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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
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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