by egruenberg | Jul 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
By Jacob Gurvis It’s always exciting for me to meet people living my dream as professional journalists. As an aspiring journalist myself, I get starstruck by a very different group of “celebrities” than most young people. Yesterday, I was starstruck by Pulitzer-Prize...
by egruenberg | Jul 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
This Shabbat, we were thrilled to welcome hundreds of visitors, alumni, and community leaders for our 9th annual Eisner and Crane Lake Camps Stakeholders Assembly. This weekend was an opportunity to honor the countless members of our camp communities without whom our...
by egruenberg | Jul 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
How’s camp going? Each summer, we have our campers fill out mid-session and end-of-session surveys to ask just that. We want to know about our campers’ overall experiences, their counselors, activities, friends, and anything and everything else they want to share....
by egruenberg | Jul 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
After 24 years at Eisner Camp, I have to admit that the days and summers start to blur together. The song sessions, Maccabiah breaks, and Trip Days are all jumbled together in my mind, creating a beautiful tapestry of nearly three decades of camping. That being said,...
by egruenberg | Jul 19, 2018 | Summer, Uncategorized
For the past several years, Eisner Camp has made an effort to engage more staff and campers in mindfulness practices. We have written about it previously here. When we asked returning campers which Kesher classes they enjoyed the most, 20% wrote in “mindfulness”...
