Looking back to my Ramah experiences, I can trace a clear connection to my years in Ramah and my eventual aliyah. I began a long (and still ongoing) career with […]
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Daniel Landes’s Reflection
Camp Ramah made me the Orthodox rabbi I am today. I was a weak student at my local Orthodox day school in Chicago in the early 1960s and an even […]
Paul Schultz’s Reflection
My first contact with Camp Ramah was in a January 1954 phone call from Rabbi Herman Kieval, z”l, to my mother indicating that he had some scholarship money ($50) in […]
Ruth Shapiro’s Reflection
Ramah has had an important place in my life and the life of my family for fifty-seven years; almost as long as it has existed. My first summer at Ramah […]
Rabbi Neil Gillman’s Reflection
I first came to Camp Ramah in the summer of 1956 after having spent eleven summers in a conventional summer camp in Canada. By conventional, I mean a camp that […]
Phyllis Hofman Waldmann’s Reflection
I began my career with Ramah when Rabbi Burton Cohen hired me in 1963 to work part-time in the Chicago office of Camp Ramah in Wisconsin. The office was located […]
Rabbi William Lebeau’s Reflection
My fifty-year association with Ramah began in the months preceding the summer of 1957. I was nineteen years of age and in my second year as a pre- dental student […]
Anne Schiffman Bonowitz’s Reflection
Camp Ramah in the Poconos, 1950: I was twelve and had received a scholar- ship from my synagogue so I could attend camp that summer. I think I was the […]
Betsy Dolgin Katz’s Reflection
Beginnings. The role of Camp Ramah in Wisconsin in my career began with a Hebrew test and an interview with Rabbi Burton Cohen at Ner Tamid Congregation in Chicago.
Rabbi Shelly Switkin’s Reflection
In 1947, all Chicago area summer camps began on Monday, June 30, because in those days, the Chicago public schools finished on the last Friday in June. The old Chicago […]