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It
is often at the most extreme moments in life when things
become most clear. This week, we learned Rabbi
Phyllis Sommer's son is fighting
leukemia. Rabbi Sommer is a faculty member at
OSRUI and works tirelessly to build a supportive Jewish
community each summer at camp.
It is unfortunate
tragedy that reminds us the Jewish community
transcends place and time and sustains and
supports us all year, every year. We pray for Rabbi
Sommer's son's well being and we pray each summer at
every camp that the community we build continues to
sustain body and soul.
 Recharging at Camp
Coleman 
URJ Camp
Coleman
It didn't
take long for Beth Zarefksy Young, Director of
Education at a synagogue in Florida, to remember how
much she loved camp. During her recent visit, she found
Judaism everywhere — from
the sound of 400 voices singing HaMotzi to
noisy cabin cheers, from the zip line, up the ropes
course and through the ga-ga pits. Read more »
 Camp is
Life
URJ Camp
Newman
Even after 25
years as a camp director, Camp Newman's Ruben
Arquilevich continues to learn something new every
day from the world of camp. In the first blog post of
his new series, Ruben looks at how camp supports
campers, staff and faculty in building pathways to
Judaism, both literally and figuratively. Read more »
 A View to a Grill
URJ Jacobs
Camp
Between 240 campers,
100 staff, 267 acres, 38 buildings, seven incoming
phone lines and two internet-enabled devices,
Jacobs Camp Director J.C. Cohen is one busy man!
Luckily, he is able to slow down every week as he takes
to the grill for the Sunday night cookout, appreciating
the magic of camp right before his eyes. Read
more »
 Community I've Been
Craving
Hava Nashira Kivun songleader training at
URJ Olin-Sang-Ruby Union
Institute
As URJ Camp Harlam's
opening day approaches, songleader Max Chaiken takes a
moment to reflect on his time at Hava Nashira, a
songleading workshop held recently at
OSRUI. So how was it? "In every year, in every
song, in every sunrise, I feel a stronger sense of
purpose, commitment and spiritual growth," he
said. Read
more »
 Leadership Through Depth, Purpose &
Character
URJ Kutz
Camp
As NFTY's youth
leadership gathers today for their
yearly board meeting, the Kutz staff looks back to
last week when the URJ's adult leadership
visited for a staff retreat. It's clear that Kutz
embodies what URJ President Rabbi Jacobs recently
summarized: Jewish life, like Kutz, is about
developing "depth, purpose &
character." Read
more »
 An Anthem for Summer: Chazak V'amatz, Be
Strong
URJ Jacobs
Camp
The first Shabbat of
camp is always a magical one, and Rabbi Scott
Hausman-Weiss's creative D'var Torah at
Jacobs Camp made it even more so. Find out what happens
when "the Israelite campers, drawn from all parts of the
South" investigate "the Promised Land" of camp to find
that the real magic of camp is in us. Read
more »
 As You
Teach, You Learn
URJ
Greene Family Camp
Rabbi David Komerofsky,
Executive Director of Hillel at the University of Texas,
has traded campus life for camp life for the past 13
summers! This year, while preparing for the campers to
arrive, he developed some creative new ways to teach
Jewish curriculum to kids who would sometimes,
admittedly, "rather be
swimming." Read
more
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