The National Ramah Commission is delighted to announce that the William Davidson Foundation has awarded a $530,000 grant to Ramah to renew the funding of the Ramah Davidson Detroit Fellowship for an additional two years.
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A new Jewish summer camp is coming to Northern California. Camp Ramah NorCal will open next summer near the shores of Monterey Bay with plans to host as many as 300 campers over three sessions, camp director Sarah Shulman told J. Registration is expected to open in late August. Camp Ramah is the camping arm of the Conservative movement. It currently operates eight overnight camps and five day camps in North America and Jerusalem, including one in the Southern California city of Ojai that has drawn kids from throughout the Western U.S. and Canada since opening in 1956.
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NEW YORK – For Srully Stein, Tisha B’Av is about more than commemorating the destruction of the First and Second Temples: It represents the loss he faced after he decided to leave the ultra-Orthodox community he was born into.Hailing from a rabbinical dynasty, Stein, 23, grew up in an ultra-Orthodox family in Williamsburg, New York. At age 18 he met his wife for just a few moments before they were engaged. They had a son, but he dreamt of college and the world outside his insular community. After struggling with conflicting feelings, Stein left the insular community and divorced his wife.
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The Conservative movement’s Ramah camp network is opening a new overnight camp in northern California.Camp Ramah in Northern California will open in summer 2016, the National Ramah Commission announced in a news release. In addition to offering standard Jewish camp activities, the new camp will offer specialties in performing arts, outdoor adventure and marine biology.
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We are thrilled to announce that after many years of hard work and planning, Camp Ramah in Northern California (NorCal) will officially open in summer 2016 on the beautiful campus of the Monterey Bay Academy on the shores of the Pacific Ocean!
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As more Jewish camps across the country expand their programs to welcome campers of all abilities, a new online resource has been created in a partnership between the Foundation For Jewish Camp and the Ramah Camping Movement. The “Inclusion Training Guide for Jewish Summer Camps” is a comprehensive guide that camps are able to download and use for staff training.
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Huge Growth in New Investment from Donors and Foundations in 2014-15 for Camps, Israel Programs, and Movement-Wide Initiatives
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Harmony (noun): the combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chords and chord progressions having a pleasing effect. If I could describe my past week with one word, it would be harmony. It was not only the harmony of the musical notes that covered my skin with goose bumps and filled my heart with joy, but the harmony of the URJ (Union of Reform Judaism) and Ramah camps working as one.
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The Inclusion Training Guide for Jewish Summer Camps is a new online resource designed to provide hands-on training guidance and support for camp staff seeking to create or expand inclusion programs.
This resource has been developed as a partnership between Ramah and the Foundation for Jewish Camp. We are grateful to the UJA-Federation of New York - Neshamot Fund for supporting this project through a generous grant to FJC.
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