From March 3-4, 2024, Ramah camper care professionals and other year-round employees attended Foundation for Jewish Camp and Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan’s Youth Development and Well-Being Conference. During their two days together, professionals gained useful skills in supporting MESSH (mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health) for campers, counselors, and all community members at Ramah.
Read MoreThe Ramah College Network (RCN) has achieved continued success in its mission to harness the leadership, creativity, and passion of young adults, empowering them to strengthen both the Ramah alumni and the wider Jewish communities on their respective campuses.
Read MoreOver the weekend of February 9–11, we convened 19 Ramah campus leaders for a Shabbaton about responding to antisemitism.
Read MoreAs Israel faces perhaps her greatest challenge in 75 years, I am proud of our community’s response and Ramah’s deep and enduring commitment to Am Yisrael. We stand together during these dark days and will be there when the sun rises again.
Read MoreThe Bert B. Weinstein Leadership Institute always comes at a time when our college-aged staff members yearn for their Ramah community. But this year, that yearning was even deeper than usual, after the events of October 7th and their impact on college campuses. Weinstein became more than just a mid-year opportunity to be in Ramah community and to learn new skills as madrichim, vocational participants, and rashei edot. It was a weekend filled with Jewish joy, pride, and community.
Read MoreCamp Ramah Sasson is the movement’s first experience offered specifically to families with children battling cancer and is free-of-charge, even to families who have never been involved with Ramah or the Conservative movement
Read MoreReflections from members of an intergenerational group of Ramahniks from North America who traveled to Israel on one of the “Ramah Mishpacha Service and Solidarity Trips.”
Read More“I live in a country that is struggling to balance the emotion of intense relief and joy with fear and distress for those still held captive…I live in a country whose borders are so condensed, our land is so small, that each loss is existential and the tears of each mother are my tears as well.”
Reflections from Aliza Zeff, director of Tichon Ramah Yerushalayim (TRY)
Read More“Hundreds of times, I've relayed the notorious stories of reservists being pulled from their homes, leaving their families behind to serve their country. Never did I think that I would experience the same feeling.”
Betsalel Steinhart, director of Ramah Israel Institute, reflects on the morning of October 7.
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