Ramah Receives $1 Million Grant for
New Outdoor Adventure Camp

September 2008

We are thrilled to report that the Jim Joseph Foundation, in partnership with the Foundation for Jewish Camp, has awarded a $1 million grant to the National Ramah Commission to develop a specialty camp model of outdoor adventure and environmental education.

Eliav Bock, senior JTS rabbinical student, has been named Director of “Ramah Outdoor Adventure” of Colorado. Beginning this November, Eliav will participate in a series of seminars developed by the Foundation for Jewish Camp’s “Specialty Camp Incubator” to plan and develop the model for this specialty Ramah camp. We anticipate that within a few summers, hundreds of young people will choose to attend this newest Ramah program, which will offer intensive experiences in hiking, climbing, backpacking and navigation, river rafting and canoeing, horseback riding, and environmental education, all within a traditional Ramah setting of inspiring Jewish educational programming.

We anticipate that programming will begin in Summer 2010. Another staff training program is planned for August 3-11, 2009, based upon the successful model developed this past August for fifty young adults under the direction of Ramah in the Rockies Program Director, Rabbi Marshall Lesack.

For more information about all the exciting new programs in Colorado, please contact Tammy Dollin, project manager, via email at tdollin@ramahrockies.org or by phone at (303) 261-8214.