By Jake Beckert, Rosh Eidah of Chalutzim What a busy week! Two of the most anticipated days of the summer, Yom Yisrael and Yom Horim, with hardly a moment in between. Theodore Herzl once wrote a book about Israel titled Altneuland, old new land, as Israel is...
by Benyamin (Bruce) Herst, OSRUI song leader from 1974-1982 and currently an active musician, music teacher, performer, and song leader. If you’re like me and you spent years at camp you might still tell time in the summer by your unit’s daily schedule. Wake up at...
By Lizzy Scheinkopf, Rosh Eidah of Moshavah It’s hard to believe that we are ending our final week in Moshavah Aleph 2015! All of the chanichim (campers) had a great time on our last tiyul (trip) of the session and are already planning the tiyulim that they want to...
SHABBAT PINCHAS 2015 It has been a week full of activities from one end of camp to the other and beyond! Yesterday, our Chalutzim campers presented a wonderful service for the whole camp as part of Yom Yisrael (Israel Day) which was produced by our Israeli shlichim...
By Kathy Schwartz, Director of Lifelong Learning at Congregation Har HaShem in Boulder, CO “I’m very proud of myself for sleeping in a tent. It was a new experience. I was really scared but I overcame it. I wasn’t sure I would like being outside, but it was so...
