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Fast Forward 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”
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News COVID came to Jewish camps this summer, sending staff and parents scrambling
'I don't think any of us were prepared,' said Jeremy Fingerman, head of the Foundation for Jewish Camp
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Fast Forward Ramah in the Rockies avoids layoffs after receiving federal grant
(JTA) — The staff at Ramah in the Rockies got a rare bit of good news on Tuesday: Just days after applying for a grant designed to help small businesses weather the coronavirus-induced financial crisis, the Jewish summer camp had been approved. The organization had applied for the grant, made available as part of the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Summer Camp Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Reopened Under New York’s New Law
Two men are reopening a civil suit against the organization that runs the national Ramah chain of Conservative Jewish sleep-away camps, alleging that they suffered sexual abuse and that the camp’s administration covered up the abuse. (Disclosure: The law firm representing the plaintiffs is using the Forward’s website and email subscriber list to advertise this…
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News How a Winter Fire Burned Down the Walls Between a Jewish Summer Camp and Its Neighbors
To get to Camp Ramah Darom in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, you drive up Interstate 85, North, out of Atlanta, the nearest big city, for almost an hour. Just a little past Peachtree Corners, you turn onto old U.S. Route 23. From there it’s 35 minutes or so, deep into the mountains,…
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The Schmooze JDate Hooks You Up With Your Old Camp Flame
Kurt Hoffman (JTA) — Beth and Jeff Kopin are one of an estimated 700 married couples to have met at one of the Conservative movement’s Ramah camps. The Kopins, who fell in love at Ramah Wisconsin in the 1970s, went on to raise a flock of “Ramahniks.” “There’s this family feeling if you meet another…
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News Blind Camper’s Case Spotlights Special Needs
Solomon Krishef was thrilled to learn that this summer he could go to his Jewish sleepaway camp for eight weeks – twice as long as the previous four summers. It was not to be for the Michigan teenager. During visiting day in the middle of the summer, his family says, the camp director told them…
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