By Aaron Selkow, Director of Camp Harlam I sat in a classroom last week with fellow URJ camp directors, Rabbi Mark Covitz (GUCI) and Bobby Harris (Coleman), along with my colleague at Camp Harlam, Rabbi Vicki Tuckman. There was a graph mapped out on the floor with lots of different papers spread across it, and there were more than 40 Israeli staff (Shlichim, or “emissaries”) sitting around the room. These staff members will be travelling to work with our camps this summer, including 26 at Harlam, and the classroom was at Kibbutz Shefayim in Israel. This was my tenth time [...]
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Shabbat Shalom! (In Your Camp T-Shirt)
This past Tuesday, many of you submitted amazing pictures of you and your friends wearing Camp Harlam gear! See yourself and all of the other participants across North America in this slideshow. With that, please continue to show incredible the spirit for Camp Harlam that you always do. Shabbat Shalom from all of us here at the camp office!
My NFTY Summer Experience
Click here to check out what Camp Harlam’s own Lauren Waldman had to say about her summer on NFTY in Israel. She joined over 70 other Harlamites for a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Her reflections were published in the Jewish Times of South Jersey. For more information on NFTY in Israel, visit their website.
