Camp Skills: Cooking

Camp Skills: Cooking

This summer, we introduced a new cooking program to camp with much success. Campers had a great time making pastries, pasta, pies and Israeli food with our cooking specialist Aviv and learning the history and stories behind of some of the recipes. It was awesome to...
Camp Skills: Learning to Ride a Bike

Camp Skills: Learning to Ride a Bike

With so many activities going on every day, camp is a great place for campers learn new skills and build on current ones. How great is it for a child to say they came to camp and learned how to waterski, use the pottery wheel or build a campfire? Camp is an amazing...
A Sense of Pride

A Sense of Pride

By:Education Specialist, Aaron Penciner At the closing of Second Session’s Pride Shabbat, I felt goosebumps jump up on my arms and a sense of pride flow through me. Not only pride for who I am, but pride for the inclusive community I have the fortune to be apart...
A Summer of Firsts

A Summer of Firsts

Camp George is a place where campers are always learning new skills. N2 camper, Leah, shared with us THREE amazing things she did for the first time this summer! “This summer I learned how to ride a bike. It was really hard, and it took a long time. I started...
#GottaGetTogetherUnderOurRoof

#GottaGetTogetherUnderOurRoof

By: Camp Committee Chair Susie Berg I am a URJ camp kid. From 1979 to 1982, I attended Goldman Union Camp Institute, in Zionsville, IN. I loved my time there, and I always wished there could be a URJ camp in Canada so that when I had kids, they’d have a home-grown URJ...