Camp Ramah, the summer camp of the Conservative Movement, had such profound significance for me. Raised in a marginal Jewish family, indifferent to the content of my Hebrew school experience, […]
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RSS feed for this sectionCarol Fanger Bell’s Reflection
I am sure that your essays about Ramah experiences usually come from those who came to Ramah as children. I found Camp Ramah as an adult, yet it has influenced […]
Jonathan D Sarna’s Reflection
Unless you teach him how to swim, I won’t take him back home again!” This was the warning supposedly issued by my late father, Professor Nahum M. Sarna, z”l, to […]
Barbara Paris’s Reflection
When I was twelve years old, my parents sent me to Ramah Berkshires — that was 1964. I returned every summer, went on Israel Seminar in 1968, and later was […]
Rabbi Menachem Creditor’s Reflection
Just last week, my family returned from seven days at Camp Ramah in Ojai, CA, where I served as Camp Rabbi. What makes me most sad to have left was […]