I am a Pittsburgher, a Brandeisian, and a Ramahnik. As a Pittsburgher, I was privileged to attend a Jewish day school and was an active member of Pittsburgh’s vibrant Jewish […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Sharon Chai’s Reflection
I have no doubt that Judaism is the basis for both my personal and professional life and the motivating force of my soul. As a child brought up in the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Leonard Kaplan and Mayer Bubba Mitchell’s Reflection
I raised four children in Mobile, a small southern town, and luckily they all married Jews. But with the intermarriage rate at over 50%, I was concerned for my eight […]
Caissie Levy’s Reflection
Ramah strongly influenced my career choice and career growth. The musicals we did every summer at Ramah were huge building blocks for my career onstage. I started in Arazim when […]
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 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.