Very dangerous when a teenager is watching over you, and they have also never slept away from air-conditioning before. Camp is an extension of Jewish day school, because your parents are still complaining they paid way too much tuition.įlag Raising- Do they still allow that? Is that too patriotic? Special Days Let’s say your computer can’t fake the personal letter that you wrote to three hundred people in cursive, all named “Shalom,” thanking them for coming to your party and donating money to your fund, and you have to sign by hand and you have poor penmanship? Think about that for a minute.ĭavening- You might do more religious stuff in camp than in school. Let’s say you are lost on a desert island, nobody around, and you want to contact your parents? The Post Office is all you have. Jewish summer camp is the only place in the world where letters are still written by hand. Going green is very bad for relationships. Letter Time- This is how you honor your parents, by paper. On a special occasion you might get popsicles. Might be the most exciting activity in camp. Snack Time- When you get to drink milk out of an eight-ounce carton. That is how Jewish camp programs the day.įree Swim- When the lifeguard goes to sleep. During the day it’s learning, at night it’s an activity. Doing it at night, makes it more awesome. Night Seder- At very religious camps, this is where you learn Torah at night. You take a slab of wood and put nuts on it and that is your art a candle holder for Chanukah, even though it’s July. b) Where you make Jewish pieces that you are not going to use for another half a year. It costs the camp a lot less for you to answer questions about the Torah portion than having to manicure a baseball field.Īrts and Crafts- a) When you are not artistically talented, they add on the word “crafts.” “Art” is a painting you put in your dining room. Torah Baseball- Another sport where you compete with your mind, so you too can be a champion. When it comes to sports, we don’t like following them. We tried getting the kids to play actual volleyball without catching it, but that was too complicated. Newcomb- This is volleyball, where you can catch the ball. That is what happens when fifteen-year-old boys make up sports. Gaga- Similar to dodgeball, this is where you whack the ball with your fist, so that it moves faster and hurts more. When I was younger, I knew this game as The Ball Got Stuck in the Gutter Ball. Roof Ball- This is where you throw a ball on the roof, to wake up all the people in your bunk during rest hour. Activitiesįloor Hockey- This is a sport that Jews are remarkably competitive at, because nobody else plays it. To prepare you for this shock of Jewish life away from your parents, here is a list of many of the activities you will participate in this summer at camp. And who would have guessed that our “overprotective” Jewish parents would kick us out of the house for the summer and put us in the custody of a teenage boy they wouldn’t have trusted to babysit us? Ever since Jews tried to get out of New York and get rid of their kids for the summer, summer camps have been Jewish.
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