Summer camp

Los Angeles Rock ’n Roll Fantasy Camp offers October 7 survivors rare respite from trauma

Three years after that devastating day in October, the survivors continue to do what their people have done for millennia in the face of adversity: sing and make music.

Raz Shifer of Ramat Gan, a Nova Festival survivor, performs at L.A.'s Viper Room in a scene from "The Bridge," a documentary about Israeli trauma survivors and their week at Rock ’n Roll Fantasy Camp.
 Groups participating in the summer camp programs.

Turning Jewish summer camp into year-round connection, confidence - opinion

Hebrew Union College celebrated the academic achievements of students in its Israel programs during the Ordination and Academic Graduation at the Taube Family Campus.

Young US Jews embrace Judaism informally despite limited communal participation - study

Demonstrators attend a pro-Palestine protest organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement organization outside of the White House in Washington, D.C. on March 18, 2025, after Israel broke a ceasefire agreement, launching airstrikes that killed over 400 Palestinians.

Children chant 'we will crush Zionism' at Palestinian Youth Movement summer school in UK


NY man threatens to shoot up yeshiva summer camp over social distancing

The complaint was directed at the Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island's children's day camp, to which Pelle lives next to.

CELEBRATING ISRAEL day at the summer camp of the Greek Jewish community.

Orthodox music star Shwekey performs pro-Trump song at Jewish summer camp

The original song is about the repeated oppression of the Jewish people throughout history. The rewritten song is a prayer for Donald Trump to win reelection.

POPULAR HASSIDIC singer Yaakov Shwekey

American Jewish summer camps spoiled for choice with virtual engagement

But to fill the summer void, almost all the 150 Jewish overnight camps in the US and Canada have offered virtual programming.

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Jewish camp that opened this summer tests 100% negative for COVID-19

On Thursday, the camp plans to hold an “in-person Modin B’nai Mitzvah celebration” in honor of its campers who were unable to celebrate their bar, bat or b’nai mitzvahs with friends this year.

Campers playing on the water at Camp Modin. The camp is perhaps the first Jewish camp in the country to announce, in detail, how it plans to open.

Jewish day camp in Texas closes following COVID-19 outbreak

The closing of Gan Israel of Plano, Texas, on Tuesday night serves as a cautionary tale as schools look to reopen this fall.

A photo of a Camp Gan Israel in Plano activity from a 2018 promotional video.

Cuomo ban on summer camps upheld by judge, ruled constitutional

Hundreds of Orthodox children took to the streets of Brooklyn to protest the ban on sleepaway camps this year.

Campers playing on the water at Camp Modin. The camp is perhaps the first Jewish camp in the country to announce, in detail, how it plans to open.

Parents rush to apply kids to Jewish summer camps open amid coronavirus

Open summer camps are dealing with abiding by health regulations in a usually freewheeling atmosphere and dealing with parents clamoring to give their kids something approximating a normal summer.

CELEBRATING ISRAEL day at the summer camp of the Greek Jewish community.

Grapevine June 14, 2020: The goose and the gander

The status of women, their rights to equal opportunities and equal pay and their need to be protected from violence is not a party or a gender issue. It is a social issue.

Israel Beytenu party member Oded Forer

COGAT: Hamas summer camp trains kids to 'commit acts of terror'

"Imagine what they could be learning instead," read the COGAT tweet.

Young Palestinians crawl under an obstacle during a military-style exercise at a Hamas summer camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 27, 2017.

When you treat us like just a statistic, you fail Jews of color like me

The question “How many Jews of color are there?” is never a merely academic one.

Campers at Camp Be’chol Lashon, a summer camp for young Jews of color