Camp Ramah made me the Orthodox rabbi I am today. I was a weak student at my local Orthodox day school in Chicago in the early 1960s and an even […]
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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Charles T Mann’s Reflection
I grew up on Long Island in a relatively assimilated home. My parents went to the local Conservative synagogue three days a year. Our home was not kosher, yet my […]
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 […]
Paul Schultz’s Reflection
My first contact with Camp Ramah was in a January 1954 phone call from Rabbi Herman Kieval, z”l, to my mother indicating that he had some scholarship money ($50) in […]
Leonard Kaplan and Mayer Bubba Mitchell’s Reflection
I raised four children in Mobile, a small southern town, and luckily they all married Jews. But with the intermarriage rate at over 50%, I was concerned for my eight […]
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 […]
Ruth Shapiro’s Reflection
Ramah has had an important place in my life and the life of my family for fifty-seven years; almost as long as it has existed. My first summer at Ramah […]
Rabbi Gerald C Skolnik’s Reflection
Ramah didn’t just “change my life” in the colloquial sense. It really changed my life in virtually every sense and every way.
Susan North Gilboa’s Reflection
My life’s journey took me down a path of no return when I spent my first summer as a camper at Ramah in Palmer, Massachusetts, in 1968. From that point […]