My life’s journey took me down a path of no return when I spent my first summer as a camper at Ramah in Palmer, Massachusetts, in 1968. From that point […]
Tag Archives Ramah at 60
Bruce Lipton’s Reflection
As Ramah celebrates sixty years, I am celebrating my twentieth working summer at Camp Ramah in the Poconos. I feel a debt of gratitude to Ramah because my association with […]
Stacey Cohen’s Reflection
When I think of camp, my mind instantly races to any given Friday. It is a hectic work day for everyone. For swim staff, the day begins early; classes are […]
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, […]
Yaier Lehrer’s Reflection
My initial contact with Camp Ramah in 1963 was by virtue of the fact that both of my parents, my father Menachem Lehrer, z”l, and my mother Rachel, were members […]
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 […]
Rabbi Robert D Wexler’s Reflection
As someone who did not grow up spending summers at Camp Ramah in California, it took me a while to understand the deep connection that former campers and staff members […]
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 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 […]
Jessica M Cooperman’s Reflection
I want to share this story because Ramah Canada is one of my most favorite places in the world, and my experience there was life changing and one of the […]