Ramah Nyack has a tradition I term “sentimental popcorn.” On the last Shabbat of the summer, staff members pop up around the room and share meaningful moments and defining memories.
Archive | Alumni Reflections
RSS feed for this sectionEvery Ramah alumni story is different, but the message is always the same: the lasting impact of Ramah is incredibly powerful. Read what others have written and share your own story as well! To submit a reflection please email [email protected]
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Aviva Davis’s Reflection
Judaism has been a part of my life since I was born. My mother snuck Shabbat candles into the hospital in preparation for my birth and I was born on […]
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 […]
Maya Dolgin’s Reflection
I began the working as a madricha at Ramah Nyack in the summer of 2005, in the Nevonim edah (rising fifth graders). I loved that the goal at camp was […]
Daniel Gavens’ Reflection
The Conservative Movement has always played an important role in my life, the center of which was USY and Ramah. I grew up at Camp Ramah in California where I […]
Asher Schlusselberg’s Reflection
I was brought up in a small town in West Texas, with an even smaller Jewish community. In my day school class, there were eleven kids at our largest, but […]
Arie Hasit’s Reflection
At the age of 14, following my fifth summer at Camp Ramah in the Poconos, I made a life-changing decision: one day I would make aliyah and become a Masorti […]
Alan Silberman’s Reflection
If you went to Ramah, it was probably at camp. For me, it was the beginning of an understanding that, despite the confusions of adolescence, everything really can come together […]
Rabbi Rob Dobrusin’s Reflection
Camp Ramah in New England’s alumnus Rabbi Rob Dobrusin wrote about a memory of his time at Ramah on his blog. It was the custom at Ramah that each bunk would […]
Rabbi Ronald Levine’s Reflection
It was Friday night, June 29, 1956 — the first Shabbat of the first full summer of Camp Ramah in California. One hundred and fifty of us, probably dressed in […]