We met in the first Mador (the summer of ’59) at Ramah in the Poconos. Although I had gone to the Poconos all along, Stuart was from Ramah in Connecticut […]
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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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Geoffrey Menkowitz & Elana Genut Menkowitz
Elana and my sister grew up in the same edah at camp. In the summer of ’93, I was Elana’s younger brother’s counselor. But we didn’t really get to know […]
Miles P. Bunder & Alida Krovetz Bunder
Miles was asked to drive the Baum Meat Truck from NY with luggage. As he followed the bus of staff to camp, two girls made faces at him from the […]
Jeffrey Tigay & Helene Zubkoff Tigay
Helene and I were students at JTS and had met briefly there, but it was at Ramah in the Poconos, where we were both staff members in 1963, that we […]
Shelly Dorph & Gail Zaiman Dorph
I saw Gail across a crowded chadar ochel at the end of the summer. I lured her back to camp for a special training program.
Benjamin Segal & Judith Moldavi Segal
We met as campers, began “dating” at age 14, have stayed together since.
Bruce Lipton & Meryl Sussman
We were engaged around Thanksgiving 1991, and married on Hanukkah in 1992. Cheryl Magen, our chadchanit, made our ketubah and was one of our witnesses.
Michael Schwab & Erica Gross Schwab
We met at camp and in USY. Ramah was the perfect place for a relationship to develop between two young Jewish people.
Joshua David Abrams & Rachael Schultz Abrams
Rachael and Josh met during the summer of 1995 as junior counselors. The following summer, they were counselors for Shoafim and became friends.
Steven Sietz & Ephie Brand Sietz
Ephie and I met by chance at a staff basketball game one summer evening in 1985. We spent the rest of that summer getting to know each other and continued […]