Director resigns as Ramah camp settles sexual assault lawsuit
The lawsuit claimed the former director, Rabbi Ethan Linden of Ramah Berkshires, described an alleged perpetrator as “just a horny little boy”
The lawsuit claimed the former director, Rabbi Ethan Linden of Ramah Berkshires, described an alleged perpetrator as “just a horny little boy”
Wolves are attacking Israeli campsites in efforts to take small children and babies, Haaretz reported. Arabian wolves — a subspecies of gray wolf — have attacked campers in 10 different incidents in the last four months, experts say. Israel’s wolves, which number between 100-150, are apparently losing their fear of humans. “Imagine a wolf that…
I was taken aback when I read Peter Beinart’s article, “Is Judaism a Big Tent?” just a few days after returning from a four week kayaking trip with my daughter through our ancestral homeland of Lithuania. Each day, we paddled along Lithuanian rivers, large and small — the Neris, Levuo, Nevezis, Nemunas, and Minija —…
Every year for the past six, I’ve spent an early summer weekend camping with several dozen Jewish parents (mostly fathers) and their elementary-school-age kids. We all live in the New York area, but roughly one-quarter grew up in Israel. The other three-quarters hail from the United States or other parts of the Diaspora. Over the…
The Pew Research Center’s “Portrait of Jewish Americans” has triggered much debate in the Jewish community. Its key findings — that younger Jews are not only less connected to, but are also less interested in, Jewish life — puts in sharp relief the challenge before us. If we go by numbers alone, the non-Orthodox American…
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