Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Staff at Camp Massad, whose first location was in New York, pose for a photo in 1941. Camp Massad via Wikimedia Commons The ...

For generations of Jewish campers, summer camp has been a place where lifelong friendships are forged, first romances blossom ...

When her children were old enough for sleepaway camp, Laura Strashny planned to send them to Camp Ramah of New England. But after the Massachusetts camp, which is affiliated with the Conservative ...

(JTA) In January, 25 alumni of the Union for Reform Judaism’s Kutz Camp gathered on their former campus. Although the historic summer camp known for fostering Reform leadership and leaving a mark on ...

Jewish day camps across South Florida are filling kids’ summers with athletics, creativity and Judaism. Programs like those at Camp Nefesh in Fort Lauderdale and The Mandel JCC’s Camp Shalom in Palm ...

Editor’s note: We have taken the unusual step of publishing this under the byline “Anonymous” to protect the author’s child from potential repercussions. To the American Jewish Summer camp my child ...

As antisemitism rises across the U.S., Jewish summer camps are ramping up security, with some introducing additional charges while working to combat threats before they arise. FBI crime data shows ...

Jewish camps and camping leaders are joining a chorus of condolences after a flash flood in Kerr County, Texas, killed dozens of children and counselors at a summer camp there. “In the Jewish ...

PETALUMA, California (AP) — One camper, from Oakland, California, has a white Jewish mother and a father who is Black and Muslim. Another was adopted in Uganda by a white Jewish woman; they now live ...

In 1902, 10-year-old Isidore Itzkowitz accepted a scholarship to attend an overnight camp in upstate New York. “Izzy,” an orphan raised by his grandmother in a dingy tenement-house basement, fit the ...

(The Conversation) — The first Jewish summer camps were founded at the turn of the 20th century and have become cherished traditions. But many face tough questions about how to discuss Israel and ...