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One challenge in Expedition Nai, a global virtual color war for Jewish young adults, was to take a piece of old clothing and turn it into something cool. (Screenshot from YouTube)
Posted inU.S.

A global virtual color war for Jewish millennials could be a model for summer camp in the Covid-19 era

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA May 22, 2020
Campers playing on the water at Camp Modin. The camp is perhaps the first Jewish camp in the country to announce, in detail, how it plans to open. (Photo/Courtesy Camp Modin)
Posted inU.S.

A Jewish camp in Maine is actually opening. Here’s how it plans to keep Covid-19 away.

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA May 18, 2020
Campers at Camp Ramah Northern California. (Photo/Courtesy Camp Ramah)
Posted inNews

Ramah NorCal and Eden Village West latest overnight summer camps to cancel

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 14, 2020May 14, 2020
Fun with water balloons at Maccabi Sports Camp during summer 2019. (Courtesy JCC Maccabi Sports Camp)
Posted inBay Area, News

Camp Tawonga, JCC Maccabi Sports cancel overnight summer programs due to coronavirus

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 7, 2020May 7, 2020
URJ Camp Newman (seen here before it was ravaged by fire in 2017) has decided to cancel summer 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo/File)
Posted inBay Area, News

Camp Newman cancels summer season because of coronavirus

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 30, 2020
Camp Ramah in the Rockies (Photo/Courtesy Ramah)
Posted inBay Area, U.S., News

Will there be camp this summer? Three Jewish camps will decide this week, and likely delay.

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA April 28, 2020April 28, 2020
Disability rights activists Denise Sherer Jacobson and Neil Jacobson, subjects of "Crip Camp," in their early 20s. (Photo/Courtesy Netflix)
Posted inCulture, Film, TV & Film

‘Crip Camp’: disability rights activists and their summer of love

Lezak Shallat by Lezak Shallat April 23, 2020April 27, 2020
Camp Ramah in the Rockies (Photo/Courtesy Ramah)
Posted inBay Area, U.S., Northern California, California, News

Ramah in the Rockies Jewish summer camp averts layoffs with a federal grant

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA April 7, 2020April 7, 2020
Camp cabins
Posted inPhilanthropy

How Jewish summer camps are preparing for the coronavirus

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA March 12, 2020March 12, 2020
URJ Camp Newman in Santa Rosa, one year after the summer camp was largely destroyed by fire (Photo/Courtesy URJ Camp Newman)
Posted inBay Area, Northern California, News

Two local Jewish camps get grants to increase accessibility

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 23, 2019

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