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.
Campers and staff at Gan Yisroel-Parksville had a wonderful time on their trip to Lake Compounce, the oldest, continuously-operating amusement park in North America, founded in 1846!
The fourth week of camp was filled with excitement, learning, fun and inspiration at Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ.
Campers and counselors at Camp Gan Israel-Montreal enjoyed an exciting and fun trip to La Ronde, a Quebec amusement park, where they spent the day riding roller coasters and enjoying other rides and games.
On Sunday, campers and their parents enjoyed an exciting and fun-filled visiting day together at Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ.
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.
Campers and staff at Gan Yisroel-Parksville were split into three teams for ‘Bog War,’ the first month of camp’s version of color war.
On Sunday, the campers of Gan Israel in Montreal, Canada were visited by their families, who enjoyed many fun activities together both on and off camp grounds despite the rainy weather.
On Sunday, the campers of Gan Israel in Lake Worth, Florida were visited by their families, who enjoyed many fun activities together both on and off camp grounds.
Last night, on the eve of the fast of 17 Tammuz and the three week period of mourning during which music is prohibited, singing star Benny Friedman performed a lively concert for the students of the Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ.
After learning and hearing stories about the Rebbe from the beginning of camp, campers at CGI-Simcha Monica asked their staff to help them write their own letters to the Rebbe on the Yom HaGeula of the Frierdiker Rebbe, Yud Beis Tammuz.
This Sunday, the 15th of Tammuz, marks 57 years since the Lubavitcher Rebbe took time out of his busy schedule to visit the girls at Camp Emunah B’nos Yaakov Yehudah in Greenfield Park, NY. On this day the camp dedicated four brand new bunk houses.
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