In 1947 I was a sixteen-year-old in the Machon. My last summer was 1951, when I had the uniquely combined positions of camping and canoeing counselor and third cook. In […]
Tag Archives Ramah Wisconsin
Benjamin Derman’s Reflection
I was a camper at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin from 1999–2004, a participant on Ramah Seminar in 2005, and a counselor in 2006.
Rabbi Elliot Dorff’s Reflection
I grew up in a typical “second-generation” Jewish home in Milwaukee. The vast majority of my contemporaries dropped out of Jewish education after their bar or bat mitzvah, and they […]
Matthew Cantor & Aviva Fink Cantor
We first met in Israel on Seminar Plus, but we didn’t keep in touch after the summer. Matt continued on as a counselor at Wisconsin, and Aviva returned to Palmer.
Brad Hirschfield & Becky Klawans Hirschfield
Although we are both from Beth El in Highland Park, we didn’t get to know each other until we were both on staff in the Northwoods.
Ari Derman & Talia Goldblatt Derman
We met in 1996, our Solelim summer at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin.
Devra Ariel
Ramah gave me the love of Israel and Torah, gave me the educational background, the Hebrew, the experiences (seminar and ulpan), the mishlachat, the infrastructure to make possible what to […]
Judy Singer Firestone
The emphasis on Hebrew, Israeli shlichim, and the total community phenomenon Ramah provides was enough to motivate me and many others to choose aliyah, as a natural extension of my […]
Sarah Cytryn
Living in Israel gave me the feeling of being home, just like Ramah had done for me.
Gary T’Har-Lev (Chesnin)
Gary T’Har-Lev (Chesnin) is a Wisconsin, New England and Berkshires Ramahnik from 1965 – 1970. He made aliyah in 1975.