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 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...