Camp Ramah Expands Its Vocational Education Programs for Young Jewish Adults with Special Needs

Major Ruderman Family Foundation Grant Enables Post-High School Campers with Disabilities to Return to Camp, Strengthen Their Jewish Identity, and Gain Valuable Job and Living Skills to Use in Their Home Communities

Tikvah/Special Needs, AnnouncementsNRC WebmasterJuly 22, 2013Ruderman Foundation, Tikvah, Voc-Ed

From Campbell To Camp: A 30-Year Journey

Former soup exec from Englewood focuses on Jewish camps

Ramah in the NewsNRC WebmasterJuly 19, 2013Wisconsin, FJC, Alumni

The "Post-Kedushah" Test

As I travel among all the Ramah camps and have the privilege of joining many different edot for tefillah, I experience a variety of levels in the quality of the davening. Some of our leaders are better prepared and better trained, and some of our young adults are struggling to learn these new leadership skills.

Blog/ReflectionsNRC WebmasterJuly 19, 2013Mitch Cohen, Summer 2013

Ramah Receives $1.5 Million in Grants to Expand Ramah Service Corps Initiative

New Ramah Funding Signals Major Expansion of Year-Round Ramah Service Corps

AnnouncementsNRC WebmasterJuly 12, 2013Ramah Service Corps, National Ramah

Reform and Conservative Camping Movements’ Service Corps Will Engage Synagogue Youth Year Round

The camping movements of the Union for Reform Judaism and the National Ramah Commission of The Jewish Theological Seminary have announced a joint initiative to develop a year-round Service Corps program for camp staff alumni. Participants in the Service Corps will apply their experience, talents and skills to create camp-style programming for North American synagogue youth, and to recruit more children to attend camp.

Ramah in the NewsNRC WebmasterJuly 11, 2013National Ramah, Ramah Service Corps, URJ

Camp Ramah’s 50th stirs warm memories

Alumni credit summers with marriages, careers, and Jewish identities

Ramah in the News, AlumniNRC WebmasterJune 26, 2013Berkshires

Jewish fun in the sun

Camp Ramah in the Berkshires is turning 50.That can be a sobering milestone for people. While it might not be old, it is unequivocally no longer young.

Ramah in the NewsNRC WebmasterJune 14, 2013Berkshires

Howard Blas, Director of the Tikvah Program at Camp Ramah in New England, Receives Prestigious 2013 Covenant Award

Annual Award Recognizes Three Exceptional Jewish Educators for Innovation, Inspiration, and Impact on Jewish Education and Community

Tikvah/Special Needs, AnnouncementsNRC WebmasterJune 5, 2013Tikvah, National Ramah

From Palmer to Eilat: An Inspiring Ramah Spring

The summer camping season at Ramah has not even begun, and yet I have already been privileged to participate in a series of Ramah programs over the last few weeks that have left me truly inspired.