by elijahthompson | Sep 13, 2024 | Camps & NFTY, Featured, Jacobs Blog
Lindsay Braunig – Camp Committee Chair – Welcome Home! This summer, on a Shabbat at Camp, I had the honor of being installed as the Chair of the Jacobs Camp Committee, following in the steps of the inimitable Gary Lazarus. Gary brought me onto the Camp...
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 Jacob Fijman | May 30, 2024 | Camps & NFTY, Jacobs Blog, Summer 2024, Volunteerism
Preserving Dream Street’s Magic Camp Dream Street has been one of the most important aspects of my life since my first year as a counselor in 2017. Through the many stages of my life, Dream Street has remained a constant; it is a major source of my joy and purpose. I...
by elijahthompson | Apr 9, 2024 | Alumni, Camps & NFTY, Caring Community, Jacobs Blog, Social Action
Dream Street Camper Recruitment Dear HSJ Family, Hello from Camp Dream Street! We are a speciality camp founded in 1975 with the mission that all children, regardless of their abilities, must be offered the chance to have fun, to make new friends, to achieve, to be...
by elijahthompson | Apr 9, 2024 | Camps & NFTY, Jacobs Blog, Uncategorized
Spring Kallah and My NFTY-So Journey Back in 2018, as a wide-eyed kid in 6th grade, I dipped my toes into the world of NFTY at a cool event called JYG. But when I hit the right age for NFTY events, something called COVID showed up, turning everything virtual. Finally,...
