Summer Youth Experiences

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Home Again: Five Tips to Welcome Your Camper Home

Crystal Hill
Camp is generally a great experience for kids. They deepen their Jewish identities, broaden their communities, and learn new life skills. However, these benefits can also mean your camper needs some time to process their experience on their own while readjusting to life at home.

Camp is for Wellness

Sleepaway camp offers many things that research tells us are critical building blocks of wellbeing: immersion in nature, creativity, movement, music and the arts, community and belonging, friendship, curiosity and growth mindset, new experiences, opportunities to explore spirituality and identity, and more.
A white woman with curly brown hair and dressed in white carries a Torah with a blue cover in the midst of young campers wearing white shirts.

Jewish Camp, Our God Journeys, and Adding Faith to Our Checklists

Ruben Arquilevich

As I contemplate how God manifests in our lives, I’m struck by the value of faith not only in God, nature, and other unknown universal forces, but also by faith in each other as we all strive for a life filled with meaning, purpose, and joy.