The 2022 National Ramah Spring Leadership Training Conference --also known as Winer--was held from May 31-June 3 at Camp Ramah Darom in Clayton, GA. Winer 2022 was particularly meaningful as it was our first in-person staff training hosted at a Ramah camp in two and a half years.
Read MoreWe are thrilled to welcome to Jerusalem 18 Maslul Yisrael fellows, who will be working at 9 different Ramah camps this summer. Our week of learning at the Shalom Hartman Institute מכון שלום הרטמן is off to a great start, getting us thinking about the Israel we imagine and the Israel education we imagine bringing with us to camp.
Read MoreSix participants in the Kerem cohort—young professionals working full-time for Ramah camps—traveled to Israel with the National Ramah Commission for a week of learning, touring, and welcoming nearly 350 shlichim and shlichot and 70 NOAM campers at Kibbutz Shefayim. The trip emphasized Jewish peoplehood at all levels.
Read MoreLast week, over 100 madrichim and madrichot (counselors), rashei edah (division heads), vocational participants, Maslul Yisrael Fellows, and Amitei Ramah (year-round Ramah Fellows) from across the Ramah Camping Movement joined together to participate in the Weinstein Winter Leadership Institute, an inspiring two-day virtual staff training conference.
Read MoreThis week, 122 madrichim and madrichot (counselors), rashei edah (division heads), and Amitei Ramah (year-round Ramah Fellows) from across the Ramah Camping Movement joined together to participate in the Weinstein Winter Leadership Institute, an inspiring 3-day virtual staff training conference.
Read MoreThrough this program at Camp Ramah in Northern California, we noticed the barriers between teens and mentors, whether rabbi, cantor, rosh edah, or others, were lessened. Teens realized their mentors cared about them, made themselves available to them, and that they treasured having one-on-one conversations with them – our teens mattered.
Read MoreAt the conclusion of this year’s National Ramah Winter Leadership Training Conference at Camp Ramah in Ojai, California, over 40 participants joined an extended Ramah leadership institute.
Read MoreFor the 130 attendees of this year’s National Ramah Winter Leadership Training Conference, last weekend was a chance to be in an immersive Ramah environment for 4 days, and remind themselves why they are so strongly committed to their role as madrichim (counselors).
Read MoreWe are delighted to announce that over the last several weeks, the National Ramah Commission (NRC) has received various new grants of $1.2 million in order to develop initiative for Tikvah vocational education expansion, professional internships for college students, development of supplemental staff training materials promoting child safety, and intensive leadership training for college sophomores.
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