by elijahthompson | Oct 15, 2024 | Camping and Youth Engagement, Camps & NFTY, Caring Community, Jacobs Blog, Summer 2024
Tori East-Harris – Assistant Director, Business Operations & Community Care – Welcome Home! We are so grateful for Tamisa’s dedication and years of service at Jacobs Camp, and we are beyond excited for her in her new promotion! Now, we welcome Tori...
by Jacob Fijman | Jun 21, 2024 | Camping and Youth Engagement, Camps & NFTY, Friendships, Jacobs Blog, Jewish Arts & Culture, Summer 2024, Youth & Family
Podcasts, Messy Night and Dan Nichols – Session 1, Week 2 Shabbat Shalom from Jacobs Camp! It has been an amazing week, and time is flying! There is nothing better than summertime at Jacobs and we are so lucky to be here. A big thank you to all of our camp...
by Jacob Fijman | Jun 4, 2024 | Camping and Youth Engagement, Camps & NFTY, Jacobs Blog, Summer 2024
Anna Herman’s Tenth Summer at Camp: The Difference One Person Can Make URJ leadership told Anna Herman to budget for ten percent fewer campers in her first summer, 2015, than in 2014. Apparently, that kind of decline is expected in a new director’s first year....
by elijahthompson | May 20, 2024 | Camping and Youth Engagement, Caring Community, Education, Jacobs Blog, Summer 2024, Youth & Family
“Homesick” is a Four-Letter Word The idea of missing people, places and routines is actually a lovely sentiment–how lucky we are to have people and things to miss (and people to miss us) while we’re away! Labeling this as a “sickness” is a directly negative label to...
by Jacob Fijman | Dec 5, 2023 | Camping and Youth Engagement, Camps & NFTY, Jacobs Blog, The Jewish World, Uncategorized
The Mitzvah of Helping Eyal Levy is a valued veteran staff member at Jacobs Camp who served as our Solelim Unit Head in 2022 and 2023. When he left camp this summer to return home to Israel, he did not expect that he would soon be called to military reserve duty in...
by Jacob Fijman | Jul 14, 2023 | Camping and Youth Engagement, Camps & NFTY, Caring Community, Jacobs Blog, Summer 2023
We’re So Grateful for Our Incredible Community! Shalom, y’all and welcome home, second session! First session was incredible, and now that second session campers are here, our family is complete—and this is going to be the Best. Summer. Yet! We’re so excited for...
