Summer Youth Experiences

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Winter Break Fun for Jewish Families: New Online Arts & STEM Online Programming!

December 16, 2020

This winter, ReformJudaism.org is proud to introduce a simple way for families with school-aged children to take part in fun, meaningful Jewish experiences that will also help them connect to and engage with their local Reform Jewish community.

Kids playing in the gazebo at Camp Kalsman

Summer Youth Experiences

What You Need to Know about Reform Jewish Summer Camp

Although the COVID-19 pandemic put summer camp on a hold during 2020, the URJ looks forward to safely reopening our camps in summer 2021. If you’re new to the Reform summer camp experience and want to learn more about what it offers, here are a few of the things we’re most proud of, during summer 2021 and beyond.

Four female campers of middle school age sitting on the sidewalk together with their arms around one another and smiling

Summer Youth Experiences

9 Things to Love about Jewish Summer Camp

Leah Jacobson

First as a camper and now as a counselor, I've learned so much from my time at UReform Jewish summer camp. Here are just a few of the things camp has taught me that make me love being here.

The author smiles while wearing a long sleeved tie dyed shirt that says NFTY GER across the front

COVID-19

Perfect Weather for a NFTY T-Shirt: Chance Encounters and Shared Humanity

Donald C. Cutler

October 20, 2020

“I was in NFTY!” a stranger told me, spotting my years-old T-shirt. This feeling of knowing all of us, that we truly did meet at Sinai, or at least a camp, provides comfort during uncomfortable times.

Rabbi Max Chaiken wears a green shirt and blows the shofar

Jewish Values

Navigating COVID: Our Ancestors Pointed the Way

Aron Hirt-Manheimer

August 25, 2020

Rabbi Max Chaiken, our Ten Minutes of Torah commentator for the Book of Deuteronomy, is the associate rabbi of Congregation Kol Ami in Los Angeles, CA. We talk to him about his Jewish journey and the ideas behind his commentaries.