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Fast Forward Summer Camp Board Asked To Resign For Ignoring Director’s Predatory Behavior
(JTA) — The president of a Jewish camps association in New Jersey has urged its entire board to resign, in the wake of an investigation finding that the board knew for years about the predatory behavior of its former executive director. The New York Jewish Week reported Wednesday that Peter Horowitz, the current president of…
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Fast Forward LOOK: Giant Menorah Survives Jewish Camp Ravaged By Fire
On top of the hill, above the barren soil charred by wildfire, Camp Hess Kramer’s menorah remained standing. The Jewish summer camp in the Malibu hills posted a haunting photo Sunday on its Facebook page that detailed just a portion of the damage created by the Woolsey fire, one of three that has raged through…
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Life Rosé, Sex, & Bonfires: Inside The World Of Adult Jewish Summer Camp
‘There are four types of people who come to adult Jewish summer camp,” Carine Warsawsky, founder and CEO of Trybal Gatherings, said. “The FOMOs (people who never went to camp,) the Nostalgics (former campers,) the Do-Overs (former campers who had a rotten time,) and Tagalongs (people brought by their friends.)” I nodded, pretending to be…
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Breaking News Rutgers Anti-Semitism Allegations Probed By Feds
NEW YORK (JTA) — An investigation into an allegedly anti-Semitic incident at Rutgers University is being reopened by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Kenneth Marcus, the department’s new assistant secretary for civil rights, wrote in a letter last week that a pro-Palestinian event at the New Jersey state school in January…
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Fast Forward Goldman Sachs’ Next CEO Owns A Camp For Children Of The Elite
Outside the office, David Solomon, Goldman Sachs’ next chief executive, goes by a few monikers. When he’s spinning records after hours in New York and Miami clubs, he goes by the name DJ D-Sol. Over the summer, at Camp Robin Hood in New Hampshire, he’s simply known as “Sol.” Solomon is one of the owners…
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News What Jewish Camps Taught Your Kids About Israel This Summer
One of the most ubiquitous programs at Jewish summer camp used to be the mock IDF boot camp. Israeli counselors would take their charges into an open field, or maybe an obstacle course, and make them respond to commands in Hebrew. Campers would be ordered to stand still at attention, or to march in formation,…
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Fast Forward Scientists Concerned About Radioactive Pollution At Los Angeles Jewish Camp
Four nationally known scientists are recommending new testing at a popular Los Angeles-area Jewish camp to determine if contaminants at a nearby former nuclear testing site have posed health risks to past and current campers, NBC Los Angeles reported. The scientists independently reached that conclusion after reviewing various reports of past testing at Camp Alonim…
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News Ex-Camper Accuses Female Orthodox Counselor Of ‘Traumatic’ Sex Abuse
When Leah Sokolovsky was 15, she spent many Friday nights sleeping over at the home of the 20-year-old assistant head counselor of her ultra-Orthodox summer camp. The two had not been particularly close at camp. But during the school year that followed, the counselor, an ultra-Orthodox woman named Gittie Sheinkopf, cultivated Sokolovsky. Sokolovsky says Sheinkopf…
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