Alison Rudolph credits Ramah New England’s vocational educational program with helping to prepare her son, Aaron, to succeed at his job with Walgreens. “He learned to have a work ethic, be disciplined, how to interact with people, and to help people — basically to understand the concept of customer satisfaction,” she said.
On January 1, 2022, the professional leadership of the National Ramah Commission (NRC) will transition from our current National Director Rabbi Mitchell Cohen to our own Associate National Director Amy Skopp Cooper.
Read MoreRamah is thrilled to announce that the cost of participation in Ramah Israel Seminar 2021 has been significantly reduced as part of RootOne, an exciting new initiative designed to bring many more teens to Israel!
Read More“This summer has provided us with countless shehecheyanu moments. Joel, thank you for helping us get to this point, for allowing 58 new campers to join the Ramah community, and for making camp happen this summer and always. I’m looking forward to a time when we can be together again, in person, at machaneinu Ramah.”
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 More“The Tikvah virtual vocational training and socializing series offered reliability and predictability during uncertain times; it offered friendship and conversation during a summer when in-person socializing wasn’t possible. The program expanded the world of our participants.”
Read MoreA recent letter from the parents of a child in one of our Tikvah programs captures the feelings of so many in the Ramah community this summer. “Even without camp, Ramah was critical for our children, offering fun tefillot, choices of chugim, bunk and edah reunions, and great concerts. Even without camp, Ramah was there for us, and it added so much to a very challenging summer.”
Read MoreIt's hard for me to feel Tisha B’Av this year. I don't need a break from weddings because there are no weddings. I stopped eating meat a few months ago, and I rarely drink wine except on Shabbat anyway. I don’t go to any concerts or other social events. And in fact, over the past four months I haven't shaved more than once every few weeks, so what does it matter to abstain for nine days. And yet, precisely this year, I need Tisha B’Av.
Read MoreFor the past 50 years and still today, Tikvah inspires us at Ramah camps and across the international Jewish community to question – are we approaching our relationships and our communities through Jewish eyes?
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