everyone was freshly back in school (classes only started after Labor Day), shorts and t-shirts were replaced by jeans and light sweaters, colorful leaves began to […]
Wally Levitt
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Hannah’s Path Along the Yellow Brick Road
September 17, 2019
“You’ve always had the power, my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.” – Glinda the Good Witch Imagine if you will, that my youngest daughter, Hannah, is a little like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. She leaves Kansas, (or Alpharetta, GA) for a mythical wonderland of Oz (or Camp Ramah Darom). […]
Carla Birnbaum
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The Little Torah
August 23, 2019
When I was a kid, I went to a summer camp in the Berkshires. I was there from 1949 thru 1959, as a camper and then as staff. The camp was called Camp Lenox and was (and is) just outside of Lee, MA, near Pittsfield. It was a Jewish camp insofar as the campers were […]
Julian Brook
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Final Message from Camp 2019: “Bookends of the Summer”
August 11, 2019
This is my final message that I am writing from Camp this summer. We have just concluded Camp Yofi, Ramah Darom’s nationally recognized Family Camp program for families that have a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder. This extraordinary program is a beautiful bow tied on top of the precious gift that is our summer at […]
Geoff Menkowitz
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Camp Highlights: Week 8
August 9, 2019
At Ramah Darom, we go out strong. This last week of Camp has been fun-filled and action-packed. And, as I’m sure you saw from the SmugMug galleries (Part One and Part Two!), Yom Sport was the major highlight. Yom Sport is our version of a camp-wide Olympiad in which four teams compete in arts, sports, […]
Geoff Menkowitz
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12 Things You Can Only Spot at a Ramah Camp
August 1, 2019
There are several experiences common to most summer camps: campers swimming with their friends, playing soccer and other team sports, participating in art projects, learning to become more independent, making new lifelong friends. But there are some things that are truly unique to Ramah camps…things you likely won’t see anywhere else. Inspired by my first […]
Wally Levitt
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Camp Highlights: Week 7
July 29, 2019
Is there a Jewish way to say, Hakuna Matata? This question struck me while I was watching the Kochavim (7th grade) production of the musical “The Lion King”. The first major theatrical production of our second session brought every animal of the Savanna out into our Beit Am (Theater Pavilion). Elephants and giraffes, zebras and rhinos standing ten feet tall, […]
Geoff Menkowitz