I can still remember the first time I saw him. The batter stood poised at home plate, his brown hair pulled back in a loose ponytail, and the fringes of […]
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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John S Ruskay’s Reflection
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, […]
Rabbi William Lebeau’s Reflection
My fifty-year association with Ramah began in the months preceding the summer of 1957. I was nineteen years of age and in my second year as a pre- dental student […]
Benny Gamlieli’s Reflection
Camp Ramah has had a major impact on my family. From a social perspective, my two sons Omer and Itai developed many close friendships at camp and have kept many […]
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson’s Reflection
I have fifteen-year-old twins — Jacob and Shira — in my opinion, both of them wonderful, extraordinary children and both of them in their own way, very devoted to Jewish […]
Yossi Katz’s Reflection
The day after I graduated from Temple University in May 1978, I got on an El Al airplane and made aliyah to Israel. There were four major influences on my […]
Sara Rubinow Simon’s Reflection
Two of us were widowed and remarried. Two of us are rabbinic spouses. We had fifteen children, and we have nineteen grandchildren thus far. Most of our grandchildren attend Jewish […]
Rabbi David Wolpe’s Reflection
Camp is a series of snapshots: in the Poconos on the lake, in California on the mountains, at Palmer on the vast green. As a camper I enjoyed Ramah; as […]
Anne Schiffman Bonowitz’s Reflection
Camp Ramah in the Poconos, 1950: I was twelve and had received a scholar- ship from my synagogue so I could attend camp that summer. I think I was the […]
Betsy Dolgin Katz’s Reflection
Beginnings. The role of Camp Ramah in Wisconsin in my career began with a Hebrew test and an interview with Rabbi Burton Cohen at Ner Tamid Congregation in Chicago.