Camp Gan Israel-Parksville’s Bar Mitzvah Division had the summer of a lifetime; some of those memories were captured on video, which staff-member Shamai Chein recently edited and made available for all to enjoy.
Over 100 boys, children of Shluchim from the Western United States, gathered for eight days of chayus, inspiration, chassidishkeit warmth and fun.
Yehuda Pinson is not your typical 9-year-old. Living in Brussels, Belgium, he is one of the few Jewish males (and among the only children) in the city to openly identify as a Jew, proudly sporting a kippah on his head at all times. As the child of Chabad emissaries, he knows that he is different than his neighbors.
It was one of those rare scenarios for which words cannot do justice. On Sunday, Yud Kislev, if you entered the Bnos Chomesh Academy building here is what you would have seen: A large bouquet of purple and gold balloons gracing the building’s entrance, a sumptuous breakfast buffet of gourmet coffee, pastries and elegant fruit platters, a high grade copier furiously printing 120 copies of Tanya – the Bnos Chomesh Edition, fathers sitting with their daughters in every corner of the school learning b’chavrusa, and a display of gifts for the fathers.
Over 1,000 students from more than 200 college campuses joined a conference call Monday night arranged by Chabad on Campus International, to unite in prayer for Israel and learn how they can advocate for Israel on their campus.
This year, Gan Israel Day Camp of Edgware, UK, attracted over 310 children ages 4-12 from Edgware and Northwest London for two weeks of fun and excitement.
CGI-West – Camp Gan Israel on the West Coast – went on a grand trip to the magnificent Yosemite National Park. In addition to enjoying the spellbinding views and refreshing hikes, the campers made a point to put Tefilin on any willing Jew they encountered – and there were quite a few.
Another successful summer at Lubavitch Day Camp of Monsey has come to an end. Watch the highlights of the 7-week program in this 5-minute video compilation.
Lubavitch Day Camp of Monsey completed its last exciting, fun and meaningful week of the summer. See the highlights of the week in this video slideshow.
The final week of camp was filled with excitement, learning, fun and inspiration at Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ.
As camp comes to a end, we present to you some of the highlights of the summer all captured in the air – because fun is always in the air in Gan Yisroel.
As the summer draws to a close, bochurim attending the Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ bid farewell at the grand banquet to their newly-found friends and dedicated counselors and teachers. The next morning they packed their luggage and boarded the buses which would take them back home.
A total of 42,608 lines of Torah – Mishnayos, Tanya, Siddur and Yediyos Kloliyos – were learned as part Camp Gan Israel of Florida’s annual Mishnayos Be’Al Peh program – surpassing achievements in 5 out of 6 categories.
In most camps, the day after Color War is a lazy day, with not much going on. But Camp Gan Yisroel-NY isn’t “most camps,” and the day after Color War was far from lazy. Early in the morning came the exciting announcement that the grand trip would be taking place that very day, and grand it was.
Bais Rivkah Day Camp ended off the summer with a bang! The last day of camp started off with a drum circle, where each girl got a chance to make music with her own drum. At lunch time, campers started waiting by the gate, excited to see their parents join them for a Grand Camp BBQ.
For some, this is the reason they come to camp; for everyone, it is a highlight: Color War in Camp Gan Yisroel-NY.
The 250 campers and several dozen staff-members of the older division of Camp Gan Yisroel in Kfar Chabad, Israel, posed for a group portrait near the village’s main Shul. The sign above them reads: “Camp is an anvil upon which Chassidim are formed.”
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