by Ryan Schmeltz. Ryan is a junior at Frankel Jewish Academy. (Originally appeared on The Detroit Jewish News as “Student Corner: Finding My Jewish Community”) It always fascinated me how […]
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A Letter to Alonim 2020 and All Campers in their Final Year of Camp
By: Madison Jackson Dear Alonim 2020, You probably don’t remember me but I was your live-in during summer 2015. You were Arazimers, going into 6th grade, and I was […]
A 3-Generation Ramah Family
Recently, my eldest son Omer, who lives in New York, called me. He told me with excitement that he had registered his daughter Ariel, my eldest grandchild, for Ramah Day […]
Rabbi Jeremy Pappas’ Reflection
I vividly remember my first summer as a Rosh Edah and the initial nightmare of nikuy shtachim. The typical pick-up-garbage routine wasn’t working for our edah, so I decided to […]
Nessa Geffen’s Reflection
The thread between my summers at camp, as I saw it, was not my college experience, per-se, but rather my experiences in Israel. I found that my time spent in […]
Edwin R Frankel’s Reflection
I was sixteen when I first attended a Ramah camp. It was an eye-opening experience for me. It was the beginning of more than twenty summers in which I thrived […]
Shana Zionts’s Reflection
I am a Pittsburgher, a Brandeisian, and a Ramahnik. As a Pittsburgher, I was privileged to attend a Jewish day school and was an active member of Pittsburgh’s vibrant Jewish […]
Sharon Chai’s Reflection
I have no doubt that Judaism is the basis for both my personal and professional life and the motivating force of my soul. As a child brought up in the […]
Saul P Wachs’s Reflection
I started my twenty-five years at Ramah in the summer of 1951 as a junior counselor at Ramah in the Poconos. My senior counselor was Yochanan Muffs, z”l. On the […]
Caissie Levy’s Reflection
Ramah strongly influenced my career choice and career growth. The musicals we did every summer at Ramah were huge building blocks for my career onstage. I started in Arazim when […]