In 2010, Vivian and Yoni Stadlin received the funding to make their dream – a Jewish sleepaway camp focused on environmental sustainability – a reality. That year, Eden Village Camp was one of five new camps established through the Foundation for Jewish Camp’s Specialty Camp Incubator Project. The camp, located in Putnam Valley, NY, about…
Camp Solomon Schechter’s new executive director, Zach Duitch, wants to use his extensive professional ties to help the Jewish camp and Pacific Northwest Jewish communities strengthen their bond and strengthen each other. Zach has strong ties to CSS, having been a camper there for seven years, a counselor-in-training one year and a staff member for…
For generations of Jewish youngsters, summer camp has opened new worlds, broadened vistas and created opportunities for lifelong friendships. That was the goal – when the B’nai B’rith Camp started in 1921 in Oregon, when Sephardic Adventure Camp and Camp Solomon Schechter began in Washington a generation later, or as re- cently as 2007, when…
