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Camp Highlights: Week 6
July 22, 2019
On Thursday, I spent part of the morning assessing the physical accessibility of our entire campus with my colleague, Anthony Franklin, the General Manager of our facility. With support from the Foundation for Jewish Camp, Ramah Darom has been working on a plan to enable individuals with mobility challenges to navigate our campus more easily. […]
Geoff Menkowitz
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Camp Highlights: Week 5
July 14, 2019
The first few days of Session Bet were fun, fantastic and filled with new perspectives. New campers took swim tests, learned new dances, learned group cheers, made their beds (twice now!) and made friends too. I watched campers playing energetic soccer, painting carefully in the omanut (art), cooking (in Hebrew!) and fishing in the lake. […]
Geoff Menkowitz
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Send Your Child to a Jewish Summer Camp
July 11, 2019
Jewish summer camp is not merely a worthy summertime activity, but it represents entry into a life-long journey. Jewish camping builds Jewish identity through immersion into an intensive Jewish community atmosphere. Every parent should send his or her sons and/or daughters to a Jewish summer camp, year after year. The cumulative effect is profound. A […]
Robyn Diamond
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Camp Highlights: Week 4
July 9, 2019
As we approached the last Shabbat of this session, we paused and reflected on our wonderful week here at Camp Ramah Darom. By far, the highlight of this past week was “Yom Sport,” our version of a Camp Olympiad – a celebration of sport, spirit, creativity, and collaboration. Our Gesher campers planned this entire day for the […]
Geoff Menkowitz
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Camp Highlights: Week 3
July 1, 2019
We began last week at Camp Ramah Darom with our community-wide song festival called, “Zimriyah.” It is a magical evening with the entire Camp gathered around a giant campfire overlooking our beautiful lake. Against a setting sun, each Aidah in age-order took the stage and performed a Hebrew song. The theme of Zimriyah this year […]
Geoff Menkowitz
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CONFESSIONS OF A RAMAH PARENT (turned Ramah Darom CEO)
June 26, 2019
I have a confession: as a longtime Ramah parent, I’ve always wished I could secretly spend a day watching our kids going about their regular Camp routine. Over the years, our kids have done their best to explain how they spend their days at Camp. But as someone who never had the chance to attend […]
Wally Levitt
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Camp Highlights: Week 2
June 23, 2019
Shavua Tov from Machaneh (Camp) Ramah Darom! We had an amazing week enthusiastically launching all of our activities! This week, our “Taste of Ramah” campers (3rd & 4th graders) went out of Camp ton a field trip to swim at the beach on nearby Lake Burton and to pick blackberries at a neighborhood orchard. Halutzim […]
Geoff Menkowitz
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Camp Highlights: Week 1
June 16, 2019
With great excitement, we opened our gates on to welcome our first session and full summer campers. After the last of the buses from the airport arrived, Israeli music playing from the loudspeaker lured everyone to the Kikar – the grassy field in front of our Chadar Ochel (Dining Hall). Without any instruction necessary, our […]
Geoff Menkowitz
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Meet the 2019 Rashei Aidah
June 6, 2019
We are thrilled to introduce you to our Rashei Aidah (Age-Division Heads). Each one brings years of experience, a passion for Jewish living and learning and a deep love for Ramah Darom. (Hover over each image to what the Rosh Aidah looked like way back when.) Rosalie Shays Rosh Garinim & Nitzanim (Rising 3rd-5th Grades) […]
Robyn Diamond
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Creating an inspiring “pop-up community”
May 3, 2019
Every year at the Pesach Seder, we are challenged to personally connect to the experience of leaving Egypt. It’s incredible to think that our ancestors walked through the desert for 40 full years, a makeshift community of wanderers who managed to keep their faith alive until they reached the land of milk and honey. The […]
Wally Levitt