Big Dreams for Camp Continue – From Linda to Gary
Camp has always taught me to find gratitude in difficult moments. We are in one right now of course, because we should be spending this moment together, at camp. We should be celebrating this amazing ceremony surrounded by our campers and staff, so they can see that...
A Camper’s Perspective – by Ellie and Megan
Knowing that I am not able to go to camp this summer has not been easy. Thinking about what could have been another amazing year of Jacobs Magic still sometimes makes me tear up. Whenever I remember that I will have to wait another year to go through the HSJ gates...
One of the Greatest Joys of My Life
I know that we are all heartbroken that we couldn’t be physically together - and at home - in Utica for Gary Lazarus’s installation, but one of the few benefits of the remote format was that it allowed our tent to be even larger. What a blessing for us to have been...
How Camp has Affected My View on Social Justice
Though we are not at Jacobs Camp right now, that doesn’t mean the magic can’t be with us. It’s sad to wake up every day and wonder what we would be doing if we were at camp right now. We will always remember things like minors, chugs, specialties, but there some...
What HSJ365 Has Given Our Family
Over the last thirteen weeks, we’ve all dealt with our fair share of disappointments, cancellations, and altered plans. As schools (and our world as we knew it) started shutting down rapidly mid-March, Jacobs Camp came to the rescue with their engaging virtual HSJ365...
Where We Are Now
2020 has been a crazy year so far from the fires in Australia to COVID-19 to the recent protests for racial equality and justice. Like most people, I was disappointed to hear that camp was not going to happen this summer. I was looking forward to my first year being a...
Timeless Magic
The shock has subsided. We live with the reality that there will be no Jacobs Magic this summer, at least not the way it has been experienced for the past 50 summers. Our recent camp reunion in New Orleans demonstrated that the times spent at Jacobs have shaped a...
Anna’s Shabbat Update – June 5, 2020
Shabbat Shalom, Jacobs Camp! As much as you have all taught me about gratitude – I can’t help but be sad since June 7th would have been our Session 1 Opening Day. My calendar is not my friend right now. It’s reminding me that we should be in staff orientation,...
This is Not Goodbye, But L’hitraot
Anyone who has been at Jacobs Camp during a summer rainstorm knows that smell. First, you feel the air change, the temperature drop, and the clouds turning grey over head. Then the wind swirls and the trees begin to sway back and forth as if they are dancing along to...
Change is Scary, but Luckily We Don’t Have to Go Through It Alone
“So that goes to show you, as much time as we spent scouting and preparing and planning...the game never went exactly as we thought it would. It just never does” -Bo Schembechler, Head Football Coach at The University of Michigan from 1969-1989 Most people that know...