Our parents were on staff at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin so we met as “staff brats” at around age 6-7. We were fast friends but there was no “romantic interest” until we were campers several years later.
Archive | Wisconsin Marriages
RSS feed for this sectionRamah couples celebrate simchas every year and we would love to celebrate you! Ramah marriages can be defined in many ways; whether you met your spouse at camp, or simply married another Ramahnik from a different camp, your Ramah matrimony is something special! There are more than six decades worth of wonderful stories. To have your Ramah marriage listed on our website please submit your story.
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Michael Rothmann Siegel & Marisa Ehrlich Siegel
We met in 1997 as Solelim counselors. We continued to date from that point until 2003 when we married.
Jon Hoffenberg & Sara Behr Hoffenberg
Jon Hoffenberg and Sara Behr Hoffenberg met at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin in 1993 and were married in 2003.
Jeff Kopin & Beth Ginsburg Kopin
We were 15 year-old Machon campers on our edah yitziah to Hodag Park.
Micah Peltz & Rachel Zivic
As the sun set over Lake Buckatabon and the campers eventually went to sleep, the exciting part of our day began. We would stay up much too late shmoozing on the merpeset of Tzrif 21.
Morris Allen & Phyllis Gorin
We were in Bogrim in 1969 and hardly spoke to one another. In 1970, we became fast friends at the start of camp and maintained a friendship through most of college.
Giora Shimoni & Lisa Katz Shimoni
Lisa (Columbus, Ohio) spent the summer working at camp before going to Israel to study at the Schechter Institute and Hebrew University.
Ronen Glimer & Amy Abrams
We met during staff week in 1992. We dated the entire summer and broke up when we went back to school.
Jeffrey Kress & Adena Lebeau
Down by the agam? At a staff Peulah? In a quiet pagoda? Nope.