Special Programs

The busy pace of daily camp life is punctuated by y’mei meyuchad (special days) when the regular camp schedule is set aside to make time for alternative day-long programming. During a yom meyuchad, each edah (division) has a chance to operate as a “mini-camp” and focus intensively on a particular theme or group experience.

In addition, several times each session, the entire camp joins together for campwide themes and events such as our Zimkudiyot (song and dance festivals), concerts, Israel festivals and street fairs.

Service Projects
In learning and living Tikkun Olam – the essential Jewish value of making our world a better place – groups of our campers participate as volunteers in a variety of service projects. Specialized service projects are a core component of the program for our Machon campers (entering 10th graders), while the value of Tikkun Olam is taught and practiced throughout the camp.

Trips
Our campers always look forward to exciting overnight and day trips to destinations such as Boston, Providence, Newport, and the Berkshire Mountains. These trips, while great fun, also have an educational focus and are designed to enrich and augment the summer curriculum. For example, one division culminated its study of early American Jewish life with a visit to the Touro Synagogue in Newport, RI.

Yom Berkshires
Every summer we compete in two day-long sports competitions with Camp Ramah in the Berkshires One day is for our Varsity teams, and the other is for our Junior Varsity teams. Teams form early in the summer, and train regularly. When the day arrives, the competition is fierce! These events are always a highlight of the summer.

Yom Sport
Once each summer, the Nevonim edah (our oldest division, whose participants also work as our CITs) runs a day-long Color War. The Nevonimers spend a great deal of time planning and organizing this huge camp-wide event. Its date is always a closely-kept secret, and each summer, the Nevonimers “break-out” the event in a new and creative way. The day’s competitions range from baseball to singing to ga-ga to popping balloons filled with shaving cream using only one’s feet!