What an Incredible Summer

WHAT AN INCREDIBLE

SUMMER!

Campers and staff celebrated all summer long

We embraced time-honored traditions and started a few new ones. We welcomed campers and staff from the Midwest and both coasts and from our partner communities in Israel and Berlin. We celebrated the return of our European kitchen staff and got to know two counselors who came to us from the Jewish community of Uruguay!

We celebrated Ramah’s 75th season with a huge carnival birthday party on a Friday afternoon in July. Hundreds of campers and staff were bouncing on inflatables, playing in huge piles of foam, eating cotton candy and popcorn, and tossing Frisbees — all to the beat of Israeli pop music. Two hours later, those same happy campers were dressed for Shabbat, seated on benches with their best friends, singing the opening melodies of Kabbalat Shabbat prayers as the sun set over Lake Buckatabon.

At both Ramah Day Camp and Camp Ramah in Wisconsin our phenomenal staff supported the mental, emotional, social and spiritual health of the camp community in caring and creative ways. We promoted a culture of kindness and rewarded campers and staff for mensch-like behavior. Camp was a fun, safe and (mostly) mask-free place where kids could be kids.