Camp Emunah Dresses Tznius in Rashi’s Memory
For Summer of 5774, Camp Emunah, AKA B’nos Yaakov Yehudah, launched a special tznius campaign called “Dressed to Greet Moshiach” in memory of a Camp Emunah alumna, Shlucha Mrs. Rashi Minkowicz, OBM.
Today, the girls who have been particularly careful with dressing and behaving in a proper tznius manner over the past few weeks were treated to a special trip to “The Castle,” where they enjoyed Rock Climbing, Batting Cages, Go-Carting, Roller Blading, Rides and so much more.
Great
Wonderful!!!!
But What were they doing until now…:-)
Ditto
That was my question too.
I could see a campaign like this for a “talmud Torah” program or a Chabad House Gan Izzy. But Camp Emunah????
Mah nishtana halaila hazeh????
Anonymous
I think it’s sad to see them dressed like this in warm weather.They should be comfortable.
Beautiful
It’s so sad to see you in your miniskirt and short sleeves in the wintertime!
Do these girls not look comfortable CH”S?
They are comfortable, happy and beautiful!
POSITIVITY
they are comfortable….:]
Anonymous
It’s wonderful too see Jewish girls dressed according to Halacha!
what Jewish pride!
huh?
…in honor of who?.. wake up dears– where have u been tilll now?
EXCEPT THAT
EXCEPT THAT the hurt our 9 year-old daughter was caused, along with it’s message conveyed, in her first sleepaway camp experience no less, certainly outweighed any and all benefit of this contest. In life, there is ikkur and toffel, and the camp not only blew it big-time, but upon being “called on the carpet” by us, as soon as we heard about it; they completely unapologetically stood by their decision 100%. Clueless…
Let me explain further.
She was only 1 of 2 girls in her bunk who were left behind, because she only had 8 or 9 tznius tickets, instead of the qualifying 10. Can you imagine how bad and betrayed she and the other girl felt? We are proud Lubavitcher’s living in a non-Lubavitch community, and made sure, everything we sent with her was totally appropriate. She really got into the camp experience until yesterday, even calling us only a few days ago, saying how good a time she is having and can’t wait to return next year. She now obviously hates it, and it has put a real damper on the experience. 9 year old girls neither buy their own clothes, nor pack their own suitcases. Therefore the whole contest is flawed from the start. The girls need to see good roll models (the staff should lead by example), who they will, in turn, want to emulate on their own. The tzinus issue needs to be addressed by the parents, as seen by the many inappropriately dressed parents who showed up on visiting day. We were never called or consulted. The camp director valiantly said to us, it was “L’Shaim Shamayim”, so it can’t be wrong. Really? Ever hear of “Diracheha Darchei Noam?”
Good job folks! If you turn off a good, and thus far, happy camper (literally!), as well to the “Lubavitch experience” no less, then this initiative is very lacking, and in poor taste, to say the least. Period. Is excluding any child, in any contest, which is dedicated in memory of a great Shlucha, even appropriate?
thank you!
Why did she not get 10 if everything you packed was tznius?
If there was a flaw and it’s pointed out, hopefully she will be careful and get 10 (or more) next time. If they say, “ok , you don’t qualify, but you can go anyway” your daughter (or you??) would have won the battle, but you would lose the war.
Looks like you need to sit down with your daughter and explain to her that rules are rules. If she makes the grade, wonderful. And if not, she just needs to work harder the next time.
P.S. this is a life lesson. There will be more contests in camp, school and life. Not everyone gets into the shoneh halachos finals, not everyone gets into the best Seminary, not everyone gets the best role in production, the best job, or spouse or anything else in life.
Time to grow up, and educate your child instead of your very immature attitude shown above.
Anonymous
They need 8 tickets not 10.
A lot of thought and consideration was put into who would go on this trip. Unfortunately, spaces were limited.
Therefore a second trip was arranged for all the girls who weren’t top but did put in effort. The camp did all they can to make tznius positive to the campers.
#1&5
I was thinking the same thing
Beautiful
I’m so proud of all these girls!
:-)
Please don’t forget that tznius isn’t only knees and elbows, so please educate the girls and staff that collarbones must also be covered. Boat-neck and loose collars (seen in some of these photos) that expose any shoulder or chest are not kosher. Only the neck itself can be exposed.
That said, this is wonderful and these girls should be a shining example to all their classmates and neighbors.
Thank You
We know we don’t need lecture consistently, a small reason why kids are otd.
Shliach in US
I fully support #6.
I am a shliach and I run a camp of 200 children, including children the age of #6’s child. Not getting into the issue of tznius at all, I find the leaving behind of a child on a camp trip an abhorrent practice at this (and almost any) age. This is perhaps, PERHAPS, appropriate for older bachurim, but for young children?
As to the logic that they have to learn they won’t always get into the best seminary, I find that inane as well. That may be true and that may be a lesson their parents will have to teach them at some point, but that is NOT the camp’s responsibility AT ALL.
I am disgusted by the practice and by the defense of it. If you turned this 9 year old girl off of yiddishkeit because her skirt was a 1/4″ above her knee or whatever it was, what exactly did you accomplish. I think Emunah should rethink their priorities as I cannot imagine the founder of this camp agreeing to leaving children behind with the logic that “they have to learn to lose sometimes.”
If I ran my chabad house as lubavitch servicing lubavitchers run their mosdos, I would be out of business in weeks.
Anonymous
I have nothing to do with the camp but I feel badly for the parents writing in #6. A camp experience should not be punitive!For the writer in #7 to say the parents are immature and need to grow up is beyond disgraceful.i think I will stop reading these forums because i just get frustrated. I think it’s the camp directors that need to grow up.Also, these girls are not Bas mitzva age so they do not need to dress like this!!!!!!
The Alter Rebbe's shulchan Aruch
Strange, but The Alter Rebbe seems to disagree with you.
He wants all girls totally tzinus by age 3.
Besides the little children have no problems dressing properly. It’s the parents who think the Torah is cruel who let their girls go immodestly till 6 or 8 or 10, and then the problems really start.
Shliach in US (again)
Quoting #9 “A lot of thought and consideration was put into who would go on this trip. Unfortunately, spaces were limited.”
Again, I run a very large camp and I would sooner close my doors than intentionally create a situation where I KNOW some campers will be left out and hurt. In my camp every camper is like my own child and just as I would never intentionally hurt/punish my own 9 year old girl over tznius issues (as that is the absolute worse way to inculcate love of tznius at that age) I would never do it to someone else’s child as well. It is unfathomable to me that a camp would intentionally make a trip where there was not enough space for every camper.
A Chabad house camp is filled with love for children regardless of their level of observance, because we know it is the LOVE they experience that makes them desire more Jewish experiences. Why do our own children deserve any less. Their souls crave the same love. I can’t imagine the director of this camp writing a duch to the Rebbe that she intentionally left children off a trip to teach them a lesson about tznius. I wonder what the response would be? Actually I don’t wonder, I know what the response would be.
I hope they learn from this mistake and rethink such actions in the future.
I just noticed something very interesting.
That according to:
(9. Anonymous wrote:
They need 8 tickets not 10.
A lot of thought and consideration was put into who would go on this trip. Unfortunately, spaces were limited.),
they knew in advance that there wouldn’t be enough space for every girl, so they l’chatchila knew they would have to pick out “korbanos” to stay behind. Sick.
Anonymous
There could have been many ways to do more than one trip-ie one day bunk 1 and 2 will go,next day 3 and 4,etc.
A sign of the times
I’m sorry, but this is why I would not send my daughter to Beis Rivkah (the chief feeder school to Camp Emunah).
At both institutions, it shouldn’t take a “special campaign” for girls to make a point of dressing with complete tznius!
Again I’m sorry to have to point this out. It’s a sign of the times….
food for thought
Woah! So much negative feeling in some of these comments. Let’s try and be positive. This was a concrete positive incentive system to encourage Tznius, which seems to be a weakness of the times. They are trying hard in Camp Emunah, as in all the other camps, so why are you being so negative? Everyone is trying, in all different ways, and we need to encourage positivity — starting from comments on forums…. Negativity will not help us, or our kids, or improve these situations….
I love you all! Let’s make the world a beautiful place!