FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP AND JCAMP 180® PARTNER TO PRESENT THE JEWISH CAMP SUMMIT IN DECEMBER 2024
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by Foundation for Jewish Camp
5M ago
The joint event will be host to two established conferences and run from December 8-11, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago.    October 24, 2023 – Foundation for Jewish Camp (FJC) and JCamp 180, a program of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation (HGF), are partnering to host a joint Jewish Camp Summit December 8-11, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago. This event will be the first time the organizations will host their respective conferences—the annual Jcamp 180 Conference and FJC’s biennial Leaders Assembly—consecutively and in a shared venue with intentional and collaborative pl ..read more
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Gen Z @ Camp
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by Foundation For Jewish Camp
11M ago
Rachel Anszelowicz at NJY Camps in 2022 For the past two years, we, Rachel and Adena, have watched the field of Jewish Camp grow and welcome a new generation of staff members. As the Mental Health, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Day Camp and Early Childhood Fellows respectively, we both have spent the past two years working at Foundation for Jewish Camp and spending our summers as supervisors of both Gen Z staff and campers in our respective camp communities. Many of us who have been working with camp staff over the last 3 years have experienced what it is like to work with and superv ..read more
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Foundation for Jewish Camp Appoints David Korenthal As Midwest Regional Director 
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by Foundation For Jewish Camp
11M ago
Chicago, IL (April 28, 2023) – Foundation for Jewish Camp (FJC) is pleased to announce the appointment of David Korenthal as its new full-time Midwest Regional Director. The Midwest Regional Center, the first of three current regional centers, has been a source of creativity and innovation in the industry. The foundation’s field-changing One Happy Camper® grant program and its annual field-wide Camper Satisfaction Insights surveys both originated in the Midwest. The center currently serves day and overnight camps in the Chicago area, including hosting the Midwest Camp Leadership Network progra ..read more
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Avodah Institute for Social Change Partners with Foundation for Jewish Camp
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by Foundation For Jewish Camp
1y ago
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW YORK (January 23, 2023) — Avodah is proud to announce that it has partnered with Foundation for Jewish Camp (FJC) for the second cohort program of the Avodah Institute for Social Change. The 18-month program trains Jewish community professionals to develop their Jewish justice skills. Avodah established the Institute in response to a growing demand from Jewish organizations for professional development that would help promote greater diversity, equity, and inclusion within their communities. Through retreats, workshops, coaching, and peer mentoring, the Institute will ..read more
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Multi-Million Dollar Initiative Expands to Further Advance and Sustain Mental Health at Camps, Enters New Phase 
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by Foundation For Jewish Camp
1y ago
New York, NY (November 17, 2022) — Deepening its commitment to supporting the growing complexity of mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health (MESSH) needs of camps, Foundation for Jewish Camp has announced enhanced mental health supports for a third group of thirty Jewish summer camps. Building on the success of two previous cohort of the Yedid Nefesh initiative, FJC will now be extending financial, communal, and educational supports to a total of 99 Jewish day and overnight camps across North America.  “Camps are already fertile ground for self-discovery and strengthening confiden ..read more
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Recovering Hak’hel: The Lost Art of Youth Engagement
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by Foundation for Jewish Camp
1y ago
by Joseph Reimer Many of us are looking forward to gathering this Sukkot with family and friends in the make-shift sukkah that reminds us that, even with our good fortune, we dwell precariously in the presence of the Divine. A less well-known gathering on Sukkot is called “Hak’hel.” As described in last week’s Torah portion, every seventh year during Sukkot all of Israel is to gather -presumably around the Temple- to hear the reading of the Torah. “Gather the people-men, women, children and the strangers in your communities- that they may hear and so learn to revere the Lord your God and to ob ..read more
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Foundation for Jewish Camp to Embark on Crucial Research on Character Development at Camp
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by Foundation for Jewish Camp
1y ago
New York, NY (August 18, 2022) — Foundation for Jewish Camp (FJC) has been awarded a three-year expansive research grant from the John Templeton Foundation to explore how the activities and rituals at Jewish overnight camp nurture and promote character development in adolescent campers and camp staff.    Findings of an earlier landscape survey of current virtue development practices at Jewish camps and a series of interviews with camp professionals identified kindness as the most common virtue camps desire to nurture in their communities. This next phase of in-depth research wil ..read more
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A “Just For The Summer” Romance
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by Foundation for Jewish Camp
1y ago
By Stacy Seltzer Twenty years ago, in 2002, we met at Camp Ramah in the Poconos. Kelly Clarkson became the first American Idol winner, introducing, “A Moment Like This” into our lives. A Walk to Remember, Catch me if you Can, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding were popular movies. And everyone loved playing “snake” on their Nokia cell phones. Stacy had just graduated from high school and was headed to Muhlenberg College that fall. Before college, she was excited to head back to Ramah, her home away from home, to be on staff at the same place where she had spent almost every summer since she was ten ..read more
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An Open Letter to Camp Professionals
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by Foundation For Jewish Camp
1y ago
We know this summer has been hard. You’re doing great. Being a camp professional has never been easy. And over the past few years, your responsibilities have grown increasingly complex. We’re amazed at your commitment and have watched as you’ve pivoted, mitigated, and adapted your plans – and yourselves – over and over again. We see you. You’re not in this alone. Camp professionals across North America echo your struggles. And yet, there isn’t a single right way to navigate through this storm. We know you lead with your values and do your best with the situation at hand. The one consistent thi ..read more
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Growing Into Camp – Not Out Of It
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by Foundation For Jewish Camp
1y ago
By Lillian Feldman-Hill, RN For many people, camp is an experience of childhood, frivolity, and an escape from the drudgery of school or professional life. Even for many of our counselors, the expectation is that they will work in the summers during college, but once they have a “real job”, their time with 6 Points will expire. But I imagine a world where people do not grow out of camp – they grow into it. In 2013, I was working as a Jewish Educator in LA when whisperings of URJ’s new specialty camp, 6 Points Sci-Tech, began floating around. I jumped on board immediately and had the distinct h ..read more
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