Matzah Moments

This week’s Torah portion focuses on how to honor God’s miracle of freeing us from Egypt. The portion focuses mainly on the sanctimony of  Matzah. We remember that the Israelites had to rush out of Egypt so quickly, they did not have time to let their dough rise, and they had to bake the bread on their backs.

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Why I Want to be in Touch with You

Happy New Year, y’all, and many thanks for your generous year-end contributions to the Jacobs Magic Fund. Your support, totaling $80,428, ensures that in 2018, Jacobs Camp will be able to enhance our facilities, enrich our programming, and provide scholarship support to more families than ever before.

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Build Your Future: Work at Camp

Benjamin Hausmann is a recent graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and just started working at Tokyo Electron as a Field Applications Engineer where he maintains quality and control for semiconductor wafer processing equipment. We cannot begin to explain what any of that means, but we can explain how he got there.

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A Word from our New Assistant Directors

Words cannot describe my excitement about becoming an Assistant Director at our camp. Clearly the shoes left for me to fill by my predecessor, Adam O., will be large because of the commitment, joy, and success he brought to this job and community.

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Humans of Jacobs Camp

"Last night was supposed to be the Maskilim girls' camp out, but it ended up raining all day so the ground was too wet. Since we had to go back to the cabin, our counselors let us sleep in our sleeping bags on the floor. It was so much fun because we still got to camp out even though we were inside." -Elena

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How Camp Gave Me A New Perspective

I was given the chance to see Judaism from another side at camp. A side where you use teamwork, patience, and friendship to have an amazing summer. People always ask me what my favorite part of camp is, and I assume they usually expect answers like ‘the BLOB!’ or ‘messy night’, but the truth about camp is that it’s just the feeling.

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