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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 428

Camp Ramah

A group of Camp Ramah/Birthright participants help pack food supplies in Israel, September 2024. The trip was for adults with non-physical disabilities who volunteered in various locations around Israel. (courtesy Howard Blas)
September 24, 2024, 5:00 pm
Despite rocket fire, Birthright launches 1st volunteer mission for adults with disabilities
10-day trip sponsored by Birthright and Camp Ramah enables a dozen adults on the autistic spectrum to lend a hand in Israel during the war
By Gavriel Fiske
Yishai Mogilner, 19, worked as one of the Israeli staff members at Camp Ramah in the Poconos for the 2023 season (Courtesy Ella Goldberg)
September 1, 2023, 9:29 am
What Matters Now to counselor Yishai Mogilner: Being an Israeli at a US summer camp
Picking up from last summer’s podcast with two Israeli counselors at Camp Ramah in the Poconos, first-time staffer Yishai Mogilner talks about returning to his family’s camp
By Jessica Steinberg
Campers at Ramah Ukraine greet each other after returning to camp for the first session in the country during wartime. (Courtesy Midreshet Schechter via JTA)
August 12, 2023, 12:28 pm
Camp Ramah returns to Ukraine after a war-induced exile — now with a bomb shelter
After the Russian invasion forced it to move to Romania, the 31-year-old camp returns to its home in the Chernivtsi region where over 120 kids see a summer respite from the war
By Shira Li Bartov
Rabbi Ethan Linden, former director of Camp Ramah in the Berkshires, is taking a new position at the Shalom Hartman Institute. (Screen capture/Shalom Hartman Institute via Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA)
November 22, 2022, 5:02 am
Hartman Institute hires ex-camp director sued for mishandling assault allegation
Jewish nonprofit says Ethan Linden serving as educational operations director months after he left Ramah Berkshires, where lawsuit claimed he ‘acted with deliberate indifference’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Halleli Busheri (left) and Tair Offir, two shlichim, emissaries on staff at Camp Ramah in the Poconos during summer 2022 (Courtesy)
August 19, 2022, 1:04 pm
Podcast: ‘Just like in the movies,’ say Israeli counselors of US sleepaway camp
Two shlichim — emissaries — working at Camp Ramah talk about their two months in this very Jewish American experience
By ToI Staff
Camp Ramah in the Berkshires seen in a promotional video posted by the camp in March 2022. (Screenshot/YouTube)
August 6, 2022, 1:38 am
Camp Ramah settles lawsuit alleging mishandled sexual assault complaint
Berkshires summer camp, former director and national commission accused of ‘deliberate indifference’ after one camper allegedly assaulted another in 2018
By Luke Tress and JTA
A screenshot from Camp Ramah New England's Facebook page shows Rabbi Ethan Linden (center) two days after the lawsuit against him was filed. (Screenshot from Facebook/JTA)
May 14, 2022, 5:51 am
Camp Ramah director on leave amid allegations he mishandled sexual assault complaint
Rabbi Ethan Linden steps down from post while his handling of a 2018 allegation involving two campers is investigated
By Jackie Hajdenberg
A screenshot from Camp Ramah New England's Facebook page shows Rabbi Ethan Linden (center) two days after the lawsuit against him was filed. (Screenshot from Facebook/JTA)
May 10, 2022, 8:16 am
Lawsuit alleges mishandling of sex assault allegation at Camp Ramah in Berkshires
Rabbi Ethan Linden is accused of asking 15-year-old camper not to tell her parents for two weeks that she had been assaulted
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Illustrative: Camp Ramah in the Berkshires. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)
October 6, 2021, 5:04 am
CDC study looks at how Ramah summer camps avoided COVID outbreaks
Paper finds only nine infections among 7,000 attendees at 10 Jewish summer camps throughout US; credits frequent testing, pods and hand-washing
By Gabe Friedman
Alexa Rae Ibarra immersed in the lake at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires to complete her conversion to Judaism. (Courtesy of Ibarra via JTA)
August 2, 2020, 2:12 am
With many US ritual baths closed, converts go to Jewish summer camp for a dunk
Due to ongoing COVID-19 crisis, camps are shuttered and there are no kids in sight, so 15 Jews by choice immersed themselves in Camp Ramah’s lake to finalize their conversions
By Josefin Dolsten
One of the activities held during the year for Latet teens, a non-profit organization that will hold a sleepaway experience in July 2020, with help from the Summer Camps Israel forum (Courtesy Latet)
June 13, 2020, 12:30 pm
Pack a duffel, there are sleepaway camps for Israeli kids this summer
Summer Camps Israel gathers a forum of 30 camps and youth organizations in order to create better summertime options
By Jessica Steinberg
Kids play softball at Camp Ramah in California (Courtesy of Ramah in California)
May 15, 2020, 8:02 am
Jewish Ramah summer camps anticipate budget shortfall of $27 million this year
However, network of North American institutions remain confident that they will survive into next year
By Ben Sales
Congressman Ted Deutch at the Crypt of the Capitol, during the annual tour he gives to Camp Ramah alumni during the AIPAC Policy Conference, this year on March 1, 2020 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
March 7, 2020, 4:37 am
A Capitol Hill reunion with a camper who became a congressman
Florida Democrat Ted Deutch shows off his workplace to Ramah campers, staff and alumni from all over the US
By Jessica Steinberg
A view of Yeshiva University’s Zysman Hall (Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)
August 22, 2019, 8:53 pm
Dozens of former Yeshiva University students allege sex abuse, cover-up
Lawsuit filed by 38 pupils takes advantage of new regulations extending statute of limitations, accuses New York high school and university of not taking action to prevent attacks
By AP and ToI Staff
Elana Kravitz
July 18, 2018, 12:30 pm
Elana Kravitz
Who’s afraid of IfNotNow?
We Camp Ramah alum feel a lot of love for Israel — and want to stop hiding from the ugliness of the occupation
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