Camp Gan Israel in the Poconos has just completed its first successful summer on its newly acquired 83-acre campus. Over 50 girls from Panama, Virgin Islands, California, Florida, Arizona, Texas and the tri-state area enjoyed 4 weeks in the beautiful Pocono Mountains, where they gained a deeper appreciation of their Jewish heritage and a stronger Jewish identity.
On Tisha B’av, the bochurim of Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ heard wrenching testimony of the atrocities of the Holocaust from a survivor, who brought along several artifacts to demonstrate in real-life terms how things were in those dark times.
After completing the ‘Seuda Hamafsekes,’ Campers and staff at Gan Israel in Parksville, NY gathered Monday night to read Megilas Eicha and mourn the destruction of the Beis Hamikdosh.
The sixth week of camp was filled with excitement, learning, fun and inspiration at Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ.
The staff of Camp Gan Israel-New York put on a riveting play for the campers and remaining staff. The play was based on the true story of Mar Zutra II, a leader of the Jewish people in the 5th Century Persian Empire, who led a successful revolt and established a Jewish Kingdom that lasted for seven years.
Ever since his daughter celebrated her Bas Mitzvah at Camp Emunah B’nos Yaakov Yehudah more than 15 years ago, Rabbi Naftali Estulin, Rabbi of Chabad in West Hollywood and Chabad Russian Immigrant Program & Synagogue, has been visiting the camp to celebrate with the girls whose Bas Mitzvahs fall in the summer months.
Talented presenter and Sofer (and CGI-NY alumni) Rabbi Yosef Serebryanski bedazzled the campers of Gan Yisroel as they witnessed an informative presentation on the process of Tefilin making and writing, to help visualize what they’re studying in learning classes.
The campers and Staff of Camp Emunah’s ‘Sunshine Bunk,’ a program for campers with special needs, received a surprise visitor yesterday.
The campers at CGI-Parksville were treated to an amazing carnival yesterday, Tuesday, featuring game booths created by each of the camp’s bunks.
A successful season of Camp Gan Israel in Lyon, France drew to a close earlier this week. More than 350 campers attended, a large percentage of whom are students at non-Jewish schools.
Today, in honor of the nine days, the campers of Bais Rivkah Day Camp were privileged to build a model Bais Hamikdash, assisted by Shimon Frankel of The Mikdash Educational Center.
On a recent trip, CGI-Simcha Monica visited America’s first theme park – Knotts Berry Farm. The night before the trip, the staff-members were tipped off about a Jewish worker with whom they should try to put on Tefilin. But they were warned that it would be a challenge: He was one of the “bad guys,” the actors who would regularly “rob” guests on the train which travels throughout the park.
The fifth week of camp was filled with excitement, learning, fun and inspiration at Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ.
On Sunday, the campers of Gan Israel in Parksville, New York were visited by their families, who enjoyed many fun activities together both on and off camp grounds. Visiting day was held a week early due to the ‘Nine Days’.
Today, Rosh Chodesh Av, the 550 campers and dozens of staff of Bais Rivkah Day Camp posed for a group portrait in front of Campus Chomesh on Lefferts Ave.
Camp Gan Israel in Parksville, NY marked the completion of the first session of camp, a month filled with learning, fun and spiritual growth. Of particular note was the success of the learning directors’ ‘Kluger’ program, a game-show which creates a fun and competitive atmosphere out of learning class.
Two beautiful wooden gazebos were recently donated by Hershey Chitrik and his mother Slava to Gan Yisroel-Parksville in loving memory of Shmuel ben R’ Aaron Chitrik, OBM, a former staff-member in camp who passed away on the 20th of Tammuz during the summer of 1987.
