Ramah couples celebrate simchas every year and we would love to celebrate you! Ramah marriages can be defined in many ways; whether you met your spouse at camp, or simply married another Ramahnik from a different camp, your Ramah matrimony is something special! There are more than six decades worth of wonderful stories. To have your Ramah marriage listed on our website please submit your story.
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Zach and Sarah became good friends when Sarah was in Bogrim and Zach was in Machon. Following that summer, Zach reached out to Sarah on Facebook asking if she was going back to camp in the spring of 2009. They started talking every day on the phone and inevitably started dating when they got to […]
It was the summer of 2013, Eitan and Lucy were Halutzim counselors for the second half of the summer. It wasn’t until the last weekend of camp that Eitan and Lucy realized they wanted to be more than friends. Unfortunately, they went their separate ways after the summer ended. Four years later Eitan and Lucy […]
After meeting in passing at Daber training at Ramah Darom and having their first conversation at a Weinstein Institute trip to the American Jewish University in LA, Karen and Jared reconnected on a Kerem trip to the Chava (Havat Hanoar Hatsioni) in Jerusalem. At the time, Jared was working for Ramah in Metro Detroit and […]
(Originally appeared on The New York Times as “A One-Way Ticket to Chicago”.) While Sarah Ariel Attermann spent a quiet evening at home on Jan. 18, 2019 sipping white wine on her couch in Washington, she sent Scott Michael Topal, who lived in Chicago, a Facebook message: “From what I’ve heard, you’re a great person […]
Our Ramah marriage story is less a story of us meeting, but more a story of how Ramah has been a part of our relationship. During our entire dating career, each of us spent our summers at our respective Ramah camps (Gavriella at California and Noam at Berkshires). The capstone of this summer dating separation […]
Leah and Michael met while walking to Shabbat dinner at the University of Pittsburgh Hillel during their very first weekend freshman year of college. Leah spent nine years as a camper at Ramah Darom, as well as four years as a madricha and four years as a nurse in camp’s mirpa’a (infirmary). Michael spent five […]
In 2016, when the infancy of Ramah Galim demanded a rapid influx of new staff, Yael and Bryan, aka BGOLD, arrived on the delegation to save the day. Yael took a kitchen position and Bryan became Rosh Harpatka and a counselor for eight year olds. Though Yael and Bryan had met briefly in passing at […]
Ariel and Isaac grew up together in the same community and at Schechter and became close friends when high school began. Ariel’s mother and Isaac’s father were on the same Seminar bus in 1976, and Isaac started attending Ramah Wisconsin as a camper in 2006. Ariel joined him in 2008, where they continued to grow […]
Becca and Jeremy likely went to Ramah Nyack together many moons ago but at that point they never really spoke (you know, cooties!) When Jeremy started at Ramah Berkshires in Tzeirim, Becca remembered him as the “Disney chip&dale hat boy” from Nyack but it was not until their Machon summer that their friendship began to […]
Chuck and I knew about each other from 1965 when he went on Israel Seminar with friends of mine from Ramah in Connecticut. In 1969, I was a student at Hebrew University and Chuck was visiting Israel for the summer. He was staying in the Old City in a place without running water and he […]