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Camp Ramah

four young boys smile and greet each other with Israeli flags in the background
Posted inWorld

Camp Ramah returns to Ukraine after a war-induced exile — now with a bomb shelter

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov August 8, 2023

(JTA) — Ramah Yachad, a Ukrainian Jewish summer camp, celebrated its 30th anniversary last year in exile, having relocated to Romania following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that February. This year, […]

A 1949 advertisement for a JCC summer camp
Posted inFrom the Archives

A century ago, Jewish summer camps promised ‘mental and moral strength’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky July 12, 2022
Libs of TikTok, a Twitter account popular in the right-wing political media space, named Camp Ramah in California in a tweet, July 6, 2022. Background: The entrance to Ramah in Ojai. (Photo/JTA-Stephen Osman-Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Posted inCalifornia

A Jewish camp is reassuring families amid a ‘social media offensive’ over its inclusion of trans children

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA July 8, 2022
More than 750 campers and 300 counselors attended Camp Ramah in the Berkshires in the summer of 2015. (Photo/JTA-Uriel Heilman)
Posted inUncategorized, U.S.

Lawsuit alleges mishandling of 15-year-old’s sex assault allegation at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA May 10, 2022
Rabbis Becca Walker (left) and Ariella Rosen became the first same-sex rabbinical couple to be married in the Conservative movement. (Photo/JTA-Kelly Prizel Photography)
Posted inUnions

Their same-sex rabbinical wedding was a historic first for the Conservative movement

Alix Wall by Alix Wall and JTA November 10, 2021
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg in Mountain View, 2019 (Photo/JTA-Ian Tuttle-Getty Images)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Which local Jewish institutions shared the $1.3M Zuckerberg-Chan gift?

by Dan Pine October 6, 2021October 7, 2021
Sam Blitzstein’s copy of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," opened to the most dramatic page.
Posted inCulture

An oral history of the most epic summer camp prank of all time: a Harry Potter spoiler

Louis Keene by Louis Keene and Forward September 1, 2021
Sylvie Rosen, 22, was a staff member at Ramah in the Rockies for five summers before running into controversy there this year. (Photo/Courtesy Rosen)
Posted inU.S.

Jewish camp denies it removed a counselor because of her views on Israel

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA August 7, 2019
children lined up on the beach at night waving their arms in the air
Posted inNews

IfNotNow vs. Camp Ramah: how the occupation is shaking up summer camp

by Dina Kraft and Haaretz June 19, 2018June 19, 2018
Zach Braff in "Alex, Inc."
Posted inColumns

Zach Braff’s new show; Camp Ramah on ‘Goldbergs’; Judd Apatow’s new Gary Shandling doc

by Nate Bloom March 25, 2018March 23, 2018

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