I was always interested in Jewish tradition from the time I was very young although I didn’t grow up in a halachically observant home. I was thrilled to go to […]
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Ellen Smith Ratner’s Reflection
This is a story I have wanted to share for a long time, but I knew that it would be understood only by those who have been touched by the […]
Edwin R Frankel’s Reflection
I was sixteen when I first attended a Ramah camp. It was an eye-opening experience for me. It was the beginning of more than twenty summers in which I thrived […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Jonathan Woocher’s Reflection
I spent most of my summers during that wonderful decade, the 1960s, at Camp Ramah — or better, Camps Ramah: the Poconos, Nyack, Israel Seminar, back to Poconos for Mador, […]
Rabbi Matthew Futterman’s Reflection
My friends’ stories about life at summer camps with Indian-sounding names hardly prepared me for my first summer at Ramah in the Berkshires. I had expected that like my friends […]
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, […]
Carol Fanger Bell’s Reflection
I am sure that your essays about Ramah experiences usually come from those who came to Ramah as children. I found Camp Ramah as an adult, yet it has influenced […]