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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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Do’s and Don’ts for Talking to Your Child about Grief

Do: Identify, validate, and normalize the feeling. Ask open questions.  Children’s behaviors are a window into how they’re feeling; they often use their actions to communicate when they don’t yet

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It’s Okay to be Sad. I’m Sad, Too

Anna’s letter announcing the cancellation of in-person programming this summer hit me harder than I expected. I had anticipated that Covid-19 might disrupt the plans for Summer 2020, but getting

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