by Jess James | Apr 30, 2018 | Off Season 2018, Summer 2018
By: Daniel Abramson, arts/ machon director The other day, I was flipping through an album of old camp pictures. At the risk of dating myself, I have to mention that it was a real album of printed photos on the shelf, not a digital album. There’s something special...
by Jess James | Apr 27, 2018 | Off Season 2018, Summer 2018
Hey Camp George! We are excited to share the details on the next phase of our “20th summer t-shirt design contest!” We had so many great entries, we decided to include them all in the voting process. Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to come...
by Jess James | Apr 18, 2018 | Alumni, Off Season 2018, Summer 2018
By: Inbal Marcovitch, alumna In 2002 together with five other Shlichim (שליחים), I was assigned to spend the summer at Camp George. My role was the Head of Photography- operating the photography lab (where we developed black & white pictures!), teaching campers...
by Jess James | Apr 15, 2018 | Off Season 2018, Summer 2018
By: Ellyn Freedland and Rosalyn Mosko, former camper care directors and camp parents “By a lake, by a tree, that is where you’ll find me….” The first line of the Camp George song captures the thinking that went into the development of the “inclusion...
by Jess James | Apr 10, 2018 | Alumni, Off Season 2018, Summer 2018
By: Tamara Leszner-Rovet, alumna When I was asked to contribute to the Camp George blog to speak about the Inaugural C.I.T program year (2000), I immediately tried to find the photo album which had all the memories of that summer in it. (Yes, we used actual cameras...
by Jess James | Apr 6, 2018 | Alumni, Off Season 2018, Summer 2018
By: Rabbi Danny Gottlieb My love for URJ camping began when I was 17 years old. I was hired as a Junior Counsellor at the Union Camp Institute in Zionsville, Indiana (now known as “GUCI”—the Goldman Union Camp Institute). For the next 25 years, I spent my summers on...