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Food What Foods Are Campers Begging Parents To Send To Camp?
Unlike most camps, the one I went to when I was a kid actually allowed parents to send food. So there was no need to smuggle anything in. I was perhaps a bit more spoiled than the typical camper: My mother would send up a huge package filled with nosh before me and my siblings…
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Food Don’t Be The ‘Odd Mom Out’! 4 Fab Foods To Bring For Parents’ Weekend
Odd Mom Out, which premiered last week on Bravo, is a show about a “normal” woman named Jill living amongst a sea of prissy and perfect Upper East Side moms. Jill functions not only as comedy relief, but also as the Greek Chorus, directing our attention toward the absurdity of excessive lifestyles. In the premiere…
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Fast Forward 11-Year-Old Jewish Camper With ‘Bright Smile’ Mourned After Mystery Death
“Daniel’s bright smile brought joy to many,” read the obituary for Daniel “Ae Roo” Beer, an 11-year-old who died Monday at Jewish summer camp and was mourned at a New Jersey funeral Wednesday. “Tennis, swimming, piano, basketball, soccer and of course video games were some of the favorite things Daniel enjoyed,” the obituary continued, touching…
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Fast Forward 11-Year-Old New Jersey Boy Dies Suddenly After Falling Ill At Jewish Camp
(JTA) — (New Jersey Jewish News via JTA) — An 11-year-old boy attending a Jewish summer camp in New Jersey died after being hospitalized for what camp staff described as “gastrointestinal symptoms.” Daniel Beer of Norwood, New Jersey, was a camper at at Camp Nah-Jee-Wah in Milford, Pa., when he died on July 10 at Bon…
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The Schmooze What It’s Like To Be That Jew Who Didn’t Do Summer Camp
Every summer growing up, I had the least Jewish experience imaginable. Rather than joining the rest of my Long Island friends at Camp Pontiac or Camp Ramah, I went to the suburbs of Houston, Texas to stay with my Catholic cousins by marriage. I’d enter their house to find New Testament proverbs on walls and…
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Food 5 Sneaky Ways To Traffic Candy To Your Child In Camp
Sleepaway camps are great: The kids get to run around and be one with nature; while you, the parent, get to enjoy your summer free of kvetchy heat-stroke-afflicted children. But then, the Jewish guilt creeps in, and you begin to get anxious: Are they feeding my child enough? That feeling grows, especially as the letters…
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The Schmooze 22 Tweets That Sum Up Your Jewish Summer Camp Experience
In my final year at Jewish summer camp, a renegade Israeli counselor, fed up with the camp’s emphasis on safety and sensitivity, took my unit of teens into the woods and instructed us to drink water and then spit it into each others’ mouths. Then he read us “The Giving Tree”. Every person’s experience at…
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The Schmooze The Best Jewish Camp Movies To Watch This Summer
The founders of the first American Jewish summer camps imagined that camp could be an opportunity for Jewish city kids to breath country air and for Eastern European immigrant children to assimilate. They could not have anticipated that their creations would become populous sylvan gatherings where young people set things on fire, avail themselves of…
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