In April of 1951, I returned to the United States after a six-year stint in Europe. I had served as a U.S. Army chaplain in Germany and Austria and then […]
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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 […]
Jonathan Hersch & Julie Lipson Hersch
Julie and I met in Halutzim in 1979. From the moment I met her, I thought she was the cutest girl at camp, but we didn’t “go out” until Machon […]