We met sitting across from each other in the hadar ochel in the Poconos. Barry was a machon counselor and Cooki was a Madornik.
Archive | Poconos Marriages
RSS feed for this sectionRamah 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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Joshua Skoff & Ilana Hoffer Skoff
We had each been campers and staff at different Ramah camps for years, as had our siblings. We had each been in Washington, DC in 1983, going to the same […]
Craig Caplan & Harriet Goldner Caplan
We were staff in the same edah in the summer of 1985 at Ramah Poconos. Harriet, who was from Baltimore, was a counselor and I was a junior counselor from […]
Todd Goodstein & Alisa Rubin Goodstein
Alisa and I met first met at camp when she was in Gesher and I was attending my first year at Ramah working in the kitchen (influenced by Barry Magen […]
Alan Goldman & Missy Stein-Goldman
Summer of 1983. I was finally in the oldest edah, Gesher. It was Alan’s first summer at camp as a counselor. However, it wasn’t until 1987 that we truly fell […]
Elliot Dorff & Marlynn Wertheimer Dorff
We were really a mixed marriage because Elliot grew up in Milwaukee and the Wisconsin camp and Marlynn grew up in Philadelphia and the Poconos camp. We met in Mador […]
Billy Landsburg & Robin Sue Schwartz Landsburg
Rabbi David Mogilner, z”l, told Robin Sue that he could see something special about the two of us. Forty years later we still have that special Ramah feeling in our […]
Matthew Seltzer & Stacy Lipschutz Seltzer
We met at Camp Ramah in the Poconos in the summer of 2002. Matthew was a counselor, entering his sophomore year at the University of Maryland and Stacy was a […]
David Apothaker & Carol Mendelsohn Apothaker
We met as staff working in the same edah.
Barry Blum & Amy Cohen Blum
Both of us had been campers at Poconos, but it wasn’t until we were on staff and found ourselves shooting some hoops together, that we recognized how much we enjoyed […]